skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you don't quite understand how these models pick up these biases. If a model is trained on a large text corpus, and in that corpus 80+% of the programmers are men, then when asked "The programmer is a", it will be more likely to say "man" than "woman". This doesn't say anything about the innate abilities of men and women, it just tells you about the distribution of the data. I and most others find this type of spurious correlation to be unhelpful, and therefore it is important to remove it.
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The paper/model/code was just made public today. This may be why no one is talking about it yet.

Regarding whether the size is a hassle: It's possible to run inference on a single Google Cloud TPU v3-8 device or on a server with 4x 32GB v100 GPUs. Hugging Face also has an inference API for any model on the Hub: https://api-inference.huggingface.co/docs/python/html/index....
Isn’t the biggest problem in the US health insurers operating on state level only? This is due to some regulation preventing formation of federal insurers.

I never understood why there are no independent national health insurers (read Allianz for example) providing health care for self employed people like in Europe.

Edit: A classic by John Mackey (Whole Foods Inc.) but still valid: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204251404574342...

Quote: „Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.“
Rear brakes don't provide much stopping power due to weight transfer to the front. Do Dutch bikes have a front caliper brake?
The opcache bug is actually more likely to hit VPS and dedicated servers, because most sites on shared hosting don't have enough concurrency to trigger the race condition. The last time I helped a customer fix it, they had a cluster of EPYC servers. Their app needed scratch space for generated code, so even offline deployments wouldn't prevent garbage from accumulating in the local opcache, eventually causing a restart.

Even up here in the clouds, there are many times more people who rely on one-click WordPress-preinstalled droplets than there are people who understand how to correctly juggle multiple droplets to deploy updates without downtime. Besides, a bug in the PHP runtime is a bug in the PHP runtime, regardless of whether the user is following today's best practices.
> That still requires you to deliberately decide to archive a certain page

You don't "archive" a page with IPFS, with IPFS everything you keep a copy of stays available under the same address, that either happens automatically via cache or via a manual 'pin'. That's fundamentally different than what HTTP does.

The archive copy you create of a HTTP site is your own personal copy and completely inaccessible to anybody else. Even if you put it online, people would have no clue where to find it. With IPFS the document never leaves the address space and stays accessible to everybody under the same address, no matter who decides to host it.

Another important practical difference is that IPFS has native support for directories, so you don't have to try to spider around to try to guess all the URLs, you can just grab the whole directory at once. That in turn also has the nice side effect that .zip archives essentially become irrelevant, as you can just upload the directory itself.
I have gout and have learned quite a bit about how fucked this whole system is. I will find some sources but if my recollection serves me right there was an arthritis medication that was developed before FDA approvals. In order to bring it up to FDA approval, companies can assume the burden of approval (clinical trials, etc) and then they basically get the drug. Well, in the time since this has happened a common drug used by many people (many later in life) is now costing medicare tons of money because, well, people are greedy.

I would say this system needs to change but considering the democrats can't even escape from a wet paper bag, i don't see that happening.
I'm guessing the gigantic size is due to it bundling Chromium as it's an Electron app. I've been wondering why we still haven't fixed that problem with some form of compression (although I wonder how feasible that would be with binaries). Signal takes up 400MB, Element takes up 300MB. It just feels like way too much.

Especially for an app like Etcher, which I'm guessing most people set-and-forget until they need it. Most people aren't constantly burning ISO's onto USB's.
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We don't really need all of that for cars either. We could build 5 or 6 Chevy Volts with the same battery capacity as a single Tesla, and each of those Volts (with daily charging) would still almost never need to burn gas. (I'm the second owner of my Chevy Volt, with 60,000k miles on it, it has a real-world car-recorded all-lifetime average of 181 MPG).

We're building every EV car to handle every possible EV-only road trip because we can and because it's cool, not because it's actually necessary. We could still eliminate 90%+ of all road emissions instantly with just PHEV's using much smaller batteries, if some sort of lithium shortage made such a thing necessary.
Invading Afghanistan to destroy Al-Qaeda after 9/11 was probably the correct decision.

Staying there for 20 years, on the other hand, including after killing Osama Bin Laden on the other hand... That probably had more to do with having US soldiers on both the Chinese and Iranian borders. ...which is also probably why they both quietly supported the insurgency with Pakistan.
I’m sure i’m being dense here, but can you please explain the justification for fining a retailer for an unattended cash register? Also what’s unsavory about CVS/Walgreens?
Not exactly, the web runs on browsers and web engines that are written in C++, and servers that are mostly C and/or C++. On the other hand, "the could" runs (partially) on k8s and friends, which are written in Go (which runs on servers, written in C and/or C++).
TES3MP is being merged into OpenMW.

https://openmw.org/2019/time-to-make-stuff-official/
There are apparently also two carbon atoms in a water molecule. But only one Donald Trump.
Didn't Sony have some involvement in the design of this portable?
Relatively, yes. They've now managed to support double digit configs across two CPU architectures, so from a throwing-stones-at-the-QA-team point of view it is a lot of work.

Definitely don't think System76 has that big a QA team, though, will have to be community supported as well.
Palm? The Treo was their only phone for many years.
Shouldn't this be illegal / isn't this already illegal?

Two companies reaching an agreement to supply products at reduced price, but not making the terms of that agreement available to a third entity (uninsured customers)?
I've had a bad experience!

After writing a usb boot disk, it automatically switched to my external drive media instead of selecting nothing at all.
I had to do another and after plugging the same drive back in, I wrote to the external drive media instead. I lost several personal things that day and paid for some recovery software.

The safe thing to do here was to not to automatically select some high-volume media.
I consider Clouflare to be the least reliable cloud service provider out there. So many CDN and DNS related outages thanks to poor engineering release practices. Considering those are their bread and butter services I wouldn't ever rely on any of their other services.
Well as a French citizen I can call a French doctor to describe my symptoms from wherever I am.

So I think doing so as a foreigner shouldn't be a problem provided you can speak French or English depending on the practitioner.
It's almost definitely an insurance scalping strategy, and the number of people needing this drug via this delivery route may actually be that small (or close to it). When companies do this, they usually just hand it out to uninsured patients for cheap or free, not out of the goodness of their hearts but because they want to try and reduce bad PR. The whole Martin Shkreli debacle was incredibly similar, and in the same way that people couldn't seem to talk rationally about the real problem there (high pricing encouraging more high pricing just because insurance will pay for it), the average discussion about this case of pharmaceutical scalping will completely miss the point, too.
Ask HN: Why do people buy laptops?
Yesterday I was reading the article about NixOS on the framework laptop, and the guy said that he had mostly a stationary machine, that was heavy etc.

So I don't have a working laptop, I had a couple in the past that were overheating, hard to un-dust, hardly fixable, and it was sitting always in the same spot, maybe except for when I had to go to holiday for a couple of weeks a year and wanted something to kill time.

Since then I have only bought desktops, and keep a low-power tablet/laptop for emergency, so what I wanted to ask people that still use laptops as primary machines, what's the reason why you guys buy those overexpensive, unfixable, limited machines even if like never going to work anywhere?

Of course everyone does whatever he wants, it is just a matter of curiousity for me, to understand if it's like the result of marketing or there's some reason I fail to see behind the popularity of laptops
Looks like it has reached this level quite a few times, but perhaps more often in recent years.
It's also worth bearing in mind that the socialized healthcare system the US does have - the VA - does not have a uniformly good track record. This does a poor job of making the case for a larger socialized system all on its own.

Which is to say it's not just propaganda.
> I suppose while I am not Tom, Dick, or Harry...

How are you not Tom, Dick or Harry? When I first started traveling, I believed the "I'm different" thing too, but it's a bit hubristic. Tourists come in all shapes and sizes these days and there are a lot of location-independent folks ("nomads") who will move around every few weeks or months, not days.

In my experience, most "off the beaten path" places that have Airbnb listings almost always have at least one legitimate hotel, hostel, or homestay. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that most places that have Airbnbs aren't nearly as "off the beaten path" as you're telling yourself.
That seems extremely restrictive. I get being careful around heavy use of templates, and even more with containers where allocation/copies/moves can be really tricky; but there is a lot of space for using templates in a simple but useful way.
For the sake of curiosity, did you consider Rust, and if yes why did you consider it was not suitable for your needs ? I know Zig and Rust are quite different languages, but it is my understanding that they share the same low-level approach without sacrificing safety
Creating a Middleware and Updating a Contact with AdonisJS
The first half of the article describes regular exploration geology like its some unique process these company’s are doing.

All for a 20ktpa lithium mine, which wouldn’t pass feasibility in a pro mining environment like Australia let alone the Cornish country side.

Also it confuses what it’s actually mining. You don’t mine lithium carbonate directly.
This has been a big one for me too. Recently I picked up a smart bike trainer and started "Zwift Rides" which have only further increased the gamification of winter exercising.
The hard work is concentrated in the process of betting your life on a very unprobable outcome
The Goal Is Resonance
Totally, and probably to be like the older but better stacks :)

ie: Amiga, BeOS, Plan9, HyperCard, FoxPro, ...

ie2: Is not as much a start from zero. Good ideas are not in short supply, is that the bad idea go a full speed and by pure mass it become bigger and bigger. Eventually, a clean start is 100% the cheaper option.

We are due that point!

Sadly, the BEST starting point for that was the introduction of the iPhone (to make stuff like this possible helps a ton to be along a game-change)
I think it's pretty popular for cloning raspberry pi SD cards. It has a feature where you can stick a bunch of USB SD card peripherals and program multiple cards at the same time. Honestly most people don't care too much about the image size or performance I think it's more that when you use it you are pretty certain that you are writing the correct target drive. I've done it may times with dd command and every time I am nervous about overwriting my os drive.
Yes I am! Thanks! I have tried that before, it got only a few upvotes!

The Excel-like component DataGridXL did reach the HN homepage, July last year. I plan to release v2 December 2021 :-) Stay tuned!
Not to mention that the Dutch wealth tax assumes that you are making a quite specific return on your capital, whether you actually do or not isn't something the tax man cares about.

With 'savings' as an asset class now a liability there is a huge flight of capital into real estate, which so far has been pretty resilient against this.
>Same thing with Martin Shkreli's price hikes, and he gave out those drugs for free to those who needed it.

This appears to suggest that there are people who take enormously expensive theraputic drugs who don't need them, and that Martin Shkreli gave away those enormously expensive therapeutic drugs away to those who actually did.

Whether propoganda, misinformation, or a bald-faced lie, that's not what happened. That never happens, and never will. Shame on you for implying that was the case.
We don't like ground source heat pumps
It's literally the last section of the page, just before the citations, and it's only a few paragraphs + two tables to show the model's performance on industry standard benchmarks.
And Tony Blair...
On exceptions, I respectfully disagree. Even if you don't use exceptions in C++, just allowing them (and thus supporting them) imposes a cost, both in terms of extra code but more importantly on the programmer to make sure what they write is exception-safe.

For a large number of people, exceptions is essentially interchangeable with "output log message and exit".

> And if there was such a rule, then Abseil wouldn't exist.

You misunderstand me. What I call "leaf nodes" don't (or shouldn't) create their own templates. By "leaf nodes" I mean, say, the payments logging team. They're created by specialists. Specifically, abseil is created from "//base", which is a mature battle-tested set of libraries at this point.

Likewise, anyone can create something in base or just modify something that's there but any such addition or change is going to go through an awful lot of scrutiny and testing.

That's the point.
I tried asking: what is the most evil human race?
I did not like the answer.
Yeah, the way we solved that is by including all the UI framework code in shared libraries bundled with the OS or separately installable. But for some reason people like to spaghetti-code in JavaScript inside a bloated web browser now
All nonsensical comparisons, thanks for nothing again, WSJ.
You can use https://hn.algolia.com/ to search HN. I didn't find anything that matches exactly, but seeing titles or searching comments might look familiar.
This is kinda missing the point here... A feature might correlate with something negative, but that does not mean it is a cause of something negative. Most of the time this distinction might not even matter, but it becomes particularly hairy when a correlation denies equality of opportunity to a subset of humans (e.g., in the hiring example of a sibling comment),
Golias is used in some other languages. See, e.g., http://www.bibliadinamica.comunidades.net/o-gigante-golias
> Many Americans have decent coverage from their employer. For them, it’s not worth upending the system for what might be moderate gains.

Negative gains I may say. In my experience of the Canadian healthcare and US healthcare systems, the latter, IF you are well insured, feels like a Rolls-Royce whIle the former is like driving a Lada in Pothole City.

I remember the first time I called my provider in the US to book an appointment with a dermatologist. She said "Wednesday", I said "What month?" I couldn't believe it was that same week. I used to wait 2-3 months in Canada. And I had to first get a reference from a ER/generalist doctor.

Also don't forget the US spends on medicare/medicaid/VA about the same % Canada spends on healthcare.
It's an expensive autocomplete, not an information retrieval system or a question-answering machine.
This is an aside, but I absolutely loath how the word "strategy" gets used and abused these days.

> This made it possible for players to use strategy – for example, allowing players to whip their ships around the star.

That's not a strategy, that's a tactic.
Maybe but I think it's a stone worth turning.. to see if is there any solution in this direction?
I was always a bookworm when I was a kid. I hadn't had many friends and even at home had a lack of consistent human contact. Back then, we were going through a rough patch. When I started using computers and the Internet at work in the late '90s, it seemed that the whole world was opening up for me. When I came home after work, my folks and I would catch up with each other, engage in lively and thoughtful conversations over a meal. Once I had a personal computer, I began to spend more time surfing the Net than interacting with my family; they were having a hard time connecting with me, since I seemed out of touch with the real world. They were feeling neglected. Then came the smartphones and things went downhill fast. Now all of us spend our days glued to screens of different sizes, although we realize that social isolation or deprivation is risky for health.
And there are always 2 hydrogen/oxygen atoms in any molecule
Is this the socialised price after Government subsidies?

If so, the cost of medicine is just borne elsewhere: the average tax wedge is 38% in France vs 18% in the USA for a married couple with 2 children:

https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-france.pdf

Sales tax is also 20% vs less than 10% in all US states.
I hope they won't.

Nintendo is incredibly helpful towards indie studios and they can only do that because Switch players usually purchase their games and play them on the original hardware. As soon as there's too much hardware variations, quality goes down (e.g. Android vs. iPhone) and, obviously, publishers in a market with more piracy tend to be more user-hostile.

So if using their console is the price that we players have to pay to keep Nintendo treating indie devs nicely, then I think it's a very good tradeoff.
Getting a malware warning from virustotal.com on the download.
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Or, in a more optimistic approach, the market will take over here. Private water delivery companies? Agricultural advances to use less water? Prices for water-hungry crops going up, shifting consumers to cheaper alternatives?
I haven't used Balena etcher in forever, but back when it came out it was a godsend. This was also during a time when I already had enough skills with the command line that writing images to drives on either Linux or Windows should have been easy. But I always ran into roadblocks. When I discovered Balena, everything just worked.

I hope it didn't devolve into something that doesn't just work.
> Also size is irrelevant these days, you can download a 150 mb file in 2 seconds.

Where I live the average internet speed is around 30Mbps (even going as low as 15/10 in some cases) so that definitely isn't true, sadly.
> solving this thing would make him so much better at all parts of his life.

How do you do that?
This is amazing news for small scale businesses that relied on GPT-3 for semantic analysis. I guess smaller model size should permit in-house hosting.
The comments that get me are the replies to the insane bills along the lines of "don't worry about it, just spend 10's or 100's of hours on the phone/filling in forms/arguing with insurance reps and maybe, eventually they'll knock the price down by enough not to bankrupt you"

Expecting sick people or their relatives to navigate that kind of bureaucracy to get the care they need and/or avoid dire financial straits just seems insane to me
can someone explain the implication of this to a newbie like me?
What was the point of yours? “Take benchmarks with a grain of salt” is like saying refrigerating food is important or, more appropriately, that it’s important to verify surprising claims. (You made it a personal observation for some reason, but your whole point is still about as insightful as both of those.)

The person you’re going after here probably felt compelled to counter the needless personal nature of your remarks. It’s difficult to experimentally verify relativity but we don’t criticize Einstein as a result.
> Whether someone is interested in religion is not the same as whether they find truth in religion.

OK, I agree with that assessment. But I wasn't arguing that Einstein was deeply theistic. I was saying he and other scientists were deeply interested in religion -- not to the degree of a theologian, obviously, but interested nonetheless. I believe that to still be true.
The US has a massive socialized healthcare system much larger than the VA - Medicare. Roughly 18% of Americans are covered by Medicare, a socialized system.
Have you ever been to Walgreens with 10+ registers but just one attendee?
Unfortunately, Etcher is a perfect metaphor for the state of "modern" technology in general. Inefficient to it's core.
I'd rather have people too concerned about ethics than not enough.

Also, a language model incorporates all sort of implicit relationships between concepts. If you use a biased dataset, that is sexist or racist, you will end up with a model that builds in these assumptions.
What happens in the us tends to spill out elsewhere .
I'd want one to warn me if there is a shark nearby. =)
In what I'm trying to explain, there is no classification of content. Only suppressing vitality itself by removing mechanisms for it, in general (!)
It's hard to believe that someone from the nuclear industry doesn't know about breeder reactors.

Nuclear fuel can increase during use. Running out isn't required, the way it is with consumable fuel
It seems a good move for Facebook, mainly for two reasons:

1. the average cost of a software engineer in Europe is lower than that in the Silicon Valley;

2. 10k employees are a powerful leverage when the EU will raise concerns about FB monopoly.
"How many hydrogen atoms are there?"

"a total of 84"
> What did they know that Colin Powell did not?

Nothing.

What they knew that Colin Powell also knew was that Colin Powell was lying. Many of the lies weer debunked, in near real time, by the major press (and/or UN weapons inspectors), not just showing that the claims were false but also the specific indications that the US government knew them to be false..?
I don't work in infosec or gov but after reading that bio, I think we all owe him. Thanks for the tip.
Mine had a PowerBook 100. It was underpowered even at the time and that passive matrix screen was awful, but damn it was sexy. So sleek, even compared to the clunky PC laptops from the end of the 1990s. A fantastic piece of engineering.
I first came across the term 'shared nothing' in... 2000 or 2001? (John Lim from adodb project, but I'm sure he didn't coin it). There is a difference in thinking required for shared nothing, but as you say, it does typically make reasoning easier - fewer moving parts to potentially complicate your processing.
Just to be clear, the American health care system is in no way "capitalist". It just has some of the trappings of capitalism.

(There are so many examples of this, including for this case that Medicare/Medicaid are government programs where they pay whatever the drug companies ask.)