skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't line up with what we're seeing. Especially around supply chain, conversations have included the chemistry/materials data teams at some of the biggest companies. Likewise, academic researchers have steadily been switching over from past methods. GNNs here feels very much like imagenet for NNs for perception. It's hard to call that not a big deal.

Many aren't switching, but not because they disbelieve it. For example, in precision medicine, a Stanford professor was mostly skeptical of practical relevance because of the general gap between real-world data findings and the multi-year clinical trial process... but that's not about GNNs, but the well-known issue of institutional resistance to real-world data.

(We're biased: We're working with enterprise to bring in GNNs more on the supply chain, finance, fraud, security, etc. sides.)
> at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies

Tied to Windows, mind you.
I appreciate the kind reply! There isn't really a tradeoff here, because even when people are so wrong about something that harm could result from believing them, the best way to respond is to patiently provide good arguments and correct information.

If you slip into the flamewar style and/or the online callout-shaming culture, you won't reduce harm. You'll only provoke and reinforce the people who disagree, and the resulting conflagration won't help undecided people decide. Worse, you run the risk of discrediting your own position, and if your position happens to be a correct one, that actually causes harm in its own right, because it somehow ends up discrediting the truth (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

So happily, I would say, the cause of not having flamewars, of sticking to the site guidelines, and of giving the truth the best possible advocacy, more or less coincide. That doesn't make it easy. It's far from easy, but that's because it's hard to handle the emotional torque it places on you when someone else is saying something that is (or that you feel is) totally wrong on a topic. Where by "you" I don't mean you personally, of course—I mean all of us.
Sure, wine supports prefixes, but:

- No filesystem sandbox.

- No handling of dependencies.

- No first-party UI for managing multiple prefixes.
The point is that it's only unlikely (or other situations likely) if the events, even from patient to patient, are random. If whether a patient is sick or not determined if they're in the placebo group or the healthy group, you would be testing exactly nothing. The randomness in placing the patient is a required part of the experiment. And more than random, the patient placement must be random and independent from their disease status (misdiagnosed healthy patients get treated too, after all. Generally it works quite well, as there isn't any problem to solve) and whether the treatment will work.

And of course superdeterministic theories are "simple". In the same sense that you can model any sequence as a function: just list all observed values for all time. Very simple, very little predictive power when you need it.

That also gives you the criticism of superdeterminism: if we do things that way, nothing needs an explanation, as it just can't be simplified from that full specification that we observe ... so there's no point to science. Note that it can still be more complex than we'll ever usefully realise, so whilst it means everything is determined, it does not necessarily (in fact quite unlikely imho) make it predictable for us limited beings.

But, in at least one meaning of the word, it's certainly simple. Every function in physics, whether quantum gravity or electroweak forces or the number of puppies your cat will have next year: f(x) = the x'th entry in the table ... (tables, of course, that you generally don't have access to)

Which isn't to say this is a strategy that can't work and perform useful functions. Take a robot for example, and look at inverse kinematics. That comes with 3d calculus, volume intersection (robot mustn't self-intersect), and there's not just limits in position but in speed, acceleration and torque as well. You can fully develop this theory. Or you can move the robot, observe all variables and save them to disk, then use nearest neighbour to figure out robot movement. Works like a charm, and doesn't even need to know how many arms the robot has. And while it takes a while, I bet it's a hell of a lot faster than building the theory for even the simplest of robots, never mind multi-armed or nonlinear robots. Plus it's trivial to make a machine learning algorithm do it for you, and the same can't be said of developing the correct theory for a new robot model.
Annie: Simple video download CLI tool like YouTube-dl written in Go
If you have not already done so, consider orienting your work and home location such that you can walk or bike to work, or have a very short commute.

There are several studies that suggest long commutes are terrible for your health and happiness.

> A Swedish study found that people who endure more than a 45-minute commute were 40% more likely to divorce.

> Stutzer and Frey found that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worl...
Not the exact one referenced, but incriminating enough: https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1461750873445568515

Edit: another https://twitter.com/ElnordicoBk/status/1471158531394998273
OT:

My only exposure to grammarly is YouTube ads, and I noticed they often show women struggling to write (I think 3/4 of their actors are female). Two theories:

- grammarly is subtly sexist

- most characters in ads are women

Anyway I never had an outlet for this thought so posting here
I’m going to answer your questionnaire randomly and look like a genius.
I feel this article is missing a lot of the drivers.

When automation was kicking off Ops just sucked. Infrastructure teams were slow to respond and automate, were underfunded, whatever. They sucked when Dev's were being driven to deploy faster.

Dev's started do it themselves. They sucked at it too. They got some "ops" guys in the team to help them do it better. This was then called "DevOps" and the consultants built an industry around the cultural change of collaboration between Devs and Ops.

DevOps smushed together so much that it became just "Devs" doing ops work. They realised that Ops is hard and 70% of their work was Ops, with 30% providing business value. Dev's don't want to Ops, they just want to Dev.

Scaling dev's meant building shared deployment platforms. So ops was centralised into a "Devops" team. Usually this is jammed between Dev teams and traditional Infratructure (VMWare) teams. Kubernetes lives here.

Having a devops/platform team also means you have less fingers in your cloudspace breaking things and deploying bad patterns. Good for scale. Dev's just want to write code, throw it at git, tests run, they repeat. No ops for them.
> I'm not taking a stance on either side of this, but the fact that he's Bengali-American doesn't somehow mean he can't be a scientific racist.

Given that Bangladesh has one of the lowest average IQs in the world, that suggests a strong motivation for Kahn not to make assertions lightly.

The paragraph you point to is blunt, but not “racist” and not inconsistent with what I’ve heard in “just among us Asians” conversations. (You’re very sheltered if you think it’s controversial to point out that East Asians think that Americans are fat and age quickly.)
Ah, because saying that flatpak has more issues than Wine _is_ constructive. It is not even close to being true. Yes, I flew off the handle a bit there, but I'm quite done with the useless snark from some commenters, especially since it's pretty common on this forum regarding certain technologies, and in my eyes, completely unwarranted.

Nowhere in my comment I said Flatpak is perfect and doesn't need more work to be really good, and I certainly didn't resort to hyperbole to discredit the work of other people, that's for sure.

I should probably take a walk and not angrily comment on the Internet, I agree...
Mother's exercise during pregnancy enhance baby's brain development: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029433-000-exercise...

I've checked out my year averages for 2019, 2020 and 2021, they were 5, 3.4 and 5.2 km per day. 2020 average is 2/3 of my usual per day walk distance. I try to average 5 km/day in an effort to lessen cognitive decline, because walking rises brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level in the blood. BDNF can travel umblical cord and can enhance baby's brain development.

So, mothers walking less due to lockdowns is the simplest explanation for that cognitive impairment phenomena I could think of.
Damn, not a single woman in the To: or CC:....it was a different and in some ways even shittier time
Here is an interactive explanation of the issue: https://application.security/free-application-security-train...
That's right! Letting gifted kids pursue their interests has essentially no cost to anyone else... except the Envious Levelers, who cannot stand the idea that someone might be reaching a level inaccessible to them because of a difference in talent and/or effort.

I am in a constant state of shock and disgust at how many Envious Levelers there are in society, and their planet-engulfing sense of entitlement to drag everyone down to their level.

Harrison Bergeron was written because it is a real possibility.
Cuelang is a nice compromise: https://cuelang.org

Composition over encapsulation, expressive enough for complex configs, not expressive enough to be turing complete.
It appears the management has given up on the Tenderloin Gentrification Project. Or maybe the SoE could be used to rezone the SROs into condos?
The site owner interacts with the user to get consent or not (often via a CMP) and then decides whether and how to invoke third-party scripts, including Google Analytics. The alternative would be for each third party script on the page to attempt to inject their own set of consent dialogues, but those would conflict with each other.

The extension you're linking allows someone to opt out of Google Analytics across all sites. That pretty much has to be a browser extension, because GA by default doesn't use any third-party cookies (and third party cookies are going away anyway).

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
I see the pursuit of logically consistent views both a sign of moderate intelligence and a sign of intellectual arrogance.

It takes some intellect to question the foundations and consequences of your beliefs and to try building a unified framework around them. It also takes some arrogance to assume that if you can't reconcile two contradictory views you hold, nobody else can either, and one of them must be wrong.

For example, I find it rather obvious that nobody deserves to be rich when many poor people are lacking the basic necessities of life. I also find it rather obvious that allowing people to become rich encourages, under the right circumstances, behavior that benefits everyone in the society. I haven't been able to reconcile those views, and I haven't been able to find anyone who can do that and explain it to me. On the other hand, I have found many people who see the contradiction and choose to reject one of the beliefs. They choose to believe that some people deserve to be rich (and others deserve to be poor), or that nobody should be allowed to get rich.

And that's how we get political polarization.
Why not build yourself from source?
Right, the thing is before you have children you can weigh the costs/rewards dispassionately, but after you have a child the calculus changes because now this person exists who is now the most important thing in the world to you. As soon as that person exists your life is no longer yours, it is in service of that child (assuming everything goes according to plan, of course it doesn't always work out that way), so of course rationalizing any cost at that point is just part of the deal.

I want my life to be my own, thus the costs are not worth it to me. If I had a kid tomorrow of course that equation would change and it would be in my best interest to rationalize all costs in service of the child, and surely I would and suddenly they would be "worth it." I do not view this as an argument in favor of having children, rather I view it as a a specific detail of the biological programming working its magic.

I'm not a never-kid person either. I am open to the idea that one day I may decide the costs are indeed worth it and seek to have children. I think that seems unlikely, but part of the freedom of designing my own life is having the space for my preferences to change, and I could envision a world in which I would be happy as a parent. It would not be in a nuclear family as is common in the west, but that is perhaps for another discussion.
The authenticity part is straight forward: if token was minted from contract X then it is the real deal.

This can be an issue for brand new projects. Bad actors will duplicate it and list at low prices. Most users are savvy enough to only use links from a trusted source. Marketplaces also whitelist the real contract (and show warnings for unverified contracts). You can also look at the contract deployers wallet history to help determine if it is legit. IMO it’s easier to prove authenticity for NFTs than most stuff
Well said. How do we know what happiness feels like unless we have experienced unhappiness? This doesn't answer OPs question, but it is still worth thinking about.
Note however that if you read farther down it does say “vaccine efficacy of 100% (95% confidence interval [CI, 87.5, 100.0]).”

Also that press release is not by any possible definition from “early days” nor is it issued by Dr Fauci.
Depends how much of the overhead is context switches vs. the disk IO. Really something that needs benchmarking.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfchronicle.com%2F...
I disagree. I think his views are much more widely agreeable among the populace, as evidenced by the popularity of forums such as the Joe Rogan podcast and independent journalism on Substack.

The trouble is you wouldn’t notice if all you pay attention to in order to “understand American political discourse” is pay attention to the parties and the major news outlets.

Also, preference falsification is a big thing.
Yes but if a system consistently fails in response to external pressure then it’s not an equilibrium, which will almost certainly end up being bad for the people under that system as they are conquered, annexed etc.
Hi dang, will be mindful to reply with more context, thank you for the warning. What can we do about commenters that spew misinformation or twist issues? Is there a report option?
>I guess the crux of my issue is that employers still want to see people have a college degree + trade skills, and not just trade skills alone.

Is this actually true? ie. are they seriously looking for welders that know how to weld and have a college degree? I doubt that's the case. My impression is that all of the "you need a college degree even though it's not really needed" kind of jobs are entry level service jobs, or jobs that otherwise have a flood of applicants. College degree is used as a filter in those situations just to whittle down the huge applicant pool, not because the applicants "simply aren't getting enough educational foundation in high school anymore".
I identify myself as an independent. I have voted for both republicans and democrats.

But it’s undeniable that there are large numbers of republicans that are unvaccinated.

See the below two links

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/import...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...
Given that most smokers/obese people tend to die right around retirement age, we probably aren't leaving much on the table (from a purely economic perspective). Smokers probably aren't missing enough days of work to cancel out the $60k they save the system by smoking (not to mention all the extra taxes they pay).

But there's more value to human beings than their economic value, hence my talk about non-monetary costs. There's very real suffering that happens, and I'm not sure that's something you can put down in a spreadsheet somewhere.
I am vaccinated - I believe in the early vaccine's efficacy for stopping serious illness. They have saved many lives.

What I am saying here is that the vaccines were marketed as 90% effective for preventing infection. Was I misunderstanding what was being marketed to me all along?
Everyone is dead already
MATE is carrying on the torch
Does anyone know why? This still seems to have quite a bit of potential to me.

Besides that: Is my intuition correct that they barely innovated in user-facing features after the early 2000s? Yeah, they broke everyone's workflows once or twice, but nothing about the way things work seems to really have changed, especially not in ways seen before elsewhere.
I like how you guilt the guilters by asking another rhetorical question.
It matters not. The public was lead to believe that the vaccines were highly effective and safe. Now they are realized to be not so effective (against Delta/Omicron) and not so safe (J&J/Janssen recently "de-preferenced" by CDC due to clotting). We are still wearing masks, when we were once told the vaccinated didn't need to mask. Two years later, there is no end in sight.

If you want to build trust, don't oversell the product when you don't really know what you are talking about.
> an app I developed, Clatters, where I use Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C and C, the most appropriate programming language being used to solve each specific problem.

Slightly OT, but when might one choose to write part of a new app in Objective-C instead of Swift? From my understanding, Swift can call any ObjC code.
You speak in absolutes, but it’s not like vaccines suddenly stopped working for Delta or Omicron variants:

> effectiveness against infection with the delta variant declined from 94.1% (90.5% to 96.3%) 14-60 days after vaccination to 80.0% (70.2% to 86.6%) 151-180 days after vaccination

80-90% is still infinitely better than zero. The “narrative” of infection being spread by the unvaccinated (also usually non-mask-wearers which doesn’t help) is obviously true, as logic would suggest, and hospitalization numbers everywhere confirm. Most recent data suggest slightly lower protection for Omicron, around 70%.

Not to mention, again, that hospitalization is still reduced by 95%+ even if infected which makes a huge difference for healthcare systems.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068848
I largely quit trying to get into semi 10 years ago because I was was able to get better salary, and quicker just by pumping wordpress websites. And not like 10%-20% bigger, but few times as much.

My first full time job in line of "make us a WP website" was CAD $65k. An intern stipend at a semi lab was $16k cash a year, with a very competitive recruitment like "show us you was in top 10% of your group"
I've been doing embedded development for over 20 years. The rust evangelists just don't understand embedded development.

Embedded developers are very conservative, they don't chase the shiny and believe in using old tried and true technology. C++ offers significant benefits over C in the embedded space and its been impossible to gain traction.

With C you have a HAL provided by a vendor that allows very rapid bring up of the hardware which is 90% of the battle in embedded. Switching to Rust you would have to write your own.

With C you have billions of lines C libraries at your disposal to bring your product to market. To use Rust you would have to write your own or deal with the shims and lose the Rust benefits.

I do 4-5 embedded projects a year, using Rust and not having the HAL and C library ecosystem would put those projects ad a competitive disadvantage.

I find the whole hubris and humilty thing is ridiculous. Writing a RTOS in Rust which isn't your core competency is such a waste of resources. Use FreeRTOS and ship the product.
Its more universal than that. You can find the sentiment in Eastern and Western traditions.
Your joke's working off the notion that in the 1400s, people believed the Earth to be flat, which wasn't the case.
Thanks! I appreciate the detailed and super interesting explanation.

I may be wrong, but my sense is that the authors confused things a bit for the general internet reader by (let's say) not entirely resisting the troll potential here.
> Devops creates the tools and procedures, and dev teams use them.

Which is one of the things the whole institution was designed to solve.

I realize that there’s quite a lot of devs these days that got in it solely for the money, and don’t care one whit about what happens after they throw the app over the fence.

But the whole reason I liked the movement was that it gave me more control over my own destiny. With half baked devops systems and processes that I have to follow it’s (mostly) no different from the BoFH of yesteryear.
Clicked through and found quotes of Fauci saying “highly effective” and “extraordinarily effective”. Not 100%

Note that these quotes are in context of the US and Fauci’s publicly announced plan to approve, as part of Operation Warp Speed, vaccines that were at least 50% effective.[1]

The vaccines proving to be 80-90% effective in that context certainly makes it reasonable to call them highly effective.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/12/9119879...
I saw that you have warned whimsicalism to not flamebait. He also changed his original comment on which I commented that he is a PRC shill.
Think Pascal — superior to Think C’s IDE by all accounts — was also used to ship commercial Mac software. It would be interesting to see a video like this done with Think Pascal.

By circa 1990, it became clear that C was the future of Mac app development, though. IIRC, one of the big selling points of CodeWarrior when it arrived was that it had a Pascal compiler that would compile to native PowerPC code, so existing apps didn’t need to be rewritten completely in C.
> Superdeterminism, arguably misnamed, simply argues that QM is deterministic, where Bell and others have argued it is not.

No, this is completely wrong. Super-determinism is more than determinism. Super-determinism is about conspiratorial coincidences – so the measurement settings you choose just happen to be the ones which will make it look like the world is quantum.

Other quantum interpretations are also deterministic, like many worlds and pilot wave theory. Bell's theorem doesn't assume determinism, but most importantly (1) locality (2) counterfactual definiteness (3) a single classical world (4) no retro-causality and (5) no super-determinism.
mainly reason 11 (DAW, music making software), then also mp3 tag editor, a gpx editor, jpegview, and a few others a can't remember. they all have pretty messed up ui but some of them are still better than any of the linux alternatives ive checked out so far and some i just haven't bothered looking around yet
I think more appropriate comparison is someone selling you 2/3 of a car, and charging extra for the remaining part. You can't do anything with 2/3 of a car or 2/3 of a degree, and the retailer knows they have you by the balls at that point.
A physical, hard-disconnect on-off switch for mic and camera should be required by law.
Any US conflict with China over Taiwan is not going to be a 20 year occupation of a territory that doesn't want them there. It would be primarily a naval/air conflict, and over rather quickly.

Which Chinese economic boycott was successful in achieving their goals? You surely can't point to the Australian one.
I'm sorry OP nothing to advice your becasue of lack of experience, but can you please share your? What tech stack do you work with?