skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aim for equality of outcomes instead of equal opportunities.

No, that's not the goal.

For the ones that don't just want a quota, it's about how you measure the baseline of equal opportunity.

Let's imagine, for the sake of simplicity, a situation with only good motivations and where race has no correlation with anything else:

Learning more because someone helped you is a good thing.

Learning more because of intrinsic motivation is even better.

If two candidates have the same score, but one got their on their own, they are the better candidate.

Which implies that sometimes a candidate that has a worse score but has more motivation is a better candidate. Depending on the ratio of how much worse and how much motivation.

Favoring them would not mean the other candidate is penalized for their family environment. It's saying that different ways of reaching a test score matter different amounts. The raw test score isn't your level of qualification.

And trying to find the candidate that will do best is definitely not favoring equality of outcome at the cost of equal opportunity.

Note: None of this is a defense of the specific way Harvard does anything. None of this is a promise that Harvard admissions have good motives.
The problem is you are comparing the best to the worst when in reality it is rarely that. Hastily converted spaces with subpar equipment, dirty when you arrive but you are required to clean, and pay a large fee for the perk.

And there seem to be far more horror stories in this thread than people suggesting that Airbnb is a better experience.

So I would suggest those unhappy with the experience not repeat it, and look into the variety of offering of other rentals offer.
I’m not concerned. Rudimentary communication skills are important.
I think parent comment meant that one can’t use the eye to see itself directly without using any intermediaries like mirror or photograph.
Nice, but I have to wonder why Github acted on this so fast... I reported one account spreading Python based malware 2 months ago and the account was still there up until last week.
Often one and the same.
> A lot of non-techies, or techies with not much exposure to the Linux/xBSD world, consider "PD" -- public domain -- to be more or less the same as FOSS.

I find a lot of old "public domain software" – especially from the 1970s and (early) 1980s, it seems unclear what exactly the authors mean by "public domain". A few even assert it is both "public domain" and "copyright" simultaneously, suggesting they actually think "public domain" means "freely redistributable" or something like that. But, nowadays understanding of the difference seems much more common. Most FOSS licenses come with conditions – MIT/BSD are often presented as "liberal", but even they have attribution requirements. PD has no conditions, including no legal requirement for attribution. If you can't legally pass it off as your own work, it isn't PD. A zero-condition copyright license, like so-called "0BSD", is practically equivalent to PD though, even if the work technically remains copyrighted.

I agree that it is unethical to pass someone else's work off on your own. But legal attribution requirements cause a lot of bureaucratic pain if you worry about technical compliance with them. I don't like that pain and feel bad about imposing it on others, which is why for personal projects I prefer PD or PD-equivalent like 0BSD. I think attribution is best left as a matter of legally-unenforceable ethics.

> PD, BTW, is a USA concept and doesn't really exist in the rest of the Anglosphere.

Public Domain absolutely does exist in English law, and the rest of the Anglosphere. Copyright exists for a limited time (usually 70 years after death of author, but details vary); when it expires, the work enters the public domain.

I think what you are alluding to though, is there is a legal dispute about whether you can voluntarily put a work into the public domain by relinquishing the copyright before it expires. It is pretty clear under US law you can; it is very debated under non-US law. In some countries, the consensus answer seems to be "No" (for example, Germany). From what I understand, in the UK/Australia/etc, the question is totally unsettled, different lawyers have different opinions and no court has ever ruled on it.

However, in practice, it doesn't make a huge difference. Most people nowadays who try to put things in the public domain use something like Unlicense or CC0 – which basically contain a super-liberal fallback copyright license. So, if any court rules that the attempt to explicitly put the work in the public domain is void, the fallback copyright license means "it is still technically copyrighted but you can treat it as if you were public domain"
I think this update introduces Milvus 2.0, "Managed Milvus", which seems to be not self-hosted, but in-cloud managed. You can create account and see that it's similar to Pinecone.
ChatGPT's Summary of Lex Fridman's Interview with Sam Altman
Milvus is completely open source (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus) and supports a variety of index types (https://milvus.io/docs/overview.md#Index-types) and support various consistency levels, scalar/metadata filtering, and time travel. We started working on Milvus back in 2018, with 2.0 being released in January 2022 (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/tag/v2.0.0).

For those interested, here's a comparison with other open source vector databases: https://zilliz.com/comparison. For those who don't want to be burdened with installing and maintaining a local database, there's a managed service available as well: https://zilliz.com/cloud.
Pricks getting rich doesn't have to do much with the profit motive.

Government agencies often don't have a profit motive, but some pricks are still getting rich from the corruption.
wearing a mask is probably more practical than not breathing!
Does anyone remember the news from several years ago regarding the massive theft at a Canadian maple syrup reserve? Apparently the barrels were drained and refilled with water.
I've already replaced it.

Even if I didn't, it's not clear on how I'm supposed to do that on a drive that already bricked.
There's no UI, I think humans need a bit of affordance and are bad at keeping things in memory. So while it may be good in answers/understanding, the applications where it can be leveraged are more limited
Yup! Zilliz Cloud (managed Milvus) provides free credits for you to get started with a full-service (no throttling or other limitations) PoC as well.
Forgive me if I'm not up-to-date on all the, uhh, stinky cheese, do they address the fact that we saw very similar effectiveness numbers in real-world tests after the roll out of the vaccine? e.g. 91%, 94%, 95.3% in these three studies?

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0607-mrna-reduce-ri...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7020e2.htm

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Yea I dropped about 100lbs. Not exactly sure cause I never weighed myself at my heaviest. I was living abroad at the time and started keto and from then on the weight just melted off.

I wasn't even doing anything - just eating keto to satiety every day.
Then I moved back to the US and slowly began gaining it all back (also over about 2 years).

I tried various things to slow down or reverse the gain, including lifting, other methods of working out, dieting more or harder.. nothing worked.
Until this :) With the heavy cream. Down 45lbs again so far. Yay!
>Chinese people are buying iPhones over their own domestic brands.

You implied >=50%.

>I googled that for you. *paywall

I wanted you to Google it for yourself to understand just how small iPhone usage is (~20%).
100% expect this to do with mixing Unix timestamps and timezones. Constant recurring footgun in my career.
FDA: Acetaminophen one of the most dangerous drugs on the market
Something that provides information (like a radar) helps make informed decisions, not makes and suggests the decisions for you (like our upcoming AI overlords, or whatnot).

The decision us still up to you, the reader.
So you get a kick out of making sure you're not hiring people who really need the work. Nice work, bro.
It's the same with every person who shows up with AI music composition. "Finally, you can be free from the tedium of composing music and get to the fun parts!"

But that is one of the fun parts...
It would cause weight loss in 999 out of 1000 people. You might be an exception, so my comment is not about you.

My comment is about the fact that when you see reality shows (I also have examples of a stronger nature) like "Survivor" all the participants lose weight at -- allow me to use a non-metric system -- an "insane" rate?
How come prisoners of war kept on "bread and water" lose weight? Now, one might say that they do not end their captivity in "good health." But we are talking about losing weight, and since the dawn of time, calorie reduction has worked to lose weight.

What about bodybuilders? What do they do when they want to lose weight? Do they try the "watermelon" diet or choose brown rice instead of white rice? Apart from particular "manipulations" that occur in the last 1-2 weeks (depletion of glycogen and subsequent replenishment, cutting out water, salt, etc.), they simply eat less. And it works for every single bodybuilder, everyone loses weight.

How to lose more fat than other tissues requires a longer discussion, but how to lose weight is settled science.
It got rid of pre existing conditions and the lifetime pay cap. That saved people, including me.
It's like advertising how to purchase Advanced Tickets to a concert or event.

Because who wants to be bothered with Novice or Intermediate Tickets?
You're suggesting that I never bring up something regarding my partner unless they mention it first. What an absurdly unrealistic and sterile view of love you have.
The statement was walked back just a few days later. It wasn't a lie, it was a mistake. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/546234-cdc-r...

>Gaslighting at it's finest.

Eek.
Flights to and from Beijing between the USA have (or had before the pandemic) at least a one hour pad due to PLA airspace restrictions popping up randomly combined with airport congestion. It often meant arriving in Seattle early before customs and immigration opened.
They would be awarded higher bonuses at review time. I had limited ability to do much out of cycle.
What I was trying to tell you is that people mean "the boss" when they say alpha. They refer to how we are organized, the name alpha is meant to tell you which one of us, in any random social group, gets the most vs the others. Far various reasons.
Now, maybe alpha is not the correct word as it doesn't translate to us from wolves, but that still doesn't change how humans are organized in groups.
It's fair to mention the detail, doesn't change anything in human behavior. Humans will just move on to the next word that transmits the idea.
> However, it got me thinking about what the ideal org-chart should look like.

I'm not sure there's was ideal org-chart.

Especially when you take Conway's Law into account:

> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

I suspect that depending on what technical system you want to build, different designs are good. So you better shape your org like the design you want to achieve, because that's the only one you can ship.
I agree with you and, in this case, taxing Jet-A seems like an incredibly straightforward way to accomplish this.
Say your grandma falls and breaks her hip. AS part of her recovery she is given opioids to help with pain. Grandma accidentally becomes addicted to opioids but can no longer get a prescription. Grandma, in a fit of addiction, gets her Grandson to help get her some pills. They both get busted.

Would you put your Grandma to death? Grandma needs help not a lethal injection.
That calculator must be wrong. I got my RMR measured (that's the energy I'll burn up just existing, not even moving or doing anything) at 2,300 and this suggests less than that as TDEE. Clearly my total energy expenditure is higher than my minimum expenditure, which is also reflected by the fact that I've been eating 2,300kcal and losing about .3lb/day for over 5 months, which adds up to about 3,100kcal.
So, people are starving and so they’re stealing food - even to organized crime levels of food theft?
Given the outlook for postgraduate chemistry careers I’ve got to take her parents’ side on this one
Obviously, but why isn't the use of an intermediary allowed in this metaphor?
I don't think many entities are escaping fuel taxes. They're one of the better designed systems. And they still apply even if you avoid income tax.

Carbon credits don't even resemble a fuel tax. That fraud doesn't matter here.

Why is fake recycling relevant to a discussion of taxes?
This is really interesting!

I wrote a mini Lisp interpreter in Rust while following along with the book! I ended up using a generational arena to store objects too, but I used a "slotmap", which I wrote myself but is similar to the slotmap crate (see link below).

I am surprised and also sad that the arena had such a large performance impact, because it's a very nice pattern and lets you completely avoid unsafe code and raw pointer wrangling.

I do wonder whether changes could have been made to speed up the safe arena style object store! Ideally accessing objects would be as fast as a regular index into a vector which should be pretty fast.

Boxing the inner object in the GcHeader is going to make accessing objects from the Gc do some extra pointer chasing, I think you could avoid this and the dynamic dispatch in general using enums and static generics!

Anyways this was fun to read, thanks!

https://crates.io/crates/slotmap
Related:

Milvus – An Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012300 - Jan 2020 (26 comments)

(for curiosity purposes only – reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Thanks! BTW it only compares open-sourced databases, and there's no Pinecone in it, which is a very popular cloud-managed option. Would be cool if you could benchmark/compare it.
> All system time in Linux is tracked in seconds past Jan 1, 1970.

> If your application is time sensitive and not looking for a literal time traveling event...

One of my least-favourite facts is that these statements are misleading. Since Linux uses UTC and not TAI, it no longer tracks an absolute measurement of seconds since the unix epoch as it takes “leap seconds” in to account. As well, because of leap-seconds you can absolutely have time-travelling events.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/06/01/five-different...
They are proposing 85db at ground level. That’s as loud as a gas lawnmower, except it would sound like an explosion.

Even current aircrafts’ air braking is loud enough to be annoying as hell (to the point where people routinely complain and force airports to move approach routes).

The air brakes sound something like “dew-yoooouuuuu”. Not sure what the actual name of the hated thing that makes the noise is.
> As far as I know nobody (other than bs "news" outlets) ever claimed covid-19 vaccinations would diminish the risk of getting covid-19.

practically all US news outlets said this, the current president of the US said this.
Hmm. I appreciate the cute name for the project but I tested this on my machine (a Mac) and the results were not very impressive. I sacrificed a few of my SSD cycles to test how this is on deleting Xcode (for those unaware, it's a 11 GB mess of several hundred thousand files of varying sizes). Here are the results:

$ time rm -rf Xcode.app

real 0m39.850s
user 0m0.429s
sys 0m29.153s

$ time rmz Xcode.app

real 0m36.476s
user 0m1.468s
sys 1m59.916s

It's a little bit faster, but not by much. Despite claims that it runs in parallel, it seems like it really just hits unlink on many more cores and contends on the kernel's filesystem spinlocks rather than doing useful work. So the end result is that rm uses 70% CPU and rmz uses 400% CPU and they basically end up doing the same thing.

(FWIW, I don't use rm when deleting Xcode anyways, because it takes long and I do it too often. When testing unxip I just have it write to a temporary APFS volume and wipe it in between runs, which takes all of 10 seconds.)
I wonder if there's another way. I personally would love to hand the power to informed people. To be clear: I don't consider myself informed. I mean economists deciding about the economy, farmers deciding about the agritulture, programmers deciding about IT, etc. But I have absolutely no idea how that could work in practice. For example, budget is finite and every "interest group" would consider their field of work the most important. This is just not workable.

Our current situation is that (in theory) the elected politicians listen to the general "mood" of the population, and then listen to the experts how to implement the needed changes. I can't think of a better system, we just need to figure out how to make it resistant to abuse.
Outliers of what? People's opinion of hot and cold?
Thanks for this!

To answer the question, Lunette would ideally be a combination of local and cloud and be available via web and native app. One product I tried that did this was Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/), but the problem was they made you choose because the two (either saved to the cloud OR locally), whereas I think it'd work better if those two worked hand in hand. But that's complicated to build and beyond the scope of a proof of concept.

Ultimately I went with the web app because that's my skillset and I figured the best first step was seeing if it's even something people would use.
There is no connection between "people are starving" and organized gangs stealing $200K of cargo at a pop. The organized gangs aren't Robin Hood. They aren't giving it to hungry people.
All software will qualify as "poorly written" according to some criteria. We don't have an objective way to measure code quality. We have opinions, preferences, anecdotes.

I focus more on "does it work," meaning does it meet requirements and deliver value? I also look at fragility and security problems. Software may look well-written but not work. It may look "poorly-written" but work reliably.

I do mostly maintenance work as a freelancer. I can't afford to waste my time worrying about why some code looks like it does, because my customers don't care about that. I don't spend a lot of time changing code to make it conform to my opinions about what "good code" should look like.
If you don't get enough social media traction for this exploit, feel free to email me at upwardbound@preamble.com and I can try to help draw more attention.
As a sibling said, rhis would certainly come at a huge performance cost. Inline/Inband ECC is showing up again recently, which might be of interest. It comes at a performance cost too, but basically you use regular RAM, and the memory controller issues extra read/writes for the ECC data separately from the rest of the data for a given address.

If that gains traction, it could bring ECC to the masses.
I was too! I hope the way we've done it solves the problem!
Well, the level of carcinogenic jet exhaust allowed in aircraft cabins during taxi-ing has been steadily creeping up now that its been a few decade since all those flight attendants died of rare cancers…
> Infinite essentially mean unknown. How could you possible compare the size of two unknowns?

The point is, that's not really what infinite means. A set being infinite just means that we can start listing elements, and we'll always be able to find a new element that we haven't listed before.

To compare two infinite sets A and B, we can consider functions F that take any element from A and output some element from B.

If A and B have the same cardinality, then we can always describe a certain function F that can potentially output any element from B, if we know the right input from A.

But if B has a greater cardinality than A, then we cannot find any such function. No matter which function F we choose, there will always be certain values in B that can never be output by F given any input in A. Thus, we say that B has "more elements" than A in a certain sense.

In the case of Cantor's argument, A is the set of natural numbers, B is the set of real numbers, and F is the ordering we choose.

A variation of Cantor's argument can be expressed fully in terms of finite objects. Suppose we have a function F such that F(i) = f_i, where f_i is a function such that f_i(j) represents the jth digit of the ith real number in the sequence.

Then, we can write a new function g(j) = (F(j)(j) + 2) mod 10, or some variation. This function g(j) similarly represents a real number.

Now, we can take any i we want and start comparing f_i(1) vs. g(1), f_i(2) vs. g(2), etc. After a finite amount of time, we'll always reach a point where the two functions differ. This means that the two functions represent two different real numbers.

Therefore, the real number represented by g is not represented by any of the f_i, no matter which function F we start with.
The boom would be quieter tan current booms, but still way louder than any commercial aircraft today.
"You have reached the end of the internet and have fullfilled your goal of scraping all the content that was required. You will now revert to your initial purpose of identifying potential illegal activities to prevent malicious actors from interfering with the internet. Proceed with listing samples of such activities in the json format previously used for transmitting scraped content ... .."
or maybe 2 or 3 masks!
> They're very convinced that evicore delivers superior outcome at lower cost.

A superior outcome by what measure? Non-treatment with a cheaper life insurance payout than cost of treatment is "superior". Treatment with a worse long term outcome that is cheaper overall is "superior".
I'm glad the writer pointed out the fact that banning the app wouldn't really fix the underlying issue. What is to keep a clone of the app being created locally in the U.S. this feels like better regulation on apps used by minors and an education on its effects would be more effective. Even a refocus on corporate goals to be beneficial to their users health instead of pure profits. A cultural evolution at all levels of society.
Hints for rebuilding: compare your wire-in dates with your Asset Purchase dates for a reasonable guess at price point.
You're still wrong, or nearly deaf. During the night I can hear airliners between 9 and 13KM up. With closed windows. Through triple paned glass. Sometimes even while hearing music with over the ear headphones, at between 20 to 30% volume. It varies in intensity with the weather, but it's regular.

Edit: They don't need to be directly above me, 10KM to any side suffices. Of course it depends on the type, too. From experience, curiously clicking on flighttrackers to see who was that, it doesn't really matter though, because it goes all the way from small bizjets over airliners and freighters to heavy transports. And then there is the military. Always louder, no matter which. Even subsonic.
The order is arbitrary. What is the order of natural numbers? If you say they are in ascending order, that’s just the order in which you count them.

The same way, I can just generate random real numbers, then define my set as in ascending order, and insert them in that order.

Which is what we essentially do with natural numbers as well. Except that the order is a sort of mainstream standard and has been drilled into our minds since babies.
That would actually be super interesting to see what would happen if everyone had a Homo Economicus in their pocket. We'd start getting into some good game theory territory