skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, less so than living outside a city, surely? Most of the time is going to be for the paramedics to get to the building in any case.
A 32-bit adder is just 4 8-bit adders with carry connected. I don't see why it'd be significantly more difficult.
Index teacher pay to the 80th percentile
But the choices are not the American system vs NHS. The dutch do a good job of an insurance based system, Singapore is totally different still (though obviously not applicable as its a fairly small country.

A great counter example is Signapore where each individual has a mandatory savings account which can only be used for healthcare. However, catastrophic illnesses and insufficient funds are covered by the gov. Another element of the scheme is that the savings accounts can be used for family members. This incentives people to seek the cheapest care, and keep family members healthy. While the poor, retired etc are still taken care of.

The problem I have with the NHS is that I dont see what my care costs at any point. I dont think that leads to good decision making.
Some of the more insane people I know (antivax etc) are moderate to hard left.

The polarization affected both ends of the spectrum it seems.
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Fascinating. To use such a thing, where would I get downloadable DRM free music these days? What software do I use to sync it to an Android device? What software do I use to browse and play it on an Android device?

(I am asking these questions excitedly, not dubiously)
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I think you're talking past each other.

The parents point I think is that if you make 100 films today you don't know which will be hits but you can expect X to be and they will pay for the losers.

I don't think that requires the trickle down effect that you seem to be referring to with Seinfeld.
Might make sense for air travel and cross-ocean shipping. Time will tell if pure hydrogen or e-fuels are more economical.

Also works as a backup of last resort for power systems through power to gas/x.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-X
I don’t know much about read heads. To me, they seem like complex mechanical devices on their own. The head must be able to move vertically, yet end up perfectly flush with the tape material. Its design requires special consideration just so it won’t damage the tape. It needs to take some degree of abuse, mostly in the form of abrasion but also (inappropriate use of) cleaning agents. Then the angle of the head needs to be adjustable, and the head needs to maintain the angle even in the face of vibrations. Even if someone knew how to design a good read head, producing one might turn out difficult in a less-than-mass market.

What worries me even more than that is the art of building a drive. A tape drive must maintain the angular velocity of the capstan(s). If yours varies by more than a few tenths of percent, you’ll be dealing with “wow and flutter”. Not all listeners may care enough, but most do notice.

Drive makers used to have all those issues under control, at least in the higher-end segment – as Sony has shown with their DD series and the D6C.
Trying to mass-produce a decent drive in 2023 would, however, eat up incredible amounts of engineering time just for _designing_ a workable mechanism. Trying to copy and paste one of the old designs may turn out even more laborious. Those designs are tied to a huge stack of specific parts [0], for which there used to be an ecosystem of suppliers but those all long gone of course. I can imagine that they’ve taken their own specific knowledge with them, too.

[0]: If you’re interested, elektrotanya.com has service manuals for a few higher-end Walkmen with exploded-view diagrams and BOMs. Looking at those has been a very humbling experience for me!
In reality none of the "privacy freaks" will ever purchase one, I've recommended these to various privacy-minded people I know and the majority either (1) can't see past the fact that it's IBM hardware (not hip), or (2) make up excuses the like of "DO YOU REALLY believe IBM would do a system without a backdoor? A system with a starting price of $5,500— it must be a rip-off, not good enough a deal for me!" I know there's plenty of nice and horrible people in everything but honestly if I got two bob a piece for every FOSS cheapskate I've encountered is too similar to one another for me _not_ to attribute this to cheapskate mindset. People who are saying things like "Mac is a rip-off!!! bad deal, Intel better performance" all the while being clueless on power consumption, for example. It's much cheaper to just say something seemingly profound like "There is no true privacy, we're all pwned by NSA!!" than to purchase and actively integrate an expensive RISC ISA system based on free hardware into your workflow... A the end of the day, we only have ourselves to blame.
Glad to see an API-compatible alternative.

Is archiving on your roadmap? The primary reason I use Pinboard is (at least some of) my stored URLs have text snapshots I can use in the case of linkrot.
Fundamentally, you can. And do all the time with flus and colds and any number of other airborne pathogens that we don't mandate vaccines, masks, social isolation, shutdowns of economy and education, etc.

And most measures and expert driven response were pretty ineffective anyway. People whip out the 6 million number as though it has any bearing on the number of people who might have died or been saved by different responses to COVID which is really pretty disingenuous and emotionally inflammatory. A lot of government particularly health policy involves tradeoffs with lives, you can't just try to put blame on people for deaths if you don't like their position and use that as an argument. Because some extremist can always come in on the other side of your position and make exactly the same argument against your position.

In other words, why would you be the arbiter of exactly what is reasonable and what is "extremely onerous" and when you can and can not allow people to make their own decisions? It's circular logic, you basically justify your position by asserting they are the right decisions.
Google C++ forbids exceptions, but C++ RAII works a lot better when a data member ctor can throw. The compiler will generate code tearing down a half-constructed object from that point, without you having to write a method that knows what to do and what not to.
New killer CRISPR system is unlike any scientists have seen
This is one of the developers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Macklowe#Criticism

I'll never understand how they let such people ruin the skyline by building such ugly skyscrapers. No respect whatsoever for the surrounding style, regardless of taste.
Tweet thread (https://twitter.com/rebecgeo/status/1612509818505289749) went viral and a lot of people pitched in by buying books.
I think the point being made was Fortnite tends to have a wider breadth of gamer than other games (casual to hard core). My partner has a group that plays, but it’s more about crazy fun For them. They’ve tried other games but found they just get dropped and lose too quickly to make it fun.

Plus cross platform.
On the SW side, yes.
YouTube has an incredibly aggressive demonetization policy. Its moderation is not a reflection of the FDA or CDC or whatever
Also https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
Ask HN: Are there any attempts to employ NN to high level disassembly?
There is a lot solution about code generation by neural networks, but I don't see any attempts on recreating code based on machine code/assembler.

Use cases for it:

1. Transpilation - you have a project in one "old" programming language and you want to smoothly migrate to "new" one

2. Open source licenses sometimes are not followed by vendors, they take open source code, but they don't contribute back. It would allow to at least have a glimpse of what is going on in such piece of code

3. Old, or dropped or proprietary code without access or even existence of source code could be investigated easier

...

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I guess one option would be to use the same music streaming apps I would use on a phone, but use the download feature aggressively for playing music offline.
It looks like Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: see https://engineerguy.com/fourier/ (and don’t miss the accompanying video series! It’s pretty cool.)
Who comes up with these names? Honestly.
It’s a lot to type and there are spaces.

I am glad they switched to C:\Users\billg\Pictures
ReLU is not discontinuous; it is nonsmooth but continuous, hence derivatives exist except at the hinge points.

Inherently discontinuous functions OTOH are disconnected and nonconvex. Gradient descent works, but you have to add a step to first partition the discrete space like branch and bound. This involves solving the continuous relaxation to find a bound. This does not require differentiability (it is not differentiable), but the price to pay is that it is combinatorial (NP hard)

The OP was talking about general differentiability but inherently discontinuous functions form a large and important class of functions (from software programming) that are not differentiable.
I was instantly thinking about populous, and really that sort of game on top of this would be awesome.
Arithmetization Schemes for ZK-SNARKs
Is this going to change how 8-but adders are implemented in chips?
Russian missiles used on Ukrainian apartments designed to sink aircraft carriers
Yes, but the adder that the NN came up with has no carry.
Who are "they" in your sentence? I assume the lights and not the plane? Wouldn't lights like this be placed the same way on every airport implementing them?
Looks super interesting. One of the things that I wanted to improve on are Gunicorn's latency and here:

https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian/tree/master/benc...
shows way better latency for Granian.

Kudos.

just, when would you consider this good enough for production?
Wobbly clock
You can do horrendous things. All it takes one ground truth provider to not sanitze the input, and meta being trained in. Imagine hosting images, that are poisoned to corrupt training data:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdCs6bPM4is

I wonder if you could add api calls that are billed per call to your open source project and let copilœdUpCode accumulate tremendous bills before sending them at the end of year.

Imagine you can get it to do it in useless loops async. I just realized, im watching the "capitalist software revolution eating itself" stallman always prophesized live. Allmende public thrust is being eaten up and all that remains is a dark forrest, stalked by parasite riddled hunters and prey.

That is until humanity rebels and dissolves all companies larger then 100 people.
Ask HN: How can I learn ML in 6 months as a teenager?
How can I learn machine learning in 6 months as a teenager? I want to develop some skills that will be of great need and I have an interest to pursue Machine Learning.

I have a good understanding of Statistics, Calculus and Python. I'm confused on how do I start, my friend told me that R is used for bigger data sets so I should learn R, another told me to start learning the fundamental concepts.

I'm stuck and I would preferably learn ML in the next 6 months. Could anyone give me steps/a learning plan to do the same?
I disagree. Always be skeptical, BUT we have a whole scientific method to use to address that skepticism. When the other side refuses to engage in that, it gets very frustrating. The vaccines had clinical trials and VERSA databases as skepticism warranted, and were shown to be effective and safe.
It converted the inputs to analog so there isn't really a notion of 'overflow'.
I disagree. I hope my children do not spend inordinate amount of resources helping me. I want them to live life while they are young and healthy.

If I ever need day to day care for basic needs, I hope I can put myself out of my misery. I want society’s resources to go towards the young, not to keep 80+ year olds limping along.

I watched my parents spend their youth taking care of day to day needs for my dad’s elderly parents. What a waste. My grandparents lived far too long, especially at my mom’s expense.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22
> knowing it would cost that much ahead of time would let the purchaser and engineer work together to determine if it would be more cost-effective to swap that part out for a similarly specced but less expensive chip, or rework the circuit to use a slightly different chip, perhaps with two chips instead, or more jellybeans to make up the lost functionality

And now you have not one but 2-3 chips that are in demand and price rises for those too.

Also in case of cars and similar equipment there would be a bunch of re-testing required so that drives cost of reengineering hard.

Especially if said part was used as "jellybean" across a lot of modules just because it's cheaper to buy same part in bulk
No, there was a time where we had analog calculators but there are good reasons why digital electronics won in the computing space.
> Come to think about it, I don't think it works as an "editor" in HTML text fields?

There was "itsalltext"[1] (sadly defunct) - but there's an alternative (i just discovered - so I've yet to try it) : ghosttext https://github.com/fregante/GhostText

[1] https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext

Ed: wasavi does enhance the text-area widget (wasavi is a browser extension) - so it does turn text fields into a vi-like editor. I can't imagine it plays well with vimperator-style extensions, though.
> Blind trust in science is no different from worshipping a religion or cult.

Let me translate this: "Blind trust in the best recommended knowledge science has at the current moment in time is no different from worshipping a religion or cult."

No. This is wrong.

Science's recommendation at any given time is based on assembly and analysis of evidence. It evolves over time in the presence of additional evidence.

Religion or cults do not.

OTOH, paying attention to what the "my uncle got COVID, spent a week in only pink lighting, and subsequently recovered!" most recent FB post in your feed is wrong. The internet mob is not following the scientific method. They are posting anecdotes. Those anecdotes are filtered by the mediums for ability to create attention in others; and then those are presented.

I am reminded of the somewhat grim "Facebook COVID researcher" joke: https://i.redd.it/ovumfo3f48ca1.jpg
Hi, in our research while talking to a few users we found out few cases that are not covered in our competitors.
If this problem sounds familiar to you, do you have any use cases in mind ?
May I please ask why does Germany have a recent history with picking such poor defense ministers? AFAIK Ursula v.d. Leien was also not a very competent one, which is why she got promoted to the EU where she proved further incompetence through various scandals and magically self-deleting/lost emails.
Cobol legacy programmers make quite a bit because of such small numbers / no longer actively/widely taught at university level.

The multi-decade investment in cobol for critical systems (banking) does not make for quick/easy switch.
It's not harder computationally but finding that solution with SGD might be hard. I'd be really interested in the results.
Last time was a few weeks ago [0].

I’m also maintaining a couple AUR packages with Firefox extensions myself. They all use the same method for persistence. I’m wondering what kind of issues people are experiencing. Haven’t heard of any myself.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-extension-multi-a...
A little irrelevant, but I smirked while reading this from one of the last email excerpts

> But, if you want nothing revolutionary and want to band-aid (which is fine and understandable) then I agree with your plan to give it to Dave.
Yes I just read it too. It appears to have been discussed here multiple times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bitter+lesson

I'd say it has aged well and there are probably lots of new takes on it based on some of the achievements of the last 6 months.

At the same time, I don't agree with it. To simplify, the opposite of "don't over-optimize" isn't "it's too complicated to understand so never try". It is thought provoking though
Ask HN: List of Top HN Users
Hello fellow HN users,

Is there a way to get a list of all the HN users, along with their karma points, something like a ranking table?

I know that a top 100 list exists under: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders but it doesn't include all users.

I checked the API under: https://github.com/HackerNews/API but again couldn't find something readily available that can be queried.
Maybe I don't understand the particular sensitivities, but she says some stuff about the war in Europe while there are New Year's fireworks in the background? Is this why she was forced to resign?
It might not be necessary to get acceptable performance, but it is a fundamental countermeasure to cheating. If you send actual game state data over the network you make it very easy for cheat developers. If you add server-side sanity checks as a countermeasure, over time those checks will look more and more like the "old" architecture.
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Transformers are specialized to run on our hardware, whereas the article is suggesting architectures which are specialized for a specific task.
Ask HN: What's the best resource to learn music theory?
Beyond youtube videos, is there an interactive webpage that teaches from scratch? I'm sure it must exist by now something like that.
I can't find anything in the linked eg-draft that would indicate that the error would "occur later". In fact, it explicitly says:

Note too that if the canonical constructor checks invariants, then a with expression will check them too. For example:
record Rational(int num, int denom) {
Rational {
if (denom == 0)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("denom must not be zero");
}
}
If we have a rational, and say
r with { denom = 0; }
we will get the same exception, since what this will do is unpack the numerator and denominator into mutable locals, mutate the denominator to zero, and then feed them back to the canonical constructor -- who will throw.
Perl doesn't work so well with /etc stuff. when /usr, /usr/local, /opt aren't available.
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I'm missing the Nigerian prince here tho, otherwise all the snake oil trappings are there.