skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla Model W would lift-off from that building after a short while.

But seriously - I think they'd find a common language. Both are set in their ways and these ways are far from each other, but I don't think they'd fight, verbally or not.
Absolutely. The last time any of my current Linux systems rebooted for anything other than a power failure, hardware problem, or a kernel update was ... never.
It’s just fine. I’ve grown weary of how it seems to be the only game that gets discussed on HN.
Good question. It would depend on whether the newly employed are broadly working "bullshit" (unproductive) jobs, or whether they are adding to productivity.

Inflation occurs when there is an increase in available money (or transiently, in the velocity of money) in excess of any increase in productivity.

Increased productivity (absent of manipulation of the money supply) would suggest that goods get cheaper to produce and are produced in more abundance, leading to decreasing prices.

If the newly employed are not broadly productive, employers would have increased expenditures (wages), without decreasing other expenses. Since the employer doesn't want their own earnings to decrease, the only way they can maintain the standard of living they are used to is to either increase their revenues by increasing prices, or fire the unproductive.

An exception of course, is government, which can simply increase revenues by increasing taxes, which allows them to continually employ unproductive people at the cost of taxpayers.

If you extend this logic to UBI, then every employer now has additional expenses (taxes) to cover the costs of UBI. To maintain the standard of living they are used to, and if they wish to avoid raising prices, they would need to reduce expenses, which would typically mean either: reducing wages, or reducing the number of employees they have.

So the result of UBI would suggest one or more of the following outcomes: 1. Fewer people are employed. 2. Employed people earn less. 3. Prices generally increase.

I would guess at all three occurring simultaneously. Almost like the devil is rubbing his hands in anticipation.
Yes, but it’s done on a project basis. Kill the project, move the good people to a new project, release the others. Later, resume/restart the project.

It’s really hard to be surgical about this because who wants to be the good engineer that has to pick up the barely functioning pieces of code left behind. Who wants to reward a solid engineer with a big refactor job on an already late/failing project? The optics aren’t great. I’m not saying it never works, but as a general rule, deferring the project is often a better option.
In the UK at least, MA/MS degrees are largely autonomous from either PhD or BA programs. They indeed are predominantly coursework-based alongside a research component, but typically offer a part-time option that is entirely manageable alongside full-time work. It’s a very competitive market and quality varies wildly, but it’s often possible to do an MA there in a discipline you may not have studied as an undergraduate — I’ve known several people who, over their working life, picked up numerous post-graduate degrees in multiple disciplines (even for an international student, we’re talking about 5-6k per year part-time).
Are you implying that if someone believes the universe has a plan for them, then they won't need therapy?
Nuclear weapons likely prevented >100M deaths in the last 50 years. Mutually Assured Destruction is the only reason we didn't have another hot world war since 1945.

If there were no nuclear weapons now, you'd have a full scale NATO/Russia war today and a US/China war in a few months.

Very ironically, Mahnattan Project heads should receive a few Nobel Peace prizes posthoumously.
Ask HN: Writing a Windows Program in 2022?
I'm a web developer but looking to write a (non-cross-platform, Windows-specific) Windows native program. What's the best way to do this in 2022? WPF? .NET? UWP?
Traditional advertising is becoming less and less effective. The brands that are having the most success right now use TikTok. They don't necessarily advertise, but instead create content on the platform. It comes off a lot more genuine. For example, Duolingo and their creepy giant stuffed owl stalking people who didn't do their Spanish lessons: https://digiday.com/marketing/how-duolingo-is-using-its-unhi...
Avgas is aviation gasoline. 100LL is 100 octane low-lead. 100UL is 100 octane unleaded. GAMI is the name of the company that designed the new fuel and injectors to inject that fuel. They put a "G" as in "GAMI" on the front of 100UL for branding.

For many reasons of which the FAA is part, certified piston aircraft nearly all run 100LL; they did not switch to unleaded as automotive did.
I mean, I would buy that.
Sorry but I'm not reading an article that has a "food" content warning at the top, get the fuck out of here
I think it's the main tragedy of the human race is not staying with nuclear and going all in. Unfortunately the fad of being afraid of nuclear will probably be the downfall of the human race. We would have had energy solved by the 80's. Almost sickening to think about.
> The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature, Prigogine contends that determinism is no longer a viable scientific belief: "The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism." This is a major departure from the approach of Newton, Einstein and Schrödinger, all of whom expressed their theories in terms of deterministic equations. According to Prigogine, determinism loses its explanatory power in the face of irreversibility and instability.

> Prigogine traces the dispute over determinism back to Darwin, whose attempt to explain individual variability according to evolving populations inspired Ludwig Boltzmann to explain the behavior of gases in terms of populations of particles rather than individual particles.[24] This led to the field of statistical mechanics and the realization that gases undergo irreversible processes. In deterministic physics, all processes are time-reversible, meaning that they can proceed backward as well as forward through time. As Prigogine explains, determinism is fundamentally a denial of the arrow of time. With no arrow of time, there is no longer a privileged moment known as the "present," which follows a determined "past" and precedes an undetermined "future." All of time is simply given, with the future as determined or as undetermined as the past. With irreversibility, the arrow of time is reintroduced to physics.
The linked tweet doesn't provide a citation or context for the "helped prevent ~2M deaths" claim. But there is work in this area which suggests that "~2M lives saved" in the last 50 years underestimates the benefits of nuclear power by a lot.

One commenter here writes

> What is the actual claim here? Nuclear power didn't prevent any deaths, after all everyone will eventually die for one reason or another. So it must be something like two million people would have died earlier without nuclear power, but by how much?

That's a better way to think about the problem: not "lives saved," but life-years saved. Calculations of life-years saved are necessarily sketchy, but there is at least one promising preliminary effort [1]. See especially page 22.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/production-sitebuilder-v1-0-1...
Do you have any sources for your claims?

Because, having worked in this space for many year, your statements could be read as a generalization, whereas things are far more nuanced, context-dependent and in many cases quite the opposite from what you're saying here.

It's true that heritage institutions face challenges. But that's true for any field endeavor. Moreover, this field is very much aware of the challenges regarding acquisition, preservation, curation, accessibility, exhibiting, loans, security, indemnity, knowledge sharing, restoration, registration, cataloguing, etc. etc. The logistics are well understood and the expertise is there.

Often enough, a big issue is funding in order to invest in adequate staff and staffing.

Frankly, the perception of the "stuffy, old, badly managed" institute that your comment perpetuates here is harmful in that regard. The core mission of the heritage industry is to serve as a collective memory for local, regional and national communities. Heritage serves as the ground in which collective identities are rooted. The vast majority of experts are well aware of the importance of their work regarding the public's historic awareness.

However, in order to be able to sustain that mission, support from policy makers and other backers is sorely needed. Dismissing the challenges heritage institutions as a result of their own perceived ineptness achieves the exact opposite: the preservation of heritage and the remembrance of the past for future generations only getting a low priority, and therefor not receiving the funding it needs.

While technology assists the heritage industry greatly, integration in these complex institutions which house tens thousands - in many cases hundreds of thousands - of fragile and brittle objects, specimens and items is far from trivial and often spans multiple years of hard labor.

The Cambridge University Library, in this case, dates back to the early 15h century and contains approximately 9 million items. That's a reflection of how long the library exists, as well as a reflection of the sum of knowledge it has accrued over centuries, and how it serves a memory institution. Sustaining such a setting implies developing a vision which surpasses the lifespan of its own employees.

In that regard, linking artifacts with RFID tags, sounds like a nice idea, but isn't something one simply does, assuming it as a definitive solution regarding security or preservation.
Stoner is one of the best novels I've ever read. He dedicates almost his entire life toward studying literature because he had a passion for it in university, despite never achieving resounding success (not a spoiler, as this is revealed on the first page of the novel).

There are wonderful passages like: “In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”"

It changed my view on love and relationships.
> 2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.

People have already wrote a lot about this, but one of my biggest frustrations was with how slow the CDC was to recommend masks in general. Waiting on what should have been an obvious recommendation was a large contributor.
We can't solve everything all at once. We're simply not that rich.

The reason leaded avgas isn't solved yet is because by itself it's a pretty small problem as far as things that are poisoning us and out planet go.

Obviously we're making progress, because people still care, but it's not getting resources in the same way that clean electrical energy is because it's a much smaller problem.
71% of executives say the metaverse will be good for business
If you want to talk about Wolfram's physics, please do.
What is woke culture? Isn’t culture an attractive part of melting pot places like NYC or SF?
Well, my native cuisine has a lot of milk products of... different sourness. I couldn't make such mistake because I know the difference of the viscosity and how the bottle handles by the guts. *smile*
Exactly, all this does is prove they never knew how to run ads to begin with.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people/businesses have no idea what performance advertising is.
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You know, the way I see it, we can have either star-trek like future, or blade-runner like.

I would very much prefer the first one.

And it does not mean we would have to have mass produced apartments (see cob buildings, hemp crete - the legislature/corporations is/are the problem). There is enough place to give everybody a house & a garden, ideally sustainably built (no plastics in the walls etc.), and with UBI live a good life, without beeing dependent on a job, you don't want, just to be able to live. What progress that would bring.

I'm also not talking about rations and/or soylent - I want healthy vegetables/nuts/seeds, not the unhealthy food & poisons (herbicides,pesticides, vegetable oils, antibiotics, pfoas ...) we're fed right now with our exploitative market economy.

I want healthy planet, full of (free-living) animals and clean air & rivers.

I also want computers (not devices) and agi - but without nsa & patents, please.

I can only dream.

But if we continue to do business-as-usual and keep doing the same stuff over and over, pretending that the rat-race is essential to our progress, and pray for economic growth in expense of our living space (the little blue dot), that's the insanity Einstein was talking about.

We don't have to eat & consume to the extinction. That was my point. And UBI might just be the way to do it.
It's always been my understanding that a tv tuned to a dead channel was that solid grey color, like when the transmitter is powered on but there is no picture being sent. In other words, not the same thing as just setting the receiver to a frequency with no transmission (static)
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I once came across a song that was credited to both "Bob Dylan" and "B. Dylan", or something like that.
Really GCC -O1 is usually plenty fast if you are just precompiling things at startup that your main executable would dynamically load. The bigger question is, would you really want to be using a language with manual memory management for writing extensions to a program? Maybe including the boehm gc with it would not be terrible.
You can tinker a lot with windows but your changes will likely be undone with one of the next few updates.
Flutter on Windows
I like how easy Go is to learn and how simple it is (along with the library availability) but can't help but feel that Rust feels more "put together" especially in the type system and Generics areas. I feel like I am using a real language instead of a toy.
The proposed structure looks like the Win32 API.
So if you an existing, functional, code base, I totally agree. Rewrites in general are rarely worth doing. If you have a new code base, it can be incredibly valuable to design the code such that externalities can be injected.
Usually this means being able to swap out file system, RNG, system time, and networking layers. If your code uses a particular hardware platform, it can be useful to put the platform specific code behind an abstraction layer.

Not only does it make your code more unit testable, it makes your code much more ad hoc testable. Again, I would not refactor a large, non-disposable application just to achieve this.
Slaying God Objects using Bounded Contexts (A little bit of DDD couldn't hurt)
Funny enough, it’s a bit of both. The msys2 runtime is a fork of the Cygwin runtime, and they keep parity pretty well.

https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime
I ask a lot of system design interviews based on Facebook's products. What I look for is the ability to propose something simple, proposing the right metrics and data collection to understand scaling needs, then making reasonable guesses about which parts of the system need to scale. PHP + MySQL + Memcache is great until you also need to do ML inference (high CPU/GPU load), need to store user-uploaded video, or want to stream new content to users in near realtime (live comments).

They key is to add the minimum amount of "stuff" to a simple design to convincingly scale for some new hypothetical need.
The biggest issue in my experience is trying to target metrics. E.g. some % of coverage.

If you encourage developers to write tests with the mindset that "these should make my life easier", you'll get better and more maintainable tests.

If you encourage developers to write tests "just because" you will get very useless tests.
If you consider the history of wealth in the last few hundred years it might be advisable to just live a modest life. There might be a big populist revolution soon-- do you want to be someone who literally and metaphorically has your Tesla tipped over and set on fire by a mob?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68
Managed container services (like Amazon ECS) are a sweet spot for me across complexity, cost, and performance. Mid size companies gain much of the modern development workflow (reproducibility, infrastructure as cattle, managed cloud, etc.) using one of these services without the need to go full blown Kubernetes.

It's lower level than functions as a service, but much cheaper, more performant, matches local developer setups more closely (allowing for local development vs. trying to debug AWS Lambda or Cloudflare FaaS using an approximation of how the platform would work).
I mean, I tried to “drop some truth” on my high school students when I was a teacher, but reactionary administrators and politicians (and sometimes parents) don’t like it when you try to “brainwash” students (I.e. say anything other than how the current system is natural and perfect).
Are you an LLC or sole proprietor perhaps DBA Vanilla Components?
How do Europeans contrast themselves from other countries/cultures/languages in Europe? Wouldn't it be similar?
Pretty much anywhere in California that's a desirable place to live with reasonable job prospects has a high cost of living.
Without further details that is not really helpful. If everyone died one week earlier because of additional air pollution, would that mean nuclear power saved everyone's life? And it certainly makes a difference whether the average loss of lifetime is a week or ten years.
It's oversimplifying the problem. "Government has problems, so get rid of it." ignores problems in the private sector. The private sector is great at solving problems where there is a market demand that can be solved without externalities. When there are externalities -- e.g. pollution -- you need a competent regulator. You're back to square one: you always need a government. At the end of the day, someone has to do the hard work of advocating for competent government, and to ignore that is to ignore the problem.
Reality does surprise me now and then by reifying a meme I laughed at a few years ago. Usually the physical manifestation is less funny than the original meme though.

I think it was all related to the 2016 US election which is when those 4chan chaos magicians joined forces to elect ‘orange Pepe bad’ to troll normies.
I should have said "high-compression or turbo-charged". The C182 after serial number 65176 uses the O470-U high-compression (8.6:1) engine which does not have an auto-fuel certification. C182s prior to that number use the less efficient, lower compression (7.0:1) O470-R engine, which can run physically unmodified on ethanol-free auto fuel.

(Note that what aviation considers high-compression is laughably low-compression in modern automobiles.)
None of the above answers actually answer your question. Lead was historically used in gasoline for two reasons - 1) to increase the octane rating (a measure of knock resistance) ans 2) to lubricate the valve seats in the cylinder head. There are multiple other chemical additives that can accomplish #1 (the fuel in the article uses one of them). For #2, the solution in the automotive world starting in the 1970s was to use hardened valve seats that didn't require lead in the fuel to lubricate. The actual answer to your question is "because the FAA won't allow it".
Then don't write tests for that code. Writing tests for trivial stuff is pointless. Write tests for code that could actually be wrong, or where you need to prove to yourself or others that the invariant is maintained. Critically, where it's important that the invariant stays true even after refactoring.

It's also valuable to have some testing framework available, just so that it's then easy to write tests when they're needed (which comes back around to "make sure that your objects can ever be constructed" thing). Not all unit tests have to be preemptive, even if the presence of the ability to quickly write them is.
It seems like a disproportionate amount of ad spend is protection money to avoid the Don't Be Evil mob from selling your trademark to your competitors. A search for Total Car Check should not return competitors above the website itself.
Replying again as I think my previous message didn't appear: Glad you found the article useful. While Diffusion can produce more coherent images, I prefer VQGAN as it's much more malleable. I'm writing a whole series of posts on AI generative art, so let me know if there's anything it would be useful to cover.
> PuTTY ... but it’s… not good, at all.

Pls explain.
> And if you ever suggest removing a broken chair, you get a thousand angry emails flaming you because people are emotionally attached to the chair despite it having exposed nails that stab up into the rear end of anyone who sits in it? And if you push back you get absurd comments like "oh the nails are only on the left side, just lean constantly on your right buttock and you won't get stabbed by the nails"

This is one of the greatest comments I have ever seen.
> they never knew how to run ads to begin with

This feels like a no true scotsman. I have doubts that the vast majority of digital advertising platforms do anything other than clutter websites, waste bandwidth, annoy people, and pay a small slice of tech employees. I'm open to seeing research on the topic (and I am pretty sure there is some), but what I've read is that most advertising has insufficient statistical power, thus confidence of advertising outcomes being anything but random flukes is low.
This conservatism of which you speak is just risk intolerance, or less charitably, an unwillingness to accept responsibility. We're stuck with old processes, byzantine committe review for simple things, expensive PE stamped drawings for a storm drain, all because nobody is willing to give it a try and be responsible for the result. And we actively crap on anyone who does want to give it a try as being reckless.

Risk intolerance, diffusion of responsibly, things like that as an abstract concepts tends to thunderous applause around here. So maybe a mirror would help us solve the problem.
You have to be a little crazy to work on something this ambitious for any length of time because it is not mainstream and probably hard to get grants for in the traditional sense.

DNNs faced and still face enormous criticism from statisticians, mathematicians and it was only after proof of their utility that academics could no longer ignore them.
Screw the universe. People need help, and you can give it to them. It might not be "existential", but at least it's real.
Specifically, Fortran's type system isn't nearly advanced enough to usefully support this type of feature well. Higher order functions are really useful, and if you want them, you should use a different language.
I'm absolutely certain you're operating at a higher level of competence not despite your age but because of your age. experience makes life significantly easier. Studies have shown that older people excel at ignoring irrelevant information and stressors while young people have more trouble 'paying attention'

Though the human mind/body is excellent at maintaining homeostasis which means you generally don't notice how incapacitated you are despite doing worse on general tests at certain conditions.