skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t know what you mean by “children” or what you’re reacting to exactly, since I didn’t make any specific claims about children

I’m reacting to this: “Imagine if female teachers put up Chippendale’s posters in the classroom, or nurses put them in the hospital, and argued that anyone who complained was just being PC police and unreasonably sensitive”

I don’t have a strong position on Lena elimination, I just think that comparing the situation to teachers or nurses hanging up an explicit or sex-related poster is ridiculous. I brought up children because I think the reason why teachers or nurses hanging up posters like that is obviously offensive is that those are professions which have a large and direct day to day exposure in-person to children. Image processing researchers do not share this trait, so the comparison is invalid IMO. If you said the same about, say, mechanics or factory workers, professions without direct exposure to children, I don’t think it would be as obviously offensive.

> we demand the right to keep using a pinup in research

It isn’t itself a pinup, it looks like a still from a regular film and the image itself isn’t explicit at all. I think calling it a “pinup in research” is an exaggeration. The fact that it is actually from Playboy is sort of an in-joke in the field, since I don’t think anyone naively looking at the image would think that (I certainly didn’t when I first saw it).

> we have a history of accidentally excluding women from tech

Do you honestly believe that things like Lena have a significant effect here? I think women’s perception of tech being a place for men is primarily influenced by it being, in fact, full of men. Spending time on matters like this is counterproductive because it makes people working to improve equality in the field seem petty.

> Do you consider female… college students to be children?

Absolutely not, and I find the idea insulting to female college students. Women having children at that age is accepted in our society, so I have no idea how they could themselves be considered children without seriously altering the functional definition of the word child.
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alliancecloud/v1/distributions
> innuendo... rather than any direct evidence.

May be a good idea to get acquainted with inference to best explanation, and to understand that 'direct evidence' should not automatically be awarded epistemological primacy over 'circumstantial evidence' (or what you're calling 'innuendo').
Incredibly impressive to see the community unite with nearly 80% of the subreddits blacked out.
PG says remote work did work initially, but leaders have now changed their minds
https://archive.is/Tn2ol
In the footer where it says “made with love”.
Structs may not be a big and complex addition to a language, but C# has done something like this for many times, and I would definitely rank the language somewhere below c++ in complexity. Swift is another similarly complex language with very non-trivial interactions between said features.

> And now instead of addressing those two simple problems effectively

Those are not all simple problems.
Most software documentation is:
- the part of the software you didn't have the developer resources to implement
- so you decide to write documentation to have the "code" that runs on the user's brain
> From my personal experience, the first example doesn't really happen:

It happens every day, all day. Other developers don't see it, because it doesn't even compile.

> I rarely see people randomly throwing annotations at methods/classes hoping one of them will stick.

I see it, plenty, in other projects. I have done it, trying to work around an arbitrary 3rd party restriction. I can't get something to work and see some old SO and hope it applies. Look at the arcane combination and through trial-and-error figure out what is relevant...then work backwards. Sometimes you can figure out what's going on without a blog explaining the opaque behavior or the overly-simplistic documentation explaining what something does...or used to do or doesn't always in some specific set of conditions, mainly mine. All you have to know is every bit of how each annotation works and why, and how that interacts with every possible element of your compilation and runtime. This is the unrealistic state of "understanding" annotations for the vast majority of java developers...or maybe it's just me and everyone I work with.
There was a brief window at the beginning where it would have mattered to know the origin of the virus. Intervention at a wet market or in a wuhan lab could have happened. However, this theory was circulated and promoted to inspire hatred and distrust of many authority figures. Authorities who put significant resources forward to save lives. Even today we're still seeing thousands die from what may very well be a conspiracy theory.

Both can be true: It originated in a lab, and the distrust that inspired is still killing many. It's dangerous to talk about it because it's still killing people.

If we found out 100% the lab theory is false, you'd still have millions who want it to be true and who want to be enraged. You have millions who want to put themselves at risk. There are larger problems with society than this virus. That's what this conspiracy uncovered.
List and data visualization of top countries polluting the oceans the most
Interesting! I guess they might also return back to FIVR when the CPU voltage regulators were integrated into the chip silicon. (Haswell / Broadwell)
Apple Vision Pro Musings
You might find https://globalhealthproject.org is going some of this direction.

> We’re building a community of doctors and patients affected by medical tyranny. Our goal is to rebuild the sacred trust between the medical community and those they serve.
What a stupid article.

MH370 pilot disabled telemetry.
I personally find that some soft version of this idea rings very true. It feels like there's a big segment of the population that has inherited this assumption that they would hate living outside of the largest population centers.

Of course, everybody's living preferences are always being pushed around by this trend or that, so I'm not saying this situation is unprecedented. But this idea that most of the country is unlivable for progressives seems particularly widespread in its influence, and particularly ill-fitting for most people's actual preferences. I'd wager a lot of people are missing out on a lot of living options they'd actually love because they've unknowingly imported some pernicious memes.
From the start, the claims about the Mojiang are unproven and they don't have a shred of evidence to back it up [0]. I don't think you can divorce the newfound popularity of the lab leak from the new cold war we're entering.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8490156/
another key word is "searchable" documentation, and that's where man pages fail big time leading you to the likes of Google
So they're submitting false filings, you say? You know this how?
And the way a certain MassiveCorp talked about the acquisition of my previous workplace, lead less experienced employees to believe they were doing so in order to diversity their offerings in that area.

Guess how long we lasted before being "brought into the fold".
Oops, I even wrote that. Not very virtous, I have to admit.
"I apologize for the confusion. [Repeats the same wrong thing]"
Can it please run at least reasonably well in VR without requiring two RTX 4090's?

I feel like VR is the next big thing for this game if only more people could run it
You could also try the cloud version of OpenObserve without setting it up yourself.
>If you want to understand it, maybe it’s worth looking up?

I read several different articles from several different points of time, some obviously sympathetic of removing the image and some cynical. So I understand both sides of the fence. My goal wasn't to provide a summary so much as my overall impression.

> So please consider more carefully the message that pushing back on the Lenna image sends and how it might reflect on you from other people’s point of view.

The whole problem I have with this is that I never bothered looking up Lena until this comment chain, but I've seen her picture used several times in my computer graphics classes (went to college in the late 2000's, so just before the "2nd wave" of controversy).

I never knew, I don't think any one else in my class knew, and nobody questioned it nor thought it derogatory. And to be honest, the later context of this doesn't change my mind either. It is not an obviously pornographic image, the purpose of the image in its current use was not titilation.

I board on the cynical side precisely because of that; intent. And I don't think the intent here was ever to discourage nor shame women to work in STEM. Even in the 70's I simply think that some college students needed a good test image, and an on hand magazine clipping of a very high resolution photo (for its time) was the "good enough" solution as opposed to scouring stores for the perfect reference image that would stand the tests of time. Similar to other computer graphics story in that a husband/wife sitting down for tea resulted in the Utah Teapot.
In the industry, especially at a firm like citadel, it usually means a specific set of roles. It would be like "software architect" at a tech firm, the exact work might vary but by and large every software engineer is expected to have similar skills.
Every company will get this desperate at some point. Everyone has shareholders none is driven by any other mission statement but to maximize profits year over year.

Wondering what will happen when Google comes to that point. Or Microsoft.
I was one of two people in the "research department" of Unimation, the company that invented industrial robots.

You bought a robot "capable of handling a 400lb load". That means it can do that at maximum reach, reliably, repeatably, and without overload.

It also means that in the location you have it the robot can easily punch a hole in the wall, ceiling, or floor. We had special test cells for our robots. There were holes everywhere because, while slinging a 400lb weight, something like the gripper failed and the weight flew into the wall.

The Unimate had an emergency stop button that immediately shut it down. We required floor markings and no-one was ever allowed in the boundary while the robot had power.

We prototyped spot welding on car lines (the things you see in all the car videos are a task we pioneered). The robot chased a car frame mounted on an 18-foot 2-foot thick I-beam (roughly 8000lbs) carrying a 70lb weld gun. One day the signal wires from all of the position encoders failed and the robot "went to its all-0 position" up and to the right. It moved there in less than 1 second. During that time it PICKED UP the I-beam, tore up the car frame, and trashed the weld gun. Fortunately things broke (not the robot, it was fine) , before the I-beam moved far.

I will tell you from experience that if a robot can reliably, repeatedly handle 400lbs at full reach you don't want to be in the same room unless you are in "unreachable areas" like in areas it cannot access. A robot capable of handling such loads will turn you into yogurt without slowing down.
This sounds ridiculous even to me, but it’s a strange feeling to see the death of Reddit. It’s the only quasi-social network I’ve used for a decade, and there are many communities that I feel at home in.

It’s almost like grief, or feeling untethered somehow.
> which might be scanned under different conditions, such as different light levels and resolutions

This makes me think of your stereotypical pirate map to buried treasure
What's with the Golden Gate Bridge Look-Alike in Lisbon?
No access for me I guess
Are you saying that rent seeking and anti-competitiveness are "not capitalist"? How do you figure?
Firstly we live in a world where limiting yourself to ASCII characters is increasingly untenable. There are plenty of non-ascii characters in Spanish or European names.

So your argument about limiting to ASCII is like saying its also not a problem if we don't use computers. Sure, you're right, but it's not terribly practical.

Plus your argument uses the word Unicode (a mapping) where it only applies to utf-8, (a specific encoding ). This inaccurate use of the terms is the very issue I'm alluding to.

Incidentally I'm not complaining about Unicode. Unicode is necessary and good. My comment is that (mostly older, but not exclusively) programmers find it hard to grasp the nuances of unicode and think of it as a encoding, not a mapping.
Stop the madness is the one I use.
Sure it is. Even a relatively poor quality Quartz watch is higher accuracy than a mechanical watch, without any sort of synchronization. Really good ones are accurate to one second per year. No need for NTP at all.

If you're thinking about EMPs or something: well, I'd consider extremely accurate timekeeping to be the least of your concerns if no electronics work anymore...
If your principles were used as a lever to undermine your principles would you still adhere to them?

You seem to be very principled but from what you have written so far you don't seem to acknowledge or understand that some people operate in bad faith. This comes across particularly when you state that people should operate within reddit's rules but neglect to take into account that reddit is not adhering to the rules themselves and that this is a breach of any ability to have a civil relationship. This is also frequently the case with the loud 'free speech' cries by 'bad targets'. Many of them have no intention of ever giving anyone who disagrees with them the same offer. How do you deal with people like that except to disregard them entirely?
How many people have stuck to Mastodon?
Yes, but that's still orders of magnitude less bad that what Reddit has been doing.
Condorcet: An election engine with 20+ voting methods
i’m happy people are discussing this. the popup that appears when you open the website from a mobile phone was always annoying
I must clarify, the function to optimize is f0(x), and the constraints are a set of functions fi that should each be <= bi. You have used a single function for the constraints in your pseudocode.
True. And for those of us around who "learned" unicode in the 90s, when unicode was UCS2, it can be hard to let go of those "truths that are no longer true." This complicates the learning process now.
It was absolutely taboo. If you tried to bring it up you were shouted down as a far right conspiracy theorist, or racist.

Mashup of clips from the news: https://youtu.be/zl-X-Lgrlf0

Jon Stewart was the first to call this into question publicly, which was brave at the time. Watch Colbert push back on Stewart’s line of reasoning: https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8

Honestly questioning anything covid-related was taboo at that time, including the vaccines, masks, ivermectin, etc. Please note, I am not making any claims about these things, other than it was taboo to question anything “official sources” stated.
Splitting classes requires more rooms and teachers. Which propably won't happen, because the (school) system is in shambles.

Not everywhere to the same degree, but the general trend is downward. OTOH I'm surrounded by Kindergardens, 1 expanded and overhauled with nice and enlarged playgrounds, another expanded, and one being built right now into a former ALDI, which moved into a small mall.

So...shrug?

Btw...

> But this severely holds back brighter pupils as well as those who are e.g. more knowledgable in German or other subjects. Thereby lowering the overall educational outcomes, because everything is lowest-common-denominator by law.

This is nothing new. Happened 40+ years ago also. (To me. While being one of the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275943 Imagine!1!!)
I want to be free to do what I want with my own body.

I want justice system reform.

I want the drug supply to be as clean and safe as possible.
I mean more like “going head to head against Microsoft in office productivity” type moat, vs “this is hard for a solo dev with no budget” type moat.

Reddit has no real moat.
> Also, devs who use Go and C++ usually have a good reason (embedded systems and such)

Just.. drop go from that. Go is closer to JS than to C++/embedded.
With users deleting their comments, Reddit reducing API access, and other trends such as moving discussions behind Discord, this certainly feels like a Library of Alexandria moment: a gradual decline of loss of knowledge. Hopefully we can find a way to better store the wealth of knowledge that has been shared over the internet.
Or how CERN and DARPA get their money.
ChatGPT is mostly wrong though, so not helpful if you actually want to solve a problem. It's entertaining though
Uh if it came from the lab we could still today have a shot at finding out what went wrong and then use that to improve safety at other labs worldwide. Assuming relevant records weren’t destroyed, anyway. If we can tell that they were destroyed, then USA et al should immediately stop supporting Chinese virology research in any way and pressure them to close the facilities via sanctions etc. In order to find out either of these things, we need an investigation. This all seems pretty straightforwardly true, and it totally drowns out any other second order concerns IMO.
I've only been using stable diffusion in a very basic way, give some text, get some images back. Seeing what others produce with it is amazing and also just feels beyond me, I'm simply not familiar with all these other extensions and scripts. That said I appreciate a tutorial like this which isn't glossing over steps, so it's worth a try.
It doesn't matter how good your SDKs and tooling are, there will always be a large number of developers who will instead prefer options they perceive to be cheaper or more convenient. It's the same reason why McDonalds has no problem selling their food when far higher quality options exist.

Outright control is probably overboard yes, but I don't see any reason why a platform maintainer should want to do anything to encourage low-investment apps.
Discord won't make it. I find reddit useful because for any particular query I want a mostly user-based answer for I can google term + reddit. Discord jsut doesn't have the same discourse because it's designed for quick back-and-forth chats, not more in-depth self-supporting commentary.

It just doesn't fulfill the same purpose. IME, I ignore discords from most subreddits because they do basically nothing for me unless it's a topic i'm extremely interested and engaged in.
I mean, the web is big right? There are plenty of forums people still use, maybe some big subreddit just go back that route.
If a cosmic ray flips that 1 to a 3, that will bring your failure rate above zero. No program is correct then.
Its saying a very simple thing with somewhat convoluted language. First of all for full generality they are treating functions of Rn -> R (if the output is also a vector then it becomes a different type of problem, I believe its called multimodal optimisation).

And the f1, f2, ... fm are simply the (inequality) constraints that all candidate solutions must satisfy.

For example, you might want to maximize the volume of something you want to build from sheet metal, then f0 could be the expression for the volume of body and the constraint could be one inequality ie area(x) <= your_maximum_budget_for_sheet_metal etc
AFAIK you can create a virtual thread executor backed by a single native thread.
The best book I've read on the topic of the lab leak theory is "Viral" by Alina Chan & Matt Ridley. It goes into the nitty-gritty scientific detail as well, but also covers some of the things you mentioned too.
They ended that way too early. There is so much good content to write about now. I know it’s hard to transition, but do you really need (near) the full cast still?
I didn’t actually say what I think about anything.
I've been using Pinboard for seven years. Signed up for another 10 years last year - it just works. Explain what you mean by zombie ?
Just because every single comment complaining (rightly) about Reddit’s current behavior does not include a comparison to Facebook does not mean it’s ignored.

People can dislike two things at once, and it doesn’t need to necessarily be said. Three, even, if they’re feeling frisky.

Unless there’s a post specifically about Reddit and Facebook, then you shouldn’t expect people to even bring up Facebook. It’s at best barely relevant.
They're not the same thing.

Clang is a compiler for C and C++ and Objective-C and Objective-C++.

LLVM is the underlying technology which is used by clang, but it's also used by other compilers (e.g. Swift uses LLVM, and some major JavaScript compilers as well).

Neither is owned by Apple - they're open source projects with contributors from Microsoft, Google, ARM, Intel, AMD and many others.
Your claim that currently noone posts on Reddit and moderates Reddit is wrong and they were purged is wrong.
The -P SoCs are not the same thing as the P-cores contained within. The i5-1240P SoC has 4 P-cores and 8 E-cores. The -P at the end of the model number denotes it as being in the middle product segment of their mobile lineup, between the lower-power -U models and the higher-power -H models. All three product segments use the same P-cores and E-cores, but in varying quantities and clock speeds.
I have met a ton of greatly exaggerated fears about places

> Oh I could never move to Texas.

> Florida? What about desantis?

The boogieman effect is real here, but I don't know if it causes what Peter says.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#locked
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#private

I think what you are describing is majority-accurate (arguably https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#authorized_fetch addresses some of it, though it's not watertight) for public content. However, quite a lot of people set up their profiles/posts with access controls.
So it would be okay if it was a lab leak where gain of function was used because similar viruses almost caused a pandemic? I doubt the general public would see it that way.
> As for the rest of your arguments, I believe you are simply wrong.

Just coming across this comment, I would disagree with your assessment.

Most distros use systemd, systemd has a dependency on d-bus and to do many of the features their userbase expects, it relies on d-bus activation which reparent's processes under the systemd user in most cases via the dbus-helper which suid's. This process also breaks common admin utilities like tops and ps (they don't show up except under very specific views, like tree view). Importantly, these distros often do not have MAC configured with a safe baseline if at all.

To put it mildly auditing d-bus and activations of this sort is ridiculously obtuse from an administrative perspective. Then there's all the dated software which no one touches or views such as gsd-* that cause a fail-whale when disabled.

The way exploits work most times is by using a chain of exploits. You chain 1 piece to the next, to the next, until you get to a bug that gets you what you want and the attacker then hits paydirt. This is basic cyber-sec 101, I don't see why you would discount exploits just because you don't know how they can get to that point to use it. We work with a porous attack surface everyday.

Most distro's have system defaults which don't even include a basic endpoint stateful firewall. I would hardly call these distros secure (which is most of them). End users are not expected to have specialties in Cybersec, Information Technology or System's Engineering just to set up a out of box system that's secure by default, this is the responsibility of the distro publisher.
Loki solves the problem of high cardinality by saying - "don't have high cardinality".

OpenObserve use parquet as the storage format which is much more resilient to high cardinality. OpenObserve has page indexes and partitions that allow it to handle this very well.
Maintaining a toto list every morning.

It doesn't matter you do it or not, just the fact of maintaining a todo list is a job itself.