skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rumsey has a lot of interesting maps. i reference their collection from time to time. but a lot of maps (see the NY State Archive and Library of Congress, among others) are not georeferenced. there are various tools for dealing with this; i mostly use mapwarper.net
This is probably not LGBTQ related. If you join virtually any game groups like Roblox or similar (less "adult" games like Elden Ring for example) you will have people trying to do this, more so if your account appears young.
>You forgot couple important aspects: he also ruined the Russian economy (the conservative estimate is -12% GDP drop this year

The conservative estimate was that the ruble would plunge about 30% as a result of the war. It's now bizarrely higher than its been in 5 years.

I dont remember anybody foreseeing that. Zero. Not one analyst. Ive only heard retrospective justifications for why it happened which any idiot can come up with.

I definitely cant believe Russia is coming out of this unscathed but economic predictions are a crapshoot at the best of times and these are very much uncharted territories.
Yep. Shit comes in a variety of colors.
I would say that if someone is able to be advertised to (since that is what makes the business money) then they should be counted. So yes, there should be no requirement to tweet to be counted.
> maybe an aggregator should mirror/pin content on an IPFS node, and users can help host front page content?

I could do that... for money!
Do you encrypt files or add integrity checking before you send them to Google Drive?
This is pretty amazing. Its also something that while I'm not surprised, I'm curious (if anyone from Shopify wants to weigh in that'd be even more cool) that they aren't taking the approach that I've seen other large Ruby based enterprises take, which is moving critical functionality to a more complimentary stack, such as Go or Elixir for speed improvements. Is really investing more into Ruby in this fashion better than the alternative?

EDIT: I posit the last question as well..a real question. In another words, I guess we'll find out how this goes! I don't know what the "right" answer is. I'm more interested in the trade offs they evaluated on this front, or if its such that 500K is just a "hail mary see what happens" situation
Your analogy has some holes. Go doesn't direct end users to pull from github and `git pull` is not expected to manage dependencies.

The root of this problem is whether pip is an end user's package manager, where a meta package makes sense, or is it a developer's tool, where you want to manage finer grained dependencies?
> Thanks for the honest assessment. What about correctness/ composability of compiler transforms like AD, reliability of GPU acceleration and predictability of optimizations? (basically what you've discussed in some of your compiler talks).

I don't think we really have a good answer yet, but it's actively being worked on. That said, I don't think we can be faulted for that one, because I don't think anybody really has a good answer to this particular design problem. There's a lot of new ground being broken, so some experimentation will be required.

> TPUs, kernel fusion, branching (Lux relies on generated functions) and copy elision (though this last part is being worked on IIUC).

We have demonstrated that we can target TPUs. Kernel fusion is a bit of an interesting case, because julia doesn't really use "kernels" in the same way that the big C++ packages do. If you broadcast something, we'll just compile the "fused" kernel on the GPU, no magic required. There is still something remaining, which is that when you're working on the array level, you want to be able to do array-level optimization, which we currently don't really do (though again, the TPU work showed that we could), but is broadly being planned.

> Edit: re : bandwidth issue Jan Vitek's group is thinking a lot about the verification vs flexibility tradeoff and some people are working on a trait/ static typing system. Maybe something can be done to help them along?

We work closely with them of course, so I think there'll be some discussions there, but it's a very tough design problem.
You can also check your site with Web Sustainability tools like: https://globemallow.io/ or https://ecograder.com//
... because they promise to give you back one BTC plus something else of value?
True - though I think I’m this case military power is less of an issue than diplomatic and political capital.
So far regulators seem to be smart enough to distinguish between different vendors.
"stablecoins", NFTs, etc. are just HYIPs reimagined.
US Army's Land Trains (2020)
I suspect Web3 will be a spectacular marketing fail and then eventually nerds will figure out a real Web 3.1 that is not nearly as easily hyped but actually brings us some nice advances
Personally I'd probably categorize most unit tests as verifying correctness (but only for the scenarios tested); integration tests may be more useful for finding incidental issues that you wouldn't have thought to test for directly. I'm for sure on board with dedicating more resources to testing -- and in my case as an academic, this is something I only have really been exposed to as a result of interacting with the Julia community.

Matlab is pretty mature at this point, but I'm sure it's had its share of bugs over the years as well (especially if you also counted the file exchange, which is probably the closest thing they have to an open source package ecosystem); it would be interesting to compare the two at a similar level of maturity / development person-hours if quantitative data could be found.
As someone who kinda-somewhat understands this tech (vision/ML person by training but not automotive) I find watching the self-driving progress to be cool tech, but really a solution in search of a problem.

For me, the problem with cars is that we have too damn many of them.

And making cars better is not gonna make there be fewer cars, at least not at scale. Yes, there might be some secondary effects from self-driving cars being available on-demand in a fleet, and then you don't need your own car anymore, so you're overall less likely to take a car except when you really need to. The same argument also applies pretty much the same way to Uber though, just with potentially with a slightly higher price tag because you have to pay the driver. And do we see decreased car ownership through market entry of Uber?

In the end, cars are a problem for many reasons. Pollution (at usage time for IC, at production for EV), noise, accidents, the unspeakable hell-scape that is car-centric suburbia, loss of public space for humans, you name it. Having to actually drive them is not one of the problems besides safety. There should be fewer cars in total. Which would also largely cover the safety issues.

So that's why the self-driving future for me is... kinda irrelevant really. Yes, the cars we will still have in the future might be cooler if they're self-driving, and I hope they are. But I don't get what all the fuss is about, really.

This is not to offend anyone here of course; I get it. It is cool tech.
They even specifically make a powerful search function to make looking up things easy. You can make a combine query of something like `post by me` `contains image` `in certain channel` `before 2020/03` `contains certain text`. And it will filter out any matching result for you.

It's currently the most useful search function i ever seen in IMs
Has anyone impartial (not on Tesla's payroll) evaluated FSD?
I'm a man. My outside observation is that women are frequently very judgemental about the decisions other women make about breastfeeding, diapers, and overall parenting strategies.

My wife had a great deal of trouble getting our first child to latch and breastfeed, while our second child took to it immediately. This was despite a great deal of effort, significant paid time off, lactation experts, ert. My perception is that the 2nd child was simply more naturally able to feed. But, the response from outside observers has often been that my wife is a better mother for an action I truly believe was largely out of her control.

I'm very sympathetic to families who need to use formula. It's not a stigma, and we should do more as a society to support families who are unwilling or unable to exclusively breastfeed.

Finally, I'm not in medicine but my review of the literature indicated that the advantage of breastfeeding is largely overstated. I do believe it has small benefit the first six months, but after that the impact simply was not apparent in the effect size.
It isn't safe to copy a SQLite database because the file might be in the middle of a transaction. You need to use the ".backup" command instead.
No, a ponzi scheme is very specifically defined as an "investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors." (https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...)

A common part of the scheme is to promise high returns with little to no risk.
Because they aren't really competitors. It's like if I were talking iPhone 1 compeitotors, and you bring up cordless phones. Like yes, they are similar devices.. but latency / price / bandwidth is RIDICILIOUSLY different. hughesnet is like 15GB of data? They automatically rewrite all your videos to 480p? Latency of 300ms + making it impossible to game and hard to VOIP.
The people who create content do it in such massive amounts that this never seems to be an issue.
Reddit is ruled by a cabal of "leftists", but of the "progessive" strain, rather than the "tankie" strain. Criticism of China and communism is fine almost everywhere.
I think this is exactly the point.

A good way to ask "what does our model mean, exactly" is to imagine the perfect processes with no unnecessary energy losses. Real mirrors might not be infinitely thin mathematical abstractions, but if there isn't an actual, physically defined fundamental limit to how thin a mirror can be, then it would be weird if we could violate fundamental laws of the universe, but for want of such a mirror.

Maxwell's Demon is neat because we can whittle things down and eventually get to needing to account for the physical cost of the bits in the thing's 'brain.' An interesting example of the fact that information is actually a physical quantity.
True.

I confess, as a candidate, the really expansive job postings also help me to screen out undesirable roles.

Oh look, a company handcuffed to Microsoft .NET! Pass.

A company that doesn't check in source code as text files. Pass.

A company that still thinks Java Spring is a productive approach. Pass.

A company who evidently had a bad experience with some dip who didn't know how to Microsoft Office. Pass.

db2 (or Mongo). Pass. Thanks, job posting!
Hi, thanks for sharing the Glamorous Toolkit; I have looked into it in the past, and it reminds me of Emacs 'modability'.

I'm working on a blog post about what a dedicated distraction-free OS would look like.
None of them run on a single cluster globally. That's not supported or recommended by anyone. Some PaaS do use K8S as an underlying orchestrator for workloads, the same way Fly uses Hashicorp's Nomad, with multiple clusters per region.

Kubernetes does have federation/multi-cluster abilities, and global routing/load balancing is available from every CDN and cloud. It's more work to setup but not by that much.
Is there any chance that Elon Musk scrutinizes the 'active' v. 'non-active' users of FSD, just like he is doing with Twitter? In the interest of transparency, I think it would be very revealing, how many people have been shocked and dismayed by FSD performance to just entirely drop out of the beta FSD - but do so, via the entirely passive route of just not using it anymore.
> Only banks should have that privilege?

Yes, in exchange for the privilege of money creation you need tight regulations and public disclosures.

Banking left unregulated turns into this mess time and time again. You'd think people would be more disciplined about betting private money creators. But they aren't. They never are. Particularly not when their neighbor is showing orders of magnitudes of paper gains. This was true in antiquity. It was true in our era of free banking. It's proven true, again, in crypto.
It’s impossible Do Kwon bankrupted himself. No one is going to do something no one believes any one in crypto or Wall Street would do and keep quiet about it: be selfless, stick to your previous words that critics never believed, and not be keeping a good chunk of money for yourself.

If this happened, we will be seeing massive PR about this. Do Kwon would become a huge symbol and become a millionaire again if he actually did that and opened his life and books to scrutiny to prove everything as much as possible.
Yea I mean you’re free to disagree or course and we won’t really know for sure until something like this gets tested, but I’ve stated my opinion on the matter and don’t have much else to add.
Incident of interest shortly after the 8 minute mark.

Description: after right turn around 8 min, a few second of travel later it crosses left across lanes in preparation for a left turn. Instead of just changing lanes in preparation, then entering the well marked left turn lane, it prematurely crosses (double yellow) into what I think is dead-space between the alternating turn lanes (shared with oncoming traffic); there is no indication it's going to straighten.
That's a bit old - https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

Closer to 50% tbills and cash.

All caveated with if you trust MHA Cayman auditors.

The other 50% could be anything, and likely sketchy as they are chasing yield and extremely cagey about revealing anything about their holdings.
1. The amounts of radiation emitted by even the dirtiest of coal plants, whilst higher than a well-functioning nuclear power plant, is less than of living in a brick or stone structure, and is orders of magnitude below the lowest levels impacting health. See Randall Munroe's Radiation chart for a graphical view: https://xkcd.com/radiation/

2. There are far more concerning threats from coal. Which is to say, the radiation concern is an absolute red herring.

3. A nuclear plant behaving badly is at the absolute high end of Munroe's chart. Ten minutes next to the Chernobyl core is over five times the lethal does even with treatment. Not only has every nuclear accident I'm aware of come about principally through management failures, personnel misconduct, or both, but the consequences of those events persist for centuries to millennia. Well beyond the lifetimes of any institutions we have to address them. Russia added direct military attack and occupation to that list earlier this year, and there's little reason to expect that this will go away.

There's often some confusion that the argument is about nuclear vs. some other terrible energy choice, or that to be anti-nuclear is to be pro-some other specific option, or that those who raise these points are unaware of disasters with much larger immediate impacts. Say, Banqiao Dam, also a combination of errors: design, engineering, operation, weather, disaster preparedness, disaster response. The Banqiao region is now home once again to millions of Chinese, the event is entirely closed, and there is no lingering centuries- or millennia-long threat to deal with. The accident itself is an extreme outlier even amongst dam failures.

The book has not yet been closed on Sellafield, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and numerous other smaller mishaps.

That said, I'm not dead set against nuclear.

But I'm also going to flatly reject that the problems it faces are strictly of engineering, and that they can be papered over with promises and misrepresentations. That is simply not true.
A couple of main reasons are:

1. Accumulate a large volume of data where its value is based on sheer size. Their "revenue model" could be a red herring for a later acquisition based on the monetary value of their datasets.

2. Analyze the data in-house and sell predictions, not the data itself which could skirt some privacy laws
Probably says a lot about how much brutality we've engineered out of daily living. I recall having a visceral reaction to hearing about the kittens as a child, and I imagine it's fairly natural to feel that way. I'm glad I lived in a time and place where that kind of desensitization wasn't necessary.
This isn’t impressive anymore, so many self driving companies are testing their cars in California in no peak times, in areas where road conditions are some of the best in the world. It would be more impressing to see this tech in peak hours with subpar road conditions and maybe in different countries and continents. Maybe EU countries where roads are not ideal and are small?

The biggest test would be Asia, I’m Indian, and believe me normal road laws don’t apply their, and the AI would struggle a lot and maybe be much more dangerous.
I'm confused. I understand wanting to have a reserve fund to help maintain a peg. National currencies do this as well, including selling their reserves to prop up their own currency when needed.

However, why would a stablecoin put its reserved in Bitcoin; an asset that is highly correlated with the entire crypto ecosystem, and highly volatile relative to the asset against which they want to maintain a peg.
I am the author of the parent comment.

I do like where I work and I do like my coworkers - for remote work.

Please do not twist my words to match your narrative.
Which is exactly what Google did.[0][1] They built an entire fake city to test in: "Castle", California.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-ca...
Because there's no such thing as unbacked BTC. You either have the UTXOs pointing at an address you hold the keys for, or you do not.

If someone loans you BTC, the supply of BTC has not increased.
I believe compilers deliberately avoid the partial width instructions because they are slower in practice.
> was to shut down all people coming into the country before Omicron arrived.

Even that wouldn't work, there are covid reservoirs among wild animals now (e.g. deer).
I'm only skimming this post and I'm not familiar with Julia so maybe I'm missing it, but does it have a way to get an item AND its index? There's I think Enumrable? in Rust where it gives you a tuple with both the item and its index in cases where you need both.
I'm being sarcastic that it is "clear", and being genuine when I say that orange juice industry lawyers argue that consumers are not confused about what "Not From Concentrate" means despite such contortions.

I do highly recommend Hamilton's Squeezed book for a more detailed expose. It's available from libraries, both physical and online. It's not for everyone, but if you care a lot about food regulation and the way that producers get around the law to deceive consumers, it's great.
> Quickly put a mirror in the photon’s path right where the wave function superoscillates, keeping the mirror there for a short time.

Varying things quickly in space or in time requires a lot of energy. The energy could be coming from moving the mirror too quickly. For example, if you modeled the mirror's movement as being driven by a force then you might find the mirror's motion is damped by reflecting the photon; losing energy.

Instantaneously switching the driving Hamiltonian can easily spread energy around, unless they commute. The Hamiltonians for "no mirror" (H1) and "yes mirror" (H2) won't commute. It sounds like they've arranged for the eigenstates of H1 to overlap with a huge range of eigenvalues of H2, and vice versa. So when you switch from H1 to H2 you end up in a superposition of all kinds of different energies. Evolve there for a bit so switching back won't destructively interfere you back down to exactly where you started, and voila.

I think if they account for these kinds of "changing the Hamiltonian ain't free" effects, they'll find where the energy came from.
You are misreading into my statements, and putting words in my mouth. Perhaps I was not clear enough. But I only took these examples to demonstrate how dynamic these things are. If you can construct a hypothetical that turns things one way, I can just as easily create an equally plausible scenario that turns things the other. The point of my exercise was simply to demonstrate that, not to advocate for some utopia.

Current implementations of free migrations don’t come as some experiments, they come from policymakers recognizing the benefits of free movement of people. This is one of the fundamental rights (the four freedoms) within the EU (or, to be more accurate, the Schengen Area).

Also, like I said, free migration won’t come all at once. The EU currently has free migration within a certain area. I hope this area will gradually expand (though I’m pessimistic it will reach far outside of the continent). Similarly free migration for the USA might start with Canada and Mexico, then expand to the Americas, and the Pacific, then maybe merge with Europe’s, Africa’s, etc. Each expansion will, no doubt, be met with fierce resistance from xenophobes, so you don’t have to worry that this would happen quickly. If I’m wrong (which I probably am; as my hypotheticals were never meant to be read as predictions) this policy can easily be slowed down, and even reversed. However, history and current implementations would suggest that there is at least little harm and potentially many benefits we are missing out on by keeping our migrations so restricted.
RADAR would not have helped in this situation. Even if the oncoming car wasn't there, the Tesla still made an illegal maneuverer - in no state I can think of is it illegal to cross 2 double yellow lines.

Either

1.) The camera's fidelity isn't good enough to make out the double yellow lines

2.) A software bug caused the Tesla to drive to aggressively.
The specific difference here seems to be about who is allowed to sue for GPL violations: "[Sandler] explains that in past litigation, the plaintiffs have always been copyright holders of the specific GPL code. In this case, Software Freedom Conservancy hopes to demonstrate that it's not just the copyright holders, but also the receivers of the licensed code who are entitled to rights." Stating a contractual claim seems to be the first step towards proving this (but not sufficient in and of itself).
As I’ve been learning about value investing and growth stocks, it feels like we’re in a weird middle. Stocks aren’t cheap enough to attract the people who want to buy at a discount, and they’re not sexy enough to rally on the hype train. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the short term, and I wouldn’t really want to pretend that I do.
Is Pix a public version of Venmo?

Seems like some of the Pix => cash features are different.
Maybe people are more important than cars in China.
Young, entitled and over there: the rise of the begpacker (2019)