skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation? The best I could find with a quick Google was her NYT opinion piece [1], which pretty clearly couched her statements about Delta possibly being the last surge in hospitalisations and deaths in the US as a potential scenario and not a certainty.

Whilst I agree that she (and most other science reporters!) use simplistic models for immune system responses (possibly more for her readers), I’m yet to come across anything she’s written that has been very clearly wrong or she hasn’t later corrected/clarified.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/covid-winter-risk...
It is really weird how HN talks about this in comparison to similar topics. For example, this is the exact same logic that leads people to believe that encrypting data or using Tor is evidence of someone trying to hide criminal behavior. Almost everyone here would object to that type of thinking, but when it comes to China it suddenly becomes "Why would they object to transparency unless they had something to hide?".
What mandate? It's a product designed to be used by living, breathing people and people tend have various preferences. Do people requesting darker skinned models somehow upset you more than people who request red haired models?
Did you already have an undergrad in CS? I recently completed a MS in cognitive science in Sweden. I have been drawn to AI research, but it seems that most work in AI these days is being done strictly in Comp Sci rather than Cog Sci, so a Ph.D. in AI is what I really want to do but appears to be out of reach for me because of what seems to be a bias against cog sci despite my interests, skills at research and writing, and my technical ability to do the work. I think there is a perception that cog sci is only about human intelligence, even though AI/comp sci was one of the primary fields of research of the co-founders of cog sci.

Anyway, I was thinking maybe I should do a comp sci masters so that I can move on to comp sci PhD and keep going with my research interests.

Did you do your degree in English or German? I live in Germany, but my German is not quite good enough for advanced academic instruction.

Well, congrats. I finished my MS at 44, though I did it full-time in person, which itself was a weird and fun experience at that age.
You know this effect, when you've been reading the news for years, and finally your favorite source has a story about something you studied or worked on, and you realize how low quality or outright wrong it is?

Related to "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect", though I guess in this case the amnesia is replaced by a red-pill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
Modelling transitive edges can be done in Sqlite with recursive common table expressions. The performance for that is probably less than for graphs databases, but Sqlite has many other advantages over graph databases.
Ask HN: Spellchecker in Teams just wanted me to use a url instead of an url
So I guess my questions are, is there an exception to the 'an' rule for url. Do people pronounce url without saying u? Is spellchecker in Teams drunk?
There is the maybe infamous case (at least in startupland) of the guy who made one of the first Spanish Bible apps despite being agnostic/atheist and got an exit.

Looking at the app and the name it comes across as a joke or a game.

I know you want to be centralized place for all gods, but try say just a catholic app (still over billion people) as there are many saints to pray and give money to..
Change the images to be less joke looking.
> you don't want to prevent power-saving by keeping a TCP socket active

Slight aside: keeping a TCP connection consomes almost nothing. In fact, that's how push notifications work today on Android: a TCP connection is kept open, and apps' server send a ping to Google to tell the mobile to wake up.

What prevents power-saving is if every app keeps a different socket open to a different server and pings the servers on different schedules. That forces the mobile to wake up constantly.
Here's a nice graphic showing a baby's sleep pattern during the first 15 weeks:

http://www.eiman.tv/misc/somnrytm.jpg

Since the text is in Swedish, here's roughly what it says: Every row is a day, black is sleep, white is awake.
We embedded spidermonkey as the JavaScript engine for the prime video application on games consoles and smart TVs when I was at Amazon (5 years ago+ not sure if they still use it).
I've not embedded any other JS engines, but it wasn't too bad to embed.
> Once government officials and scientists gaslight us about what they think they should, how does one know they wouldn't for anything at all they decide to?

For me it was the masks. The masks were my tipping point.

At some point at the beginning of the pandemic they said that the disease was totally not airborne and that masks were useless. I remember vividly president Macron (a person that I respected before that) very serious in TV explaining to all the citizens of the republic that we should not buy nor wear masks. That we should clean our doorknobs and vegetables, wash our hands, and avoid touching our face. If we did that we would be safe, no need of masks.

Just two weeks later, he appeared again on TV announcing that wearing masks was now mandatory. That it was the most important thing to do. Without any correction on the previous statement. Without any explanation of whether the previous statement was wrong due to ignorance or intentionally (to save masks for health personnel). Not only he was a liar "for our own good", he acted as if people hadn't even a two-week memory! An utmost lack of respect.

I found it extremely offensive that a democratically elected president treats the citizens who elected him as little children, and not as adults. I don't believe any of the stupid conspiracy theories, but I have more sympathy for the conspiracists that follow these theories (I am compassionate to them) than for the evil lying politicians.
I don't see it as an exception. Are you pronouncing it as "earl"? I pronounce it as U R L. "a you are ell".
Maybe we have none of them to study because they don't work, surely at some point in history someone tried it.

Every society created a government, because it's useful.

Mass transit is the epitome of large scale government intervention for the good of the people.
There was some interesting comment a few months ago about the "human error" aspect of crashes.

Basically saying that the quoted statistic (90% or whatever) is a way to NOT look at how road design contributes to the error.

Earlier on this threat, someone commented that a road marked as 50 mph often has cars driving 150 mph on it, because it is a shortcut which is build like a racetrack. Obviously 150mph in a 50mph zone is human error, but a few simple changes to road design could take away the 150mph attractiveness of this road.

Or see some of the articles on stroads, or badly placed left turns, etc.

FSD might be a step to better road safety, but a focus on designing roads for safety might also be a good step.
The most insane, time consuming, abstractions I’ve written have been on the front end. Esp w/ React, since exhausting abstractions is basically a requirement for any large/complex app.
Ingo Molnar spent a year trying to improve build times for the Linux kernel [0]

And that was for C, which is relatively straightforward compared to c++.

I suspect it would take months to sort out the project I am on now, and even then full builds would still be slow.

To suggest it could be fixed in hours is ignorance.

0: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YdIfz+LMewetSaEB@gmail.com/T/#u
Don't take my word for it, but I think of it as magnets on a stretchy scarf. Three magnets that are already clumped together stay together but other clumps become further and further removed.
It's not really bizarre. Money talks.
I'm doing this, but with a small modification: I've added a third sleep between the two sleeps
I found the most interesting part was the evocative comment about the 'vast and parched' nature of the latent space.

I wonder if the OP's intuition regarding the sparseness of the latent space, and the relatively small area occupied by the 'useful' manifold? embedded within it provide us any clues as to what symbol grounding might look like for some neuro-symbolic infrastructure that sits atop that latent space.

I.e. how should we be trying to represent concepts like 'male' and 'female' within that space?

Is it important to have these concepts represented as a low dimensional manifold?

Is it important that this manifold be easily described by some simple geometric form like a convex polytope?

Is it important that nuances and variations on the concept be separable within the bounds of the concept-specific manifold?

What other properties might be important?
That "Unreliable gradients" part is what I worry about most, why would I use a product when it just "returning incorrect gradients"?
TBH, I think "Trust the science" is often used as a euphemism for "Trust authority", which isn't always good advice.

Also, the science itself doesn't really work as advertised. There is this book titled "Betrayers of Truth" [1] which I reluctantly recommend on that. The authors are sometimes a bit too harsh (e.g. about Millikan), but I think they have a point overall.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayers_of_the_Truth
I am sorry but the buck stops when instead of letting science, data and on-going process be determined by what politicians might say. Yeah it’s tough, but the only right thing to do and what everyone deserves. The cards need to be on the table at some point and publicly scrutinizable.
This used to be true, but in 2008 direct flights between China & Taiwan were established and today it's easy to holiday in Taiwan from China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Links
I don’t understand your point. Trump is the only leader who gave people the truth and was lambasted for it.
When talking about other solar systems, the term "sun" (not "Sun" with a capital S) is often used to refer to the central star or stars. For example, Tatooine is often mentioned as being in a two-sun system.

This is not dissimilar to using the word moon, lowercase M, to refer to bodies orbiting planets other than Earth. But the earth has The Moon (capital M).
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I was surprised that the hp printer tool offered a subscription for ink based on usage that is much cheaper than my usual ink shops. I guess the formula of "the cheaper the printer the more expensive the ink" was financially less attractive than the subscription.

The previous hp printer refused to accept new ink. The significant other threw out the empty cartridge needed to bring the cursed thing back to its senses. It hilariously still prints out the test page flawlessly with the new ink.
Wikimedia voting on stopping accepting cryptocurrency donations
This is not true in medical research. By induction why should it be true anywhere? The idea that scientists must never have an opinion is to dehumanise them.
I'm certain, that more refined forms of democracy and capitalism would be well adapted to help find solutions to CC, structurally though things are very (too) slow to change and few people have a more holistic view

Ultimately it took a external event like Covid to shake things up and show the way...ie less work, less consumerism, less flying and polluting Cruise ships... but the machine/auto industry continues to dominate, as do inefficient work practices which just serve to feed the bank accounts of the middle class....

I'm currently in Egypt living on 300$ a month, learning arabic and enjoying life... why freeze yourself/heat the planet, instead of WFH or not at all a few hundred miles south... people are dumb and the internet is generally making them dumber The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Oliver Carr

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#:~:text=In%20gover....
Isn't it a catch 22? How do you provide the data that it is safe without testing it to collect the data?
Mind sharing the uni name? I am looking at doing something similar
thats exactly why its so ridiculously hard to keep a secret. its made up of thousands of people, all with their own personalities, objectives, desires, beliefs and competencies.
WebAnnotations are meant for that.

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
I can't believe how stupid these people are.
We had people banned from the discussion for suggesting ideas that run counter the official story. This isn't reasonable anymore, this is a propaganda instrument and not something that was nuanced at all.

The mistakes that were made need correction. Don't advertise diversity, live up to it.
I think you’ve lost the context. If signal does not figure out revenue, they will require more $50MM donations. Using your analogy, that would be like you spending $5,000 or $10,000 when you originally only planned to spend $2,500. Perhaps you wouldn’t flinch, but many would pull the plug after the first or second time, especially if disappointed about some aspect of the project. Your project is at risk by relying on your continued good graces, even though you may technically be able to afford more investment. Likewise, signal is at risk if it requires periodic investment of millions from Acton, even though he can afford it and currently supports the project. Since he donated a few percent of his net worth, it’s a better situation than if he had donated, say, half, but signal still needs to take the risk seriously.
> On the one hand, yes, science should be completely open and unhindered by geopolitics.
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> But recall that Trump was in the White House at the time.

And so? Does the name of the current US president alter unrelated facts and findings?
And the search for WMD was also politically motivated, not based on any evidence afaik.
Go without goroutines is still the same simple, straightforward language that people love to work with. The vast majority of Go code being written doesn't use goroutines.
There is ScikitLearn.jl if you want a literal port, and MLJ.jl if you want a spiritual one.
It was always possible, but the elites simply didn’t want to do it.

> Even now it seems like everyone wants to elide the massive differences between "accidental lab leak" and "deliberate lab leak".

Mostly people who wanted to vilify the lab leak theory did that.
Uber migrated to Go from python and node.

By the time they migrated they already were mature in the market.
They wouldn't have to actually fake scientific data - they'd just release everything else they were working on, omit the problematic files, and go "see? we showed you everything - there's nothing to see here!".

Time tables, budgets, staffing docs, those are readily forgeable. Any leftover discrepancies can be chocked up to clerical error. This is doubly so if the problematic research was classified or compartmentalized - files pertaining to those programs are often designed to be easily expunged.

Ultimately, China could release as many files as people ask, and never be able to settle the debate. You can't prove/disprove the existence of files they claim do not exist.

Our best bet would be whistleblowers - ideally multiple trusted and independent ones - who can testify to a hidden program. However, we can't use the lack of whistleblowers to prove the lack of a program, which is where we're stuck today.
> I think you're basically set and don't need GC for games.

This is kind of a semantics question, I think. The vast majority of games need some sort of lifetime management, and it's just a question of who does the lifetime management and what mechanism you use for it - refcounting, a mark/sweep GC, freeing everything at certain points of time, arenas, etc. If you're using an entity/component system to manage lifetime you have a GC - you wrote it.

In my experience shipping games in C# compared to shipping them in C/C++ - you can do everything without the GC touching your stuff if you're really dedicated, but it's often not worth the trouble considering that any modern GC can handle scattered temporary per-frame allocations for you no problem with very minimal pause times, as long as you're thoughtful about it and the set of objects it needs to walk isn't too big. For example, if your data structures mix native data with pointers to object instances, a GC will have to sweep all of that data - splitting texture references out of a big table of draw calls means that the draw calls are now pure data and they don't need to be swept by a GC.

Personally I prefer always having access to a GC because it means code that doesn't need careful lifetime management can be simpler to write and doesn't have issues like double-frees hiding inside it - things like automated tests, configuration UIs, debug consoles, and things you run once at startup or when loading a level. You can often go back and optimize some of this stuff later, too - for example LINQ is a notoriously messy feature in .NET's standard library that allocates tons of short-lived garbage, but the compiler makes it possible to replace all those LINQ data structures with non-allocating ones without having to rewrite your queries - but doing that moves costs elsewhere.

If you're getting specifically harassed by pause times you're likely going to be paying costs with other systems, like if you use refcounting any time you touch that refcount you're burning cpu cycles and pushing other stuff out of cache (and the refcounting gets much more expensive if you have to use atomics for thread safety).
A couple of strange things:

* the use of decorators in even the most basic example

* no async/await. You fall back to Promise.{then,resolve}. The example given is not that clear to me.

* You can't have two files with the same name in different folders??

And in general, for me, the ability to be a little less strict at times makes Typescript way more easier to deal with. It's a 80/20 thing. Most of the time I want type enforced but in some situation, I know it's OK and I just want to move on with my day.
Sure, and since we're part of the hacker community, we're doing some biohacking on ourselves before getting behind the wheel, right? You know, thc and microdosing LSD for creativity. A few shots of alcohol for easing social situations and anxiety. All while wearing a special VR headset that gives us a 360 degree view from the top of the car, of course. That's safe and not frowned upon when on public roads.
> I think their motto was "Walk like Python, Run like C."

I was also seduced by the concept of "octave, but with fast loops". This is really all that was needed. But I'm a bit disenchanted by the "advanced" additional features of Julia that add (unnecessary, in my view) complexity to the language. All that multiple-dispatch stuff, all those arbitrary types. I would love a compilation option that forced everything to be of the same type (a multi-dimensional array of numbers), and then it could really run like C, including compilation time.
XMP is meant for adding semantic information to (parts of) PDF files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
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With the right partner, kids (depending on how you see it) make you work less,(if you decide to take time to help them grow) enjoy life more (hilarious situations) and grow as a person (suppress your ego)
The good thing is they grow up fast and are the closest thing to positive change we can potentially actively have a hand in... also according to book quoted on HN the upper limit of human population is 1 trillion... so all we really need to do is work less, stop useless packaging and wasteful bureaucracy, enjoy life more and eat better by transforming the junk food (glucose syrup, wheat, rye (beer u and meat agriculture into a refugee(from work) based garden of nuts fruits and veg

Try watching a french film called Demain (Tomorrow) ...plenty of immediate great solutions out there
I didn’t think I had to cite sources, since it’s been incredibly well covered but if you want to get started down a dark road here’s a link to the top hit on duckduckgo https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/chinas-260-concentration-camps...

The general lack of action by governments and corporations means a casual reader must conclude nobody with any power cares, since they’re all getting rich off china.
In my experience with these typed alternatives to JS, as long as you stay within that language things are good and smooth. But as soon as you need to interface with 3rd part lib, that's when things start to get messy.

Providing type declarations for every third party lib you might want to use, especially in an ecosystem like Javascript's which relies heavily on them, gets tiring pretty fast.

Typescript manages to get past that because it has reached a level of adoption now that most popular libraries will have a @types/<lib> package also but it took a long while to reach that stage.

Curious if anyone has used ReScript at a larger scale (and does not have the resources of, say, Facebook) and what's their experience been like.
If this comment thread is the way the self proclaimed smartest forum on the web deals with articles like this then we're doomed.

This article contributes zero actual evidence, is littered with out of context quotes (including of all places the title), doesn't appear to understand the science or the probabilities involved and finally is clearly written with an agenda.

It shouldn't have been posted to HN in the first place, it just serves to divide, not to find fact. If there is an article that deals with the actual evidence available in a neutral manner it would be nice to read, but opinion-masquerading-as-fact is not.
Some people like the lie that is 'convenience' of moving history and bookmarks between devices.
Does the average mathematician have any incentives to create easily understandable explanations for their equations and algorithms? Ones that engineers can use to implement various ideas.
> What is the difference between "space expanding" and "things moving away from each other"?

The difference is the distance, and that is measured by looking at light. Let us take as true the fact that light moves at a constant speed in a vacuum. We observe that light from very distant objects is more redshifted than light from closer objects, when looking at objects on the order of millions to hundreds of millions of lightyears away. The expanding universe theory explains this and other phenomenon as well.

There are other evidence as well, but the redshifted light I believe was the first hint.
Oh wow. Babies sleep a lot.
It needs propulsion to get into orbit. On its current trajectory, without some delta-v, it would zip right by L2. Once in orbit, it needs propulsion to stay there.

It also needs propulsion for attitude control. It does have reaction wheels, but once those are saturated you have to spin them back down. The only way to do that without transferring all that momentum back to the rest of the spacecraft is to use propulsion to counteract it.
Custom indexes or insert triggers can both guarantee that, both in a declarative way (in that they prevent normal "blind" inserts. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by declarative here tbh).

Also I have no idea why a separate table is a negative / constraint of some kind. It's a natural way to model it.
I'm starting to grudgingly think the same. Although I like some aspects of C++, the feature set and evolution over the years bothers me, C++20 seems almost like a different language from C++11, like C++11 was to C++03 but with none of the joy for me, with a lot of features that seem to over complicate things over time detrimental to the improvements they bring.
GENDER WARS - just stop already.

Is anyone else tired of this obsession with the genders of people?

I don't care that women are underrepresented in garbage collection, construction, pilots or ceos. Or that they are now overrepresented in college. The only alarming thing is how much resources are spent on trying to socially engineer the ratios.