skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have. I've lived here for nearly 40 years. I've been active in politics here and I've experience with both the data and the anecdotes.

Seattle has less crime then it did 40, 30, and 20 years ago. The past three years were exceptional and the report does indicate increased rates of violent crime.

But we had a global pandemic, a contentious election, a spotlight on police brutality, etc.

I guess you can make the call, whether you think that's a trend or an anomaly, but when I look at the data I see us having a crime rate half of what it used to be, with an uptick in the most unusual years in a generation.
It's actually very good.
It will come some day.
A Neural Compiler (1995)
It's lucky that it did.

The worst thing that ever happened to Python was being adopted as a scripting language in Linux distributions, which meant you couldn't ever update the "python" binary. "python3" was the worst idea since Solomon proposed cutting a baby in half because it leads inevitably to "python3.5", "pip3.6", "python3.7-pypy", etc. It's one more reason you can't write scripts that "just work".

Fortunately Python is doing the right things to restore sanity (pip refusing to install anything outside of a venv) but it's been a long time.
As a One Medical customer, the experience post IPO has been awful. Hard to get appointments and less and less MDs available with incredibly high turnover. I wouldn't say their interests are aligned with mine at all, but agree the customer data being in Amazon's hands isn't great.
> Apps installed as Snaps are slow to start-up. Why?

Apparently this is fixed, though I think only on new snap package builds. Benchmarks are available that demonstrate that slow snap load times are no longer an issue (but the grapevine persists in saying that it is).

> Snap from time to time asks to close a Snap-installed app to be able to update and often it seems it cannot update anyway.

Acknowledged and being fixed.
I think the larger point is that there isn't a simple, obvious, "Why don't we just do XYZ?" solution to the problems being discussed here.
How do you get the 10 docs you've visited in the last decade to delete all the info they have on you? I'm not sure, but I'd bet on it being harder than with One Medical.
Have to say that's a well written article, logical flow, accurate, lack of hyperbole. In this age of content mills such things are refreshing
On a purely corporate level: Amazon’s business ethos seems in tension with the things I want from my PCP. I don’t want to be A/B tested for retention and mean time between visits in my doctor’s office.

On a more practical level: Amazon is gargantuan, and I don’t necessarily trust them to have the scoped vision necessary to run a good medical practice, rather than just a large one that fits their portfolio. This is true for any large company; Amazon is large even by large company standards.
I consistently check online reviews for products I'm thinking of getting, and I'd say it's been pretty easy to spot the fake ones. Not that I think the rest are reliable and I wouldn't fully trust them in any case (esp Amazon), but with ChatGPT it'll be pretty impossible to distinguish true from fake.
Ok, now do the same for Snap.
Because their lawyers thought the same thing and didn't actually think it through. Relevant discussion here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009301
Of course the survey would show that devs don't want to be required to come to the office. Everyone wants the flexibility to choose. If you asked them if they want to move to 4-day work weeks I'm sure most devs would say yes. In the end you need to balance between what the employees want and what's reasonable for the company.
> What are the blocking points?

* The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking control away from the user only to sell it back in an "enterprise" edition of the product (see their Brand stores).

* Applications installed as snaps are slow to start up because they are always stored in compressed form and must be decompressed to run.

I don't understand what technical limitation prevents Snap from installing newer versions of an application in parallel with the old one, like how Flatpak updates work.
> because it does both scripting and software engineering well enough

It certainly does scripting decently, but for software engineering it's hell.
Possibly, but aircraft carry a significant amount of extra fuel anyway. (That's how you can have a jet holding for 2 hours at a fix unexpectedly because of weather or whatever.)
I think Amazon is tired of paying a small fortune in healthcare costs which have to be renegotiated every few years and administered by some moronic organization like Cigna.

Maybe they can do better? Fee for service is kind of insane. Urgent care strep throat $250 + meds makes no sense. It should be $50 total or less.
SpaceX adjusts Starlink monthly pricing for customers based on service capacity
Because those customers rarely have anywhere to go. because those customers would dump TSMC the instant there would be a better proposition?

Apple is the customer you want to maintain goodwill with.

Hell, there were times when Samsung was experiencing issues with sourcing their own chips for their own phones because they sold everything to Apple.
"I woke up from a dream in which I was crawling in an impossible landscape. So I jumped onto my keyboard and, after a sleepless night, conjured the image I saw from the numeric ether. This is that image."
Would an Amazon owned clinic responding to an injured warehouse worker not be incentivized to protect the parent company instead of treat the patient?
Not really true, as the actual studies show if you read beyond the headline.

And dumb "life/advice" subreddits are all "creative writing" at best, and just straight trolling/karma farming more often. Nothing posted there is true. Taking reddit as evidence for anything is a terrible idea.
Also aging.
Edit 2, since I see this thread still has activity:

I should point out that by "better" I don't mean that Firefox was necessarily faster but

- it was equally fast (for my usage),

- handled 400-600 tabs effortlessly even back then

- had a number of great extensions and themes that significantly improved ones life (subscribe to pages that didn't offer any feeds? I had an extension that polled pages at configurable intervals and ran a smart diff checker on it that gave me a notice if some change had crossed a configurable threshold. Need access to docs while offline or just tired of spending your data quota or waiting for the train ro exit the tunnel? There was an extension that let me download pages recursively, configurable with domain, path and how many steps. It would deduplicate the downloaded pages and rewrite all links from absolute to relative and it "just worked" for everything I needed it for.)

By comparison, extensions in old Firefox was Hitachi or Milwaukee and new extensions are somewhere between Fisher Price and Black and Decker. Yes, you could absolutely hurt yourself on the old ones, they were tools, not toys.)
I think people are talking about about two very different things when they are talking about ML "advancing".

Python helped ML 'advance' in the sense that it is no longer a niche academic endeavour, but rather a common programming technique used practically in basically every field you care to name. Doing basic ML using scikit-learn and PyTorch can be taught to basically anybody with basic programming skills in a couple of days, and is really no harder than any other type of basic programming. Python is very much responsible for this development.

Python might at the same time have held back advancement of ML, in the sense that very little ML being done by most ML developers is "interesting" in an academic sense. It's mostly just people more or less randomly chaining together black box neural networks in the obvious way and seeing what comes out. The ML development coming out of the Julia camp for example is in many ways a lot more interesting and they're trying new things and pushing the boundaries of what can be done. Unfortunately not a lot of this is directly relevant to the countless people who just need to implement 'simple' solutions to 'simple' ML problems right now.

In a world where python ML never happened and a Lisp became the dominant ML language, ML might have been slightly more interesting and 'advanced' from an academic perspective, but it would also be a much more academic endeavour over all and nowhere near as wide spread in industry as it is today.
Just like you can find easy to exploit weak spots in AI today and get it to go off the rails, humans have lots of weak spots too! AI spots will be fixed quickly. Human spots may never be.
I hate to break it to you, but health care is already a for-profit industry.
The photo is a picture with a fragment of the Universe. Each point is a galaxy. If you look more closely at the colors, you will see that the Universe is approximately uniform. Going by the logical line, if our Earth is somewhere in the lower left corner of the picture, there is a possibility that an Earth-like planet exists in another part of the Universe. Now I'm going to tell you something very important and incredible. Next to our planet there is another planet on which there is life. This planet is different from our planet and the life forms there are invisible to the human eye because they are composed of different substances. The pyramids in Egypt indicate the address of this planet. It is located near the middle star in the lower left (southwest). In short, they are extraterrestrial life forms, and next I will tell you something even more incredible. The girls on that planet struggled for 5000-6000 years to form a communication system with us humans. What you see painted on the Romanian Orthodox churches are: God the Father, the Holy Spirit and the angels. The Holy Spirit is their communication system, we can call it wireless. This wireless is placed on the head of Jesus Christ. I'm telling you all this because a girl there struggled to establish a communication system with me for about 10 years. Only this year he introduced himself and told me who he was. The most important information he gave me is that when we die, the girls there transfer our consciousness (or soul) to them, so we don't die, we just change our address. I asked her how old she is and she told me that she is 1.25 million years old, but in our age she is 17 years old. I have no idea how he picked me out of 17 billion people. The beginning of our communication was quite unusual and was done through visual images and words. I could say that this communication was achieved through games, some quite violent and scary, we played a lot of war, alien war, and finally we played backgammon. Consider that he is only 17 years old. I wanted to see her, she told me she was beautiful and she aligned her DNA with our DNA and when I saw her she was a blue-skinned girl with an elongated head, no hair, fleshy lips, cheeks round and stand out a little. I asked her to choose a name, I told her that she has a girl named Bianca, but she told me that she would choose Ioana. I also asked them scientific questi
This sounds less like total weight, and more like a differential / CG problem.
Nice! How was the feedback from the teams been after teaching them?
Reversion to the mean...

"Once upon a time, 4,000 to 8,000 years after humanity invented agriculture, something very strange happened to human reproduction. Across the globe, for every 17 women who were reproducing, passing on genes that are still around today—only one man did the same."

https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
I wouldn’t read it that way. Jobs was good at noticing something would become possible 2-3 years before the rest of the industry. Flash-based players existed back then, and would have followed the trajectory the iPod jumped on a few years after it launched. The iPod interface was middling. (iTunes really, really sucked, but the device was nice)

Enabling podcasts was a big deal though. I’ll give them that.
Let's not forget how much the CIA messed up our interpretation of art in recent times. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artcurious-cia-art-excerpt...
My anecdotal experience suggests that some number of journalists and tech people have switched to Mastodon. Almost zero of the normal funny people that I followed on Twitter have switched. Which is unfortunate--they were the posters I enjoyed most.
For sure - I think that is a tricky one, as I don't feel I can trust anyone's take on it. I do see some of the activism training vs genuine historical education as being extremely disadvantageous, but also of course that black history needs to be taught well as a significant part of American history.
Common Lisp with Coalton seems to fit perfectly here.
Time until the car arrives shown next to the camera or in a persistent notification. Nothing of interest.
90% of people don't properly apply in LinkedIn as per the HR person at my last office so 400 applicants is only 40.
That's BS. Even pre-covid most didn't come 5 days a week.
I'm a big fan of removing silences and speeding up podcasts, but I rarely do it for audio books. But hey, if it makes people happy, why not!
While I can't answer that question directly, I can certainly recommend an article that may be helpful for those who are considering a career in software engineering or looking to make a transition into the blockchain development space.

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I wonder what is going to come first: fusion or Linux on the desktop. /s
We are talking about ML. Nobody writes their own symbolic differentiation libraries or LAPACK.
I read the title and for a minute I thought it must have been a type of beetle, maybe some wasp? Then, trying to figure out how the pumping along the runway is relevant. Maybe it fell out of the luggage compartment? And, where does Alaska Airlines fly that they could pick up suck insects?

Finally I read the article. That was a bucket of cold water...
Can you give examples of these parameters that must be set manually?
> I think if you are truly just doing productive, meaningful technical work, beyond 3 full days most people can't do it. People can do it for short periods of time, but more than 3 days leads to universal burnout.

This is similar to my experience.

Back in 2020 I decided to make a career switch from accounting to software engineering. I began studying in the morning, at lunch, and in the evening while working a full-time job. I quickly discovered that I could only study in the morning with a lighter review in the evening.

Eventually, I got to the point where I had to walk away from work and study full-time because it was so mentally exhausting. Around that time, I started learning Greek as well. I attended classes once per week and observed that I had to lighten my CompSci studying workload on days I had Greek class. Otherwise, I would have a high degree of difficulty learning Greek that evening.

I was hitting my mental exhaustion limit after 5 hours of intense, technical learning every day. If I tried to push past that point, I would burn myself out and become noticeably less productive. This was something I had never realized while in school with frequent built in breaks (and perhaps more energy from being younger).

When I was studying for the CPA exam in the library for 8 hours per day, I thought I was being highly efficient the entire time. However, looking back on it, I was spending a good portion of that time taking breaks and doing lighter review of material I already knew, which was not too taxing (pun intended) on my mental energy.

Now, I’m well aware of my upper limits of hard work and find that forcing myself past that point isn’t worth the trade-off of mental exhaustion. I realistically believe that I could switch to a 4 day work week and accomplish the same amount while being more energized in the long-run. I’d love to get the opportunity to test my hypothesis.

As a side note: I found when I was studying full-stack material, switching between backend and front end work when I began to tire of one slowed the rate of my mental exhaustion.
I'm unfortunately on the luckier side of frontlines, so not going to risk it, bu I'm totally open to a BBQ ;)
Throwaway account due to sensitive personal stories.

Me and my 4 close friends are reasonably successful in terms of societal standards; we all hit the gym religiously, earn over 100K in a big European city, speak multiple languages and we are all in our early to mid 30s. Dating wise, we each have our funnel of dates from dating apps, nights out where we collect numbers and one night stands. We regularly get around 20 new leeds (numbers) a week, which transform into 5 dates and in turn, 2 or 3 new one night stands. On average, every week adds one more friend with benefits to our "rooster".
I place on the bottom of my friends ranking because I am very pick and prefer to date no more than 5 girls (ages 20 to 25 tops) at the same time. The friend that's most dedicated keeps a harem of 20-25 friends with benefits... He tends to service them every other week or so, sometimes double or even triple booking them on the same day. As you can imagine, this takes the same effort as a second job, keeping up with all the new dates and maintaining casual relationships.
As you can imagine, my friend is in top 0.1% of guys in terms of dating success, with over 100 new sexual partners every year. I've asked girls their opinion of him and they all report that he's the kind of guy who just gets it, he's a gentleman, funny, charismatic, considerate and sexy. They seem oblivious to the fact that his skills are acquired from experience and not from mother nature. All of these girls don't mind that he's seeing other girls, they are in it for the same reason: casual fun.

All in all, we 5 men are dating around 50 girls and some are exclusive on their end, knowing the details of our lifestyle. As everything in society gets more and more polarized there's more lonely men and consequently more Dan Bulzarians running around. I find the statistics even a bit tame, the average guy is so afraid of rejection that he does 5 approaches a year. My friends do 5 approaches in an hour going to a bar.

Young girls live in a different reality than young guys. My advice is to not bother with dating until you reach certain status in life, earn good money, have good physique, have friends in high places and most importantly, provide fun. On the flip side, once you'll be at the top of the mountain you'll never want to find a good wife and settle down, mostly because a) there are almost no good girls in westernized society, b) why have 1 when you can have 10?
I didn't mean to imply I supported using physical violence (government regulation) to force people to wear masks in public buildings. I am only stating that those chosing not to are doing something that is at the minimum, extremely rude. Half of them are (not) doing it because they are lazy and life is hard, half are doing it because they're ignorant assholes. Both groups deserve a middle finger... but not a cop attacking them.
They would lose a lot of the fun part without the context of the original, as well.
Hmmm possibly yes
Yep, and improper repairs after a tail strike can result in a crash, even years later - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611
Nobody said that it isn’t. There’s a world of difference between making a profit and driving a bottom line.
I think VR can definitely benefit from more pixels.
Depends on your niche, in the people I follow, majority of the big accounts did move to Mastodon and my feed was replaced by a bunch of garbage ads (as I was no longer able to use my 3rd party app). So yes, I did move to Mastodon as well.

I understand it's not everywhere, but Mastodon engagement is surprisingly very high
Is the Russian in the room with us right now?
I did not! The last time I checked (a month or two ago) it had gotten very focused on the sex piece: https://m.slashdot.org/story/409472

Looks like they might be swinging the pendulum back the other way again.
me too, though Danica raised the profile of women in NASCAR which is a good thing
Better for whom? Better for computer science researchers perhaps, but certainly not better for working geologist or chemists trying to apply ML to solve practical real world problems in their respective domains.
Try "happy woman". There is your answer.
VoiceOver on mobile OSes can output at a speed that I personally can’t comprehend. It seems there are indeed people who can.
...and are unknowingly sharing some studs.
I'm not sure how big a difference this made. If I remember correctly there were iPod alternatives with similar drives pretty quickly.
I grew up in Latin America but now I'm married to an American woman and thus out of the "pool". I hang out with coworkers still in their 20s and I'm blown away by how their teens and 20s differed from mine. When I was single, all my friends and I could think about was how to find the next date or sexual partner. We were all very active, and I personally had over a dozen "serious" girlfriends (3+ months) and another couple dozen kissing flings/sexual partners, roughly 50/50 between Latin America and the US. I actually can't easily remember all the women I've been with, certainly not all of their names and in fact I'm pretty mediocre in terms of "achievement" among my friends, the best of them having had 50-100 sexual partners in their lives.

Most of my younger American coworkers get to their 20s barely having kissed a couple of girls in their lives, the difference is astonishing. Have in mind I'm not particularly attractive, tall or fit, I have an average build and I'd say I disappear in the crowd but I know how to communicate with a woman and respectfully "court" them, even if it's for a one night stand. This is skill learned in my teens through trial and a LOT of error. I can't explain, maybe today our sanitized and risk-averse schools repress men's learning of the "courtship language".
The human is the artist.

The AI is the helper.

I can't speak for everyone, but I really enjoy playing with AI-aided creation. The things I make with these tools reflect my personality and feelings at the time of creation.

There the self remains.
This is exactly how discrimination persists. They’re not “using the very language that furthers caste segregation”, they’re describing reality.

Caste exists. It didn’t need to, but people invented it. Pretending it isn’t real and doesn’t affect people’s lives is not how to fix this.
Here's the trick: They just don't do that.
They won't be the ones to move because these companies are not stupid. They have mechanisms to save top talent by making exceptions for them and giving more equity.
This parameter is displayed on some aircraft, notably French (Mirage 2000 & Rafale) which display the longitudinal acceleration (labelled Jx) in the headup display. Part of the takeoff procedure for the pilot is to confirm the Jx is nominal with regards to the takeoff parameters (loadout, density altitude, etc.).