skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of implementation details that can make some version slower or faster.

In my own, I use 2..5 branching because a sequence of appends on the front or back will tend to create a tree with 3 pointers per node (when you're about to hit 6, you split. If you get to 1, merge with a neighbor, etc...). Three is close to e, which is optimal in some sense for some operations.

I'm not a Java guy. For my use, having 32 way branching is pretty expensive because I use reference counting for each of the nodes. Since you have a true garbage collector, you don't have that cost, and it wouldn't be difficult to make a 2-32 way implementation.

Anyways, it sounds like you're not impressed and not interested. That's fine :-)
Most Hospitals

If you need records transferred from one institution to an out-of-network provider, they usually need the request by fax and the data is sent by fax.

Varies by institution of course
They can be quite nasty they occasionally murder rape baby seals… https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/4/24/5640890/otters-ra... (I know it’s Vox, it’s a bit hyperbolic but factual..)

Otters are predators and wild animals even a house cat can fuck you up.

Most animals tend to be extremely strong for their size and their teeth and claws are no joke.

They are extremely hard to defend against especially in groups it will take all of your strength to contain one of them and it will still bite and scratch the shit out of you.

And despite the fact that they most likely don’t have any intention to kill you all it takes is one deep bite in the neck or your inner thigh and you can easily bleed to death.

Even without severe damage I would imagine these bites hurt at least as much as getting stabbed so even if you aren’t dying it sure feels that way.
I know right? Reading it is like a pleasant balm. Sensible and humane, especially compared to a lot of the other stuff the UK government gets up to nowadays. I really hope it gets through Second Reading in 2022.
Part of this is that he tried to keep the TempleOS code simple, so he didn't implement things like USB or GPU code, and he eventually took out BMP support. He had a limit of lines of code he tried to keep things under.
Just comes off as a very immature CEO.

I worked for a nice version of this, spot raises, flying around trying to aquire other companies. Drinks on the company card. Every Friday we'd go out drinking !

The it happens, we're all brought into a room. Given 2 weeks serverance. Apparently we forgot to make money. The CEO apologized to each one of us personally, I said thank you.

If your going to be immature at least be kind.

I hope if I'm ever CEO I'm just stupid and not mean
Moray is one of the first programs I paid for with my own money. I'm surprised that the site is still online.

The best use I ever made of it was modeling an addition to my paternal grandparents' barn before they built it. I entered measurements from tape measures and photographs to build up the basic shapes and the addition, before-and-after.

There was something addictive about seeing the final traced image build up line by line. I dissipated a lot of computer-hours in the 1990s with POV-Ray on a 486, then later a Pentium or Power Mac. I even showed my other grandfather how to run it on his FPU-less 68k Mac; now that was slow.
Age is not an arbitrary social structure—it is a number directly proportional to the number of seconds that have passed since you exited your mother's womb.

Gender expression is a social structure, however. Note that I am using the word 'gender expression' here rather than 'biological sex', which is not an arbitrary social structure.

See the difference?
Jeez, man -- you say "giving" here like it was a charitable contribution.

In reality it was a negotiated settlement to avoid (I am assuming) criminal penalties. The point of the article was that it was only because of a loophole in the tax code that she was able to pass this settlement (a huge fine, basically) as an operating "loss".

Think about that for a second. Suppose you misfile your taxes (intentionally or otherwise), and get hit with a $20k fine by the IRS. Do you get to write that $20k off as a "loss"? In exchange for "giving" that $20k to the government?
John Carmack (consulting CTO for VR at Facebook/Meta) said in his most recent talk on VR (paraphrasing despite quotes),

"The internet has been described as people and screens. I've been arguing that the metaverse is just more people and more screens. Trillions of dollars of investment have made 2D screens very effective tools for delivering information. If the metaverse can deliver that information anywhere, at scale, shared with geographically disparate people in the same virtual location, then it will have real value."

I've thought about this and come to agree. Ignore the Snow Crash/Ready Player One "everyone lives in VR" hype, and for now ignore the "all games are interconnected in a shared world" fantasy and just think people and screens.

Already in VR, you can create multiple 2D screens for working in any number or configuration. You can place that in any kind of environment you find comfortable working in. You can create a "window" into the real world to see your real keyboard and mouse. You can see avatars of people in the same room that really feel like they're next to you. All of this is a bit clunky and the resolution is lower than hoped, but it works.

Now scale this up, advance technology, and add time. Higher resolution and lighter headsets are inevitable.

Will people want to work in VR? If it means 4 screens on the balcony of a Tuscan villa instead of a tiny desk in a depressing space? Maybe. They can still type "git push" on a 2d screen with a real keyboard in a virtual space.

Will companies buy a $300 device for every employee? If that replaces the $300 monitors they already buy, it could actually save money.

Will execs wear a 400g headset for 3h? What about if it's a 100g headset and lets them feel present with a globally distributed team that can sit around the same virtual conference table with spatial audio and see body language and facial expressions[1]? Maybe.

The benefits for shared movies, group gatherings, co-working, and social gaming are very compelling. If you stop projecting your preconceived ideas of what a "metaverse" is, and instead ask "what are the opportunities afforded by immersive shared and networked spaces being available to the masses through pervasive cheap technology?", you can come up with pretty compelling use cases that, taken together, ultimately form a far more likely "metaverse" in the near-term (<5 years).

[1] Search for "Codec Avatars" to see progress here. Here's an article with some videos: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751177/facebook-meta-c...
Yeah, no one is going to do that, dude. No one who has a good idea of what they'd like this so-called metaverse to look like is going to wait around with their thumb up their bum while they wait for the IETF to sort out HTTP/3.

Everything you need to do this today already exists. You're right, you don't need to reinvent the wheel, but you'd just be screwing yourself working with a platform as crusty and stupid to work with as the web. You can reuse web protocols, but any sane person today will probably end up building a user agent unburdened by the stupidity web standards groups.

Plus a majority of usefulness wouldn't be done with HTTP. It would be done with DNS so you can do things like vrp:sweetbroandhellajeff.world, reliable UDP for anything meaningfully real-time, and some RPC protocol for packet handling. Why? Because video games do that today.

If you built a fork of Quake and exposed a way to "navigate" to worlds with an address bar of sorts, you'd be 80% of the way there.

You'll need a level format to standardize on, and various other standards would need to emerge, and most of them are probably going to be derivatives or outright ports of existing ones that are in use today.

An informal standard would emerge based on a popular client, then some attempts to hijack it would emerge. Why? Because that's what happened in the past, and what would happen all over again.

If you want to do it quickly, you're not going to use a web browser. You're talking about the same category of people who refuse to implement client side include for the web.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791

Edit: People already know what the requirements are at a minimum because video games exist, and all VR tech today is based on long-existing video game development techniques.

Do you want a floor? Walls? Textures? Guess you're gonna need a level format to standardize on then, yeah? Yeah.
Feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four approved by Orwell’s estate
Presumably nobody would know it was yours until you added contact information to it.
I'm not sure how this would apply. You'll never refactor away the error handling idioms of the language itself.
> Why so much fake enthusiasm ?

Lack of anonymity. Profiles on LinkedIn have more real information on them then any other platform, meaning that what you say might have real consequences to you.

Basically saying anything negative or critical might be used against you in the future of your career. (see Miranda rights)

Other platforms like reddit and Twitter don't mind anonymous accounts, which ironically invites more honest criticism and discussion, as it doesn't directly link profiles to professional careers.
Yes, you can use an inverse CDF to implement a fairly efficient generator for pretty much any probability distribution. (I'm sure there's some pathological, and uncommon, counterexample.) It's just a small/quick lookup table, and you can interpolate if you need extra resolution.
> It's an obvious security issue.

Probably legitimately wasn't at the time! The general landscape and security issues and reasonable concerns just weren't the same.

Of course it's as clearly insane as giving pregnant women beer in maternity wards now, but wasn't at the time.
"In N1, you can imagine shapes, colors or even bits of dreams in front of your closed eyes, yet still hear stuff in your room"

So is this when DMT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine starts to rise? It would make sense if it does, but melatonin increases before you get to N1 so I wonder what DMT is like without the melatonin? Maybe that's why there are rumours of some coders microdosing LSD in Silicon Valley, to keep up the creativity, but I cant help but think DMT might be better.

Now if you take some Lecithin before sleep maybe a gram or two, you will dream, but your dreams if you remember them which you probably will, will be based around events before you went to sleep. This then leads further credence to dreams being an indicator to help you process previous days or more historical events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin
This is what I think is really helping your brain though, choline is used in the connections between neurons and explains baby brain forgetfulness with pregnant women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidylcholine
I’m kind of miffed that he didn’t include humans in the list of megafauna. Certainly Americans are over 100 pounds.

Being an anachronistic species is not necessarily an inevitable decline. I have a magnolia tree in my front yard — the leaves and petals are frustratingly indestructible, because it was once beetle-pollinated long before bees existed. I wonder how many anachronistic species will do well in the future changed climate. I know dawn redwood has a small range now, in China, but their fossils are found in Alaska.
>Unfortunately this time, we've used up the irreplaceable (even on geologic time scales) coal and other fossil fuel deposits, so we would be out of the running, forever, as a multi-planet species.

I would take this further. In the past we've been able to kick problems down the road. Many of the problems we now face are actively manifesting and delaying response to them is not going to help, it will just make them worse, faster, now. So long standing problems that have been mostly ignored, can no longer be ignored. We'll either step up and actually fix them, or much will be destroyed. We no longer have a choice to wait. So look at those issues where it is obvious that a response can not be delayed. Those are the areas where either solutions will shape the future, or the destruction that accompanies ignoring them will manifest and shape the future. Some examples might be: obesity, climate crisis, pollution, insect decline, animal decline, decline in the variety of species, ocean acidification, financialization, misuse of commons, invasive pests, superbugs, the current pandemic, and decline in the quality of food. I'm sure you can think of more. Then extrapolate to the futures where we fix a few specific problems, we fix all the problems, we fix most of the problems, we fix none of the problems. Then you'll have a range of likely futures. That tells you how to work towards specific futures or by tracking current trends to predict which futures are most likely.

This ignores new innovations of course because you can't easily predict them long term (though short term some things like technology advances are somewhat predictable.) So there will always be wild cards. Another large factor is what people think because what people think is what creates shared reality. This is like trying to predict fads, it mostly can't be done. So it represents another source of wild cards. #MeToo is an example of such a shift. There are some trends here though; there seems to have been a historical trend for populations to become more liberal over time. It doesn't happen fast but it seems to be true everywhere. Fifty years ago China embracing capitalism was unimaginable. People admitting they were gay publicly was not happening. So assuming a slow trend towards liberalism may be predictive. For example, marriage may decline and who you have sex with versus who you share your living quarters with may diverge over the next 100 years. Another example is if you assume the internet still connects most people in the world in 100 years (and even more people gain internet access with time) then that will likely have a homogenizing effect, blending cultures and reducing xenophobia.
They mention a fix in the works for the Teams app, but the bigger story here seems a fundamental problem with Android, whereby simply installing an app can break your ability to place telephone calls.
You might be working at the wrong org? My colleagues routinely take weeks off at a time, sometimes more than a month to travel Europe, go scuba diving in French Polynesia, etc. Work to live, don’t live to work.
See the reddit netsec thread [0] . There is evidence of attackers having the exploit since April 2021, thus the disclosure.

> Was it spotted being abused.

No, not at 2021-12-10 AFAIK, just spotted being spread.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/rcwws9/rce_0day_exploit...
Or Action Quake or Action Half Life. The headshots (before they were common) and the diving jumps were great.
Maybe nobody saw the shooter?
The cornea and the lens are different anatomical entities.
> Bag of word co-occurrences in matrix format is also a nice to know, factorizing such matrices were the original vector space model for distributional semantics and provide historical context for GloVe and the like.

And also, IIRC, still outperforms them on some tasks.
Well, given the “flaw” is a machine learning model, who was the developer and how do they relate to the training data?
Yeah I call it being aware of ones thought process in third person. It's not that unusual of an angle of perception, the first place I ever saw it "documented" was here:

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Perceived_exposure_to_inner_...

which leads to a very accurate description of that kind of visualizations:

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/8B_Geometry_-_Perceived_expo...
> If you need records transferred from one institution to an out-of-network provider, they usually need the request by fax and the data is sent by fax.

Note that this is a regulatory hack because of the interpretation of HIPAA that fax transmissions are not “electronic media”, and therefore their use between HIPAA covered entities is not covered by the standardized format requirements and special security requirements associated with transactions conducted via electronic media.
This is almost always the case.

The most important services get the most attention from leaders who apply the most pressure, especially in the first ~2y of a fast-growing or high-potential product. So people skip tests.
20 of my 40 years has involved managing and searching document repositories of various flavors. Prior to that, many of my clients were law firms. And yes, I have built more than one legal document repository.

>> systems you've never seen, for needs you know nothing about, for clients and users you know nothing about.

Perhaps you should make fewer assumptions about what I know.
Wise (nee transferwise) for big payments in foreign currencies.

Stripe but most of my customers don't use it unless they want to pay by credit card.

Everybody else direct bank deposit. Xero does all the payment matching although that semi manual process likely wouldn't scale into thousands of customers.
> They are your average Joe, with barely any special skill.

Absolutely, provably false.

It takes a lot of skill to constantly produce content at the rate that millionaire twitch streamers do. Most of them own youtube channels as well, which requires additional time to process, edit, and mix videos, depending on what they're doing with it.

It also takes a high level of creativity in order to come up with new ideas for streams, keep the audience engaged while playing the same game for hundreds of hours on end. This means doing giveaways, interacting with the audience without offending them, planning contests, negotiating advertising deals with game-makers for promo-streams, etc. etc.

It's an incredibly demanding gig, that, at the very least, requires a pretty insane schedule, or being really passionate about the job. Most people would burn-out at their rate, and a lot actually do.

Maybe some streamers get help in production and orchestrating their stream, but for most it's more than a full-time job commitment.

Those average Joes you mentioned? They get 1-2 viewers, who are usually their closest friends. This the skill ceiling for "barely any special skill" people. If they stream a game that just came out, they may break 10 viewers once in a while. That's about it.
From the original outage thread:

“If you're having SLA problems I feel bad for you son
I got two 9 problems cuz of us-east-1”
I stumbled on her grave by accident one day when I was walking through Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm where she's buried. It's well worth a visit for the architecture alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogskyrkog%C3%A5rden
None of that makes any sense. Code that handles emergency calls must be handled separately from anything else. Third party apps should not be able to affect it in any way. This just shows how reckless Android development is.
"Self driving could save tens of thousands of lives (perhaps hundreds of thousands worldwide) each year..."

Launching a self driving car which crashes head on into traffic is not a good start. If they used unmaned Teslas for the live traffic tests they would be risking less lives. /s

It is interesting that consumers kind of volunteer to test a potentially lethal product. I say "kind of volunteer" because they are actually paying for the car.
Do you also have the visualizations of interlinked concepts? I find weed makes me have "the thoughts" and they are very present and come fast, but being absolutely sober sometimes those thoughts are there but not moving as fast and they it's more likely they also come with visualizations of the thought process.
At the wife's office there is a fax machine which spews a daily sermon in curled paper onto the floor of their little kitchen.
AZs definitely go down. It's usually due to a physical reason like fire or power issues.
Note that being a scientist does not ensure he is right. It only means that he got some training in some scientific field, published a few articles and someone hired him in a scientific position. More details in https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-nolan

He studied biology, but biology is a very wide area. He studies some tiny area of biology, looking at the profile it looks like some parts of animals and cancer, but nothing about plants IIUC. It looks relevant for the discussion about brain damage, but not for the discussion about weird metals.

Anyway, I don't see anything about these topics in the published peer review papers. So it's just an opinion, like yours or mine. (And anyway, not all peer review articles are good, some journals are very bad, but that's another can of worms.)

He probably has a tenure position, so it's very difficult to fire him. Perhaps he is very good in his area, but has a weird side projects. If he does not make some extremely outraging claims, nobody will fire him.
The "new NT technology"
The previous article in the series used III to denote part 3. IV would be next. I guess part 5 could be titled part Five, or maybe Go since yamaha is a japanese company.
Sure, let's take the example set by specific individuals and extrapolate that to an entire group of people that share some commonalities. That usually works well.

We have a wide range of those: Muslims are terrorists. Farmers are racist Ku Klux Klan followers. Black dudes are just waiting to steal your car. So we can add: CEO and entrepreneurs are abusive assholes.
I'm going to leave it at this: the dashboards at AWS aren't automated.

Say what you will, but I can automate a status dashboard in a couple days--yes, even at AWS scale.

No reason the dashboard should be green for hours while their engineers and support are aware things aren't working.
If you can write the indulgence (permission to sin) into the code it becomes self-documenting and that seems reasonable

e.g. #![allow(dinosaur::nonsense)] in Rust tells the tools that you know you're not supposed to do whatever dinosaur::nonsense might be, but you want to do it anyway in the following code and the hypothetical dinosaur linter shouldn't bother you about that.

When a maintenance programmer is staring at this block of code later, the fact you explicitly intended to do dinosaur::nonsense is right there, documented where it happens, and they can decide if the proper course of action is to leave that as it is, fix the code to not be dinosaur::nonsense, allow raven::stupidity because the new Raven linter is better but now warns about the same problem under a different name or what.
Kropotkin was an anarchist and generally opposed to communism.

Wars have been fought over the distinction.
So it doesn't use a neural network, but it is still optimized by gradient descent. Differentiability is the key!
> It treats streamers as kids who can't take care of themselves and don't understand the long-term impact of their lifestyle and career choice.

This is more or less what many streamers are saying about it too. And most streamers are eager to get out of this self-destructive lifestyle with age. Streaming is a though gamble, and most are losing it. Educating about the harsh price of this is good and necessary, and the article is pretty fair there IMHO.
In BC government services that require confidentiality tend to use faxes: healthcare, child welfare, that sort of thing.
Phalanxa: A cloud-native full-text search and indexing server written in Go