skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be more convincing if there weren't a major labor shortage right now. There are plenty of companies including aerospace companies where the skills of that qualified workforce could help move things forward.
But most types (besides primitives) in Java are nullable, right? Sorbet literally wouldn't let you write this code:

https://sorbet.run/#%23%20typed%3A%20true%0Aextend%20T%3A%3A...

Null is simply the most frequent example of this issue. Getting an integer rather than a string is super common, for example. Or a string instead of a date.
I'd really like to see a citation for the claim there is "no consistent way to decode a H.264 video stream."

H.264 decoding should be fully deterministic and consistent, I believe. That said, bugs exist, shortcuts are taken, and not all decoders are truly compliant. But "some decoders are non-compliant" is very different from "it's impossible to consistently decode H.264".
My theory is that nature runs experiments with males to varying degrees depending on species, mostly in mammals. The continuation of the species only needs men to provide sperm, so the species can afford for unfit males to not have offspring. Females have a more important role, so you should optimize for consistency and reliability.
I know you're kidding. But with microdosing you shouldn't feel high. Similar with taking pharmaceutical pills, you'll feel something, but it won't impair your day
> Why are some professions receiving more attention than others when it comes to evening sex ratios.

I think some people in the technology field unfortunately take everything at face value and are not really thinking about the various power plays in motion when it comes to persuasion and influence. I would point out that some people stand to make money and gain power off of promoting these views, and of course some employers stand to make a hell of a lot of money off of promoting these views.

I'd say that until there's a societal movement to even out the gender imbalance in boilermakers, roofers, deep sea fishers, oil drillers, and other difficult but very profitable careers, that distrusting the motives of those that claim to want to even out the gender imbalance in the workplace is fair game.
> Is that likely in practice? I thought nearly everything will conform to IEEE 754 and give identical results for floating-point arithmetic.

What compiler settings? With -O3, GCC will flush-to-zero your denormals, because Intel CPUs have _SEVERE_ penalties on subnormal floats.

You don't even get the same results with -O vs -O3 on the same programming language on the same system... let alone different CPUs.

https://carlh.net/plugins/denormals.php

Denormals are part of IEEE 754, but in practice are more complicated for hardware to figure out. So as a common efficiency trick, you disable the processing of denormals entirely (IE: all denormals are seen as "0" to the hardware, speeding up processing severely).

On Intel processors, a configurable register can set up how your floating-point units act when they come across a denormal. So an inline-assembly statement can change your results, even if it was no where "close" to your code.
> He means to fool small minds with meandering language, confusing the herd so they let him regain the status he desperately craves.

Believing you can read someone else’s mind is a diagnostic criterion for psychosis.
> You didn’t offer any valid methodological rebuttal to the study.

On most studies regarding discrimination, HN readers clamor to rebut the methodology. That isn't happening here. Is the study bombproof, or is it possible that confirmation bias is at play?
Yeah, if you have a camera that pricey you could do it that way. Note, though, that you don't want to use all your dynamic range as the quality drops off.
Panpsychism Again?
> if you see a white box, it’s because you don’t support the bizzare Arithmetic coding extention

On an Intel Mac running Big Sur, that image (title "444-fp-acode-prog.jpg") is only solid white in Chrome; in Safari, it's solid black and in Firefox it doesn't load at all, there's the broken image placeholder.
Big Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges
I wish there was such feature in Outlook. Any way to do a plugin for that with this idea? :)
FWIW, cryptocurrency settles in seconds.
> what does this mean?

The Nazis were big on sorting people into genetically determined but superficial categories called "races", and made decisions based on those categories rather than an individual's character, qualifications, or merit. Today's "diversity" champions are big on sorting people into genetically determined but superficial categories called "races", and make decisions based on those categories rather than an individual's character, qualifications, or merit.

> As for ratios, the ratio indicates an uneven pipeline.

Like I said, the article doesn't state what the right ratio would be. Without that datum, it's impossible to judge what amount of "diversity" is the right amount.
Well, lets consider another reason. How about this one: walking down the staircase is more dangerous then up. When two British people meet, they tend to turn to the left. The one walking down now walks on the safer inside.
Very probably bullocks. But prove me wrong?
Ask HN: How to negotiate offer for late stage startup?
Close to getting an offer for a late stage (800M raised, close to IPO) fintech co.

Going for a senior PM role.

Salary range given is 150-200: I’m aiming for 170+.

Sign up bonus: didn’t specific amount but will aim for 20-40k, pending salary.

Performance bonus: aiming for 20%

What I’m not sure about is equity. Given this is not FANNG. I’ve seen some crazy amount of grant - 80-100/yr on level. But not sure what’s a good amount for this kind of startup is like.

Looking for advice on equity as well as other parts of the offer.
The median wait time to see a specialist in canada is 78 days[1].

Yes, in theory you could "just add more doctors". But there is clearly already less doctors than there needs to be. Policy that encourages doctors to work less exacerbates this issue.

You can't just say "add more doctors" as if that helps anything. Shortages exist for a reason, and analyzing and fixing the system which creates the shortage is the only way to resolve the shortage. You can't just tell poor people to "make more money" and solve poverty in the blink of an eye.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292524/
AFAIK, division by zero in IEEE 754 floating point shall return infinity, which is a valid floating point value. For once, javascript does the right thing.
On this topic, something that drives me nuts about Python packaging is that the name of the top-level import often doesn’t match the name of the package. For example if you see `import yaml` in a Python script, you might try to run `pip3 install yaml`, but no, you should actually run `pip3 install pyyaml`.
For sure. I didn't mean to imply freedom of speech is absolute.
If you think this is a problem, then cryptocurrency speculation is just not for you. When you get into cryptocurrency speculation, you know there's not a lot of regulation, and that's the beauty of it. You get what you're paying for.

We are seeing a market evolve naturally, without too much government distortion, which is pretty cool.
> I honestly can't believe we're fighting about something that makes, at best, a tiny fraction of a percent difference in outcome. Mass hysteria.

I whole-heartedly don't understand this.. in the places with universal masking, there is essentially no Covid (most of Asia, even cities like SF). Surgical masks are obviously sufficient to prevent most infection in hospital and other clinical settings. There's evidence that even a small portion of people wearing them in public reduces the incidence of disease. And your takeaway is that it's mass hysteria to encourage an extraordinarily cheap NPI?
NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid to test Earth-protection plan
I'm kind of surprised that med schools haven't dramatically opened up their admissions, like law schools have over the past 20 years. It's such an obvious source of funds for the school.
Quite unsurprising. [0] Looks like community policing and self defense does work.

Case closed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29259234
>Sure, but that’s not due to houses being an “investable” item insamuch as regulatory capture.

I don't understand. Do you think that politicians wake up and do regulatory capture for fun?

When I say housing as America's primary investment asset is a problem I mean that it is primary driver in how houses are priced. You don't, for example, have the same attitude when it comes to cars. It's understood that cars are a depreciating asset. Imagine the inverse - which you see in some assets like super cars. Can you imagine if people lobbied to have Toyota stop producing Priuses because they did not want to value of their own Prius to go down? You would have government blocking the development of factories in the same way NIMBYs do today.

You don't have this problem in places where housing is not asset, for example Japan (who has already kind of learned this lesson with their own housing bubble). At the end of the day, when an entire generation of people have their entire net worth tied up in their houses, of course they are going to do everything to protect it. Regulatory capture are down stream effects of that - people wouldn't burn political capital on regulatory capture if they weren't gaining anything from it.

Saying de-regulation of land use is a solution completely ignores this reality. Forget deregulation, the bay area has been trying to get areas simply rezoned for multi-family housing. The same people who stand in the way of rezoning, will also stand in the way of deregulation. And those same people are primarily motivated to protect their investment. You must look at the whole picture.
> then that infrastructure manages to survive and continue to provide value even after the cryptocurrency house of cards collapses.

That's my optimistic forecast for what happens after the current speculative bubble pops. We'll be left with e.g. universal sign-on via crypto wallet that's not owned by any corporation and can be used for cryptographic signature / voting / &c. We'll also have increasingly robust decentralized infrastructure like zero-knowledge rollup L2s on top of Ethereum to make increasing complex decentralized applications. The money making stuff is about as vacuous as everyone seems to think but the substance it's attached to is a movement away from walled gardens and towards increasingly empowered individuals.
Almost 100% of people who increase their consumption of cucumbers during common cold feel significantly better after two weeks. Maybe cucumbers work for depression too. You should check them out.
That's..a different discussion. My point is that IN bank and IN wallet are both technically incorrect, but for basically all purposes correct.

But yes, you are right that the vast majority of users of [piece of software] have not verified [piece of software] and are relying on other humans to basically tell them if they should or shouldn't run it.
> Tesla ... is worth 1.1 Trillion dollars

Well that's just it, isn't it? Their book value is closer to 0.027 Trillion dollars. Beyond that is faith. The value of a thing is worth what someone's willing to pay for it, and that willingness changes.
Ah, but the breakthroughs are the exciting part!
I've heard of them. GigaOm is more on analyst firm in its current incarnation but overall it seems a reasonable list of media companies.
Excellent news. That was the right result.
From the article: "But truly that is the message of the Andersen folktale, that power begets the capacity to inspire delusion in the masses."

Does the "Andersen folktale" refer to Tinkerbell? Has nothing to do with the merit of the article or his argument, but Tinkerbell was a character invented by J.M. Barrie for Peter Pan and not a folktale at all.
In the UK if you like Sci fi books over 20 years old: Heinlein, Asimov, even Banks I'd be looking in 2nd hand books or charity shops. When I buy a book brand new I feel like I should keep it (and I already have too many books) if I buy 2nd hand I'm likely to give it away or put it in a book swap. Plus it normally only costs 1 or 2 pounds and seems more sustainable. Being limited in this way also causes me to buy things I wasn't planning to and try new stuff.
We're talking about the impact of drug use on mental health. I'm saying: look at the homeless epidemic. 90% of those folks have substance abuse issues.

If you've done any psychedelics you would be foolish to not notice that they can drive a person insane under the right circumstances.
What about Vitamin D deficiency? For example, African Americans in the US live at higher latitudes, and the comparatively lower level of direct sunlight causes them to have lower serum levels of the nutrient. This could also partially explain the disproportionate incidence of metabolic disease amongst AA communities in North America.
To me it reads more like a mixture between normal man-to-man chatter (aka, locker room talk) and someone who's grown up on the internet and imbues its dialect.

Most of his comments are typical of netspeak. While it's definitely not professional, I have trouble finding it appalling and quite often get a good chuckle out of it.
I don’t see what’s ironic about it. Those existing banking institutions may not prevail, but that’s irrelevant. The financial engineers behind crypto are not some different breed of human than those who work at Goldman Sachs. Their goal is nothing but financializing all interactions on the web. That is literally what web3 means.
Well, that's kind of the point. Sci-fi authors will talk about how Super-AIs or aliens might think completely differently from us, but then impose lots of implicit similarities that would make that implausible.

Sure, non-sapient fungus-like extraterrestrial life-forms will definitely not think like us, even if they have neurons. But "aliens" in most stories implicitly refers to mobile intelligent beings capable of cooperation, communication, developing technology to a level more advanced than our own, and are animal-like and thus need to breathe, eat, drink, maintain homeostasis, etc. Often they'll even have the same body plan as us.

Also, things like the prisoner's dilemma, the tragedy of the commons, and that lying may be beneficial in some circumstances aren't mere artifacts of human psychology, but are straightforward results of game theory.

If a creature is that similar to a human physically, can it really be totally incomprehensible psychologically?
I wonder how true this really is, and how many attempts by women were mostly just looking for attention. Not to downplay the seriousness of it, it just might be a different class of self harm.
If they had any volume, they must have been included in the analysis. But not enough to point out in the report it seems.
Dixon is a good writer and a good advocate for this, but this explanation shares the issues that I consistently see in such defenses: it doesn't actually explain how the vision of "economic incentives…in the form of tokens" prevents centralization, because it seems to misunderstand what drives centralization in the first place.

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc., are hugely centralized platforms because they successfully attracted hundreds of millions—in Facebook's case, billions—of users. Users are incentivized to be on those platforms because they like what those platforms offer. The internet has massive centralized platforms because users like those platforms.

A cryptonetwork-based challenger to Facebook isn't going to win by just adding tokens; any challenger, regardless of technology, needs to be a better Facebook than Facebook is, and it needs to be a lot better. But that's also the Catch-22 here: if our hypothetical "CryptoFacebook" finds a way to succeed economically, there's nothing intrinsic to the cryptonetwork that keeps CryptoFacebook from being a huge centralized platform. Big companies can use tokens, too!

In fact, I actually think the linked article casts some doubt on whether Dixon really understands "decentralization," as he compares Encarto to Wikipedia and sees Wikipedia as a decentralization success story. It's a "cathedral vs. bazaar" success story, to be sure, but Wikipedia is not a decentralized platform! It's a big monolithic system that one organization has massive control over. At the end of the day, the Wikimedia Foundation gets to set the rules for what happens at the wikipedia.org domain. If the community doesn't like it, they can try and fork it and create a replacement, sure. But that's a huge challenge—and it's also not really relevant to decentralization. It's more like LibreOffice supplanting OpenOffice as "premiere open source alternative to Microsoft Office"; the "center" moved from one project to the other.

So, TL;DR: I appreciate the link, and it's a good read. But it just doesn't make a convincing case that "build it on the blockchain" improves on what we have in material ways.
Piping gases is also a solved problem. It existed even before electricity. I sound certain because I'm certainty right. If anything it's bit amusing to see supposedly smart people have so much trouble accepting the existence of 18-19th century technology.

FYI, coal gas is about 50% hydrogen and is two centuries old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas#Composition
> I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor".

Software pays significantly more. Why push people into lower paying jobs?
Python ...
Subsecond latencies

Ok
does it work on intel macs?
If they can just declare the machine was wrong (error) then they can do it for anytime they don't feel like paying out. If it says you win then you win the payout or they robbed you. Doesn't matter if there was an "error" the burden is on the casino to vet the operation of their machines. There is ZERO way for a customer to challenge ANY loss ever. Once the trust of payout is breached the Casio is now a zero sum game. The fact that the casio would rather lose face not paying out says a lot more about the other things going on that we don't see.

Again if the casino can reject your win for any reason after declaring you won then they can take back the money for any reason period. Therefore there is no reason to ever play at such an establishment.
> If you really want to go down this road we could also start talking about how women being given time off specifically for their menstrual cycle or menopause (the latter is being seriously discussed in the media etc.) when there are no equivalent allowances whatsoever for men (despite the fact that men die younger than women!) means that women are 'objectively less suitable' for work full stop.

I don't follow your logic. If someone takes, let's say an entire year off for menopause, but they live 5+ years longer, don't they have better working potential?
Ask HN: How to convince your PhD advisor to use Keras instead of PyTorch?
If you are using the P word in a conversation about crypto, chances are you are not adding much value to the conversation.

That particular dead horse has been beaten to a point where all is left are strictly people adhering to dogma on one side or the other of the conversation.

Try tulips next, to make the picture complete.
Today the world's best players (not just chess) play against bots like AlphaZero. They can learn from their opponent. Today that is what it takes to be the best in the world.

Even if most moves are normal, clearly AlphaZero and other bots are doing something different or they wouldn't be world's best.
But it's not combustion. I guess you meant something else. Now you label they approach; do you think laying boundary line this way looks obviously correct? Say, nuclear rocket engines heat up gases - also without chemical reaction; resistor jets also have reasonable history in rocketry - why ARCA's approach is wrong?
Now I feel like building a small device powered by raspberry pi or something similar that lets one send and receive ponymail thrice a day so that I have a separate device / activity that is markedly different from simply checking my phone
The only one of these that is credible in my opinion is the Indian border issue which I have little understanding of. My understanding of the B&R initiative is that while there are terms that are not always good for the debtor, they are far superior to IMF/World Bank loans that destroy the target nation's economic foundation by requiring privatization and reduction of labor protections. I don't know exactly what you mean by despots.

Taiwan is debatable, but I see it as a regional dispute over an artifact of the civil war. Honk Kong I am suspicious of as the protests seem to be supported by the CIA and are pro-capitalist. The B&R initiative, building economic infrastructure to support the region, is a good thing, I don't see how that's an issue.
Regarding houses, an estimate is an estimate. Unfortunately for the builder, though, it is usually treated as a quote. IME the work is never completed on-time, but the estimate (rather than the time) is still the basis for the invoice.

It is different with software estimates; I've never given an estimate to a customer, it's always been to a PM or a salesman, who then imagines a quote to give to the customer.

In the early days, devs were "given away" by the salesman as part of the hardware deal. As a consequence, dev work was a cost-centre. I'm glad that stopped happening!
Every city, state, country has is it's own unique distribution of races and classes (muddled together in different ways) and each has its own level of systemic racism, even affecting different races wherever you go. I don't think you can draw any concrete conclusions about race from crime statistics.

Males, in the other hand, exist across countries, races, creeds, cultures, social and economic classes etc. We can absolutely look at male crime statistics across the board and say whether or not they're different from the statistics for females.
As I mentioned to others, remember the saying "90% of everything is shit" and make some time for the 10% maybe being legitimate, maybe having something worthwhile that is attracting all the attention.

Most people I know making art are funded by Arts Councils and government programs. Then there is the private markets, which look similar to the NFT speculation games (go watch a sotherbys auction some time, its eye opening) but with no royalties going to the artists. NFTs at a minimum have that 1 up on auction houses.

Then there is larger grants from foundations and charities, which would fund a project without expectation of ownership on any items. Philanthropists.

Then there is the smaller graphic/illustration commission artists who use paypal and patreon, interestingly they also seem to be the ones kicking up the most fuss about nfts, im not sure why though.

And it is just plainly wrong that artists arent using NFTs, and that it is just people playing status games. Its been quite widely accepted and adopted, particularly amongst those who already deal with selling their works so dont have that hesitation and fear of asking to be paid.
Sure there is abuse and scams, those are the 90% of shit. most pop music is produced by organisations making bland acceptable rhythms with a pretty teen face dancing around to make a company a bunch of money, kinda sounds scammy too. But that doesnt mean theres also good stuff going on. Its up to you if you want to engage with it, but flat out denying it is happening wont make you an expert either.
> The fediverse seems to barely be growing

That's fine. It's not in a race for users. The ActivityPub-powered ecosystem is based on open and interoperable standards and is a genie that can not be placed back inside of its bottle.