skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is healthcare:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar

> The new baby needs healthcare as well.

And the new baby is welcome to get it outside the womb, where it is no longer affecting someone else. Note that no doctors or women are going around terminating 39 week fetuses for the fun of it.

>They lack freedoms and objective power according to your perception. At the same time women who don't need to care about making income in consumerist world can focus on family and local community. Which, coincidentally, gives a lot of power on raising the next generation.

Being dependent on men for food, shelter, water, security, and other basic needs is not a limitation of freedom due to my perception, hence my use of the word “objective”, meaning outside of one’s perception. If my daughter cannot choose to live life without the help of a man, that is a restriction of her freedom, and reduction of her power.

If a government gave women a universal benefit of housing, food, etc and told them not to work, then maybe your scenario would be true. But I have never heard of a society where the woman does not have to worry about earning income and their spouse earning income, which being dependent on the latter gives them all the power. Objectively.
I'd like to think this is approaching peak blockchain, but I strongly suspect it really isn't.
I doubt anyone has ever been fired for choosing AWS. I know for a fact that people have been fired after deciding to do it on bare metal and then it didn't work very well.
I believe you may have missed the term "all else equal" (or ceterus paribus) somewhere along the way.

Your point is "well, duh" because your comparison is not valid. The way you are proposing, it compares apples and oranges.

To my understanding, the folks that study these kinds of things would split the situations you are describing into two groups, then compare group outcome statistics outcomes by race. Racism exists when the partial correlations are significant even when controlling for the other factors for a specific group.

So here, the poor person addicted to fentanyl has it worse when they are black. The wealthy person has worse outcomes when they are black. When that is consistent, then there is evidence of systemic racism.

There really is no value add comparing apples and oranges, which is what is happening when you make the comparison here. I recommend you reconsider your argument approach if you feel strongly that this comparison has merit as you've written it.
I thought the science was settled. Somebody must be wrong.
Only 2^200 times less efficiently (even that's generous).
AU blowhole wave energy generator exceeds expectations in 12-month test
Pretty much. I don't have the numbers but the phrase to always bear in mind is "fossil carbon." All that oil, gas and coal was once living bio matter (to a first approximation). Industrial civilisation has been predicated on us burning fossil carbon laid down over millions of years by earths organisms. It will take more than a few decades to remove the excess that we have pumped in, even if we reforest the earth, reduce the population and all become ascetics.
https://www.amazon.fr/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp...

Using the past to try and predict the future, in particular unusual and impactful events is a reliable way to constantly miss the main events of history.

Also there is no equivalent to the current disaster claim… and contrary to previous ones you can already observe the beginning of the effects of the current one… even though we are just at the beginning of its exponential-driven effects.

Long story short: that’s fine if you are still skeptical we’ll start working on it and in 5-10 years the people who are still skeptical will join us once they are more convinced by what’s happening in the world, down to their neighborhood.
Geologically and astronomically speaking, this is actually one of Earth's longest ever days. Earth's rotation has been slowing down for billions of years as it loses angular momentum to the moon. See e.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-rotation-su..., http://www.iea.usp.br/en/news/when-a-day-lasted-only-four-ho....
A use case idea: If I were drunk, or otherwise severely fatigued, I would like to know what is going on around me. I do miss parts of conversations when I'm socially drinking and intoxicated. I would like to rely on an agent to capture these conversational moments, to give myself a chance to respond to things.

(inspired by https://xrai.glass/hubfs/XRAI_GLASSES_09_comp.jpg)
Maybe the fact that we design them with computers and modern quality makes the die quicker.

Suppose you design a device, and you want to give a 2 year warranty. Every device brought in before this eats in your profit. So you design with a safety margin, using components that on average last 3 years.

Now you design them with a computer. You can simulate the heat profile of the whole thing, move some troublemaker components around, where a pen-and-paper designer would need to guestimate. So you can produce a cheaper device by lowering the safety margin to 2.4 years.
It's not possible to do always but it feels like it should be possible in special cases. If you can prove that a value V2 is ultimately derived from a modification of V1, and V1 is never referenced after creating V2, then it should be possible to invisibly convert this to an in-place mutation [1]. In the case of applying a bunch of text normalization rules to a string, for example, I care about the final string but not the intermediate states. It could be mutation underneath and I'd be none the wiser, except that the runtime performance would be better.

In Scala you can add a "@tailrec" annotation to recursive functions. The annotation means that the function is guaranteed to recurse efficiently (without growing the stack) OR that the compiler will give an error telling you why it can't be guaranteed. I could imagine a similar annotation like "@withmutation" for functions where you want to guarantee efficient in-place mutation at runtime. As it is, when I run into performance pain points in Scala I redo the critical bits with (manually written) while-loops and imperative mutation.

[1] Unless you later attach a debugger and expect to be able to observe V1 and V2 simultaneously. But I presume this sort of issue already comes up and is somehow dealt with regarding other compiler optimizations.
Amusing that a PDF discussing pretty printing is typeset like this. I've noticed this across many PDFs in the past - anyone know what causes it?
It's not even the time until the sun returns to the same position in the sky, since the earth's orbit is not a circle.
Well if you want to follow that line of argument, the Supreme Court is irrelevant since the executive branch or military can just choose to ignore its rulings.

But assuming the rule of law still exists, there is no way the Supreme Court would be able to "interpret" the Constitution to allow amendments in another way. The Constitution is very explicit about the amendment process, and it has been performed by that process 27 times to date. No way to "interpret" your way out of that.

(OK, yes, I know constitutional conventions are another route. But that has never been tried.)
5 minutes is the time it takes to understand how the pattern works.

Be good at it?

More like a thousand hours.

there is nothing that is really simple, but before being simple, everything looks difficult.

p.s. I love Rich Hickey and especially his keynotes at Clojure conferences.

I've watched simple made easy at least 10 times.
Learn Quantum Computing: A Field Guide
Classes are already using iPads, smart projectors, and in some cases, dipping their toes into AR.

I think the most effective thing would be to ensure a "1-to-1" student/device ratio, which the pandemic has inadvertently helped happen -- at least in the US, by and large. Every kid has a computer. Schools just need to budget appropriately to replenish those devices when they hit end-of-life. A large portion of the (any) population has no computer at home.

Do that first, then worry about implementing programs for hard skills (Career Technical Education, electronics, robotics, programming, CAD, automotive, Maker, etc), then make sure kids have appropriate meals, and then finally, if you have any money left over, bring in the whiz-bang tech.
If that's your takeaway I don't think you're getting from the story what you're supposed to.
"I think it's more of a shield against upper management."

"Someone decided to use AWS, so there is blame to go around."

Upper management.
>The only reason I think the OS choice matters at all is because I've never seen someone move from .NET on Windows to Linux or visa versa. Could be done, but people generally don't do it.

Done it myself. Seen it being done all the time in my org. We're migrating large amounts of legacy .NET Framework apps running on Windows on EC2 to .NET Core / .NET apps running in our K8s cluster using Linux containers.
This isn't really a backup, it's redundancy which is good thing but not the same as a backup solution. You can't get out of a drop table production type event this way.
Has Technological Progress Stalled?
A single tweet that links to an opinion article bashing a controversial nominee to the supreme court is hardly information, "my dude".
> The increased brightness kind of doesn't matter since SDR content is usually just stretched to fill the increased brightness range.

That seems wrong, or at least somewhat disconcerting if true?

But generally the benefit of HDR is retaining details both in highlights and shadows, instead of being blown out/crushed like in SDR.
5k, 3.5k free! Difference taken by the MS Basic interpreter I believe.
What? If it's working, it shouldn't be remotely subtle. Direct light sources and directional single bounces (specular highlights, reflections) benefit enormously from the extra resolution / dynamic range. Metal, water, and damp materials look so much better with HDR than with try-hard gamma-stretched SDR that I would probably even trade away 120fps if I had to. I'm easily willing to spend time restarting into Windows (and tolerating its updates and pushy spamminess) just so that I can game and watch videos in HDR.
Is Your Security Glamping, Car Camping, or Backpacking?
Thats what wifibox does on FreeBSD (though I believe the reason is more for drivers than for isolation): https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
This is really confusing me:

> ...in many cases of design, copies are inferior because the new ignorant designers just did not understand the value of the features that were present, or absent ... (a)s designers know, often the most important parts of a design cannot be seen and are not even part of the design, but were what was learned in the long series of iteration as they groped towards a design that seems, in retrospect, inevitable;

But the author keeps going back to Red Wing boots. Flannel-clad hipsters are buying the same boots that professional loggers, construction workers, and firefighters are buying. I also have a wildfire-fighting relative, and siblings that did wildfire training when they worked for the National Park Service (you get a small bump in your hourly rate to get certified and available to be called up). I assure you, they are buying their boots at the same Red Wing store that sells to any hipster who walks through the door.
Here's a vast catalog of Dall-E images and the prompts used to generate them.

https://www.krea.ai/

If you generate an image with Dall-E and there's a face that is distorted, you can use this tool to restore the facial features.

https://arc.tencent.com/en/ai-demos/faceRestoration
Isn't that what Java's ZGC stands for ;-)?
It's been at least decade since I did LSD or it's derivatives but I still read about them and I known that if you live in Canada a search for indole lysergamine and ALD-52[1] should lead you to a shop!

1) https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/ALD-52
I'd ask the opposite question: why would you use a dangerous paradigm when a safe one exists and the dangerous one doesn't offer much benefit?
Let's see if I understand the argument. Many people's ancestors didn't own slaves. But, because of social construct, they have a leg up (+advantage) in the present because of skin color in the present society of the US (not because their ancestors were abolitionists or slave owners). Which is why people argue against current racism, not solely historical racism.

So even if you didn't benefit from past injustices directly, the ongoing inertia in society results in your net benefit or detriment as an immigrant on average due to skin color.

(Note, I'm trying put the argument into perspective with a steelman, not dismiss your experience as you've described it.)
How can one not be skeptical when every existing model fails to even come close to predicting future temperature patterns, and every publicized prediction about climate catastrophe over the past 50 years has been wrong?

Where is the science?
You aren't going to get anyone to embrace de-growth by telling stories. Instead, find ways that technology can enable continued growth while simultaneously decreasing environmental impact. If you force people to pick between global warming versus a major step down in living standards, a lot of them are just going to say screw it and pick global warming.
It's a scanned and OCR'd hardcopy (after all, desktop typesetting was just barely a thing in 1979) but nobody has bothered to clean up the OCR results.
For someone who seems to agree that this is a smokescreen it’s odd to continue on to admonish FAANG engineers for sticking with something that’s only illusory stable?

If it’s a smokescreen that would imply that no stability has been lost for existing employees there.
> I'm glad this is becoming conventional wisdom

It's not though. You're just seeing the most popular opinion on HN.

In reality it is nuanced like most real-world tech decisions are. Some use cases necessitate a distributed or sharded database, some work better with a single server and some are simply going to outsource the problem to some vendor.
Go beyond the design and modeling by combining a more advanced GPT-3 and DALLE2 to derive completely customized AR / VR experiences.

NPCs that sit in your room and provide individual-specific training on niche topics. Provide talk therapy to overcome issues, or act as an assistant in helping you explore, research and document new fields.

Play a part in an episode of a vintage sitcom, taking it in an entirely new direction. View the rest of the season based on the changes you've made.

Progressed AI tools combined with improved human-computer interfaces will introduce amazing possibilities.
Since the image is RGB 1024x1024, and the random seed is noise (as it is for diffusion models), I guess it would be quite long.
Scott Adams was always like this. I was at a book signing of his in San Francisco circa 2000 where he was ranting unironically about how straight white men are discriminated against in Fortune 500 corporations so he had no recourse but to become an independent cartoonist.
The article directly addresses this. These use cases vanish as soon as the government regulates the onramps and offramps.
Language models can generate code from text instructions. It just needs a training set to learn the target APIs. I expect in the next couple of years to see automated desktop operation (RPA) from text commands, generalising access over human interfaces.

It's really a shame the good language models are not deployed as voice assistants. It would probably be expensive to offer and they don't have the scale necessary. Just to load one of these models you need a $100K computer.
Of course the creation of concrete has its own environmental impact

https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/11/3/cement-and-concret...
It depends.
Is the customer happy with the result?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There are many professions where cheap products killed handmade quality.
The idea of accusing someone of being a drug addict in the context of psychedelic use is absolutely hilarious. You sound completely uninformed and pretty much nobody should take you seriously on this topic.
Those trains yes, because it's the grid that powers them (through constantly connected overhead lines).

There is not really the need to feed that energy back to the grid though, as there are plenty of other trains that are happy to gobble it up.
> Pedantry and insight are the same thing

Heh, this lie also believed by many on this forum ;)
I believe in this case they did close/lock the wallet, as it was held by the exchange. How far they go to recoup money that did make it to individuals is up to the attorney general and courts and politicians to decide - but critically, means are extremely there. It is empathically and trivially known who the recipients are. This is the part that feels like we are intentionally ignoring - eventually crypto intersects with the real world.

There were technically superior and more anonymous ways to do that kind of particular transaction of course. But we may differ as to what "average person" is and what their technical competence will be in the near to medium future. I believe average person still has tremendous phishing and scam risk with a regular, regulated, fairly static, designed for ease of use, documented, go-to-branch-and-we'll-guide-you-through-it electronic banking. I am skeptical of our ability to create a safe path for the average person through the dynamic, unregulated, ever-changing, technically complex, myriad-clients-and-zillion-methods-and-gazillion-exchanges all chock-full of scammers world of crypto.
Your reasoning is flawed, technically if we make things last longer, be repairable, skip vacations on the other side of the planet and stop buying so much cheap plastic crap we would most definitely "degrow" but the quality of life would at least remain unchanged.

Capitalism is a beast that needs constant feeding, it doesn't do much good in many cases, it's just growth for the sake of it.
Do you have a link that summarises the “FAQ” answers you have made?
Freedom is default. Your burden is to explain why an individual can't take a psychedelic drug.
Nice username! Is it your opinion that the creators of go were not familiar with previous language implementations?
The article addresses this. Cryptocurrency cannot subvert that authority, as the law applies to it as well.
Economics, for certain.
Im starting to get the feeling that security by obscurity is a good thing. There's a reason why banks don't open source their infra, or why Google/Facebook/Twitter don't open source their algorithms. No matter how smart your engineers are, they are going to make mistakes, and if the incentive is high enough then people will find and exploit those mistakes. It's honestly amazing that L1 blockchains (like bitcoin, ethereum, monero) have lasted this long at all
Yep, this is because the earth spins the same direction as its rotation around the sun. So each year, there’s a discrepancy of one day.

And 24 hours / 365 = about 3.9 minutes of discrepancy per day.
Science is based on measurements and metrology is essentially pedantry, so... a compliment? (And I am aware this is bad logic.)
Ah shit. Thanks for the link - good to know.

Cheeky buggers indeed haha
I have the opposite opinion. These things tend to get lost in my tabs.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/wsimy
I don’t think it’s as much about the challenging technical problems as it is the ability to get shit done. Wherever I’ve worked, most developers are unable to own e2e work. At big tech, you are expected to be decent in a lot of related areas (communication, project planning, etc).

Software is a people problem and what big tech looks for is top notch technical skills and the mindset/ability to solve them in a chaotic environment.
So you wish to change a system where tens of thousands people regulate currencies, and significant number of them are scammers or evil, for the system where tens of people regulate currencies and half of them were actually convicted for scams, sometimes multiple times, and who live in the non-extradition offshores. Great idea, awesome.

PS: this what I actually hate a lot about tokenbros - they say that there is a problem in the economy with unaccountability of the world elites (ok, true at at least somewhat), and then want to supplant it with an even worse system, even more centralized, even more unequal, even more dangerous to common people, even less secure, and even less accountable for the elites in charge. The sheer audacity of their lies is mind boggling and induces literal rage.
> 3. The PR description is typically written hours or days after the commit(s). What was fresh in your head when you wrote that code is now stale and you will struggle to recall why you made a change in a particular way more than if you wrote it down fresh when you commit the change.

The PR contains all the back and forth and comments from other people and the backstory on the decision that was made. I'll also periodically add comments to the end of closed and merged PRs after I receive feedback and question days later just to record it all for posterity. You can't do that with git commits because they aren't mutable/fixable documentation.

> 4. The PR description is not part of the repo's history. It requires access to a (typically propriety) platform to read.

It should be "table stakes" to carry your PR history if you migrate between any of the vendors or something self-hosted and they all have import tools which do it for you. This isn't a practical objection in 2022.

I don't see the author there doing any PRs, either though other than for external contributors.

But they're probably an unpaid open source maintainer, so I can't blame them for cutting corners on process to make their own life easier. How much are you paying this person so that you think you can criticize the way they're doing anything?
"combine these data sources" doesn't necessarily mean data analytics. Just as an example, it could be something like "show a badge if it's the user's birthday", which if you had a separate microservice for birthdays would be much harder than joining a new table.
No matter how bad it gets, Earth will always be more habitable than anywhere else. But even if humans survive for millions of years, we’ll never get back what we have now.
The US had the military might to extract total submission from the populations of those countries. Anytime someone attacks your troops, kill them and their family and raze their neighborhood/town. But that would obviously be at odds with long term and broader goals.
Oftentimes we read a comment of the kind "bad or good code can be written in any language or paradigm" in response to writings of the ills or virtues of said language or paradigm. Thus implying that we really shouldn't care of the choice of tools but rather concern ourselves with the individuals using them? This seems like an easy out. Too easy. If it is bad code that we need to worry about, no matter what the syntax or semantics, then how do we do that? Is bad code, like porn, something that we only recognize when we see it, impossible to clearly define? If that's the case, then we really need to figure out some better way to guide us. The mention of Kevlin Henney is particular here in that he has made presentations specifically identifying examples of bad code and how they are made better. If no language or paradigm can help steer us in the right direction--a proposition that I do not believe--then there best be some clear way to tell us how to avoid the pitfalls other than "I know it when I see it."
The question is if the "unsafe" one really doesn't offer much benefit. If the unsafe one leads to a 3x speed up or a 10x lower memory consumption, then I'll use it.