skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the metrics that I have been judged by over the course of my career (e.g. lines of code, story point velocity, etc) are absolute bullshit, and easily manipulated. And yet... I continue to build "dashboards" for VP's to stare at, and continue to be measured by deeply flawed metrics.

I believe that every rational thinking person would agree that tracking racial and ethnic and sexual headcount percentages doesn't necessarily mean what they purport to mean. But... what are you gonna do? We just need metrics, any metrics. Bad metrics are better than no metrics, or at least this seems to be the deeply entrenched mindset of business.
Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood the link or missed something. I thought all they did is disable JIT and leave the JS as interpreted.
It's not about removing cars, its about limiting them and choosing a more appropriate tool for the job. Sometimes you can get away with a hand trowel instead of an excavator.
Indeed, and in the US when it comes to making changes to urban areas for bikes, the prevailing attitude is something along the lines of je suis fatigué.
Westfield seems to have figured out how to make malls profitable. Everyone else, not so much.

The secret sauce seems to be high-end luxury stores. Nordstrom and Bloomingdales, not Sears or JC Penney.

Around the SF Bay Area, all the non-Westfield malls are dying and the Westfield malls are so crowded you can't park on a weekend.
Yesterday I saw a guy saying that Outpaint is nothing new, that photoshop was able to do it for years, I pointed it out that what photoshop does is extremely limited, and the results only look okay in small scale, the difference is night and day.
There are no actual ethical issues with contemporary ML architectures (including transformers) being too conscious or brainlike, it's just laypeople and demagogue chatter. It could be an issue in the future but only with computational systems that are utterly unlike the ones being created and used today.

Actual practitioners are tired of the debate because getting to an informed answer requires grokking some undergraduate-level math and statistics, and nobody seems particularly willing to do that
Most Rust jobs are in the blockchain space, which is unfortunate for those uninterested in blockchain technologies.
There was a paper on HN recently about auto-inferring semantics of x86 instructions — although it used an SMT solver (I think) rather than ML.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eschkufz/docs/pldi_16.pdf
When Sri Lanka Banned Synthetic Fertilizers, the Country Imploded
> The numbers aren’t directly disclosed but reliable sources estimate tens of billions of dollars in net revenue

apple is the source[1] no estimating required. all publicly traded companies, required by law. some math is required, many videos on youtube detailing the process. it can be automated, JSON is available. they are called balance sheets, M.shkreli actually has a video series going through these
[1]https://sec.report/CIK/0000320193

look for 10-Q, 10-K; quarterly, annual
iOS 16 to Gain 'Clean Energy Charging' Option Later This Year
Demographics are big. But Zeihan also evaluates countries based on their geography, taking into account things like energy supplies, food production, and navigable rivers.
Another discovery that something thought to be uniquely human really isn't that hard.
sign makers were put out of business en masse at a certain point, and there were quite a few, and it is high-skill, high-commitment work. Some kinds of print arts related to magazines for example, were next.

There is a chapter in the Stanford AI Index (2021) that opens with "The rise of AI will inevitable raise questions of how much these technologies will impact business, labor and the economy in general .. "

there are winners and losers here, not just interesting questions. In the 1930s America there was mass unemployment among many skilled "workers" .. can't imagine the 1990s ex-Soviet economies.. I dont think these questions are neutral or innocent.
This comment is a bit like saying Telsa is admitting they cannot compete in entry level electric cars because they announced the Cybertruck's maximum performance figures.

Meanwhile, 9 out of 10 laptops sold... contain Intel or AMD chips (or presumably Qualcomm), rather than Apple Silicon.

https://macdailynews.com/2022/01/31/apple-takes-10-share-of-...

Now if the question was... is Apple Silicon much more efficient... than an enthusiast level desktop CPU?
This is one of the reasons why I can't stand being anywhere in the Suburban dead zone. Everything is devoid of uniqueness and every single one looks just about the same across the US. Both rural and urban areas at least retain some semblance of history or culture.
For me, it's the halting problem (and related proofs).
because its expensive (installation) and depending on country solar panels grands can be difficult to get and are practically non existent
It was great to see about all the innovation that made it into Iceberg and Trino in the last year. Truly amazing work. I enjoyed watching this live and now catching up on the shownotes.

Disclaimer: I am cohost normally but watched only this time.
Oh, maybe I misinterpreted. I have much less interest in that argument given that there are tons of pre-existing ideologies that could be discriminated against for a job. Right? If your ideology is "I think it's important to work as little as possible to maintain a job." I'd assume many employers would discriminate against hiring someone with that ideology, no? Apologies if I'm missing the key point again.
I suspect it could have to do with the wording.

"Would you rather have a weak elected leader or a strong unelected leader?"

I suspect "Would you be in favor of permanently getting rid of democratically elected leaders in exchange for a strong leader right now?", you would not get the same response.

It's not clear to me that respondents were thinking through the implications of the question. Of course, it is clear to me that many people rarely think through the implications of political problems and decisions, so maybe it wouldn't matter either way.
I really like https://getstream.io/ docs. For me, SDK support is important, as are examples and templates that I can play with & build off of. I also like the API usage dashboard that Stream supplies when you login. Which veers into the terriory of dev portal, but worth mentioning.

Also, in terms of tools for actually building documentation, I recommend looking at https://docusaurus.io/ for clean, customisable documentation.
I continue to like the chans for this. They have a bad reputation for bigotry but many chan users are just as hostile toward this as anyone else, and treat cesspools like /pol/ as containment boards whose malign attitudes need to be kept out of other boards. This is true even on 4chan itself, and there are many more obscure examples.

For that matter, even superficially toxic online spaces are often highly contested and exhibit recognizable dynamic patterns, notwithstanding the anonymity of the participants.

Alternatively, anything is possible at zombo.com.
Great move from Meta and the PyTorch team.

Curious to see if Alphabet will follow suit with TF and Jax :)
What are they using to tell AI generated art apart from human generated? AI? :P
I follow news from the boutique modular synthesizer space, and it has been a BLOODBATH lately.

The legendary OP-1 was recently discontinued. Prices are going through the roof. Multiple popular modular synth companies have closed up shop recently due to the chip shortage.

What can I say, it sucks!
Wow, flagged, killed, resurrected in a VERY short amount of time. This is spicy.

Diversity is a trope that I've yet to see any evidence for other than using it as a kudgel to force a single viewpoint on a bunch of people by threatening their salary.

To be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't hire other races, or prefer one race above the other. But having been both in tech and university I can tell you by and large these programs are feel good and do almost nothing to forward their goal.

If the goal is to improve racial diversity, then you can do it trivially by simply selecting non-white races. This is, by definition, racist, but for some reason we've retermed this form of racism as "affirmative action". In a lot of sectors this ends up becoming a racial quota. Some tech companies even seem to gleefully promote it as such. These quotas do nothing to improve the bottom line or improve diversity. It feels more like revenge than progress and I don't think that's effective or sustainable.

If the goal is to improve ideological diversity then race shouldn't be controlled for. As the author rightly points out, a white person from a poor neighborhood will have a "more diverse" viewpoint than a black person from a middle class neighborhood. However, one may wonder how increased ideological diversity would help solve a problem in software that doesn't directly lean on one of those ideologies. There has never been a point in my decades long career as a backend engineer where my political/racial/religious identity ever influenced my code. I can say this with absolute certainty.

It feels like a sham to me. Suddenly in the last decade we've seen the marked rise of "diversity consultants" who by and large are simply diversity hustlers. This includes the new title "chief diversity officer" who, to this day, I am unsure what they even contribute in terms of driving profitability. Of course, these diversity hustlers will promote direct-action diversity efforts as the panacea to all of our sins because it's profitable to them. I have yet to see data that implies when controlling for education, race is a determining factor in ability. The idea itself seems false on its face but this is the exact idea they are promoting.

A business seeks first to optimize profit. Meritocracy is the single best way to insure this. If you wish to reduce hiring bias develop systems for double-blind reviews of candidates and compare results. These problems can be at least partially ameliorated with statistics. But instead, it seems we choose the most inefficient and outright questionably legal method instead. Promoting these ephemeral hard to measure metrics like "X <trait> has a more diverse opinion and is therefore better than Y <trait>" is just an end-around to bigotry at the corporate and university level. We can do better to fix hiring pipeline biases, etc, but this is not the way.
> Collision avoidance would be better than the lesser of two outcomes.

We could ensure collision avoidance by banning cars from cities! But that's presumably not what you meant.

Yes, it is much better (although certainly not good) to be hit by a small VW than it is to be hit by a pickup truck. European safety standards reflect this fact; the US's standards should as well.
Would you give them a bakfiets?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1ThOYD8Ic

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA
Our EDI code probably has multiple if blocks for every customer we communicate with.

Implementing EDI is not for the faint of heart. For the variations I worked with, there was little useful documentation, I learned mostly be reading existing code. I would hate to have to start from scratch.
For some reason I can't stop giggling at this.
* a sink side memory of tens of megabytes is either on-chip memory (very costly) or on-PCB DRAM (still costly). For high refresh rate monitors, the memory would need to be high BW too. Note that there aren't any modern memory standards that are high BW but low storage. DRAMs with just a capacity of just a few MB would be very much pad limited.

* source side, you'd need a shadow buffer as well, and you need double the read BW to detect the difference between previous and the current frame.

All of that is technically achievable, but none of it matter for desktop monitors: the power savings are just too low to matter.

Laptops are a different matter. Many laptop LCD panels already support self-refresh. (Google "Panel Self Refresh")

But that's for cases where the screen is static: the user is staring at the screen, not moving their mouse, the cursor is static. The benefit is not just putting the link but also putting the GPU to sleep.

That's the low hanging fruit. Partial screen update doesn't save a lot more, because you'd need to power up the GPU for that.
They do, because web content can live for a very long time - that's a strength of the web. So today's and tomorrow's browsers need to be able to process these 25 years old documents, because they are still part of the web, syntax issues included and no one will come to fix them.
Beware the Bullwhip Effect!
Do any companies subscribe to equity of outcome? I didn't think that was the intent of the word "equity". If that were the case, we wouldn't get promoted or bonuses based on our work, it would just be a timed schedule. I don't think that is what's going on.
London is even flatter and more temperate than California, hardly invalidates the comment.
> Bike paths make infinitely more sense (especially since they dont have to follow roads and can take more direct paths), but cities seem loathe to adopt them vs just painting some lines on a current street.

They can make more sense in certain circumstances for long trips between population centers, but as an alternative to bike lanes within cities… not really. The problem with only having bike paths is that they usually don’t take you all the way to where you need to go! If you’re trying to get to a particular business and they’re not directly on the bike path (which they probably aren’t), you need to leave the bike path at some point. And that’s when it’s helpful to have a protected bike lane!

> None of this isnt to say we should not build more bike paths/trains/subways/busses, but I dont think its a one solution fits all sort of thing.

Correct, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for transportation. Including roads for cars, but they’re currently treated that way in North America.
So Rust is now old enough for people to talk about "Modern" Rust?

I'm either missing something or words don't mean what they used to...
I continue to prefer building a custom queue for anything requiring any features like the ones you describe. I've tried using off-the-shelf queuing systems, and having the full state of a task being spread across systems (or in other words, having to consult multiple systems to decide if work should be done) produces such a complex, buggy mess.

Like anything else, when you need to pierce the abstraction, then it no longer serves you in its current form.
> I've seen bike lanes added to roads, and almost no one is happy. There's always idiot drivers and bikers and every now and then someone gets hurt or killed.

which is why we should allow only bikes and public transport in large cities.
>> my objective for the build was small as possible, quiet as possible, and as powerful as possible in that order.

With the same priorities and a deemphasis on graphics, I present to you the Mellori-ITX:
https://github.com/phkahler/mellori_ITX

Uses the CPU fan as a case fan. By protruding through the top we get a lower profile than is possible with any other ITX case (well the standoffs can be cut down but that has not be optimized).

My next build will be an upgrade of the same design but with a Zen 4 or 5 chip with 8 or 16 cores depending what fits in the power constraints of the Pico-PSU. It will be a while though because that system is still more than enough for everything I do with it.
> Say an artist can only upload 5 images per day or something, why would someone need to upload more than that?

There's been more than a few days when I've uploaded more than 5 images a day to flickr/Instagram (according to my backup, I uploaded 27 images to Instagram on 2007-02-04 during a day-long walk.)
This is what nearly happened with IE, except Firefox then later Chrome managed to displace it to some extent. Now it would be likely to happen with Chromium based browsers if not for Mobile Safari being an important target as well.
Not much.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32814082
> There are entire categories of stuff that cities need to thrive that bikes cannot fulfill.

Okay? So still use the truck for the situations that need it. No one is suggesting just launching them all into the sun.

This kind of objection is ridiculous.
I just came back from bangkok and was impressed by how well people drive compared to other large cities in developing countries I've been to. To be fair Thailand is much more developed than I thought before going.
> still waiting.

My answer is still "no (but many banks don't either)", as I said in my previous reply. Unless you mean digitally, but that's just "having accounts". If you mean digitally, then my answer is "obviously yes".

> Well, for one, it's only an address. Not a ledger.

What? The entire mechanical basis of Bitcoin (the blockchain) is a ledger (big database of timestamped transactions) with a somewhat unusual timestamping and tamper proofing mechanism. Each transaction has a set of associated addresses. I was going to say that this is not meaningfully different from individual account ledgers, but actually, this is literally how transaction history would be stored in an RDBMS. It's not different at all.

The existence of this (public) ledger is what creates the demand for things like Tornado Cash in the first place.

> Bitcoin transactions point money at one or more address.

Banks can facilitate transactions between arbitrary whole numbers of accounts also (off the top of my head: 1- paying interest; 2- payment; 3+- escrow)

> bitcoin is just a collection of those transactions & relevant/necessary data to support them them, compiled & validated using a variety of mathematic calculations.

Yes. Functionally, that results in a (limited) bank. Or at least, it's closer to that than it is to cash.
>police who do that kind of thing should be tried as civilians

POLICE ARE CIVILIANS. They are not above the law, nor are they military members, or anything like that. They are bound by the same law as everyone else, no matter what they seem to want.
Chicago is miserable in the winter even at 40°F. The cold, humid wind cuts through almost any clothing.

My brother-in-law specifically bought a car for Chicago winters after attempting to bike his way through one.
24h x 30 days x .5kW x 0.25 CHF/kWh gives me 90 CHF a month to run my PC, assuming it never sleeps.

Have you run the calculation? It's worthwhile configuring suspend for PCs these days. My 3090 never seems to go below 120W, for one thing.
Complex programs will likely need objects (not ‘value types’)+, and Go’s GC is nowhere near as performant as Java’s. Benchmarkgame’s binary tree test is the one that is specifically made to stress test the GC and Java beats out every single managed language by a huge margin there.

+ Even in Rust/c++ one often has to go with dynamic life times like (A)RC, shared pointers, etc.
Blue Origin rocket mishap triggers escape system
A website is a social construct because it can only function by the agreement of everyone involved (i.e., we all agree on how to parse HTML).

The individual site may be constructed individually (maybe) but it can only work if the society of people-who-use-the-internet all agree to follow a series of conventions about how websites work; you can't start using \<soul\> instead of \<body\> and expect everything to work as normal, because the reason the \<body\> tag is used to define the body of a page is because we needed a way to make sure people can use a webpage without having to define an entire new language for each one.
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That's a different topic, as you need the entire model to "decompress" that 4 KB data. I'm talking about the model itself.
I have a 10 mile bike commute that I'm happy to ride with a e-bike. I don't much mind the rainy / cold weather in the PNW.

I'm a lot more worried about someone hitting me with their cars because protected bike lanes, and painted bicycle gutters have a tendency to end abruptly in my city leaving me scrambling in the middle of a 25 - 35 mph road while annoyed cars and trucks pass at high speed.

The situation is improving and more biking infrastructure is being built and I can't wait for the day when I feel completely safe riding my bike to work all the time.
Germany announces plans to create new financial crime authority
Wikipedia has a nice and amusing summary:

> The Thai state has failed at promoting utility cycling as a mode of transport.[33] Officials regard bicycles as toys, and cycling as a leisure activity, not as a means of transport that could help solve traffic and environmental problems. Their attitude was on display at Bangkok's celebration of World Car-Free Day 2018, celebrated on 22 September. Bangkok's Deputy Governor, Sakoltee Phattiyakul, who presided over the event, arrived in his official automobile, as did his entourage. He then mounted a bicycle for a ceremonial ride.[34] Prior to the event, which encouraged the non-use of cars, the BMA announced there would be extensive free automobile parking spaces available for participants who were to ride bicycles in the parade.[35]

> In his first year office, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha launched a cycling initiative, encouraging members of the public to cycle. But state investment in cycling lanes ended up a being a waste as they quickly devolved into parking lanes for motorists.[36] All Thai rail companies, whether commuter or long distance, make on-board transport of bicycles difficult or impractical.[34] Without state intervention, direction, and education, the public lacks the impetus to adopt a mode of transport that remains ignored by urban development projects.[33]

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Bangkok#Utility_c...
I care about diversity.
I've been a women in stem nearly my entire life (thanks dad!).

However diversity quotas, esg scores, and all the manipulation in "diversity" and "woke" today is more about incompetent children of the rich who need fake jobs that make a lot of money. I've refused to hire an english major young woman on my development team even under extreme pressure from management because she's a women, but also because she's the CTO's wife's niece.

It's just an unbelievable amount of pressure, now all resumes are pre-screened before they even get to me by a third party hiring group so corporate has plausible deniability about their schemes.

It's become far more about "elite" signalling and nepotism these days.
Given how that campaign ended for Charles, I hope not!
> The article is an essay that starts by citing Supreme Court case law

Wrong. First 3 sentences:

> All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they are going to contribute to “diversity”. What you’re supposed to do in these, and what everyone damn well knows you’re supposed to do, is (i) talk about your race, gender, and other “identity group” traits that it would be illegal for the university to explicitly ask you about, and (ii) talk about your activism on behalf of left-wing identity politics.

It primes the reader with subjective and emotionally driven flamebait.
Yes, but the same intent provisions still apply to the entity that enabled the structuring. Tornado Cash has legitimate use cases - I had one prior to the OFAC issue (hiding the source of funds to an address in order to prevent certain bots from reacting to it). So the devs cannot have formed intent to aid in any of the crimes that TC may have unwittingly enabled.

Casinos are used as vehicles for structuring and money laundering every minute of every day - on a much larger scale than anything Tornado Cash could ever have achieved. They don't have the intent to aid in these activities though, which is why they are allowed to operate.
Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years