skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I like about the flying analogy is that we are not optimising for the same scenarios. You have birds flying 10 000 - 20 000 miles without having to go to external shops for service, needing replacement parts and being very energy efficient. Our simpler models optimize for specific scenarios like specific routes with this much fuel and optimizing for specific total cost. I guess your example with neural networks would be AI classifying pictures better than humans which is very specific and I guess achievable with our primitive models.
> it only works when you have enough monopsony power to persuade/coerce the supply chain into cooperating.

What makes you think so? If you offer attractive enough terms, you can get financing from your suppliers just fine.

And what makes you think Amazon, Carrefour or Walmart etc have monopsony power?
I remember when the internet was smaller (20 years ago?) some people would have a comparison of different package managers for linux distros where they would dive in to examples and use. Anyway, this is a high level of package currency : https://repology.org/

The last distros I've used that didn't really have their own package managers were Slackware (it is just a tarball) and PuppyLinux (adopted from slackware or debian).

Anyway, Slitaz is here https://repology.org/repository/slitaz_cooking
More like bread and bread-like things. Sugar has to pass through your liver first, so it's not instantly available. Nuts, which are often recommended, are also energy dense, but harder to fully digest, unless you chew them really freakin' well, which nobody does.
> We are talking about wages in the USA, and massive downward pressure on low skilled labor comes from illegal immigrant workers.

Only, that's not true.
Thank you for the suggestion. EDL/ADL is definitely on the list.
Or alternatively, try to hire some chemistry grad students to make some.
Alas, if you look at opinion polls of regular folks, they aren't especially interested in capitalism either.

Eg minimum wages and tariffs are pretty popular.
Strange title for an article full of scientific discoveries.

I'm certain most lay persons have a good intuition of how complex a brain is, yet most would be surprised to learn, while reading this very article for instance, how much we already know about the brain, despite it being so complex.

Sure, mapping neurons and/or simulating them looks desperately hopeless. But not any more than mapping matter in space and simulating particles (remember the 3 body problem?), yet we managed to understand physics and space quite well despite this.
>At best, "maybe they felt that way" is a terrible answer.

I actually found the question rather terrible and rhetoric at best. And I think my answer is right on mark.
I'm having difficulty picturing this. Can you point to an example?

What's the reliability like on a socket like that to a decade of bumps?
That might be surprisingly feasible.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/guy-cures-himself-of-lactos...
In context, I don’t think I actually even understand the second line.
Price should be based on cost of production, not on how often the drug is needed. So stupid not to make it available because someone was crazy to price it that high.
There are advanced means of growing food which require much less fertilizer (and water).

Why solve a transportation problem to continue an inefficient practice when we could spend that R&D on solving the underlying need?
>Biden steps down to allow for Kamala to take over.

I second this. Although I wonder if it will be Biden stepping down or the 25th Amendment being enacted. I think Kamala takes over after the mid-term elections. Her current poll numbers would necessitate them waiting at least until then.
“ Published: 19 November 2021”
Thank you for the suggestion and your impression.
I agree, a better example would highlight it better.
ChromeOS kind of works for this, but if your friend can't manage their login password, they may end up in guest mode 100% like my MIL.
I would like to get back into retro gaming. As a kid had a NES and SNES. Of course sold the devices later on. Now with a kid in my own i would like to share the experience.

Buying original equipment is very expensive. But emulators are abound. A middle ground would be for me to play those with original controllers.

But how could that be done?
You can drag that annoying colorful star off screen on mobile btw.
You guys really went off on the luxury thing. I don’t see where replacing fertilizer use with smarter practices results in life without luxury.
Not in an easy-to-access way at least
You keep using that phrase, "appeal to authority." Are you sure you understand what it means?
We weren’t wrong to recommend Chrome back then.
I want to try this for my DellMini9 machine, no SSD, would boot from USB.

Only need to run it latest FireFox and Terminal + Vi editor.

Is it possible?
>"Maybe we just experience now the same people back than experienced seeing the new generation using for example C++ instead of some "straight simple lines of assembly""

I do not think there is any similarity. Personally I've started with straight machine codes, never mind assembly. Still I gladly use any higher level tools as long as they benefit my ROI.

As for GUI - back in the 90s Borland had already shown how to produce stellar, easy to use performant tools for designing GUI apps.

JS public has had ages to come up with something resembling the same thing. Instead they've unleashed whole bunch of atrocities making themselves into their own victims with all signs of Stockholm's syndrome.
Very impressive papers. How does the debugging story look like? IMO this is often a weak point with DSLs like these.
It’s not really, ask all us audax riders. it’s surprising to think that 250km in a day was so life changing when I/we do 1200km in 3 days regularly and at a leisurely pace
It could be from the standpoint of thermal design and having a reasonable idea of how long components will last at the temperatures they will typically run at. Realistically, all you need is a capacitor or two to fail in the ballpark to achieve that end with most customers. Granted, one wouldn't be able to to say 'after exactly X years of expected usage it will fail' but more likely be able to say 'after no more than X years of expected usage most units should fail'. Some heavy users would have theirs fail early and the company might have to correct via a warranty claim but that could easily be more than made up for by the masses of other customers that arrive for replacements roughly on schedule.

One doesn't even need to be that devious: just make 'consumables' like batteries and flash drives not easily replaceable nor easily sourced. Then just sit back and wait for them to start failing. As long as most manufacturers did this, you wouldn't have to worry about losing business to your competitors due to the practice. Pretty sure you can put a check mark next to most phone and laptop manufacturers on that front these days.

This isn't unique to tech. A couple of real world examples of planned obsolescence via designed-in failure modes: incandescent lightbulb filaments were designed to fail ~1000 hours of use (even though they could easily have lasted far longer) and most clothes washers are designed to fail after ~10 years (IIRC, manufacturers design a seal in the tub to slowly disintegrate via your laundry detergent.)
No individual human being has the psycological makeup to completely feel the full accomplishments of Armstrong, so that is something to consider.

OTOH far more common is the exaggerated ego where people feel accomplished for things that did not actually happen.
I went with the Honda, yes. They had just launched the new model and it checked all the boxes.

But you should still check out the Pacifica. It might be a lot better now, four years later.
Also even when applying the study's conclusion to the target population, we should at least do the naive rationalist thing and compare the expected outcomes.

For someone with a cardiological condition, I bet that the expected loss of life-years would be much more if they choose not to get vaccinated.
Enlightening.
Phoenix Liveview is far more similar to a python or ruby app. You just have a websocket keeping things synced perfectly and maintaining state.

It’s awesome, yes, but it’s quite orthogonal to the nodejs/npm way of doing things. It’s far better.
How does it benefit Intel to keep reference designs confidential?
Thanks for posting. I filled out the form.
I almost got an heart attack while seeing this post. Still dizzy from waking up early I thought it was already December.
> I don’t trust my car to use max heat until exactly 72 so I set it all the way to 80 then back off.

I've done the same in rentals but have always wondered if that helps. Shouldn't the car try to get the heat to 72 as fast as possible?
It seems like every 10 years the US uses something to reassert it's foreign policy, maybe also followed by a financial crisis? In 1991 it finally succeeded screwing up the Soviet Union, shortly followed by the war in Yugoslavia. In 2001 they used 9/11 and the War on Terror to invade a host of countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. In 2008/2009 the subprime mortgage crisis triggered a global financial crisis, followed by the NATO intervention in Libya. Now they're using Trump's trade war, Covid and a chip/comodity shortage to stir up things with China. It makes one wonder if it isn't all intended and planned in advance, or if it just reacts when opportunity arises.
> What does that mean?

not a cyclist but E = 1/2mv^2
Laughs in NYPD, which has an intelligence department larger than many countries.

Also, many (10?) years ago Boston Police were caught snooping around with fake accounts trying to find underground/house concerts by sliding into people's DMs. The DMs were hilarious. Super /r/fellowkids, stuff like "Yo whut up what's the 411 on the zip for tomorrow night's show? I won't tell the po po."

Someone posted about it on twitter and people came out of the woodwork with stories and screenshots of similar messages from a small handful of suspiciously new, sparse profiles.

Given Boston has one of the worst homicide clearance rates in the nation you would think our detectives would be interested in, you know, doing something about violent crime. But this is the city where you have to be licensed to have board games at your establishment, and apparently whether a TV is smaller or larger than 27 inches is of significant concern to the city: https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2021/06/Annu...
If you invalidate people’s patents for trying to sell their drug at a price high enough to recover R&D costs, they’ll just stop doing R&D for any drugs that will have niche target populations.
Adrian from Cleanvoice here.

Before building Cleanvoice, I tried to use Descript for my podcasts.

1) It doesn't work well if you have a strong accent. As an non-native speaker, the transcription were quite bad, making the editing quite bad.

2) Cleanvoice works with multiple languages, descript doesn't.

3) Cleanvoice can remove stutters (not always, but it tries) and mouth sounds like lip smacking, teeth clicking. Descript can't. This is not a big deal for most, but since I stutter alot this was essential.

However, if none of these apply for you. There is no reason to change from Descript.
Cryptocurrency as a investment is the worst thing possible, DeFi is the exact opposite of that.
You’ve just defined a racket. Operating a racket is called racketeering.
How do BDB and Microsoft's Extensible Storage Engine compare?
That would probably just result in keeping a dose around on a shelf somewhere in case anyone wants to pay $1M for it.
> The htpasswd utility can now generate SHA-256 or SHA-512 crypt() hashes where supported by the C library.

Oh god, it didn’t have SHA-256 support before today? Was it using MD5 and SHA-1?

I knew basic auth was weak but jeez.
I ran it from USB on a very old Acer 2310 with a Celeron (old series, not new) M processor and 256MB RAM. Worked fine. I didn't try latest Firefox on it but the included web browser was alright. Terminal and vi worked.
In 99.999% of cases "The Government" has multiple primary keys to choose from. IMEI, bluetooth mac, wifi mac, LNPR, credit card payment records, etc.

Facebook data merely verifies an identity against that key.
Sure, the US is certainly not immune to that dynamic. For example dysfunctional regulation restricts the housing supply (in certain areas), causing the prices to be high. Then left-wing politicians will point to the high prices as a failure of capitalism and oppose new development.

But the political coalitions here (and even the economics) are somewhat complicated. For example, California recently passed several bills to de-regulate housing, which were initiatives of (a sub-faction of) the left-leaning party that controls the state. And the right-leaning party is not a technocratic one like Singapore - an important sub-faction of the right-leaning party goes against advice by economists themselves, on macro issues and increasingly on trade also.

The non-economic factions are more poised to benefit from dysfunction, and in my view, also more likely to cause dysfunction, and so enable each other. So my view is also more similar to a tailspin than a pendulum. Just that it is not as simple as trying as hard as possible to displace the establishment, because the people best positioned to replace them are often worse.

There is another, darker, argument, which I've seen presented by some fairly well-informed people. It goes something like this: the industrial revolution, with its huge inequality, financial crash, and the eventual fall to authoritarianism around the world, is, in fact, the natural order of things. And this has been papered over by massive economic distortions by governments starting with WWII, along with perpetually increasing debt levels as interest rates decline (which since debt and savings are two sides of the same coin, allows overall savings to increase and makes things less zero-sum).

With this premise, there is no natural politically-stable state to return to, and the path for managing outcomes that maintain public support for capitalism becomes even more narrow. I'm still thinking about it, but (unfortunately) I've found the arguments pretty compelling (from billionaire capitalist Ray Dalio [1], among others).

[1] https://economicprinciples.org/
Saying that corporations prefer something they can profit from without giving back vs something they can not is circular reasoning to me. Conversely if you look on the other side you'll see developers bitten by permissive software licences (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, ...).
>> I feel like this is greatly exaggerated. I did half of that in 3 days (500km) with the last day being 250km (because I was sick of doing it) and I didn't feel any such "caloric furnace"

I think this depends on your fitness, especially your aerobic and anaerobic thresholds and the shape of your lactate curve. Less fit people burn a lot of glycogen even at lower wattages which results in crazy hunger when your glycogen stores are depleted. Trained people are able to burn mostly fat at relatively high wattages and even skinny people have a lot of energy stored in fat.

Personal anecdote: I decided to use the pandemic to get back into shape. When I started accumulating endurance kilometers, I had to eat a carbo-gel every 30 km and I still felt really hungry after the ride and I had to devour enormous portion of pasta immediately. Now I can easily go 100 km on empty stomach and I do feel kind of hungry after that, but nothing exceptional.
It's not one or the other. You can do both. Transportation is useful for many other purposes.
When the early Macs came out, Apple had a program for students to buy them at low(er) cost through their college. I worked summers for my dad, a home builder. It was hot, boring, hard work. After my first year of college, I told Dad to hang on to my money until the end of the summer, and bought a Mac 512e with it. It really was revolutionary.
My rule of thumb is that animation is something you only add to your designs when it's already good, and when you really know what you're doing.

If you're relying on animations to hide jankiness or spruce up a design it's probably not going to work. If anything, it will probably make things worse. For example a delayed response to an interaction feels like a slow application, not a smooth one. This is especially true on the web where many animations run on the main thread and compete for resources with whatever is causing slowness.
>It can run on a quarter of a GB memory. Its installation image is only fifty megabytes, full desktop included,

Oh, how the times change. I remember when "lightweight Linux" meant it came on a single 1.4MB floppy disk and could run on 4MB of RAM. Yes, including desktop, though that may have required a second floppy and 8MB.
I don't use jedit but from the description this look like emacs hippie expand, so this plugin in vscode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mksafi.s...
May I suggest joining Ubuntu Advantage and getting ESM? That's free for personal use and you'd get support until April 2024. I'm keeping a 16.04 box like that simply because I'm too lazy to redo stuff that works and with that I don't have to worry about it until 2026.
LLVM likely doesn't want to take the risk that a court could find it copyrightable if the author decides to file a lawsuit. My guess is that regardless of the triviality of the change they're requiring these agreements.

I am not a lawyer.
> It is, but it isn't going to work against COVID, period.

It's interesting how you say that so definitively, when there are multiple, large RCTs ongoing, evaluating the question.

Perhaps you're substituting your opinions for science?

> The null hypothesis is "it does not work". Then you carefully design a study to take care of all the variables, you do your double blind test with a placebo and you look at outcomes. That's the standard.

> As for mask effectiveness: they work, there is ongoing debate over how much they work.

Funny how "the standard" shifts from topic to topic, sentence to sentence. When it's an intervention you support, the presumption is positive, even if the collective evidence of effect is...mixed, at best.
It looks very relevant. Current vaccination guidelines do not say anything about potential issues for people with heart problems. It also mentions that this may be related to some adverse reactions we already know such as thrombosis.
Buying the rights on drugs like this, and more important expensive drugs, an license them under a freedom-protecting license (similar to GPL) could be a major application of charity funds.
For your in-memory databases, do you need an index? – Daniel Lemire's blog
IPA - Isopropyl alcohol, 99%
Interesting, for the read (decompression) case I wrote this a while back:

https://github.com/d136o/StreamingUnzip

Basically, if you have a big zip file with many files in it (csvs for example), you can pipe out the decompressed data…

It’s a bit obtuse to use since it calls for the end chunk of a zip archive (it may come from s3 for example).
When did they stop using nonstandard PSUs?

Also, their motherboards are not a standard size.

At least they aren't pulling the crap HP does on the enterprise side - requiring service contracts to access firmware updates. This means there's financial incentive to include bugs in component firmware now, to "fix" over time.

Oh yeah, and they also DRM'd drive caddies by integrating a bunch of useless capacity indicator LEDs on the front of the drive tray, because they want people to buy their stupidly overpriced drives instead of buying caddies at $5/pop off ebay and putting bulk-purchased drives in.
Agreed, i gave up on Plex too. Too many annoyances and bugs.

Now i just use a simple app on my iPad (nPlayer - no subscription!) and just play files from a network share. Plain and simple and it always works perfectly without all the bloat.
Well of course politicians don't say they're pro-slavery. They say they're pro-free trade because that's what the globalists who fund their campaigns pay them to be. That free trade with unfree countries leads to slavery is plastered over by economists who assure us free trade makes everyone richer.
It's my only working machine right now, and I'm not going to risk an OS change.

It came with this one installed, and I'm gonna let it stay for the time being.

Also, the installed browsers are already a bit on the slow side, and I can imagine they would only get slower if I upgraded them.
How exactly does he define the words he uses in this essay? We can start with "ruling class". Does anyone know what that means or how he defines it? Is this the same as what Marx defines in his theory of economics as the bourgeoisie or is it something else?
No intermediate AST. To understand the various stages of transpilation and separation of language specific and independent rewriters, this file is a good starting point:

https://github.com/adsharma/py2many/blob/main/py2many/cli.py...
Sounds painfully familiar. Did something similar long ago. Bangalore to Bidadi (on Mysore highway).

The onward ride of 50KM or so was very pleasant. I later realized it was because of a gentle down gradient. As a consequence, the return leg was a terrible misery. So much so that I hauled myself and my bike in a tuk-tuk for the last 10KM or so.

For me the sweet spot was 80KM. To be able to fully enjoy the ride and not feel miserable for next few days.
Battery recycling in china: guy on backyard strips most valuable parts with hammer and throws 90% of battery into dumpster.

It is very lucrative indeed.
Probably not, the article mentions that the genetic mutation effects about two or three people out of a million, so that’s ~20,000 doses required to cure everyone in the world. The vast, vast majority of those people are going to be people without insurance or government provided healthcare that would ever pay enough to make a difference, so they’ve got to recoup their entire R&D expenses selling the 2,000-3,000 doses required to treat the combined population of the first world, and then maybe provide it for ~free to the rest of the world where there’s no chance of making any money anyway, as is generally the case with all expensive drugs.

If they cave and sell it at a price that doesn’t recover their R&D costs (mentioned in the article to be hundreds of millions of dollars), then that’s that, they’ve just lost all of that money. If they sit on it there’s at least a chance that someone in future might pay them for it.
Yes, quite large. Next HN will say how many billions they could afford to pay because of all the potential damage. If it's hard to make sense, the security guard at the bank doesn't get paid a % of the money if they stop a robbery and many other examples off payout being way less than potential damage caused.
I disagree overall (you're definitely right about it being an abomination in cars though). Touchscreens are bad when they move (spaceship launch, air turbulance, waves, uneven road). There's also a direct relationship with how bad touchscreens are, with how often you need to 'keep your eyes on the road'. Space, you don't really have to look out the window, planes you don't really need to look if you're IFR in IMC, boats rarely have traffic on the open water and don't have to stay in a narrow lane, cars have lots of traffic and narrow lanes. So I wouldn't say "perfect" or "good", but perhaps you meant various degrees of "forgiving"?
FYI emacs does it too (by default?) and i find it very useful! when i use intelij editors i enable that feature too
Komihash – Very Fast Hash Function (competitor to wyhash, xxhash)
Gives it some personality, finally. Most open source projects totally lack that.