skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3/4 of people who faked being a racial minority on their applications were accepted by the colleges to which they lied

Then I guess we better get used to it.
Building a deep sea underwater city is likely more outrageous than an underground city on mars. You're not avoiding tail risks by doing something preposterously dangerous like this because you will almost certainly die regardless of the above world conditions. You'd have to deal with:

* needs to be anchored to something somehow
* no sunlight
* likely catastrophic vulnerability to any tectonic movement
* no easily accessible soil
* extremely high, extremely slow costs of expansion
* no clear way to build the initial structure.
* need for perfect protection from the salt
* heating problems
* likely complete dependence on the above world for materials and food.

mostly just going to be nuclear subs with a handful of additional disadvantages.
Do you think anything was rushed in the movie? I don't think there is 100 hours of story to tell or maybe you're talking about the whole series not just the first book? (and even then it's a lot)
And there are those that want to move our entire fiat money system on to digital ledgers. I'll pass thanks.
I feel like the 80s movie does this far better. For all its flaws. It makes an effort to show the emperor and the spacing guild and impress upon the viewer how involved and how powerful (or in the case of the spacing guild, how alien) they are.

Might be interesting to see how they respond to the old movie by comparison.
It’s more scalable in theory, and I talked its praises in a different comment, but our team has hit scaling issues with our one-user-per-database approach. It was a mess to sort out, but Cloudant support was very helpful.

Our major issue: we write many small documents, and we write them over every user’s database fairly frequently. And Cloudant’s default settings don’t like that with a one-user-per-database approach. In fact, they discourage anyone from the one-db-per-user approach these days: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/cloudant-best-and-worst-pract...

That blog post calls it an anti-pattern, but I would respectfully disagree. It is an absolutely great pattern to keep a native app and a web app in sync across multiple devices with intelligent conflict resolution.

A solution was to reduce the number of shards that a database was split out over, since our database’s data is pretty small overall and we didn’t need each database split out so much across our cluster.
Given it is the same "poorly implemented digital identity platform" that has been in use for the last 40 years, and secures basically every form of non in person communication you conduct, I am expecting that to continue for a bit longer.
> "training BERT on GPU is roughly equivalent to a trans-American flight"

This gets cited often, but is a number that doesn't impress me very much. Given the fact that (in theory) a language model like BERT has to be pre-trained only once[1], and these weights then can be reused by anyone to fine-tune the model[2], the number doesn't seem impudently high.

I think its good to examine the environmental impact, but there are so many unnecessary flights every day, that could be substituted by trains, that for me the fact that pre-training a state of the art ML model for the CO2 cost of a flight did not seem very high for me. Or do I overlook something there?

[1] Of course, in reality it's not so easy – there is hyperparameter search, domain adpotion, further experiments, etc.

[2] Also because of the great open source work by Hugging Face.
In the sense that updating the code to do something else would make it “not Bitcoin”, sure. But I really don’t think this matters to much of anybody if the “OG Bitcoin” drops to zero and the hard fork with new behavior wins.
I plan on seeing it soon but I was hoping to see the Hobbit... a single book turned into 3 movies. Trilogies seem to be where it's at.

Taking a deep book and turning it into a single movie seems to not work. Enders game: I'm looking at you.
On the other hand, if you take a book that leans towards ideas and concepts, and you make series with character-driver narrative out of it so people won't tune out, you get something like Foundation, that has only title and names of places and characters common with the original. All that made the original interesting is lost.
Can you access that auto-embed information at runtime with some stdlib calls?
Of the top of my head, I don't recall any other issue that the zeitgeist even tacitly required a fiction writer to cover. The book will probably be great but what an odd article!
NEOM of Saudi Arabia, for example
> A lot of people who read the book because of the upcoming movie also thought the book was boring.

the book's pacing isn't exactly brisk from what my younger self remembers of reading it.
Manual input certainly exists. My own EU Covid pass is showing "US" as the member state, as I got my vaccines in the US and the data got transcribed by the French foreign affairs into the EU system.
I find this opinion piece rather inane

- Investing immense amounts of resources historically helped to find algorithms that could be run with fewer resources. It's just that the raw computing power helped to lower the cost for research and exploration

- Who is he speaking to? To the big companies pulling out tens of millions to do this? To the small ones? I think everybody knows the costs of deep learning training. The big companies took that into account and still find it cost effective. The small ones already know they cannot afford that power.

- Spectre and Meltdown are bad examples of Moore's law?? I wonder where the author's mind is when he ignores the revolution inherent in stuffing today's tens of billions of transistors in chips that some decade ago contained tens of thousands of them. What has that to do with security vulnerabilities? Granted - those vulnerabilities are in large part due to the increased parallelization needed in today's chips, but that's due to the end of Moore's Law

- As the other commenter said, comparison between neurons and parameters is completely meaningless
I didn’t read the book and I thought the movie was hard to follow but certainly not boring. I rewatched it (which I usually never do), and thoroughly enjoyed it the second time around.
I think it'd be a good trilogy... or small series. Dozen hours... not 2. not 100.
Except Dune doesn’t have the same market history as Star Wars to make funding 100 hours as easy to fund. Though realistically it would be cool if an animated, long version existed. Truthfully though with how abstract the story is it’s just hard to get anyone into the background deeply in a video format.
It's also a ray of hope for people shut off from the world.
>By generating Adolf Hitlers GreenPass ..

TBH that is pretty hitlarious :)
Though it could get you in trouble in Austria and Germany.
Who says the feds system can't be hacked and extra money couldn't be created? It's one central authority, crypto doesn't have to be.
Also wrong. For an Ethereum (or bitcoin) upgrade that requires a hard fork to be accepted as “being Ethereum”, all the users running Ethereum nodes need to be OK with it and update their full node software to that version.
> nobody wants to package a binary for X versions of glibc

You only need to build against the oldest glibc version you want to support - and the runtime does nothing to change that since you can't bunle your own libc (if you want any dynamic linking at all, which you need fro e.g. OpenGL/Vulkan).

> Y versions of sound libraries

The steam runtime makes sure that there is a libasount/libpulse* present so that your program can start if it links against those, but it does not provide anything for compatibility between them - that can be achieved by e.g. SDL or OpenAL Soft (which load them dynamically which means there is no problem if the libraries are missing and you won't even need the runtime). It's also ok to only support one audio system then then have users figure out the compatibility on their system (e.g. PipeWire supports the ALSA and Pulse ABIs).

> Z versions of graphic APIs

Same, the runtime ensures that a vulkan loader is present but does not actually do anything for compatibility. Both OpenGL and Vulkan also provide backwards compatiblity so you again just need to decide on a minimum version.

What the steam runtime mainly does is provide a bunch of libraries that are present on Ubuntu that games might link against so that everyone has them. Nothing stopping the games from shipping those libraries themselves though.
The external servers are like cloudflare and fastly. Private relay doesn’t make any claims to be as private or anonymous as tor. It’s designed more to keep ISPs less aware of your browsing history and prevent websites from tracking you with IP.

In my experience so far, Private Relay just turns off and back on randomly. There’s no safari indicator that private relay is off, just push notifications to inform you of the status. Private relay and mail privacy protection also completely disable when using another VPN. That said I’m very happy to get private relay with iCloud+ as it means phone is approaching the point where carrier can’t associate me with browsing history for to sell to whatever creepy business offers them money.
$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge
Germany, at least, doesn't have a central database on vaccinations and just relies on pharmacy staff to validate the yellow paper Vaccination Pass and government IDs.
When you pay workers less than what they need to survive, you externalize the wage to society.

When you use temps in stead of real employees, you externalize their healthcare etc. as well.

When you sell books in Europe, but you don't pay taxes like European bookstores, you externalize that as well.

When you use predatory pricing for more than a decade, and it kills off real bookstores, that's an externality as well.

When you ship items one by one with trucks and planes, you have a large CO2 footprint. Again an externality.

Amazon is not some genius new high-tech business model, winning because they are smarter than everyone else. It's just low wages, predatory pricing, tax avoidance and disregard for the environment.
Dune: The Sisterhood (HBO Max TV series) has got Denis listed as a director.
Details seem thin on the ground, but so far, so good.
You can do both. In addition to these two methods I also have a print of that QR code in my car.
I agree, I went by myself and left wondering how some one that didn't read the book would feel. Underwhelmed with the plot? Confused?

But from my perspective the movie was a fantastic sensorial companion to the books. I felt it nailed everything (or maybe I was justed primed to accept this). Everyone must watch this in one of those simulator-4D screening rooms with vibrating chairs.

I left unsure about the portrayal of Jessica and Gurney though. I found Jessica from the movie overly unsure and emotional to what I imagined. And Gurney too stiff.
Free healthcare would be great but if I am building my utopian society, I would first address the need for healthcare in the first place. Automation would make healthy living choices super easy so that people could naturally gravitate towards lifestyles that avoided the need for healthcare at our current demands. You will often see debates here on HN about who should pay for healthcare but I think that is a cart before the horse problem. At the current growth in chronic health issues I do not foresee nations continuing to exist. Who pays for what? Doesn't matter, nobody will be able to afford 8 billion people having chronic health issues. Someone has to solve that first, then we can figure out who pays for the remaining issues. The advanced housing tech would also be designed so that you already know 99% of your health issues without even walking into a clinic. All that data remains on premise and under your control. Acute issues? No problem, lay down in the operation chamber. The system renders you unconscious and you wake up fully repaired and more healthy.
I disagree. I think any regulation would hit them the least compared to other internet platforms. This is confirmed by internal leaks as Facebook even wants regulatory capture. Mrs. Haugen and Mrs. Zhang probably don't have information relevant to the problem at all and basically suggested creating a ministry of truth. This is counter productive and backwards.

There is a trust crisis in media, but Facebook isn't the reason. Wrong information on the internet (oh no!) also isn't the reason. You would have been laughed at by 12 year olds if you suggested that 10 years ago. Worse, the 12 year olds would be correect...

The EU is an internet pariah because it would not allow for free platforms to be created. We have an encrusted media landscape that immediately destroys anything it doesn't really understand. I don't want that to continue and free information is a way to work against that. I have no interest on any EU body to dictate truth. That would only be sad.
Did it have an effect, though? It says 75% who lied got in, but what are the rates for people who were honest? How do rates vary by honest applicants across demographics?

Of course, the answer is in the methodology:

>> "All data found within this report derives from a survey commissioned by Intelligent.com and conducted online by survey platform Pollfish. In total, 1,250 white Americans were surveyed. To qualify for the survey, each respondent had to have previously applied to a college or university in the U.S. Appropriate respondents were found via a screening question."

So this doesn't tell us anything without further study.
If the more pessimistic of climate oracles are to believed, deserts are the future.
Yeah, that was my first thought too. I was actually pretty excited by the title, I thought this would be about olivine beaches. Pretty disappointed when I read the article.
Although this article is focusing on dplyr which provides an uniform API over various data sources, I guess the choice depends more on the personal taste: Do you like staying on R / Python or on SQL?

If you prefer SQL, using raw Arrow or in-memory data doesn't make sense - Except duckdb does support SQL queries over these non-db data sources as well.

Anyway, R data ecosystem very rich for both R and SQL fans and I as a Python user feel a bit envious.
> How does your workflow (when writing/reading code) actually look day-to-day? If you're writing a web server, are you really stopping the server, compiling again, run the full server when doing changes the logic for the server?

You can run cargo watch which will see file changes and then stop the server, compile and then re-start it for you.

For incremental changes you're looking at about 2-10 seconds of delay depending on the complexity of the framework in use. i.e. Axum is faster than Actix.

Before you get to that state you're probably in vscode with rust analyzer, this will point out any compiler errors earlier in the lifecycle.

The rust compiler does a lot. It's catching issues before they get to production.

I'm hoping that maybe the m1 pro/max chips can get my incremental compilations to sub 1 seconds and then I get a fast workflow with the full rust compiler safety net.
> OK: But what does this have to do with the glowglobes? The thing about writing a sci-fi book where your big shtick is that There Are No Computers is that you can no longer use “Very Advanced Computers” as your hand-waving explanation for how anything works. So Herbert, one of the great sci-fi writers, came up with a new hand-waving explanation: “The Holtzman Field Generator.” The explanation for any cool non-human tech in the Dune universe is: Holtzman Fields. How do spaceships fly? Holtzman Fields! How do shields work? Holtzman Fields! How do glowglobes float? Say it with me now: “the secondary (low-drain) phase of a Holtman Field Generator.”

This is hilarious. I think I'm going to enjoy reading the whole thing.
why don't you try, say mastodon, just for fun. its perfectly usable even though it has been built using many orders of magnitude less resources than these walled gardens
C was already pre-historic in the 1990's, of course it counts.
> bookshop-as-an-experience is the only way to compete

That experience may simply just be a very rich and organized collection, tailored for book lovers.
And if intentionally fucking it up is possible, can you really trust it?
They're already on digital ledgers, not sure how you think governments move billions to banks each and every night.
this is the most critical thing to remember about this movie and cannot be repeated enough. unless you have a top 1% home theater setup, you should see this in IMAX.

i'm seeing a lot of bad reviews from people who obviously watched it at home on a mediocre TV set in a living room. this movie deserves better.
This is really dependent on each country. For The Netherlands, I know there is a system healthcare professionals can use to manually generate DCCs: in case of problems with the link, patients not giving permission to share PHI to a central registry or in exceptional cases like (partly) vaccinated outside of the EU and such. Just the matter of entering all details and it'll spit out a valid DCC.

Source: had to use this procedure myself.
The emperor and Irulan only make a personal appearance at the end of the book, don't they? During events the movie presumably doesn't cover at all?
if you have some questions hit me up! :)
> Australia spent millions on a contract tracing app that ended up not providing any value at all.

Who cares? Australia spends more than that amount on COVID tests every few days (possibly every day, actually). It’s a drop in the ocean.

It would be nice if we could ensure that by every cent was placed on a winning bet, but in the real world it’s ok to try and fail sometimes.
European healthcare and education is great, far cheaper than American, and it is indeed free for many of the patients and students.
Does carrying just a QR code work fine for you? My experience from Germany is that nobody scans the code, they just scroll to details to see there's two vaccinations recorded. This far my QR code has only actually been scanned at the airport.
Is there a UK-based company capable of offering the same services?
These tyrants would love to hold on to these these digital “covid passports” because it gives them complete control over who can participate in society. They’d be able to exclude people who don’t comply with increasingly invasive protocols. It’s about power. The pandemic technically should already be considered endemic. For example in the USA the vast majority of the population has antibodies, in a significantly higher number than the 60 to 70 percent threshold that Fauci and other public servants claimed as the target over the last year.

More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

And as reported on by Bloomberg and other media, the antibodies from past infection confer protection equal to or greater than Pfizer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

"Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot"

And those are slated to last for decades. Source:

https://www.nature.com/
articles/d41586-021-01442-9

"Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"

On the exact terms given to us by Fauci and other public servants, there is no more reason for these covid mandates to exist. Should be optional across the board, including in EU countries where the threshold has been reached. Then there’s no more need to secure these keys.
Xi has three titles: general secretary of the CCP, president of China, and another chairman title related to the military (chairman of the CCP is reserved for Mao). The presidency is mainly a ceremonial one that used to be a separate role, most of his power stems from being general secretary of the communist party, so that’s what they use in the Chinese press. Because the Chinese know this wouldn’t translate well into the west, they use the Presidency title in their English press oriented toward foreigners.
What's New in Node.js 17
The problem with things like the $RET$ hack is that now you have a forbidden magic character sequence. Although this isn't the worst thing in the world, it doesn't look like you're doing basic validation on your input to make sure that that sequence doesn't already appear organically, which is the consequence of doing things this way.

Considering you now have at least one input file where this sequence does appear organically (i.e. this blog post), I'm also curious how your setup is handling this correctly instead of mangling the content. What am I missing?
The Dune miniseries is about 4,5 hours long. If the second Dune movie will have a similar length to the first one, the pair is going to be more than 5 hours long in total. So the movies wouldn't have to be more compressed. That surprised me a little.
> Do we really need digitally signed vaccine certificates

Probably not. But once they exist and are widely accepted, we can repurpose them to other things. Safety passports, CO2 passports, you name it.
Only if you were using the pre-Tcl 8 FFI API, our startup was built on a Tcl "Rails" similar to AOL Server, and we did plenty of native bindings.
I haven't read the books and went with a poker buddy to see it. After the movie I explained my experience to him like having been dealt 94o for two and a half hour straight, frustratingly waiting for something to manifest.
I'm in Quebec (Eastern Canada). Most of the electricity is produced from hydraulic power (dams) up north, while cities are in the southern part of the province. Most houses are electrically heated (especially those built after 1970). Production from water turbines is very efficient. Transmission losses are about 30%, because of the distance (> 1500km). Heating itself is 100% efficient, no moving parts, no maintenance. In this context, heating with a baseboard or CPU makes no difference.
Dune was the only book for which I had trouble keeping track of what's going on as I'm reading. It's like the writing didn't invoke any mental images, some of the characters were interchangeable in my head and I had to constantly reread paragraphs to figure out what's happening.

The movie was an okay adaption but it's not a great experience to leave the cinema halfway through a movie and maybe see the second half in a couple of years.
The best bookshops don't get written about by the Financial Times. They are found in small and mid-sized jurisdictions (often university towns) where the of ageing population is getting rid of books faster than the younger population is consuming them. They are dark inside—direct sunlight damages books—and they don't waste time or money on extravagant decor. The collection does the talking.
(Italian here) AFAIK Italy implemented the logic to be valid for 9 months, which wasn't ideal and it shows its limit in situations like this since we don't have a short expiry date.

Dunno if in the end they also put in place some kind of blacklisting for leaked certificates
> Everything else is free market
> diversity of culture (so for example it should be as easy to find a Bible reading club as a psytrance nighclub)

What if the market things your diversity is shit?