skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to give out 'narscissistic' vibes here. Just to be clear, I am very well aware when I am talking to a person of 'higher' level. And can clearly see them trying to dumb it down to me. Not a very good feeling but nothing can be done there. In fact the other person is being nice.
I am only attempting to look at it objectively.
I ask this because there is a tendency to become disintereted in your near and dear as you grow. It does not only apply to intelligence, areas of interest also gradually drift apart. Many discussions become either artificial or random fun based on movies or TV. There is still unconditional love, but something is always missing in those concersations.
> it’s not surprising that children might need a different quantity of vaccine

Or perhaps none at all, given that the survival rate for unvaccinated children ages 0 to 19 is 99.9973%:

Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling populations with emphasis on the elderly: An overview https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.08.21260210v...
I hate date structure and algorithm questions in interviews. It's a solid article though. Bookmarked for another day, when my head isn't jammed with all the work stuff.
If you already have something that works, by all means, stick with it.

If you want to learn Ansible, you don't even have to throw away your scripts; Ansible is a perfectly good way to run ad-hoc scripts if that solves your problem better than writing a full-blown playbook or even a custom module.

Ansible is weird and annoying in the beginning, but it's still a good tool to learn on top of your existing knowledge, because it provides extremely useful features beyond what's possible with plain old shell, and more importantly, it's a common language for system administration tasks that anyone can learn and understand without having to figure out how your specific scripts accomplish the things that Ansible gives you for free. The same applies to any management tool like Terraform, Puppet or even Kubernetes manifests. I put my expertise in my Ansible scripts and provide an easy interface to them such that a more junior person can, say, upgrade an Elasticsearch cluster by issuing a documented "make upgrade" (I like to use Makefiles to provide a neat interface for "standard" operations. "make help" and anyone can get going.) command that does everything correctly even though they have no idea how to actually upgrade it manually. If they wanted to learn, they have all the resources available required to read and understand my playbooks and figure it out without me being there to teach them the particulars of whatever unholy custom script setup I might have used instead.

Ansible is also mostly useful once you already have a server up and running but with 0 configuration; it's pretty bad at actually installing new servers, and I'd recommend using better tools for that part (Terraform, kickstart, or maybe just a script that clones an image). Just a manual next-next-next install is also perfectly acceptable way to get the base OS installed if the defaults are fine, though beyond a few servers it's a good idea to have a better process.

My perspective is that of someone who works with very varied systems daily, ranging in size from one to hundreds of nodes. I can manage that kind of scale alone because I use automation, and Ansible in particular is a tool that fits extremely well in the 1-20 "size range" for an environment; It is extremely lightweight and low-investment and can be used for even single nodes to great effect; once you get beyond a couple dozen, something more "heavyweight" like Puppet will start showing its usefulness.

As for idempotency, it's a very useful feature for automation: basically "Only do something if it is required". With a shell script, you have to implement manual checks for everything you run such that if you re-run a script on a system where it's already been run once, you won't accidentally break things by applying some things twice. A side benefit of this is that you can run your playbooks in "check mode", ie. "Tell me what you would do, but don't actually do it". Extremely useful and very error-prone to implement manually (Ansible doesn't always get it right either).
Ansible is a pig that does many things, very few of them right or well. Going by your logic, why use a dedicated IaC tool like Terraform or Pulumi if you can just force Ansible to kind of do it ?

New tools covering a specific niche, even if that niche is already covered by a bigger, more established tool, are frequent. Not everyone needs or wants the kitchen sink approach. If you're using only CloudFormation to manage AWS, why would you force misery upon yourself to use Ansible just for AWS auth?

* I slightly exaggerate, but i genuinely consider Ansible to be the worst CM tool of the "modern" ones (so excluding CFEngine) at any sort of scale/enterprise. It has so many things wrong it's baffling for me people are removing existing Puppet, Chef, Salt envs to replace them with Ansible. It's awesome for homelabs or similar though.
I feel this is necessary here:

https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw
> I know Ritalin works for a lot of folks, and I find it pretty fascinating that the same medication can affect different people in such drastically different ways.

Same!! (Ritalin doesn't work on me either).

On my "journey to what works" the least pleasant, and most amusing in retrospect, was Strattera. Somehow, that medicine cranked up the "impatient asshole" knob in my brain to 11. I was cursing out people on the street for no rational reason, and carrying myself with more confidence than I've ever felt in my life. Things where I would normally have a patience of minutes became seconds. I found myself getting pissed off at dear friends for talking too slowly, interrupting them "can you fucking speed up please?". I quit after 5 days. :)

At the time, my doctor seemed skeptical of the side effect, but a decade later I found documented evidence of it in others. Curiously, the medicine works quite effectively, no side effects, for someone who shares half my DNA. Brains are weird!

Tangentially, I've heard a variant of that Erdos story too! Clearly it must be true. ;-)
The final "composing" step in Wayland does require Wayland to use a "giant" buffer as well. Also My GPU has 16 GB of GDDR how can any frame buffer be "giant" in that context?

The support of hidpi scaling is something Toolkits have to manage (on both Wayland and X11). On X11 all the necessary pitch information to do so is available via the xrandr extension.
Wow I can imagine the struggle of upgrading :D... But you did it, that's awesome! Real time collaboration is something we need to do very soon, glad to hear that. Thanks for sharing!
It was so easy before for Mac users to drag and drop data and use it for external boot. Then Apple Mac OS X made it more complicated. And now the new Apple Silicon Macs have made it too hard for the user to recover from hardware failure. Through this article, I have got my concerns addressed and now the solution is here. Thumbs up for the info.
I mean, if a complete layperson were to describe how an airplane works, how would you even begin? It looks a bit like a bird and err, it's very loud, and it flies! I mean if you don't know the least about an engine, how would you describe it? There's untold masses of people out there that still lack even a basic education, and that education / class difference was worse as you go back in time.

Anyway, your second sentence reminds me of how we interpret e.g. Nostradamus' writing in hindsight, how he predicted Hitler and 9/11 and all that. But only in hindsight.
The goroutine-inspect tool they used looks really useful.

Does anyone know if there's a similar tool for Rust? I've had a few times in the past where I'm trying to figure out why some async application using tokio is hanging and having a similar tool would be very helpful.
Most of this guy's sources are self references without any real statistical backing. This is propaganda.
I am not sure how one would remove all ageism, sexism, racism, classism, title-ism, and so on from lending. The whole concept is about making a prediction about the future with sub optimal information, guessing who will default on a loan and who won't. Same goes with insurance.

I have been pretty tempted to lie about where I live in order to reduce my insurance costs. It would reduce the insurance cost by half. It seems pretty disproportionately harsh that I should get lumped together with the people who simply happen to live around me.

Is it possible to make predictions illegal if they are based on historical data from other than the individual customer?
Yes higher prices reduce consumption. There is no perfectly inelastic market. There are cheap Chinese electric vehicles available
I did it correctly enough apparently ("Your score on the test was the top of the charts") but I didn't have to visualise anything (it's very difficult for me to visualise anything more than fleeting glimpses of vague shapes).

The answers are easy enough to find without having to perform any imaginary rotation but just eliminating candidates one by one by looking at which features would match or not.
I tried 2-fma, which is less recreational than pure meth.

The dosage and means of administration make all the difference.

Meth/desoxyn is the best rated drug for ADHD and I can see why.
Daily Mail praised for its journalism – by Windows ransomware gang
What's hidpi? I mean, pragmatically. I can guess that that acronym means "high dots per inch", but I don't follow.

One of my desktops uses 2x 4k monitors, is that hidpi? X works fine... X also worked fine on an older setup with 4 monitors.

Also, I don't know Wayland internals, but I'm gonna assert without proof that any low level graphics interface is gonna involve a framebuffer at some point...
Oh look at that! I did not realize 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' are not the same. Case in point.
Tesla's opposition to Right to Repair has chilled the brand to many frugal car buyers who drive their daily beater 20+ years and 300,000+ miles. Being able to buy an affordable electric crate motor will open up the world of electric to those who like to keep their technology for the long haul.
I was under the impression Wayland on FreeBSD required a lot of patching on their end, but this has been merged upstream? If so that's pretty good news.

Also good news re colour management. The last I heard about this was Drew DeVault (and I'm paraphrasing) calling it "precious horseshit".

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.ht...
Im going to guess you didnt read the link I posted where CDC said emergency room visits dropped by 42%

Healthcare in the US is broken. Many people go to the ER for non-emergency reasons because ERs can't turn people away when they lack insurance. People also go to the ER for non-technically-emergency reasons because it's often the only way to get medical assistance outside of office hours (frequently 8am - 5pm, Monday through Friday.)

So ER visits dropped 42%... what does that mean exactly? For example: people having heart attacks deciding to die at home vs. people who hurt themselves over a weekend deciding to skip the ER and wait to go to their doctor's office on Monday?

they poll was done where 1-4 people said they wouldnt visit hospital if they were having a heart attack or stroke because they were afraid of covid

What has the mortality rate from heart attacks and stroke been since early 2020?
I don't know you guys but I think I have a little bit of everything going on:
1) I can think with my voice
2) I can think with other sounds such as anothers person voice(ex. Donald Trump or Barack Obama) with some effort
3) I can see images or full blown videos or memories or made up ones as if I can hijack my eyes and can override with what I want, both when closed eyes or open(the later is less done because of safety concerns ;))
4) And lastly there are times when some kind of solution or answer comes out without even thinking, like in total silent head

Am I alone here?
> Early versions of the JVM were very noticeably slower than C++,

The fastest java software I use feels much slower than the slowest c++ one (talking about UI lag)
Physical Bitcoin Attacks on Individuals
That seamount was above water until the end of the Younger dryas, and the 100+ meters of sea level rise that came with it. Perhaps it was once a coral reef?
If it's boring and/or stupid, around 10 minute sessions.

If it's just boring, about 30 minute stretches.

If it's really interesting, between 4 and 6 hours (toilet and coffee breaks included).
I'm very sure I did say that lots of companies that are completely against the 30% in-app purchase taxes and app store guidelines or walled gardens are going to build and join the metaverse to challenge the iOS and Android (then soon Fuchsia) ecosystem of apps and games. [0]

The same companies that I listed are announcing and building this extremely quickly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29047044
> So having your problems ignored is something you'll have to get used to if you choose to use hardware that requires proprietary drivers

3..2..1 and the floss copy pasta has arrived a bit delayed but still as expected. Might want to check if the server your bot is running on is a bit overcapacity to fix that delay.

Still not going to amputate my leg over a stubbed toe even if RMS considers the toe cancer.

> GBM is the abstraction over all drivers.

One that never worked with half the hardware on the market, an issue that wasn't visible to anyone using X11.
I think it's simpler than that, if the claims from the article are true (you still need courts to decide that, and I don't know of a court system where this is suitably fast).

Original proprietor had a furnished house, and the end result should be that they still have the house at no expense and at least trouble: they did not partake in the "sale", so they shouldn't suffer consequences from someone's incompetence or negligence. House is not just a "financial" instrument: it might have large emotional value too (memories, tradition & history, community and neighbourhood...).

Unfortunately, the honest buyer hired a solicitor to act as their agent, and while the solicitor might lose their professional license, buyer should get their damages back from the said solicitor or licensing body, because buyer is a victim of their incompetence/negligence, yet competence and care were guaranteed with the professional license.

Solicitor relies on the Land Registry to be the ultimate arbiter, so they should expect their damages to come from them for the duties they failed to perform.

Regardless of what the law is anywhere, that's how it should work IMHO. Unfortunately, the practicalities of how long it takes courts to (dis)prove a fraud make some of these hard to effectively achieve in a timely manner.

Theoretically, courts could make the process more expedient in cases of inhabiting-properties by "pausing" the transfer and putting the property into government custody, giving temporary use rights to the more likely resulting owner from the preliminary hearing (hey, fake document was involved, sorry, original owner gets to live there for the time being: everyone, please keep all receipts for any work done on the property and about your legal representation so you can be fairly compensated).
I am curious, how could one apply these insights to inference over sets of vectors generated by creating embeddings over things like photos etc? I understand well the ideas of +/- for things like word2vec, but what would multiplication and inverse mean in this context?
By what metric is Gujarat considered safe? It ranks as one of the worst states in India for human trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_incid...
It's a misleading statement. The terminal isn't accepting the empty. That's a different business from the shipping line.

What likely happens is that the shipping line is sending these charges out automatically (global systems, huge company, etc). Which are then usually disputed as the terminal isn't accepting the empty.

The story makes it out that a shipping line is behaving more strangely than what happens in practice.
Oh boy, this jumps around a lot and very little is very deep so my answers will have to jump around a bit to make sure I didn't miss anything.

> Are you asking why, in a system that its supporters claim is a meritocracy,

who's made these assertions, and where? Not anywhere in the thread's I've read...

> it wrong for it to be easier for the rich to get richer than for the poor to achieve parity, given equal merit?

Is it wrong though? Should everything be equally as hard? Or is it permissible that some things should be harder than others. And where/how do I draw the lines to know when it's unfair?

> Is that a rhetorical question,

It was, I even said as much. I'd ready to agree, but I can't until you actually make a conclusion.

> or are you about to argue in favor of the ethics of feudalism? Because bridging that ethical divide would take more than a simple hacker news comment.

I'm not trying to argue anything, I'd like like try and tease out arguments worth considering.

> edit: Ah, to more directly address you point earlier, and lay it out in simple ethical terms: withholding essential goods (housing) from others is a moral wrong according to consequentialist ethics systems.

Perhaps, but this evaluation is shallow enough to be useless for me to apply in the reality in which I live. What about the consequence of destruction of value from freely allowing anyone without an interest from living off your property? But they might die, and life is more important than money? Sure, but what about in an area where they wouldn't die, then is it moral? But people deserve to be comfortable! So do I need to provide heat and water, and other utilities? To what extent? Any conclusion that adds more questions than answers is useless. Ethics aren't scientific research, answers that only create more questions aren't useful...

> Doing things with a motivation of greed (profit) is also considered a moral wrong in intent-based ethics systems.

This is new to me, I assumed it was amoral. What makes it immoral?

> The agreed upon axiom that they contribute nothing in return means there is no moral good to outweigh the moral wrong in either system, so in combination it is a net moral wrong.

So there is an example where the net morality could come out in the positive?

> This really shouldn't need to be spelled out.

And... we're back the the original problem that I tried to call out from the beginning. Anyone that doesn't already know what you know, and preemptively agree with you is the problem? Now who's arguing for feudalism if you don't already have knowledge and power, you're undeserving?
Two objections

1. The cholas did not force their language or culture or religion, these were already Hindu regions, with extensive trade with India. Some were allies and others rivals. This is simply not even comparable to colonization. They went to war over trade and reinstated the local heirs as kings.

2. The fact that you call the chollas cruel while you take offense to Islamic invaders who clearly destroyed 100s of thousands of temples and massacred millions of Hindus. This continues in modern times, in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Proves the point you are colonised.

Inspite of all the modern education the world still sees recruitment into Al queda, ISIS or Taliban.
It takes a heart of stone to defend the Islamic tyrants of the past.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084081
Stripe vs. PayPal (Stats from Bootstrapped SaaS)
>I wonder whether it’s their marketing and PR spin/strategy.

I have rarely read any fandom about Backblaze. There may be just a few mentions whenever there is a topic of backup or S3 alternative.

But I remember vividly there were at least a few hundred if not thousands of hateful comments on HN when they swear to god they will never use them again because of a mistake they made with Facebook analytics. Anyone who defended Backblaze at the time for its possible engineering mistakes were borderline being attacked. I dont know if there is any Stockholm syndrome on Backblaze but I definitely see Facebookphobia on HN and on Twitter.
It depends if it trickles down to engineers having to then build The Wrong Thing (tm).

In some domains, it's difficult or impossible for engineers to get enough information about the actual problems they're solving, in these cases, it's somewhat more important that the customer is asking for the right thing.
Basically:

You have a Microsoft Surfacebook, Chromebook Pixel, or Macbook with retina display, let's say at 300 DPI, and you try to plug it into a monitor that is 70 DPI. The buffer will not be possible to adjust to properly handle both monitors because 1 is 300 DPI and 1 is 70 DPI. This is because xorg is internally designed around the philosophy that every monitor will have the same DPI. There are tricks and hacks that teams, specifically I've seen the canonical team pull this off, where they can "trick" xorg into displaying properly with some minor visual artifacting. The last time I tested this was with Ubuntu a few years ago, back when Wayland support was "experimental" and I had this exact sort of setup, and Wayland was easily able to pull this off 100% better in every way because it is not designed around this limitation.
> There is a difference between owning a 10 unit apartment and owning 10 single family homes.

Yes, one effects people like you and the other effects people like me.
https://archive.md/z8uoa
Try to set two different DPIs in that.
> If the show is not called foundation, he will probably enjoy it

I don't think so. If it wasn't called Foundation, or if I, Robot wasn't referencing Asimov's stories, or if Brave New World was called something different, they would all be lost in the quagmire of new 'blockbuster' TV shows that all the streaming networks are pushing hard. Because they're all very formulaic, optimized things where they took inspiration from endless A/B testing online, doing everything by the book, as in, there's probably a book / guide out there on how to make a TV show.

Without the name, they are bland and anonymous shows.

Meanwhile there are plenty of shows that stand on their own - this year there was Queen's Gambit, the book on which it was based on never showed up on my radar so (anecdotally) it's not carried by having a Name / Reputation. That one has been nearly 20 years in the making, too.
Someone should spread the name "Meshaverse" and annoy Zuck.
I'm the same way, in that I don't have negative self talk (or an inner voice). I just don't generally stress about what others think of me. I try to improve myself when I can and do the best I can, and think it's entirely pointless to worry about it if you're doing your best (because there's nothing else you can do).
Despite the insane propaganda these days i'm not sure weed is "not harmful" when i look at my friends who turned to it in times of sadness. It's wayy worse than alchool in terms of damage.

And i do all kind of hard drugs
> Alcohol’s position at the top is partly the result of its widespread use, which causes greater harms to others (crack cocaine is considered the most harmful drug for the user).
Ah, another geometric algebra evangelist? I can't figure out if GA actually adds anything substantial, or if it merely lets us write some equations in a more succinct fashion. But it certainly looks cool.

As to vectors, obviously they have inverses, additive inverses. Since vectors don't have multiplication, there is no multiplicative inverse, but if you define new operations on them, well then that operation can have an inverse but that is not really "the inverse of a vector" anymore.
The biggest reason is security. X offers no GUI isolation. This is a basic mitigation that should have been the norm a decade or two ago.

Advanced mixed DPI also comes to mind.

Another is performance: Sway easily outperforms DWM/i3/AwesomeWM on most ARM devices when configured for minimal latency.