skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly, the main point is that the destruction of institutions lowers the quality and quantity of life that can be supported.

That makes sense. The bigger surprise to me was that after the Black Death, quality of life for the survivors improved. I suppose that's because there was less dependence on institutions, or maybe the Black Death caused less damage to institutions than to people?
Consider adding "gron" to your toolset, for easy json processing in the command line. It is cruder than jq, but it has a nice aura of simplicity that jq lacks.
I host bunch static sites and have done benchmarks around TFTB and general network performance. Netlify is fast and most people won't notice much difference since the web page will be cached after the first visit.

Cloudflare is faster, you also get http3 over http2. Also Cloudflare has much better peering around the globe. When I do traceroute it's fewer hops compared to Netlify. I have tried vercel but haven't tested it extensively they use AWS and Cloudfront. If you use Github pages or Firebase hosting they both use Fastly. Fastly is also really good, in certain regions Fastly has better peering with ISP over Cloudflare. At Least where I am located Fastly is faster, but both Github pages and Firebase hosting doesn't have support for http3. On a fast network between h2 and h3 you won't find much difference. On a unstable or slow network h3 makes a big difference.
California legislators push to mandate vaccines for employees of all businesses
Do you see use of coarrays, introduced in Fortran 2008?
Just stop working so much. Especially if you work from home, just tell yourself you dont care if you get fired, and put in 15 hours a week. You might be surprised that management wont care all that much. I used to have this ego thing where I needed to be the top employee and it was burning me out, so I just dropped that and embraced mediocrity
That is true and I cannot avoid the robocalls which are dialing a whole block of almost 10000 numbers in an NPA-NXX.

Generally I don't answer unknown numbers since almost anyone that needs to reach me is either in my contact list, will reach me by Signal or another method, or I already know to expect a call from them. Of course this doesn't eliminate the possibility of receiving an incoming call from spoofed caller ID that is a perfect 1:1 match with an existing entry in my address book, but that's quite rare.

I can only avoid the ones that are the result of some 3rd party that has an entry for me as firstname,lastname,phonenumber in some CRM system for marketing database. It does help a lot on the targeted calls.
Sure, but you may as well save that money up as a down payment on a unicorn.

If it were possible to suppress all ads, then many people would happily sell you that solution. And the sites pushing those ads will see the money flowing to those people and not them, and so will grudgingly refuse to serve you any content.

As ad blockers get more popular and more effective, it's already happening more and more.

You can have a magical "don't show me ads" button only as long as it doesn't work very well. (And I have mine: Firefox + µBlock Origin.)
Wishful thinking for Blinken. It's not cost-effective for Russia to invade Ukraine. Just as it wasn't cost-effective for NATO to invade Libya.

Anything that Russia needs to do regarding Ukraine can be done just as well from outside Ukraine.
Would you mind elaborating on the second point? Is this unique to larger pools? My inclination is that this would be true for pools of all sizes
"The response from the military is essentially that the data presented to make this claim are not accurate because they don’t show accurate counts prior to 2021."

The military corrected the data, but the new data either don't make sense or point to serious medical problems in the military. That's what this story is about:

>More fundamentally, it is simply ludicrous to suggest that there are this many diagnoses in the military in a given year. All active-duty soldiers have to be medically screened. Obesity, diabetes, and heart conditions are very rare, and the population is generally very young. If we really have over 20 million diagnoses every year in the military (consisting of about 1.4 million active-duty personnel), there is something seriously wrong, and that in itself is a huge story.

>Moreover, we are to believe that there are nearly 1 million nervous system diagnoses in the military every year in a fighting force of 1.4 million?

>But the more serious issue is how can a military of healthy young people have such a high baseline of pulmonary embolisms every year? One estimate of pulmonary embolism prevalence in the U.S. is between 60 and 70 per 100,000 per year. But that is almost exclusively in the elderly and sicker population. Soldiers 20 to 25 years old don’t exactly get pulmonary embolisms. So even accounting for the fact that these are diagnosis codes and not unique individuals (some might have had a few visits in a year), the numbers are way too high.

>Putting the vaccines aside, the DOD’s “new” model would literally erase the existence of COVID off the face of the planet as if we never had the biggest pandemic of our lifetime. Even if the vaccine never caused a single doctor’s visit, COVID alone had to increase the codes. Yes, the military is generally very young, and deaths and hospitalizations were relatively low, but it’s impossible to believe that especially during the vicious Delta outbreak since the summer, there was no increase in COVID-related doctor’s visits. Just long COVID alone had to register a meaningful increase.
Mindustry is highly recommended for sure.
Yeah you have to wait a minute or something until you reply.

No need, I believe you. It's just that it seemed others here pay less than that.

But it's a bit confusing that you only pay for the first 8 years. That makes it look more expensive than it is. Why not lower the monthly fee to $20 but keep it for the full 20 years?
The big caveat here is that the inner monologue papers generally work with GPT-3-175b, LaMDA, or Gopher, all of which are much bigger than 20b, and they generally show phase transitions (https://old.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/sjzvl0/d_instanc...) in the monologue capability: below a critical size, inner monologue doesn't work at all, performing worse than baseline even, no matter how they scale, and only past the critical size does inner monologue suddenly start working much better. So it's possible (has anyone checked?) that GPT-NeoX-20b just isn't large enough to do inner monologue.
So why the need to lock them in?
I think fundamentally these models compress the learning data into network weights and connections, so in effect if the learning data was 6 + 10 = 16 and 9 + 10 = 19, then you give it 7 + 10 it'll interpolate between what it's seen or something of the sort, giving you something approximately right. It's also not lossless compression so what it may have actually inside is 9 + 10 = 18 so yeah.
It feels broken, because it's a bad idea, per the design itself.

Basically, you're ("you" as in figuratively speaking) smashing the functionality of a package manager into the interpreter. I'm not convinced at all that making a single tool do more and more stuff is a good idea, but let's keep on.

Then, you're writing URLs (for the libraries you're importing) all over the code (which is just bad). Deno's solution (from the link in my prev reply) is to just put all the URLs in a single file (so, basically a "packages.json", but now inside your code, ¿because that's somehow a good idea?).

Then there's the entire thing about replacing NPMJS, which has full-time engineers working on security, maintenance, etc... with a bunch of different servers, maybe maintained, maybe not, by random people.

Then there's the entire "but how can I be sure that the code didn't change?" thing, to which Deno suggests to use a "--lock command flag". This sounds like "npm.lock / yarn.lock".

And finally, there's the availability concern ("what happens if any of these servers goes down?"), which Deno just dismisses by saying that this can happen to any server. And while that is technically true, pulling all your dependencies from a single place, instead of N different places, reduces the points of failure to 1 (instead of N).

So, this entire "import directly from URLs" sounds just like a package manager with different steps, without providing anything new, without fixing any specific problems with package managers, and introducing new problems (which are in fact old problem, because as I said, we've been there already when PHP thought remote includes were a good idea).
> university of california style learning

Oh give me a break. CS 122 from UCI is exactly a “select * from users” kinda class. Sure, it has some sparse elements of theory sprinkled in, but pretending it’s some form of math class is outrageous.
I'd highly recommend Pragmatic Studio's Phoenix LiveView Course - https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview

I wrote LiveViewJS while taking this course believe it or not.
A Mozilla that fundamentally cared about privacy would have made none of these decisions. I've grown increasingly cynical over the last couple of years that this is just another marketing ploy, it sounds good and keeps us in but you have to wonder whether it is really true given their decisions to date.

The 'years of work from the company' are fantastic, but should not give them a pass in the present, given that the last couple of years most of that goodwill has been burned.
Facial Analysis Improves Diagnosis
After reading this, I stand by what I wrote. There often is no reason other than that it sprung to mind while writing, with no additional intent.

There may well have been in that scene in Lord of the Flies, or not. I don't find it a very interesting question, because absent a statement from the author it's guesswork. And in cases where we do have authors views it is not unusual for it to turn out the guesses were wrong.

And even when there is a purpose it will often be trite or different from what you expect and unrelated to the themes of the story. E. g. a very prominent part at the start of one of my novels, which people might very well think is significant is there just because I found it amusing, with no other significance. I'd concede that counts as purpose, though, if not a purpose anyone would be likely to guess at.
If this type of racism is common in California, the marketing has been very good at making it seem otherwise! I wouldn't expect such blatant racial animosity even in the deep south. It's 2022, seriously.
This could probably work with GBA. One issue is the small 240x160 resolution, meaning the design has to be compressed. Also, you probably wont be able to use sprites for everything, it doesnt support that many. But you could probably use 8bit backgrounds. GBA allows multiple tile-based background layers, with mode 0 or mode 1 you could implement a lot of effects when using sprites on top (https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm#gbalcdvideocontroller).

Either use a clever way to map your game board to 8x8 tiles, or use a large number (4/8 bit paletted color) tiles so that you can just draw arbitray images (like a bitmap, but its set up in tiles). Or just give up on trying to exactly match the hardware and just draw the hole thing using a bit map mode (e.g. mode 4, with 256 color palette and double buffering) - but that also means implementing the parallax effect by hand (since theres only one layer).
For those who haven't seen it, Ars had a fascinating incredibly in-depth "What If" article years ago exploring what might have happened if the damage to Columbia had been noticed in time and it had been determined that reentry was non-survivable so a rescue had to be attempted, "The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia":

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue...

It would have been barely on the brink of possible, but with huge risks of its own. Going through the exercise though reveals a lot of details of the shuttle, being in orbit, and our capabilities at the time. It's been discussed a few times over the years on HN, the biggest one being 8 years ago when it was first published [0], but seems timely along with this article.

I'm very glad though going forward that entire class of failure modes is gone for good and that particular possibility for heroics will not be needed. Side mounting the shuttle was always one of the worst design choices amongst many, many bad decisions that went into the STS. Also created one of the worst launch abort profiles of any system ever. Nobody will do that again though.

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305224
So you're talking about having more nuclear power, but only in First World economies?

That seems... ethically dubious.
I'm consciously avoiding Factorio because I know what it would do to me. It already took one of our team members.

As for automation: I'm surprised that scaling is presented as the main - or actually only - reason for automating. I for one don't automate for speed, I automate for correctness.

The other day we discovered that some of the tens-of-megabytes JSONs we're reading on a regular basis have an error: single-element arrays were replaced by that element, so e.g. `[1]` would become just `1`. That was okay for the parser on the receiving end, but not for the recently introduced more efficient serializing module.

I could just go over those files and search all such occurrences by comparing them to the reference type definition - would take less than an hour provided I didn't make any mistakes. But I'm only human, so I opted for something else, namely: drawing from the pile of rich manure that is the npm repository and finding modules for:

1. Generating JSON schemas from TypeScript type definitions.

2. Validating JSON files against JSON schemas.

Armed with these tools I modified the files until the validator confirmed full correctness. Took longer than expected, but now not only can I guarantee that these files are error free, but any future ones as well.
> contradicts the point that there is no good reason to flee if you can't take your money.

who said that there is no good reason to leave? i am saying that the realization of the fact that it is a good idea is usually seen in retrospect. it is a gamble. for example, right now it might be a good reason to leave ukraine, but great majority of people will stay, even if a war starts. i think you underestimate the gravity of the decision to leave your homeland
> Problem 2: "Find the matrix A describing the following linear transformation from R2 to R'2 : First rotate clockwise by π/6, then scale by a factor of 2, then reflect about the x2 axis."

> Anyone who programs video games recognizes that as a stack of transformations. You set up the matrix for the rotate, the scale, and the reflection (which is a scale of -1 on one axis). You multiply the matrices to get the result. This is a pain to do with pencil and paper. GPUs have hardware for it.

Did you... look at the actual transformations? They are incredibly simple; nothing about this problem is even minorly challenging to do with pencil and paper. The matrix for "scale by a factor of two" is [[2 0] [0 2]]. The matrix for "reflect about the x_2 axis" is [[1 0] [0 -1]]. Watch me compose them in my head: [[2 0] [0 -2]]
Black Hawk helicopter flies for first time without a pilot on board
Computing Carbon Storage
Any chance you might add ECDSA?
Didnt want parents to have to worry for an extended period.
Going to prestigious schools is about signaling and making connections, not receiving better instruction. One of my coworkers teaches cs at a community college, I've sat in on a class. The stuff he teaches is so much more useful than the stuff that was taught at my top 10 cs school it isn't even funny. He puts way more effort into teaching than almost any of my professors did, because to them, teaching was a nuisance. It's not what they signed up for. It's not why they're at the university. They're at the university to do research, the quality of instruction follows.
I use RedPocket (w/Verizon service) and I get ~the same low number of spam calls as my family members who pay Verizon directly, so apparently an MVNO can be cheap without selling your number to spammers...
How the Fed Slows Down Inflation Through the Labor Market
The game was called Flappy Bird.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird

Though I don't think the term "flappening" is quite as endearing.
Researchers make electronic chip that can be rewired like the human brain
While US gov't put in $billions. But who kept ownership? Mars hype turns out to be good for drawing money out of governments.

ITER is a dead end, no matter what, so not a useful data point.
A theory proposed by a professor at my school was:

The black death killed a lot of the people who grouped in churches and ignored the common sense precautions of staying away from people. This could be seen as a culling of what was largely the weak and foolish third of society.

Coincidentally, with fewer people to do the labor around and a generally smarter stock of people remaining, the upper classes were forced to pay more for services that keep the world running. There was a huge impact on labor markets, claimed the professor.

Thirdly, and likely related to all of this, the renaissance began.
I remember Zhong Nanshan, China's Dr Fauci equivalent saying, in Feb/Mar 2020 I think, that if the rest of the world followed China's policies covid would be eliminated by June (2020). I wish we'd actually done that.

Early covid was a bit easier to stop I think than omicron. Both China and Taiwan have had over 50 cases a day since mid Jan which illustrates it's hard with this one.
What are the odds that 3 separate, years-old accounts came out of the woodworks within the last hour to make their only comments of all time to support this post? 3/14 of the only comments as I make this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275812

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277488
not at the client device level like your cellphone, no you can't. Would have to be done by your carrier at the SS7/PSTN level which as an individual phone system subscriber, is totally opaque to you.
If I ever write a novel, I guarantee it will not come from an agenda or have deep meaning. I'd write it for fun, and would be pleased if other people enjoyed reading it.

> if it's not software it's not worth thinking deeply about

I'm not offended if people don't think deeply about D. It's designed to be fun and highly useful. If somebody wrote an essay about D having some metaphysical deep meaning, I'd probably have a good laugh!
Rust code is not slow to compile today? I'm currently learning myself some Rust, have a project with some dependencies + ~1500 lines of code in my directory and my debug build with cargo takes 20 seconds every time I change just a line. Specs: Intel i7-7600U (4) @ 2.800GHz, Samsung NVMe SSD SM961/PM961, 16GiB.

Considering the small size of the project, I wouldn't consider that fast and in fact, makes me very turned off on the prospect of the project growing any bigger.
If there's anyone at Apple reading, pay this guy.
Deno is irrelevant. Once somebody created a Frankenstein’s monster there will never be another monster just like it to replace it. The only reason fans will move away from NodeJS is if there are some legal issues.
It's to keep press out.
One tool I rely on when I need to understand the structure of JSON is gron. I haven’t tried jless yet, will definitely do, but if you’re looking for inspiration, the gron representation is really useful.
I'm not talking about rejecting things that challenge my norms. I'm talking about people finding pictures in clouds.
Regarding GR I don't think he really perceived or saw time and space much more differently, as much as was well equipped to discuss it with the likes of Minkowski and Poincare and teach himself the tensor calculus. I would really enjoy a discussion with someone versed on the history of GR about this because it's something I've been thinking for a while.

How he "saw" special relativity is I think related to riding a bicycle and the Michelson–Morley experiment.
Housing is expensive because of a demand spike, as people are now consuming house-space where they used to consume office-space, school-space, and other public or communal spaces.

Any return to these spaces being open, especially any pullback from WFH, is likely to result in a reduction of this demand. The question is the extent to which this will happen, where it will happen, and whether it will be sudden. Something is certain to happen along these lines.

The other question is what happens if the Fed hikes interest rates and mortgages are much more expensive. Since most people still have mortgages and most mortgage owners are limited by a price-per-month expenditure, this could hurt demand as well too, and depress prices.
Kudos for the TLDR.
Interesting to not that vendors are taking bugs more seriously.
Intelligence wise, I wonder what P) learn from the communication that takes place between P0 & the vendor, ie are there lots of questions asked over time giving insight into thought processes or does P0 see a massive data grab and then communication silence until the bug is fixed?

For all software & hardware vendors, this will help raise the standards & revenue but it will also raise the barrier to entry for new entrants as sole developers or small teams will have to consider more than the basic function of their app/project/hw. Legislation like GDPR already means some projects may never get to fly today as regulatory burden is too great, and the bug front is another domain which is maturing adding to the burden.
I believe you'll find that this is from a different book by a different author.
> Most of my friends/neighbors are constantly monitoring their teen age children's location, reading their recent calls, texts, and emails, looking at internet usage logs, etc.

I'll be very blunt: Do they really want to read text messages from their teenage daughter/son? They might regret that decision really fast.

> One of my neighbors even calls her daughter every time she sees she's driving over the speed limit and yells at her

If he doesn’t trust her why is she driving his car?
> this illusion is why big models are so popular. Memorise more stuff

It's all just a compressed lookup table that can handle in-betweens.
Also worth mentioning: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx
A good example of this in Satisfactory (haven't played Factorio) is balancers vs. manifolds. The idea is that you have factory components that need to feed other factory components at a certain speed to get to 100% efficiency. One way to do that is to place the correct number of splitters and mergers to get the right ratios based on the output rate of the various components and the input rate of the others (the balancer way). The other way (the manifold way) is to just hook up one factory component that needs to feed another and let it run until it has filled up it's buffer. Then add a splitter to take the overflow and repeat until you are at 100%. Do this for all inputs. A complicated balancer looks like a drawing of a Christmas tree made of balancers and mergers and takes up a lot of space. A manifold is just a line of constructors or whatever with splitters in front of them going from one output to one input.

You can put up a manifold without doing any math and just stop adding factory components when it can't feed the next building. You can sink hours into just designing the perfect balancer for your situation, let alone building it. I always go the manifold way.