skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that embedded compilers are not known for keeping up with the standards. The only hope is that the moves to GCC and Clang continue.
The article is a bit rubbish. They're not predicting on the binary "would we give these people a loan or not" but they're predicting manual corrections fo credit scores by bank managers. It's a 15 way classification problem (1 is low score, 15 is high). The data is distributed in a bell-curve like way with the most people in the 6 or 7 bracket.

From the paper:

> As is typical in machine learning we also report the Accuracy p-value computed
from a one-sided test (Kuhn et al., 2008) which compares the prediction accuracy to the "no information rate", which
is the largest class percentage in the data (23.85%).

So fair dice 23.85%, model 95%.

That said I bet a human who had read the banking rules and regulations and recommendations on lending could easily match this performance.
for those one-off times I want to just jump into a shell with, say, ranger available, it's as simple as

$ nix shell nixpkgs#ranger

if I am starting up a project that needs a tool, I just throw together a simple shell.nix in a folder for the project and run

$ nix shell

from that folder. there's ways to set it up so you automatically switch to a shell with the specified packages (iirc with direnv just like you'd do it for python venvs) but I haven't felt the need yet.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Development_environment_with_nix-she...
There's a relatively new hard fork of MultiMC called PolyMC that aims to fix these papercuts, amongst other things.
> As an example of where this central point of failure becomes problematic, attackers can modify a package to include malware in what is known as a digital supply chain attack. What we really want, and what no package manager can give us today, is reproducibility.

Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero wrote a very good debunking of this supposed security benefit of reproducible builds: https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/07/you-dont-need-reproducibl...
k8s now supports a pluggable system (CRI) which allows any conformant container runtime to be used. The default is now containerd.
Genuinely surprised that "bank managers" either exist or have any say in loan decisions. In the UK it appears to be pretty much entirely computerised, with a small amount of oversight from teams of analysts if the computer decision is borderline. Different elsewhere?
To be fair, he's spent most of his time coding in Perl. Perl is notorious to parse.
Software engineering teaches us to identify defects and fix them, which is all fine and proper when you fully understand the root cause and the impact of the fix. But eugenic "fixing" of genetic "bugs" is more akin to deleting a whole module because you think it caused an error message. Maybe the error message goes away, but maybe you'll find out later that module was doing something useful after all.
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I feel like this progress for the sake of progress.
Would a linear decision barrier not be fit by the logistics model?
evolution seems to be a constant fight for energy, this can be even expanded broadly: the universe is all about gathering energy. So not sure that someone would be fine with a constant limited energy supply. Plus those supplies eventually run out
The technology to do this is... a long way away.

It seems to me that human potential can be better realised in many ways, and eugenics is the way with probably the worst return on investment.

For a start, we could try giving as many kids as possible in the world a decent crack at doing something important. Obviously this is very difficult and complicated. But then so is eugenics.
Dyson spheres (actually not spheres, in any sense, originally) were a clever idea, but it seems terribly parochial, not to say gooberish, to assume that anybody sophisticated enough to build such a thing would want one.

More specifically, anybody sophisticated enough would dismantle their local gas giant and ice planets and convert them directly to energy, and leave the local daystar entirely out of the transaction.

An advanced civilization will exist almost exclusively in the far outer reaches of a solar system, where the daystar provides nothing more than gravitation to keep the Kuiper belt organized. The most valuable resource for this advanced civilization will not be energy, which is cheap, or materials, which are cheaper, but cold. The abundunt cold out in the Kuiper Belt is essential to not being vaporized by the waste heat of the high energy processes more or less advanced civilizations cannot resist indulging in.
Nope, same issue. I've tried wifi and 5G, different usernames (caps, no caps), and a simpler password.
I think you meant this to be a reply to the parent, not to me?
How to figure out the size of the moon yourself
We all use C because it works and we love to get things done.
> If you're using GSuite, just use their stuff.

I am building a small business with 5 employees currently. We rely on quite a bit of tech but are not a tech thing (med industry). We use Google Workspace as our internal center piece.

We have also decided to pass on Notion to stay in the suite and not complicate things for a semi-technical staff – but I can definitely feel that the lack of a solid wiki substitute in GW is an issue and does complicate things.

It's easy enough to just open a blank page in either Google Docs or Notion and start typing. The power of Notion is in the incredibly low amount of effort you have to pour into knowledge upkeep. Tying it all together. Cleaning it up. Keeping it accessible and inviting to explore and expand.

Not being able to adhoc create and link documents, not having easy templates and powerful inline tables, working with images without having to manually resize them to make sense and people starting to fuck with colours and fonts (just to name a few things) is really cumbersome and makes the task of maintenance really heavy.

Google Sites exists. It just isn't good enough (reasons outside the scope of this post). For Docs or GW in general hope is on the horizon with smart canvas, web view for Docs and more coming.

Lastly, money of this magnitude is really, really not a concern at our little shop. We generate income. Employees costs thousands of $ per month. Keeping people motivated, using the tools and making both collection, access and maintenance of knowledge simple is.

If I could pay another $10/month/user for a Google Notion I would.
Land. Billionaires own thousands of empty luxury apartments in city centres, while the poor people who clean them travel in from the outskirts.

And billionaires do effectively hoard things like rice. That's what the futures market they invest in is all about.
Perhaps civilizations with eternally increasing energy demands inevitably encounter a great filter of their own making, while civilizations that learn to live with more modest energy requirements live on in peace and silence.
> Mark Jason Dominus has an interesting perspective on Java, which he enjoyed: You will not produce anything really brilliant...

I'd argue that there's plenty of brilliant things written in Java. And Perl people sneering at Java feels a bit like defensiveness.
No one cares about the standards. We only care about getting things done by writing regular C code that works.
I don’t think anyone can predict exactly when/if Russia will attack Ukraine. I just think it’s suspicious that Russia has over 50% of its army at the border. To say nothing is going on is naive at best and reminds me of “there is no war in ba sing se”.
You are not the only one. In my experience Google Meet is significantly worse than Zoom, especially under pressure. Even slight degradation in bandwidth that zoom scarcely notices causes dramatic sync and audio issues, and it almost always seems to have worse video resolution than zoom under similar network conditionns. I used to think it was only like that because I didn't have very beefy hardware but having upgraded my laptop to a very high end processor spec and lots of memory it hasn't improved at all.
I wrote a Nix language tutorial a while ago and people keep telling me it works for them: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
I’m going to apologize in advance, a little bit to you, but mostly to the community, for what I’m about to say. I still get like this with some frequency, but it’s less and less and that’s on purpose.

I think for a guy who had negligible exposure to literacy, let alone math, I’ve realized a substantial fraction of my mathematical potential. We could split hairs about which parts of the CUDA CNN stack I wrote in PyTorch or which convex optimizations I did that turned up about 700MM/year recurring for Instagram’s shareholders, but that’s kind of missing the point that whoever handed you any kind of document that makes you part of the broader enterprise of knowledge, and curiosity, and rigor fucked up badly.

I’m still an advocate for the idea that there should be universities, and that whatever fraction of the millions of dollars I’ve paid in taxes go to them, but I sincerely hope that you’re as much of
an outlier as I think as to why I should stop paying for the part of that I do.

Now here’s the olive branch: I’m a contrarian and often cranky/negative person myself, and if you’re actually hot shit an financial mathematics, well I need to hire about three of those people, and I’ve got a soft spot for cranky contrarians.

Come do a month or two of contract-to-hire for any plausible wage and show me that you can back it up. Or go fuck yourself. That’s as productive of a reply that I’ve got in me right now.
Did you miss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug) ?
it also correlates with being poor, and being uneducated. Fertility is not the object here, but sexuality
Research is ALWAYS limited to what the person performing it considered practical. Getting a paper published is as practical as most researchers need to get. (Some do more.) If they don't publish, they soon don't get to do research anymore, and have to start doing what somebody else considers practical.
> Linux, niche?!

Well, on the desktop. As someone using it as such since 2000 or so, it never took off like it deserves imo.

> where n > 1

I guess this is where I lack experience, thanks. I just run single user locally. It feels like containers/kube won the n>1 market.
Careful with that axe Eugene

https://youtu.be/YtZqNAI4pBk?t=93
Hm.

This reads like: "What we thought was a slowing down of mental processes was probably actually just thoughtfulness and the avoidance of jumping to conclusions early."

This reminds me of how people believe (i only have anecdotal evidence, but LOTS of it) that reacting faster in conversations means you're more intelligent, when in fact the opposite must be true.

The brain can super easily pattern match in conversations and will, in absolutely most cases , spit something out that fits to the patterns of the words spoken (as evidenced by speaking with people who react quickly, regardless of how stupid the reaction is), but that doesn't make intelligent.

It makes thoughtless.

Even worse than those are the ones who seem incapable of reflecting on their thoughts, insisting that they are correct, actually refusing to put a second or deeper thought on it.

Those are mindless automatons.
nvi is very fast.
A quiet simple but very nice IDE. It is also quite modable in LUA itself, including custom autocompletes (which can do arbitrary things thanks to meta tables). My go to IDE when I want teach people programming with LOVE2d as a game engine.
Hint: Columbus didn't discover America. Millions of people already lived there, and knew all about it.

But anyway looking for Dyson spheres will not reveal any extraterrestrial civilizations.
Keeping a close eye on real estate risk
PHP is very much not dead. WordPress still seems to be popular. Facebook replaced its optimizing PHP VM with another one a few years ago. And most importantly, PHP is a low-friction, decent performance way to create simple dynamic websites because it was made for that.
how do you disassemble a star? wouldn't you need a ton of energy to fight off the gravity?

agreed that cooling might be something to look for therefore outer reaches are very tempting but then how do you deliver energy there?
I believe you, but can you provide a source for the Qualcomm firewall?
Honestly, more than anyone's particular gaffes or speech patterns -- public figures that have been in the public eye for decades are on tape from when they were younger. With both the current and former president, it's almost shocking to hear how differently they used to speak.
not to mention the "rub out" key
Ask HN: What Will War Between Russia and Ukraine Mean for the World?
What will a war between Russia and Ukraine mean for the world? For Europe? For the global economy?
Even if an IDE is only a crutch for poorly designed languages, people still use those languages and an IDE is a useful tool in that scenario.
nix-env has been easier to use for a new use compared to having a configuration.nix, using home-manager etc, but once you start using any of the latter then just remove everything installed with nix-env (and use nix-shell for one-offs).
It seems this is up to the implementation as the spec leaves it open. Safari is not mapping this to the actual file system, but what about other browsers?
I think you’d benefit from an app like InPen that lets you save your novolog settings and graphs the insulin remaining in your body for you. It sounds like you don’t understand the curve. It also warns you if you’re doubling doses to dangerous levels of stacking. You really need to learn not to do that no matter what the graph says. Can you get an appointment with a diabetes educator?
Totally blind since birth. Yes, voice is definitely a big factor for me, with personality/interests a very close second!
Thanks for your experience.

To be clear, I never reset because I have to, just to clear things out. Despite what anyone says, things do get funky.

For example, I noticed different behaviors and tools between wpa_supplicant and iwd. Deleting iwd left me in a working but half state, as the ips stayed the iwd way.

That times hundreds over a year really makes things weird.
I think it's good to consider ways in which Nix's UX could be improved.

But I'd draw an analogy to vim or emacs. These have steep difficulty curves to them, but provide a power-user experience. Roughly, Nix is to apt-get what vim is to notepad. -- It'd be weird to try vim but live in insert mode the whole time.

It's not a matter of "no-the-ux-doesn't-suck", but more "if you can get past the rough edges, the things which Nix allows are wonderful".
GDPR fines are insignificantly small for companies such as Facebook. They will just keep doing illegal things.
There was also a game -- "Battlemaster," essentially you played some noble lord in a low-ish-fantasy universe. Vaguely game-of-thronesy feeling (before the show, though). I didn't get very far (although someone was nice enough to give me a province, and I dutifully... paid taxes and tried to avoid screwing up whatever plans I thought they had going).

Some players from Urban Dead (the spark more or less came from the ridleyband resistance front, I think) eventually made Nexus War, which had a similar feel to it, but better design (skill trees, etc) and a more interesting theme (angels vs humans vs demons). Eventually that shut down, and somebody from the community made a similar game called Nexus Clash. That's still running, although I guess the population is probably ever-dwindling.

This sort of asynchronous mostly HTML based game seemed to be really good at fostering a community. Play the game a bit, find a faction of some sort, and then join their phpbb forum...
.nl ACM obliges Apple to adjust unreasonable conditions for its App Store
The teachers approach can easily be framed as simply keeping order in the classroom, and giving kids different perspectives and so on, which is fine.

But the author themselves seem to have a clear political position, that power and privilege, and even property, are unjust.

Perhaps that's true to some extent, but the point should be pressed on adult society first, not snuck through the backdoor onto the upcoming generation.
Shouldn't the sentence be flipped in that case? I see no reason why expensive human is needed or wouldn't give similar answers.
Yes. But there is also an interesting failure mode - people don't bother applying if they don't think they'll get accepted. So presumably even just a "YES" will be a fairly good model of what actually happens without necessarily capturing the real model that the bank is using. A 95% accuracy rate isn't necessarily very good because of this effect (it might be, it just isn't certain).
Last piece of Putin’s puzzle slots into place: preparing Russians for war
I believe the person you are replying to is saying “discover” relatively rather than Euro-centrically, as they mention a hypothetical Aztecs “discovering” Europe and Africa.
This headline and article are horrible and misrepresent the problem and the outcome.

The paper is about the manual process of re-assigning a credit score on a scale of 1 to 15 based on other customer criteria. Really the fact that this process exists at all shows that their initial credit scoring approach is flawed or too simplistic. The argument of "just replace it with an if statement" does not hold up in this scenario.

So this is not a "if number big lend. If number small no lend" problem. Its a 15 way multi-class classification problem. They even give a baseline for what happens if they randomly pick or always pick the biggest class in the paper

> As is typical in machine learning we also report the Accuracy p-value computed
from a one-sided test (Kuhn et al., 2008) which compares the prediction accuracy to the "no information rate", which
is the largest class percentage in the data (23.85%).

So yeah, 95% is somewhat better than 23.85%.

I agree with the general sentiment that is is likely a fairly straight forward problem to predict if you are familiar with the bank's operating procedures as there is no way these individuals are making their own risk models and independent decisions. They are there to follow the rules and provide human accountability.

An error analysis on the items the model couldn't predict would definitely have been most interesting.
“`typeof` is standard”

Hallelujah, after only five decades generic, type-safe macros which evaluate their arguments exactly once will finally be possible with standards-compliant C.
Whenever I use C I use it for the express purpose of supporting ancient platforms. These platforms often only support C89, so that’s the dialect of C to which I restrict myself. If I am able to ignore those old platforms, I use C++. RAII is just so convenient.
Plants like that already exist minus the exothermy.

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesembryanthemum_crystallinu...
I am the first one to dislike all these product management tools, but if I had to pick one then I'd use https://shortcut.com (previously known as Clubhouse before the shitty Clubhouse came along).

I used it at a startup for two years and was so much better than anything else I used before.
That’s big of you. Thank you. We all lean on one another to make the community more positive when someone else is starting to fail at civility.

In that comment you were the person who sent things in a better direction. No sarcasm whatsoever: my regards friend.
Ahh, I see. But couldn‘t the hash then also be used on the packages themselves?
This sounds like the ranting of a madman. You sound like Energy Thanos.

If you think the modern world is going to grind to the kind of halt that your... "solutions"... would cause, you're seriously mistaken.

The only 1 solution, as you put it, is to innovate our way out of this problem. Nuclear fusion will have to be researched, developed, and implemented worldwide. That's your "only 1 solution".
It’s about a 3 in 100k chance you’ll die from hypoglycemia in your sleep over a year. So the die you are rolling every night has about ten million sides.
The point is that it can be solved with simple algorithms. No expensive human nor AI needed.
Mostly they are there as sanity check. Just collect the numbers and input in the system. Humans really can't be trusted, especially with money. So someone in the loop have to check can the information provided be trusted.
http://web.engr.uky.edu/~donohue/audio/fsear.html

It's not just dropping below 100 Hz, it's already quite low by then.
I'm sure you already know this, but GP probably doesn't: I love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting for very many reasons.

1. "Stellar husbandry". That phrase alone is worth the price of admission.

2. The idea of doing mass spectrometry on a jet of matter coming out of a star to separate it out into streams of hydrogen, deuterium, helium, etc.

3. The idea of creating artificial gas giants as a storage mechanism.

(The list goes on, but 3 is a magic number.)
In a word, no.

Any sort of Dyson-spherish thing would radiate in infrared, and not be dark at all. A long time ago somebody went looking for these infrared emitters, and found billions (and billions) of them in our galaxy alone. Turns out low-grade infrared-emitting stars and star-like things are more common than dirt. There is no way to tell them apart from a hypothetical Dyson thingy, even if there were any actual reason ever to build one of those. (Which, hint, there isn't.)
this is more intersting than the article. Times have changed, some people haven't
Wonderful news! Screw 'em, they're just abusing their position.

> If Apple does not adjust the unreasonable conditions within two months, it will have to pay a periodic penalty of 5 million euros per week up to a maximum of 50 million euros

Why the low upper limit? The first trillion dollar company can certainly afford more.
Interesting ideas. Don't get rights with patents, get cash for publication! Not sure how that could be economically assessed fairly, but it might work for some kinds of thing. And maybe there isn't one thing that could replace all patents, rather a selection of things which work in different circumstances.

To me, the two most egregious ways current patents fail is how they frequently don't explain the innovation to a skilled practioner, and then how they can be subsequently interpreted overly broadly.

The first violates the entire point of being granted a patent, and the second makes them a minefield for everyone else.

I wonder if the structure of patents as a series of claims is something that could be altered. What if a patent had to clearly state what the non obvious part of the claim is (the originality that requires protection). And only that original part is then deserving of protection?
I suppose it is possible the west has already "Exploded a nuclear plant" back in the 80s, and there is also stuxnet for a real historical example.

On the other hand all Russia would probably need to do is shut down a few ATMs or wait a year or two and the West's citizens will probably tear everything down themselves.

>>>And, there is a possibility to cut wires for both parties.

I agree, by the time things get sorted and the fog of war lifts chances are Taiwan will be completely occupied.
This is genius. Send me an email (in bio) if you're interested in building this out together.
I think it is that way, the output of genes is determined by what they do together, they all affect each other's function. This is possible because they evolved together and that is why they together are resilient against changes in the environment.. It is not like a program where flipping a single bit can crash the whole program.
> eugenics has got a bad rap

Mostly in Europe and North America, and territories culturally-influenced by them, largely as a side-effect of historical events 80 years ago.

Other parts of the world have different opinions on the matter.