skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Catholic Church has reversed itself on earlier condemnations and beliefs, notably of heliocentrism and the conviction of Galileo.

But nobody changed their minds or admitted a mistake: people just died or retired and were replaced by different people who thought differently.

The content of the post makes it obvious that it's discussing the actions and decisions of groups over much shorter periods of time: i.e., within a single human lifetime, and actually within quite a small portion of a lifetime, because it's talking about outcomes of funded projects and how they're viewed.
And also note that if you often need to add this kind of qualifier to many searches, you can create a "custom scope" that includes it for you transparently.
The problem is when they are caught nothing happens. Even the currently happening Maxwell/Epstein trial will probably brush off most important people involved, and the human traffic in general. And Epstein had already been released before

No prison time for Gates worker caught with child rape videos
https://komonews.com/archive/no-prison-time-for-gates-worker...

Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

Once I was going around Facebook and there was a video, deleted later, of dead human bodies being dragged and cut in pieces, completely surreal and disgusting

The problem is not only that the videos exist, most are probably not even be public, the problem is people is still being abused, and not getting justice. And who abuses, creates the videos and uploads, are not getting investigated
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/avpz7y/pakistan_...
This article is toxic garbage.

The best example of this is how the NYC Second Avenue subway project is cited as an example of costs out of control. This project was initially proposed around a hundred years ago and over time was repeatedly rejected as being far too expensive to ever make sense and then raised again and again for consideration. At the time the work started there was a hundred years of literature going into detail about the many complexities involving other power, water, and sewer infrastructure as well as multiple other subway lines and difficult geological constraints. Well before any work was done it was extremely well established that a Second Avenue subway could only ever be astronomically expensive.

Taking a project that was refused for a hundred years because of the apparent extreme difficulties and using that as an example of how US infrastructure costs too much is blatant manipulation. The nearest popular comparison I can think of would be saying that American military efforts cost too much because D-Day was shockingly expensive. Military conflicts don't work that way and neither does infrastructure construction.
You mean the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory [0]. That one's is bogus. Trump even got in trouble for trying to get Zelensky to publicly announce an investigation.

> The story, broke by the NY Post, was factually correct,

I wouldn't consider the NY Post to be a reliable news source[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden-Ukraine_conspiracy_theor...

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/
Please follow up to the article/source of this graph.
> Few people are enamored with C, but - the language itself is relatively simple

if you don't use pointers, yeah. but like you can't built anything useful without pointers.
kids who picked sports, not who were put there. usually in college you pick what you want.
Is "groups" the private messageboard for yc participants?
Ellis Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery Workshop
This feels a bit paradoxical. The solution to managing content would be some sort of content management system, which is what you got rid of.
I think it's a mistake to think of european unions and american unions as "the same thing". Relationships with unions in the US seem much more adversarial than there, on average.

As you say, there are politics, labor relations, etc. in europe too - I wonder if they are just better at cooperating on this sort of project for some reason?
It’s not just a question of being a friend or family members name name. It’s also easy for a YouTube video etc to accidentally include say “Alexia turn off the lights” as part of seemingly innocent dialog that nobody building it thinks is going to cause a problem.
It's interesting to me that you include the Tech industry. I am familiar with bailouts for the auto and financial industry. In what way is the Tech industry "insulated from feedback"?
I have been reading a bit up on it for a side project and it's great, but resources for troubleshooting are slim and it's not compatible easily with modern frameworks so people tend to use particular Libraries for everything and finding vanilla webgl is a bit trickier.
I'm not sure where Fukuyama and Friedman agree and disagree, but Cook's quote struck me as Friedman-esque. It sounds like he sees Apple as a player in Friedman's Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention: "No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell’s, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain".

(Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_peace)
Sounds like Grimes' new single is about Elon Musk
I still remember when Oregon paid $175M to plan the new I5 bridge across the Columbia River, only for the entire plan to collapse. That is close to 40% of what the nearby Glenn Jackson I205 bridge cost in total.

$114M of that went to one contractor (and their subs).
How Father Christmas Found His Reindeer
I live in Latin America and I feel the same. It's important to pick your facilitator and shaman carefully. There are the yoga instructor turned shaman types that it's best to avoid.

There are also the "passing through want to try it" attendees.

However, given the power of this substance to have a positive effect on someone's life, I'm not going to build walls around it. Also, it's a very challenging experience and anyone that goes through it deserves a bit of respect.
Indeed - one of them killed about million innocent people in the last two decades, the other was focused on peaceful economic growth instead.
I am of the opinion that continuing to build out all these long 'runs' of infrastructure to serve a even more spread out populace is a dead end. Where I live we spent tens of billions expanding highway infrastructure, and it has not improved the lives of anyone meaningfully, traffic is as bad as its ever been.

We need to spend more money creating better metropolitan areas that people want to live in, rather than using tax payer money to support fewer and fewer people.
I don't think that's at all accurate.

We have evolved to perceive some aspects of reality (the ones where perceiving them improves survival/reproduction) and to not perceive many other aspects of reality because those aspects of reality do not affect survival/reproduction success enough to make up for the cost of having the more accurate perception.
And that's why academics shouldn't be the face of policy making. But I guess they liked the spotight too much to step out of it.
Anecdotal at best. Never is too strong of a word here. I was expecting a study to be accompanied by the article given the conviction insinuated in the title.

Groups can come in various shapes and forms but generally they often come with a group leader, and that person can play a major role in defining success/failure.
Mentioned in the video is the claim that there simply aren't many products that use Apple's Metal API. It's a similar situation with AMD's GPUs - theoretical performance that can't be achieved without commercial adoption of the software needed to actually achieve it.

I also find it interesting that they benchmarked a basically broken OpenGL driver in this video. What does that show?
Moral of the story is that we overestimate good outcomes and underestimate bad outcomes. If people believed this then all rational folk (and by definition risk averse) would steer clear of startups. Maybe that's why startup folks are crazy and have a higher chance of winning the lottery.
At the time, I hated how ugly PS1 games looked, and wished they were nice and smooth like N64. now I realize that N64 textures weren't smooth, they were blurry.
> I'm also curious: has the plan to drop "less active" repos from the index gone through? Has anything changed?

Whaaat? I hope it doesn't go through. I use GitHub code search for clues when reverse engineering cheap Chinese IoT crap. Usually I can find some headers / SDKs accidentally uploaded and set to public by a random Chinese guy. Those repos usually have one commit and zero traffic, but they contain invaluable information about proprietary MCUs.
This is a huge problem, and something really ought to be done about it. I'm not sure what that would look like from a top-down, structural or regulatory perspective (loosen regulations and make it easier to become a doctor so that we have more doctors with more time?), but I have some bottom-up, individual-level ideas that I described in a comment on another post[1]:

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> We briefly discussed my anxiety, but his immediate solution was the anti-anxiety drug. I made it clear that I was worried about the procedure and wanted to know more details about it. He didn’t want to explain the procedure beyond “we’ll inject medication that will help preserve your vision”, and he avoided answering repeated questions. Maybe he tried to shield me from the details and not confirm my worst fears.

Based on stories I've heard from emotionally immature doctor friends and my own experience being a little more confrontational with my doctors, he most likely didn't know the answers to your questions and was too proud to say, "I don't know."

It seems many forget that, at the end of the day, doctors are people, too, with just as many flaws and emotions as the rest of us. It's unfortunate that this affects quality of care, but it's a fact of life in every industry.

The best thing you can do for yourself in such a situation is to prepare yourself before appointments and remember the humanity of doctors during appointments. If your doctor is being dodgy about answering questions, let them know that it's okay if they don't know and that you won't think anything less of them for it. If it's an urgent matter, suggest looking it up together so that your doctor can provide context for whatever research you manage to find.

A doctor is like a contractor you've hired to inspect and maintain your body. As with any contractor, if you want them to do a good job, you have to work with them, as a team.

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And, as a child comment pointed out, if you really don't like your contractor, you can always fire them and find a new one, and in fact, you should. Don't reward people for bad behavior, vote with your wallet, etc. etc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109114
I would say it's poking fun, rather than snarky. Also, even if you consider it snarky, it's more than "just" snarky. It has some insight in it.
Yeah and if you need to text, stop. But people don't.
can channels opt-out of having ads?
Yup, and we don’t currently have an architecture that can support models 35+ years from now.

Not yet at least.
Ok let's talk about some ethereum competitors.

Take Solana for example. It takes a powerful computer with 128gb+ of RAM just to run a Solana node. You can run the ETH software on a raspberry pi.

High hardware requirements means fewer people can afford to join the network. This makes Solana more centralized. They also do some sketchy things. For example, in proof-of-stake algorithms the nodes vote on the next block. Solana counts votes as transactions which inflate their transactions-per-second numbers.

The Solana network has also been taken down by a software bug. This is much less likely to happen with Ethereum since there are multiple, independent development teams writing Ethereum client software. A bug in one client will only take down part of the network but not the whole thing.

Let's take another popular competitor Algorand. With Algorand they have two types of nodes relay and participant. The relay nodes take care of consensus. However, you have to send in an application to the Algorand foundation just to be allowed to run a node. There is not a lot of info on relay nodes but apparently the harware requirements are non-trivial.

Cardano I don't know as much about. However, there has been some debate over whether it's PoS algorithm is too similar to DPoS with similar vulnerabilities. Also, the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, is a known psycho and liar. This isn't just my opinion, just google him.

Polkadot has parachains which is kinda like sharding. However people are also developing Layer 2 rollups for polkadot. This helps prove my point that layer 2 isn't just an ethereum thing.

I don't really have issues with Bitcoin on a technical level, although I think they are too slow to change and adapt. Bitcoin also has multi-dollar transaction fees just like Ethereum which helps prove my point. They are also looking into layer 2 with the lightning network which, again, helps prove my point.

Overall, I really don't see any compelling alternative to what Ethereum is doing. Other chains are starting to look into similar Layer 2 solutions. Other chains are cutting corners to boost their transaction-per-second numbers. And other chains are run by questionable folks.
Damn that brings back some good memories of the internet of old !
Specifically Austin vs Seattle, that's a non-factor. No state income tax in WA either
Exactly. If Nvidia removed the crypto crippling, almost all of their GPUs would be bought up for crypto mining leaving their gaming market empty. A new entrant would come in and take up their gaming market. Meanwhile, Nvidia's production (and capital expenditure with it) could ramp up dramatically to meet crypto demand, until it too collapses. Then they are left with nothing but debt.
This is interesting from a foreign perspective. I still follow urban planning in Helsinki, Finland. Major public projects always face opposition and go to court, but it's not a big deal.

Because zoning plans and similar project plans are decisions made by public officials, all complaints about them go to the administrative court system. Administrative courts don't care about the substance of the argument. (That's for elected representatives.) They only determine if the officials followed all appropriate regulations and decisiomaking processes. Going to administrative court is cheap enough and fast enough that the costs and delays are usually included in the project plan.

Sometime the court overturns the decision, delaying or canceling the project. Sometimes their justifications are stupid and sometimes there are unintended consequences. Regardless, the system more or less works most of the time.
> If you correctly model ownership

Doing something correctly is not a best practice though. If it were, we could just say "if you correctly manage memory".

What happens when you mess up? What happens if you incorrectly model ownership with RAII? Or is it not really possible?
This seems to be rather late?

Long distance trade and traveling merchants date back into the Bronze Age at least, and salt was probably traded in Europe during the Stone Age.

These transactions did not use money, but their basics do not differ much from contemporary trade - including the fact that trade centers and highly connected individuals could become very, very rich, almost unfathomably so when compared to their contemporaries.
> "we have the worst system in the world, except for all the others" .. comes to mind

Wouldn't that imply the US system has better execution, not just higher costs?
It's a shell, I don't want to write a novel to get something done. bash is a bunch of small composable binaries that chain together easily. powershell is, was? not. length of commands IS important imho for a shell as I want to be able to quickly type out what I need to do and then move on
Hi, thank you! The paper mentions that the dynamic analysis code is written in julia and could be used by package developers to study instabilities in their code, but I couldn't find a link to the code in the references. Did I just miss it or is it contained in the zip containing the visualization data?

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EDIT: Nevermind, found it in the zip!
The Secret to A Great Planning Process – Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
The article hints at this NIMBYism. Many of the other things that factor in are not unique to the US. Government waste, bureaucracy, etc... are all things in other wealthy countries too, but NIMBYism and 'public input' seems to carry more weight in the US.
I'm in the process of attempting just that, with limited success. In my case, I trained a classifier that takes the current surroundings of the player unit and tries to predict that we'll gain an advantage in this segment of the game. I split the game into segments based on when the HP relationships between teams change. And gaining an advantage then means that you take more HP from the enemy team than what you and your teammates lost.

The classifier has on average 90% accuracy which seems good. I then use the likelihood predicted by this classifier to compute the weight with which I want to train each action and if I want to train it positively (by pulling its likelihood of being chosen up) or negatively (pushing the likelihood of that action down).

However, what this model cannot correctly represent is the fact that whether or not a given situation will turn out to be good or bad in the long term is highly dependent on how you play. So if I train this with replay data, I will score the situations in relation to how well those (outdated) AIs could take advantage of them.

Next up, I'll try to fix this issue by introducing a graph-like stochastic structure. The basic idea is that I encode "from this state S if I take action A, then I can reach state T with P percent likelihood" into yet another neural network. If I then identify a state which is really beneficial in the sense that I can reliably convert it into an advantage, then I can use this graph to back-propagate that knowledge so that I get "from this state S, action A takes me to state T, then action B takes me to state U, and U is great".

That should allow me to train with historical data to identify which transitions are possible, and then I can combine that with realtime data about the desirability of each state. So basically I'd do A* pathfinding over the graph of possible states to identify which actions are needed to bring me from my current situation into the closest "I will surely win" situation. Except that the graph is memorized by an AI because the real state-space is huge: 15x15 fields with 6 units + 5 environment states => roughly 11^(15*15) states
Interesting how Tiktok is so high (#1).
Toolbar lost traction post IE6 which is where their accurate website traffic reports came from. That was a long time ago and it’s been a joke since then. Took way too long to retire this.
I have worked on government IT projects. A long standing joke for writing quotes was "For local/state government, add a zero. For the feds, add two zeros". This wasn't entirely accurate, but often close.
Except automation can’t change on a dime. It also is bad at all kinds of things… just see Musk’s commentary on why they backed away from so much automation with Model 3 for humans.
I'm sure this is really well intended, but the individualization of environmental guilt is a major problem. [0]

Where I agree with the article is to use tools like lighthouse and write code that uses the language properly. It is absolutely individual's responsibility to do this. The responsibility of making code efficient (dare I say "green") lies in those writing the browser engines/compilers.

0: https://medium.com/@mitpress/individualization-plant-a-tree-...
Of course it is! It's not an essay on the details of the massive security bureaucracy surrounding military-use goods that provide the United States with a critical military or intelligence advantage.

It's merely a 2-sentence comment to slightly improve the previous oversimplification by indicating the ITAR focus is on exporting, not domestic use — it's even in the name: "International Traffic in Arms Regulations".
Nottingham's coal industry died, so it reinvented itself to be UKs greenest city
> That presumes that other countries want to be part of America.

I feel like if there was a referendum, the UK's population would happily dump their monarchy in exchange for US statehood. There's a lot of commonality with their democracy, language, skepticism of foreign immigration, embrace of capitalism, etc.

It would also be a pretty solid strategic move to bring the US closer to Europe as a hedge against the Russian ambitions laid out in their Foundations of Geopolitics playbook.
Ideology isn't the tangent here, dang, it's the core.

Visit the blog if you're unclear on that.

The problem, dear Brutus^Wdang, lies not in the comments, but the post.
> I think it's preferable to let your immune system have a go at it.

Again, citation needed, as you appear to be saying that a COVID infection is preferable to a vaccination.

> Especially if you have things like ivermectin and vitamins at your disposal.

Are you joking? I can't tell if this is supposed to a serious suggestion for discredited quack remedies, or sarcasm.
I think that's what makes it interesting and important to figure out on a deeper level. Simplistic answers don't seem to explain the problem.
Preliminary Studies suggest sharp-drop in vaccine-protection vs. Omicron
A piece that has no facts backing the point, which exploits confirmation and conformity biases in readers, is just a badly researched and biased piece, regardless of author.
Across multiple projects and positions I've used powershell core to normalize all CI scripting across all our native ci/cd tooling.

Its a nice language, with some massively fatal issues, and awkward weirdness that takes me about 10x as long to sort out vs say c++, but its better then bash files on windows (it just doesn't work, really), or bat files on windows etc.

P.S. I'm a cross platform native developer, if windows wasn't in the mix, I'd probably stick to bash