skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Well, live and learn. I tried to steer clear of the obviously shady things (like yield farming, etc.) which to me seemed unsustainable all along, but as it turns out, there are ample ways to lose anyway. Thanks for the comment.
The words "many" and "plenty" are sure doing a lot of work here, what with the complete lack of citations.
I'm sure I could have said it better. I listened to the Bankman-Fried episode of Oddlots when it aired not because I had any idea who Bankman-Fried was, but because it was an episode with Levine on it. I think he's the best financial writer working today bar none. So I'm not trying to cast aspersions on Levine.
Yup. That's why "pregnant person" is used instead as a descriptor; it is a condition that a person experiences, it does not refer to extraneous factors like gender identification.
> People sometimes communicate unclearly on purpose:
>
> * to try to cover up simply not knowing stuff.

One time, after interviewing more than a dozen candidates for a job position, I was pretty much convinced that the people who gave the shortest answers were the most knowledgeable. The most verbose candidate was used as an example to the recruiting agency, "we explicitly don't want this" -- he was invited for an interview only because he had successfully bluffed his way through the recruiter.
Thanks for the long response and I agree that experimentation like yours needs to have more venues for exposure, which is hard to do in our contemporary content treadmill.

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." Seeing research budgets spent on equipment - that either never gets used or is poorly maintained - just to save a spot on a given funding bracket leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't believe you actually believe this.
I believe Microsoft use BitTorrent to distribute updates. It took me a while to realise that many Linux distros use unencrypted http to enable caching, using signature checks to verify file integrity
You can mess around with that description to understand the reasoning.

Why maintain code to duplicate functionality that is provided by the OS? Can I be more reliable than Microsoft?
I read that methodology of counting dead issuuch:
50 acme tanks destroyed -> one acme tank crew comprises of N men -> number of dead is 50xN. (Minus men seen run away in time)
Blender =/= Cycles, there's are other options for rendering in blender that are more focused on accuracy than speed.

I personally use LuxCore for 99% of my work as it's an accurate renderer that's still easy to use. If you're interested in more hardcore physical stimulation there are various flavors of Mitsuba available and Appleseed is also worth a. mention even though there isn't a current blender plugin IIRC.
That won’t be resolved until “we” stop overloading words with incompatible meanings.

If we are separating gender and sex, then gender references need to stop using words referring to sex, because the vast and overwhelming majority of English speakers understand words like man/woman in sexual terms.

But oh well.
Drawing of the Day – Daily, Randomly-Generated Line Art
We barely even know how many trans people there are because there's no funding to study it. Medical information is even scarcer.
I think conservatives are more concerned with owning the libs than the reverse direction.
That's like asking what portion of people voting for gun regulation want to own a gun. Maybe they exist, it's their right as a free individual to make that choice. Why does it matter?
It's a little hard to take seriously some of the top performers in that table, like emhash8, when the implementations are only a couple of weeks old and the commits are things like "fix crash", "fix clear", and "fix overflow".
> Good luck trying to use a functional-first language

Good luck trying to use a functional-first language at any company (be in bioinformatics or otherwise).
I also found the quality & proliferation of data pipeline tools to be baffling. Somehow always more painful to put these together than it seemed like it ought to be.

At one point we wrote an internal tool (I think lots of organizations do this, since all the 100s of existing tools somehow don't fit, so you invent #101) and while it was tremendously satisfying getting batch jobs with 1000's of cpu's churning away, that kind of data infrastructure needs to be standardized. I think some companies are doing this, e.g. saw a presentation about Arvados/Curii that seemed interesting (but haven't used it so not sure). Maybe CWL will turn out to be the way forward here?
The US isn't one place. Different states have different laws. My state has mandated safety inspections in addition to emissions.
Biology is crystal clear on this. There are 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones. It's binary.
While Gradient Descent needs differentiable functions, there are evolutionary algorithms that do not need this and can also train neural networks.
> While some are sensational, complex, and cost ten thousand euros per kilo, others are merely decorative, tasteless, and worthless tubers.

> There is also the notorious tuber indicum, the Chinese black truffle, which has flooded the European and American market.

Maybe this is common in truffle circles, maybe it's a joke, but truffles are not tubers, even when speaking of multiple species. While the word "genus" can be pluralized, actual genera are always singular. You would never try what the author did there with "Homo sapiens," which may appear plural but is always a singular genus species.

Tubers are storage organs in some plants used to provide energy through winter and for growth the following season. Truffles are fruiting bodies of the fungus of genus Tuber. Like all genera, Tuber can not be pluralized and is always capitalized.
I work in security. People from my past have occasionally popped up as new signal users, I imagine they care about operational security for other reasons than what I do
There is absolutely a consensus (well, there was until about 5 years ago). People point at exceptions to prove the rule is entirely false. How many arms do humans have? Two. “Well my uncle was born without arms! So clearly humans have an unknown amount of arms”. Men and women are real, there are a couple of exceptions, but not as many as people imagine.

I expect this to be promptly removed from the front page. I’m happy to see taboo subjects being spoken of again.
Also see “rubber hose cryptanalysis”
I was just setting up autotune for a link to the wikipedia for punchline (that they actually talked about punchlines in the comment was a truly blessed coincidence) but instead I would like to thank you for introducing me to the Look Around You series. It looks fantastically funny.
Why my video calls sucked
We call people "black" and "white", when there is statistically almost an even spectrum between skin colors, genes, etc. Your examples in between are really statistical outliers, numbers-wise.
Ah good point. I didn't realise that. I need to look into MicroG again. Any Android running Play Services basically has a massive backdoor.
Paying attention to details can really make a difference. Looks as if it reduces latent stress when using it.
Not everyone has new path still. They are rolling it out slowly. Everyone who has enough updated app should get it eventually, but it is not there yet.
Russ Cox explains in the issue why they don't want it to be a standard library function:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56351#issuecomment-12914...

"We talked about defining maps.Clear in #55002, but how? It would not be possible to write in pure Go code. Instead it would need some kind of hidden entry point into the runtime.

In the past I've referred to that kind of library change as a "back-door language change", meaning it's a language change - it adds something not possible in pure Go - but pretends not to be one. We try hard to avoid doing that."
Thanks but I am looking for something available across different devices and in web, and with more possibilities in formatting and attachments. Evernote does this kind of stuff but it’s slow to load, and the sync isn’t the best.
Semi drivers are also more careful & qualified IMO. Put an 18-30 y/o behind a huge SUV, talking on the phone while driving, and it's a little different situation.
That covers approximately 99% of cases. But are you willing to write off the 1% of people that doesn't cover?

I'd rather make sure that the language I use includes them where possible.
You can self-recognize as a donkey if you wish but that doesn't mean I, too, have to consider and call you a donkey.
"designing after" would to me suggest solely focussing on, not also including. The same way that we didn't "design society after women" when they got voting rights.
> Why is Twitter so important?

Despite all of the drama and toxicity, there is still no place like it. It's the first place to turn for realtime analysis and updates for unfolding events. It's the only credible global town square where you can see your favourite sci-fi author interact with an infectious disease specialist, a machine learning expert and an independent journalist.

I have a complicated relationship with it - often leaving for months to years at a time, but usually coming back in some capacity. It's messy and reflective of the full breadth of human discourse, positive and negative.
Weekend HN has more posts by the right-leaning culture warriors. Has been the case for several years at least. Race and Gender related topics seem to be more frequent on the weekends.
There's 2 times more comments than minutes since the it was posted, about half of which are flagged, so I don't think this thread has long left.
My understanding is that Cycles comes packaged with Blender - unlike luxcore
If YOU think that's ok, why does it need to be secret?
Musk was abused by his father and so he feels entitled to abuse others. Or it's just genetic, hard to say.
I have strong opinions on this subject but I don't think it's possible to have a healthy and productive conversation about it in a forum and medium such as this.
I love these things. They really nicely complement urban mobility, on short distances and for connections where bus, tram and underground have a poor connection (e.g. low takt, or need to connect or poor grid i.e. long walking distance)

I've happily used them in several cities already.

and I'm optimistic that we'll find more intelligent solutions to the rookie user problem than banning them for all others.
Paul Graham told us to keep our identity as small as possible.
In a way, current support can be viewed as fulfilment of budapest memorandum obligations.
Highly recommend fly.IO. I have stopped reaching for anything else. For go servers, I just copy their Go starter template and deploy it. It is the fastest way I’ve found to get a project up. You can immediately get into an iteration loop and build tests and even staging environments around it inside of a days worth of work.
Gorsuch's dissent read to me as: refile this case with the following complete legal theory that would provide 10x as much protection as the majority's decision. He clearly didn't like the use of the cellphone records, just didn't want to rule the way the majority ruled with so many outs for the cops given how little effort it takes to get a warrant these days.
> Apple and Microsoft’s moats seem way more defensible.

Probably not defensive against antitrust action that simply defines a moat as anticompetitive.
Quest for my perfect watch
I'm a https://www.spacemacs.org/ devotee. I love the Vim commands, but physically cannot take more than light interaction with the Emacs default key bindings.

How sweet it is to completely reconfigure the environment without losing magit and org-mode.
>doesn't deserve an audience

Why do you get to make that determination?

I can see the author's perspective. You don't have to agree with everything you read for it to "deserve an audience."
So people with DSD / intersex people simply no longer exist now?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
That distinction is already there. As I understand it, there's a differentiation between "male" and "female" biological sex v. "man" and "woman" gender identities. Hence terms like AMAB/AFAB (assigned male/female at birth).

I'm not at all as well versed on it as I should be and I'm working to understand it better as time goes on, but the distinction was made using existing language to avoid overloading, and later generations already understand the distinction pretty intuitively.
If by “rid ourselves of the unintelligent” you mean improving public education, then yes, that is a goal. It’s a weird way to put it though.
Lots of people want to reproduce and become parents. Being trans doesn't prevent that.
Because most literature that teaches a topic usually does not expend much effort on a special case that covers 0.1% of cases -- it is just too unwieldy to talk that way. Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of people changing their genders and I would be beyond happy when medical technology evolves enough that even more scifi changes are possible. But when I am teaching a student about gravity, I do not start by talking about special relativity: I start by talking about the most common case of Newtonian gravity and just mention "by the way, there are some special cases when speeds become inhumanly great, we will discuss this next semester".
Big oil _has_ political clout now but that doesn’t mean they aren’t aware that power can go away. The oil companies started funding climate change denial in the 1970s for that very reason.

There’s are interesting splits here, too: for the 20th century the interests of the oil and car companies overlapped but now they’ve diverged with EVs, and there’s even a market opportunity for EV makers to turn on their former partners trying to gain the environmentally conscious market. I think the fossil fuel industry leaders are keenly aware of those inflection points where partners will leave them.
The difference is quite stark and easy to tell. Putting bread in the freezer results in bread that is like week-old stuff. It's absolutely not a trick of perception.

But perhaps the effect differs according to the kind of bread.
They are people. Even in small numbers, they are important.

Hell, nearly every atom in the universe is hydrogen and helium, does that make carbon, oxygen, iron, etc statistical outliers we shouldn't account for? Of course not. Our science and language accounts for even marginal percentages, why would it be any different when talking about people?
Git should have been called pig, because they commit.
Well then, I guess this means this "crypto" thing is just fine, safe, and a good place to put all my wealth.
> I guess, I will be leaving a place that doesn't allow civil discourse.

You should buy Hacker News for $44 Billion, then you can publish whatever you want!
> Hard to tell one badge from another on the road these days.

Nitpick. When wasn’t this true?
> We call people "black" and "white",

And probably do quite a big amount of damage to the spectrum inbetween by doing so. Seems like an excellent argument to not just focus on the binary.
the two-factor problem was widely reported. even twitter's support discussed it. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

here's a screenshot attempting to load twitter.com/home just 3 minutes ago [7]. these intermittent failures to load have been increasingly happening for me on multiple computers on multiple different networks. if you have been digging into this as much as you imply, you've surely seen the many, many other people discussing this.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-two-factor-sms-problems/

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/twitter-chaos-end...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/failures-in-t...

[3] https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/159261861552149299...

[4] https://www.techradar.com/news/live/live-blog-twitter-chaos-...

[5] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/twitter-two-factor-authenticati...

[6] https://www.androidauthority.com/twitter-sms-2fa-3234698/

[7] https://imgur.com/a/XHiA5ZL
> Is Linux really not commonly using 64-bit file times yet?

It is, and that was the problem. The legacy 32-bit API the library loaded within Steam was using, or more precisely, the legacy 32-bit system call used by that library, could not represent the 64-bit time, so the kernel returned the EOVERFLOW (Value too large for defined data type) error. The root cause of the problem seems to be that Steam is still a 32-bit application (and hasn't been recompiled to used the Latest and Greatest version of glibc, which allows for 64-bit timestamps even on 32-bit processes).

If his Linux installation did not use 64-bit file times, the timestamp stored for the file would have fit in 32 bits, and the error wouldn't have happened (though other things would probably have broken first).

(Well, actually, Linux is using 34-bit file times, at least on ext4 and xfs, but that's a bit of a nitpicking: what matters is that it doesn't fit in 32 bits.)

Edit: it seems that it's actually glibc that's returning the error, not the kernel, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675526
Learn about the Münchhausen trilemma, even in mathematical logic it is not possible to formulate a proof that is neither, dogmatic, circular or regressive. For this reason I tend to refrain from making any of those objections when people talk about their personal motivations. I even think this was the best part of the blog, the other stuff was talk about cringe mind-maps with weird names like how a cult has special words for mundane stuff. I hate these galaxy brain types trying to escape their linear western way of thinking by employing the complex plane. If you want to read some meandering thought on why you should be a Machiavellian go and read "Politics as wish". A classic.
My high school math teacher explicitly designed exams where answers were brief if you recognized the shape of the problem, but you could also just start doing the math and arrive at the answer about 1 page later. It was obvious who understood the problem and who was just stabbing in the dark.

My university CS intro course labs always had an extra "and see if you can do it in O(log n) instead" or such bonus question. The bonus part always "impossible" if you didn't get that a-ha moment.

I think you had bad teachers.. (which is unfortunately much too common)
Thank you so much for this! I use it on my personal site and it was as simple as configuring a few cron jobs!
This reminds me of "mike pence is a hero" you know for not helping trump steal the election

George Bush started a war based on the lie of WMD that resulted in a massive cost of lives and money for the US. Even base level Republicans are horrible
> Yes, why would you ever want a map with floating point keys?

Because it's a cache and you didn't specifically handle that edge case.
Elon Musk posts pictures of a Twitter 'code review' at 1:30 a.m
> I'd rather make sure that the language I use includes them where possible.

Man/Woman does. As do Male/Female. Disorders of Sexual Development are disorders, not new sexes. A woman without breasts or with an extra X chromosome is a much a woman as a man without arms or with an extra toe is still a man.

> are you willing to write off the [people] that doesn't cover

Those are weird made-up scare words. Nobody is writing them off. What does what even mean? We just don't recognize their identity or their identity terminology as being meaningful, in the same way an atheist feels about their religion.

They're just as welcome, or not, as they were without it.
Stock android has everything to do with it. Non-stock options allow you to remove Google Apps which include Play services.
Look into ROS and it's associated projects.

There are several different "compatible" arms which are good for learning.

https://www.ros.org/
https://github.com/ros

And as others have mentioned it wouldn't hurt to gain access to a 3d printer and possibly some other microcontroller kits.

Quite a few writeups out there if you do some searching around though.
> I don't think famous scientists like Einstein were particularly wealthy.

Wealth is a means to get yourself novelty in the form of top notch products, services, experiences and trophy assets.

No amount of money would have bought Einstein the novelty he was seeking. Many people chase that dragon for their whole life and never get to take a hit.
I don't see how it's any better than discriminating against poor fans though via selling the tickets at market price.
At least we won't have to suffer though the 2106 problem.
Of course, but that is not what I asked. How many people that are born female but have both physiological and social need to be male desire to reproduce in a typically female manner? That is what I am surprised by. I am sure that it exists, but it would be informative to know how often it happens. And no, I am not suggesting that these people should step forward and speak for the whole group: they should be respected and recognized either way.
There was a security camera video, the firetruck and the plane were both in motion, the plane was almost at takeoff speed and the firetruck was driving and drove into the path of the wing of the plane. The truck was only a wing length away from driving into the path of the body of the aircraft.
Could you expand on why you think Redox is a failure? Maybe also what you think it got right and what it got wrong?
There is a good chunk of research like that, but there is also a good chunk of research where the "biologist as a customer" model does not work. In research like that, it's the job of the person writing the software to figure out which biological problems they are trying to solve and how.
Ask HN: How do high school students show off their programming skills nowadays?
Is coding in machine/assembly language still a way to set yourself apart from other high school students?
"I'll find that out for you"
Did that chicken got recently laid off from Twitter?
Sure, but EOVERFLOW isn't coming from stat() in this case, is it? The man page states that this is returned for problems with file sizes too big for 32 bits, not for struct timespecs. Something else must be doing things with the atime, I would guess?
I have tried swiss tables but I have been unable to make these match the performance of robin hood tables with a single-stage lookup. Fundamentally the issue seems to be that swiss tables require one to read 2 or 3 cache lines while the alternative requires one to read only 1 cache line per lookup (most of the time). The included benchmarks are not that useful for inserting many items or looking up many items because one can achieve much higher throughput using prefetching (like <<10ns/op), but this sort of consideration never makes it into any graphs.
It's designing after the whole, not the minority.

If we can make a simple change to include everyone, not just a subset, why wouldn't we do that?
You have a right to speak. You do not have the right to be taken seriously when you’re speaking outside of your areas of expertise.
Yes — discussing a bimodal distribution as a bimodal distribution is useful, even in the presence of outliers and data points bridging the two peaks.

“Man” and “woman” are names for those nodes in the bimodal distribution of traits, as correlated with sex. Same as “cow” and “bull”, or “hen” and “cock”, or “doe” and “stag”, or “female” and “male”.

I’d rather my language be able to discuss the experience of the 99%+ than become incapable of discussing basic facts (like apes being sexually dimorphic) because reality might offend outliers.
"Male" and "man" are an adjective and a noun referring to the same thing.
In some places in America the police are vastly over funded, but in other places we have much lower police to citizen ratios than NYC.

Police defunding in Seattle would be a disaster for example.
> What seems inevitable is the US government starts hosting public forums to talk; but being bound by free speech. Virtually anything goes unless it's an actual crime. What happens after this?

Everyone gets tired of 19 out of every 20 posts being about why they need Viagra, and goes back to MySpace.