skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're talking about people living in an area of medium or high population density, burning tree trimmings for energy is an impractical solution which is grossly inefficient and has multiple disastrous externalities for the environment, even if it's technically carbon neutral.

It's better for the environment to sequester biomass inputs (e.g. tree trimmings) back into the soil and burn more efficient fossil fuels instead. Far from being merely carbon neutral, use of fossil fuels combined with sequestration of biomass could easily be carbon positive.
Centrally planned capitalism doesn't exist. Private ownership, while technically separate from market vs command, definitely has an influence on it. Even market socialism has central planning elements (e.g. initial public investment).
No, those are standard full text indexing datastruftured of vectors representing word positions.

This is for finding nearby N-dimensional points, where N is typically greater than 50 and the point is the output of an ML or NN process.
Hmm. It seems quite obvious that, to the common person in that time period, science would have seemed like an irrelevant waste of time. Some cursory googling doesn't reveal much either way.

I'm not super confident in my speculation, it just seems the most likely to me. What makes you so confident?
Thank you for this! I was the a maintainer for this years ago, and I'm glad its way better than I had it.
> Do you understand that your level of fear is irrelevant from virus perspective? Sars-cov-2 doesn’t care about your feelings.

The way you talk scares me more than the virus. It is so authoritarian and creepy. So many of my tech worker colleagues talk the same way. It’s abuse. People that talk your way are the kinds of people that commit grave atrocities in the name of some cause you are 100% bought into. You do not have the moral high ground you think you do. Stop now before you let very evil people use you to commit very bad things to your fellow humans.

You’ve already allowed your government to destroy our kids, caused old folks to die alone in care homes, gutted the working class, transferred enormous amounts of wealth to the richest in society, and divided the population in a way never seen before. You are committing great evil and you foolishly believe you are doing it for a proper cause. You aren’t.

Covid ends when you personally decide it does. Covid has no feelings. It’s a virus. It does virus stuff. It’s a part of nature just like earthquakes or tornadoes. We have very little control over it. Accept that and move on.

End your fear and Covid is no longer a problem. It is literally as easy as that. Nobody has to “accept” the virus requires them to sacrifice their very short amount of time on this earth unless they allow it to. And anybody who tells them otherwise is not to be trusted at all, for they have nobodies interest in mind.
I think a language that doesn't focus much on backwards compatibility isn't a great comparison to Go :) Having written some Scala, I really like the language. I also like Go's excellent performance, easy concurrency, ability to produce a single binary without having to rely on JVM etc. I think it would be a bad idea to get overly complicated constructs into Go but union types/pattern matching are relatively accessible, not uncommon now and provide a lot of expressiveness without the risk of code becoming unreadable. Those combined with maybe some alternative approaches for error handling will make me want to write Go again (I've written one component in Go that is working perfectly but it was just too much code with bulk of it being err != nil).
Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds
This idea carries some decent vibes. Pretty cool, seriously.

But I think I can't use this service:

(1) It requires "editing" for web publication, and I know I'm too lazy to keep up with that.

(2) I find myself mostly scribble with pencil and paper, and write on computer. This is partially because my handwriting is in another dimension in terms of recognizability.

(3) I sweat a lot, and that ruins paper notebooks pretty quickly, normally within 2~3 months of daily use. (So I use legal pads.)

So, personally, I've always thought about the reverse: write pages with computer, and make a book out of it for archival, like, yearly.

Still, I'm yet to carry out this idea, because:

(1) I'm unsatisfied with currently available text-based document formats - either too limited (markdown), too biased (ReST), or too verbose(HTML/XML). I'm hoping to build something like Notion(block-driven) out of plain-text document format.

(2) I fiercely hate proprietary note-taking services and apps. I've already had enough headaches: pages lost, broken import/export features, backup restoration failures, etc. Never gonna spend a single penny on them.
I don't understand what the point is of commenting about not having read the post. That's not even what it's about.
When CVS said they were closing 6 SF stores primarily because of retail theft Breed said CVS was using that as an excuse for their poor sales performance. She seemed completely disconnected from what's been happening in SF.
> Symlinks have been supported since Vista

I'm not aware of even Windows 10 or Windows 11 being able to create Symlinks on FAT32 and exFAT, but I could be wrong? But it doesn't matter, the code as written is cross platform, it works on Apple Journaled File Systems, APFS, exFAT, etc. We then compile it for Macintosh, compile it for Windows, and compile it for Linux.

We can then spend extra time and carefully detect each filesystem and each platform and then make the optimization if we can. And this is a valid criticism that we have not done this yet. But no matter what we need this general code that will always work FIRST, what the links are is a space optimization to save valuable SSD space when it is possible.
Microsoft trained AI to find software bugs using hide-and-seek
It wasn't that the chips were fake, they could only be fake if they claimed to be FTDI. They could have been merely FTDI compatible, at which point did FTDI have any grounds to destroy compatible parts?
To repeat what I said already, "Obviously that's a bit extreme, but it's to illustrate that less [human] activity, not more, is what's best for the Planet."

That was why I brought it up, I wasn't suggesting that we actually kill everyone, that's unrealistic and absurd, nor did I say that we should go back to being hunter/gatherers. I suggested we do less, which means consuming less and is part of a sustainable standard of living, so I'm a little confused by your comment...

I think I ruffled some feathers by pointing out that every human being dropping dead right now would be the best possible thing to happen for the health of the biosphere. It's an ugly truth, I was hoping it would motivate people to change.
I own a bar which has a relatively small food menu, and interestingly I always need to see a physical menu, despite knowing it pretty intimately. I imagine the tastes, and maybe the smells (though I hadn't thought of that before) and decide what I want to eat.

Customers will sometimes comment that it's strange I need to get a menu, but the staff seems to agree with the method.
The US absolutely could've built 5 Hubbles - because it did, they just don't look at Space - they look at Earth. The Hubble is basically a KH-11 spy sat chassis. NASA was given a gentle suggestion that if the optics package was a particular size, there was definitely a company in the US which could polish lens and mirror packages of exactly that size.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
If such a community existed, you would have linked it as an example here.

inb4 "Do your own research"
Ah, now it’s millennials fault that they can’t buy a house
TL;DR, quoting mid-bottom of the last page:

> Final Words

> All told, there is probably nothing to see here.
The most highly approved of DMs do tend to be good at concealing the railroad tracks...
Which subset of the notoriously transient tech population are you referring to?
You are parroting debunked arguments from 2 years ago.
To add to this, in Boston we are seeing a divergence between the condo and single family real estate market. Condo prices are way up, but single family prices are down.

Based on anecdotal experience, I suspect that people who wanted the single family lifestyle are leaving the city whereas those who want the city lifestyle are entering. Remote work means you don't need to choose where you live based on commutes. Similar to the Bay Area, around here there are suburban campuses which are impractical to commute to from the city.

I'd be curious of there is a similar effect in SF causing specific single family neighborhoods to empty out.
>I wouldn't blame that on the Church--the secular boarding schools for indigenous children weren't any better.

fair, but as someone else mentioned up stream... the catholic church has been claiming the moral high ground for centuries, turns out it was a bunch of nonsense and they're the same, if not worse, than everyone else
Totally agree. It's very hard.

To your point, even with marginal data on mask usage, to the extent it doesn't interfere with Health System usage, then we probably want to get people using them even with 'limited data'.

And then how do you 'mask mandate'?

Very hard.

Aside from the people who will just 'do it because the doctors said' you need large swaths of people who are 'community minded' and who will do it out of their civic orientation, a recognition that they need to 'play along' because on the whole, it's in the interest of Public Good.

The later part is tough in an individualist society.
> These very same tech workers have zero problems punishing the rest of society and selfishly forcing them to cower to their fears.

Could you please provide some examples of how tech workers have been able to punish the rest of society ? As far as I can tell it's the public authorities who decide laws and public health policies. Tech workers can't even unionize and now they can lobby for WFH or lockdowns and are punishing the rest of society ?

> So they should be on unemployment… let them wake up and realize the world doesn’t revolve around a fucking respiratory virus.

I wrote it in my previous comment then deleted it but I'll finally put it here because fuck it: I did lose my job one month into the first lockdown because my n+2 non tech boss decided to use the federal budget allocated to my job to create a new job for her bestie. How am I privileged ? Why didn't being put on unemployment during lockdown erase my fear of covid ? While at the same time a family member of mine who is an artist lost her gigs but thanks to our welfare state she didn't lose an euro of income in the last two years and now she's setting up fires and stirring things up in antivax/mask riots in Brussels. Their world revolve around the virus, their only meaning in life is now to be against every health measures (and yes they are ordering covid online in the Netherlands rather than get a jab. Which FAANG employees is forcing her to do that, uh ?).

You may not like how the covid thing is handled but thinking it's tech worker's fault is wack and wanting to punish them for that is wackier. If anything, talk to your representative or your councilmen or something. They are the one in charge.
Understandable that crewed missions are more risky, but by that point I think they'd had enough cargo loads and F9 flights on reused boosters that it seemed BAU.

I don't think SLS will be in a position to be able to do this any time soon. Starship, well, let's hope so!
> At first there wasn’t evidence that masks worked, once that had been accrued science was pro-mask.

This is not how that worked. The evidence in terms of tests and trials is inconclusive, either for or against masks, in terms of experimental evidence of effectiveness. Nevertheless East Asia was all fro masks from the beginning and the WHO, CDC, FDA, Surgeon General were against, very vehemently. The western establishment changed their minds based not on experimental evidence but on people going "Are you morons? You're saying masks are literally useless? Not of limited use, actually worthless? Do you understand how airflow and droplets work at all?"
I get what you're saying but I think it generally does the opposite. People like prestige.
I've got to agree, nvidia have lost any love I might have had for them, and I'm definitely not going to be buying another product from them any time soon.

I'm still very impressed with the great work the nouveau people are doing to work around nvidia's stubbornness though, so congratulations to them.
Finally someone with a sane and well thought out reply
Recycling was once proposed not because it was a viable mitigation but because companies knew it would be an effective distraction. [0]

I'm not saying recycling or carbon capture is all bad. But they should be last resorts. That's why it's reduce, then reuse yourself, then recycle if there's no alternative.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf]
U.S. cybersecurity officials see mainly low-impact attacks from Log4j, so far
I’ve found a lot of high-quality, quant finance blogs from this (curated) feed:

https://quantocracy.com/
What do you think is lacking in the responses happening right now that suggests governments are being caught off guard? I might agree the response might seem lacking, but I don't really know what else should be done.
Unfortunately, the high-demand religions with explicit origin stories are the ones that maintain their membership numbers, whereas the more open religions are seeing their communities disintegrate more quickly.
The author is not making these arguments. Look:

> This might be a bad plan [...] But I emphasize that I know nothing and I’m just parroting the opinions of others.

If you're posting about how these plans aren't accurate, you've missed the point. The author is making a broader observation, that you can conceive of plans that actually benefit from secrecy, and lead to all sorts of interesting human behavior. The particulars are irrelevant, it's about how the parts fit together.
It's not the fault of "science" in the abstract or even the fault of most scientists (who're sincere and open to debate and disagreement, and generally acknowledge the limits of their epistemic certainty).

But there is clearly a faction of media and political institutions which wield "Science (TM)" as a cudgel to stifle public debate / opinions - and they aren't even doing it out of bad faith / political opportunism - they're doing it because they believe it's important to have the general public universally believe in established science "facts".
Google Year in Search: 2021
Depends on where the button is!
> Also I wonder whether the language has a IDE support as good as IntelliJ with Java (safe function extraction, type-safe autocomplete)

Jet Brains makes GoLand, which is about as good as they come. It should feel familiar if you're used to IntelliJ. https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
I will support him on the internet as I cannot vote.

Other cities look to follow SF's steps of restorative justice.

I think this is bad, but I can't be sure.

Since I don't live in SF, I want SF to go all the way with the restorative justice to see if it works. Maybe I'm wrong. This is a low cost way of experimenting.

Here is the kicker: SF residents also want more restorative justice (based on their official votes).

We all from other cities should help support Chesa.

We will all benefit from the restorative justice experiment, and SF residents get what they vote for. It is a win win.
If you're main problem with a new language is that it's not written like the language you are used to, you're not going to be happy with the new language.
> Besides, the Bible doesn't talk about homosexuality nearly as much as other things that many Christians ignore

I am talking about organized Christian religions and their affect of increasing tribalism among their members. I gave up trying to convince Christians that they were wrong using their bible quite a while ago; most don't really care.
Thanks for the nice and clear summary!

At what point does it make sense to switch to using vector search solutions (compared to keyword searches)? Obviously Google et al need it, but for regular apps, maybe academic repositories and so on, is there a threshold in which we can start the discussion to switch?

Or phrased another way, when do we know we should be looking at vector search solutions to enhance the search in our application?
This is sort of a "promotional" piece for the Institute of Justice, who I support and donate to wholeheartedly, as I do the EFF.
These folks at the IoJ are fighting back against the evil police state that is ever destroying our rights.
I don’t enjoy writing Scala even if the pattern matching syntax is basically the same as Rust. Some of it is the build tool, some of it is the JVM, and some of it is simply distaste for the language.

I don’t hate Scala and I’ve even written a few PRs in Scala, but I have had trouble picking it up for actual projects.

Go is extremely pragmatic and often favors clarity in how code will execute and simplicity in syntax and grammar. It’s basically a GC’d successor to C in many regards. It eschews classes for interface-based polymorphism, it compiles and runs code very fast, and above all, I’ve found it easy and rewarding to pick up.

I don’t want all of the expressiveness of Scala. Just a bit more than Go has today. Not much more.
Help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like what I do with one finger and my thumb.

I move the cursor over what I want to move, then click with my thumb and keep it pressed down. That initiates the drag. Meanwhile I can use my pointer finger to move the cursor wherever I want, dragging the whole time. Once I've moved the cursor to where I want, I remove my pointer finger so it stops moving and then release my thumb to drop.

Is it another way to do the same thing? Why would I use three fingers instead of just using a normal mouse click with my thumb?
I've been hearing about significant wage increases for many jobs, especially at the lower end of the spectrum.
Just like how Regan's War on Drugs worked.
I don't find this argument to be particularly persuasive, at least not unless you are also making the claim that all big cities are screwed. COVID caused many people to leave cities, not just tech workers in SF. The federal stimulus package was just a part of the federal government's efforts to shore things up due to COVID. Of course it's not a sustainable strategy; it's a short-term measure due to the pandemic.

Now, certainly things are not going to go back to the way they were once we start pulling out of the pandemic (whenever that will be). But they will go some part of the way back. I don't think it's easy to predict exactly where things will be in 1, 2, or 5 years. Maybe what comes will be enough, maybe it won't. I'm betting that things will work out just fine. There will be some budget shortfalls, and some strife, but life will go on, and the city will rebound, just like most/all of the other cities in the world will.

Frankly I don't care why Breed just now feels like she needs to clean up the city, but I'm glad it's happening, finally.
The human skills AI can't replace
i guess that could be read that way now that you mention it. totally didn't take it that way in my jumping to conclusions.

so, now that we've established it could be not on your property but absolutely most definitely viewing your property, time for action. Time for a sheet of plywood blocking the view. Now, knowing that it's probably an extremely wide angle lens, that playwood probably won't block the full view. Time for a bright ass light on that board that just so happens to point at the camera. Maybe a UV LED lights to make it not as annoying in case that light is too disturbing. Or, a laser light show attached to that piece of plywood that just happnes to scan back and forth across the camera lens several times at alternating heights.
The Qt QPA for Wayland supports this properly and natively since ~2017 or earlier, and will render one single app at multiple DPIs around screen boundaries.

"One app window, two monitors, two DPIs" https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.11.0/#wayland
https://archive.md/lR2gR
> In fact, most revolutions of the modern age has resulted in somewhat of a worse outcome for the citizenry.

'Most' revolutions of the modern age were anti-colonial revolutions, in places like India and Africa, in the aftermath of WWII.

Life under colonial rule in those places was, as a rule of thumb, not great.

We then had a large string of revolutions in Eastern Europe, in the late 80s/early 90s[1]. Would you also describe those as a 'worse outcome for the citizenry'?

[1] Which could also be described, if not as de-colonization, as an end to Soviet imperialism.
> the lack of lambdas and the lack of the functional handling of collections seems problematic to me

Why? 95% of lambdas I see should have been written without them. It's very rare I run into situations where it is more elegant or not really possible to write it another way.

Devs just love doing tricky shit for no reason it seems.
SemVer is about breaking changes to existing code when you upgrade compilers, not about making future code backwards compatible to older compilers.

Every additive language change would be a breaking change in this ReverseSemVer you’re imagining.
It's pretty clear to me how this happens, I'm one of those people who became unaffiliated. I was raised in a religious household. I got fed a lot of objectively weird things from my parents' religion:

- The pope is the antichrist

- The Catholic Church, according to biblical prophecy, will force everyone to attend church on Sunday

- If you comply with this and don't become a martyr, you will not be saved

These are the Seventh-Day Adventists' beliefs, and this is a pretty mainstream protestant religion in the US. They run a whole huge health care system and they have millions of members and vast amounts of real estate, yet their actual beliefs are objectively totally nuts to me. This is how a lot of the religions sound, when you take a step back they're pure crazy talk wrapped up in some common sense "don't be a jerk" teachings.

If you go back a few hundred years, you'd just be murdered by your neighbors if you came out and said their beliefs are crazy. In a lot of the world today you'll get this treatment. The people who are able to escape this stuff are enjoying a luxury that is rare in the history of the world.
That's a fine standard. I would, with some trepidation, dare to say that the article being linked to here egregiously fails that standard on all counts.
P.S. Evolution is not a stable system, and free markets aren't stable, either. Socialism promises stability, but history shows it's even less stable, as it is unresponsive to market changes.
I opted out of this a long time ago by never creating a Facebook account.
I'd layer on that "Religion was always political... but in the US it didn't need to be overtly political". By that I'd say since the silent majority of the population was Protestant then dominant Protestant religion would freely be intertwined with government. It's only when there is no longer a dominant Protestant religion that Religion becomes visible in politics.
WiFi Dabba: Laser powered network
I always hear these same talking point as well. Why do they want to say things that doom x.org so much? It is some sort of meme that's spewed out from people that want everyone to switch to wayland? I feel like everytime I hear a security issue almost anywhere its paranoia, overblown and generally so improbable that if I never heard of it I would be fine. I disabled spectre and meltdown and recommend everyone else who has an updated browser to as well.
You only do science on a very small area at most. I mean, if you have a certain bacterial infection do you trust the science that the specific antibiotic is likely to be effective, or do you start to 'do' science?