skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohio passed a law to prevent trans folks from changing their legal gender; a federal court has struck this down, but I'm not sure where that stands.

They also have laws that allow medical providers to refuse treatment to LGBTQ.

This is just from a few moments on Google; there's a wiki article with more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Ohio
I don't know what you want of the VSX, but if you want vectorized code, what do you expect to gain over letting the compiler do it on your C? If you want an example, there's the kernels in OpnBLAS and FFTW (and BLIS, but that seems to be broken on POWER9).

There's an IBM web page somewhere with three(?) alternatives for using VSX, one of which is just using SSE intrinsics -- I don't know how well that works -- and another is a library that's now in Fedora, whose name I forget.

That said, it's obviously not competitive with AVX2 or, presumably SVE, unless you can win on parallelization (or plain clock speed, which you probably can't).
Dan Olson continues to hone is craft with a another painstakingly researched and shot documentary.
Faith and trust are subtly different things, and trust is both a skill and talent. When a poker player makes bets, one of the things they do is ask how much they trust a reading of the situation, and often times that's the best they've got. A poker player also does not rely on axioms because almost all propositions they could come up with would have no answer.

For most people, life is more like poker than math.
Thanks, this is helpful additional info. Sorry, I didn't mean to contradict you, I was actually trying to reinforce the principle behind your experience. There is no true "standard" for what sort of placebo should be used in a trial, even if something has become "standard" in the sense of commonly used. It is not something that can be specified in the abstract, but is a matter of expert judgment with many variables.

Your trial gave an appropriate placebo, regardless of the "standard" in the field, and thus you were shielded from overstating the evidence of drug effectiveness.
> We have an infinite palette of emotions and sensations, yet only a handful of words to describe them. (I am English, therefore particularly disadvantaged.)

That strikes me as wrong - English is the language with the most words. Why would it be particularly poor in describing the emotional realm? (Presumably, the author means that the English with their stiff upper lip don't have much awareness of their emotions, but the author is specifically referring to words.)
This is absolutely incredible. I have been wanting to do this as well, but I was going to approach it from the computer vision approach (blueiris and deepstack ai). Or a dedicated camera and pythoncv. I never even thought of having cameras move to match flightaware data.

A number of planes fly low and when I check flightaware, they're not on it. Or there's a plane that could be it, but it's flight path is heading East to West 30 miles North of me, while this plane came from the South heading North. Also, pretty much once a month or so, a pair of A10 Warthogs fly over or near our house. Last month, we had a real treat with 4 of them directly over the house, better than an air show.

So I'd like to setup 4 cameras on my tower focused skyward and have them try to catch clips of planes. I'll be looking at your work to see if I can also match those with flightaware.
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996614
The best advice I received only applies to younger folks, but it was immensely helpful when starting my career. The advice was to look at those older than me in the workplace and to ask myself if that was the type of person I wanted to be when I get older. If the answer is no, then it’s probably a good time to leave.
I really don't think building more housing will fix this problem (though it would be a good thing).

Consider the case of New Zealand.

According to Statistics New Zealand in 1991 there were 1,307,000 private dwellings and 1,252,600 households. A difference of 4.16%.

In 2017 there were 1,855,500 private dwellings and 1,734,800 households. A difference of 6.5%.

During this time household sizes decreased and house prices increased far in excess of inflation. In 1991 the average house was NZD173,000 (in 2016 dollars). In 2016 it was NZD495,000. Today it is over NZD1,000,000 (or about NZD900,000 in 2016 dollars).

In my opinion, what caused this was massive financial deregulation and easy credit.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, consider that a credit fueled speculative boom creates excessive demand. Not all of these excess purchases will become a primary home. When speculation is rampant houses will more likely be:

- Second homes or holiday homes

- Undergoing extensive renovation

- Listed as short term accommodation

- Kept empty while owners reside overseas

- Simply left empty or land banked

- etc
There are a couple of reasons for popping now. Firstly some speculative stuff seems to have already peaked such as Quantumscape which he mentions. More fundamentally we have an issue with inflation. They can only really reign that back by raising rates which will be bad for the markets.
Golang’s most important feature is invisible
Black hole formation will massively accelerate rotation for the same reason ice skaters rotate faster when drawing their arms closer. If the origin star had a tiny rotation the black hole will be incredibly smaller, and incredibly faster rotation.
Hey thanks for commenting, this is the first blog post I've done and I know it's a little rough around the edges. (it's also running a free tier gcp that I was watching if it was keeping up but called away)

I've written this blog post from the point of view of the first few days of use. I've had it for about 2 weeks now and haven't really wanted to migrate over.

As for it being one person's experience, unfortunately not. If you search any of the issues you'll find people on the framework forums complaining about the same things.
Dancing mania in 14th-17th century Europe
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And what is DDIA you say? I think its "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"

https://dataintensive.net/
my fridge has gigabit networking
I counted other big endian processors (probably looking at GCC support) a while ago, but I don't remember what they were, and probably only embedded processors.
5x is an extraordinary claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I see no such extraordinary evidence here.

IMO, they can put up or shut up. Those are their only two options.
So what is the mercury compound they put in multi-dose vaccines?

EDIT: Thiomersal, and it looks pretty organic. I've read that it leaves the bloodstream quickly, but not seen solid evidence that its leaving the body.
It's much harder to prove the Earth is flat. You run into really basic questions like, where is the edge, and why does no one find it?

The theory only "holds together", with the assumption that everyone that works in any field even vaguely related to travel or communication is part of a conspiracy to hide the truth.
These are so cool! :-)

I like retrocomputing too, but more virtually: https://jexer.sourceforge.io/evolution.html

I wanted to make a cycle-accurate 286 system once, just because it was such an interesting architecture. Protected mode, but 16 bit, and 16MB max RAM, but with segment:offset addressing. What's not to love about all of that?
They have done everything possible to keep you fenced in on the Google ranch.

The ranch isn't run to benefit the cattle. The only reasonable and private alternative is to totally avoid the Google brand whenever possible.
Human mills are social in nature. I think I've seen evidence of them in the stock market.
I think this is what the article alludes to. There is the famous example of some expert on Rembrandt (or some other painter) that could tell that a specific painting was a forgery, but was not able to pinpoint why he felt that way. (This anecdote might have been in the introduction of some book on intuition, something Malcolm Gladwell-ish, but I can't recall which...)
FAA Investigating YouTuber Who Probably Staged a Plane Crash for Views
Doesn't matter how it's cooked as long you put enough ketchup on it.
The creator of FastAPI and pydantic-sqlalchemy has recently released a new library: SQLModel.
https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com

It is a thin layer on top of Pydantic and SQLAlchemy. I haven't used it yet, so can't speak out of experience, but I think it is basically exactly what you describe.
It's not just replication that's the problem. It's poorly designed studies, intended from the start to support a narrative, whose results are poorly interpreted by members of the media for their own benefit.
The only thing I disagree with is I like to pull my steaks out the fridge a few hours before I cook them so they're at room temp when they go on the barbecue. They just seem to cook more evenly (medium rare).

Getting hungry....
On the contrary, I've heard each of these in the past (several of them many times).
Are you saying there's nothing anybody can do to lose your respect?
> Bitcoin is accounted as an intangible under GAAP rules — and if the value of an intangible goes down, it can’t go back up again.

Can someone explain this?
I think the major hurdle to that statement is that false balances are hard to quantify in the moment. Worse, when "false balance" is claimed and it turns out that the popular belief at the time was both wrong and influenced in some way it damages public trust even further.
I wouldn't call it childish to have such a conception, but rather an indicator of ignorance. Please note that I do not mean that in the insulting tone, but in the literal one. When we do not know something, we are ignorant of it. I would simply say that you were ignorant to that fact.

The government's role is not that of a protector of people, but instead a protector of its own autonomy. That is, government carries out a means of control (law, tax, policy, decree, etc.), and protects its ability to control from threats local and foreign. That is completely independent to the wealfare of its citizens.

The ideal of a government having a role in the safety, welfare, health, or interest of the citizens it controls is bizarre. It's a view that presumes goodness in group, where there is no indication of that ever being the case at any point in human history. It is, in a more disturbing and worrying light, a view that reassigns the government as a kind of parental figure, when it should be abundantly clear that nothing of the sort is the case. It would be like a newborn chick, presuming the snake in its nest a protector, instead of a looming threat. The issue is, leaders are paid to lie and assure citizens of the opposite. Without a great amount of personal investment - or first hand experience - some may even start to believe such tawdry, grasping hisses as fact. The actions of such a cabal is apparent once it is measured.

Ignorance to that does not make you stupid, or childish, or any other number of things. It simply means that you did not know, what you later learned. From the sounds of it, this is a thing that has bothered you, and I am sorry to hear that it has weighed heavily on you. Just keep in mind that you are not alone in this sadness. It is a thing that may pass. Just keep in mind the facts of the situation you are in, and that anyone - ANYONE - who claims to do whatever "needs doing" to be in "the public interest" is most certainly one who moves about on their stomach.

On a related note: It may be beneficial to point out that, in a similar vein, police officer have no legal responsibility to protect citizens or their property - their role is not of protection, as some sort of "public utility bodyguard", but instead one of law enforcement. This is a slightly more nebulous point, as the so-called motto of law enforcement (in America, at least) is "To protect and serve". The fact of the matter is that it has been affirmed in SCOTUS that no law enforcement officer will be held responsible for failing to act to protect a citizen, even to the point of grevious harm or death. Laws are far more telling of the reality of the thing, than any non-binding, hopeful motto. A motto is merely a desire of public perception.
One data point: I am almost entirely fregan for several years now. I rarely buy anything. All my clothes and equipment I obtain second-hand for free. Most food, too. I don't use most "external products". I think it is a good way to live. I am much happier now than I was when making six figures and buying stuff.
It depends on what the incentives are for a career obsessed person. Someone that puts their career above basically everything else will short term optimize at the expense of e.g. public wellbeing to get in the good graces of powerful people. Profits are made off of vile decisions. That's capitalism.
I wonder what the monthly Azure bill is.

Also wondering what the stack would look like for a self-hosted version with equivalent or better functionality!
I have heard almost all of them
Super neat! I went through the same process for some AM5x86-133 industrial computers with 32 MiB of RAM. I didn't think to change PHYSICAL_START or use musl. It's usually set at the 16 MiB mark so that the kernel doesn't consume any of the memory in the ISA DMA / ISA device zone.

One thing I would recommend that I didn't see mentioned is switching to the SLOB allocator in the kernel. It's more space efficient than SLUB or SLAB, but it is slower if you have a large amount of memory. (It's hidden unless you set CONFIG_EXPERT).

The main problem I bumped into for minifying a modern Linux kernel is that so much of the modern Linux ecosystem (systemd, OpenRC, runit, etc.) expects a lot of the networking stack to be enabled, along with cgroups, namespaces, etc. In order to get a minimal Gentoo i486 image to boot, I needed to turn a lot of things on in the tinyconfig kernel. Admittedly, it's hard to image a Linux/Unix system without some form of networking :)
Here's a link to a previous comment of mine about what's going on under the hood of macOS at any one time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229881#29230318

Notarization via http are something that can't be "turned off" and are telemetry at its finest. Blocking it at the network layer is the only way.
Part of the problem is how people learn what science is. Science, despite the name, is really all about doubt. Unfortunately in school it’s taught as certainty.

In school you do “experiments” and if the answer doesn’t match what is in the book you are marked down. Often you have to memorize a bunch of assertions or even simply names, without any epistemic context.

Then in the real world you discover that scientists contradict each other or even themselves. They don’t say things straight out but are always hedging (“high probability”) or even admitting they don’t know!
> What percentage of people can prove from first principles that the earth is a sphere

There are photographs of Earth from space.
Hence the saying, "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Are you comparing at similar price points? I wonder if there's just more (too much) interest at the cheap (plumped up with water, for one thing) end here.
I find it hard to believe most flat earthers are perfectly normal people living well balanced lives, when you believe that literally every government, institution, physicist, airplane pilot, airline, map maker, etc etc is all on some big great conspiracy that the globe is roughly spherical.
Likely due to the conditions I described, I think meat here tends to be more "gamey", a bit leaner and all that. Like, steak is popular here but we don't have steak culture like I've seen described in the Midwest, or Texas. A lot of our beef ends up in pies, or sauces, or stuff like that.
> and please far away from any safety critical code

To a rough approximation nobody in the software engineering industry works on safety critical code. It comes with an onerous set of restrictions and criteria to do it well, including fully analyzing all of your dependencies for runtime behavior, etc.

If you think applying that to the vast majority of software engineering makes any sense, you’re going to fail hard. It’s no different than applying the rigor that goes into engineering a fan blade on a GE90 to a toilet flush handle on a household toilet.
Ok I can't thank you enough for exposing me to this channel. The aesthetics and vim and the complete coding is so relaxing. Do you have any other channel recommendations like this?
Staying in business is all the ultimately care about. If they can use their expertise to make green energy in an economical way that is on par with their current money flow they would have no issues with that. It's all about money in the end with investors.
Reminded me of how Safari for Windows actually had a native Windows UI.
from equally-looking options to do, with all other "important" criterias being ~~same, choose the easier..
You see this in incident response. Trying to prove a negative can’t be done to sociopaths standard but if one is in a leadership demands it then analysts go and do it. This leads to a feedback loop. Then entropy kicks over time and the importance of proving the negative dwindles to the point it gets closed. People wonder why all that time was wasted. AARs get written and usually ignored. Time marches on.
Metastability and local maximums are the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability
from: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index....
"Thimerosal contains ethylmercury, which is cleared from the human body more quickly than methylmercury, and is therefore less likely to cause any harm."
You made me realize again how much I miss the 1920x1200 screen of my HP 8740w.
I'm on a ZBook now, and even though full HD, or a multiplier thereof, is more standardized, I still miss 16:10 enormously.
After you land a Starship in the middle of nowhere, what do you do with it? Scrap it in place? Build a refueling station next to it?
Easter of 2020 I watched my granddaughters hunt eggs in my front yard while “safely” behind a window. I cried like a baby when my 2 year old granddaughter upset and inconsolable didn’t understand why she couldn’t come in to see me.

My wife and I in May of 2020 decided that a hug from our grandchildren and children was worth way more the minimal risk we had of dying from Covid should we have caught it. We ended our exile in May day and decided to let fate be fate and not let fear consume us and prevent us from enjoying our family.

I don’t begrudge others for their own decisions, but for me, the pandemic ended for me mentally on Mothers Day 2020. Time with my family is worth dying for…so if I catch it and it kills me, so be it.
How much does it cost to run this on Azure?
I read your article before posting, and it says:

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void foo(char a[..])

meaning an array is passed as a so-called “fat pointer”, i.e. a pair consisting of a pointer to the start of the array, and a size_t of the array dimension.

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I didn't see a "current length" mentioned. Is it there? Can I have a string with an allocated length of 20 bytes and a current length of 10 bytes, without using a looking for a zero byte?
Wait, what? I don’t have a specific cite, but I thought that predicting a random number generator that well is good enough to break common crypto algorithms?

IIRC, doing better than chance by 2^-32 is enough for the randomization system to be thrown out, and marching the output 51% is way better than that.

But yes, I’d agree with a steelmanned version of your point with a much smaller improvement over chance. But then, you would have to do a realllllly long test and it wouldn’t actually look that impressive.
What do you look to for a more balanced speed / feature set?
I visited silicon valley in the mid-nineties from Australia, Fry's was like a magical wonderland compared to the pathetic offerings we had. I went a little nuts and bought enough parts to build a machine just out of their bargain bins.

I've often wondered why those places disappeared but then you remember nobody really builds PCs or other electronic stuff except as a hobby and most people are running laptops that can't be upgraded anyway.
But most people aren't rational and don't prove any fact independently for themselves, or have the capability to do so. They believe in what they're told. They were told god and heaven are real so they believe it. Their scientific beliefs are similarly founded.
Actually, it is. It's expected to launch around Q2 2022. The NEPA FAA PEA is going to be decided upon on February 28th then if they get the greenlight a launch attempt will happen a couple months after that. For commercial launches, they are targeting 2023. Even if Starship gets delayed to 2023-24 it will still play a big roll in getting Starlink satellites up since they haven't started launching the gen 2 constellation yet.
> What does it mean to give "equality of opportunity" to a black child in America, who's ancestors were enslaved, who's great grandparent was lynched, who's grandparents couldn't vote, who's parents couldn't go to university because of discrimination?

Much of this applies almost equally to Slav kids in America (when you account for what their origin countries were like) yet they seem to do pretty well compared to Blacks. So I think there's reason to be skeptical about your claim that "we've offered plenty enough to the Black community and it hasn't helped, so equality of opportunity itself must be the problem". We haven't done nearly enough for true equal opportunity to be achieved, and this goes equally for both mainstream society as a whole and the Black community itself which has often pushed in counterproductive directions.
Group dynamics in humans lead them to think and act in a cohesive way. The cohesion of the group depends on trusting a set of beliefs.

Science is supposed to re-test assumptions and resist trust indefinitely. But questioning a group's assumptions is antithetical to group cohesion.

So we fudge the results. We say something is scientific fact if it's been replicated a bunch of times and has the same outcome. But we don't mention that the replication is subject to the group dynamics, ensuring it conforms to the group's assumptions.

Since human groups require trust, and all scientific results must be distrusted to function correctly, humans cannot practice science correctly. We need a new science that works with group dynamics, or we need something other than groups of humans to practice science.
No, i just do my work, whatever it is, starting from summer work in collective farm fields after 6th grade back in the 1985, construction in 1987, Navy yards in 1988, construction during University summers 90-92, and various programming gigs starting 90. At any place, including very good paying job in Western company in 1999 in Russia with the crisis around, any attempts by the management to arbitrarily tighten the screws - i'd visibly and prominently challenge and object to it, and few times it would be i'd really be ready to leave. The management would always back down. We are all pretty much aware what things are reasonable and what aren't, and taking unreasonable position is what makes you already half-lose whatever side you're on.
"Always be the smartest (eg, 'most well informed' or 'best educated') person in the room - ON SOMETHING".

Or to paraphrase slightly "Have a thing that is your speciality, to the point that you are almost always the most knowledgeable person in the room w/r/t that topic."

I think this is a valuable idea to keep in mind, even if it remains forever an aspiration (which it probably will if interpreted in the strictest sense).
I would like to see the absolute amount of energy produce vs emitted carbon compared with oil/gas/{fossil_fuel} rather than an article by a pissed off reporter/magazine. Is it an improvement over existing technology/efficiency? Is it just the first step and can be improved or has it been a failure? These are the types of articles people should write. NetZero carbon won't happen over night.