skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History suggests technology and access improves though. Practically everyone takes for granted daily use of what was pretty specialized equipment not long ago.
As someone who hasn't changed jobs despite some opportunities I have seen a couple members of our team who did leave for greener pastures. Both have since returned when those jobs didn't live up to their expectations. One just announced they were leaving again.

I don't blame either of them leaving though the one who is leaving again has certainly burned some bridges and lost any good will he had from the coworkers they repeatedly leave in the breach.

A lot of the comments are anti-company, and I get that though I don't they they are always deserved or relevant. In our case it's the people who didn't leave who have to deal with the extra workload while the company tries to fill positions where you can't just pluck some yahoo off the street.

In the end if you made the move because it was best for you and not out of malice then I wouldn't feel any regret.
Or they think it might encourage people to go and get a booster. I didn't get my second vaccination for a while purely because I kept forgetting, if I my Wi-Fi (i.e. the reason why I was forgetting) got cut off then I'd have probably got it much faster.

Justified? Up to you, but I think your hypothesis is either stupid or unempathetic.
This is pretty cool. There is a nice history of functional programming in computer music and algorithmic composition. My first introduction to computer music was through [Nyquist][1] which uses an XLISP-based syntax, so this intro was a pleasant blast from the past. Having access to the whole Clojure ecosystem is also a huge boon.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_(programming_language)
It's irritating though. App stores should have a "silence is golden" category for games.
Move on to the next scarce thing until we get to the point with true general AI and then we utopia away.
They say:

> When training the encoder, we sample from the CLIP and DALL-E datasets (approximately 650M images in total) with equal probability. When training the decoder, upsamplers, and prior, we use only the DALL-E dataset (approximately 250M images).
The Harwell Dekatron Computer
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m generally fine with it. I don’t see Reddit as a vehicle to serve my interests, and I generally only passively moderate. Automod does most of the work.

People like sharing pics of their bikes and I think that’s fun, even if I mostly don’t care.
I am just saying that this exact response is made when people say that LGBTQ+ people deserve equal rights in Saudi Arabia or Russia. That is also cultural, and so is language.

Please educate me I would like to know your opinion.
Looks like we're hugging the author's site, so here's this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220409185007/https://lambdaisl...

I've been working for years on a good set metacognitive debugging questions. The most useful ones typically have to do with physical and emotional self-awareness and task prioritization.

I notice I'll get stuck in all kinds of mental loops which are not particularly useful, but always indicative of something I should consciously review. I actually have a personal Slack workspace I use as a hybrid between a journal/log and a conversation with myself. This technique has helped me achieve record levels of consistency, productivity and motivation.

From the article:

"Sometimes, when I want to find someone to discuss, I need to wait. Several times, when I encounter a bug and I want to ask for help, I write down all the details about the code, the environment, and how I have attempted to solve the bug. After I paste my bug report in the Gaiwan’s communication channel and take a 15 minutes break, the magical thing just happens: the muse comes to my mind. I solve it quickly and edit the message that I have already posted. The Rubber Duck Method really works!"

+1 to that!
Stupid question but is it possible to cool the earth’s core if this tech was scaled out and used massively?
I agree, to me this is a whole lot of nostalgia with little of substance to say. My bedroom, dining room, and living room are all much more intimate than my kitchen. My kitchen, on the other hand, is a functional place used in between my time in those living spaces. So organizational tools like cabinets and clean workspaces and bright lighting are all very useful for it. I have the luxury of not having to live out of it, but it's still indoors and connected to the living spaces, so a certain level of cleanliness is much appreciated too (contrast to a garage).

I find any claim that aspects of modern life are somehow making us desire practicality in these manners (and that we've lost something as a result) deeply suspicious. We developed all these things in response to desires and pain points. Often quite literal pain points of backbreaking manual domestic labor.
like russia didnt keep the nation in a boa constrictor for centuries. Rebellion was inevitable, expecially with access to the internet, outside the good propaganda.
This research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco indicates that the "Great Resignation" does not exist in our industry. Quit rates had transient excursions for young, less-educated workers in service industries like food. They did not rise for educated professionals, in fact they are near all-time lows.

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
I went whole hog down the Blitz route: basic, plus, 3D, max, and finally monkey. I'm actually back to using BlitzMax for a project right now! Weird nostalgia plus re-learning.
Perhaps other people don't find his writing uncompelling or read Wolfram-style self-regard into it.
Those don’t work if you can’t login to the WiFi in the first place. Imagine if your ISP dropped you as a customer. A VPN and DNS tunneling will do you jack squat if your modem can’t talk to the ISP.
Once I found the rsync --relative (-R) command mode and its /./ meta syntax, I no longer appreciated this trailing slash feature as a good idea on its own.

When you are worrying about idempotent re-sync of trees, I think it is so much more important to think about where the roots of the synchronization should match up between local and remote, and to make that explicit in the calling convention.

rsync -Ra /src-only/./{a,b,c} remote:/remote-only/./

I also think you should be writing this idempotent call in a script to presumably be reused over time, and this helps document the goal.
rude... Lyme disease is actually part of my life, unlike the black death.
> Search engines decision to lower the ranking of dissenting views on Ukraine?

Definite propaganda
Just start doing things. You can’t figure this stuff out by thinking about it any more than you can figure out how to ride a bike by thinking about it. You’re young, you’re 29. Can’t decide between 10 things you want to do? Spend a year doing each of them.

Always remember: indecision is a decision. The worst thing you can possibly do is nothing. That wastes time. Time is a resource you are always losing and you never get back. Use your time. Make decisions. If they turn out bad, make different ones. Just make decisions and execute on them.
This is good, regardless of how it gets moderated
Holy cow, I too have been looking for this for ages!
*@my.domain in there and it works!

Thank you!
People who are perplexed about why a business would not want a bike lane need to take a look at the history books. It was business owners who were pushing for streetcar lines to be paved over into stroads like Geary blvd in San Fransisco. They see their clientele as one traveling by private car over one reliant on public transportation, and probably feel they don't even want to be associated with public transportation and the image of who typically rides it.

You see the same tired dog whistle arguments come up today. "Who is going to even use it?" the residents of Beverly hills might say to the purple line subway extension under their city limits, whose arteries carry some of the highest levels of bus traffic in the country. I think the subtext is clear who they don't want to be building infrastructure for when you look at the demographics of who is and isn't currently using public transit in a place like Beverly Hills.
It's not really a user concern. It's highlighting that open relays like this are infamously abused and the people that run them can face pretty serious investigations or worse. It would not be fun to be woken up by interpol or the FBI yanking you out of bed with guns drawn because someone was using your public bore.pub service to host or send malicious or criminal content, control a botnet, etc.
That's another good one. I never bought into the theft theory. My opinion is that it was money from US & UK to prop-up CDU. Would love to know the answer someday to this one too.
No university is private. They all operate on public grants for funding, and subsidized student loans.
Wikipedia article for the pilot indicates remains of the jet could have been found in 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Moncla#Reports_of_parts_...
at the time of this post, no one in the comments is saying that. I see a lot of posts that could be summarized as "they shouldn't do this" (which I agree with). that's subtly but importantly different from "they shouldn't be allowed to do this".

that said, there are at least two ways to look at this.

the first is that this is a silly policy that seems to have nothing to do with an infectious disease, which for me, brings up memories of all sorts of ridiculous rules that institutions tend to have.

the other way of looking at it is that this policy is really quite mild compared to other measures the school could take to encourage students to get boosters.
How do you know she spent any time at all? Do you happen to have first hand knowledge?

The Berkeley guy volunteers for free, just for the record.
I'd really like to use einsum more often, because it allows me to code my expressions the same way I derive them on pen and paper. Unfortunately, as mentioned in the article, it's slow, because it converts your formula to a for loop.

So usually, I rewrite my formulas into messy combinations of broadcasts, transposes and array multiplications. Is there a package or an algorithm that does this conversion automatically? It seems to be a pretty straightforward problem, at least for most expressions I use.
Oh, nice. California, here I come!
> cities like New York and Chicago are not dead like SF and the East Bay are

I haven't been to SF, but I have been to New York. I was shocked how dead the area around the WTC was on a Monday morning (I'd just arrived and walked arround for an hour or so absorbing the city and trying to find a hardware store to get a UK-US plug as it had been so long since I travelled internationally). My local town in rural UK was busier than 8AM Monday morning downtown New York. That can't be healthy. This was about 7 weeks ago.
Making it harder to access by car is a feature. You're not boycotting the city centre because you find it hard to park, it was actually them throwing you out. The people living there decided it's not worth it to cater to the few individuals demanding to drive everywhere to the detriment of others.

Rather safe, living and cozy streets for the inhabitants, than easy access for the suburbians.
Or a bistro waiter...
That's exactly it. It just enables code reuse. You still have to think about how your application will behave, but you won't have to use an async-flavored reimplementaion of another library. Case in point: zig-okredis works in both sync and async applicatons, and I don't have to maintain two codebases.

https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-okredis

I thought using "colorblind" in the title of my original blogpost would be a clear enough hint to the reader that the colors still exist, but I guess you can never be too explicit.
https://youtu.be/KL2T0XRzWUI
So... tell them evolution is true but thankfully it stopped at the neck?
> One of Boaler's papers that claims that detracking improves achievement, even for the top performers.

If you can’t count it, you can’t analyze it.
For Chicken Pox, they will accept a positive anti-body test. If a student had Chicken Pox as a child, they'd be exempt.

But if a student had COVID last semester, they still must receive a booster shot (against a strain of SARS-CoV2 that no longer exists).

How does that make sense?
> Longevity is not the only thing that matters in life

Yeah, long COVID is a big impact, potentially bigger in terms of QALY or DALY than COVID-induced mortality.
There is much psychometric research contradicting this. Some authors are Ian Deary, Arthur Jensen, and Charles Murray.
Why not just use ssh with local or remote port forwarding? You get free auth, stream encryption, and battle tested code.

Legitimately, what benefits does this have?
Lambda is not land.
I can't help but think that this post is astroturfing by a company that keeps losing its employees due to better conditions elsewhere. The thought of feeling guilty for an employer is preposterous to me.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the point is. Good IQ tests usually test vocabulary and text comprehension, which a preschooler will not have, period.

Testing kids earlier than 12 seems like absolute nonsense.
To be clear I wasn’t telling anyone to pack up and leave. I meant that folks considering emigrating from India should go to Canada or Australia where they can get a real immigration visa from the outset, instead of rolling the dice on the H1B and hoping whatever administration is in office 10-15 years from now is feeling welcoming.
>How many years has Merkel remained in power?

And yet there are still people, in this very thread, that say that Merkel was always against German dependence on Russian gas but could not do anything about it. For 16 years!

>This awkward situation is all her doing, but still nobody will mention her name.

There is more "evidence" that Merkel is a long-term Russian intelligence asset, recruited from her youth in East Germany,[1] than that of Trump being the same. One guess on which claim is incessantly repeated by the bien-pensants of the chattering classes.

[1] Something else never talked about is how her parents moved from West to East Germany when she was a baby
I agree with you. It has gone from public health measure to some dystopian form of control. I too have all my vaccines and also caught covid. It may have helped lessen my infection but we will never know. What really showed me this was about control is when several coworkers were let go because they did not want to get the vaccine. I am in healthcare. Then when staffing shortages happened they decided people who were sick with covid but showing minor symptoms could work while sick verses calling back those who were unvaccinated but not currently sick. If it was about public safety they would not be having sick covid workers over non sick but unvaccinated. I lost all respect at that point in time. Again I have all my vaccinations.
Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Thumb* is a subset of the ARM microarchitecture designed to use 16 bit instructions.

A very pleasing coincidence!

* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0210/c/Introducti...
Well withdrawal syndromes for chronic alcoholics can be quite fatal so while it seems like it would be silly to complain about locked-down alcoholics not being able to get alcohol, the consequences could actually be bad. Though that depends on how sympathetic alcoholics are to you.

Maybe the actual thing to say is just ‘lockdowns are bad when they cause people to be unable to meet their basic needs’ and then not litigate on what precisely it is that people need.
Hmm that's an interesting idea.

After Effects still does not support exporting to the MKV container and so it doesn't fit into my typical rendering workflow. Hence I've stuck with MOV using HAP-alpha.

As a experiment, I rendered out a PNG frame sequence (with alpha) and then used FFMPEG to render out both an MOV and MKV using the hap_alpha codec.

--- When I tried importing both videos into Resolume then the MOV was successful but the MKV was rejected. Doesn't seem to be a supported.

--- VLC could not playback the MKV.

--- MPC-HC successfully played back the MKV and reported it was an rgba video.

So it was interesting experiment, but not something that my necessary software pipeline supports.

Here is some of my 3D animations for context. https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops/
I think it's difficult to marry this policy with the other stuff Google is claiming to be dramatically transformational. If Google came out and said "Hey, this self-driving stuff isn't really dissimilar from traditional driving assist." there would be some questions to answer. Which of course, is what the regulators actually say.
The main thing seems to be requirements to turn around - a normal street here is wide enough to park five fire trucks side by side. It’s way too wide for what we need.

To be fair the streets date from before the invention of the car, so maybe it’s something else.
Looking through the documentation, it’s a bit lackluster. So I always got the feeling that the primary users of the engine were the engine developers themselves
Russia or die: 45,000 Ukranians forcibly deported since invasion began
I am a current PhD student in a CS-related field. My advisors had strict requirements for my first project, but now on my second project I have complete freedom. This was my personal choice, my advisors were/are willing to give me projects, but I wanted to learn how to take a research project from idea to finish. Obviously, CS (and my school) is extremely well funded, so this may be unique.
That's not a bad trend, but such data has to be interpreted carefully. Throughout much of the (so-called) developed world, the past several hundred years of growth have seen large amounts of old-growth forests cleared. Replacing those forests, ecologically speaking, will take many human lifespans, and filling the void they once occupied (as well as land that was traditionally not forested and therefore provided different ecosystem services) with human-planned monoculture will do little more than inflate oversimplistic statistics that provide cover for those seeking to avoid taking responsibility for the health of the natural environment.

To be clear, I'm not questioning your intentions, just pointing out that the data you cite isn't (necessarily) as encouraging as a superficial examination might suggest. I'm not an ecologist, but I'd imagine that measuring biodiversity levels, soil health, cleanliness of air + water, etc. would paint a better picture of environmental health than forest cover.
There's an interesting variant of the Turing test here: develop an AI sufficiently intelligent to distinguish human content from AI generated content.

I might be wrong, but I think this might be a more difficult task than generating convincing dialogue: its very easy to generate text that statistically resembles human writing, and generators trained on certain topics (i.e. some science niche) might be impossible to flag.
Sound too good to be true.

2024: First full-scale hybrid drilling rig -> 2026: First Super Hot Enhanced Geothermal System rated to 100 MW... -> 2028: First powerplant.

This false prophet reminds me of Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes.
Always skeptical when hearing about such unicorns hunting for idiots' money.
There are hundreds of papers on incremental analysis. You can find them in PL conferences like POPL, PLDI, and OOPSLA. You can also find this kind of topic analyzed from a less theoretical perspective at conferences like FSE and ICSE. It is a hard problem.
I made the jump about a year ago (over WFH). Zero regrets. Love my new role.

A company is not a person, and when the going gets touch, it will not treat you like a person either.
Most universities required immunizations before covid, although I suspect that enforcement varied wildly. I distinctly remember having to get a whole bunch of vaccinations because we’d lost my records and couldn’t prove that I was in compliance without another round. It was a mild inconvenience at worst.
And what do they tell you in response?
Testing and developing a web service. Run the service on your localhost, like straight from your IDE with a debugger attached, and get a public internet facing bore.pub address for it. You can then point anything at it--your staging/integration or even production service, or maybe just a friend or coworker who wants to see in development work.
Sounds promising. How realistic is the depth target of 20km really? Also, I would assume this infrastructure will be less applicable in locations with frequent earthquakes.
Related to this, and tangentially connected to the topic of reading fiction, I'll take this as an opportunity to raise one of the many things that I disliked about Cixin Liu's “The Three-Body Problem”. I honestly don't understand why it is held in such high regard, let alone sometimes described as "hard" science fiction. Spoilers evidently follow.

One of the initial plot points in the novel is that many top scientists in fields close to theoretical physics are misteriously committing suicide. Eventually it is revealed that they're doing it because an alien civilisation is surreptitiously using advanced technology to secretly interfere with human research at the subatomic level or something of the sort, to the point that the affected scientists are coming across such contradictory, counterfactual and inconsistent results that they finally commit suicide out of despair, shame, or loss of faith in science.

The idea that scientists, when faced with sudden nonsensical results which they cannot explain, would feel compelled not only to keep this fact to themselves but also to take their own lives is an unbelievably ignorant take on the workings of science as a field and a community.

If an evil power were to somehow alter reality to start breaking the expected rules of the Universe scientists would be absolutely excited about it, not suicidal! And even if they were to eventually despair out of the meticulously planned inconsistency caused by the evil manipulators, such that nothing could ever be predicted again, the despair would happen long after years and years of scientific conventions making the whole situation very public!
That's how it works in Zig. Calling an async function like this will also await it.
A while back while on a business trip I stayed in hotel right across the street from a 24 hour Krispy Kreme donut shop. Every time their red neon “hot now” sign turned on it bathed my hotel room in a red glow. I ate a ton of hot glazed donuts that trip. Red works.
It's like, you hollow out your town making it as efficient as possible to leave rather than spend any amount of time. So then you have to build this artificial downtown where you actually can have that interaction space, because you destroyed your original interaction spaces. Only the more insidious problem with this is how malls suddenly control the entrants. Notice how most malls are filled with major chains who can actually afford the rent on these sprawling retail spaces rather than small owner-operated businesses like what used to make up these interaction spaces around the main street or square in these small towns. Plus you can't exactly add a shop to this mall. It's one giant hulking thing. Whereas back in the day, if you lived near the town and wanted to open a shop, you might have built one yourself in the setback in front of your house.
> How does that make sense?

Looks like the vaccine creates a broader set of antibody responses than natural infection does. If you want the population to be protected against the next wave of illness, this is the way to go.

> (against a strain of SARS-CoV2 that no longer exists).

That's the funny thing here. Getting boosted with B.1.1.7 doesn't just cause antibodies to develop towards B.1.1.7, but instead for your beta cells that make things against things-kinda-like-B.1.1.7 to mutate until they're creating all kinds of similar antibodies (preferentially drifting towards things that are B.1.1.7-like).