skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes he's had a lot of travel. I met him in Paris last week. He and his entourage flew from Paris to Portugal to Poland and back to Paris all within 7-10 days. He's done several events in Paris the weekend before his death. I suspect he was fatigued and caused a bit of hypertension. I don't know if they were far away from a hospital or how long it took them to get there, or the severity of the heart attack, or if they gave an aspirin to help as a blood thinner(or even if that would help). But, so sad..a genius, lost at 47, I was reeling and so down the last 2 days.
i am not afraid of handling the infra myself but the problem is that the tech is still outdated so you have to do h264 and multicast. in other words you have to use old codec(h264), not vp8, vp9 or av1 and you have to transcode the ingress into different resolutions to serve slow clients instead of doing Scalable Video Coding where you have one source and you simply drop some data out of it for slow clients on the egress per client while they still can consume the same source in lower quality. and i just don' want to be doing that entire transcoding and multiple egress streams.
This is a force multiplayer. It doesn't take the place of artistic intent, dingus.
Besides you can't accomplish much with just "a model". This is an asset generator, hardly a threat to anyone especially when these things will likely need some weight painting to touch up anyway.
This is kind of a weird article. There were two cuts:

>There were mornings following marriage blackout nights

Maybe it's just me but I don't understand what this sentence means. I've never heard of a "marriage blackout night" and can't parse what it means.

The second cut was taking "the usual briefs and t-shirt" out of this sentence:

>The other day I was sitting on my bed, the usual briefs and t-shirt, camera on the lines of my face and the new grey of my beard, when my wife came in the room as she was taking off the t-shirt she’d slept in

"the usual briefs and t-shirt" is not a sexual statement.

From what I can tell they've taken edits meant to improve the flow of the paragraph and, for reasons I can't see, taken them as editing sex out.
Ironically, in the fabs making chips for the silicon valley, (almost) everything runs embedded Windows.
Since many people are talking about STAR voting, also check out this site https://star.vote/
I've found it works pretty well.
The libertarian leaning, free market lovers on HN won’t entertain your slander. The book Debt really opened my eyes to a flow of logic demonstrating that in fact markets cannot exist without states (laws) and vice versa. That this idea of pure markets corrupted by governments is a complete fantasy invented whole cloth and worshipped by sycophants for centuries. Markets require contracts, which require laws and enforcement. That’s it.
I wonder if the anti inflammatory effects explain the mechanism of why Ergotamine is prescribed for migraines and cluster headaches! [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotamine#Medical_uses

(Many years ago I remember a reddit post of a college student who used his school's lab to convert Ergotamine tablets into LSD and lay blotter. The comments were mostly of people congratulating him for his skill and then telling him to remove his post before he was discovered.)
I find it hard to imagine they're less good than I think.
My biology 101 professor assigned his own textbook for the course. However he refunded his royalty to any student who purchased a new copy in order to eliminate the conflict of interest. This ought to be the standard policy at every college.
I'm trying to read through this piece but its difficult because I don't really buy the underlying premise that this is indicative of North American editors generally and even specifically I find it hard to imagine that it is this extraneous at all as often to comment about.

I tend to believe writers and their point of view on the editing process. I've been published in a small number of publications and I know the process. My biggest gripe is the cultural norm of not being able to pick or have veto power over the title, not editors that are completely inflexible and stacked with their own moral code which crushes over the prose.

At the end of the day this seems like there was no meeting of the minds between the editor and writer before they started working together, but I do not believe it is at all this prevalent anyway.

Yes, I'm a Christian too, like the derided editor, but I know the difference between literature and trashy erotica. While I appreciate the former and avoid the latter, I would never brow beat a writer as an editor over the choice of having parents smoke cigarettes in front of their kids and I simply wouldn't take up the task of editing work that was outside my moral boundaries. I like fiction that rings true. Reality includes all sorts of bad parenting.

There is a type of writing that is in vogue lately where preconceived biases get validated through a juicy narrative that is obviously unjust and thereby justifying the reader's pre-held notions. I hate it.

It's my one concern with the Substack / filter bubble way of doing things. A thousand avid fans can prop up work that is mostly meritless and divisive. Or they can prop up valuable work that the public generally ignores.

If only it didn't cut both ways.
But what would we call it? Slashpod? Poddot? Either way, you'd be continuing the proud tradition of not reading the summary.
IMHO some other distinguishing factors of true "wicked problems", like housing, welfare, drug policy, traffic etc is that it tends to be very easy to make things worse if you are not extremely careful, and they are subject to ideological warfare, which means changes are contentious and consume significant political capital.

It's more like "working in enterprise" (aka a large, already somewhat successful business with all the factors that entails) than startup land where problems can be "unpicked" more easily because the system does not have as much state, history and inertia.
I had a professor from hell while doing my BS in CS. I was generally a straight A student. I really tried to do my best and cared about my grades. It was the first and last time when I went and talked about a professor to a department head.

Said professor came to class often unprepared. Deviated from the syllabus. He talked to some students that he wants to build games and not teach. This was an AI class. Throughout the course he kept telling us to keep our quizzes as they will be helpful for the midterm and final. He hasn't graded or returned any quizzes by midterm, and returned quizzes like a class before the final.

His teaching style was pathetic. All our curses were in Java, on first day he told us to install Visual Studio and write this program just to warm up. Then he gave us a problem to solve. 90% of class was installing the IDE and figuring out how to write programs in C# and VS during the duration said class. Literally one guy was doing alright who was a professional game dev using c#.

He would read straight from a book, sometimes using visual aids. Then would give a problem to apply said algorithm to and say "GO, if you have problems ask for help". 30 people were asking for help and he could barely help one by end of class.

Handful of times we got an email that he won't make it to class. One time 15 minutes into the class.

That game dev scored below passing grade on midterm and final. Same as rest of the class. The curve was so high my total 60% got me to an A. Still majority of the class failed.

I wish never to have a professor like him again and from what I heard he moved to a private sector.
Hm, ok what if we introduce time limits and also only allow the computer to use as much energy as the human brain does?
https://remix.run/ and https://qwik.builder.io/ are two others.

I believe that React Server components is also heading in that direction.
Absolutely the case now, but not quite how these things tend to get started.

Regarding how many in the US contribute, I don't know the stats... Could probably be more if work-life balance/employment security was better.
This is what really bothers me about the gun debate. Stuff like the current mess around reclassifying "pistol" braces is utterly asinine and has more or less zero connection to making anything safer for anyone. But guns are bad so using asinine nonsense to create more felons must be good I guess?

It's so obvious that most of the arguments applicable to the War on Drugs or Prohibition apply to guns, but guns are so much more visceral to many that nobody sees it.

And there's so much of that kind of nonsense, like laws focused on whether non-pistols have pistol grips. It's no wonder that gun laws generate a bunch of people who hate gun laws, and it's no wonder that the whole thing is a feedback loop of institutional destruction and delegitimization. Much like laws restricting Abortions were before the Theocrats managed to create a supreme ecumenical council.

What I'm not looking forward to is that the utter lack of legitimacy coupled with the low quality opinions this ecumenical council is creating means that there will eventually be a successful backlash if the nation doesn't implode, and that backlash is going to bring back even more full-throttle versions of these lost and impossible laws at a time when they will be guaranteed to be even less effective than they are now.
Alice and bob are people who committed those things. A citizen in the US has nothing to do with ww2 Japanese internment camps, slavery, etc so it's not hypocrisy to point out what another country is doing.
Political spam is out of control. Now Gmail is about to make it worse
James Cameron Using a ‘Simple Hack’ to Achieve High Frame Rate on Avatar 2
I think most people don't appreciate the extent to which extracurriculars, athletics and personal factors affect elite college admissions. Especially for things like computer science programs. I was in that bucket too, believing that it was mostly SAT scores that mattered in making admissions decisions, and the other factors being largely supplemental. Reading the expert witness report in the Harvard case ( https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/diverse-education/file... ) opened my eyes in that respect.

Maybe it should be different--for example, I'm at a loss to understand how athletics might predict success in computer science programs (grit, maybe?)--and there's probably a reasonable argument that the four-factor (academic, extracurricular, athletic, personal) model creates more systematic biases than it avoids. But what you're saying is pretty accurate.
No. They’re forced to keep businesses safe from outside destruction, not market forces. Basically the same as individuals. The gov also maintains a military for similar reasons. I said this in the reply.

They don’t want a foreign gov to torpedo an important business for politics but they don’t need to protect against market forces. There’s no market risk to apple disappearing overnight. If it’s over a long time scale, pension funds can self manage. It won’t implode the market.
>illegal

Exactly. What's illegal here is perfectly fine in China. Let's not equate the two.

US government may get data from US companies but at least it takes a warrant. Chinese government straight up owns the servers.
The NHS hasn't been defunded. Check my other comment on this thread - NHS funding has never been cut and has risen far faster than the population size has. The collapse here wasn't a slow event anyway, it has very clearly been triggered by lockdowns/vaccines. The near closure of the health service in a failed attempt to slow the spread of an airborne virus created a backlog, forcing vaccines on the care home industry caused a lot of people to quit exacerbating an already existing bed blocker crisis, and now the ambulance services are being overwhelmed by a sudden and (officially) "unexplained" rise in callouts for heart attacks, strokes etc. What could possibly cause that I have no idea.

And the NHS isn't being privatized anyway so no clue what you're even talking about. Privatizing it might start to fix it. Good luck getting contracts that pay you by size of your patient list and not how much work you actually do, in a properly privatized system!
I'm sure that's part of it but I've also directly observed their bias towards fear exaggeration at times. Claiming certain things are happening in a neighborhood I visit frequently and unable to confirm anything they are stating. They can lean right all they want, but political leaning shouldn't be an excuse to gloss over reasonable journalism.
Father is in the North West.
I too am always skeptical of NY Post articles, but are you proposing that it's better to have such a warning written by someone who doesn't have direct knowledge and experience about medical schools? It could be argued that the reason he has a direct interest in the case is because he understands it better than the layperson, and cares about it more than the layperson.
Ha, one way to put it is "hyper liberal shenanigans", the other way to put it is, "Presenting only one side of a highly complex situation requiring nuance".

As an example in this case, when you look at other articles, plus the comments of the students themselves, it seems as though it's more than just "the class was too hard", it was that this teacher was largely uninterested in consistency and clear rules and requirements, and that he repeatedly refused to take feedback and make adjustments.

But that doesn't fit the "stop lowering the bar" narrative in the post, so the Post just avoids putting that in there.
Again not sure if you are talking about dataplane. I met many people there (even many new grad L4s in fact), who are very enthusiastic and passionate about what they do in that team.
Check out this episode by mentalist Derren Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmCQzueyEQ where he sits down with the actor Simon Pegg and - from the description - "Derren convinces Simon Pegg that he wants a BMX bike for his birthday"

It's really fascinating what happens - how malleable the human brain is - and the video also goes through how Derren did it. Worth a watch if that stuff is interesting to you.
General Motors became a finance company that sold cars on the side.
Alpha-Omega Dishes Out Cash to Secure Open Source Projects
I took Orgo 1 from Jones 15 years ago. He was a terrible teacher then and I doubt he has gotten any better. The students' complaints echo my own from the time. He cannot teach and when it becomes apparent to him that he is not imparting knowledge he switches to exasperation and ridicule. In the end I ended up with a C+ in his course. For reference, I got A's in Orgo 2, PChem, Stat Mech, and Quantum Chem; all courses that ought to be harder that Orgo 1 but aren't if the Orgo 1 prof is simply incapable of teaching the subject.
"In 2020 I was asked by my friends at the magazine n+1 to participate in an homage to their office in Brooklyn"
This is true, but successfully restricting the availability of professionally manufactured ammunition will prevent people from using homemade semi-automatic or automatic weapons like an FGC-9. And even for a single-shot shotgun, real ammunition is a lot more practical. Not necessary, but definitely more practical.
You'll get the latencies noted for Heroku in the article.
Since the firing, I have been reading opinions here. I have collected a set of thoughts:

There are two seeming possibilities :

(1) The more probable one, where students are resorting to cancel culture when they feel the outcomes are not to their desires. This is a harmful trend. The road only leads to diluted standards. Professional education isn't feel-happy. It sets you up to face real challenges. I can't expect my doctor to post a TikTok video canceling me if I complained the treatment wasn't working well.

Edit: Professional education not being feel-happy is not about the stress but rigors compared to non-STEM streams.

Edit 2: (Personal anecdote) My undergrad computer vision was taught by a Chinese American professor, who did a rather fine job at setting test & gradings. No one failed his course though the grades were distributed A through C. He was similarly "voted out" from teaching that course by the feedback system simply because the assigned readings were long, & had expository papers which some kids did not want to put efforts into. A few including me, benefitted greatly by the course though - and feel sorry this happened anyway.

(2) There is a smaller chance the course is unimaginably hard compared to similar courses elsewhere. I don't know that very well. But I would give some benefit of doubt to the professor still, to know how to teach the fundamentals well. If the course is not geared towards med school entrances only, its not on the professor to keep the rigors. For example, a CS course for CS grad students should be expected to have considerable programming. It should not be crosslisted with Arts & Languages, who need computing credits. A different course better serves the purpose. Maybe the med school requisite course should have been different from the standard Organic Chemistry I.

Treating degree as a commodity will lead to grade inflation & lot of people finding their degrees of less value. They will have the qualifications but not the deep skills & insights to solve the practical problems. And that makes the vicious cycle complete where we are skeptical of the costly education. College is necessary - but not grad school. Not always. And those who chose the second, should be prepared to endure some rigors of the learning path.
With a completely underdeveloped ad business, unclear if it would ever produce any significant revenue. YouTube was purchased for 1b, they cleared 28b in revenue last year alone.
This blog post doesn't explain what they are actually going to do about this. It's just a (non-legal) complaint about the fact they got a subpoena, which is honestly a pretty normal and uncontroversial thing. It might be bad for Meta to request this info, but if so, the right thing to do is get a lawyer, submit a motion to quash, and then go after Meta for costs through legal process.

What is SimulaVR actually going to do to respond to this? Do they intend to respond? Who's representing them? I can't imagine a lawyer recommended writing this blog post.

The "we can't afford this" argument doesn't hold water. Lawyers are expensive but this is not a complicated thing SimulaVR is being asked to do, and they're likely to get their costs back from the court if they ask.
https://archive.ph/ZgRHU
Apologies my answer was not well stated. The less than one year referred to the energy payback period. The capital recoup time with some back of the envelope math would probably be more like 10 years.

No direct answers but you can back out some timelines from these
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/offshore_...

https://weatherguardwind.com/how-much-does-wind-turbine-cost...
> I'd argue that if you put anyone in a locked room with nothing but anti-ligature clothing and keep them there for a month they'd act aggressively.

Anyone? I can't speak generally, but the people I know that have been forcibly treated didn't become more aggressive, they became less aggressive. They got on well with the care staff, continued taking the pills on release, and were glad they'd been treated.

I've known a couple of schizophrenics, but I know nothing about their response to treatment or incarceration. My experience is restricted to a handful of people with bipolar.
The first example is the following magazine: https://www.nplusonemag.com/
“n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times yearly

The second example is the english translation of his novel:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374720889/thewomenilove
I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial.

The generalisation "americans" is twofold wrong: first, I do not think that the whole US editorial market is exactly the same. Pretty sure there is place for pornographic writing. But second, especially coming from a writer, he should say "northamerican". May sound pedantic, but we are talking about people influential in cultural scene.
I honestly haven't had to do it. I try to ride my bad trips out as long as I'm rooted in my reality and feel safe doing so. CBD has anti-psychotic properties, CBD also binds to the very same serotonin receptors that LSD does. From what I've read, benzos are like hitting the emergency brakes - all things stop when the pill takes effect. CBD turns down the volume, which likely makes a bad trip more tolerable or turns it into an okay trip.
> Think about it: Would you want a surgeon doing your appendectomy who had admissions standards lowered and poor test performance disregarded to diversify his or her medical school class?

Ok, I'm thinking about it. The first thing I think is: do admissions standards and test performance correlate to shitty appendectomies? And if so, why?

The class in question was organic chemistry. I'm not a doctor, but I don't think doctors use organic chemistry very much in regards to surgery. So if the admissions standards were lowered around the organic chemistry requirement, I don't think it would affect appendectomies. So I would not mind the change in that instance.

I also know that medical school is tough, and that many branches of medicine often deviate so far from the bulk of the knowledge they learn, that much of it may become irrelevant.

I also know that much of medicine is a guessing game. The outcomes are already often not very good, while the costs are very high. So I would not discount the possibility that changing the curriculum might lead to spending less time and money, and specializing more, and getting perhaps the same or even better outcomes.

It might even turn out that having shittier doctors isn't a bad thing if we just had more of them. If access to a doctor was cheaper, and we got more of their attention, perhaps we would not be given antibiotics and aspirin every time we go in for a checkup.
I am 100% aware of this, but you're no longer talking about a gun made with a $200 3d printer. You're talking about a gun made with common garage tools. Which has always been possible. The 3d printer doesn't change anything meaningful about the situation.
It's heartbreaking that alternative energy has been so horribly politicized -- we all win with its success.
Working with latency like that also requires the system to be predictable. If you're expecting auto complete but not confident in what it'll show, you've got to wait, if you're not sure if the input will be dropped if you type ahead too much, you've got to wait. If you need to click on things, especially if the targets change, lots of waiting.

If the system works well, yeah, you can type all the stuff, then wait for it to show up and confirm. 'BBS mode' as someone mentioned.
Someday soon they'll look at our insane chemotherapy with the same level of utter disbelief as we do about bloodletting and tapeworm diets

I mean untargeted chemotherapy kills -the one thing- that protects us since before we were born from cancer, our immune system.

Killing our immune system to kill cancer makes as much sense as shooting off the leg you lead with so to run faster.

Its idiotic, stupid and, yeah its basically trying to stop the copy errors in genes that cancer does, before all the massive amount of DNA errors kill the cancer victim ...

It's like a really really bad CRISPR process as I understand it, like the computer program SED was majorly crapping out and it made your program an utter mess.

Anyway, chemotherapy is DAMN foolish, and I for one will be glad when we're rid of it with better therapies
Don't be fooled. It's all posturing.
The EU loves making announcements on how they have a $ package for Africa. But they never follow through. Same for international funds. There are 8 major countries that always follow through: The US, China, UAE, Qatar, Germany, Canada, and some northern European states.