skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
returns being purely in dividends is not 'how it's supposed to work' that means there is 0 growth in your economy and you're probably in decline due to the accumulation of entropy in these cash returning companies.
You can't really have bytecode instructions for the vector API functions because they're generic. They're instead methods, which the JIT compiler can handle specially if it so chooses to. Effectively, for pure computational operations (i.e. not ones doing complex stack operations or jumps), there's no real difference between a method call and a new bytecode (except that adding a new bytecode is a lot more work because everything must be updated to support it, whereas a new method is just a new method).
Your website is so cool :-)
`=IMPORTHTML` in Google Sheets works great and surprisingly many people who could benefit from it a lot don't know it exists.
All reasonable measures. All these 'personal freedom' people say government when they mean the society as a whole.

You were allowed to stay alone without vaccines.
Participating in society is done with the conditions set up by the society. You can be free of society when you are alone in remote areas.
I love that you used anti-fragility correctly! =)
>but it rankles me a bit when the term "epidemic" is used to describe widespread conditions that are not communicable/infectuous

but short sightedness caused by lack of sunlight exposure is infectuous.

why do you think kids are being kept at home? because of their parents. and why do the parents keep them at home? because of a cultural and societal shift in behavior. and why is this shift happening? because some ideas floating around have infected a large enough number of people.

human ideas (or memes if you like) are precisely like viruses, and if short-sightedness is caused by some ideas being spread then it's no different than it being an actual virally caused disease.
My comment, as is, captures the tone I intended. Therefore, I will not edit it. Thank you for your kind suggestions. I will take them into account in future interactions where they are relevant.
I know what you mean - I also had a bit of a similar reaction at first - but as I understand it's how to run lessons on a beach without classroom teaching materials to hand, how to use things on the beach in the context of certain subjects etc. Also, I said "qualification" which probably makes it sound grander than it is - she just went on a 3 or 4 day course.
Thank you for all the description, you rock !
So I've installed it. I'm tunneling to another country. Vytal says everything is correct for country B. However the site I'm testing posting to still detects that I'm outside their country. And I can't work out how :/
Ermmm Gilbert strang has already done that and is free no want will want to pay you 1 million...
This study is written by biased authors [1], and they're simply measuring the emergency calls for cardiovascular events in different age groups over time. They literally don't know if the affected individuals were even vaccinated or if they had covid.

We really can't infer that the risk from vaccination is higher from this study.

[1] https://concerneddoctors.org/testimony-of-retsef-levi/
The argument isn't "you can only be moral if you're religious", it's: "modern Western moral attitudes, even explicitly atheistic ones, are strongly influenced by historical religious ideas, and therefore the idea that religion is inherently immoral is incoherent; and contempt for religion is unjustified." Seems reasonable to me.
Puns on the name.
I think you may be misunderstanding, which is perhaps understandable given that I didn't unpack what it meant - see my sibling comment. But scoffing without asking for more information isn't a great strategy for learning.
> Fun.

Fair enough.

> You are commenting on a project named "fire" with windows going up in flames.... That is like commenting on scifi movies that you shouldn't be able to hear explosions in space: True, but why bring that up?

Yeah, I hear you. As I wrote in another comment, this post made me think about the general issue of Linux desktops, and that feeling of "jealousy" (for lack of a better word) when looking at proprietary desktops and seeing how slick they looked. I'm talking like 15 or 20 years ago of course, then when I discovered i3 I forgot that wallpapers even existed.

Nowadays, having worked for a few years with brilliant frontend devs and designers I have a deep respect for the work they do and I feel like as a community we are missing out on that.

That's where I was coming from.
Based on what they published about it [0], LaMDA is trained on a gigantic corpus of text to do basic text prediction, and then fine-tuned to generate responses to dialog, with additional care to (1) evaluate the safety/quality of responses it gives (e.g. to avoid recommending someone commits suicide, as previous ML chatbots sometimes did) and (2) to retrieve facts directly from external systems, so it is less likely to produce random realistic-sounding information.

Re-training a model of this size probably takes years of CPU-time, it's not a task that can be done often, so I very much doubt re-training it on the dialog produced so far would be a part of operating it.

Even if such re-training were done, I very much doubt it would result in the model knowing who a particular user it talked to before was, once the context was lost. This is precisely why they need to rely on external fact data-bases to get correctness: even though the model is trained on thousands of history books, it doesn't remember them in the way we do - to it, the phrase "Napoleon Bonaparte fought at Waterloo" is probably only mildly more likely than "Abraham Lincoln fought at Waterloo" is.

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/lamda-towards-safe-grounde...
InsurAce is on-chain insurance and they did pay out for Anchor policies.
Publish an API. That's all that's needed for interop.
Doctors still feed people green jello and white bread. And statistics is not applied in every hospital in America to prove this is shit food and not good for your health.

Wide spread poor choices in industry backed by science is not only possible, it's frequent and common.

To tell people to listen blindly and ignore all the evidence to the contrary _because_ of statics, popularity and consensus is the definition of anti-science.
Yeah, you are absolutely right. In my defense, these were just the start. The longer roadmap included Pixelfed and Peertube (for photo and video sharing), and SIP + the possibility of buying DIDs (phone numbers), effectively allowing users to ditch their mobile voice plans. I was also hoping there would be some middle-ground between self-hosters and the free instances. The free instances from Mastodon are still very fickle with their moderation, self-hosting requires dealing with the cost of hosting, domain names, administration time, etc. I thought that there would be more people willing to pay $10-15 year to have a worry-free solution.

The idea started when I was working at Deutsche Telekom on their attempt at building their own messaging platform + MVNO (called immmr) and they killed it after spending two years and 30€ million working on it. I was convinced at the time that the reason they failed was because they wanted to do everything in space at once, and their main criteria for success was "we need to be #1 or #2 in our secondary markets within the first quarter of launching this". Obviously the launch kept being delayed, the feature list kept getting slashed and their client was full of bugs on critical features.

Their stated goal at the time was more about having an alternative to stop the tech companies from eating their margins with OTT services. I was convinced (still am honestly) that if they just focused on providing the basic services (messaging and audio/video calls) via Matrix and if they committed to help with the development of the open source client, they could get a more interesting offering, more time to grow organically and eventually still reach the stated goal.

I even wrote a "Ask HN" post back then [0] because I wanted to find a way to validate the hypothesis, but there was no response. When immmr folded, I decided to try with the MVP, and this is where we are now.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12553221
In a matter of a few short weeks I went from a “huh, what’s this?” routine checkup at my GP, to a diagnosis of aggressive stage 3 metasatic melanoma. A few years ago this would have been untreatable and possibly a death sentence. But I’m on a new immunotherapy treatment, pembrolizumab, which gives an me an almost 100% chance of full remission.

My treatment is completely covered by the NHS, but, if it weren’t, or I didn’t have absolute top tier medical insurance, I would have had to come up with about $100,000 to cover the costs.

I’ve had perfect health my entire life - regular exercise, good diet, non-smoker etc. and had never set foot inside a hospital before. This could happen to anyone, at any time.
https://www.masswerk.at/ A personal website with amazing retro projects
I really like the article (less so the title), but it reads like the "For" side of a two-sided debate - a myopic (albeit valid) criticism of the worst aspects of computer cruelty. But I think this is one of those areas where there is another side to the discussion, and the truth probably lies somewhere between (or perhaps better said: it lies in both sides simultaneously, and we as a society, and especially as technologists and software developers, decide which truth to draw out).

So, here is my "Against" argument:

Computers are spaces of almost complete freedom. More than almost any other creative or expressive medium, there is the possibility to do anything without limit.

I can write, but unlike a book or a newspaper, where my words can at best be statically illustrated by photos or diagrams, I can show videos, annotate diagrams step-by-step, and allow my reader to interact with my words. My drawings need not be limited to a 2D plane, and my models need not be limited to the 3D world. When I create something, I don't just have one copy of it that I must never lose, but I have an infinite amount of it that I can share freely as I want. When I tell a story to someone, they don't have to be in the room to ask questions, or contribute back.

This is near-unbounded creativity. And it is creativity without sharp edges. Due to computers, animation has spread from being a locked-down, family-friendly art form available almost exclusively to the largest media companies, to a toy used to create dumb fights between famous media characters, or extensive porn collections, or touching and heart-wrenching dramas. Computers have democratised art in a way analogous to the printing press, or the television, and by doing so destroyed the power of censors and critics in deciding what gets shown, and what does not.

That escape from critique and censorship is a particularly important idea that's worth emphasising. Yes, we have a cinema industry that only wants to show the same handful of blockbusters every week, but services like Netflix and Amazon have created a space for niche films and television series to thrive, and even be reincarnated. Critique has become a more flexible space, where rather than rely on elite opinion-makers to lay their judgements down, I now have far more voices to listen to, but more flexibility in which ones I choose to accept. And yet, rather than narrowing my choices down into a private echo chamber, this variety of voices arguably provides more chances to hear new opinions and experience media that I wouldn't have thought of before.

Computers are not inherently oppressive. If anything, they are inherently freeing. With computers we are not just able to create more things, but more people can create things that ever before, opening up voices that simply wouldn't be heard in previous generations. Moreover, those people can share their creations with more people than ever before, bringing new ideas of freedom into true oppressive states.
I will grant that it's a broad generalization, but I don't think it's a straw man. The implicit sales point of a lot of software is that it removes the overheard of research and quantitative looks and provides hard data. If data is not questioned and checked, then there is an implicit trust.

Yes, I would agree the above are bugs, but the point is more about:

1. How did the bug get there in the first place?

2. What is the time to resolve these bugs, if they ever are?

3. A program can be used for things it was never intended to that has harmful effects. This is the basis behind exploits where software doing exactly what it was designed to has an unintended effect. It's not about universal usefulness, it's about who the program actually helps.
It's pretty bad that Musk was asking people to pre-pay for the FSD feature years before it's even close to finished - with promises like "it's $5000 if you buy it now, or $10000 if you buy it when it's done."

Even worse, some people are falling for this scam.
I don't. A lot of things with caffeine in them taste yummy, and the bitterness of coffee appeals to folks (just look at the popularity of bitter cocktails and other foods to see it in play in other areas). Not to mention that a fair amount of folks begin drinking coffee with milk and/or sugar in it - this is especially true if you start drinking coffee by drinking lattes.

Plus, there is definitely a social component to drinking it if you are in the right area of the world (tea has some of the same social connections).
I do January without coffee and alcohol, recommend.
Perhaps try a DNS leak test?
There's excellent rubber domes and people have been typing properly on them for 30 years. You don't need mechanical switches, you just like them.

I keep a few nice 90s' ones from HP and IBM. Sun's sucked yet people typed a lot on those. There's been decent ones from Dell and you can still get older IBM/Lenovo Preferred Pros. They're fine. I don't think switching to rubber domes back then was a cost cutting measure, that's peanuts for the prices of those systems. Noise was considered distracting, maybe stressful, actually sustained noise is. If you shared a lab with 30 people banging on Model Ms you'd agree. Mechanicals are great for gaming, I give you that.
Oh sorry, I misinterpreted.
What a pity the vaccine didn't stop infections/eradicate the virus.
We could use mobile phones to have an instant voting system where everybody approves the government's decisions. Computers don't have to be oppressive, we just have decided to use them in a particular way.
You are not necessarily disagreeing with the GP. I am not familiar with the framework he's mentioning, but what he is referencing sounds comparable to what Plato referenced. And it was not a simplistic or morally convenient take. It's simply an observation of the infinite loop that humanity is stuck in, seemingly unable to ever escape from. In other words, the inevitability of reaching some point in a system does not preclude the possibility that reaching that point also results in collapse of the system. It just means the system collapses over and over again, like the cycle of humanity.

This [1] is "book" (it's short) 8 of Plato's the Republic. If you skip down to the line of "And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution?", and read from there you might otherwise assume it was just an elaborately and archaically crafted metaphor referencing the past ~60 years in the United States, aside from a handful of references to substantial norm differences, including slavery. But of course it was written 2400 years ago.

I don't think the issues we face are systemic so much as they are social. Technologies and systems change, but humans remain more or less the same. Reading the classics convinced me that the saying that history repeats itself is not just some some abstract saying where if you interpret things in some way or another they resemble one another, but a quite literal one. We're a species stuck in an infinite loop with little but technology changing the scenery, for better and for worse.

[1] - http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html
Sure, and it doesn't make sense and he's lying.
Technically, it's more "right to modify" or "own" than "right to repair". But we can hope... )
> Can you imagine just how horrible a 10 year old feels when he learns that the COVID infection he got at school killed off his grandparents?

The mRNA vaccines don’t stop the spread of COVID.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.30.21268565v...
With respect to building respect and trust with young kids, this video might be useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHvm1J9HVLo
Lemmy is great! Despite the network still being fairly small, everything work really well already. Setting up instance was a breeze.

The devs are also very accessible which is nice.
According to the dictionary this is a valid use of the word 'epidemic'.

It's also probably the best word to convey what is happening to a general audience.
After working years in Java, C#, Python, Ruby, and others, I would have a hard time justifying starting a new project without C these days.
> (I instinctively slammed on the brakes immediately, though the car also beeped loudly so I suspect it also would have hit the brakes anyway)

Interesting, I would have thought that when (if) the autopilot intervenes it would be way faster than human reaction.

I have no car with similar features but I remember renting a VW golf that had some adaptive cruise control, the simple "keep the speed constant" worked just fine (like in older, simpler cruise controls) but the "adaptive" part was (IMHO, and it may well be a specific/single issue of the car or some settings that I knew not how to regulate) very, very cautious.

On the highway, driving in the left lane at a speed of 120 km/h, every time a car a long distance ahead (100 metres or more) merged from right lane to left lane the car would suddenly slow down/brake long before I would have normally done manually (and often without need as the car was travelling at my same speed or nearly so), it was, if not uncomfortable, "strange".
2 million isn't few lives
Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
In many regions, local society as a whole disagreed with the mandates of the distant government. That was my experience- people trying to go about their lives and being hassled by the police for having friends over.
That's like saying "just because people buying TSLA shares at 2x what I paid for them doesn't mean I have more money."

Of course not, stock shares or real estate are not money. But they are wealth.
This reminds me of the tangentially related "using a camera flash reboots the raspberry pi 2"
https://www.alphr.com/raspberry-pi-2/1000375/why-a-camera-fl...
Ironic to see this in an aggregator site called Hacker News.
Aaaand what about Web4?
Woah, didn't know about this, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Found this article shows its use:

https://pbpython.com/pandas-html-table.html
They're certainly more in need of the money and are actually vital to Wikipedia, ensuring continued access to cited sources that are no longer online for whatever reason.
RS components https://uk.rs-online.com/web/ is the British equivalent. Also used to have an epic paper catalogue that came in 5 volumes.
Looking at the housing market from Sweden I feel your conclusion on stagnation will hold true until the floodgates of new construction supported by policy open, that won't happen soon...

I can only envision a real fall in prices when I look at projects such as the miljonprogram from the 60-70s here in Sweden, mass building of shelters, left to its own devices the private sector will only try to game regulations to extract as much as possible from the land they own. A very visible gaming device is to constrain supply to always sell new units on or above current market prices even if you could potentially build faster, there is no incentive to sell cheaper.
Cryptoanarchism seems to be a deliberately designed red herring in this article (or socially agreed upon warning).

It doesn't escape the main thesis, that computers are physical devices that rely on rules.

It's refreshing. I'm smashing my head with the ongoing Monkey Pox Holmes Rahe Stress train wreck, and discord in US cities. And here's an essay that raises questions on Philosophy of Mind. What if you believe in a Physicalist or Machine Functionalism Theory of mind? Then are we just as ruthless as computers?

What if you have a Magical Random Banana? Does that let you escape the ruthlessness? What if you don't trust your magical banana?
The Cutting Room Floor - Research on unused and cut video game content. Definitely one of my all time favorite sites to spend spare time on.
https://tcrf.net

Ken Fern's Plant databases
https://theferns.info/

U2-3 - The Famous 1000 copies of U2's first ever release
https://www.u2-3.com/

Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art (may contain some albeit low quality NSFW artwork)
http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/danacovers.html

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Digging through the Geocities Torrent
https://blog.geocities.institute/

and finally, The End Of The Internet
https://hmpg.net/

I've kept a bit of a running list on my site here:
https://jason.nabein.me/#links
Describe the difference in safety between C++ and Rust : none

Same as between assembly and Basic or Java and Perl.
Well, coffee withdrawal headaches are due to blood vessels expanding back to their natural size, and increasing blood flow in the brain . Surely reducing blood flow, and, conversely, supply of oxygen and nutrients should affect brain tissue
The study reported 411 events in over 15 million people aged 18-64.

Meanwhile the US has had 6300+ Covid deaths for the ~46 million Americans aged 18-29.

Pretty easy to see the numbers favor taking the vaccine.
this is nice idea, do you plan for more visualizations or maybe integrating with api like spotify?
Really not sure how to describe it but I love the layout of this. It fully reminds of me old print mail-order catalogues which always had all sorts of zany products. Although here, things for sale all seem quite practical to the right person :)