skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, this is a common pattern in anything involving Adrian Zenz: by throwing together two facts, the growing usage of contraceptives - itself a healthy trend in a region where it’s common to have lots of kids (one child policy didn’t apply to Uighurs) - and several cases of forced sterilization, he gets to conclusion of “population-wide forced sterilization” - which is not supported by factual evidence.

As for “what about” - I agree that all violations of human rights matter. But if we ignore facts and believe propaganda instead, eventually we will forget about those facts. Just how most people don’t think much about Saddam’s victims because of how US lied to justify the invasion.

Can you show me the source for the claim that those crimes in Xinjang are officially sanctioned?
Looking through some of those detainee pictures, it is almost all men, and some older women. Gruesome implication. But I only looked through some.
Ask HN: What's your favourite recipe to cook at home?
To answer the question of why four of them:

* the traffic from the monitored systems comes with spikes. Looking at netdata graphs, currently the baseline is 600 requests/s, but there is a 2000 requests/s spike every minute, and 4000 requests/s spike every 10 minutes.

* want to maintain redundancy and capacity even when a load balancer is removed from DNS rotation (due to network problems, or for upgrade)

There are spare resources on the servers, especially RAM, and I could pack more things on fewer hosts. But, with Hetzner prices, why bother? :-)
COVID-19 comes to mind as well as literally any human virus infection.
Does a male have a higher sex drive? Are they more likely to rape?

If yes, then women have, in the aggregate, more control over their sexual behaviour than men. And thus men have less control. This does not necesarily imply anything about what the punishment for rape or assault should be.

Note: I am eliding a lot of what the definition of a person is (e.g. everything contained in their skin? Just concious processes? Some form of "natural" baseline that excludes tumors/drugs/etc?) in the above so YMMV.

I recommend using "I agree with the denotation but disagree with connotation/affect" for situations like replying to the grandparent post.
I quit my job because I was a bit bored, my new job isn't better, but at least I have 10 weeks of vacations, and my 35h a week allows me to enjoy my life without sacrificing either sleep or family when I'm not traveling.

Is this toxic positivity?
(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging LLMs to build more robust hate speech detection tools
> What's wrong with you cars?

1.) Too many full-of-themselves people at car companies, with more-features-is-better attitudes. Or at least "more features will help keep me employed" strategies. (Yes, the seatbelt and service reminders are probably driven by other incentives at the car company.)

2.) Too many buyers who instinctively prefer the vehicle with most, shiniest, and most-useless sh*t - as a strategy for "my car's tail fins are longer than yours" social competitions and/or boosting their self-esteems.
Well, first they parse the language into a high level vector representation. Then they take images and add noise and train a model to remove the noise so it can start with a noisy image and produce a clear image from it. Then they train a model to map from the word representation for text to the noisy image representation for the corresponding image. Then they upsample twice to get to good resolution.

So text -> text representation -> most likely noised image space -> iteratively reduce noise N times -> upsample result

Something like that, please correct anything I'm missing.

Re: the snake corn question, it is mapping the "concept" of corn to the concept of a body as represented by intermediary learned vector representations.
Creating a virtual traffic jam on Google Maps with 99 phones and a wagon
Maybe in the past, sure. But these days people rely far more on their web apps.

Having a 1-2 day outage because your architecture is not highly-available across data centres like this one just doesn't cut it. And multi-day outages are very much real because of the thundering herd effect as companies rapidly try to move between data centres exhausting capacity.

And much of the complexity in modern day architectures come from high availability and security.
Duplicates:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22218181
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233637
That's just a fancy way of having a proxy for "rich people". Football, baseball, basketball, hockey. Those are the sports of the unwashed masses.

That a magnet school that attracts the students of wealthy parents who are deeply invested in their kids eduction doesn't have a sport the those demographics turn their nose up at <insert low effort quip about brain damage here> is expected. I bet they have rowing and lacross to make up for it.
Our immune system handles most viruses. If it doesn't we can just develop a vaccine.

Keep in mind that evolution has spend the entirety of time the human species has existed trying to evolve a virus that is effective against human targets. Our immune system is very capable of handling larger infections in 99.99% of cases a virus takes hold in our bodies. And for the remainder we have modern science like vaccines and anti-virals.
My counterpoint is about demonstrating that while the sources document mass detention, they don’t show that the cases of other abuse are systemic - to me it seems they are not mandated by the system, rather, they are individual crimes committed by the guards, and the US prison system is an example of how this problem also exists elsewhere and might be unavoidable at this scale.

>The only crimes the millions of Uyghurs committed are being of a certain race and practicing a certain religion.

And the vast majority of them are fine. It’s not like Iraquis killed by US troops simply for “being a certain race and practicing a certain religion”.
Every member state can veto every EU commission proposal. The member states are far more powerful than the commission. Also, the commission itself has a representative from each member state. The funny thing about the EU commission is that they get criticized for being dictators and toothless and weak at the same time. Often even by the same people.
The gypsum could actually have helped. Calcium cations can displace both sodium and magnesium ones on the clay particles. Calcium being physically larger can help create greater separation between clay particles which is helpful for building aggregates.
> Can you elaborate on the issue you encountered?

Alas, no, I didn't keep detailed notes at the time (2018) because I was too busy trying to recover my blog from the disaster.

> Fast forward a few years [...] the new version is now too far ahead

It was 6 months after the migration to v1 and 5 months before v2 came out.
Came here to say Rudin. His presentation is “odd” in that he introduces powerful concepts and whacks large numbers of problems on the head with them, whereas the usual pedagogical approach is to teach techniques that correspond to these concepts but never explain the concept.

I also really liked Herstein on algebra but I believe it’s out of print now.
This is, for me, one of the biggest issues with gay culture. The sheer amount of sexual partners the average gay/bisexual man has, in comparison to straight ones, is, in my eyes a huge risk factor.

Sadly, it is very hard to have serious discussions about such topics nowadays, as one tends to get hit with the homophobia label.
No, it's not. Because that could be a possible motivation for tether to remove supply, to artificially increase the price again, to get close to peg. And as far as I understand, nothing in Tether is transparent, so I'm not sure if they can't just destroy their own tokens without someone being sure that this is happening.
> Keeping it Real

Not be confused with Dave Chappelle's sitcom https://youtu.be/D3U55usfJK8
Apparently a lot of people are suddenly experts on this guy Zenz. There appears to be sort of campaign going on in various places (like here on HN) to throw dirt at him.
I think one of the reasons to get bigger and bigger is to save human time.

If we get to a place where it's all AI, is there a chance that many smaller machines will become more effective than a few enormous ones?
Of course. But the sources don’t show this to be the case, it’s just an assumption.
Now please explain to me how what you wrote doesn't apply to PoW.
I also didn’t participate in an election in every UK parliamentary constituency when I still lived there.

I’ll be happy to say the UK also doesn’t count as a “proper democracy”, but counting it as more democratic than the EU feels like arguments-as-soldiers.

My personal take is that the EU is a trade agreement that, unlike most trade agreements, has at least a modicum of democratic accountability. But the foundation of its democratic nature is the member states within the EU rather than the supernational coordination organisation itself, which is precisely as democratic as its members want it to be and no more nor less than that.
Yes, money is in fact fungible. No, we are nowhere near max production capacity, as demonstrated by prices still falling. Nobody is building new coal except China.
We have however developed effective treatment for the infected at this point as well as have a very effective vaccine. If whatever escapes turns out to be worse, I think our response will be much better. Plus remember that we eradicated smallpox entirely.
I read this “research” and the quality is laughable. Farmers, paleontologists and soil researchers will all find hilarious passages that make it seem like a high school project.
Computers didn't fuck anyone over 40, but they did create new opportunities for young people that slowly took over the labor market and provided a steady stream of productivity growth. Right now these are impressive benchmarks and neat toys that cost millions to train. This is going to be a slow transition to a new paradigm. We are not going to end up in a utopia any more than computers created a utopia.
I typically choose the largest NIST curve supported in the libraries I'm using, like P521.
I just skimmed the abstract but it sounds like they made the comparison because sauropods already compressed most soil everywhere. So it simplifies it a bit in the title, but it's about exceeding the level of compression already established anyways due to sauropods.

Also the weight over area might become less relevant the deeper you go because it naturally spreads outwards anyways.
I think Pascal itself serves as Wirth's own counterexample. When I first learned Pascal it was not the original version of Pascal. It was a Borland's highly extended version of Pascal, then later Delphi. Wirth still has a point as they are considerably smaller than many contemporary languages, but it is clear to me that a bare Pascal wasn't large enough.
Elon said a few times they're working hard to get the power draw down.
Climate change made South Asian heatwave 30 times more likely
Cool! I'd be curious how large the codebase is, but it's cool to hear that something like Lightroom exists at all.
“…who can do something about it.”

What can they do, specifically?
Nobody, not even tether claims that tether is backed 1:1 by dollars.
Possible explanation for more mutations in the monkeypox outbreak
That sounds like most CEOs jumping on an HN thread when there is an article denouncing there company.

They follow the same pattern. Start with "Hey! SomeStartup CEO here."

Then proceed to explain that they are happy about the feedbacks and that they hear the complains. Followed by more words that could have been written by GPT-3.
The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.)
But then again, if you try to browse his twitter, he comes across as some sort of deranged markov-chain AI. He posts a weird mixture of religious banalities and truisms, and weird vague news/political "news", and again random links to technical topics.
I get an uneasy feeling looking at it, like T-800 Schwarzenegger imitating human voices on the phone.
Maybe there is no deeper truth than that it is a 'legal' scam he is making money from, but I find it repelling.
I wonder whether the plan here is to steal an idea and re-implement and hope to beat the original with better resourcing/execution/luck. Or whether the plan really was actually to just build enough of a Potemkin village to squeeze money out of VC? I'm guessing the latter.
> the article hasn't aged well

He mentioned generics* is needed to "grow the language". Then Java added it, making the language more expressive. This talk aged like fine wine if you ask me.

* and operator overloading, and value types. The former I'm happy using in Kotlin. The latter we will have to wait. But for code that is not performance-sensitive, data classes/records work just fine.
> It's the same with a programming language: if it's designed too spartan, I have to write too much code that is always similar, which causes effort and obscures the real intention of the code.

I think Go is the perfect example of this. On paper, it's a simple language. But:

- Not having sum types means it's awkward and unsafe to express concepts such as "X or Y". This is a big deal, because "Result or Error" is one of the most common ideas we have to deal with in programming. I think this tweet visually captures the awkwardness: https://twitter.com/GabriellaG439/status/1521860707444133888. Another place this shows up is pointers: in Go, since there is no way to represent "present or missing" at the type level, Go has to bake that possibility into the semantics of pointers. The billion dollar mistake.

- Every type in Go has a "zero" value. On the surface, this seems simple: when you declare a variable, you get a predictable value without having to explicitly initialize it. But this prevents you from implementing abstract data types which are guaranteed to be constructed by a smart constructor that establishes all the relevant invariants. Now you always have to worry about this zero value, since it might not satisfy the invariants of your data structure (consider the simplest data structure with an invariant: a pointer which is non-null!). Also, you can easily forget to set a field in a struct, which means the zero value will show up in unexpected places (resulting in subtle bugs that might go undetected even at runtime).

- Until recently, Go didn't have generics. Simpler, right? But that means if you want to build a reusable data type, you needed to either (a) make N copies of it, being careful to keep them in sync, with no help from the compiler, or (b) sacrifice type safety and represent data as interface{} (essentially a void* pointer), adding dangerous casts all over the place.

Languages like Haskell and Rust are more complicated than Go. But once you've paid the upfront cost of learning them, common programming patterns actually become simpler.

Of course, there's a flip side to this. Most languages have a lot of accidental complexity too, which isn't what my argument is about. So I almost hesitate to make this comment, fearing that it will be quoted out of context to justify adding badly designed features to programming languages.
As we saw after the invasion of Ukraine, the West can mount a swift, concerted and effective response, that deals a lot of damage to the offending country's economy. I'm sure that evidence of Xinjiang crimes will invoke the same kind of decisive action.
I don't mind it that much for things, but I hate it used towards people.

I think few people are that bad that you need to isolate yourself from them. In most cases, you can learn not to take their criticism, not to give into their games...
Looks like Soundiiz does have a "scheduled sync" option (although it only allows adding to an Apple Music playlist destination.) Although it'll eventually stop because I'm not sure I'll keep paying for premium... :)
In the best traditions of newspeak, the term 'philanthropy' doesn't specify the exact beneficiaries of the 'love' being addressed just like the phrase 'eradication of poverty' doesn't specify the exact means of said eradication.
He even publishes technical how-to articles, but now you'll speculate 'I wonder where he stole those from - the man pages?'
> Preceded in each case, if you recall, by attempts by those countries to join NATO.

First, all attempts were rejected. It was not that NATO was pushing some global agenda to expand. This is Putin's propaganda and it makes no sense. NATO countries were opposed to these countries joining because they didn't want to engage in a war with Russia over them. "You are not important to us enough to die for". Georgia is the opposite of Sweden in this respect.

Kremlin's propaganda is aimed at two groups: the Russian society in general, and this lands well with them as nobody wants to be the bad guy, and Westerners with an anti-American sentiment. And they're really successful. Every now and again my colleagues send me links to Mearsheimer's videos trying to convince me all this war is only the fault of the USA, NATO, Ukraine etc. Seems like everybody is guilty except Russia.
> The simple truth is that I have no idea how to manage a pandemic in a city like Shanghai. I'm glad it's not my problem.

Cop out answer. That this problem is difficult and accepting deaths will occur in any scenario is the entire point. In the very least you can’t take a moralistic hardline stance when it personally affects you and say wel it’s hard when it affects other people only.

> The "economic opportunity" can go screw. Don't sacrifice my mom for that person's extra money. There are over a half dozen empty apartments next to our house, and dozens of families living in RV's a few blocks away. I make six figures and can't afford a to buy a home. You want me to risk my mom for someone else's "economic opportunity"? And you think I'm naive?

I do think you’re naive.

Because you’re saying you make six figures and this isn’t about you. It’s about the person making low five figures, or maybe no figures. Oh no, you can’t afford a house. That sucks, but it’s also far from the bottom.

Your mom can isolate herself without a lockdown. She may get sick either way. I’m in Massachusetts currently entering its 4th wave. This stuff is endemic now. What’s the probability that your mom does not get covid with another lockdown vs the probability she does? Is there a level improvement? Is it just a delay?

What’s the probability that another lockdown causes a child to go hungry?
Absolutely agree.

Exercises are the key for learning. Like with riding a bicycle -- you learn by trying not reading or watching. Composing an exercise section is hard, so thoughtful books usually have one.

Also, I'd pick just one book for a subject and stick to it, pick it carefully to fit your style and language.
Sounds more like a humblebrag to me.
I consider YouTube comments to be an example of "toxic positivity".

YouTube are using AI to only show "postive" comments first, but the overall effect is a bizarre cultish "uncanny valley" approximation of how a real community react.
Agree - the power to open markets, guarentee acccess and obtain resources is what underpins it. As the Russians are showing us, no one else has a fraction of that capability.
Glad to see he is kind of fighting back. I am tired of the startup trope that somehow, blatant theft is a form of "flattery".
“Remote schooling is the proven no-risk solution” - where are you getting that? The abstract you cited is talking about the harms of remote learning.

The paper concludes that an effective testing regimen can, in fact, contain spread. This is the lesson we should take from this whole experience. This is the heart of why Japan and South Korea did so comparatively well during the pandemic: test, trace, and isolate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688188/

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
I think some people would be inclined to say that physics can tell you something about the actual nature of reality, rather than being a bunch of maths that corresponds to a greater or lesser degree to observed experience.

There's a difference between saying that for example "quarks exist", and "we don't know what the hell is going on inside a proton, but these quark things we made up seem to match the observations".
I don't think they've given up - I saw a streetview car driving through my village a couple weeks ago.
I wonder why HN is so silent about this. For example, from the linked article, these seem quite interesting points to start discussions

Inside the Pollen layoffs. Exclusive on how weeks after raising $150M, massive layoffs followed at travel and entertainment tech company Pollen.

* More layoffs. Carvana, Zwift, and Netflix letting people go.

* Hiring freezes and rescinded offers. Twitter, Wayfair, Redfin and Bolt join Meta in hiring freezes.

* Coinbase and Uber slow down hiring.

* YC urges portfolio companies to “cut costs and extend your runway within the next 30 days”.
The obvious solution is automated tractors. The main drive for larger and larger tractors is to maximize the amount of ground covered per time / operator. If the tractors can work tirelessly day and night that is somewhat mitigated.

The actual driving part is obviously much more trivial than autonomous driving on roads. However there are a lot of hard to automate adjustments and maintenance items going on with many tractor implements.
> A government-funded institution has no one with a stake in its long-term success.

Of course it has: pissed-off voters. Mismanaged government-funded institutions such as DMVs or social security systems are a regular troublemaker for politicians.
Fiat-backed, collaterized stable coins that are better than USDT

- USDC (Circle USD)
- GUSD (Gemini USD)
- BUSD (Binance USD)
- EURS (Stasis EUR)

Crypto backed (overcollaterized) stable coins that are soft-pegged and better than USDT

- DAI (MakerDAO)
- sUSD (Synthetix USD)
- sEUR (Synthetix EUR)

No one needs USDT anymore. The fact that even Binance gets more credibility than Tether should tell you how scammy the people still trading USDT really are.
Is there any current work on Racket CS / Chez Scheme -> WASM?
> because sauropods already compressed most soil everywhere

That happened long ago that I don't think that you can state that with such certainty about the state of soil today. It makes zero sense. Sauropods lived at the latest 66 million years ago, and quite possibly longer. Unless there is some other link that the article tries to make but I've missed.
> It's really not that expensive to manage 4G towers vs sending up thousands of small sats.

I worked for a Telco installing 4G (and 3G) towers in some of the most remote locations on Earth (the Arctic).

I can assure you, they ARE that expensive to manage.
Ed Feser is a known lunatic. You only need to look up his comments on same sex marriage for evidence. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a lunatic about physics but I’d be hesitant before investing a lot of time in him.

There are lots of good philosophers of physics who are not (to my knowledge) lunatics: David Albert, David Malament, Marc Lange are three. Sean Carroll is a physicist with philosophical interests. There are better sources than this one.
Then we will still need humans in the loop to do the cherry picking/supervised learning. Gibberish recipes need to be flagged and interesting new creations need to be promoted. The input can be fed back into the model till the model contains accurate representations of the chemical reactions of cooking ingredients and the neuronal wiring of the human olfactory system.