skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some point, a new habitat will reach a new balance with our introduced species and there's no going back.

> And yes, there may be less diversity in species all over the world (for the time being) thanks to that. But once the new species learn to reproduce and survive in a new place, then that is the "new" state of the habitat.

Yeah but won't that be just as true of a re-introduced de-extincted species? Mammoths / mammoth-ish elephants might change the new equilibrium in Siberia just like it changed when they were extincted in the first place... maybe the change could even be for the good. Why is the latter just accepted but the former is not?

There's this weird status quo bias that seems to say "ecosystems re-adjusting if humans deliberately re-introduce a species is artificial and must be bad" while also saying "ecosystems re-adjusting when humans literally do everything else that humans do is somehow natural or fated"
Would they? Apple already has the best chips. What makes you think that the average consumer cares that much about even a 20-30% performance difference. It is not like TSMC is the only competent chip manufacturer. Nvidia largely uses Samsung and they are doing just fine.
Who was the head of the NLRB for both this case and the one it overturned? It smells of political decision making as the article points out it’s overturning a precedent from 2020 which itself was overturning previous precedent.
Borrowing? This is a fine, but it brings up a point.

Where I am, fines to governmental entities via courts, can often be negotiated as monthly payments, interest free, even if it takes a very, very long time to pay.

EG traffic fines, as an example, being a few hundred, can be paid over years. No interest.

This does change if you do not pay, but otherwise, you can negotiate.

So if the same is true in the US, and it may be, after all, bankruptcy laws does not apply here (and so other concepts, too)... then inflation helps.
Is having two files really that much of a bother? I have my editor set switch between the .c(pp) and the .h with a keyboard shortcut and that seems easier than scrolling between declaration and definition when you want to change something.
The obvious solution is a carbon tax, but you'll be called a right wing nut job if you promote that.
> See: The Ford Pinto.

Actually a bad example, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Retrospective_safet...
The IBM drive was commonly sold with early DSLRs like the Canon 10D. It was very common and routine. I am even aware of some products in the embedded space that used it.
>It is sufficiently suited to create a model suitable for communication, to generate new ideas, and to reason logically about the world, as we do without math or other more formal languages every day.

I'm not convinced that it has ideas or that it does logical reasoning. What I can see is that it emits text that is similar to what a person might write if they had ideas or did some (rather flawed) reasoning.

But I also see that it often emits text that a person with these language skills and this breadth and depth of knowledge would never write, because it betrays a complete lack of understanding of what is being said and why it is being said.

For instance, a person is unlikely to casually make up some statistically plausible numbers when asked about a particular company's financials (unless the intention was fraud). That's because a person would have an idea of the purpose of financial reports and the purpose of the question and draw the conclusion that made-up numbers are useless.

And the reason for this strange lapse is not lack of information. If you asked an LLM about fabricated financials, it would go on and on about financial fraud and things like that, suggesting an understanding of the purpose of these numbers as well as very deep knowledge of the subject.

To me, this and many other weird inconsistencies suggest that LLMs have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. And generating statistically plausible sequences of words that were never written before is not the same thing as having a new idea.

In any event, I am optimistic that this technology can be very useful in the right context.
Well it used to take ~infinity years as the technique didn’t exist to do it at all.

Claims like “it’ll take 5000 years” are always funny because they’re so incredibly status quo biased, without the least bit of self consciousness of how remarkable the progress has been in the last 50 years on things like this.

Humans overestimate progress in the near term and underestimate progress in the long term.
Actually, I've been using Edge as my main browser in Linux for the last couple of months. The main reason is that it is the only Chrome based browser that has a good vertical tabs interface integrated. They are pretty good, with grouping, colors and whatnot. I've tried every extension in chrome but nothing comes closer. I also used to use "tree style tabs" back when I used Firefox, but I find Fx unusable nowadays. A combo of vertical-tabs, tabs-suspender and extensity are a winner mix for me in Edge. in Linux!
China Is Practicing How to Sever Taiwan’s Internet
It's almost like we should try to stick to languages where creating concurrency bugs is nearly impossible, thereby pre-empting an entire class of bug that might have resulted in deaths
So if you are decsriminated against in another country you should get advantages here in the US? That seems wrong.
I too was hoping that this was a bizarre crossover between aviation and entomology
You can not get a similar Windows laptop for half the price. That is absolutely ridiculous. Show me a single Windows laptop that has a similar screen, keyboard, trackpad, build quality, processor, battery life and silence. I'm waiting.
I see this talking point all the time yet never backed up by studies. That would mean that these attractive men put a premium on quantity over quality (because they’d have to date women less attractive then them for the numbers to work out) and have lots of time and mental energy at their disposal to manage these concurrent relationships. Whereas in general people tend to date people that are more or less as attractive as themselves, and the most prevalent form of relationships is still a two person couple. For casual flings it might be different.
couldn't agree more with the section about Ghost, their shifted focus is something I've picked up on recently too [0]. I started to dislike their interface more and more when creating/editing posts.
Couple that with the regular "your theme is no longer supported" messages, I got fed up of burning time to keep up with their updates, which offered no benefits to me. I quit and moved to Hugo (using a ghost-to-hugo migration tool [1]).

[0] https://ryansouthgate.com/goodbye-ghost-hello-hugo/#im-no-lo...

[1] https://github.com/jbarone/ghostToHugo
Message: don't get a dog.
I know it's easier said than done, but if this is something you're passionate about, why not start your own "whatever you think sucks as a public company" as a not for profit ?

I mean if you're passionate about it.
Context then.

> I am Indian-American (born into a brahmin family if that matters) and personally haven't noticed casteism, barring the occasional idiot in our communities.

Translation: I don't see a problem.

> Having said that, we (Indian-Americans) should be open to criticism and scrutiny.

Translation: even though I'm open to criticism, I don't see a problem.

> We are a very successful lot - arguably the richest immigrant group in America - surely we can be secure enough to confront some of these bad things. We need to stop being defensive and touchy about such charges.

Translation: blah, blah, blah . . . me, me, me. Nothing about the problem.
Maybe the juicy headline was written by the editor?
In 1800's United States, fire departments in many large cities (Chicago and New York, to name two) were private for-profit industries. If a homeowner did not pay what was effectively protection money, the fire department would refuse to extinguish your property if it caught fire, and would sit around as the dwelling burned, in some cases with people still inside.

Fascinating idiom, thanks!
Go requires at least two fingers. That is what makes it more challenging than chess.
Yea another example is the NVIDIA Tegra. NVIDIA tried to use it to make their own portable gaming device but then Nintendo figured out how to use it to make the switch.
I’ll say that when I started working on finl a couple years ago, I started in C++ (employing 20+-year-old memories of the language). When I switched to Rust, starting from zero, I found myself instantly productive. Yes, there are some things that are harder, but in general, the if it compiles, it works rule holds for Rust. I can still remember some rather disturbing bugs that should never have even compiled in some of my early C code (e.g., treating argv values as if they were variables and could be modified in place).
If I wound up in the hospital with cancer, getting a Hallmark card from HR is precisely the kind of insensitive BS I would expect. This is just the way organizations behave, you need friends/family if you want to receive genuine expressions of empathy.
So much preventative process and yet so much violence still occurs. The environment must be truly stressful. The concept of the animal within each of us isn’t metaphor—we are literally animals. Our environment strongly affects what sort of behaviors appear in the aggregate. This isn’t to disparage your character. This is to be aware that we are all capable of evil and we must be aware of it. Process alone cannot snuff out our instincts.
HIPAA has some teeth, but I was surprised at the annual caps, which are insignificant to larger companies, like Amazon.

https://www.ada.org/resources/practice/legal-and-regulatory/...
Are you posting in the right thread? What owner? What son?
What browser are you running? My 2017 Mac runs 4k YouTube videos without a glitch in Safari.
Yeah in 2020 that was understandable, but I can't imagine thinking that in January 2022.
4nm is a 5nm derivative node
I think so. The default configuration for Time Machine is to back up everything. There's not really a way for a non-technical user to prevent it from backing up everything on the machine unless an admin changed the options in Time Machine to exclude specific folders/data.
From Wikipedia:

"A second generation of Microdrive was announced by IBM in June 2000 with increased capacities at 512MB and 1GB, with the 512 MB model costing $399 and the 1 GB model costing $499."

Yes, storage technology existed at the time, but it was an order of magnitude more expensive than what Apple needed to put in a consumer product.

It's unquestionable that iPod unleashed the explosive miniaturization of technology, and paved the road for everything that we saw in the following decade with smartphones.
Gmail spam is out of control
Seriously, what is going on?

I am receiving tens of emails daily that don't get filtered by Gmail which are clearly junk.

It has been going for at least a couple of weeks.
> You can learn to use Rust in Go-like settings in under a week.

Depends if one feels like trying their hand at writing asynchronous code.
This author spends a lot of time pooh poohing the idea without considering the fact that research could result in techniques that don’t exist right now. That’s the whole point in science and investing in research!

How about instead of bemoaning how “money could be better spent on conservation”, the author could pursue that route (they won’t) and let people who are interested in research do what they want to do?
Oh that's a shame. Even just skimming through the pdf's diagrams you'll get some interesting insights. Like their cellular code and how certain programs compile down to neural networks visually. There are diagrams for merge / bubble sort and even Fibonacci sequences.
I bet they did but it was a too big can of worms.

Did you forgot how everyone claimed what everyone would stalk everyone and hence this shit should be banned? Did you forgot that there were (and probably still are) people who tried to use AirTags to stalk?

Now everyone loves AirTags and A. can add more functionality which were deemed too controversial to include at the start.
No, I do actually want a real programming language. Determinism is orthogonal to this problem and it is actually outside the scope of whether you use a hobbled config language or a full scripting language to define your build - you need sandboxing to actually achieve it (like Nix).

The reason you might want a Turing-incomplete language is that you can prove the build terminates. However that's a lie, since you will always need to escape to running programs outside the language!
Hahaha, looking at the other answers and your profile, I now realise that you were asking about HN karma rather than the spiritual kind (it did seem a bit of an odd question for HN). For the former, as others have said: original and interesting content.
Here's a bit of detail. The software was supposed to calculate the speed based on the weight of the aircraft and determine if the available runways were adequate.

The nature of the bug was that if it couldn't find a usable runway, it would lower the weight until it did fit the runway it could find.

That's right, the software would say, "oh, the aircraft can't take off on the runway with this weight, let me just lower the weight so it can". Apparently the runway data was missing or wrong, but instead of saying, "no, you can't take off from there" the software said "here's a solution allowing you to take off, but at this lower weight".

I'm not sure how/if that was caused by a concurrency bug, but that's what I know.
This is a life changing comment for me. Thank you.
They are referring to films created by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Also Miramax is owned by Paramount - so that would explain why it's missing.
> keep their interest in programming altogether

Python will do that too and without reinforcing patterns that produce UB.
Apple Arcade provides a ton of value in this regard. No ads, no micro transactions, games like they used to be.

Funny enough given this article, they have Angry Birds 1 remastered.

It’s the only games I’ll let my six year old play on her iPad. It’s disgusting to me that her first experiences playing games would be one’s trying to get her to buy stuff or watch ads.
Jim Butcher had this argument with a bunch of fellow writers on a writing forum. The argument went back and forth. His side was that it was the execution that mattered. He said that a good writer could tell a successful story based on a terrible premise. It wasn't the idea that mattered, it was how the writer pulled it off.

The argument raged across the forum; idea - execution - idea - execution... until Jim threw down the gauntlet. "Fine. Give me your worst idea. No, give me your two worst ideas for a story, and I'll write one and show you." The forums churned for a bit and the other side came up with what they agreed were the two most hackneyed, clichéd ideas they could think of.

Pokémon, and the Lost Roman Legion.

Jim took those and wrote the Codex Alera series. Point, and New York Times Bestseller list spot: Butcher.
> Can you give an example about fewer protections than people think?

For starters, HIPAA doesn't actually prevent your doctor or health insurer from selling your data to a third party. It also doesn't prevent that third party from giving that data to a fourth party, who can give it to another, and so on.

What happens if one of those tertiary parties has a breach and ends up exposing your data? In theory they're supposed to report it back up the chain, but in practice it doesn't go more than one or two links, if that.

So in short:

- you have no way of enumerating the number of entities who have legal access to your health data

- you have no way of finding out when it's been illegally exposed by any of the parties who have legal access to it

- if by chance you happen to find out about an exposure[0] you have no recourse except to report it to HHS, who may apply a statutory fine, but the fine is typically minuscule compared to the size, revenue, and profit of the guilty party

- if by chance you find out about an exposure of your PHI, you are not entitled to receive any compensation

All things considered, it's easier to enumerate the very limited ways that HIPAA does actually protect you than to enumerate the protections that most people incorrectly think HIPAA provides.

[0] a real-life example is you Googling the name of your partner and stumbling upon a publicly visible Excel spreadsheet containing the name, SSN, addresses, and medical diagnoses of thousands of patients

[1] see above
> to make room for previously extinct species

There is barely room for contemporary species.
I know a few doctors and they're not necessarily directly available to patients but have to be on-call for nurses, MAs, etc. It's not 24/7/365 but its more than I get pinged when I'm on-call.
Yes. TSMC 5nm was incredible. Everything fabbed on TSMC 5nm/4nm has seen a huge generational leap in performance and energy efficiency after years of relative stagnation. It directly improves single-threaded performance and battery life which are two of the absolute most important metrics for user perceived performance.
That exists today in areas where you have to pay the fire department separately.
ChatGPT as an Instrumental Study Source?
I've found ChatGPT to be quite good at breaking down advanced algorithms and probability queries I have from my lectures. I'm curious if other people also find utility in using it to understand difficult concepts and whether or not it could be further modified into a studying aid. I'm aware it hallucinates information sometimes, but with regards to algorithms and probability it generally does a very very good job of providing high quality insight.
He left a factual statement of his own experience. It's not poorly worded.

It's entirely fair to point out that different castes would see and experience casteism very differently...but sheesh, it's tiresome to see a bunch of (probably white) keyboard warriors show up and argue with in Indian American about what it's like to be Indian in America.
One thing I find interesting about this is that the "red states" split. In the south they have very low connectedness between rich and poor but in Montana that connectedness is high.
I suppose that the age similarity might mainly be a peer group effect. People in the early twenties tend to hang out a lot with people of around their same age, e.g. due to college/ university classes or parties. As long as dating happens predominantly within the peer group, age differences usually aren't very big. But once online dating is used, larger age differences occur quite naturally.
I completely agree, there are enough PaaS out there that run containers, that are much better starting out points, that is until you need and can afford all the intricacies of k8s.
"I saw people moving from, the following tools have these benefits and these drawbacks, to it is trendy so lets do it."

What is that supposed to mean? I was interested in reading, but when the very first sentence is impossible to understand it promises a painful read.
Did ChatGPT write the entire thing or was it edited afterward. If I have trouble putting things into words myself but I prompt an AI to write an empathatic email and then tweak it a little bit, what's wrong with that? Would you rather I write no email or write an insensitive one? It's highly unluckly the entire email was just generated and sent out verbatim.
Having no knowledge about how the system works, I could imagine the bug being that one of the calculations timed out under load and wasn't caught, leading to the output not being added to the final calculation.
> So does this mean person A could reverse stalk person B (who has their airtagged Macbook on them, for instance). Use the disable function to disable the airtag on person B's Macbook once IOS pops up a potential stalking notification. And then freely steal the Macbook?

If you've stolen the macbook, you can just... check the bag for airtags and throw them away?

I suppose disabling it first prevents them from potentially tracking the thief for those first 100m to the nearest trash box, but it also has a good chance to alert them.
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but alongside 3nm processes there’s a cutting edge technology called “glasses”…
Ha! I just wrote a very similar reply to another comment. I use Linux in my personal laptop and about 6 months ago moved from vanilla Chrome to Edge because of the vertical tabs. The UI is really neat with the grouping and coloring. I also installed Tab Suspender because I didn't know it had the "sleeping tabs" out of the box.

So far it has been a superior experience to vanilla chrome, and at least in Linux I haven't seen any "adcrap". I installed Ublock Origin and everything is pretty neat.
Amazon have basically outperformed every other company out there by doing basic logistics and simple useability.

I think that would add a lot to healthcare especially in the US.
> I mean, if you prefer subprocesses, that's fine, but don't sell them as some kind of silver bullet.

I've listed 5 different multithreaded techniques at the beginning of this discussion.

1. Processes
2. Mutexes
3. Condition Variables
4. Seq-Cst Atomics
5. Atomics + Memory Barriers

If you've thought I'm listing silver bullets, you're mistaken severely. I'm pointing out that #1 is easier than #2. And #2 is easier than #3, and #3 tends to be easier than #4. Prefer easier solutions over complex solutions.

That's all I'm trying to point out. Of course there's no silver bullets. But there are "preferred" solutions. Generally speaking, easier solutions vs harder solutions.

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Processes are easier because they're (partially) isolated. In contrast, threads have no isolation. Heck, one can argue that VMs and Docker are also responses to this isolation issue.

If you're unable to see why that's easier, I dunno how else to explain it. I've given it a bunch of posts.
North American Black Walnut, when grown in it's preferred conditions, is anything but scraggly. Getting good, straight timber from it isn't hard, but it does take good soil, rainfall, and time - from nut to harvestable high quality timber takes something on the order of a human lifetime.

Walnut is basically a weed on my farm - I cut down 25 as saplings for every one I leave to grow to maturity - as it's preferred habitat is in colonizing grassy and weedy areas, where it's huge seed, and rapid growth as a young tree, allow it to get ahead of and above weeds, brush, and many other hardwood species.
Because it conflates at least 3 different things a) feedback on how to improve b) job leveling/retention and c) pay.

The first is best done by peers & management anonymously, the second by a fairly objective public rubric and the last is purely market driven (no matter how much companies wish it weren’t).

Collecting all the information the same way and using the data collected cross purpose leads to all of them being done poorly.
It depends, but usually after a certain number of cycles, there will be a larger maintenance check (D-check, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks). This will include removing all paint and performing lots of testing for cracks. It's possible to extend the life of an aircraft as long as it is economically viable (by replacing parts and performing the necessary structural repairs).
Run a pawn shop.
The habitat may also come to be dominated by a bully species due to human intervention (think: plastic pollution causing Turtle deaths and thus rise in Jellyfish population) which may result in extinctions of a variety of other species.
I'm wondering if a solution to the "I don't want a subpar battery swapped into my vehicle" problem is simply to not own the battery? What if I could be sold a car and then just lease the battery as a service? Then I just visit a swap station and don't care about the battery I receive.