skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it, are you trying to measure the performance of the current indian government by the number of press conferences held? Governments operate in completely different ways. What you read in papers is from the political parties.
I spent a few hours learning SQL. I can get “good” at writing SQL queries within a few days. Do you want to hire me as someone who’s primary role is to write SQL queries?
2560 bits is stronger than 256 bits and the extra cost does not matter for a tool designed to encrypt files. See what I did here? Where do we stop?
As I said somewhere else on this site, don't expect people raised in pleasant SV to understand the complexities of modern world.
I read these to my son a dozen years or so ago at bedtime. We're American, so the expressions used by the British in the 1940s would absolutely crack us up. "Your mother's a brick, isn't she?" comes immediately to mind. Is that a good thing? It seemed like it was in context, but we had no idea. We'd laugh ourselves silly trying to figure some of them out.
It is actually the most popular DAW at this moment.
>ultra distance races

yeah of course there's an optimum amount of exercise before it becomes more harmful than helpful. training for ultra distance races definitely sounds like pushing the limits of human capabilities, which means you're probably trading off other parts of your life to make it happen.

for anyone that doesn't obsess over exercise it's probably almost always a net positive, including for sleep (from personal, anecdotal experience).
Same for my dad when my grandfather died. He was 50 then but he overnight started feeling like 50+ instead of having the mid-30s energy to his soul even if certain parts of his body (joints mainly) were no longer cooperating.
This is probably the most egregious example of "whataboutism" I've seen on HN.
Exactly - and how many were mocked, ridiculed, cancelled for even floating the idea of the lab leak; it was labeled as a BS conspiracy theory.

Many, even some in this thread, are eager to minimize this story if they participated in ridiculing the fringe voices who kept questioning the official narrative. Better to have this quickly fade into oblivion lest they be outed as having placed their blind faith in false prophets. But Pepperidge farm remembers
I choose starlite over Fast API
Logistically that is 100 % true.

Practically I don't do it, cognizant it may not be a rational choice but rather an emotional one (or possibly it is long term rational - I don't want to support that model for apps that don't need updates, further development, or online / server support. E.g. Why is a file duplicate detection app, or file sync app, or data recovery app a monthly fee? If you made it well once I don't need to update it virtually ever - or if I do, than the features must be massive and it's ok to have ver 2 for money. I feel subscription is often a money grab, life fitness hope that people will forget to cancel, rather than some mutual value proposition.)
Try explaining to a cause and effect machine why lots of folks have been let go from tech companies, while the management who misjudged the market get kept on and still get their bonuses.
> In reality, it was just a test of who had the most political pull.

Every society works that way. When a group has to accept a decision, the most powerful person in the group decides.

I don't understand why any educated person today would think meritocracy is a good thing. A child looking at Wikipedia for 10 minutes could see all the flaws in it, yet it keeps being touted as some idealized model of social contract. In reality it keeps white straight rich men in charge.
The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-Centric Database System [pdf]
I think the better example is that when you're young, the world hasn't sorted you into a bucket yet. Education, university, and your first jobs are largely that process: figuring out in which bucket you'll fit in society.

When you're older, if you want to change buckets, there is no easy mechanism. Even going back to university is clunky. It's by no means impossible, but I do wonder if we're missing out as a society for not having a very formalized process for adults who want to change buckets later in life.

The other problem is for lengthy training periods. Giving up 10 years for education and training when you're 20 is acceptable. When you're in your 30s or 40s, why that's a substantial amount of the time you have left before society decides you are old and must retire.
Some folks think that the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada dipping to Beijing for a quick minute in 2020 was sus.
>What specifically does this entail? Is the government providing starting capital? Or is it in charge of creating the organization and letting them handle the rest?

In my imaginary utopia, they are public servants paid salaries and benefits directly.

The government already provides heaps of starting capital for business it wants to get get off the round.

>According to wikipedia ABC receives more than a billion dollars per year from the government. How can you say with a straight face that companies that can't compete with that "should just not exist"?

Every Australian pays just a few cents a day for our ABC, and I can say it with a straight face, because there are profitable commercial channels here in Australia that it directly competes with.

Aussie post is similar, there is a nationalized option, and there is commercial competition. I believe Aussie posts runs a profit as well, ABC is pure expenditure.

I'm not an expert in any of this, just think its fun to muse about when it pops up here on HN.
[2018]

His views about AI are largely disproved now. GPT style systems turned out to be perfectly capable of reasoning about causation, as they can reason about any other relation. Despite working entirely in the established machine learning paradigm.

For many years, Pearl was considered the top intellectual critic of machine learning. His point was this: Machine learning is, at its core, just correlational. But true AI would also need to reason about causation. This ability would have to be provided by systems which work entirely differently; by using some form of the theory of causal networks which he co-invented.

Now it turns out that causal reasoning is not a major difficulty for classical machine learning, and that causal graphs are likely as useless for AI as formal logic turned out to be.

Well, at least causal networks are useful for statistics, the type of explicit inference human scientists do.
Thanks for age, this is my go-to tool for any encryption tasks I need. I'm using it to encrypt my secrets in repo, backups, it's incredibly convenient. I used to write openssl invocations with questionable security, but age makes me more confident.
Those don't even need to be gender stereotypes. There is nothing (or there SHOULDN'T be) masculine about liking Trucks or Barbies.

But there are things that at least today still fairly strongly tied to gender Expression. Wearing skirts. Painting nails. There used to be more such things! Wearing pants. Having a labour-based job. Feminism enabled women to pick and choose aspects of things gendered masculine and incorporate them as needed. The reverse hasn't caught up - mostly because of misogyny, honestly. It's reasonable that "Women want to be more like men". It's demeaning when men want to be more like women.

But this is all still gender expression, not identity.

Where does expression end and identity begins? The answer is actually very difficult to establish. This line is constantly shifting, but it takes decades.

Is it possible that if we completely removed all social stigma on any kind of "gendered" expression, and allowed everyone to behave exactly how they want, would there be any gender binary remaining except biological? Would the majority of people end up some sort of "non-binary" and there would be no more reason to "transition"?

It's possible.

But that will take decades, and meanwhile there are people today, in today's society, who are suffering.

And this is just me taking a very shallow look at the problem that is sympathetic to people who say things like "This transition thing doesn't make ay sense, just act how you act, you don't need hormones or surgery for that".

There is another layer which is dysphoria, and then we get into a question of innate gender identity. I suspect a part of it remains.

The only way we find out the reality of what humans are like, and how they belong in our society, is by being accepting, and welcoming, and believing those that are trying to tell us what they want and need.

Unfortunately, to a lot of people, someone being "accepting" of an idea they disagree with, sounds like "encouragement" of the idea. So now you have all these stories of teachers grooming children to believe they're trans. And it's just b.s.
There's even precedent for this - the "airline" version of the film. Which has largely gone by the wayside since individual seats started getting their own infotainment systems.

Side rant - As a parent bringing my kid onto flights, I don't let them watch content I'm not okay with, but if the person in-front of me decides to turn on something horrible, the best I can do is try to block his view of their screen.
Sure, but don't they have a vast network of contact tracing? Presumably if a bunch of cases showed up that weren't connected to any other cases because of the lockdowns then that would be a really good indication of where the animal reservoir was located. But they haven't found the animal reservoir yet either, even with all of the lockdowns.
what should your ideal candidate think after reading these?

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

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/202...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_genocide
they collected dozens if not hundreds of samples of various viruses. not all the work gets published. in fact majority of scientific effort doesn't get published. experiments either don't work or you don't get interesting results etc... doubly so if a global pandemic started before you were done with your current project
Meh, it's common to let pirates get away with it because it helps adoption
Also good antipiracy software is like Financial/business software, usually surprisingly expensive
>This morning, I brushed and flossed, which makes me a Plaque Removal Engineer. I then used my skills as a Room Tidyness Engineer to make the bed. After that, I engineered the harness onto my dog and took her on a walk: Canine Fitness Engineer. I engineered the water to a higher temperature using the kettle, and poured it over some coffee grounds to create a chemical reaction in my morning brew: Yeah, that's right, Caffeine Engineer. After this incredibly productive morning, I got in the car and drove to my job as a computer programmer.

-mlsu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34884683

At this point the word "engineer" has lost its original meaning. Until there's a formal theory of how we can interact with LLMs and you make use of that in a systematic fashion, "prompt engineering" is really closer to "prompt artist."
[1] on structured concurrency gives good context for Dijkstra's GOTO paper and how it is applicable today.

[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
False. There are more dogs than children under 18 in the United States.
To give people some kind of an idea of what it was created in response to: Imagine writing an entire program in one single main function. The only thing you're allowed to do for flow control is goto. You can do 'goto somelabel;' for an unconditional goto, or you can do 'if (somecondition) goto somelabel;' for a conditional goto. Here's some examples of how it would look if if translated to something C-like:

Loops would look like:

int i = 0;
loop_start:
print i;
i = i + 1;
if (i < 10) goto loop_start;

Fizzbuzz would look something like:

int i = 0;
loop_start:
if (i % 5 != 0) goto not_fizzbuzz;
print "fizzbuzz";
goto done;
not_fizzbuzz:
if (i % 3 != 0) goto not_fizz;
print "fizz";
goto done;
not_fizz:
if (i % 5 != 0) goto not_buzz;
print "buzz";
goto done;
not_buzz:
print i;
done:
i += 1;
if (i < 100) goto loop_start;

Often, this wasn't just constrained to a single function; the whole program would be constructed like this, with gotos which jump back and forth across pages and pages of code. Languages wouldn't even have a call stack with subroutines (which is why "procedural" languages -- languages with procedures -- were important enough to be given a special name).

At least that's my understanding of it. I haven't lived through this, and my only experience with this kind of stuff is writing assembly, where we always make use of a call stack, so even that is in practice a procedural language. If I have gotten anything wrong, please correct me.
> Further, certainly "low confidence" doesn't imply that the inverse conclusion is likely true.

Not by the strictest definition of "likely", no, but it certainly does imply there's a high enough likelihood of spreading from the wild that a lab leak isn't conclusive. It's not meaningless nor even "relatively meaningless": it's just very difficult to tell where a given virus came from unless there's a smoking gun, and any conclusion in any direction is going to be shaky.
Autres temps, autres mœurs - "Different times, different customs"

This editing policy can be applied to any and all books, even the Bible. Yep, we eat pork today, so we'll throw out all those bits in the Bible that say 'pigs are unclean'. Or the bits that talk about all the other foods that can't be eaten.

Or the books of Dickens, which talk about the child-exploitation of the early 1800s. Do we cut those parts out, no matter that it will completely destroy the whole significance the story? Where do we stop?

So do we keep the books as written, even when our daily attitudes have changed, or do we change the books?

And what happens when the attitudes of the day return to what they were previously? Do we change those books again? How long before the words in the books of the day bear no resemblance at all to those books as their authors originally wrote them?

Books should remain as the original author wrote them. If they clash with today's attitudes, so be it. Nobody is forced to read them. Perhaps our grand-children will rediscover them when our daily attitudes have changed again, like the hemlines of our clothes
> Some people may believe hate speech but I think that's a reflection of who they are, ie. they will probably believe it with or without the convincing.

I just don't know where you got this idea. "Hate speech" isn't just a vague, negative sentiment towards universally recognizable characteristics. It constitutes particular themes and narratives regarding identities constructed arbitrarily out of a constellation of human characteristics that mean nothing outside their context. The absurd story, for example, that Jews bake their Matzah bread out of Christian childrens' blood isn't something that would ever be reproduced on a desert island, any more than it would be reproduced by a thousand monkeys hacking away at typewriters. It's a particular trope invented by a particular powerbase (Christian princes) for economic purposes (maintaining Feudalism despite plebian uprisings).

No one would "probably believe it... without the convincing," because it has to be invented first, and then it has to be introduced to the milieu. The same is true of basically any story or narrative.

Here is where you might be right: maintaining the political economy of medieval Europe necessitated some kind of blood libel, and the Jewish communities were a conveniently vulnerable minority. So at that point, Christian princes needed no convincing themselves, and "that's a reflection of who they are:" Christian, and princes. (I leave it to the reader, as an exercise, to determine whether it was more material that they were Christian, or that they were princes.)

Here is where that's limited: Christian princes do not, themselves, need to believe the libel. They do need, however, their economic powerbase to believe it. And their economic powerbase of Christian commoners has no reason to think up the blood libel themselves when the facts of their exploitation under feudalism ought to cause them to resent, primarily, princes.

I am not suggesting that "complete free speech" is infeasible, or undesirable, but, to reiterate, I simply don't understand where you got the idea that people all over the world somehow spontaneously, perhaps genetically, simultaneously author with identical wording, the very particular tropes that constitute hate speech.
I would have much less of a problem with these edits if they were loudly announced from the cover, and used not the original title of a work, but an altered one, such as "Ian Fleming For Kids". Though I wouldn't want to see originals displaced or even outnumbered by "For Kids" or similar versions.

But if they use the original title and author, I expect the original work. Because that's literally what the title and author on a book cover mean - this work, as written and approved by this author, no different than the ingredients list on food. Anything else* is lying.

*Translations give the translator's name, and don't pretend they're the original. And editors probably should be credited, but at least in that case the edits are approved by the author.
It's often faster and cheaper to fix bugs right away. It often takes longer to put the bug in a bug tracker and prioritize it than to fix it.

I have a simple rule that has worked to keep bugs at zero. If you find a bug, drop what you are doing and fix it. If it takes more than 4 hours, only then, put it in your backlog and prioritize it like everything else. Don't keep a separate bug list! Bugs should be in your backlog if they are serious enough (more than 4 hours to fix).

99% of bugs take less than 4 hours to fix.

Bugs slow you down. Keep them at zero! You will be able to finish everything faster!
So do many cis women. Watch the video.

The question isn't "Does autogynephilia exist". Yes.

The question is "Is autogynephilia a fetish that people are confusing for transgenderism?" No.
Perhaps because Fauci may have been held partially responsible through gain of function research his department funded?
If you had actually read the article that you are supposed to be commenting on,you would realize that this statement of the title is done in "low confidence"

No one is gonna apologize to you if you are unable to parse information
Eh, as an American I would say it checks out. We really hate each other.

Much of the get-out-the-vote effort on the right consists of reminding their voters why they hate the other side. This naturally pisses off the left. This leads to much angry rhetoric on the left. This rhetoric is nut-picked and put on blast by the media on the right. Etc. The situation isn't symmetric because the left has a lot of issues they're happy to run on: climate change, electoral reforms, education, health care. The right is mostly focused on their hatred of the left -- anti-wokeism, anti-CRT, anti-gender-whatever. The net effect is a lot of hatred.
Right. But Apple bought the entire cell modem arm of Intel three years ago. This should be fun.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-...
> Is PM above everyone in a democracy or is Modi a king? So you use a bad name for PM, and PM will send paramilitary forces to arrest you?

Nobody is a king including the pm. it is about the land of the law.

> Who has used these words on record for opposition leaders: 'Jersey Cow', 'Congress ki Vidhwa', 'Maunmohan', '50 Crore girlfriend'?

did someone file a case? can you share a reference if there is one?
There has to be a lot of value in it for me to pay that kind of money for temporary usage of software. The closest thing right now is Jetbrains all products pack. I consider every November when the renewal comes up if I am going to continue. Adobe Photographers subscription is a great deal because the total cost for a year is way less than the price it used to cost to buy Photoshop flat out.
Funny how this is the only scenario where the right cares about anti-trust
lab leaks do happen. not often but a lot more than never. we were just lucky enough that they didn't result in a global pandemic...
This is certainly true to some degree, or else all advertising expenditure is wasted.
I don't like the code pattern if ( false == func() ). Function func() already returns a boolean, no need to compare that to a second boolean (false or true) to generate a third boolean.

Sorry, a little off topic I know.
If it was created today? I’d go for Rust and Python respectively
What's next after "first world problems"?
How timely. My doggo Pip seemed to engage with a game called Valiant Hearts. In it, a dog has to fight a brutal war. I captured the moment: https://imgur.com/a/sm5gUYc

So, for everyone whose dog is ignoring the screen, maybe the solution is to play them a show starring dogs. :)

Also try to find them a way to lay down that they can stare at the screen for an extended period of time. If your TV is even slightly up in the air, their bodies aren’t very suited to laying down while watching the screen. (Dogs don’t lay on their backs like we do.)
GPT does not reason. GPT pretends to reason. It often is glaringly wrong. It's just a thing that plays with words.

Here's my conversation minute ago:

"Event C happened before events B and A. Event C happened between events A and B. What's the order for those events?"

The order of the events would be:

A → C → B

Event A occurred first, then event C occurred between events A and B, and finally event B occurred after event C.

"Event C happened before events B and A. Event A happened between events B and C. What's the order for those events?"

The order of the events would be:

C → B → A

Event C occurred first, then event B occurred after event C, and finally event A occurred between events B and C.
I tried it on an iPhone and noted that it said I visited several times before even though this was my only time. Previous instances varied in IP, incognito mode, and location.

This was through the demo on their main page fingerprint.com > view live demo using Safari w/ private mode and some ad blocking extension.
my favorite negative example for this move:

YNAB (You need a budget) - https://www.youneedabudget.com/pricing/

they had a perfectly fine working offline app that i gladly upgraded for the full price every time it was available. now it's subcription/online only and i haven't left a dime there since. bye ynab i'm gonna miss you!
Maybe rare but you may be very skilled at understanding structure and finding solution but knowing nothing about tools. As long as you're either one of them.
Scholz Urges More Indian IT Specialists to Consider Germany
Give me a formal semantics for GOTO. I’ll wait.
The fundamental rights of man explicitly doesn't use God as the basis for human rights.
Still doesn't beat /dev/null as a service in my book!

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/