skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest assessment based on what ? Wishful thinking and bad reporting ?
I have once clocked my CPU down to 400 MHz for a week or so (i7-7700K I think it was) when the pump of my cooling loop died to keep it below 100°C, although it would have throttled down on its own once at thermal limits. Other than games running terrible (of course, duh) I couldn't really tell much of a difference. Some things were slower like compiling code or things like 7z but it didn't feel like a throwback to the late 90s because what made computers slow those days were HDDs. Oh, and there is GPU acceleration for so many things these days ... like watching 4K videos was no problem at all.
>Before, if you broke into a container, you'd often find weird homogenous B2B stuff. Like a bunch of dog food.

but presumably the volume of b2c stuff being shipped over rail hasn't changed? after all, the b2c stuff has to get to customers somehow. Maybe a random assortment makes it a more attractive target due to the skinner box effect (ie. lootboxes).
Gravity is probably the big one as it is the hardest to approximate in space, but we're likely dependent on a lot of stuff that exists on Earth. We evolved to live on Earth. Earth may not be particularly suited for life, but what we consider life may be particularly suited for Earth.
> a secret DoD plan to convert FedEx's fleets

There is the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, of which FedEx is a member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Reserve_Air_Fleet
> the GOP will establish an autocracy for decades.

do you just mean win elections for decades? That i can sort of believe (or at least comprehend), but wholesale destruction of Democracy? To me, that means canceling elections and the president declaring themself absolute power for life which i just don't see happening. I would expect a military coup before that since the military swears allegiance to the constitution first and then civilian leadership next.
Yeah... I've been hearing these horror stories about paypal for a very long time now and it makes my blood boil knowing that nothing's ever been done about it. I really hope that a big change is about to happen.
A good financial planner will emphasize this point. Rents go up, but your mortgage doesn't. So you buy a house and eventually forget about the relatively small mortgage payments that have effectively become smaller due to inflation.

The modern world of people moving and upgrading every 5-10 years has really changed this dynamic for the negative.
Did you publish your code?
Climate change, the end is near. Why spend the rest of your (short) life working for some micromanaging slave-driver.
Is this a pet peeve with little to do with the article itself or are you actually reacting to what is going on in this comment section where a discussion is taking place of:"but is this wrong?"

All the while ignoring that Schrodinger had a diary in which he condemned his own actions and was aware of the hurt he was doing.

This just screams bias.
Seems like the answer is no. A growing city needs 1) housing and 2) public transit. Unfortunately NIMBYs: "The city is trying to enact a change to its zoning code to make it easier to increase density, but residents sued; the case is still making its way through the court."

This sentence from the article seems telling as well - "Billions of dollars are being spent expanding public transit and widening a major thoroughfare." The public transit is good, but if a city continues to prioritize car infrastructure traffic will not improve.
Even if the place survives a hit the costs in both opportunity while the plane is down and repairs out-weigh the cost of equipping it with relatively cheap countermeasures.
> So they're kind of implying anticipation of unrest in either Shenzhen or NYC

Unlikely. There are other places where international shipping currently happens that already are experiencing unrest, and planes are already being shot at: eastern Europe, north Africa, the middle east.
Here's one US-based example. Anyone in the US who is middle-class likely will have to sell their home or put it into a financial trust by the time they become very old in order to qualify for certain Medicaid benefits, which is the only affordable way to receive elderly care unless you're a millionaire. So from that perspective, thinking of the home as an asset can be important.
This reminds me of when I took Java in college. One of the prerequisites was Introduction to Computer Programming 1 & 2 (101 and 102).

1 was along the lines of what was on the top of this article:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism

And 2 was algorithms (sorts, etc)

Then the Java class was:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism

But not much about what you can do in Java specifically.

I understand going over these concepts briefly and how to do them specifically in that class, but to have the whole class focus on them was not very useful. Again, 101 was a PREREQUISITE! So there shouldn't be anyone in the class who hasn't taken it!
What is their current launcher's stack?

I know we are hating on Electron on this forum, but I'd expect them to have a cross-platform node app that's relatively cheap to maintain. Rebuilding it as a native Windows app (especially by a team experienced in web frontends) sounds more expensive on first thought.
> From the individual perspective, staying too long slows down your rate of learning because you aren’t coming into contact with new people and technology at the same rate. Anecdotal, but lately I’ve interviewed some 8+ year tenured candidates that I wouldn’t rate above SWE II because it was literally a “one year of experience 10 times” situation. I try to change things up every 4 years or so to avoid ending up this way myself.

Should be noted, this is applicable to the same position specifically, not any one company. Some of the best engineers in the world have only ever worked at places like Google, Microsoft, an academic institution, etc, but they make sure they're constantly learning, working with new teams, switching to new positions once they've mastered their previous one, etc. In many cases these folks actually have a big leg up vs new external hires due to product and institutional knowledge, while also constantly learning new technologies.
AV vendors have points of contact to report false positives. They don't always respond quickly, but they're not brick walls. Reliable FPs from a specific toolchain seems like something their team would be especially interested in solving. CrowdStrike's reporting point is an email address on their contact page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/contact-us/
With about 80% of the population being fully vaccinated, the issue is more mentally than anything else.

If Japan won't accept the fact that this is as good as it gets, then a logical consequence will be more or less random lockdowns and restrictions for the next many years.

The sane way is to accept the virus, remove any and all restrictions and let people get on with their lives.
As soon as the shrinkage exceeds the cost of those security measures. Security is a business problem.
I'm not making excuses I'm just talking about the realities. For the significant majority of researchers I know about version control is still program_v1.py, program_v1.py, program_final.py, program_final2.py (and this is the good version, at least they are using python), so talking about clean code is still quite a bit away. I'm teaching PhD students and it's even hard to convince them, because they just look at how to get the next publishable result. For academics it becomes even more unrealistic, most don't even have time to go to a lab, they are just writing grants typically.

I'm actually a strong supporter of open science, release my code OSS (and actually clean it up) and data (when possible). But just saying it's easy and there is no cost, is just setting the wrong expectations. Generally unless you enjoy it, spending significant time on your code is not smart for your career. Hopefully things are changing, but it is a slow process.

Funny that you talk about optics I know some of the most productive people in my field and their optical tables are an absolute mess (as is their code btw). They don't work at universities though.
That doesn't prove anything, of course.

And by "goalposts" I mean that if you recall, the initial allegation was that COVID was a bioweapon developed by the Chinese. Then it was negligently leaked from a lab doing gain of function research funded by Obama. Then it was just leaked. People seem to want to believe this theory regardless of when facts get in the way. A year ago, there wasn't much evidence against it. Now there are animal finds in Laos that make some of the connection. Not proof, but positive evidence. From the field.[1] Not from cherry-picked database searches.

At some point, you have to ask yourself with Ockham's razor: if it really is this simple, then why isn't it widely accepted? Has China gotten to everyone? If so, then why can I post this to my substack? Sometimes the expert opinion is right. I guess sheeple like me will never know. Except in reality, I'm quite open to this hypothesis, I am already a China hawk so I need no motivation there. I just don't think there's as much evidence as people who want to believe this think there is.

For what it's worth, using the model of radius->radii for virus->*virii makes sense until you realize radius has an extra 'i' already. Worse, it's a second declension neuter despite the -us and so should be vira just like modicum->modica, whereas radius is second declension masculine.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2
I guess that's a "yes"...hopefully?
The power failure is not "low probability", it is the dominant failure mode that happens somewhere around 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10,000 reactor years.

Reactors were licensed in the 1970s based on an entirely wrong model which saw the dominant failure mode being the pressure vessel bursting. Laymen have a totally wrong point of view about that, they think a pressure cooker really has the metal burst and go off like a bomb, really the seal breaks and you get sprayed with superheated steam which is dangerous enough. Pressure vessels burst because the chemicals eat them from the inside out but for every pressure vessel that bursts thousands of storage tanks get sucked in.

After TMI the model was updated to recognize "station blackout" as the #1 risk.
The first is an interesting question, especially considering the potential length of the prodrome of some mental illnesses.

Would be incredibly hard to test though, requires going back and forth with a time machine. Would be cool, though.
Oh no, not reddit, the biggest cesspool of the internet!
What transformer models are you using? How are you training them? Are you using them for semantic search, or only for “transforming“ the output (from a found snippet of text to an actual answer sentence)? On what hardware are you running this? With such a large index, and using transformers, I would guess that would be quite expensive, wouldn’t it (GPU, lots of RAM)?
Update: One of the Reddit devs just posted a comment with some more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/s4095g/resolved_block...
I still don't any see initial introduction to the art of problem decomposition.

We want to do X ... what are the parts of X? How might we accomplish them? For each of them, what are their parts? How do we take a complex task and break into pieces that we know how to do and then compose them back together to meet the goal? What kinds of decomposition can we do? What kinds of decomposition work well?

Until you understand this high-level sense of what you're trying to, type list container map iterate immutable functional lambda coroutines are just noise.
What source of information could the application possibly use to check that? Everything the application does is solely by the will of the system's owner. If the application checks a hardware parameter, the result it receives may have been altered by the system's owner. If the application checks its binary for validity, that binary could have been altered since the program started. If the application computes a checksum of its own memory state, the system's owner can alter that checksum after it has been computed. If the application tries to compute 2+2, it will only receive 4 if the system's owner allows it.

This is the true definition of the system's owner. The system's owner is whoever must be trusted in order to trust computations on that system. If the application doesn't trust the person who bought the computer, but still wishes to trust computations done on the system, the only solution is to change the system's owner. That is why DRM must either be utterly useless, because I still own my computer and can do as I will on it, or utterly tyrannical, because it asserts ownership over something that I have purchased.
I think it is probably a bad reactor and a questionable company.

1. The company is totally opaque on even basic design details. This is not ghost mode. It's likely hiding incompetence and lack of design work / maturity.

2. It's a fast reactor so lots of high energy neutrons that will cause faster material degradation, higher maintenance cost, more downtime - the economics for fast reactors have never worked (not even in Russia or China), and this is probably why fusion reactors will never be economical (32x greater neutronicity).

3. It has terrible fuel utilization: 1% burn-up of fuel, with 100 metric tons uranium / GWe-year compared to 5-10% in other normal and advanced reactors.

4. The founders lie to congress claiming their reactor “can consume the used fuel from today’s reactors” when each reactor is actually going to require 3 tons of pretty pristine HALEU...

5. The founders peddle some serious BS (bitcoin mining, TED talks ... etc) not unlike the other great MIT nuclear startup Transatomic.

6. NRC really went out of their way to publicly reject this with press release and all. This was not done lightly to a company often featured in the WSJ and Popular Mechanics.

7. I'm disturbed by the way they talk about their reactor as a "community meeting place" with their modern glass A-frame without any power generating equipment. Is there going to be a daycare center or country club in there? Where the hell are the cooling towers? I'm all for nuclear power, but we shouldn't be down playing the seriousness of nuclear power systems.
Portuguese (at least the one from Portugal) has 9 vowel phonemes, compared to 5 for spanish. If you count the nasals it's 14. And you can add some additional vowel richness in diphthongs.

It's very very varied phonetically when compared to the neighboring Spanish, which IIRC underwent considerable simplification at in the 16th century with unification of Spain.

I've heard many French and Spanish native speakers expressing the difficulty to understand it.

Source: Portuguese native speaker with decades-long immersion in Spanish and French-speaking communities.
Even if I never move I can borrow against my house/asset. Sure, this can be abused. Don't blow it all on a vacation or a house remodel. But if an opportunity comes along to buy an income producing asset then debt is a wonderful tool. I'd rather have access to 100k of debt than not.
Believe it or not, around the turn of the century there were many thick client apps. But back then it was a challenge to ship and update these applications. This pain, along with the continued rollout of broadband led many to advocate for creating applications that would run in a web browser while being controlled on centralized servers. In practice, turning the platform that was designed to render markup text into an application host. This would allow applications to be shipped and updated with little interaction from the user.

However, right about the same time web apps were taking over the world there were thick client apps that were solving the problems of installation and and updates. Two of the prominent thick client applications doing this were iTunes and the browsers themselves.

Now fast forward a decade to the early teens and the ubiquitous use of smart phones. What is the single largest determining factor of platform success? Is it the ability for web apps to render on your platform's web browser or is it the breadth and depth of your platform's app store?

My rant is over, I wish web apps would die. I've wished that for most of the 21st century.
> we're missing information about other causative factors.

Welcome to biology.

Perhaps EBV is particularly immunogenic, but it has to reactivate in the presence of CD8+ T-cells or CD20+ B-cells along with some other self-signal or co-infection. Perhaps there's a chain of immune signaling that must happen upstream in other immune cell populations.

Perhaps other agents can trigger autoimmune behavior in these cells, and EBV isn't strictly required. Maybe other viruses in the herpesvirus family (HSV, zoster, etc.) There could be more than one set of causes, and they might not even look similar.

In the crazy absurd limit, maybe nothing at all. Maybe autoimmunity sporadically arises with no causal agent. Random radiation hits the cell at the wrong time.

All or none of these could be the case. Diseases can have a multitude of causes, sometimes with complex interactions and interdependencies, sometimes not. With cancer it's a progression of increasingly worse state changes, and that could be the case here too.
PayPal refuses to let heirs access, or even know if there is a balance on accounts after people die, regardless of death certificates. I wonder how much money is being held by this tactic?
It's like they all take the same crappy HR seminar from 20 years ago and haven't updated their skills since. Times have changed.
Any thoughts as to why autoimmune diseases are (or at least seem) more prevelent in the 1st world?
> There should be no illusions anymore about what Facebook is, as a platform. It’s just random bits of sensory information meant to make old people fight with each other

Oof. Engagement around conflict works at all age ranges though. Controversial statements by eSports casters drives posts on Reddit, NIMBY comments on NextDoor, etc.

I suspect the tone of this comment is to suggest the platform's algorithms did a better job mixing in rich content and focusing attention on more interesting, less conflict-laden viral media?
> The overwhelming majority of people who stepped onto the Capitol grounds are charged only with simple trespassing

The overwhelming majority are being charged with class A and B misdemeanors (I assume by "simple trespass" you probably mean class C), but that's not the only charge that many of them have.

About half of those arrested so far have felony charges as well.
I recently bumped my company's fmtlib version to the one that has compile-time format strings, and it's been such a load off our minds to not have to worry about this anymore. We're reasonably early stage (12 people right now) and even with all of us being reasonably senior, I still found a few callsites where the compile-time format string caught bugs.

(FYI: for anyone holding off on this because of issues with spdlog, enough has been fixed in the latest versions of both that you can upgrade them together now.)

Also worth noting: the UX of fmtlib's compile-time format strings is actually quite interesting. There are error callbacks in the consteval calls that take advantage of the context that compilers show in compilation failures that detail the mistake being made.

(Aside: I'd also like to note that `absl::StrFormat` has supported compile-time format strings for quite a long time. https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format)
> Parent PLUS loans are sky high at 6.28%.

PLUS loans are supplemental loans with a higher rate than regular direct undergraduate (3.73%) or graduate/professional (5.28%) student loans.
> How's the price of house even mattered all their life? There were living there, it's not something external. Today, I specifically asked my parents if they knew how much their house cost. Nope, they didn't know. It's an irrelevant information for them. Cost it 10k or 10m won't change a thing - they live in it, it's not something external.

And if it is worth $100B, would it still be irrelevant? Would they still live in it, instead of selling and becoming mega rich billionaires?
Burglary and shoplifting? Drug abusers mostly these days it seems but also professional thieves from further down in Europe.

Has always been going on, but it feels there has been an increase.

There can absolutely be some patterns.
Automatically considering a perspective different to yours as shilling is shallow dismissal. Recently, there was a thread on the non-monetization of Wordle and a similar argument arose, with some justifying hypothetical ads in exchange of using compute & storage. I doubt that was Josh Wardle's PR commenting (as he doesn't make money off of it)
that's just fear mongering though, in 2008 the Republicans said Obama was the antichrist and would declare himself dictator for life ffs. And before that, the Democrats said the same about Bush, "he's going to cancel elections, declare himself dictator, and use 9/11 and the thread of terrorism as the justification!"
Like my CV and AI professor said: there were 100s of papers claiming to achieve faster or more accurate results than Viola Jones, but they never published data sets or code, so no lone believed them and all were forgotten.
The thing is, if you want to ignore someone's random seed, you can if it's provided. If it's not provided and you need it to chase down why something isn't working, you're SOL.

It's zero cost to include it.
My city's actually been cutting busses to replace them with their own uber-like service. It's cheap, at only $0.75/person/ride (and no tips, drivers are salaried!), but the hours are the same as busses (so about 7a-7p) and wait times are generally > 20min.
I see a lot of people talking about "packages", but UPS/Fedex/USPS don't use trains because they're too slow, right? I assume we're talking about wholesale shipping here.
Humans really are just pattern searching animals.
Disappointed to hear this. My first job out of university (and the job I still work today!) came through StackOverflow Jobs.

I've only received ~three approaches through StackOverflow Jobs in the past two years, but each was relevant and interesting. This is dramatically different from the weekly approaches I get through LinkedIn which have mostly been worthless recruiter spam.
Both are the same from the legal point of view. UG eventually ends up as GmbH, if company makes profit.
At least as noteworthy for its prescience regarding Facebook's evil as for its lack of prescience regarding Google's. Boy, Google was really awesome back in the late 00's, wasn't it?
I remember someone lecturing about the nuclear industry mentioned that there is an inherent second mover advantage in the industry because the first mover has to figure out all the new stuff and get it approved by regulators. The second mover just follows the template and has a much easier time. If this is truly the case, then it seems like it would be hard to innovate in this space. If so, how can we remedy that?
Medicaid in 49 states and DC has a 5 year look back period (California is 30 months/2.5 years) on transactions/disbursements with regards to intentional impoverishment. Something to consider when estate planning.

https://www.medicaidplanningassistance.org/medicaid-look-bac...