skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an empiricist. For my own ailments, the track record has been:

Dr Google & Dr. Wikipedia: 4

GPs & Specialists: 1

And the one ailment that the system did successfully treat was primarily a result of misinformation that the system perpetuated. If the system were functioning, there would be no way for an amateur to outperform them so consistently.

edit: and since HN is slowposting me now:

I mentioned a study in my original comment:

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139.long

While this comment made no claim to being a study. It is highlighting an extreme improbability. If random taco cart guy is besting the average software dev 80% of the time, that's a pretty clear sign something is wrong with the field.

edit 2: and to joshuamorton

Mine was by a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins and his research assistant, subsequently published in the British Medical Journal. Yours is a blog post by a "science communicator," whatever that is supposed to be. Of course the BMJ article would be widely criticized by an industry that claims almost 20% of US GDP. They can afford to have it criticized--by professional criticizers no less.

And the BMJ article is but one of many on the misrepresentations and oversellings of modern medicine. Read Ioannidis, or Mendelssohn, or Illich, or Mullins, or so many others!

As an old person, who has seen a lot of people cut short by the hospitals, all of these takedowns have held true to life. I've seen heart patients MRSA-ed to death by the hospitals, who would have been just fine if they stayed home; cancer patients killed off by post-radiation pleural effusion long before the cancer would have gotten them; people losing 1/3 of their blood volume, or suffering from intestinal perforations, from "routine" colonoscopies.

The primary contribution to human life expectancy in the last century was not mainstream medicine. It was public hygiene.
Agreed. Modern cars with adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist are a breeze to drive if you maintain awareness of your surroundings and practice confident defensive driving.
Hmm. That is what I was taught, living in a Protestant country.

And it would seem I was taught just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Tolosani
My impression is, they are very careful to not break any law. They are also giving some examples on personal level, but people here don't accept them, because it plays in their prejudice of the justified behavior against the religious.

I don't think it's up to us to decide how true or false the accusations are. People from Google reading this should reflect on their own behavior and environment, and whether they match this or not. Everyone else can only do the same for their own life and company.

But the important thing here is, people here seems to not understand such problems, if they are not delivered in concrete wording and explanation. Empathy(?) here is too low to understand and evaluate a situation from just vague explanations. And that is a serious problem in itself, leading to such problems.
How do you expect that to happen if there is no right to force savers to spend off their savings to eliminate debt?

Also, a 0% interest rate can potentially be stable eternally. An eternally positive interest rate must collapse at some point.
I also prefer the browser on a separate workspace with nothing but the browser. However, in rare cases where copy-paste from the browser is not possible/good I just move the editor temporarily next to the browser: Win-Shift-2 Win-2 in i3, it's quick. Would there even be a shortcut for "move to workspace and display"? If so I have never learned it.
Maybe, it's possible that the skillset and motivations of somebody working on a Wayland compositor is different than somebody working on font rendering?

On second thought: everyone is equally competent and motivated at everything and these developers are wasting their time and should be making sure app icons are consistent.
Can you tell me about some of the challenges you faced in the initial stage of setting up your company? Have you ever thought about quitting?
I agree.

I think the oppressiveness will come from software. Who writes it, and what values does the software reflect? Does it reflect yours?

The governance structure wants to code their rules into a machine that will execute those rules without being able to apply human discernment. Humans are meant to be out of the loop - their rules and diktats are meant to be all we need. Ai + robotics has brought this possibility onto the horizon.

The issue really then, is in people's acceptance that someone can write meaningful rules for them to follow. Hence we see jobs such as AI ethicist. As if they can do anything other than justify the immoral decisions corporations/government make.

The collective that still believe government has their best interests at heart and are unable to refuse following the worst of us, will drive us into technological tyranny.
Properly coded, there is no reason to assume, that it would not work for an arbitrary depth. Considering, that this is on a website, and that it is running JS, which in most implementations does not implement tail call elimination, coding it properly probably involves externalizing the stack.
As you're an empiricist, you also know that a study with an n of 1 is not a study; it is a case report and should be interpreted as such. You, by yourself, are not generalisable.
> Let's assume there is a magic technology that makes us 1000 times more productive. The economy wouldn't grow at all if people don't buy the additional products.

It's not just about buying more stuff, it's about the quality of stuff produced.

Like, in a desperately poor country there isn't enough labour or capital to effectively sanitise drinking water. But as productivity goes up, there is. Poor places don't drink more water than rich places, but the quality goes up dramatically.
Electronic devices to have in case of emergency
If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?
I dont think 70% overhead press is necessary for a handstand - its a much more balance oriented exercise than strength. Obviously strength is needed too, but 70% OHP will be unachievable for most people. I can handstand but only OHP about 40% of my body weight so I'm sure others can do the same
We can wrangle around this, but absolutely most civilian deaths in the twentieth century was caused by very atheists regimes.

And yes, that holds true even if you include Hitlers regime on the religious side despite the fact that major religious factions were against him.
Etymology in interesting, but has almost zero relevance in determining how acceptable a use of a word is.
CV Generation Using Svelte
I'm speaking mostly to the design of our virtual worlds. New tech is certainly interesting, but I feel we're trying to build a roof before the walls.

For example, compared to commercial worlds from 2005 (or text muds from 1995 for that matter), modern virtual worlds are largely the same or worse at helping players form meaningful relationships with eachother. The same goes for their proficiency at helping players connect to the world itself, or at moderating their playerbases.

These are all things that could be more rapidly iterated on in a healthy indy scene, producing new trends and patterns that would lead to more fulfilling interactions with virtual worlds.
This is not really true, vaccines first and foremost enter cells at the point of injection (intramuscular) through fusion of the lipid nano particles with the cell membrane, not via the ACE2 or TMPRSS route as the live virus. The immune response then depends on the migration of antigen presenting cells to the mostly peripheral lymph nodes where the full immune response is mounted including germinal centers. This has little to do with blood borne propagation.
The virus on the other hand has multiple ways of entry into cells, ACE2 dependent, the endosomal route, syncytia formation and others that are still discussed. What is not up for debate though is that SARS-CoV-2 regularly infects other organs, including the kidney [1] and the liver were it does damage. It has also been shown to persist in organs like the intestine for more than a year in its live form. Due to the (super-)antigenic nature of the virus and the subsequent systemic inflammatory response the rate of post-Covid myocarditis also by far exceeds the incidence of myocarditis after vaccination in all age groups and cases tend to be more severe with the virus.
It will be important to develop mucosal vaccines because current vaccines only elicit a very limited and short-lived IgA response and IgA antibodies, thanks to their shape, confer protection without excessive inflammation and offer protection against infection. But your description of the spread of the virus and the vaccine is just not accurate.

1: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
You're right, it's in another article by the same author: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...
So what’s the final advice to a consciously non-religious person when someone starts a religious talk?

Apart from politely diverting.
Not a physical reason, no, but an AI one.

Humans and most other animals don't rely solely on stereoscopic vision to navigate the world, we rely on a model of the world where we recognize objects in the image we perceive, know their real size from experience, and use that as well as stereoscopic hints to approximate distances and speeds. We additionally use our understanding of basic physics to assist - we distinguish between an object and its shadow, we can tell the approximate weight of something by the way it moves in the wind (to know if we need to avoid an obstacle on the road), and there are other hints we take into account.

We also take into account our knowledge of the likely behavior of these objects to judge relative speeds (e.g. thr car is moving away, it's not the tree coming closer).

Without this crucial aspect of object recognition and experience about the world, our vision is actually very bad at navigation. If you put us in an artifical environment with, say, pure geometric shapes at various distances, no/fake shadows, objects with non-realistic proportions and so on, we will have much more trouble navigating and not bumping into things even at walking speeds. And this is the level the AI is currently operating at, more or less.

And if you don't believe me, note that humans with one eye, while having impaired depth perception, are still perfectly able to drive safely, with ~0 physical mechanisms for measuring distance (I beleieve the spherical shape of the iris may still give some very subtle hints about distance as you move your eye around, but that is minimal compared to stereoscopic vision). A LOT of our depth perception is just 2D image + object recognition + knowledge about those objects.
They are both the same as in they are both bad, even if in different ways.

In my country for more than 20 years people don't vote for a party (and we have more than 2), but they vote against what they see as the worst party. It is negative voting. If I would move and vote in US, I have very strong reasons to vote against both major parties, they look like the choice between getting shot to death or hanged to death: no matter what you choose, the result is bad.

Also some part of that enumeration implied as positive changes is not seen as positive in countries that did such things 20-30 years ago and saw the effects. Lots of people seem to wear horse blinders, they do things that were done by other countries ignoring the outcome in these countries. The emperor is naked and nobody wants to admit it.
The term "compositor" refers to a program that is significantly broader in scope than an X11 window manager. You can write the most basic but somewhat useful WM in about 50 lines of C, and literally *all* it has to do, is to respond to new windows being mapped. A Wayland compositor on the other hand has to do approximately half of the work of an actual full-blown X11 server. This is why almost every WL compositor out there is using wlroots - which continues to advertise itself as "60k lines of code that you'd have to write anyway".

Calling WL compositors "window managers" is somewhat like asking where's the horse in that car.
I suppose to my mind it depends on who benefits. I'm not averse to people getting private treatment if there are reasonable wait times within the NHS and the NHS gains from that.

Where it gets to the point of NHS dentists where it's a struggle to get one, because they're all private. That is an issue.
I am that engineer; happy to clarify/go into more detail. First, just to ensure we're on the same page: the speeds we quote are sort goodput, i.e. amount of sorted data produced per time. Memory bus is only incidental to keeping the vector units fed.

The key bottleneck is partitioning. AVX-512 does really well there because it has dedicated compressstore instructions, and it's actually even faster to partition a vector via vperm* (because we only need to do that once, whereas two compressstore are required to partition). So AVX-512 reaches >25 GB/s partition throughput per core; it's instead limited by the memory bandwidth each core can access (around 11 GB/s if a single core is active, less when all are competing for the total "128 GB/s").

By contrast, NEON for example in the M1 has 128-bit vectors. Its "4 vector units" (even if they can actually execute all instructions concurrently, which is not clear to me and unlikely - Intel can also only execute some instructions on certain ports) are definitely not as good as actual 512 bit vectors, because partitioning only has a left and right side, and we don't have enough ILP for each of those to keep 2 vector units busy. Hence NEON reaches 11 GB/s partition throughput. It would seem like this matches Skylake, but no: once a subarray fits into cache, Skylake is freed from the memory bottleneck and is at least twice as fast there (which is a sizable fraction of the total sort time).

Does this help explain the results?

> The test set they used could also fully fit into the L2 cache.

This seems unlikely because we're sorting 8 MB and my understanding is that cores (unless L2==LLC) generally have private, partitioned L2 caches, so 3 MB in the case of M1. Is that incorrect?
> It’s quite baffling to me that people would start talking about religion at social events that are not related to religion in the first place.

A major component of the current crisis is the willingness of some to scuttle traditional norms amd mores.

One is now subject to evangelistic browbeatings from the "Woke" along Orwellian lines.

Satan is now cast in orange, according to this faith, and the networks genuflected for two hours of televangelism in prime time on Thursday the 9th.
Okay - do you think you would/wouldn’t have participated in the games as a viewer were you born in the times?
Great article. Very comprehensive and well written, while not skipping the gotchas the author hit along the way

I don't really much about how the JVM works, but it's interesting that this is (if I understood correctly) in effect calling out to some native code. In the JVM world, when are things added to the byte code as a new instruction, and when are they wrapped up in a native code call?

I'd expect a new vector instruction for the stack machine, but I'm guessing that's less flexible and less performant..?

"Practically speaking, you end up with code that looks like it creates many objects, but actually compiles to code that allocates no memory. It is extremely disconcerting."

It's interesting comparing people working in Java vs C++. Java makes it so impractical to really reason about the code directly that users ends up relying a lot more on tooling for benchmarking and introspection (and hence the tools are top-class)

"Java’s ability to print its compiler output as assembly "

How do you do this? Is this integrated into the IDE?

While the tools are great and you can dissect all your performance problems, ultimately feedback from the compiler should be feeding back into the editor. I feel that some of the issues the author hit shouldn't happen. You should for instance be immediately able to see if a function is being inlining while you're editing and not having to run extra tools
I'm not a huge fan of Snowden's; I'm not sure what to think of him. It's tempting to mock him for ending up in Russia of all places - one of the top 3 countries for suppressing dissent. But he didn't go there because he thinks the Russian government is morally superior; he went there because it allows him to stay of out prison.

I don't think he dedicated his life to denouncing all morally questionable government actions everywhere. He ruined his own life by denouncing what the NSA was allegedly doing back then. I'm not sure I can demand that he should ruin his life even more by annoying the Russian government.
>I suspect liking the taste is somewhat of a Pavlovian response to the effects caffeine

Yup. Let's not forget added sugar however
I think the European Union is already pushing for decentralized identifiers and so on to be implemented. It is an open standard being developed by the W3C and it does seem to genuinely solve a lot of headaches when it comes to identification. The beauty of it is, I guess, that it seems to be thought of as a truly compatible protocol so it wouldn't matter all that much where your data is (which blockchain).

One thing though... it seems like we love to discuss so much about how all these centralized platforms are a problem, that we need democracy and so on. And of course I agree. But democracy is not a technological leap away. Democracy is a way to structure decision making in organizations. But somehow the idea that big tech could be democratized is not something we are really willing to discuss, what would this mean?

In this regard I find work being done by, say OpenCollective and by the Exit to Community crowd, to be much more of revolutionary than work being done by Dorsey. I would love to see more work being put into improving the ways we can use our collective will and strength to make decisions. But that's not what this fantasy is all about. This fantasy is just an extension of the individualism that perpetuates the current system.

Is not all bad, and I do value the vision against this hyper-marketization and I value Dorsey's quest. But we really ought to rethink ownership and I don't really see that being pushed. I think we are all so afraid of ourselves, so entrapped on the patriarchal conception of the father figure that we are scared of exploring new ways of ownership and decision making.
Come see the violence inherent to the system, I’m being repressed
We both worked at Google and had the same salary, so I'm sure
Institutions made of people have limited reach. Human resources are finite, there's a physical limit on the scale of what they can do. A computerized society is limitless. A state might want to spy on everybody but it's impossible to do so due to limited manpower. Computers remove those limits and allow states to implement global surveillance.
commercial citimanager is an example of a stupid site that asks for those on any auth flow
He's also an active HN participant [1]. Definitely high quality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern
Particularly since the article spends such a big chunk of its text talking about bounds-checks and criticising Blow for being against them, when in fact in his language Jai, as far as I know, bounds-checks are enabled by default, although you can disable them selectively when they are e.g. in hot loops. So it's not any different than say Rust in this regard. It's the strawman of strawmen.
This guy is legitimately nuts and needs treatment.
Yes, of course, you're right. Unfortunately, Brandolini's Law often applies quite strongly. I simply do not wish to always subject myself to that and only wish to alert readers of the comment thread to think critically about the parent comment's contents. That is - the target of my comment is not the parent comment's author, but the reader of the parent comment. Generally, this is sufficient to meet my aims.
Just because it's analog doesn't preclude presets. Analog generally refers to the signal path, not the control path.

The Analog advantage (on tone at least) is most obvious in high frequency sounds and audio rate modulation. This is due to DSP sample rates / aliasing / nyquist limitations. The main disadvantage is cost as many things components have to be physically duplicated rather than just copied in software.
Constitution doesn’t distinguish between them. Did you approve of Daniel Ellsberg being jailed.
A deeply and clearly thought out argument for why immutable blockchains and code as law are terrible ideas, yet the conclusion is that crypto-anarchist technologies are a net good. No explanation or exploration of why that might be the case, given the preceding damning indictment of the principles such technologies are based on. Very odd.

As to the broader issue, I agree with those here pointing out that indifference to human values is simply part of the nature of the universe. I wouldn't say that nature is inherently hostile, it's just indifferent. Survival of the fittest doesn't care about the feelings of those eliminated form the gene pool. The rules we code into computer systems are no more or less intractable to human values than the laws of physics that make our bodies work. I think this means that decision making on human affairs should fall to humans, which means all such decision are ultimately political ones. Crypto-anarchism can't do an end run around that.

Yet I think it's wrong to think of human values as purely a system we choose to impose on brute nature from outside it. We are part of nature. Our systems of values, and traits such as love and empathy are evolved behaviours. They were selected for by those same implacable laws of nature and survival of the fittest. So I don't see recognition of the implacability of nature as irretrievably nihilistic.
Sum up those opposing and abstaining countries population sizes. Some very important countries with large and growing economies and populations are neutral.
I find I often crave a taste sensation, any will do. Doesn't even have to be a taste I find pleasurable. Kinda to stave off boredom really. Tea (even herbal), coffee, soda or alcohol all scratch that itch.
I use pd.from_html
It sounds like you're just talking about the difference between knobs vs mouse clicks ;)
https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/#

Shows you satellites that will be visible from your position in the coming hours / days.

Incredibly cool tech stack too.
Before jq people did not use much JSON. XML seemed like the answer for many years, but it was always heavy to use. With a good universal tool maybe XML would have been a better success. But I don't think there was anything comparable to jq.
Computers are NOT an inherently oppressive technology, any more than vehicles are inherently homicidal.

What can liberate humanity from bogus causal analysis?
I bought "Linear Algebra with Applications by Gareth Williams" 5th or 6th edition on ebay for 6 bucks. It's very simple and operative (manual matrix calc so you don't stay stuck in fuzzy terminology for too long). It's so easy I'm not even sure it's proper undergrad level. But it deeply unlocked my brain on the topic..
It seems that if they wanted to, the Russians could make him fake passport with Snowden's picture and a made-up name and he could go wherever he wants. He shows up in the passenger manifest with some random name and the plane doesn't get diverted.

But he probably doesn't get any favors from Russia because he's not useful to them.
Yes, there were a lot of beats (from memory) I used 3 or 4 'drum instruments?' per block with all blocks including a drum beat except the last two and most included two or three 'instruments' per block. Tested using FF 91.10 ESR on Linux Mint 20.3. Altering the tempo didn't have any impact. HTH.
Yeah that was my best guess too… so maybe the mall wife was someone they walked with?