skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in a lot of programming languages. A common source of errors too. Maybe it is a bit more confusing in JS simply cause people have been taught to make an active choice between var, let and const.
That would be a very stupid optimization. The phenomenon you described makes physics more difficult to simulate, not easier. That is where the whole excitement about quantum computing comes from.
Founder here! I'm more than happy to answer any questions that you might have :)
Not interested in arguing this because I used to suffer from the same false impression. But here are a few questions for you and others to consider. Insurance will pay for chiropractic treatment most of the time. Why? Another question worth pondering: people go back to chiropractors for repeated treatment. Many swear by them and credit them with fixing problems that doctors couldn’t. It’s extremely common. Why?

Doctors often suck. Look into malpractice lawsuits and draw your own conclusion about the perfection inherent in modern medical practice. They’re often bested by the quacks. A rational person should fear a doctor more than a chiropractor, if they’re numerate.
This is valid, especially when there isn't a lot of other riders around and when you start going to some of the worse areas of the Bay(or insert almost any American city).
Assuming k8s still uses watch on etcd keys how is that implemented for SQLite ? I suppose polling is possible way if it’s low tps desktop focused
Do you have any context on who Dr. Hossenfelder is or why their "debunking" is meaningful?
Yes in part, but also the investment opportunities presented to them are generally only incidentally aligned or even long term misaligned with needs of increasing the resilience of the economy - or even of making long term growth decisions.
The Return of the Unix Shell
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Upward Farms | Brooklyn, NY | Full Time | Computer Vision R&D Engineer

Upward Farms designs and operates complete ecosystems of plants and fish in vertical farms, supplying these organic products to local grocers. We are currently expanding and have recently opened a new cutting-edge, fully automated facility in Brooklyn. More and larger farms are in the works. Our mission is to heal the broken food system and reconnect eaters with flavorful and nutritious local food.

We are seeking a Computer Vision R&D Engineer to lead the prototyping and development of computer vision systems at Upward Farms. In this role, you will manage the vision, roadmap, and execution of Upward Farms' high throughput plant phenomics systems, spanning crop scouting, trait characterization, and quality control. Your focus areas will include the detection of disease, stress, and pests at scale; the quantification of phenotypes and forecasted yield; and the development of go/no-go checkpoints throughout the production process. To accomplish this, you will develop vision system prototypes and set the high level strategy for plant phenomics.

The ultimate responsibilities and contributions in this role will be shaped around the individual we hire and their background. To apply and for more info see:

https://apply.workable.com/upwardfarms/j/129E546FF1/
Which language has both a "None" and "null"?
Why Do Editors Seek 'Dark Sides' of China?
College lobby got the gov't to measure graduation rates at 6 years, not 4
I don't disagree with any of your statements. Yes the scientists have been busy with their thorough study and we see more each month. But broadly the politicians (does this suppress funding?) are rejecting any form of natural immunity in US and Canada. Why? An abundance of caution should cut both ways.

Anyway I wouldn't try to interpret this outside of the context of railing against mandates. Yes its true there are people who should get vaccines/boosters, are these guys arguing otherwise? That's a totally different argument from whether its ethical or even in our general interest to vaccinate those who wish not to be. Those who wish not to be tend to be those who are least at risk, young and healthy.
That question is answered in the wikipedia link above.

> Ignition should not be confused with breakeven, a similar concept that compares the total energy being given off to the energy being used to heat the fuel. The key difference is that breakeven ignores losses to the surroundings, which do not contribute to heating the fuel, and thus are not able to make the reaction self-sustaining. Breakeven is an important goal in the fusion energy field, but ignition is required for a practical energy producing design.
It results in less meat consumed, so it's better for the environment, etc. A bit of egg vs. a lot more meat. And chickens produce a lot more egg than they do meat if you're raising then for eggs, so it's better. Not perfect, but better.

If you went for perfection, you'd never use any form of motorized transport, never eat any foods shipped across state lines, set your thermostat for survival temperatures, and go full "freegan" for everything you consume. There's a point at which better is all you really can do - just how much better is the question.
> Still, it shows that you can't just keep scaling the models and expect magic.

They undertrained it, and the real benchmarks will be in the paper, so it's not at all obvious that this is not exactly what you would predict from existing scaling laws on GPT models (remember, they are power laws / log curves, so 3x doesn't move the needle that much even if it had been trained optimally). Plus of course, the history of these sorts of models like GPT-3 or CLIP is that the benchmarks are uninformative and you only get an idea of what improvements have emerged once the users get their hands on it and are able to discover the new induced capabilities. Nvidia/MS sometimes release their models, but mostly don't, so who knows...

Anyway, this is a redundant submission to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28827957
Just bought a pixel to test lineageOS out. Worth mentioning that if you want less Google and still want to use normal Android services in the OS you need to install the MicroG lineageOS ROM. Otherwise, you're still sending Google a lot of info through Gapps or MindTheGapps.

Graphene or lineage without any of those is also an option but you'll be missing a lot of the normal everyday apps you use. IMO if you're going that far though you might as well just go back to a flip phone.
Sure, burnout is a real thing. Do lots of other things. Wait for an idea to find you. It should be just for you. It's not for money. Or ego. Ignore the devil on your shoulder that says it won't work, that it won't make money, that it's not furthering your career, that it's not solving the world's problems, that it's not padding your resume. Don't worry about how long it takes. What language it uses. What stack. What other people will think. Just do it because it interests you. If you still find that rewarding then your love is still there. If not, then perhaps the love has truly faded.
> It's not hard to understand

Please don't patronise!

My oven, on full power, draws 2KW (at least, that's what the labels on my fuze-box suggest). If only 12% of that energy is used to heat the food, then the oven amounts to a 200W food cooker, combined with an 1800W electric heater (I rounded down to 10% to make the reckoning easier).

I live in a studio flat; my oven is in my living room. How come I can survive without A/C? But I seem to be able to roast and bake without my home warming up.

My microwave is an old cheap one, with a max. power of 700W. Assuming that's 100% efficient, then it should cook food about 3.5 times faster than the inefficient oven, I guess; and it does. So it does seem that the oven is inefficient. But why? Where is the lost energy going?
FOSDEM 2022 will happen on the weekend of 2022-02-05 and 2022-02-06
Humans are reasonably intelligent agents. We adapt.

Energy supply changes aren’t a black swan event. Every time there’s a price spike, the demand curve is shifted by replacement and efficiency improvements. That’s why coal is a dead industry. That’s why solar went from a rounding error to a significant player that has slowed peak electric demand.

Issues like water in arid areas like the American West are very different. Personally, I’m about 40, and I don’t think there will be a serious supply-side disruption in oil/gas supply in my lifetime. I do think that we will have a significant disruption in access to fruit and vegetable supply due to brain dead US agriculture policy. And I think my kids will see grain shortages in their lifetime as the Midwest aquifers are depleted.
My understanding is that with EKS, you still are responsible for parts of the process that are managed under ECS (for example, firewall and security rules as opposed to leaning on ALB and Target Groups in ECS)
I wonder ho w much time was spent requiring all of aws-sdk. The v3 sdk is modular and should be quicker to load. Bundlers like rebuild save space and reduce parsing time.
apps in azure saw 502/504 at the same time as this.
Discussed previously

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21571938 (November 19, 2019 — 242 points, 112 comments)
Coding platform Gitlab lifts IPO pricing range, eyes nearly $10 bln valuation
Coinbase may have the highest volume in the US, however, there are several other viable US exchanges: Kraken, Gemini, Binance US and FTX US.
Hey, thanks for asking this question. I feel the same way. However, I think you've already answered your question, (and I have too) which is -- it's the pandemic, not the job. Your pre-pandemic SWE job had enough socialization in it to satisfy you. My best advice would be to either continue waiting until things get back to normal, or, start applying for jobs that require 3-5 days a week in the office.
NHS has access to some NI funding too about 20% of the NHS budget today comes from national insurance but oddly enough often in the forms of “loans”

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/how-...

National Insurance is also de facto a payroll tax in the UK and a pretty steep one at that it will be over 15% come April if the NIC increases are implemented as is.
Interesting. When I look at Joscha's background and work[1][2][3], he seems pretty credible to me. Is there anything specific he's said/done that puts him in your "other" category?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscha_Bach

[2]: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q_yeuCUAAAAJ&hl=en...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Synthetic-Intelligence-Arc...
I agree, "nature", as we talk about it, is definitely a spectrum. Like how much "from scratch" people make a spaghetti for example. Is it from scratch if you buy the sauce? If you make the sauce from store bought tomato and sauce powder? Only if it's from tomato and spices that you mix yourself? Or only if the tomato is from your own garden?

Definitely interesting to explore these boundaries.
How do you figure this is not informed, not consensual (you can and apparently are opting out), or propaganda - since you know, I’ve actually experienced it, read the material, found the research and actually read it with a cynical eye and found it sufficiently sound to do it.

If you have actual data that adverse reactions are more common, please do share. Having had the worse reaction of the 20+ people I’ve talked to that had it (weakness for a day or two, 103+ fever, brain fog for a week), and being a bit pissed about it, in hindsight it was just because I hadn’t been sick for so long I’d lost all context. That’s literally less bad than getting the flu.

This is what I mean by losing ones mind - there is no rational basis for comparing this to the Nazi’s literally throwing people in prison camps based on their various racist and eugenic minded shitty ideals and experimenting on them randomly until they were dead. Literally zero. But if there is an unresolved anxiety or other issue going on? That
makes perfect sense. And if the anxiety is due to not being willing to face something difficult or not being able to address underlying problems - one natural reaction is to pretend the other thing is actually bad, point fingers, etc.

The problem is? That causes more pain later, because this stuff isn’t going away.

I’ve personally had someone in my life have a severe mental health breakdown over their own inability to face a real danger with Covid and prepare for it (instead opting for the comfortable feeling that ‘it couldn’t happen to us’), resulting in their child getting severely hurt - because they didn’t do the basic diligence it would take to prevent it (with Covid), and the problems it has caused, including the guilt that they also can’t face and end up projecting onto others, and the ongoing behavior issues and blowback has ruined their life. It took something that could have been a nothingburger and instead turned it into a traumatic event with consequences that will echo through generations.

Please, seek help. This is a legitimate problem you appear to be having, and avoiding addressing it will only harm you and everyone around you.
Same absolute gap is kind of a weird metric, though, isn't it? If China is 500 and India is 100, and China grows to 50,000 and India grows to 49,600, you would call that "the same gap" but I would call it near-parity...
That was a really pleasant UX. Well done.
interface ServerResponse {
data: unknown;
}

... this is the most common way I see unknown used. Then when you fetch data from the server, you are reminded by the compiler that you should do some duck-type checking on it to make sure it's shaped correctly (since responses from a server can be any shape; is it a 200 with your data, or did a caching layer vend you an old version of this data structure, or is something catastrophically wrong and you're seeing a 200 where the payload is HTML saying "Set up your apache server," etc.)

BTW, TypeScript has another useful tool for tying the runtime typing and static typing together: type guards.

function isUserRecord(x: unknown): x is UserRecord {
return (x as UserRecord).name !== undefined;
}

This is a boolean function but the type system understands that in codepaths where it returns true, the 'x' argument is known to have the UserRecord type. Great for codifying your type-discernment logic.
The immune system is more complicated than that. I have no answer on what the correct strategy is, but I contest the blanket statement that taking the vaccine has zero impact on long term protection. We need actual long term data and actual control populations.

On the doctrine of original antigenic sin

https://www.jstor.org/stable/985534

Original Antigenic Sin: How First Exposure Shapes Lifelong Anti–Influenza Virus Immune Responses

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/202/2/335

Original Antigenic Sin: the Downside of Immunological Memory and Implications for COVID-19

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00056-21
Americans quit their jobs at a record pace in August
Great article. I've put online a discord server for sharing knowledge about web scraping, if some of you wants to join https://discord.gg/fwqhqrWhHW
As feedback, speaking of contextualizing things, it would help if you would contextualize your colored highlighting by bringing some of the explanations of issues onto the page itself where the content is marked up. Or have links (maybe have the highlighted words be links) going to a writeup telling why those words got that color.
Business as well nowadays as software engineering teams can be easily distributed and travel and employment within EU is a non-issue. I have team members (at least) from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Belgium, Romania, China, Germany, UK, New Zealand, Spain, Ethiopia - within company the interaction expands to teams and nationalities from US, France, India, Poland, Croatia...
Agreed that the center of galaxy is the best place to put up a billboard. Ha, what if that's all it was, an advert, "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine." Galactic trolls, ha.

Is the signal's data available publicly? I wonder what the cryptanalyst community would think of it.

I would think that a intelligent species capable of placing a galactic billboard at the center of the galaxy would be intelligent enough to encode their message in an easy to decipher manner. Although, what does "easy to decipher" mean to a species with that technology. They may have stopped using any form of language that we would understand, generations ago.

Is math a universal language? Could an alien species use a number system that we wouldn't recognize?
It's neither, agreed.

However, Sabine misconstrues things in the opposite direction and lies through omission to the audience. For example including startup energy and not ammortizing it over runtime, or not assuming that the energy consumption of the experiments is part of the required energy consumption of the fusion reactor, or trying to construe that once you have a fusion power reaction that is burning it is still especially difficult to further create a functioning power reactor out of it.

The true hard part of fusion is the burning plasma aspect. Once you have a burning plasma, it's a heat source like any other (with a few side-effects like neutron output) and everything we know from fission power reactors (but with a much lower radiation) and fossil fuel generators applies.
As usual, governments and corporations don't just want to censor - they also want to hide that censorship is even taking place.

But the article forgot to mention that LinkedIn is wholly owned by Microsoft, so these questions can be aimed at MS also.
elorant is posting from oort cloud, be easy on him.
Always mind blowing. I recall a video from Copperhead showing the difference between a gApps enabled phone vs no-gApps.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zemRALtU4OY
The safest place to store money is self-custody, and we have that today. Nothing can possibly come close because it involves storing value with key escrow, trusting third parties. The very thing Satoshi invented this to avoid. Bitcoin does not yield any interest by itself, so it is not possible to earn interest risk free. It’s an incentive for third parties to take custody of your coins (where they will be stolen). I think I stand by my previous statements :-)
I don't agree regarding your flip phone comment, that's silly. I don't use any form of Google Play Services (No OpenGapps or MicroG even) and my phone works completely fine.

The only thing that doesn't work is push notifications, which isn't a problem because FOSS apps like Signal bundle their own notification system that does not use Google Play Services. Discord however, does not get push notifications (which I wouldn't want anyway)
>Selling my beets at the farmers market is capitalism

No. It is not. People have been selling their wares at markets for thousands of years. Capitalism has only been around for about 500 years.

Capitalism is a system of economics where the means of production (Capital Goods) are owned privately by the owning class (The Capitalist). It's a relationship between the owner class, and the worker class. Owning the farm and employing workers would be Capitalist. Selling wares to a market is just commerce/trading.
Looks helpful, covering a lot of bases. One thing that seems to be missing is making sure to handle .pacnew files (changes to default configuration files). I'm always bad at this, but is much easier with a good tool like pacfiles-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/UndeadKernel/pacfiles-mode

(And of course general recommendations like backups, but that is not Arch specific, other than maybe having a package list to restore from)
"Roebuck". I believe they were still putting their full name on printed labels as late as the 90s? It looks like they've tried to resurrect it as a clothing brand now.

I knew Sears was really done for when I went in there circa 2010 and they had a prominent computer with their "catalog", which was actually just searching Amazon. It's like these companies completely misunderstand what their value add is - I wasn't going to Sears because I was a "Sears customer" who only wanted to buy things from Sears, and they could hold onto me by letting me purchase Amazon items through them. Rather I went to Sears to see what Sears's selection was, and if they offered anything additional to what the HD/Lowes duopoly carried. They didn't really, and the rest is history.
You could also have a complete p2p system and forego a central company. Or your network of 10k drivers could be made of 100 taxi coops, each with an average of 100 members.
Data on Kubernetes: Operators, Tools Need Standardization
Samsung DDR5 Uses EUV at 14nm
It's worth distinguishing between algorithmic optimizations, optimizations that generally take advantage of the language standard/runtime, and optimizations that are highly specific for one machine/platform/implementation. It's also worth keeping track of relative programmer effort to optimize.

I think most people are moderately-optimized benchmarks, i.e. moderate effort expended relative to baseline implementation effort.

That is, people are interested in getting the most performance out of the least amount of effort.

Obviously some people want and need to care about extreme peak optimization. But if you are writing benchmarks for a wide audience, that probably should not be your priority.
Are you speaking from experience? I am. Proper equipment solves for rain and snow.

Crashing into a pole with your kid on board? A) don't do that? B) you'll all be fine as the speeds you should be riding with children along.

Not sure what you mean by a "bike buggy", but bike-mounted seats do provide protection against falls, and bike-towed trailers are essentially immune to them. Longtail cargo bikes put the children in the rear and have a bar that also protects during a fall. Box bikes are very difficult to overturn completely and also provide protection.

If you want to talk safety records, cars are by far the worst. They're extremely dangerous for the occupants and everyone around them.
I recently started a small project on Azure for something new, but most of my experience is small companies on AWS which is similar.

If you aren’t already comfortable with K8 I wouldn’t use them, there is a learning curve there for sure and not necessary.

I wouldn’t even worry about containers at all unless you are planning on using a managed container service like elasticbeanstalk.

My CI pipeline is almost nothing, just run tests on main and dev commits. I have no deploy pipeline, I choose to actively deploy.

My deployment workflow is a powershell script since I’m on Azure, if it was AWS and I was using plain EC2 instead of a container service I would probably use ansible to avoid having to repeat commands 2-3 times when I deploy something behind a load balancer, but it would be super minimal.

DB backups are super easy to schedule with RDS or similar offerings. For rollback with database changes I would schedule downtime, let your customers know, replace your page with a maintenance banner, do upgrade, test upgrade then repoint site to your running instance.

Overall I echo what many have said, use familiar tools as much as you can, don’t worry about whether what you are doing will scale to even 2-3 people if it costs significant time. Use managed services where possible to save you time, usually the cost isn’t high vs doing it yourself.
Yeah, I was recently looking for an ATX motherboard extension cable to hack apart for an evening project, and all the results were for splitters to connect extra PSUs to the mobo's Power On signal for mining rigs.
APUs/integrated GPUs have taken up that role.
Apps draft off what the OS allows, iOS keeps adding features at the OS level (do not track, “app tracking health” metrics, advertising opt out, etc). At best Android grudgingly offers some of this after the fact, at worst does what this article offers.
Don't forget that Google is not stopping at BERT. I dunno if they used any of the T5s or Switch Transformers in production, but they've said that MUM (O(100b)?) is going to run for production search queries, and no one knows what 'Pathways' is (multimodal O(1000b) MoE?) that Jeff Dean has been enthusing about.
Nuclear Power in France
I'm guessing this is the old Airplay v1?