skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No water to spare, on account of all the Almonds.
In a neighboring state, I grab a cup of Oats in the Yogurt section - The Oats includes Almonds, plus Almond Flour.
Then I turn and see a vertical display of Almond Milk.

80% of CA water goes to Agriculture, with 20% of that to "tree nuts".
CA provides 80% of the world's Almonds, 100% of USA production.
I hate Almonds (Cashews, Macadamia, Pecan, just please no more dry and splintering Almonds...) and wonder if they are spammed in food so CA can keep more Water Rights.
Furthermore, not only did we learn more, but the virus itself mutated substantially over time. There were different efficacy rates given in large part because there were literally different vaccine efficacy rates for different strains of the virus.
I think a lot of people are coming at this from an all or nothing approach. Does the current solution do everything we keep expecting ML to do? No, does it do way more than before and get us x percent closer? Yes.

Think of the 80/20 model, if it gets you 80% there (don't take that literally) then that's huge in it of itself. This tool is getting us closer to the example you mention and that in of itself is really cool.
We figured out that we’re not allowed to encourage stalking, but if we call it “press coverage” of stalking then we can pretend it’s not stalking. The analogy doesn’t hold anywhere, child porn, drug sales, anything. This is a honeypot for the very lowest-performing flies. The traditional press may be gleefully rubbing its tiny legs together but the logic doesn’t survive first-order scrutiny.
Apperantly he is banning journalists who are reporting on other journalists getting banned?

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1603557341730902018
Actually, the Nazi's hid on the moon wit their anti-gravity tech:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

(which is an entertaining movie if you haven't seen it).
On the whole I agree, but having read "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" by him and Barto, this article comes across as a hardly nuanced self-endorsement of RL as "the inevitable future of AI". Without mentioning RL by name (but hinting at it with HMM, search&learning- like exploration&exploitation), I think he might be suggesting that any supervised learning is still too specific. Not to mention that he works for DeepMind, which has found fruitful applications of RL.
Then let's think through that with other considerations than the patient would have.

The lower bound is surely the same as long term treatment, right? No player here would choose more expensive treatment that doesn't cure the patient. Insurers get premiums for longer if you live, and governments rely on having a workforce.

If governments act beyond the bounds of negotiating as a large buyer and legislate, have they not already done that for the treatment already? Is there as much to lose as you think?

> With numbers like these, why would you ever cure something?

Because you can charge more. Being cured is better than not being cured. If being ill and getting partially treated cost $100/month, would you honestly not pay $100.01/month forever but be cured?

Your arguments about public opinion and pressure rely people stepping in because your business practices are immoral, but this is what you're already accusing them of without any actual repercussions.

> What if competition forces the price down

If someone has a cure cheaper than your non-cure, frankly you're already fucked as a business. This also means that anyone who isn't the current main supplier has a very obvious reason to release an actual cure because then they'll get all of the business.
“I drove my car off a cliff to really stick it to society”

What’s warmed my heart is most Covid deaths being from the unvaccinated. Clearing out the weak and stupid even sooner than natural causes.
> I don't know how they'd ensure electrical tools weren't abused.

The Brunswick Tool Library used to be situated inside a Makerspace I used to help out, so I got to see a bit of how they operated.

They had a day each week they'd go through and repair their tools, plus teach anyone interested in how to do it do.

They also seem to (reasonably) expect people to pay for repair/replacement if the person screwed up the tool. ;)

That being said, at that point in time they had about 400 members (no idea now), who were each paying the yearly membership fee (AUD$50-85/year).

Super basic math says that's about $20k+ per year, which (depending on rent and costs) seems like it'd work for tool replacements and such.
> that something is not created in a mechanical fashion.

I wonder if the nerds have shot themselves in the foot here with terminology? I suspect the nerd’s lawyers would have been much happier if the entire field was named “automated mechanical creativity” instead of “artificial intelligence”. It’d be kinda amusing to see the whole field of study lose in court because of their own persistent claims that what they’re doing is not just “creating in a mechanical fashion” but creating “intelligence” which can therefore be held to account for copyright infringement. Shades of Al Capone getting busted for taxes…
On the subject of "tapping phones". I had the idea that you could generate a nice pairing key by using the aligned inertial measurements to validate identity over a public channel (like some wireless protocol). Think of it like Bump 2.0. You could then share contact information, messages, whatever...

In practice it might be a little bit more than a instantaneous bump, and more of a quick shake. Like a handshake, but with phones. Weird, but kinda cool... maybe.
You have to look at both sides of the equation. There are excess deaths in every region coinciding with Covid spikes. It takes enormous mental gymnastics to say “some deaths were over counted so deaths as a whole must be over counted” and completely discount the probability of missing deaths too.

The recent Paxlovid study supports this. It reduces deaths days 30-90. Deaths that would not be counted as Covid deaths. But they clearly are if paxlovid reduces them.
It’s arguably the least sophisticated of the major clients (Apollo, Urql, Relay), but they’ve done a great job with marketing and documentation. But I’ve personally never used it in a real project because Relay has always existed and I know how to use it.
> Weak engineers hire more weak engineers and they suck and their job.

I love meeting people from other cultures and backgrounds and experiences. It’s great to get to know each other. I perceive you to be one of those people for me.

See, in my travels, weak engineers usually have no/little say in anything of import, except the yucky boring maths stuff others don’t want to/can’t do. Hiring a personality is something that our management types love to get involved in. They hire for all the wrong reasons. They retain people for all of the wrong reasons. They primitive for all the wrong reasons. We have “hiring as a service” institution here known often as HR that manages to meddle with things.

It’s not that any of these bodies hire weak or strong engineers for any malicious purpose (oceans razor ya know), it’s just completely arbitrary for us and you kind of just learn to put op with and cope with the chaos.

Where you’re from, is there a sort of settling function where after a while, all the weak engineers have cohired all of the week engineers? Do the strong engineers hire the other strong engineers?
I tried with Midjourney, but I don't know the correct prompt. Neat result though: https://imgur.com/a/fhR3g4a
The Intercept's @micahflee https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/16035580211201187...

Keith Olbermann, and others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008305

Hard to see how the remaining advertisers don't flee Twitter after tonight's slaughter.
Twitter is so sad. It was so simple early on, then became complicated with misinformation, and now is a raging dumpster fire.
> If security is unimportant, sure. Insteon hardware has been around for three decades, but nobody in their right mind would be using network hardware from back then.

Sure to hardware but we’re all still using IP protocols. Countless companies have risen and fallen and that hasn’t changed. Networking equipment if kept LAN only should still work fine after 3 decades.

> which is just a COM port on my PC. The company's existence has no impact on my ability to connect it to newer things.

This sounds just as complex and risky as any modern protocol, just more obscure. If you need a PC for newer devices then it’s all the same anyways.
I submit that human artists are, at the most fundamental level, no less "mechanical". They're just more complex.

Also, should a human artist creating a pastiche count as copyright infringement as well?
Or, for that matter, in this era of human "content creators".
Medusa, the OS Shopify alternative, just made a 250x performance improvement
I took typing for one semester in high school, 57 years ago. Despite so many years of touch typing, I’ve never been a fast typist. I haven’t slowed down much, but I type around 45 WPM just as I did over 50 years ago. I’ve tried to type faster, but I think my hands are simply not very dexterous.

Because of my slow typing, I probably don’t notice any decline in ability compared to those that were unusually fast in their youth.

Depending on the type of work you do, perhaps a more powerful text editor would be useful. I would suggest Neovim or Emacs. Both are excellent in their own way and both have extensive facilities for handling auto completion of common phrases or markup text and use of abbreviations, etc.

Neovim is a modern version of an editor (vi) that has stood the test of time as one of the fastest editors for navigating over and manipulating text. Shifting between its different modes, each optimized for particular tasks, means it will take a couple of weeks if use to feel natural. The editor itself won’t increase your basic typing speed, but you will be able to fly though your documents correcting and rearranging words and sentences faster than any other tool out there.

Emacs is another ancient editor that is hard to master. Moving and editing text are out of the box a bit slower than Neovim, but the hundreds and hundreds of available packages and extensions make it a high power tool for managing any files or folders on your computer. Like the keys used in Neovim? Emacs can be configured to work the exact same way with a couple of packages. Need to rearrange your directories and rename a bunch of files? There’s really no file manager as good at this as Emacs. Outlines, agendas, check lists, bookkeeping, version control, taking dictation, editing 100 files at the same time, all of this is possible with Emacs. Basic Emacs is probably a bit easier to pick up than Neovim, but it will take time to settle on your own configuration composed of the packages you like best.

You don’t need to be a programmer to use either of these editors, but if you are, they can be easily tweaked to operate however you’d like. Both of them and the packages that expand their capabilities are open source. They run on MacOS, Windows, Linux and even other OS’s and cost nothing.

These editors may not increase your raw WPMs, but they may provide a platform that you will find almost as productive as before due to their many features.
I mean at this point he's as nutty as a Scooby Doo villain burning down the community centre.
Unfortunately they only fund things that people want, not things that people need.
Societies that choose to do this kind of thing would fall behind those that do not very quickly. One may argue that it doesn't matter so long as it leads to comfortable life, but the problem is that one day you'll wake up to the sound of Commodore Perry's guns.
Can someone elaborate on what specifically something like this would be used for?

I would imagine if you're going through the pain of migrating off Oracle, picking something like IvorySQL is just a half-measure. Why not just make the switch to PostgreSQL (or other) and be done with worrying about compatibility? How long will this project last, and how great will the compatibility actually be - is it a drop-in replacement?

Most folks use ORM's these days too - making switching databases simple (although not always trivial).

So why does this need to exist?
"Free speech"
What happened to the rule where if the nested selector doesn’t start with & then an explicit @nest is required? Doesn’t that fix the unlimited look-ahead?
If I take your source code, copy it and then change the variable names, did I take inspiration or copy it?
> Very different. In the case of a single supplier - wouldn't it make sense to pay everything you own ( minus what else you need to live ) to survive?

That's assuming you get to negotiate with every customer. If it's one price for everyone then while what you say is true for each person's max (ignoring the complexity of people looking after others, the same logic applies of "everything you can afford") that's different for everyone so the optimal price can vary.
This is my question. I've hired Matter as my Read It Later app, and it works great. They do seem to be putting some of their premium features behind a paywall, which is annoying, but I'm relatively happy with the app.

Would love to see a comparison laid out.
Always figured that was the brain clearing space for new memories and saying "hey we can delete this right?"
His metamorphosis into Trump is happening really quickly, isn't it?

He clearly has no one close who is willing to be honest with him. Just a bunch of bootlickers (Sacks) and lackeys (Calacanis). He also looked genuinely surprised that he was booed so hard in SF; therefore you will see him lean ever harder to the one audience that will give him the adulation he needs: the authoritarian right.
Being a generalist can work if you are in the right market[s] and you own your own business[es].
I'm showing my age; my initial reaction was "I had no idea Apollo Computer had anyone left to lay off" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer
The best way to counter bad speech is to have more good speech. Case in point!
You can use any sort of natural language text as input. The system transforms the input text into a multidimensional vector that roughly represents the semantic meaning of the input.

If you do this for many different inputs, you can get representations for each of them and store them in a database alongside the inputs. From there, you can use traditional methods to search for nearby vectors to efficiently search by semantic meaning.

One earlier related example is word2vec from 2013. This tool transforms individual words into embeddings, but is conceptually similar. Wikipedia has a decent overview that might be helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

That work demonstrated the utility of transforming meaning into vector space for search but also for basic semantic reasoning. For example, you could perform an operation like "brother - man + woman" on the embedding and the result would be an embedding very close to "sister".
Does it!? I haven't really seen this, maybe I can tweak the prompts a little to compensate. If you want to drop me an email that would be super :)
The code quaity of GCC leaves much to be desired. Their mailing list has some figures from Coverity, where the defect rate in 2017 was at 1.67 defects per thousand lines of code for their 2.5 million lines versus 0.62 defects in LLVM per thousand lines of code for LLVM's 5.1 million lines:

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/793886b8-2fd8-e593-f065-239...

At present, GCC is at 1.60 defects and LLVM is at 0.76. LLVM was at 0.32 in July, but it jumped to 0.76 in August around the time it would have branched to start LLVM 16 development and has stayed there since then.

GCC has a policy of hiding its coverity data contrary to the spirit of open source, so I have not been able to see its historical data. I could forking it on github and submit my own builds to coverity to see what the historical data likely was, but I do not see much reason to do that beyond knowing the current state is a mess.

Anyway, I felt like expanding on your GCC remark, since it is a pile of bad code that is definitely holding back OSS and the industry.
Wiped out by Oracle's legal team (patents, whatever) in 4...3...2...
Oh my god, yes. It's like most online content has to be communicated in crappy memes, sarcastic quotes, and weird existential dread responses. It drives me insane.
> As others have pointed out, mortality counts were wildly off due to many factors, including how death certificates were filled out (died with covid v/s died from covid).

This has never really been shown to be that accurate considering the excess deaths from the averages every year. You’re ignoring an inconvenient fact.
> No perl, no python, no bash, no gui, no nothing. If you want any of that stuff, you've got to install it yourself.

This is a really important point, and an argument in favor of BSD’s central model. Watching various Linux distros try and try for years to remove Perl and Python 2 from their base installs only to fail because all of their system management tools are written in a mishmash of the two speaks volumes about the usefulness of confining all your core system bits to one scripting language.
Only if the Scooby Doo villain had previously spent $44b on said community center!
Soon enough on twitter.com
It's the most fun one for sure
Nobody is leaving, lol. The most vocal about "leaving Twitter" are coincidently the most addicted. They try Mastodon for two days, don't get it/get bored and come back.
Would you happen to have read “ministry for the future” by Kim Robinson ?

I just read the chapter where he elaborate on that exact idea.

I think it’s absolutely on point with our attitude as a society / specie
Can't read it. But I'm assuming it isn't arguing that the government needs to nationalize all social media platforms, repeal Section 230 protections and make content moderation illegal, like half of Hacker News was until Elon took over Twitter, when suddenly they became stalwart supporters of free enterprise.
Oh the huge manatee

Honestly torn between maintaining API access to watch this shake out in real time vs encouraging him to go all in and delete production.
I've had longer discussions but I'm realising that I often ask for a summary, which would mean the model has a summary of the conversation so far in the window.
Head on over to twitter.com today!
https://archive.ph/ID6Ta
I would eat that.
And I like food, real food, and cook from scratch most days.
Given how poorly GCC's rust front-end development has been going, I doubt Rust would have been made without LLVM.

> with one good compiler, there was less pressure to do so, and so people worked on scripting languages instead.

See this comment regarding your idea that GCC is a good compiler:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008284

It is a buggy compiler and it is a wonder that it works as well as it does. It is no surprise that LLVM is better.

As for people working on scripting languages instead, it is more that they were forced to work on scripting languages because the GCC codebase was designed to be incomprehensible to all but a select few. This is obvious if you try reading GCC. If you have not, I highly recommend that you pick some random files and begin reading. I can read random parts of the Linux kernel and generally follow along what is being done. I can do the same with LLVM to some extent, which I know since I have patched it locally in the past. I cannot do that with GCC. It is a mess. :/
> I think something like 98% of twitter's political donations went to democrats

That reads to me as 'Twitter the organization', not 'Twitter the people in the organization'. I suppose it could be either, but I have never heard that kind of wording for a company as its constituent employees instead of as a monolith. I am open to a different interpretation if you can guide me through it and it seems plausible to me, but if there is no reconciling the disparate readings then I suppose we shall have to admit to an impasse.
>How do they ever even lose?

Lack of motivation. Relatively few people on the prosecution side truly care about winning, especially as time passes.

Cases can easily take years, personnel changes ruin everything.

If you have money and aren't accused of anything totally crazy, you can easily completely ruin the governments chances by simply getting a few of the main people involved private sector jobs. This happens every day.
So far:

Aaron Rupar, Vox https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-aa...

(Rupar's substack: https://aaronrupar.substack.com/)

Donie O'Sullivan, CNN

Ryan Mac, NYT

Matt Binder, Mashable

Tony Webster, independent FOIA journalist https://mastodon.tonywebster.com/@tony/109520614559984242

Drew Harwell, Washington Post https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell/109520715471703069

Micah Lee, The Intercept https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/109520666612242764

Keith Olbermann

It's Going Down (IGD_News) https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news
I suspect we'll see "trade dress" lawsuits, because copyright doesn't apply.
Probably from Disney.
I don't know about 'ugly gaps' but its night and day compared to moving an analog knob with CV. Professional Composer guy may not have an issue. Perhaps indeed they are prolific in their marvelous, professional compositions (perhaps using CV)... but the limited expression of 128 steps is obvious to me. Source: I make techno.
Apps, Users and Communities – power to the people
They’re certainly good at getting their name out there, but their libraries seem to be waning in popularity in most of the places people discuss GraphQL.

I’ve personally never used Apollo stuff in prod —- there’s always been a more suitable alternative, but I’ve always appreciated their code for being quite clean. Federation is an interesting technology, but I haven’t had cause to use it yet.
Boot taste that good?
The irony of people on this site not getting that.
Steve Keen on Lex Fridman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XGiTDWfdpM
We should be able to hold multiple contradicting ideas in our head even the one that doesn't fit our preferred narrative.
I wanted to read the "please tell me what a personal computer can do" list, but it's blurry, so here's a high-res version: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads15/someoneplease3...

How much longer that list would be today is a little breathtaking.
I don't think it needs to be required, but I'd 100% include that in any linter or style guide I had for code.

For production code, I'd use it 100% of the time. For just quickly reorganizing some syntax around and copy/pasting things, I appreciate the shorthand version. I wouldn't use it in a codepen in most situations.
This could be an idea: to expand this work and map neighbourhoods according to their "affordances" aka opportunities for a sustainable or climate friendly living. I'd love to engage myself on something like this, I will drop an email after hols, keep it strong!
I saw this coming a mile away and closed my account on the day before the sale became final. Utterly predictable. More than a decade to build it up and 30 seconds to close it. Too bad.
Nice app.

There is a place for SaaS apps, no doubt, but somehow in the increasing information hostile environment and official government's positions on fighting the "disinformation, conspiracy and political incorrectness" my hunch moves me to decentralization of processes and future-proof solutions.

In my use case, this resulted in using the web browser with maximum protection available and creating a specific workflow for bookmarking and research through Obsidian. I can capture any article and directly move it to a specific folder in my vault. Then I can revisit, tag, organize and export it as PDF or HTML.

If, for some reason, Obsidian ceases to exist, the folder structure and markdown are usable in Emacs/Vim on any operating system.

Somehow, I don't trust any company which will have any form of access to my reading process. Nothing personal, just privacy.

P.S. I know, Emacs is an operating system:)