skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How that technology would weaken trust and accountability is beyond me. It's literally perfect for finance

Because modern legal systems and modern economies work on the assumption that malfeasance is a reason to un-do what crypto systems want to make indelible. This is an obvious and obviously good thing to people who are not absorbed by this odd groupthink. That impedance mismatch is an excellent indicator of why this technology is viewed as stuff for cranks and grifters, even were there useful applications to be had for the public.

> Also, I don't know any law that exempts crypto companies from being taken to court.

...while at the same time the crypto community is wracked by disposable entities fleeing into the night, beyond any practical legal reach.

On the other hand, if somebody compromises your debit card, Bank of America will make you whole while they reverse the transactions on the backend.
I've owned pretty much every "notable" monitor in the formats I care about in the last few years, I'm sure I'm pickier than you.

The fact is you can pay for a good enough monitor to truly be flawless, it just costs more than people are envisioning. For example, my late revision 5K Ultrafine nearly as flawless as the XDR. I didn't list it because people who don't know better latch onto the wifi teething issues the first revisions had, but the panel is approaching the limit of little backlight bleed as the technology allows (and the limits are not as poor as people are making out).

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Honestly I've seen the opposite though, people who don't realize that any piece of screen large enough, photographed with exposure cranked way below normal will show _some_ sort of pattern and confuse _that_ with "terrible backlight bleed".

But that's the panel equivalent of people who only watch Star Wars space sequences with brightness cranked to 11 in a pitch black room to judge HDR bloom...
awww - https://github.com/dekuNukem/RGBeeb/raw/master/photos/torch.... was my second ever computer. never thought i'd see one on HN; i miss the yellow-on-blue wonders of CPM :(
> literally perfect for finance

It’s useful for a cartoon version of finance. It’s "perfect for finance” in that crypto users are willing to tolerate high fee burdens, which makes them profitable.
‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem and More
Given that you have been complaining about cherrypicking facts/narratives by the other side, you need to acknowledge the fact that you are doing that at this very moment. You are handwaving away one of the biggest stories in the DOJ's history, a search warrant executed against a former president. We know he has top secret documents, we know they were not declassified, and we know they were held negligently while mixed up with magazines in a comically insecure facility.

You have to admit that this is as big if not bigger than "Hunter's laptop", because otherwise all you're really saying is "I want them to talk about MY stories and not THEIRS!"
There would be no point in keeping the human players around. You may as well just watch the computers play each other (which some people already do, occasionally). We’ve long since passed the point where humans can improve on the moves suggested by computers. The optimal strategy would be to just play the computer’s recommended move every time.
slaps forehead

Why didn’t I think of that before?
Automatic memory management is indeed the first thing one needs to look for writing performance critical software, and that's a first in my check-list. But

> in-memory storage of databases

Doesn't that sound a bit expensive to have large capacity memory? Although the expense of R/W IO is far cheaper for in-memory analysis. Is such trade-off worth it?
Yes, it seems that we learn to do that really early [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention#Knowledge_of_the_int...
“Trending on artstation” and other Stable Diffusion myths
On another note, you should see about adding your product to this list of IDP solutions. https://internaldeveloperplatform.org/paas-devops-platforms/

I think you can raise a PR here:
https://github.com/InternalDeveloperPlatform/public-site/tre...
That’s just one component. Yes, F# does not have SML’s functor/module system, but that doesn’t negate F# being an industrial strength ML.

You can do a lot with F#’s generics and interfaces.
I actually kind of like an MRI.
The rhythmic pulsing is relaxing.

But obligatory relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1453/

> Our fMRI study found that subjects performing simple memory tasks showed activity in the parts of the brain associated with loud noises clautrophobia, and the removal of jewelry.
Their chosen field of study doesn't affect the teaching ability of a professor. That's not relevant information. Do you imagine the professor keeps track of every pre-med student and gives them a different teaching and grading experience compared to others?
> The trouble is, I'm not going to get any problems: I have a better chance of winning the National Lottery Jackpot and never having to work again than running into a system that uses U+0000 for anything useful (other than termination).

It's not up to the wrapper protocol or UTF-8 processing application to decide whether the characters in the stream are sufficiently "useful". And you will encounter them, if you process enough text from enough sources. Web form, maybe not. But a database, stream processing system, or programming language will definitely run into NUL characters in text. They were probably terminators to somebody at some point, or perhaps they are intended to be seen as terminators by somebody downstream of your user. For example, I could write a Java source file that builds up a C in-memory layout, so my Java is writing NUL characters. I can write those NULs using the escape sequence '\0', or I could just put actual NUL characters in a String literal in the source file. Editors let me read and write it, the java compiler is fine with it, and it works as expected. That Java source file is a UTF-8 text file with NULs in it that I suppose are terminators... but not in the way you're implying. They're meant as terminators from somebody else's perspective.

But yeah, it is easy to look at that and go "no, gross, why aren't they just doing it the normal way, we're not supporting that". On the other hand, it's also easy to just support all of UTF-8 like javac and everything else I used in that example do.

> The BOM marks?

UTF-8 BOM is EF BB BF. FF and FE would appear in a UTF-16 stream, but never in UTF-8. In UTF-8 you can use the bytes C0, C1, and F5 through FF without colliding with bytes in decodable text. There is no "new UTF16 string" in the middle of your UTF-8 stream, at least not one that your UTF-8 processing application should care about. Your text encoding detector, maybe.
The issue here isn't guns though, sadly. Most of the violence from homeless mentally ill folks isn't gun violence.

Walking around SF, I (a regular looking guy) have been accosted multiple times. Its legitimately frightening, and would be so much worse if I was elderly or disabled or otherwise unable to defend myself.
Hi Leros,
Thank you for your input - much appreciated! We are small team and I need to demonstrate to my CTO that customers will buy the tool. But it is super interesting that the tool we are developing is about decision making and convincing others - just what you emphasised!
Kind regards,
Bastian
This channel is very nice. The Alexander and the Caesar in Gaul videos are my favourites.
This is my biggest gripe about the 6 as well. Battery life with 5g is pretty bad and on top of that there are certain locations where the phone would switch between "5g" and "5g UC" multiple times per second which ends up being very distracting.

I've just disabled 5G entirely and it results in a much better overall phone.
I think the point is that the process of evolution from whatever primordial soup to us and beyond was anticipated and perhaps being controlled by SEED
Wait, what? When a license expires my understanding is indexing continues, you just can't search, you can get a key to unlock search by contacting Splunk. I assume you mean the SaaS Splunk Cloud, then, because the renewal period would be far in advance of the license expiring, Splunk doesn't just "stop". That behavior makes no sense and would lose of a lot of clients, you can't just backfill data gaps.
We ran it past them and they ok'd it. We as a company are fundamentally very open. It is quite literally a core facet of our business, and that includes not just the technical parts.

Of course there's stuff that's internal, but something that's literally a matter of public record isn't it.
I often operate this way, that I design and build and run or use constructions in my mind before I feel comfortable committing to sitting down at the computer and making it, or sketching it. I've been made aware, recently, that some people can't picture things in their mind, rotate them, apply physics to them, etc.

One thing about working this way is it's very frustrating to people who operate by documenting in real time, in something like org or Notion. I am not a note taker and I never really have been. I actually find my thinking gets cloudier when I try to document something I personally find "intuitive".

One example of this clash of styles was recently with a manager where he asked me, directly, how could I know how to design something if I hadn't written out the structure yet? How would I know to build space for a feature if I hadn't documented all the features that were required? I told him the requirements should be known, already, by anyone who was thinking about this problem... that for instance anyone who bothers to even imagine a "Create" action would automatically, symmetrically, imagine a "Delete" action and budget for that. He didn't agree and made me write it out anyway.
I'd like to be a part of the meetings where it was decided to go forward with the product. "We're not price-competitive, we're using a SoC from the Apple Watch 4 era, and the bezels are wide enough to ride a bicycle on."

"Looks good, when does manufacturing start?"

"I'm sorry, ma'am, perhaps not I've explained myself clearly..."

I mean, is this some tax write off scheme to balance profitable products? What business hinkiness am I missing that makes this a viable product? Because what I'm not imaging is someone in the viewing audience saying, "wow, it's about time Google, this is the watch I've been waiting for!"
The reason we watch sporting events is to watch a fallible human attempt to control their body or mind enough to best other humans attempting to do the same.

No one will watch a competition between two self-driving identical Mazdas racing down the road.
Seems incoherent. Why are you comparing elon musk to unnamed twitter users? I don't need to compare his ideas to other (undescribed) ideas. I can simply evaluate the idea and call it bad.

I don't care about the relative preference between one bad idea, and one undescribed idea.
China has been below 2.2 in 1990 and has remained well below that since, while continuing to have a growing population. If you're looking even three or four decades ahead it's not a huge problem for India.
Yeah, for a one-off look at the room, then all this stuff is all overkill, IMO.

However, it's still fun to geek around with acoustics.

I mix stuff that other people listen to, and I operate sound systems in a variety of locations. My interest in this is mostly professional, though I think that it's easy to get a long way in that business without a lot of specific exploration, so really it boils down to being a fun and kind of nerdy hobby.

To your point about mics, Rational Acoustics, maker of the popular Smaart analysis program, have advised users that high-end mics might not be the most important element in a measuring system.

This is because most of the useful elements of acoustic treatment happen at lower frequencies, where the cheapo omni capsules work just fine, and these elements are not generally creating lower-frequency artifacts.
If physically acting creates credibility, any Wagner mercenary has tonnes more than Musk.

And I think your dear twitterer has just tried to defend Putin's invasion with an electoral map from 2012. He does not act in good faith.
I think calling OCaml "inferior" is misleading in 2022. OCaml kept evolving (easier when not bound by a standard) and grew many features way beyond what SML offers. Things like more expressive pattern matching, GADTs, first class modules, etc. The tooling (lsp, dune, ocamlformat) is also stronger these days. That's why I think SML and OCaml are not strictly better than one another.
In gcc I got:

1.c:1:11: warning: trigraph ??< ignored, use -trigraphs to enable [-Wtrigraphs]

Is there a preprocessor directive to enable support out of curiosity?
Imho we should be careful of using this term front running.
If I buy a thing (simply becqause I can) and then turn around and sell it at artificially high limit sell orders, does this mean I'm front running or market making? Spoofing?
I imagine you are in a market where the pixel is sold directly by Google.

Google has a history of trying to block users who they don’t ship to, from viewing item details in their online stores.
> If you're all-knowing and all-good, great. Otherwise seems like a pretty gross violation of basic human rights - what about the false positives... We could temporarily solve many of the world's problems if we had more authoritarianism, but it never ends well in fiction or in real life.

I think this is a broad argument that applies equally to prison, too; would you bite that bullet and argue for abolishing prison as well? If not, I think your conclusion is a bit hyperbolic.

In practice the discussion is (should be) quite nuanced. If someone is a clear and present danger to themselves or others due to mental instability, then it seems reasonable to me to confine them until that danger is resolved. But of course, that's a slippery slope and so the danger should be clear and substantial, and involuntary commitment should not be an indefinite thing, a tool used to take homeless off the streets, for example. A robust and independent ethics board reviewing decisions is an important component.

One thing to note is that lots of other countries do this, and the US is something of an outlier; one could just look at other countries for examples to evaluate whether this idea would present a terrible slide into authoritarianism. For example, in the UK: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your-rights....

One could also do an A/B test by analyzing California circa 1972 when the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act ended involuntary commitment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80.... Was the US more authoritarian in the 60s, when involuntary commitment was common? It's reasonable to suggest it was overused (see, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), but so were many medical practices (see, forced sterilization of women). I think it's reasonable to suppose that we use a lighter touch if we tried again.

Fortunately, this is an issue that lots of smart people write on already: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-p....
How does this even make sense? What are you even saying here? Everyone just leave your city until you find one that's automagically well run? Surely you must understand that this conversation is abut ideas to better run a city. But you're saying nah, just leave instead! I'm sure Boise Idaho will be happy to have you!
It's *VERY* loud. You can't wear conventional headphones, you'll need non-magnetic headphones that are made specifically to be used during MRI scans. That means no active noise canceling features. The MRI is loud enough to be heard through the passive attenuation of headphones or earplugs, so you'll still hear the mechanical beat of the MRI underneath any music.
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my guess is Google has been working on this for years, and just needs to ship something.
First you have to define a sensible racial grouping. Good luck.
Motte: Maybe deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill has gone too far

Bailey:

>The underlying problem is that the ACLU and other progressive libertarians view the mentally ill as victims of society deserving of special rights, including the right to avoid the consequences of their behavior.
100% agreed, except for the last line. There are plenty of O-chem dorks! It doesn't come into its own until you start applying it to problems, then it's fun.

Also, O-chem would be a lot more fun if it were actually a small lecture course. Pre-med ruins it by turning it into "memorize this book of obscure recipes". You might as well point them to the Joy of Cooking and have them memorize that, instead. Same purpose, but at least the outcome would be delicious.
Anybody know why they don't terminate in big population centers even if they're near a river, but rather some random place outside of it?

e.g. London...zero direct landings.
No, it is a symptom of a oligopolistic industry focused more on gatekeeping than scientific advancement. The AMA needs to be broken up under antitrust. Doctors do not have a right to high salaries any more than software engineers. If they can't figure out how to remain relevant, perhaps they need to reflect upon the failures of their field. Unfortunately demagogues like Lina Khan prefer to go after tech workers rather than the real elephant in the room - the US healthcare cartel.

Aside from anti-trust, an executive order or education department policy to force medical school admissions to be tied to e.g. the 50th percentile of MCATs based on existing difficulty could also be a solution. Enough bullshit about building schools in third world countries, undergraduate research, or personal statements. It is not the role of the professor or institution to determine whether a student is "qualified" to pursue a profession. That should be left entirely to the market, not the ivory towers of academia. It is ridiculous that we are importing healthcare professionals from overseas while local staff are being overworked and there are not enough residency positions despite the demand. There is rot in the system, all the way from academia to insurance.
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Haha friendly witness. Please hand over your current and future business plans over. What could possibly go wrong. Does nobody here see how that could backfire with Meta having such insight on your business?
Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in literature
The brain is a strange and complicated instrument. It can be fooled more easily than most of us want to know.

The book "The Brain that Changes Itself" sites a number of examples that often border on the bizarre.

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers/d...
I almost forgot but back in my day there was a big effort in The Linux Documentation Project, or TLDP. They put out a bunch of good stuff at https://tldp.org/guides.html, but as you can see they haven't been updated in quite a while. Most of the stuff is still relevant though, since the basics of setting up web services really haven't changed in 20 years if you don't touch the new kubertenes/container stuff.

For your use-case, I think you'll gain a lot of benefit from just throughly reading this chapter (https://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/chap_10.html) of one of their books, and https://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html is a more comprehensive view of the same. They encompasses almost everything a hobbyist linux server looked like 15 years ago, and is a good starting point for getting the fundamentals.
Yeah, the fact that so many people actually don't know whether they were abused helps an abuser try to hide from consequences through gaslighting.
> You know safesearch is optional, right? It even disables itself if it knows you're looking for porn. There is nothing that stops children from overriding it.

You can let your kid use Google to look up math lectures without fearing that they would see something slightly traumatizing though, right? That wasn't the case in 1996! The point is that products have varying levels of readiness, and it's totally fair to say "the thing isn't ready, it has too many sharp edges." Especially when the thing could be used at scale.

> As for learning from the timnit thing I'm pretty sure the only thing people outside Google learned from that is that Google ai "ethicists" all seem to be crazy. Certainly that's the clear vibe on this thread.

That's a sad take, but who knows if it's true. HN commenters aren't exactly a representative sample.
> For this to be a real test, you'll need parents of twins willing to send only one kid to test prep..and not send the other one

What's the issue with testing someone without prep, then giving them a week to study up, and then testing them again? People take SAT multiple times, you know, and it is a brand new set of questions every time.

I did that myself (took it 3 times total), and I can say this: taking it without prep and then taking it later with just a week of studying on my own for about an hour per day made a massive difference. Even before I got my results back on the second try, I already felt i did much better, as I was second guessing much less and felt more confident about my answers. And the final scores reflected that really well.

However, studying beyond that (which I did for my third attempt, months later) didn't help much and just marginally changed my scores by +-20 in different categories (out of 700 total max in each of the three categories, which is how it was scored at the time). I didnt feel any more prepared either. Judging by my acquaintances, it was a similar pattern. Massive boost in scores on the second try, marginal or non-existent in scores on attempts beyond the 2nd.
I think if it was Donald Jr's laptop rather than Hunter Biden's the mainstream media would be going bananas over it.
I mean I doubt very much he was making day to day decisions, but I'd imagine he was saying words to the effect of:

"Hey, FDA, Pfizer, etc - I want this vaccine in x months make it work and shout if anyone gives you trouble."

I'd imagine coming from any president that would carry some weight.
"techno nerds"

what does this have to do with EDM?
Correlation != causation. It could be that people with genes for high intelligence tend to be in high demand on the job market and make a lot of money, and also tend to pass those genes on to their children, which gives them an advantage SAT
Google lost interest in smart watches for years, and now we're supposed to trust them again? I had a watch with Android Wear, after the updates stopped Google's own apps started losing features they had when I bought the watch (like offline music support).

I'd rather buy a watch from somebody that doesn't treat it like a small side business they can shut down at any moment. Plus, this hardware is very underwhelming.