skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing how much you use a car is one thing. Reducing to the point that you can eliminate the need for a car altogether is quite another. You can combine two trips into one, you can't combine two into zero. You don't need to drive a hummer everywhere, but you need something large enough to fit everything you have to regularly take. You can probably carpool to some places at some times, you can't carpool everywhere at any time.

Maybe there is some idiot out there who doesn't need a car but just likes having an autopayment burn a hole in his wallet every month, but is that person going to be dissuaded by a 1% increase on interest rates? There may be a few people right on the cusp of not needing to purchase a car who could be moved over the edge, but these are a tiny minority, and their shift in behavior won't have a serious impact on prices.

Regardless, the fact is trying to reduce demand is just a bad solution to shortages. Increased demand justifies the investment in new equipment and infrastructure to meet that demand, which in the long term leads to lower costs all around, and increased employment which in turn fuels more healthy growth. While in an emergency you might want to ration something just so nobody starves, cars aren't an emergency supply.
> It’s interesting to note that Microsoft and AOL now intercept these character strings and turn them into little pictures.

"Little pictures".

Who knew this is how it would end?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie

> Patrick Stewart as Poop
https://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/
> But still, at the end of the day ... pattern finding.

And programming at the end of the day ... if's and for's. See how ridiculous it is? A fuzzy high level concept explaining away the complexity of getting there.
There are a lot of things you can do at the executive level that recent administration don't have the guts to do. Declare a medical emergency on account of COVID-19 and bam, there is a provision in the laws that allows you to expand medicare to the entire population. That alone would guarantee re-election. Free all non-violent marijuana prisoners, Forgive student debt. That alone would be a boost to the economy as a generation saddled with debt would get a reset. There are more he could do by executive order that can bypass congress. He will be attacked, but so what? The population overwhelming wants these proposals anyway.
Perhaps. Not sure I believe that as I've never once noticed the LED light as part of my buying decision. Now that I'm wary though, I will avoid devices that seems to have bright lights and have returned things specifically for that reason. Not that my behavior is average but feel like at the least, nobody is testing things to see if they blink before they buy them (many small electronics are bought without ever seeing them tested/demo'ed).

I have had many things over the years that have internal lights, for no apparent reason, but they glow out of the box. Eg, like an old DVD player that glows through the case. I'm sure this is for maintenance as it may blink or light a certain way to communicate error codes, but if you're the one building this in - I would think OFF would be default and could enter some debug mode or something from there, or start blinking when errors occur.
Yes. The March of Dimes fundraising campaign provided the funding to Salk and Sabin to create the polio vaccine.
>Nothing is stopping anyone from building denser infrastructure, I'm in favor of lifting the often absurd parking requirements seen.

That's the thing though - single-family zoning, parking minimums and highway-like standards for streets are very much stopping density from being built. What little density is attempted to be built gets killed by NIMBYism.
Everyone should have at least one really nice knife in the kitchen. It makes cooking a joy.
I have a wusthof, Shun is amazing. Start with a chef’s knife and move onto paring knife. Those are the two most common knives used. An 8” utility knife is next.

I still cook in the cast iron I inherited from my mom. I think it was a lodge, but the branding marks are illegible. Way better than Teflon.

I have a long handled flex head 3/8ths drive Snap On driver that is the most comfortable tool I’ve ever wielded. I would be honored to pass it on to a grandchild. You don’t have to go tops end, just smooth and reliable. I encountered a very nice Milwaukee set at a client location recently.

Kitchen Aid mixers. I bake more because we have a good mixer.

A 1984 MercedesBenz 300 turbo diesel.
They’ll go for a million miles, simplicity, efficiency, durability.

I broke a fastener in a plumbing part last night. I fixed it and got us going again preventing downtime and a costly plumber visit. My gear wrench tap and die set will probably continue to provide value for the next 50 years.
My recollection is even more vague, but I think it was when trying out early versions of Linux and browsing the documentation. I, too, probably had a fleeting thought of "weird control characters, must be a UNIX thing", before it finally hit me. I don't remember when and where exactly, but I do remember the sudden realization.
could there be a licensing issue at play as well? same/similar reason why the brands of computers, phones, monitors are rarely real world versions?

The plus side, kids watching those and growing up to be developers will skew UI's more towards those futuristic versions... same as the kids that watched star trek helped us get the handheld computers we have now.
I doubt he'd be either.
See related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509132
After Anders' departure, they created a promising project to make Delphi for Linux that was making progress.

At the time Borland had sued Microsoft for some big IP feud.

Then suddenly an arrangement was made. Delphi for Linux was rushed, released unfinished and flopped. Borland got $30M and access to every .NET documentation. But Delphi.NET was never very popular because it was never as good as VS.NET.

.NET modules were added to Windows native Delphi and slowed down the IDE.

IDE price skyrocketed, users flew and after some acquisitions dance, Delphi is owned by IDERA... not sure how it's doing now because they closed developers' forums years ago.
There is no reasonable question for which “Oracle” is a good answer. The brand “Oracle” has rapidly evolved into a signal of “badness” in the same way as white mould on fruit, or chromatic slime on meat. Stay away!
Well the point is that you don't have to set up anything or use another open source tool. You don't need to run this platform in your own cloud, it just prepares your cloud for you. For example you want to run your dockerized applications, now instead of using Heroku which runs your workload on their platform, this one runs it on your own cloud account as if you had a DevOps guy do it for you.
This happening on Human Rights Day is ironic.
Plus looks like US and the UK today also grandstanding by “sanctioning” countries with human rights abuse. It’s all such a farce.

This gov page is such a joke:
https://www.state.gov/subjects/press-freedom/
As with anyone who has a soul and a conscience, im shocked by health care costs.

A lot of people say this is a failure of capitalism. It is precisely the opposite- it’s regulatory capture. Healthcare and insurance are among the most highly regulated industries in the US. All that regulation has had decades to fix the problem and hasn’t; it’s caused the creation of workarounds like “charge masters” and “pharmacy benefit managers” that make prices more opaque.

Why do we even allow negotiated price for insurance? Sounds like antitrust/price fixing/collusion to me? Why doesn’t each health care provider publish their prices and the insurer publishes what they’ll pay and the patient is responsible for the difference?
How does it compare with imgproxy? Seems to be the same (libvips wrapper as docker container) but less polish?
Thankfully you can change it. First thing I do when setting up a new mac: install Homebrew and change my shell to the bash that comes in Homebrew.
At the bottom of the page you linked, you'll find a link for "People at Increased Risk"(also found via "Specific Groups of People" link on sidebar), you'll then click on "Medical Conditions"[1], which mentions a list of medical conditions that increase risk, including obesity. Obesity section links you to the CDC's "Healthy Weight, Nutrition, and Physical Activity" page[2], which discusses exactly what you mention.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...

2. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/index.html
Is your complaint that they use AI/ML interchangeably?

Yes, that's all I'm saying. And it seems like such a known point that they're not the same and not interchangeable, or so I thought (that I'm kind of astonished at the downvotes at my original comment).

Because in this case, while AI is a more term for the technology than ML, it is not a strictly incorrect title.

I get what you're saying at the product level -- and the fact that the vast bulk of the public subjected to these technologies couldn't tell you the difference, nor could they begin to care.

But to practitioners, the basic facts remain: ML ≠ AI, it's a proper subset, and we're doing the public a genuine disservice (and arguably causing substantial harm) by pretending to tell them that we're making good progress developing AI as distinct from hypercharged ML, that any day now they'll have self driving cars ... and all that crap the industry has basically been telling people.
Not harder to learn than ‘stop/parar/arreter/halt’

Even with a dictionary in front of me I’m not sure which German word is right for stopping music. But I know the icon for a German-localized device.

If you move the Safari icon out of the shortcut dock so you can read the word ‘Safari’ it would still not suggest ‘web browser’ to a noob.

Pros and cons. And discoverability has definitely moved backwards since the classic Mac desktop.
In addition to what others are saying I want to highlight that there's decent evidence that "all" we're doing is pattern finding and pattern matching. Definitely ML isn't at a human level yet, but I see no reason to think that we're missing some secrete sauce that's needed to make a true AI. When someday we do achieve human level intelligences in computers, it will be at least in large part with ML.
I think the "new PL territory" was referring to a type-safe generic map builtin. Obviously Python and Perl don't have a concept of type safety. That said, I still wouldn't call that novel in the sense that a builtin version of a well-understood generic function doesn't seem like a feat of ingenuity.
Japan fielded armies of hundreds of thousands of men, all equipped with swords. I guess if you totalled the weight on metal on them, you could cobble together a battleship. But it's not really about quantity, more quality of the ore.

And the point isn't about that. The point is that the constraint (bad ore quality) forced the Japanese to get better at metalworking. Resource constraints aren't as bad as we think, because we're used to making things without those constraints. But our descendants, having always had those constraints, will find better ways of solving them than we can think of.
That might be the killer feature from what I've heard.
In the early-to-mid 90s there were hundreds of emoticon + acronym books. They were marketed as essential reading for anyone joining the Internet.

They might be collector's items now. The sort of thing you would find in the window of the Blast From The Past store.

https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Blast_from_the_Past
And don't assume you're the operator of said lawnmower. You are, in fact, the grass.
Yep - that's the whole point, the only point.

And again, I thought it was pretty simple and generally known.
This is a false dichotomy (I listed many options, not just self hosting, not many businesses fully self-host these days), and uptime is provably significantly better away from the big hosted services which are constantly churning features, config and hardware resulting in outages for everyone hosted on them.
You seem to think you know a heck of a lot about me ...
Yeah I'm in the Portland area. It is not going well...
> Mankind has reached a point where it realized that certain rights (natural rights [1]) are not really arbitrary cultural constructs, but more akin to the laws of nature.

It's a moral system just like how Big Judge in Sky is a moral system. You're only determining what's good and bad in accordance with this one moral system. And most of humanity does not.

> Again an attitude that can be used to justify anything.

Of course, but only if its in their interest to do so like slavery, or if they believe it's in their interest to do so like committing genocide.

Have you noticed that slavery and genocide have actually never stopped in the world? Because they can do it and nobody can really stop them. See China's actions on the Uyghurs.

> This is simply insane warmongering. Since you throw such threats around casually I suspect you might be a US citizen. I can assure you that to the rest of us seeing this kind of attitude coming from your political/economic/intellectual leaders can be a very scary thing indeed.

You should address the factuality of the statement instead of bordering on an ad hominem. Every hegemonic power in history have exhibited the same characteristics: securing its interests. European powers have done it. Asian powers have done it and are currently trying to do it (China). Americas, Africa, and Middle East too.
I'm not sure where you're getting "technology is deflationary" since I basically need 1 phone at least, doubling it's speed doesn't really give me any more utility for the most part as I, and most people, don't really get any added benefit out of that. It also doesn't let me get by with half a phone, since a half phone is useless.
A missed opportunity in what way? Is "IV" better than "4"?
https://archive.md/e0Uqk
As usual, dang is wrong and not moderating effectively. This is not a shallow comment but a legitimate concern about spaCy, and to a lesser extent other NLP tools such as NLTK. Most of the tooling around them that people end up using really is nothing more than wrappers around other tools. See the default tokenizers or models utilized by these tools.

And yes, even if spaCy is not making money itself, you can bet that the other paid for tools that they sell are.
A bridge too far?
No, Go literally doesn't have a VM or an interpreter. VMs and interpreters are runtimes, but not all runtimes are VMs or interpreters. Go executes native code.
It would be absolutely sensible to make a justified decision on this. For the context of Germany, I would imagine that this would be done by full-time employees of the ministries of education in the individual federal states. There could also be public spending to develop a fork of a popular distribution to provide tailored features for schools.

The basic idea of making Open Source a requirement for selecting software solutions would just be a criterium added to the existing processes of selecting software/services.
I also think people complement smart contracts. The difficulty of building smart contracts makes me think people and human processes will be the glue that binds many of them together.
Peak protection From hospitalization and death reaches over 90%.

I’m not too familiar with the added risk from being over weight, but as I understand it, it is no where near that big of a step change.
> The money goes to doctors and to hospitals.

For doctors, that pay is well deserved given the exorbitant student loans that doctors carry, and the ridiculous shift length and other work related issues.

For hospitals? Here's the real deal where costs can be saved - 25% of hospital expenses is administration expenses [1], and 8% is profit margin [2].

Convert hospitals to non-profit operations owned by a single-payer insurance and immediately save a lot of costs across the entire board.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-articl...

[2]: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/high-price-hospital...
How did you find it on your phone and why not get a different phone
No it won't since software will require that additional compute power so I can watch star trek as a 3d hologram.
Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
Antwerp: The Glory Years
> Technology created this problem.

...No. Your adoption of technology/social media into every facet of your life created this problem.

I work in tech and I am not available when I'm not working. I don't participate in social media, but my social life is thriving during a pandemic.

> Choosing to not be available is effectively making yourself a social pariah if your social circle is otherwise highly available.

This sounds like a problem between you and your social circle. My circle doesn't make me feel like a pariah due to my availability. I suspect it has to do with me setting expectations and exercising discipline. You can do the same thing (though you might have to make changes to your social circle).
accounts get cancelled after a few weeks!
XML is not insane, actually it’s an open standard for writing legal documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso

Legal text is not prose, it does have structure and metadata attached to it.
Uh... watching 4k video, for example?
I don't think anyone is saying they could do better than AWS at making their own infrastructure. I think the complaint is that it's a single point of failure for a huge swath of the internet.
In that case, you could enforce that some of the paid amount is locked and release over time so as to provide an incentive to build something not totally fucked up.
There was a point in time where Ancient Rome had plumbed, running water. And there wouldn’t running water again for 2000 years later. I think people are obsessed with technology but in reality stability counts way more than anything else.
It seems like leaning into support from the type system of modern, static-typed languages like C++ could get us the conceptual advantage of GA with the performance of ordinary 3D linear algrebra, by representing knowledge of zero elements in such a way that operations with them shake out.

It is another trick to map this to SIMD operations with vector units or GPUs in modern CPUs, but that should be no harder than doing the same thing with quaternions.
Oh. So can't you delete the VM after being charged once?
> In addition to what others are saying I want to highlight that there's decent evidence that "all" we're doing is pattern finding and pattern matching.

Is there? Link? It is possible, I just don't think there is enough evidence to say anything about it. What evidence would show that humans are just pattern finding and matching machines?
I think there was a bunch of evidence already that also strongly indicated technology transfer throughout Eurasia in the last few millennia BCE, especially military technology.

For example, two-wheeled light military chariots probably originated in Central Asia with the Sintashta culture around 2000 BCE, and spread from there to everywhere from Egypt to East Asia.

In addition, though I dunno if you want to consider it a technology transfer, their particular horse breeds, bred to drive those chariots, also spread to the extent those breeds are the ancestors of every living domestic horse (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04018-9)
How about an automated airport that is battery powered. The flights are short run between municipal air ports. The take off, flight, landing, is all automatic. The airplanes dock with contact free charging in a lot before take off. A solar bank could charge the aircraft. Since they are short run, they do not need state of the art batteries but maybe lipo would work.
By your definition, 99.9% of “journalists” aren’t journalists because they are all activists. Assange is the purest form of journalist, especially considering things he published were mass reported by other journalists who got awards for their reporting.
I think most people would take "pattern matching" to mean matching against fixed patterns or engineered features, as opposed to learned features which you might call "pattern finding".
From 100% effective, to there's still a chance you get Covid and die, to maybe 6 months of protection, now down to needing a booster every three months. Disappointing.

The pfizer vaccine trials ended over a year ago[1]. Why are we only finding out about the reduced protection now? If the vaccine only works for three months, we should have known about that 10 months ago.

[1] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
> Q. Is the compiler engine itself written in Delphi? How much does it differ from the Borland Pascal 7 compiler?

> A. The compiler is written in assembly language.

That's amazing to me. My first real language was Java, then Ruby, C#, JavaScript, Python, etc. -- and only a smattering of C/C++ in college.

I can't imagine building anything complex in x86 assembly, let alone a freakin' compiler!
Because I don't think the old kind could communicate with my fancy-ass ceiling fan assembly? I'm actually not sure.
This depends on the way education is governed in each context. In Germany, education is governed by the federal states individually. They can leave these decisions up to schools (some even leave the desing of graduation exams to individual schools), others choose a more centralist approach. In the latter cases, the default use of Open Source software over closed, proprietary software or SaaS could be made mandatory, just like the use of certain books, the design of graduation exams etc.
For those unaware, that was said by Assange.
The fact that the majority of hospitals are non-profit is part of the racket. The money goes to the hospital administration instead of stockholders. That doesn't make it any better.
Trump wasn't banned for his political beliefs, he was banned for violating the TOS. Trump's supporters conveniently forget that he was allowed to run rampant across social media for four years and given far more leniency than anyone else, and of course they're pushing the narrative that his ban was part of some vast leftist conspiracy, but the reason he was banned and Biden, Obama and others weren't is because Trump was raving like a lunatic and seemed like he was about to start a civil war, and Biden and Obama have done nothing of the sort.

And what has been the impact been of Trump's ban? He's still perfectly capable of getting his message out. His followers are perfectly willing to move to non-mainstream sites like Parler and Gab, and they're still all over the mainstream sites to boot. He's still the overwhelming favorite for the GOP in 2024, and he's starting a social media platform and possibly a streaming TV deal. Trump simply not being President anymore has had a bigger chilling effect than being deplatformed.

As always, the right's hatred of the left has led them to overplay their hand. It's obvious to everyone that neither Trump nor his supporters are oppressed, suppressed or censored in any meaningful way, and certainly not to the degree that they claim.
William Green: Resilience and Investors as Practical Philosophers [audio]
I'm a Go enthusiast, but I think the charitable interpretation is that you don't have to expend lots of mental energy to read and write Go code. Even if you have a lot of mental capacity, you can put the excess toward interesting problems rather than reasoning about object lifetimes or hidden control flow or complex interactions between obscure features. If anyone uses "Go is designed for bad programmers" as an insult to Go programmers, they're only arguing against themselves (and lacking the cognitive faculties to notice).
AOC question Crypto execs on how Bitcoin is different