skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many reasons that's not protected:

1. The "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act" specifically bans using "Genetic Information" in certain circumstances, which is generally understood to mean e.g. DNA testing. Discriminating on height does not fall into this.

2. You could still fall into issues with e.g. the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by having a height requirement if e.g. far more men than women fall into that height range, however there are exceptions[A] built into that act when a job has specific requirements, one being you can ask for "male models" to model clothing targeted at men.

A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...
yeah lets not forget popcorn has been specifically bred to pop like that for thousands of years.

The best alt I've discovered by accident is sesame seeds. If you toast them (badly) they can pop and look exactly like tiny popcorn. I still believe sesame has potential to be bred to make better popcorn. Maybe a good task for the Experimental Farm Network
We know more parameters improves generalization so that is why it's unclear to me what they mean by more training flops.
According to German law, no. According to US law, yes.

Now whether it's GOOD is a different question.
That wouldn’t stop someone from entering something into the ledger wrong or fraudulently. Crypto just isn’t a silver bullet, for anything.
I really dislike this futile attitude that people have regarding AI. Your self-learning should never be replaced by an AI. You are just robbing yourself of opportunities by doing nothing.
I came in looking for awk in the list to upvote. By far awk has saved me the most time. I have used it for everything from parsing EDI documents to making simple shells for managing processes.

I just used it to create a bit over 2000 data transformations and wrote another awk script to tie them all together. Yeah I did in hours what would have taken a week in the GUI and changes will be able to be made in minutes instead of days. Plus it saved my wrist from the pain of clicking a mouse thousands of times.

To be fair you can do the same thing with any programming language but awk just has the least friction for me.
> I hate blaming the process rather than the "root cause" (that brings people to steal), however, in this particular case it does feel like leaving packages out in the open on porches is setting yourself up for failure.

Add this to the list of obvious things that should have been invented by now but haven't:

Smart Mailboxes, that automatically scan packages and letters and confirm delivery and also notify the recipient.
The point was that we see a huge increase in Carpathians but almost none in Alps, so on average there is an EU-wide increase, which leads to dangerous (to humans) numbers in one part of EU and near-extinct levels in other parts.
> second sentence will turn out to be as logically incoherent as the first

The key part of the second sentence: they are confident. Tricky to argue just how confident they are.
For about five minutes.

There tend to be downsides of political systems that don't have elected representatives.
> Awesome! I've read that there are potential issues with NetBSD's WireGuard implementation.

I think you may be thinking of the implementation FreeBSD had (which have now been fixed) unless I have missed some news
WF needs to go away. They pretend to be good and do good, and they just can't help but scam everyone.
It's more of a reflection of whether or not they expect her to be alive when she's found.
That's my problem with SPACs. The people who put them together walk away with all the money. IronNet, 23andMe, and Adstra, had similar drops.
Tips for improving productivity in software development teams
From the recall notice:

...a potential, while under load and with a shift in weight, for the pawl to disengage from the extension lifting post, allowing the stand to drop suddenly.

Having just run to the garage to make sure that my Harbor Freight jack stands aren't in that recall, it occurred to me, "how do you fuck up jack stands?" If there ever was a patent, it had to have run out before my grandfather was born; just go copy a high-quality model, sorted. Even if one doesn't just plain copy the design, I don't think you'd have to be much of an engineer to come up with something that won't collapse on itself under load. I mean, there's three pieces to the whole damned thing, and the design seems to allow a lot of slop on tolerances. Yet the folks at Pittsburgh Jack Stands(tm) seemed to think, "but we could save another nickel if we made the tolerances just a bit larger."

Anyway, that's why I always slide some sort of backup under the vehicle no matter the quality of the jack stand.
rust-analyzer, if that counts
I think so too.

For example, say, the people involved got four weeks to do this -- and they were done in a day, but then continued adding more and more words anyway to fill the time. Or because more words would give a more serious / competent impression.

I'd like to assume good intentions or incompetence / laziness / selfishness & don't-care, rather than giant conspiracy theories

Don't we have the same problem with in house lawyers and designers, who, if idle, want to sue someone, or want to redesign a "perfect" app and just make it worse

Or software devs who add pointless stuff to the tech stack

Maybe Parkinsons law should be amended:

> "work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion [with pointless things you'd be better off without]"
If there weren't a BFOQ then this could be seen as veiled sex discrimination since women are shorter than men on average.
Only if it is logged in to the same account.
I've not found this to be the case at all, if you have a recent tank its unlikely it will just randomly start leaking. Much more likely the flame sensor, ignitor etc will go bad first
I get by with links - either URLs or just file paths (and I have a vim short cut which passes the file name to "open" on OS X). Not great for everything - inline math for example. I just write raw LaTeX and pretend some tool will eventually come along and render things nicely if I want.
Ah. I parsed that as ND-Aware, not NDA-ware. You might want to add a hyphen.

> this is an example of a real harm

That depends on your threat model, which is the reason I asked. The SC4-HSM is designed to be secure against loss and casual theft (i.e. a home robbery), but not active theft by a technically savvy adversary.
What if what if what if?

Look at what the foundation has done and judge them on that. You seem to be looking for a reason to judge them based on nothing other than your own suspicion.

The most (unfounded) ulterior motive that I can imagine is that they want to help poor countries prosper so that they grow the pot and keep our markets going up. That benefits everyone though so it's hard to knock it.
If you assume that intelligent life has to pass a certain number of "steps" to develop, doesn't the central limit theorem dictate that the more of those steps there are, the closer in time each separate species will achieve intelligence?
I can't find anything in Google Books either. I'm assuming it should be "arrive as", but this is either a translation of something or a misattribution.
Beauty is an indicator of health and fitness, so it's not at all surprising to me that it's so often a qualifier for teaching in fitness fields. That's not unique to naked yoga, I've never seen an ugly personal trainer.
Not sure its fair to call them "welfare queens" but no one likes to see their livelihood threatened.
The author of the video lists 5 tips:-

1. speaks authoritatively about something he is not in a position to know

2. keeps quoting the ballistics charts that he has memorised like its gospel

3. keeps making claims of the format X is just as powerful as Y. Eg: "22 long rifle is just as powerful as .3006 rifle"

4. keeps making claims about firearms he was never in possession of

5. keeps making claims of the format "There is no such thing as X" (The author of the video says this is the most useful trick)
No, you cannot. You can't remap it and you can't resize it. This is part of design assumptions baked into a couple of newish Apple technologies, ASLR and Address Signing.
I fear that "much close to 100%. There just has to be" (as much as I too would like to share in this sentiment) may be an anthropomorphic projection and wishful thinking. Anthropomorphic because we are living creatures and assume that there must be other living creatures in the region of the universe we can see, even if just biochemically.

But, one thing we are able to estimate is the number of stars in the observable universe -- that collection of stars in causal contact with us. It is far from infinite. In fact, not that much larger than the number of atoms in a macroscopic chunk of matter. The number of possible games of chess is incomparably vaster.

If by "universe" we mean everything out beyond our causal horizon in an infinite universe, then I would guess that yes, there is other life. Actually, there are other copies of you too, because everything that can happen does happen in an infinite universe. The hinge of my point is that the observable universe is not infinite.

This is not to say, by the way, that we should not continue looking for traces of life or to be open to these.
> Apple's product naming getting ... complicated?

Compared to Apple's/Steve Jobs' own standards, yes.

In some cases, it's complicated by being TOO SIMPLE: e.g. try figuring out iPad versions.
I still remember being shocked at the bloat. It sat there eating something like 100x the memory of my entire sound stack before that (granted, easy to hit a large multiple when the baseline is very low), with pretty frequent CPU spikes, all while no sound was playing. WT actual F. And the CPU use was straight-up vulgar when it was actually doing anything.

It was then that I decided whoever was responsible for it had no software-architectural taste whatsoever. I didn't yet know his name. His work since then hasn't changed my mind.
The problem here is not facial recognition or AI. The problem is automatic and opaque enforcement of arbitrary rules with no recourse. It's a scary world where you can be approached by private security and forced to comply without recourse because "the system" flagged you. This dehumanizes us. We're creating a world where people are being treated like cattle, merely handled by systems beyond our capacity to fight back.
Loved reading your post man.
My sister in law does the same in the cairngorms in Scotland. If you like slow paced nature exploration with beautiful landscapes, I highly recommend.
Multicellular happened over and over again.

Mitochondria are weird, but we don't know that such organelles are necessary for life to become intelligent. And we don't know how weird that capture was. It is easy to make an argument for improbability. And it is easy to make it too extreme, like the absurd arguments that Creationists use against evolution.
A good table saw basically does the project for you, it is amazing.
In the previous case, the company was fined $185Million. The CEO was personally fined $20M in a later lawsuits.

The former CEO's total compensation was > $130M. That sounds much more like a cost of doing business, and a great risk. Heck, fines are classified as an expense for taxes.
> catastrophic loss of downforce if they got too near other cars. The drivers had to work around this by not following too closely

While the downforce loss was significant, it was predictable and could be easily avoided. The equivalent for ground effect, e.g. hitting a bump or curb mid-corner and lifting the skirt just far enough for the pressure seal to fail and your downforce to go from 100% to near 0% in an instant, is far more likely to lead to a catastrophic accident.
> Refactoring and implementing new features in Java with IntelliJ feels like cheating, in comparison.

This shines especially in large monoliths. Refactoring microservice interfaces is hell (which means it's rarely done and they rot), refactoring module interfaces in a Java monolith is a breeze.

Very few projects benefit from microservice architecture.
What I learned from pairing by default
> Sadly there’s very little evidence supporting productivity differences between programming languages, especially in bigger real-world contexts.

Only because it's almost impossible to quantify and is so contextual. However there is a good reason why Java is getting many extra language features from functional programming, e.g. streams, records, "sealed classes", pattern matching. Yes, productivity. Personally I am far more productive in OCaml, Haskell and Rust than Java; and that's after spending many years getting a lot of Java experience. But these are not necessarily good choices for the risk averse, which really comes down to the real reason why you chose Java.
I'm like you, in a process to migrate (mostly) away from Gmail to my own domain(s).

I've been settled on Fastmail[0] right now.

[0]https://www.fastmail.com/
You are stating a controversial legal opinion as though it's fact. In reality, the justices on the 5th circuit and the Supreme Court were closely divided on whether it was possible for the United States (the Plaintiff) to sue the judges and court clerks who would accept these lawsuits. The decision turned on whether the Sovereign Immunity doctrine applied to the United States government. The Supreme Court didn't even bother to resolve the issue, a majority (5/4) simply ducked the case. That's the reason we're doing this all over again with a new California law.
> in 5 years even "differently abled" will be co-opted by the crude and become offensive.

I already encountered it in this way
As someone maintaining a hugely complex system in Python: type hints make it bearable, but not good. A strongly typed, verbose language is an absolute, fucking, *must* for all but the simplest of systems. You can make it work if you're building web services where the type contract is in the web/RPC API (and hopefully strongly enforced), but for basically anything else, use something with a good type system. I cannot stress enough how important it is for scaling complexity.

If you must use Python, turn on mypy with the `--strict` flag, and do it early in your project's lifecycle. Do NOT make exceptions or allow for "gradual" typing, it's monumentally more difficult to add typing after the fact than early on. Type hint as much as you can, including tests. Pytest's fixtures can be type hinted both at the `def` and with their results as function args.
Dislike has nothing to do with it.

You’re suing my restaurant because you claim a patron of mine was over served by a bartender and subsequently killed someone while driving drunk.

I do not want your lawyers or their investigators or staff coming in and chatting with my staff or poking around my business without my lawyer being there.
Both. Id argue that in addition to the policy being bad, she probably didnt agree to her image feeding into the dataset backing the facial recognition, which raised some spicy privacy questions: how did this private company get the image? Under what terms of use?
XML is pretty rare in Java code written this side of 2010. Not that it doesn't exist, but the whole spring mess is not something you really have to touch to set something up in Java.

I usually enjoy Spark[1] for bootstrapping a simple REST-like interface. There are other options, but in general, you don't really need glue-languages at all if you stray away from old-fashioned EE-style frameworks.

[1] https://sparkjava.com/
I do nothing for my site besides just write about stuff I'm thinking about. I do try to keep it simple and fast-loading. Google searches sometimes turn up things I write. I guess I'm not going for much more than that! I'm a huge fan of RSS, and plan to write about my efforts getting Tiddlywiki (my site generator) to generate valid RSS feeds, but that work isn't complete yet.

As a reader, I continue to use RSS (self-hosted FreshRSS instance), which is great for tracking other blogs as well as Mastodon feeds. This has been great over the past week, since so many interesting folks are joining Mastodon.

EDIT: To your last point, anything I write that shows up submitted on social media (including HN) is posted by others...I don't tend to post stuff myself.
Yes I wonder if there was some particular condition that prevented higher intelligence to occur before recently. Or if it's just sort of "pure chance".
Lab-grown 3D-printed wood
I see crypto terms like ICO and NFT. OneCoin was not a "shitcoin" simply because no coin ever existed. There was no chain yanked because there was no chain. They literally just took people's money and then gave them a login to a website where it would show them more and more cash by the day.
Serial Reader: Reading Schedule Builder
Disagree - “Musk or any family member” vs “Musk” are fundamentally different - the first implies none of his family was present. The second could be seen as “we discovered a family member of musk was present, but musk was not”
Which is pretty unfavourable for the world.

Any other occupation isn't allowed to use their occupation to retaliate
And if you work in locked down corporate windows environments, asking for Git for Windows ("for local version control only") is a sneaky way to get the basic Unix utils installed. It's a lot easier to ask for VSCode + Git than some open source tools that will be viewed with suspicion by the local support team.
I'm guessing this is about child porn, as in, "we can't tell if that naked woman is 15 or 18 so we'll just ban nudity"
If you'd like to determine if other words are harmful, feel free to use this GPT playground:
https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/E8MTssK5Xk4dphyWFDtGwDb...
"It usually uses its data centers to process multiple films at the same time. With Avatar: TWOW, even the entire data center was not enough."

"Rendering each frame took 8,000 thread hours, or the combined power of 3,000 vCPUs in the cloud for an hour."

"“we couldn’t architecturally expand our data center because that would require infrastructure that would go to the city council, and we all know what it’s like to go through local government," he said.""
We've been able to fly or emit radio signals only for a bit more than 100 years.

If there exist any other civilisations and we assume they start independently, there should be ones that started billions of years ago. Which is enough to visit entire galaxy even at very slow speeds.

The paradox is that we are not seeing any signs of any other intelligent life.
I think the bigger problem is most of the companies that go public this way are dogshit money-losers that shouldn't be public in the first place.
It's always sad to see people in the tech industry who are opposed to learning things. Quite a lot of the anti-Java, anti-abstraction, anti-complexity crowd seem to actually just be people who are one step above a sysadmin in their mental model of programming, don't see how large-scale programming is different from imperative scripting, don't understand that complex problems sometimes require complex/systematic solutions, and resist leaving their comfort zone.

There are certainly valid arguments against everything I just said, but quite often they are not the true motivation.
I agree, but why do we need to make it 50+ hours? What if they only worked 35 hours a week with horrible shifts at different times and no consistency at a non-physically demanding job? Work is still work unless you’re living your passion, the mainstream outside of tech work to put food on the table and they put up with a lot compared to the worst days we have in tech. Anyway just frustrated lately with this idea you have to work 60 or 80 hours a week instead of strategically.
If you assume that they vary independently, yes.
I just watched a younger man bring his elderly and handicapped father into a Planet Fitness to take a shower because they were both homeless.

I am homeless as well.

That fine should all go to ending homlessness. And if you vote for the D or R you are voting for the same party; the O Party, as in Oligarchs.
> precision

No. It does not. “Pirate” brings with it a “disney like” connotation of someone all nimbly bimbly just living a pirate’s life…

A thief, which is what these people are, is the proper term.

The use of “porch pirate” brings in the clicks, though…
Are you planning on making money doing this? Invest in a 7950X and all the RAM you can and either a:

4090

3090

3090 Ti

A30

A40

A100

H100
Let me know how it goes! I recognize your name, and I’m only a couple of hours north of you. I might drop down there sometime and check it out if you don’t mind.
What facts does it assume? That Elon alienated peers?

I think Elon acted impulsively. He realized it but it was too late. A lot of the Twitter Files stuff is an attempt at revenge against the executive team that forced him to close. The problem is going full red pill is not smart tech business. He’s reaching MyPillow levels of conspiracy mongering.
> Whether actual scientists hold a view is not an argument (nor did I try to use it as one), but it is relevant to pointless random online arguments because it can help us spend our time better and not waste it on debunking things that nobody who knows what they're talking about actually believes, as I was trying to help you do. You yourself said

I don't agree here, argument from authority is not an appropriate argument. If you do not have particulars for an argument, then you shouldn't really have a strong opinion on the topic.

> Who are you quoting here? The article you linked doesn't say that QM is "completely wrong" (just that it's not as good as QFT), and neither does anyone in the HN discussion, so I'm not sure what text you're referring to.

? The article I linked has a headline that's clearly misleading, and not only that, QFT is BASED on QM. You start with some Lagrangian and fields, impose QM restrictions via commutation relations, and perform calculations. What exactly do you think QFT is?

> Actually Hossenfelder is a well-known critic of the idea that simplicity and beauty are requirements of truth, and your remarks aren't supported by the text of the article, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here either.

What exactly are you trying to argue here? You started off dismissing my comments, and now you're defending Sabine for "beauty" and "truth". Beauty and truth relative to her, Sabine? Okay?
In addition, mere customer satisfaction secondary to the primary job is not enough to establish BFOQ; it's a thin line though as Hooters seems to hide behind BFOQ (thus essentially stating that the primary reason for their serving staff is sex appeal), while flight attendants cannot.

I suppose if you had an airline called "cleavage air" and had all the flight attendants wear low-cut tops, then you might get away with it.
> It's called reading the libraries documentation.

You ever tried to read haskell's documentation? You search functions by their type signature.

> Polyglot as in multiple programming languages.

lol ok.

> I'm afraid it is true. Knowing the limitations of the tools you use is important.

I agree. But to know the limitations one must know the tools first.

> And you clearly do not.

Having used both things gives me more knowledge than NOT having used both things.

> I've done programing expensive networking hardware in C.

I don't think expensiveness of the rig and skill correlates… are iphone developers better than android developers because iphones cost more?

> I think you are missing that I know a lot more than you.

Ah yes a "polyglot" who speaks just english. A true renaissance man.

> If you think dynamic typing is like using void pointer in C you are very much mistaken.

It's kinda-like-it, conceptually. I've written a compiler and an interpreter, I know how they work.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but "side effects" != mutation.

Also: The level of control offered by Rust comes at a steep cost compared to GC'd languages.