skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that for small precision logarithmic distribution may not be optimal and that is why posits may be a better choice for such applications.

Logarithmic distribution is optimal for complex physics models where there are relationships between many different kinds of physical quantities, so it is not possible or convenient to choose a scale factor that would make all quantities have values close to 1. In such applications many numbers are very large or very small and any other distribution except logarithmic leads to increased errors in the results. Such models also typically need a 64-bit precision. Moreover, having a much greater exponent range than provided by the 32-bit floating-point format, in order to avoid overflows and underflows, is frequently even more important for them than having a greater precision.

If for an application the range of the 32-bit floating-point numbers is good enough, then there are indeed chances that posits might be better for it.
The actual paper states things more clearly.

> In this trial the primary outcome did not differ significantly between the trial groups.

> Secondary outcomes generally favored psilocybin over escitalopram; however, the confidence intervals for the between-group differences were not adjusted for multiple comparisons, and no conclusions can be drawn from these data.
Compressing consecutive 1's and 0's was the first idea that popped into my head as well. Then when they started to talk about inserting into the 800,000th position my brain went "What if they just reversed the array and stored some metadata as the type of array they're dealing with?"

It's funny that in the end Bitmaps essentially are a modified data structure and process.

The way things are going, I imagine someone will at some point take all the different tricks we have of inserting, sorting, finding, deleting data, take millions of datasets and run some machine learning type process to create libraries that can perform these operations optimally.
I think you first link mainly demonstrates that quality of life is composed of many things.

It's OK for different people to weight each of those things differently.
Starship doesn't even exist yet.

Note: neither Booster 7, nor Booster 8, or Ship 20 and 24 for that matter, are even close to being anything that could be considered "Starship" by even the most generous observer.

Even if B7/S24 do launch in a test flight they are so far removed from anything that could potentially be in the far future an operational and usable spacecraft that they resemble "starship" the same way a wooden mockup of an airplane resembles an actual airplane.

An object being the same general shape and dimensions of something doesn't make that object the "something".

At least SLS exists and has problems that can be, perhaps, probably at tremendous expense, fixed.
From the title, I expected a mention of brew's telemetry (which can be opted out of, but are broadcast by default): https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
For starters, these events are totally unrelated, and are a very strange false equivalence. Would be very curious to see more details of Tavis’ claim though. That being said, CF is still in the right for the stand they’re taking on not being a content regulator of their base internet utilities.
This is EXACTLY why i am not fond of unions.. the police.

Here (Ontario, Canada) we have dozens and dozens of police collecting full salary for YEARS pending criminal trials.

Cant fire them, cant do anything about it.

Instead of "defund the police" we need a way to reduce the police union power and FIRE bad cops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlaufer

She killed many people before finally turning herself in. Her union PROTECTED her, hid her mistakes, etc.

Derek Chauvin had like 6 misconduct write-ups.

Elizabeth had over 200
For everything you described the opposite is also true.

Now that we've largely settled on "climate change" instead of all the other catastrophic descriptors which didn't last a decade...

There will be places where what you claimed is true and places where the opposite is true, if the climate changes in the way you propose.

The benefits to many places will be immense, there is no rigorous science measuring at this point, because no one will pay for that investigation to take place publicly.

The new paradigm with "denialism" being a career sinking position means honest appraisal is not happening publicly.

The southwest US had a seven year drought through the nineties, now they experience exceptional monsoons. It is not hotter there by any measure that humans can appreciate. Data shows us it is hotter in the cities, but the climate is not warming outside of the cities once the city data is expunged.

What do you do with that information?

Historical data suggests that there is no safer time to be alive. And yet, people are dying from starvation, not because we don't have food, mind you. Because we won't get food to people that starve.

Isn't it funny. We can focus on a future catastrophe and never have to help people or be kind now. We can be vicious and mean to people and they deserve to starve to death because they won't do as they're told and follow "the science"
I really got fed up with Homebrew after something got clobbered, this looks like a nice simple solution to that! Thanks! Curious to know how effective it is in practice. I resorted to abusing Docker for nifty command line tricks on the Mac but it sure is a heavy solution and some things really are better on the metal!
I think it's more common when books are adapted to TV/movies, so it's not as obvious as when they change historical characters or characters from other or older visual media. Often they change the location to North America/Europe and change the characters "organically" as well.

Anyway, here's the ones I can think of right away:

Ancient One in the Marvel movies to Tilda Swinton, although the comic character is kind of a racist stereotype, and would have issues in China, so they had good arguments for doing that change.

Staying in the comic universe, Bane and Ra's al Ghul in Batman movies.

Related to the first one; Benedict Cumberbatch plays Khan in the new Star Trek.
The Ghost in the Shell reboot with Scarlett Johansson
Nothing I do is on-call worthy. I may build the product but I don't run the product after it's built.
"E-bikes’ identity crisis might seem like the symptom of a transition"

The identity crisis is that they are electric motorcycles/mopeds pretending to be bicycles. Here's a good video on this by someone who has both an e-bike and a motorcycle.[1]
He points out that for his commute in traffic, they get about the same performance.
But on the motorcycle, he's more visible, has better protective gear, and has a lower center of gravity.

The difference between a class I e-bike (20mph, no helmet required) and an electric motorcycle capable of 45 MPH is a switch. The trouble is, e-bikes with motorcycle speed capabilities lack motorcycle safety features. They're under-braked, under-tired, have crap suspensions, don't have full lights and turn signals, and the rider is up too high, so accidents are worse.

There's a video of someone who put an e-bike motor hub in a small motorcycle frame, which got him something that's a better e-bike than most e-bikes, but is classified as a motorcycle.
But low-end electric motorcycles have not caught on in the US.
Bikers think they're uncool, and bicyclists think they're uncool.
They're popular in parts of Asia. So, yes, there is an identity crisis.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8Xli2KTzI
> No valid sale could have occurred after that first attempt

Auctions have rules. I don’t know this one’s, the complaint [1] omits much of them, but every one I’ve participated in bars backing out on the day of the auction. If you change your mind, you bid for your item.

[1] https://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/2022-08-31-Complaint.pdf
Depends on the crime, I know a few doctors and nurses that have criminal records. But I accept your point.

However I was not talking about those with a criminal record. Like in the comment I was replying to where learn to code programmes were seen as the "solution" for coal miners whose mines were closed.

Is it an option? Of course. Is it the solution for all? Hardly but it is often treated as one so people can say "look we told you to learn to code and gave you access to a computer and resources but you didn't do it so it's not my fault you're jobless".

To me it just comes across as a cheap and lazy way to say they 'did something' and blame the individual when it didn't work out.

Just my opinion of course, you don't have to agree with it :)
Does that work for all mice you may plug, or would you have to remember to configure it whenever you use a new mouse (or possibly even if you plug it in another port)?
Hey I think this is great, congratulations! I've been trying to get something similar going for UK banks, would you be interested in taking a look at the MVP? I took a slightly different approach, but also didn't have the technical chops to build the nice filter system you guys have.
It is human nature to glorify the past and romanticize the greatness of "those days". There is nothing wrong in maintaining a healthy skeptical mind towards outrageous claims. Further the onus of proof lies on the person making the claim.
The Bloomberg terminal is already available to individuals, it’s quite popular even.
AI won an art contest, and artists are furious
rsync mount works with many cloud drives, which seems like a starting point to me. However, I have not used it enough collaboratively to have a strong opinion.
Now I'm very curious how you find clients and what software stacks you work with.
how does that work? does your remote employer pay their part of the taxes for you as employee? do they honor your local employment laws with regards to holidays, and what not? can you sue them if they violate your countries labor laws?
what is the company reporting about you in their country?

i'd really be curious to learn more details about the arrangement. my guess is that it looked like employment but legally it was contracting.
> Is everyone who responded completely unfamiliar with agriculture and 4H programs?

I don't know about other people, but I'm happy to admit that I'm unfamiliar with agriculture and 4H programs.

> The article literally says the girl had a breakdown _at_ the auction.

The Sacramento Bee article linked by the Guardian article says that they expressed their wish to not sell the goat before the auction.

"Before the auction began, the family asked to back out but fair officials refused, saying fair rules prohibited that and put the goat up for auction,..."

That sounds like a civilian dispute. Did the owner/family had the right to back out of the auction at that point or did they not? How can a law enforcement agent become a judge to decide on this?
No, because - as a programmer - I have the humility to admit that this job requires neither the stress management, the moral complexity, the social responsibility, nor the interpersonal skills that the jobs you've listed require.

I think our profession needs less gatekeeping, not more.
The work is shit, despite being done with forty year old, thoroughly understood and matured technology?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/new-report-finds-nas...

Cost overruns would have put NASA 33% over budget a few years ago, but they committed accounting fraud to cover it up.

The SLS is nothing more than a welfare check to Georgia and Florida.
Hostile to human life means "humans cannot exist without technological assistance".

It doesn't mean mass death, that's a measure of the Carrying Capacity. Hostility means carrying capacity is zero, or close to it.
For some! Until the tax-man comes.
The FBI interfered in an election and apparently you want to discuss whether censorship is the right word to use or not. Of course it's completely irrelevant whether what happened qualifies as censorship or not.

The issue is a supposedly neutral government agent very likely swayed a free election by "suggesting" to a private company it'd be a good idea to alter the information citizens are exposed to.
With streaming you need no marketing because network effects do it for you. You take advantage of the power of the platform. You only pay to market the really big ones, everything else gets the same kind of promotion which already is too strong because you have an established user base in the millions. Before streaming you had no user base, it was open season for everyone.
> was no contract

There absolutely was. Between the Fair and the family, when they first put the animal on auction. Between the Fair and the purchaser, when it was auctioned.

We don’t have their details. But they definitely existed.
How many livestock auctions or 4H shows have you attended? If the answer is greater than zero, which I truly doubt, how many did not require the entrants to understand that entering your animal is putting it up for sale?
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. (JK Rowling is behind her by billions of copies and only Shakespeare comes close to her.)

I honestly really love her novels. Sometimes they're a bit contrived, but they're fun and somehow not as dull as other murder mystery novels that I've tried to read. I can zip through one of her books in 4-5 hours.

Here is a great podcast about her: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/185-agatha-christie/id...
You’re projecting hard.

My niece happily eats the chicken she helped raise and watched be slaughtered and butchered. I also knew where meat came from as a child and that didn’t bother me.

These grand moralistic pronouncements don’t seem true… and ignore that carrying them out would be the death of 35M cattle, 500M chickens, etc. A near total devastation of their species, who primarily exist as our food source.

Should we stop the worst abuses of industrial farming? — yes, and that’s already happening. But spare us the grandiose speeches demanding we cull food herds as a moral imperative.
Ah, but it's a growth economy!
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Balanced full stack product engineer. Very good at both web apps, mobile apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy (!)

Mostly startup oriented, developed a lot of projects for different teams and industries (finance, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

My specialty is to build simple systems with few moving parts that contain as little accidental complexity as possible. I'm pragmatic but always chase proper implementations at the same time. (See resume for more)

Lately into fintech but open to any kind of projects.

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people. Open to contract / project-based work & consultancy.
That’s where I know it from.
Unexpected overwrites of system tools are the problem I’ve faced. Not sure how common that really is but once can be enough to leave a bad taste!
You can skip this article; it says nothing interesting and is mostly highly debatable.

Also, this line is an attitude that is endemic in the bike-hating world:

> tempting riders into joining actual traffic.

Riders are actual traffic. I got shouted at once (in the UK!) for blocking "actual" traffic while I waited to turn right. "Get out of the traffic". Fuck you dude, I am the traffic. The alternative to me blocking you on a bike is not nobody blocking you - it's me blocking you in a car.
> Averaging 20 mph over non trivial distances puts you in elite territory. Most people can't sustain that, even experienced cyclists.

Probably. I've never owned a road bike so I was leaving room for the possibility that I don't know everything. (I have ridden thousands of kilometres per year in most of the last ~15 years, mostly urban or suburban, and I have considered myself fairly fit for most of those years. But who am I to tell what other people reach on lighter equipment?)
No, not an egregious civil rights violation, but an everyday, mundane brand of evil. Rules, contracts and law were duly followed, and empathy didn't come into the picture. Someone with power could have paused and tried to find an alternative path, but they didn't.

This reality exists in stark contrast to the one depicted in Hallmark and Disney films, but the sad part is how little effort separated this situation from an alternative outcome.
Nextcloud. WebDAV (a standard) or offline sync.
If you don't mess with document and spreadsheet editors Nextcloud can remain lo-fi
yeah, I have had Homebrew installed under ~/.brew for quite awhile. I don't really like that idea of it out in /usr/local for one but it also helps with permissions as Apple "secures" the OS with each update.
> they expressed their wish to not sell the goat before the auction

On the day of. Most auctions don’t permit this. (Again, livestock auctions have a lot of law around them. Their orderly functioning underlies several states’ economies. Teaching this is sort of 4-H’a point.)

> can a law enforcement agent become a judge to decide on this?

They got a warrant [1]

[1] https://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/2022-08-31-Complaint.pdf page 9
I’m enrolled. I still end up being dropped out of phone menu tree.
I would be very curious how a doctor or nurse could use programming to improve their jobs. Aside from a conduit of fun brain teasers which may have some ancillary benefit...every doctor and nurse I know spends almost no time in front of a computer except for brief data entry. Actual real "medical" programming occurs by professional engineers in highly regulated environments (and for good reason).

Teachers I could possibly see but even then much of this has been optimized away. If you lower the bar of "learning to code" to learning excel I'd tend to agree with you. No reason to hack together a set of python scripts to grade papers, and the actual useful work of generating random test questions, etc has been automated away by software nearly every school uses.

The difference between reading, math, and programming is that reading and math are fundamental. Math teaches logical, methodical thinking. Reading teaches the ability to well...read. Programming on the other hand is a higher level abstraction of math. Mathematicians tend to become good programmers. To me, this would imply we simply need to teach more math. It's very simple to say "it should be a basic skill" but there are other, far more fundamental, skills we don't teach either. Why don't we teach machining or woodworking? For the average Joe these two would have infinitely more value both professionally and personally than learning how to fire up a terminal and write a basic python script.

The problem that "learn to code" has, and the problem your suggestion has, is that even getting someone to "get" how to code is non-trivial. Once you move beyond the formulaic "here's how to put these pieces together to make a website" suddenly everyone gets lost. I've seen this not only in people I've attempted to mentor, but also being an interviewer at a large tech company regularly seeing code camp graduates coming from fields like teaching, food, etc. These people miss the point of the exact thing you suggest: programming is a conduit for productivity in an underlying field and "learning to code" is a means to an end and not the goal.

There certainly are people "cut out to be programmers" and this societal shift to "everyone can be anything they want" has really disenfranchised a lot of people. We never want to talk about it because the idea life is fundamentally unfair is seen as taboo. But it is, and it is the reason code camps produce garbage in 80% of cases and the reason drop out rates in CS programs are so high. The high flying high school kid getting an $XXX,000 salary is an extreme edge cases promoted as a common case. The guy who automates half his job as a data entry clerk was probably fit for professional grade programming anyway. We are guilty of this perpetuation ourselves.
Yup. All the US mars rovers use radioisotope generators that generate electricity by using the decay heat.

But some satellites actually had real fission reactors on board. The US had the experimental SNAP-10A satellite and the soviets used a small fission reactor in their RORSAT satellites to power a radar so they can detect NATO naval fleets.
You can already do that with Quest VR headset though the embarrassment factor is rather more sizeable.
In case anyone else has this issue, at least it’s pretty easy to turn off:

Launch Device Manager.

Go to Mice and other pointing devices.

If you’re using a Bluetooth mouse, go to Human Interface Devices.

Right-click on your mouse and select Properties.

Select the Power Management tab.

Find the option: Allow this device to wake the computer. Uncheck it.
I like the promotional images, where all the people are sitting behind screens with those glasses on.
> The goat had been auctioned.

And the family argued that they have backed out of the auction before it started. Thus they haven't sold the goat. Thus they own the goat.

Are they right? I don't know. But it is far from as straight forward as you depict it to be.
I disagree. As there is a sales office at a livestock auction who are paid by buyers expecting to take delivery of livestock they just paid for, a third party is involved. So it is not as cut and dry as “never mind, I’ll just give you your money back.”
What's an example of a language with "good" FFI?
> A problem that I've come to notice with a lot of tech people is they either don't notice or don't value good implementation

That may be because Apple's implementation was absolutely lacking. The first iPhone was a vibrant, shiny feature phone disguised as a smartphone. They put their bet towards marketing and fashion, not tech and revolution - which paid off for them, as it turned out that was enough. Don't be surprised that techies aren't impressed by that though. In fact, I don't think the iPhone would be so successful if it didn't come out from Apple even if it was exactly the same as it was - it would likely find its niche, but it wouldn't be a significant threat to Nokia and others.

(actually, the real iPhone wasn't that much of a threat either, it was Android that actually killed Nokia - or made it kill itself to be exact)

> There was nothing like the iPhone, and now everything is like the iPhone.

Many things were either like the iPhone already or were heading towards being like the iPhone. Apple's implementation advantage comes from the fact that it was designed from scratch as a touch-based interface, while existing platforms were only slowly iterating towards that, but they were getting there regardless. Some existing players, like Nokia, had teams that were already going there, and other teams that were actively sabotaging those efforts, which obviously left the door for Apple wide open.

Apple's implementation sure was good enough, because marketing alone would quickly dry off otherwise. It wasn't revolutionary though. I'm certain that we would have very similar trends too had Apple not gone into mobile phone market at all. Maybe we wouldn't end up in a world where restricted walled gardens are the expected state of things on computers that we carry with ourselves all the time. Or maybe it would be worse, who knows. It wouldn't, however, be much different in how we interact with those devices, because writings were on the wall and Apple just happened to enter the market with a new thing at the right time with enough preexisting clout, as evidenced by multiple companies working on implementing Apple's "revolutions" at the same time as Apple, or even beating them by years in some cases.