skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- strongly argue you lose most of the salient information when you try to represent a highly dimensional system with a single numbers.

First you'd have to demonstrate that intelligence is multi-dimensional, at which point you'd still fail since you can represent any point in any number of dimensions by single numbers. Hilbert curves are a trivial mapping. The entire field of manifold embedding exists as a counterpoint to your claim.

And, as others point out, it's also possible that one or a few values capture increasingly larger and larger amounts of the entire effect.

Claiming high dimensional items aren't describable with a single number is simply mathematically wrong.
Yep, Robert’s Market does this. Great for kids who walk home from the elementary school down the street, and can pick up a snack on the way home.

Given the demographics of Woodside, it’s also frequently used by nannies and other family helpers who shop for the uber-wealthy residents who call Woodside home…
Ask HN: Learning programming while in grad school in an unrelated field?
Doing a masters degree in physiology, while not completely unrelated to programming, my research lab isn't one of those technical/quantitative ones. I am learning R for my statistics course, but I am interested in learning Python too.

I am wondering if it is feasible to learn Python (~1-2 hours a day) during grad school? My intentions in wanting to learn Python stem from my dreams of starting a startup. Is it unreasonable to have these startup intentions if I am busy with unrelated work?

Just want to get some opinion from the HN community, is it worth the effort to learn Python, or would my time be better spent sticking with R and using it for basic statistics for research?
You elided my qualifier from your quote: "when we are talking about risks of completely unknown side effects"—the argument being made was that we can't possibly know the risks of the vaccine because we can't ever know with certainty until we've tested it for a long time, and therefore we should avoid it. My point is that the virus has far more "unknowns" to it, so that argument sucks.

As to vaccinating children more generally and assessing known risks, there is no simple answer. What are the risk levels for different age groups? What is the damage to kids if they pass COVID onto their parents or grandparents and they die? I'm not saying that we should just blanket give it to everyone, but I don't think that one stat is enough to say don't give it to any child, or that no mandate could be justified.
If I remember correctly the two main hacks were making draw lists such that only certain polygon faces were rendered based on Crash's xyz position (the theory being that it isnt possible for other faces to be seen from that location), and also that he removed functions/files from Sony's standard C libs on the PS1 SDK?
I've been seeing a lot less AMP URLs but I still see about 1 per week...
A cynicism filter?
I dunno, git model always felt extremely intuitive to me... there are very few core concepts and ideas and all the complexity is layered on top of that and is easily decomposed. I feel like git concepts are very elegant while allowing a lot of complexity, like C/C++ pointers ;)
I don’t think the FCRA could come into existence today. It’s crazy that Republicans used to create pro-consumer regulations. We’re so far from that these days that it feels impossible absent some major shock like the CFPB after 2008.
I'd classify it more as a salad. https://saladtheory.github.io/ (some very interesting content there, and includes a section refuting the cube rule)
Hmmm. I can see your point that folks act like it can create a mess beyond other languages.

I agree that that is not accurate. I suspect it is more a reaction to the seeming claim that it is immune to that. For my part, my claim was meant to be that it needs an advocate. That is all.

I do not know why they other languages have in built advocacy across the board. Python, in particular, is seeing a ton of good will in ways I just don't understand.
It's been about 5 years since I used Perforce, but streams were a nightmare.
Sharing files down 2 "levels" of streams was such a huge pain.
>The wealthiest would make out the best, with a SALT cap repeal distributing more than $300,000 per household in the top 0.1 percent of earners and only $40 for a middle-income family over the first two years.

Very progressive of Dems
Only tangentially related, but the FBI apparently withheld from/helicopter footage of the Kenosha case.
> it looks like we’re doing the right thing here

I'm inclined to agree. No downplaying the severity, no BS tone à la free credit monitoring handouts, just genuine taking of responsibility.
Ampersand is a ligature for the word 'et'
I wish the demo was working at least marginally so I could see what this is. It seems highly improbable that for example, it would sound convincingly like me after having me answer a few questions.

It sounds like it is probably a single chat but with some phrases altered to be your style of speaking or writing.

I guess I might find out once the beta is released.
Plausible is really well done. I’m happy to pay for it.
Australia voted no. Many assume this was older anglo Australians who revere the Queen and hope for a re vote when Charles accedes to the throne. He's a nong, and has much less visible support, and even active opposition.

I personally suspect it's the dichotomy of directly elected president or a chamber elected symbolic president which functionally is what the governor general is. Basically the republican vote was split while the royalist vote was clear behind one outcome.

I voted for a republic. I wouldn't have, if the intent was to make it a direct election. I prefer the bicameral chambers to do it, a symbolic minor depoliticised role is better to me, than a standard strong popular elected president.

Also, referendum being expensive there was another question about a preamble to the constitution recognising aboriginal Australians. Again, this had divided support because of (in my personal opinion) a dishonest claim it discriminated between Australians. Two questions has some evidence causes higher no votes to both questions than one simple question.
While the losses aren't too big, transmission lines are very expensive and take many years of planning to get the land rights required if there isn't already a transmission line going there. There aren't currently a lot of lines going to the middle of nowhere, except for some hydroelectric dams.
To the OP: I’m curious why this couldn’t be a website too (it’s good that this is available as an app for those who prefer the convenience).

Congratulations!
I have this book, it was such an important and informative book at the time. It's so interesting that such an important book filled with a wealth of knowledge doesn't have much use these days.
I believe two other huge wins were how they padded the disc for faster reads(though maybe this was common) and how they could trivially cull polys based on the constraint that the game is on a rail. By knowing your position on the rail you just lookups what polys can be culled via precalculated tables.
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Yes. Grace periods are basically the only way credit cards work for business users among others. Four and five figure balances—paid off on time at the end of the month—are how a lot of people routinely use credit cards.
>This seems like something you would only do if you knew astrology was a scam, and therefore that no real expertise was needed to engage in it.

In theory someone could believe that astrology was real and could be learned by a machine learning model, no?
Why can DRM crash some games on 12th gen Intel core processors?
yes, it is possible to be that efficient now, but there is little incentive to do so.

it is far easier, and faster, to use a library that is bad than to write what you need efficiently.

"CPU is cheap." "RAM is cheap." two of the many cancerous sayings that developers use to excuse their poor efforts.

we don't do this now because we simply do not care enough as an industry. we want the software written immediately and for as little money as possible.
honestly, it's the exclamation point that drives me crazy. no one has ever intentionally written "On my way!" with capitalization and exclamation point literally ever.
Hedging bets is fine but there is a lot of money and influence using nuclear to muddy the climate debate and reframe the the issue as nuclear power vs greens/environmentalists. People should be aware of how the debate is being manipulated by fossil fuel apologists/lobbyists.

The moment people blame things on tree huggers they have fallen into the trap. Tree huggers are not the problem. The problem is carbon emissions. Tree huggers aren't stopping nuclear. They barely have any political power or representation. Nuclear's problems are the huge capital costs and the nimby attitude of the general public.

Nuclear is a clear win in countries like France with the capability and commitment. Climate change is a global problem and it doesn't matter where the nuclear reactors are as long as global emissions are reducing. Countries that can increase nuclear should. Those that can't may find it harder but they will have to innovate more and move faster.
Developers “didn’t feel like”, they were actually doing something complex, given the limitations of that time and context.
I meant precision, not size. Bacteria build their proteins with ribosomes, which assemble the proteins with atomic precision (about 100 femtometers). LIGO is built with several orders of magnitude tighter tolerance than that, but none of the parts of your computer are even that precise.
Truth be told I didn't like living there, but I think that's mostly because I was working for a pretty strange startup at the time.

Very expensive for New Mexico, and expensive in general. Getting around can take some getting used to (certain roads predate the US). Wouldn't recommend moving there if you're young as most of the population is of retirement age and most businesses cater to that crowd.

That being said, I enjoy visiting every now and then. There are good restaurants and no shortage of cultural attractions and events. I particularly enjoy visiting for the Farolito Walk.

I would recommend living in Albuquerque and taking the Railrunner or simply driving when the itch to visit strikes.
Force is a strong word, since Windows provides ways to opt-out of feature upgrades. It's also probably possible to opt-out of bug fixes too. If you want to put a rosy spin on things, you could think of it as a free system administration service. There's a lot of people out there who are working really hard, for you, to make sure it goes smoothly. It's also common for Linux distros to use the opt-out model these days too.
> it's also just turns PRs/branches into commits and is effectively a single-branch linear workflow

Yes! This is ideal.
Moscow state university network built by students
I'm surprised NFT is being used for abstract art rather than verification of physical assets.
>Firms like GS, JPM, etc have fatter margins (I think) and can afford to pay devs/strats/etc.

From what I've seen on my end the Insurance firms have started paying somewhat of a premium to compensate for the lack of "excitement" that is associated with the insurance industry as a whole.

>Would love to dig more into that if you're willing.

Always willing to chat!
Didn't that only happen in testing? Isn't that the point of a testing release?
Right, for the polys I think we are talking about the same thing :)

For the disk, I guess they viewed the disk as merely just an extension of RAM? If the read/write speeds were sufficient for them... page files galore :)

I also remember that they used to write bytes to disk in specific orders so that they would maximize the correct bytes being read into the buffer every microsecond
> but name something from back then

You insert the CD, install the software, and then it's ready to use. That's it.

To reiterate the quote from the article the GP mentioned:

> There's no onboarding. No signup. No confirmation email. No OAuth. You're just in the product.
I think 3% is an exaggeration. And in fact, you can get 2% cash back. I don't think there's very much being charged when all is said and done.

This seems to show the fees can be considerably less than 3%, although PayPal or Square will charge nearly that:

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-credit-card...

https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/business/overview/support/me...
If you think those feats are impressive, the first game I remember playing is 3D Monster Maze on a ZX81, these are the specs Wikipedia lists:

> CPU
> Z80 @ 3.25 MHz[4]
> Memory
> 1 KB (64 KB max. 56 KB usable)

Now that boggles my mind.
The last game I was big into was Q1. When GLQuake came out, it felt like I was in the future. Compare GLQuake to even some indy game today and it looks awful.

You're right - expectations change and most everything else is nostalgia.
Teach the truth.
As far as I’m aware, the experiments covered symptomatic cases but didn’t look at a reduction in “getting it”.

Based on this study, vaccinated had a 25% chance vs 38% for unvaccinated to become infected if someone in their household had Covid. So a helpful reduction, but not night and day.

Once infected, from what I’ve read vaccinated folks are just as likely to spread it.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2638
That's not how it works. The doctor prescribes the drug and gives the patient the free sample. What, did you think they were in a "take one" candy jar?
14tb for $200? Don't mind if I do.

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Odds have nothing to do with it, it's guaranteed.
This study shows 25% likelihood for vaccinated vs 38% for unvaccinated from a member of your household who is a carrier:
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2638
What did you program on the N64? And which among those platforms was was your favorite?
> Homosexual vs heterosexual sex is irrelevant here.

> What matters is the orifice/method (and whether giving or receiving).

No, this isn't what matters. Anal sex has a higher rate of transmission. Receptive sex (of any variety) has a higher rate of transmission. But that isn't what matters.

What matters is the sexual behavior of the community as a whole. The higher transmission rate of anal sex is not enough to explain why heterosexual sex was so insignificant as a vector for AIDS -- heterosexual sex is safer, but there's much, much more of it!

But the only way to participate in the gay sexual culture of the period, which is what caused the problem, was by having gay sex.
There is no evidence ivermectin works against COVID. There is still one large study running, I think, that might show a small effect, but definitely not a big effect.

Sorry you had a severe issue with your vaccine.
A nice talk on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

The short of it is that game devs used to write code for the hardware as well. Most code now is written for a layer in between, but now there's so many layers that code is unreliable and slow.
ECMAScript (JavaScript) Language Specification
The part where the banking system is a giant kumbaya circle run on gentlemen’s agreements to do the right thing. When you are clearly defrauded or scammed, banks do nothing about it. His entire thread advertises, “I’ve never wired money to a scammer”.
Yeah, this one from my own personal experience almost seems like a better candidate. You experience a lot of mental openness/oneness/expansion but there is really no visual component to it. Its helped me quite a bit at times.

For those that don't know it's the chemical present in the glands of the Sonoran desert toad.
It's not just money.

Security is another reason. Buffer overflows are a thing of the past in application code except in very special cases (or silly tech stack choices).

But even if it were just money, so what? Time is money, buddy. I can be home to my family sooner by spending a few MB of your RAM. Sorry not sorry.
The cat's out of the bag, ain't no one putting it back in.
> the people that currently don't pay interest will suddenly be charged huge amounts

They will be charged the same amount if the interest rates are set accordingly, it will just be explicit.

>other people that pay the card off slower will suddenly be paying much less than before

You say that as if their rate must remain, if not fixed, in a fixed ratio with others. I don't see why.

>trying to replace fees with interest rates doesn't work

You might be right. But I don't see why, and I think that if I can guess a little, people in the industry know much more and are smarter.
This just isn't correct. There are dozens of pilot projects for novel grid storage systems being built right now all around the world, and existing battery based grid storage like Tesla's megapack have multiple installations already in use, and dozens more planned this year. Pumped hydro alone is already in the hundreds of GW range.

The reason grid storage hasn't been built is because batteries were too expensive, but more importantly, grid storage was never needed. It takes 5-10 years for new tech to see widespread deployments, and it's only been a few years that grid storage had been getting this investment.
There are no tricks, you just have to give up mountains of levels of abstraction accumulated over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY
Well, going by that logic, now that Israel is where it is, does somebody else's "ancient presence there" matter?
I don't believe in technology, just technological development. I don't believe technologies exist in an ontologically useful sense, much less that they have positive or negative consequences. Artifacts, knowledge, praxis, and social arrangements have consequences, not technologies.

Nothing is required except death; nothing but death has to be there. Everything else is contingent: it will happen or not, depending on historical circumstances. If we want nuclear reactors that aren't dangerous, we should explore what circumstances could give rise to that result. Our current path evidently isn't it, and maybe we should find out why not.

Galt is of course a fantasy; in the real world, the people Rand admired so much died in GULAG around the time she escaped Russia. Galt was a power fantasy about rescuing them. But some other things in the novel happen in the real world: people do build railroads, develop new metal alloys, and succumb to brain drains. And, interestingly, fields of knowledge do sometimes fall into decline. Maybe the reason in this case is a variant of the reason she fantasized about in the book; maybe not.
From that same paragraph:

> That said, there are ways of dealing with this in languages like Python, they're just a little more verbose and you don't get the compiler checking that you've exhaustively handled all cases, for example. It won’t compile, it won’t accept that idea.
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There's a difference? Heathen!
> That's interesting. In what ways are these resolvers superior to pacman?

One good example is that even though PKGBUILDs can contain version constraints (see an example here[1]), that metadata is not always present and so it is underutilized. Pacman doesn't support ‘partial upgrades’[2] (once you refresh your package lists, installing anything is ‘unsupported’ until you upgrade everything), and this is why.

(I also think that paper's notion of ‘completeness’ could probably be enriched somehow, because I've seen situations where `apt-get` will crap out but `aptitude` will offer a ‘compromise’ solution which involves downgrading some packages or removing some, and generally package managers based on libsolv do even better IME. Here Arch likely falls flatter.)

Another depsolver related issue in Pacman (related to the lack of partial upgrades) is the lack of distinction between upgrades and dist-upgrades. In apt and dnf, upgrades are non-destructive by default, meaning that they don't offer solutions that involve removing or downgrading user-selected packages. Pacman has no such distinction.

> I never had dependency resolution issues. Can you help me understand with concrete examples?

One fairly common case is that Arch just ignores the dependencies of AUR-installed packages at install time, freely upgrading packages without respect to reverse-dependencies that aren't declared in a repo.[4] Hence, ‘if packages in the official repositories are updated, you will need to rebuild any AUR packages that depend on those libraries’... every single time you upgrade, if you've installed anything from the AUR, it can leave your system with broken packages. Apt and dnf, in contrast, treat every package you install the same way. Additionally, Arch packages don't always declare version constraints for their library dependencies, and there's no CI that tests for ABI changes (there is some in Debian, although such tools can't work perfectly). So you have to use another tool (apparently one popular choice is some script from the Arch forums in 2005, lol[5]) to scan for such breakages, or else just discover them when packages don't work.

On the other hand, when Arch does consider the version constraints of installed packages, the lack of partial upgrades can be problematic for downstream distros. Any version constraints placed by downstream repos on dependencies shared with upstream can just leave you totally unable to upgrade anything at all for a while.[6]

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1: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/master/d...

2: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_...

3: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta#Basic_operat...

4: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Instal...

5: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=13882

6: https://superuser.com/questions/1497098/pacman-unable-to-upd...
They realized that untextured polygons were way faster to draw than textured ones, so rather than texture the Crash model, they cranked up the polygon count and simply colored them. Often times, the triangles were on the same order of size as the pixels. It also avoided the playstation's lack of perspective correction on textures. It both made the character look gorgeous for the day, and made the code run faster.
I've been using Ubuntu Mate since the day it came out and I am on 21.10. But I can't put my finger on anything that points to increased development momentum. Could you point me to what I'm missing?
Phenibut fits the bill and is more widely used and prescribed in Russia. In the US you can buy it in chemical form as its unregulated. Its a quite potent anxiolytic working as a GABA-B Antagonist.

I recommend doing a lot of research though as there are quite a few people that seem to either get hooked on or have a terrible time coming off of this drug/chemical. I personally never had those problems but something to be aware of.
An ex colleague uses GitHub Enterprise at work, and he reports running into some issues that are never seen on GitHub proper. Most notably, network view of repos and GitHub pages experience extended downtime. Wonder how GitHub manages the uptime of these features for millions of repos because I never see these fail there.
This point is also made in “ A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class”. It paints a very good historical context to understand our current financial world from the lenses of consumers.

Edit: Ops link takes you to a chapter in the book :-)