skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human language and reasoning ability also runs into the problem that certain ideas really do take a whole book to convey whereas others fit into fifty words (like this post). We just don't notice the limitation on our expressiveness for the same reason fish don't notice they live in water.
Dapr is fantastic if you're using Kubernetes, but we've found people having trouble with the learning curve. Also, Nitric's main SDK right now is for Node.js, but the underlying implementation is in Go and uses gRPC like Dapr. We have other SDKs in the works for Go, Python, Kotlin and C#. There is a bit more detail in the docs https://nitric.io/docs/language-support
> I have a vague notion that in some states you don’t need a law degree to sit for the bar exam (or at least that was the case a few years ago).

It looks like that's still the case, including in California, where Mr. Mason practices. Of course, word on the street is California's bar exam is the toughest in the nation.
I can share a few if anyone wants to email me although it's common practice not to post them in public. These areas are sensitive and tend to get trashed/destroyed as soon as they gain enough popularity.

You can find your own secret sites with a combination of google earth and BLM maps[1] and Land Matters[2]

For example, in Death Valley National Park, there's a backcounty road called Hunter Mountain Road, and if you look in the right spot up there, there's an old abandoned boy scout camp with ample parking and fire rings. Completely unlisted.

The lower Colorado River also has a lot of areas like these.

[1] https://www.blm.gov/maps
[2] http://www.mylandmatters.org/Maps/LandStatus.html
Here in Argentina you only use the public free healthcare if you aren't insured or can't afford private healthcare.

Also anybody legally employed must have insurance (of varying quality).
This is probably the data as they have it and instead the people responsible for inputting things in to whatever system this data came from just have a little print out taped next to their screen reminding them customer XPN305 has a 10% discount on codes that start with FJR and so on.
Also it allows you to participate in your neighbors arguments without even being invited over.
I’m a Canadian, and I would never want to give up our single payer system.

That being said, Canada has a huge health care problem right now. Frequently they need to close emergency services in major (& minor) cities at night due to staff shortages. The wait times for basic diagnostics is on the order of months (not days or weeks). For example, a relative of mine has lost 90 pounds since the start of the year, complained of chest pains and couldn’t (still can’t) swallow. They just got a basic scan after 6 months of waiting to confirm a baseball sized tumour in their lungs.

For many years we ran with just the bare minimum of staffing and equipment to keep costs low, and now, due to a number of factors our system can’t keep up.

Waste is not good, but a little bit of extra capacity (and cost) isn’t a bad thing when it comes to emergency services.
> The state of web browsers is more comparable to derivative distros like Debian based or red hat based etc. They don't hard fork, they track upstream with a bunch of changes continually rebased on top.

Isn't that Brave is doing here? There is NetSurf and others but the spec is complex because of standards committees, not because of Chromium.
So glad you like it! If you try it out we'd love your feedback and would be happy to help if you run into any challenges.
Given the malarkey that academic cheaters get up to, that may be necessary.
There are a ton of mobile deployment options that support PyTorch+TF models. It's hard to argue TFLite is the best.

https://github.com/alibaba/MNN

https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn

https://github.com/Tencent/tnn

https://github.com/XiaoMi/mace

Plus, each chip vendor has their own SDK (e.g., Qualcomm has SNPE, MediaTek has NeuroPilot)
How do all these lanes get into the CPU? There are only so many pins on a chip. Are they time-shared? If so why do you need n physical slots and not just a switched network that lets you daisy chain as many as you can switch? (I’m an architecture lay-person.)
It makes it more cumbersome to copy the URL
They mention mass timber, but lots of buildings in the US already use wood framing, and 5+1 apartment blocks (with the top 5 floors using wood framing) are going up everywhere.
What, do you update your hosts file or control dns through pihole in order to achieve the selective A recs?
There are very well documented formulas for calculation sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic with a certain degree of certainty around it. You would use one of those.
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Hah. No I don't think so. You actually run into a lot of legal issues if you're trying to meet up with any significant number of people.
And in the movie world, look at Blu-ray. HDCP (for HDMI Cable Encryption), versions 1.4 (1080p) and 2.2 (4K). BD+ (a literal VM running on the player to correct intentionally erroneous data on the disc), AACS v1 and v2 (tons of keys, player keys, device keys, permanent revocation lists, even traitor-tracing), Cinavia (audio watermarking to detect whether AACS is present), and Drive Bus Authentication (no unauthorized players can talk to the drive).

AACS was supposed to last years. HDCP, indefinitely. BD+, the creators thought it would last a decade at least. Cinavia? They thought it would never be removable. Drive Bus Encryption? Almost impossible they thought.

All of these technologies were defeated about ~2 years after their introduction. Some had minor updates breaking things for a little bit, but were broken again shortly later. And some are only partially broken (not enough to make your own player), but in practice broken enough where you can rip the disc which is all most people want.
In a world of encumbrance a "Bag of Holding" is an economic miracle...
If you already understand assembly-language programming for some other ISA then you'll have no trouble following straight from the RISC-V reference manual:

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/releases/download/...

Plus recently ratified extensions:

https://wiki.riscv.org/display/HOME/Recently+Ratified+Extens...
In classes where I had open book tests, the value of the notes was always mitigated by the time allowed for the test. It was always made clear to us that while you could use any resources you wanted, you definitely didn’t want to do that. You just didn’t have time. But if you needed to look up a particular chemical structure (example), it was possible. But you had to really know the material in the first place.
> I guess performance in some cases, but mainly better developer experience.

It has better developer experience when you apply it to optimize performance. It is impossible to beat from-scratch recomputation in terms of DX.
Right, I'm trying to do this sorcratically and we got a smarty-pants over here. HN constantly has sample size critiques without power analysis responses which is a shame.
Thanks for checking it out. We've definitely gone with a convienience first approach for the framework but realize that's not suited to every scenario. By the way, the underlying tech is written in Go and we're adding support for other languages if Node.js is a big concern https://nitric.io/docs/language-support
Of course they got this result they had a sample size of 30 Dutch from various geographies - not the program set for 30 in a homogeneous group. If it’s a weakness out of 50 different groups, okay, but how about testing 30 other skin tones or bone structures or hair types…

Study means nothing without breakdown of race / ethnicity (self reported) and age range because in its functional instead of academic gaming for publication environments, the algorithm is designed for a much greater sample size. Of diversity, because the absence of information on this condition the software must account for is woefully naive.
Then maybe it's something other than memory. Despite having a bunch of extensions running, the only problem I have ever had with 3-400 open tabs is the mental effort of managing them.

I'm honestly perplexed I don't have more problems as the machine I do most of my reading/browsing on is more than a decade old and doesn't even have a GPU. Plus I nearly always have 2 messaging apps, a pdf viewer, and 1-3 other browsers running simultaneously, maybe a logging app too. All running on Windows 10, it's not some turbocharged Gentoo installation or anything.
Have you seen the Republican Parties policies over the past decade? It's pretty much "own the libs", which is malice any way you slice it.
As a small note on the page labeled 281, they remark that they called for digital cheating methods since analog ones like cheat sheets were previously already found to be "virtually undetectable".

Also interesting: you can create profiles to weigh things more heavily, like weigh a abnormal noises worse than normal if you are suspecting students of using audio calls. They made a profile specific to each of the cheater's method and retroactively applied those profiles to the collected data, and still half of them could not be made to show up near the top of the suspects list. And this is only possible if you already know the exact cheating method your class will use.

The page labeled 288 does make a compelling case for how the spreading of fear, uncertainty, and doubt is effective, leading to less people trying to cheat. It just doesn't stop the cheaters that risk the perceived odds and I doubt this is sustainable once such systems are everywhere and they notice it's safe.

For now, you might as well turn on a dummy system that claims to be real by doesn't actually invade privacy because it's a dummy. Per the results, it would be equally effective and thus achieve the best of both worlds.
Thanks - looks like this has already changed in line with GGP since my time.
https://peer.asee.org/open-book-problem-solving-in-engineeri... [pdf]
>Singapore does not control prices (though it’s moving in that direction), it’s public hospitals are privately run,

Singapore controls prices through collective bargaining at the national level and unlike the US practically every purchase in its hospitals has to go through registration with the HSA (the country's relevant regulatory agency). You essentially cannot purchase any major equipment without running it by the national government. That's one of the reasons why the country has a very transparent pricing system.

It's not only savings accounts but also a very tight control over costs and acquisitions that keeps the price low, that's completely missing in the American system which just keeps growing.
Yeah, that's fair.

As I said before, this is not one of my favorite Weird Al songs (many of which I could sing along with word-for-word from memory). I was never crazy about the song, so I am not surprised that I didn't know the surrounding context (which the original article left out). Still, I don't think you can exclude the possibility of a cause-and-effect relationship spanning the middle of two rhyming lines (perhaps particularly, in rap music), but after seeing and hearing the lines in context, I don't think that was Al's intention here.
> it will take, I don't know, a thousand years to get it back

Is there math behind this? Even back-of-napkin math?
The Professional Engineer certification exam covers a lot more than just civil engineering.

https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/
Note that you've shifted the claim a bit:

"Magnus Carlsen would have a real hard time drawing stockfish on a phone 1/100 games." is what you initially said.

If you're running a fully decked out stockfish with classical time controls, yeah the human will lose every game, but if you aren't, then humans can win in 15 second time controls [0], where computers have a distinct advantage of not needing dexterity to move the pieces, and against online cheaters[1], and with some prep (which like, you get against humans too!) they can win with weird prepped lines (Jonathan Schrantz does this fairly regularly, and he's not even titled).

And the systems those players beat are, uhhh, stronger than a phone. Edit: to substantiate this I just checked, stockfish in the TCEC, which is the big beefy 3700 elo one has hardware to evaluate 200 million positions per second on average. my phone sustained 350k/second, although that was in browser and droidfish is probably 10x faster. But you're still looking at 100x slower than the baseline. That's a significant performance drop. The phone is still comfortably above 3k elo, but not 3500. With prep and meta knowledge in a 100 game match? You only need to trick the machine once.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ObxTiA4wG8

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMTcawGzbOk
100% agree. The faster you can make your feedback loop, the more productive you will be. That’s why automated tests can be a super power. But only (as with everything else) when done right. So how do you know you are doing it right? When your automated tests save more of your time than the time it takes to maintain them. It’s really that simple.

In my experience I get those benefits when testing at the system/use case level but not when doing unit tests. At that higher level automated tests works wonderfully. I haven’t had a bug in production for 5+ years because of test automation. Which means that I spend 95% or more of my time adding new features or optimisations instead of bug hunting and/or getting shouted at because of customer problems. Love it!
internal combustion engines and fossil fuels. once electric crashes the grid and we lose the lithium war with china , people will pay life savings for a gas generator
I’m proposing new standards to house the homeless who sleep on the streets. Specifically if a building is empty and already fit for humans to occupy, it should be ok to put some beds there and allow people to be moved from the streets.

This post is not about food.
> Distributed objects had nothing to do with object semantics in a PL.

In a way, that was the problem. In practice for CORBA, there was a problematic relationship between its object model and the object models of its host programming languages.

CORBA was supposed to be language independent, but that meant that native language objects and CORBA objects weren't the same thing. There was a semantic gap, analogous to the one between relational databases and object-oriented languages. In the latter case, you can use an ORM-like solution or even just handwritten data access objects to achieve a native language object layer for your data model. With CORBA, that wasn't really feasible - you had to embed CORBA object implementations in your language of choice, and program to that non-native object model. In some ways it's comparable to .NET, but that has the advantage of using a common underlying runtime across all its language implementations. CORBA didn't have that.

You mention the actor model, but what examples are there of successful cross-language actor implementations? The reason for this is exactly what I'm talking about. The practical consequences of a cross-language distributed object model are problematic.

The closest answers I'm aware of share a common runtime - there's Erlang and Elixir both on the Erlang BEAM runtime, and Akka with Java and Scala on the JVM, with variants for C# that I'm not too familiar with. In both cases, the common runtime determines the shared semantics of the object model, so you don't get the same kind of semantic gap.

It's not a coincidence that what's ended up becoming popular are data-only formats like JSON and service-oriented RPC mechanisms like gRPC or even REST - these don't conflict with native language structures in the same way. As I said, many of the reasons CORBA failed are the reasons that gRPC is more successful - the most critical one being that's CORBA's notion of "object" was the wrong level of abstraction for language-independent distributed computing.
ESR wrote something along those lines some years ago.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6607

Edit: Apparently his site doesn't say who he is anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Though like we witnessed with the twin towers, all you have to do is weaken them.
View of management is upside down
> Graphics card fans weren't really meant for 24x7 operations.

Are those seats highly active all the time? If not, plenty of GPUs have fans that shut off when idle.
> I like to see more tests moving to open-book model where test takers are allowed to use all resources, as in work.

Open-book model does not mean you're entitled to all resources, including paying someone to solve all the questions for you, or mooching answers off your peers. Cheating isn't limited to closed book exams, and to that extent, it's still an unsolved problem.
The article unfortunately doesn’t estimate how much gas is used by crematoriums in Germany either per person or in total. Does anyone have a credible source for such an estimate?
Renewables currently supplying 13% of California’s energy grid demand
Cf. "California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time " (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230349)
Wuhan scientist working with EcoHealth alliance specifically wrote a grant proposal with intent to:

“We will introduce appropriate human-specific cleavage sites and evaluate growth potential in [a type of mammalian cell commonly used in microbiology] and HAE cultures,”

They were denied over Gain of Function concerns, and bam a year later the only Sars virus to be ever observed with those exact human-specific cleavage sites at the S1 S2 junction ravages the planet starting 500m from WIV.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...
The intern who pivoted Fog Creek was an interesting story

https://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-t... (2006)
As a Canadian I have only know completely socialized healthcare.

One of our largest problems right now is that our system is failing and can’t keep up.

The solutions being rolled out by the provinces to fix the huge backlog of people waiting for care is to privatize more of the service delivery (while keeping single payer).
Yeah, you can extend my argument beyond webcompat to speed, security, etc. An engine that is better on these metrics is a better engine.

My point (which I somewhat misstated) was that having the best engine is the bare minimum; it just brings you to the starting line. And if you don't have the best engine you'll always lose. (Sidenote: Evernote learned that lesson the hard way. Focus on core product, not marketing. Chrome's dominant, not just because of its marketing, but because it was a fundamentally superior product from the start; you can dominate a market with an inferior product based purely on marketing, as Evernote showed, but never durably).

Hence why trying to compete on engines makes little sense to me. Since so many top corporations are contibuting to Chromium (Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, more), it's difficult to call it "Google's browser engine" anymore.

The "engine competition" model makes sense if all engines are proprietary. Then, competition is the only way to push for improvements. But with every major browser engine open-source, it's better to concentrate efforts onto one engine. Imagine if every Gecko dev was contributing to Chromium instead of (somewhat) reinventing the wheel? Would Chrome not get faster/safer?

It's a bit like if there were "multiple Linuxes", developed independently, that all rigidly had to be compatible with the same APIs/userland (/implement web standards). No, there's just one Linux.

Google still wouldn't control the web (actually, they'd control it less if Mozilla's a stakeholder in Blink than with Mozilla doing their own thing and becoming increasingly irrelevant), since each browser dev can patch things into and out of Blink for their own browser (like Brave does); while still sharing all common contributions back with all other Chromium browsers. Win-win.
It was widely used but also widely criticized by that point. Dead man walking, basically.
My current job depends on the current system being wasteful (healthcare insurance administration). But I'd much rather have to find a new job in a new industry than have the current healthcare system of the United States.
But we're not losing the benefits of Git. We still have those. We're 'losing' the benefits of decentralized build servers, but we never had those to begin with.

This is a problem to work on, but it's not a Git problem.
City-based soda pop taxes don’t effectively reduce sugar consumption
That’s a great pragmatic way to think about it.
Or just instruct the student to go to a location chosen at random from a list of nearby cooperating venues -- schools, churches, office buildings, whatever -- where they won't have had the chance to prepare any elaborate cheating schemes.

That would represent a good compromise between an on-site proctor and allowing the student full control over the testing environment.
Yes I think that makes sense, to an extent. Maybe not specifically those because they are too hard to measure. But it would be a great way to have people put skin in the game. As a taxpayer paying for others’ healthcare I’d love if they were incentivized to live healthier lives to reduce costs
I've also used it when I was taking exams for high school. It's pretty bad software if you ask me.

rant/long comment

First of all, they have a 'different' program for each institution, customized for you to 'sign-in' onto your school's auth page. From an institutional perspective it seems clever, since everything you do will most likely be logged along with your session.

Another annoying thing was that there's different versions of the program for 'each' software. E.g. I used the Canvas platform for some exams and the ALEKS platform for math exams.

And they have the same name under the windows programs so I can only really know which one I'm opening from looking at the desktop.

I believe the Lockdown program is using some lame code to keep the program window 'active'. I never really tried to do any programming behind it. But I do remember that I had some AutoHotkey scripts running for completely unrelated stuff.

On another note, I read their privacy policy and it seems very vague. I wonder if they can get away with letting a stranger view my face for two hours.
Good point — few people want to leave their apartment and use a communal facility! I can imagine you could easily retrofit the water supply, but the drains sound harder. Still, these projects in NYC think they can pull it off — will be interesting to see. There is a precedent: many of the lower Manhattan residences (LES, SOHO etc) were factories.

I just did a quick DDG search for “commercial to residential conversion” and to my (unjustified surprise) there were a lot of links from architects and contractors.

NYT article from a few months ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/realestate/10posting-fina...
Energy Trading Stressed by Margin Calls of $1.5T
It's been an equally long period since screensavers had any actual purpose, being replaced by power saving features and screens without burn-in.