skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it’s debatable, but, rather than being “extremely specific”, I think a common-sense interpretation of “give me sources showing global warming will increase the number of extreme cold events” could be reasonably met with news articles reporting on and explaining papers showing “a mechanism that will lead to more cold spikes” - your words, emphasis mine, because “more” implies a greater number, as requested. And these kinds of articles are widely published, have been for years, and are easy to find. Your comment _reads_ like a demand for easily Google-able common knowledge, even if it wasn’t intended to be. And if it’s not the articles themselves that are “trash”, it’s even more rude and inflammatory to denigrate my effort to provide them to you as “trash”.

Anyway: it’s definitely interesting and surprising that the IPCC’s report states that extreme cold events will decrease, when you’ve got experts and studies and mechanisms claiming otherwise, not to mention non-stop record breaking winters. The IPCC report is 4000 pages long and I’m not qualified (or blessed with the time) to pick through it and reconcile those things. Maybe the IPCC paper doesn’t consider the impact climate change is having on the polar vortex settled enough to factor it in (at least one of the articles above claims it’s still not universally accepted); maybe, as you suggest, the net warming will offset it; maybe, as someone else suggests in that thread, we're operating on different definitions of "extreme"; maybe certain areas will see an increase of extreme
cold spikes but on net they’ll go down around the surface of the planet, which depending on where they are still complicates the calculus in the fine article quite a bit - if Texas has increased days or intensity of extreme cold but Antarctica has less, well, there’s a whole lot more people who might die in Houston than at McMurdo Station, even if Antarctica is quite a bit bigger than Texas. I’ll revise my priors and was wrong to state with certainty that extreme cold events will increase given the IPCC report, but after a near-decade of unprecedented winter weather disasters happening annually and a well-established mechanism that explains it, I’m not willing to write the claim off.
Introduction to the China Social Credit System [Punishments and Rewards] in 2021
I'm usually pretty critical of tiny NPM modules, but I really want to support whoever maintains this package.

Hundreds of lines of regexes, people asking about IE8 support, and a constantly moving target every time a browser changes something. This really must be a horrible package to maintain.
then you have to link to it. But I think that if somehow Mastodon stops making code available (which would be unlikely), you still have provide source code, as long as you run it.
Digressing back to qc..

If you look at how Shor's algorithm works, it's more like manipulating some kind of embeded values (that we have no direct access to) eg via Hadamard gates and eventually collapsing the entanglement into the solution.

So maybe we can have something closed-form-ish that solves NN by arranging some q gates some way
There’re private in a sense that there isn’t internal registry where you can just look up anyone like at google. From what i can observe over years apple has almost exactly same perf culture as google and any other similarly sized company in the US
You mean Google bought pieces of paper and pretends that they represent removing co2 from the atmosphere, when in reality they don't.

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/30/carbon-neutrality-google-s...
IIRC IA archives full WARCs so replaying all the requests will be fine. The main issue will be browser compatibility with old HTML/CSS/images/JS.
In the dune universe they have some kind of antigravity technology, so perhaps this is used to dampen the shockwave at the tips?

In our universe given enough power there is probably a way to generate an opposite wave to counter the shockwave.
Not medical condition, but your state of mind.
The goal is to sell others the option to change your mind.

Everybody keeps getting surprised at how seemingly irrelevant data points can be used to segment/profile people with a shockingly high accuracy. It seems the only requirement is scale.
Pointing out a problem, being ignored and then someone with some clout pointing it out resulting in the problem being fixed is sadly relatable. It's very depressing that these kinds of inefficiencies scale up to national supply chain levels.
Wait, is this the _original_ Batman origin story?
Not exactly the same thing but try clojure with anglican in nextjournal to see if it fits your needs.
>A hummingbird (4 inch wingspan) flaps at 60 Hz though. It can hover too, just like an insect.

during hover hummingbird doesn't flap the wings up/down, instead it flaps it in horizontal plane. On each stroke, back and forward, the wing is set at an angle of attack and thus is kind of like propeller during each flapping stroke pushing air down :

https://youtu.be/naE7fK-gCPs?t=110

Hummingbird weights 3 grams. An APC 4x4 prop at 3000 rpm would generate 4 grams thrust consuming 0.2 Watt. Such energy density would mean 6 KWt for human, ie. 60x our regular power. So no wonder :

https://www.lib.niu.edu/2000/oi000811.html

"Hummingbirds are sugar addicts. Their metabolism is so incredibly fast that they need to refuel about every 10 minutes. Each day they consume 50 percent of their body weight just to maintain their normal weight. Hummingbirds burn from 6,600 to 12,000 calories per day. If a man had the metabolism of a hummingbird, he would have to eat almost 300 pounds of hamburger a day to keep from wasting away."
It's not the same person replying to you.
HTTP requests work exactly the same on the other side. If anything some ex-faang have an edge as they generally see many trends years before they permeate the wider industry
> you're not even the person I was replying

So, this is normal on HN.

> So it started as "battery swap stations will never happen" but now it's having a whinge that they're not more widely used

What are you even talking about? Nobody accept you is "whinging" about anything.

The fact is 99% of EV companies have decided against battery swapping. What does that tell you?
While that is a fair criticism, I would like to ask you this: why are there so few ports in the USA? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_...

The answer to this question is that merely possessing coastal land is not a sufficient enough condition to open a port-- rather various levels of government are involved in creating and regulating an official "port of entry" to the United States.

Otherwise, you would have people bringing in nuclear bombs in the cover of darkness at a port that doesn't have government agents operating at it, no?

If we had more ports, we would have less bottlenecks. But we can't have more ports, because of inefficient operations.
My point is, if you focus on the core features. Lets say something like twitter, it seems to be not THAT hard on the backend side. Sure then you optimize your GUI for different devices that may need a bit more work. But I would say a minimal simple version can be done in few months. How long did it take Zuckerberg to create facebook with php again…?
The real problem is you have a culture where people think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. Whether it is legal or not, I would not be punting on stocks that I was a judge for, it simply stinks and shouldn't be done.

There's probably a lot of things that are formally legal but corrosive to society.
> Whether the paper was rejected by a regular process or an irregular process, it doesn’t condone her actions that followed

This is where we'll have to agree to disagree.

As you can see in this thread, she was treated unfairly. Someone confirmed to you that this is the case, and you're still arguing that her subsequent behavior was unjustifiable.

I think her subsequent behavior was a result of the unfair treatment. I'm not sure how I would've reacted in her place, and I have a lot of empathy for a scientist who is being scrutinized outside of normal policies.

Her paper was anodyne. No one would've blinked if it was published. And I think you keep saying that it's okay for a research department to stop publication of scientific work regardless of whether the paper was mistaken or not.

You've said that it needs revisions. I work in ML. It seemed not to need any revisions, as far as I could tell. Google's reaction seemed far out of proportion for what the paper claimed.

You can say "Well, that's life. Google didn't do anything wrong." The former is true, but I'm skeptical of the latter.
I wouldn't be surprised if the people who worked on BERT generated more CO2 commuting to work than they did training the model. It seems like a drop in the bucket.
I’ve heard that. How do you find racket for speed and also interactive development?

I don’t mind a bit of scheme / racket, so would be curious to jump in.
Thanks for taking the time to answer, I appreciate it.
There are plenty of small family scale business in fields like alcoholic drinks and food, and they have large, fierce competitors.
typedef union {
struct {
uint64_t fraction : 52;
uint32_t exp_bias : 11;
uint32_t sign : 1;
} fields;
double value;
} binary64_float;

Accessing the value stored in "value" through the "fields" member is undefined behavior. I'm legitimately surprised that lemire published this code. The correct and well-defined way to do this is to memcpy() the double value to a char array and access the relevant bits that way.
What does this have to do with attack Jeff Dean personally on twitter?

Please note that this was months before she left.

The 3 names you mentioned have nothing to do with Jeff Dean.

Handling those 3 people has nothing to do with supporting Gebru or Jeff Dean.

This has nothing to do with Gebru being a toxic person.
The perf process sounds good on paper. It's just like peer reviews in the academia they said.

However its outcome in practice can't be any worse. To this day, people "cook up" a project that doesn't need to exist and won't share the credit or their territory with anyone (or else the committee will doubt their ownership) and abandon the project less than six months after their promotion and switch to a new team.
I can think of at least three plausible counter-arguments:

1. That's overly restrictive. Why not let them own individual stocks in, say, a blind trust?

2. It's a free country. It's up to the voters to decide if they want to elect someone who profits from their position. What is needed is a law requiring public disclosure, not prohibition.

3. If you force people to divest their portfolios before taking public office you will reduce the pool of people willing to serve.

This is not to say that I disagree with the policy position, only that it's not the slam-dunk you seem to think it is.
Yes, I am thinking of starting a part time web company based on it. But very early days so I shouldn’t be quoted or assumed to be anywhere successful as my preceding sentence may imply.
I tend to agree.
But there is another aspect: Sadly the democratization of internet access has lowered the bar across the board in regards to both form and content of discussions in communities.

I've been a heavy forum user and occasional mod/admin in subject focused communities in the pre-Facebook era (~'98-2005) and I've seen many communities die down from an influx of barely literate (technical or otherwise), low effort, entitled and sometimes rude users. And I don't think this can entirely be explained by the "mainstream otters" concept, and neither have I seen many instances of new niche communities appearing to replace the former. At the risk of sounding like an elitist, I observe that the education level of the average internet user has been dropping.
I think you’re confusing bytes and words. A word is multiple bytes. In this case 8 bytes.
Preferable to waking up to panic attacks from dream content.
What is it with the endless whining about this decision, by Californians and you. California got exactly what wanted, its leading in EVs. It got a huge number of jobs, including reopening a big plant. Its leading in battery tech. Those companies help fund their universities.

Tesla is one of the few companies mass manufacturing in California at all. They got more then their monies worth.

Tesla even did really fast charging just not with swapping. So I really don't see why people are so upset about this. Swapping was clearly the wrong solution, and Tesla instead invested in a better solution. Thanks to that California has a huge amount of fast charging stations.

It seems to me what it is really about is just finding any reason to be angry at Tesla. If you actually think about it, with a fixed amount of capital, what should they have done, build battery swap station or deploy fast chargers?
Which ones? Specifically.

After the, (my words), harrasment of Lacun on Twitter, the sort of belittling of the internal award she was given (you'd have to really think they were evil to give her an award just to gaslight her), plus the short notice ultimatum to a very senior person (one level down from Jeff Dean right?)....no offense but from the outside she seems exhausting to manage.

The abstract came out, and honestly the paper was so so. Obviously it went against googles business model, but it'd be a wayyyy bigger scandal if they burried it.

Maybe Jeff Dean is a liar, but his comment was the paper missed incorporating significant recent research. As head of the group, and just out of respect towards the institution and to science, pondering it for more than 48 hours before bouncing on vacation or heaven forbid presenting at the next conference would have been reasonable.

Biased external view though. YRMV.
One argument that I can think of is talented people will instead gravitate towards private industry and are disincentivzed to become public servants. Not owning invidual stock can be common shares is pretty broad. Or otherwise we would have to define what class of investment instrument should be banned. Do we also prevent buying private company shares? What about other financial derivates such as options and futures where you technically don't own the underlying stock? Do we limit real estate investments as well? If they earn a salary, where could they invest their savings? If we allow real estate investment, then public servants (1.8M US Citizens) would blow up the real estate market. There are so many secondary and tertiary effects, that would have major consequences to the economy and the functioning of the government. Not allowing any investment opportunity means they would sucuumb to the inflation rate and cannot retire.
Its not, union is valid in C(note, not c++) for this.
> This state of constant, high magnitude stress, leads to a very short fatigue life for the structure.

So maybe the wings should be living? Nature seems to have perfected automatic repair.

> This is currently not possible, and it will never be attempted.

There's a novel by Jack Vance which works around the technical difficulties by having a low gravity planet, and descendants of colonists use material from the outer parts of the spaceship. So there's very limited supply of this space tech substance, and wings are passed from generation to generation.
There's nice money to be made configuring/writing custom modules for Wordpress and Drupal. Your business won't become a unicorn but there's a living to be made on top of those technologies. The same thing when it comes to Shopify and Magento.
(The subthread below contains the refutations, so I won't copy them here. I left a reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966286, but you might want to climb it upwards to see why this is mistaken. Suffice to say, her paper passed the internal review, and was subjected to a second review that wasn't policy at the time.)
I think the potential use case here is to enhance the utility of and likelihood of success using a skimmer with a built-in camera, with ML increasing the chances of deducing PINs that would otherwise fallback to bruteforcing, which is statistically unlikely compared to 30% success rate with this ML method. Nothing to scoff at, and good to know for blue teams.
Brute-Forcing the NYTimes Spelling Bee
Everything's corrupted. Pretty much every branch of government is rife with corruption. Even the enforcement is corrupt. Money has infiltrated everything and justice is now truly blind.

And if by some miracle you're tried and found guilty, you can even buy your way out of serving any time and you can even buy a presidential pardon and have your crime expunged.

If you're rich, vast majority of laws simply don't apply to you. Yet there's so many laws on books and many of those laws are so vague that an average person commits several felonies every day. [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...
Me too. This is my third year with them I think. I believe there has been three downs. The worst was for almost a day IIRC.

I like mailfence for several reasons. Quick, at personal support is one important factor.

However I do think it would suit any provider if they publicized an annotated downtown log, so that we didn't have to guess how often or why they had issues.
So much scripted drama while everybody involved is on the same page and wants and regulation and more censorship of FB:

Facebook wants regulation for itself to kick the ladder down for future competitors, the current "whistleblowers" want it for FB because of personal idelogical leanings toward modern identity politics, the legacy media corporations want regulation applied to FB hoping that it will somehow save the former's outdated business model and the Biden administration wants it in order to manufacture consent in the face of falling popularity ratings and to keep those pesky allegations of election fraud down (except for their own allegations against the opponent).
As a contributor to Scryer Prolog (I designed the logo!), I find this project to be one of the most exciting current developments in the logic programming community, and one of the most promising new Prolog systems in many years.

Notably, Scryer Prolog is currently the only free Prolog system that aims for full conformance to the Prolog ISO standard, supports constraints such as dif/2, CLP(B) and CLP(ℤ), includes the most recent declarative features such as if_/3 and and the ..._si/1 family of predicates, provides support for sound unification and an alternative execution strategy called SLG resolution, and also implements a very efficient internal representation of lists of characters and partial strings, thus making it the first Prolog system in decades with the potential to efficiently support the use case Prolog was developed for: efficient and convenient text processing. On top of this, it is the first Prolog system ever implemented in Rust, making it especially exciting for fans of this language while also benefiting from many of its innovations.

Here are a few interesting applications of Scryer Prolog:

The precautionary package by David C. Norris, using Scryer Prolog for safety analysis of phase 1 dose-escalation trials in clinical oncology:

https://github.com/dcnorris/precautionary

A Prolog library to connect to PostgreSQL databases by Adrián Arroyo Calle:

https://github.com/aarroyoc/postgresql-prolog

The Retina chainer, targeting EYE Reasoning via Scryer and Trealla by Jos de Roo:

https://josd.github.io/retina/

Thank you Mark and everyone who contributed for all your work on Scryer Prolog, keep up the great work! Some of these innovations have already spread to other Prolog systems, such as Trealla and Tau Prolog, and I hope that Scryer serves as an inspiration for many more systems. Exciting times ahead!

Regarding the name of the project: "Scrying" is the practice of looking into a suitable medium in the hope of detecting significant messages or visions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying

What a fitting name for a Prolog system!
i like 6-bit bytes because they can be represented by hexagram unicode, like so:
䷄䷅䷆䷇䷈䷉䷊䷋䷌䷍䷎
The grand finale:
https://youtu.be/xrGAQCq9BMU
Thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1451619916994396164.html
Well, the state of the Internet has changed fundamentally over the last years where now most traffic is going through a small number of portals. Also, we were not that thoroughly tracked 10 years ago. Fundamentally, I believe that the ad-tracking economy of the current version of the Internet is the wrong direction. And, I hope (and work actively on) that we will find more effective ways to earn money on the Internet.
Could you explain in detail why the power consumption calculations were mistaken?

It sounds like you're saying that the calculations weren't mistaken, but that she didn't mention the carbon neutral status of Google as a whole.
Thanks, I was thinking more about an application that requires it day to day.

So a future event made before the time zone transition of a country? That's rare enough that I think a one-off transition plan would be fine.

Given the downsides of storing dates with time zones (comparison, confusion etc), it doesn't seem very attractive to me.
Except that participants unknowingly create the most unjust distribution of wealth the world has ever seen. If Bitcoin really becomes the money of the world, late entrants might have to pay millions per coin (or fractions of cause) whereas early entrants only had to pay cents. We make people billionaires who contributed nothing to society.
Incompetent managers certainly believe they're hedging for bus factor by increasing headcount.

In practice, it doesn't work. For any given product there's still always a small/solo core team.

Don't optimise your business for mediocrity.
if we had a functioning government, and if all the rich republicans in california weren’t pretending to be democrats, we wouldn’t have this problem.
> And hers case was especially easy, since she said she will leave the company if the policy isn't changed. Google didn't want to change the policy.

The policy seemed to be made up specifically for her paper. Her paper already passed the standard internal review, and she alerted them months before the conference that her paper was going to be submitted.
So... it's like academia.
I find it amusingly ironic that Google employees don't like the idea of being tracked.
Currencies are not adopted. Currencies are enforced. All the gov has to do is “accept taxes in eUSD with 5% cut compared to alternatives” for 10 years and the game is over. China banned eCoins overnight, it’s as simple as that, for better or worst.
A Soak in Hot Coffee (1992)
>If you force people to divest their portfolios before taking public office you will reduce the pool of people willing to serve.

Dissuading the wealthy from seeking office sounds like a feature, not a bug to me.
Turns out love of large paychecks is stronger than hatred of ads.
The blockade would mostly operate in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. Interdicting all Chinese sea traffic, and all over-ocean air traffic globally is entirely doable. The Chinese military has zero practical operational experience, while the US has an extensive network of global bases and experience up to the eyeballs.

There is simply no way China is going to contend with the US globally. Zero trade with the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea and Australia is a given. A sea blockade of trade with Africa, South and Central America, and Australia is fine. That leaves land and air trade only with Asia. How are they going to get oil? China's not going to establish military domination over the Middle East any time soon.

As a Brit I don't see us staying neutral, or Australia. Hence the nuclear subs Australia is buying. In a conflict like this, they would use them.