skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying is exactly what motivated Effective Altruism: most charities are ineffective, and philanthropy should be about saving/improving people's lives, not feel-good causes; we should try to do the most good with our time and money.

The following video by Peter Singer is a good intro to Effective Altruism and the philosophy behind it. His essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" was one of the primary influences on the founders of the movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc

It's true that more recently many people in the movement have shifted their focus from global health and development to areas like AI risk and biosecurity. Whether or not you agree with working on these areas, I don't think the people working on them are doing it cynically. I think they are motivated to work on these areas because they believe it will do the most good for humanity.
I just released a new update, thanks to everyone's feedback. Now, you can sort results by relevancy, age, or score using the select.
Your view of vision is entirely inaccurate, because the way vision _actually works_ sounds very, very wrong or at least scientifically inaccurate. Your eyes are not cameras and you don’t actually see the light that hits them - your brain constructs its impression of the world, uses the light perceived by your eyes to error correct, and that’s your phenomenological sense of vision. Saccades are real - your brain blocks out input for microseconds and backfills what it thinks you would have seen, manipulating your sense of time, too. Your visual processing takes longer than your auditory processing; synchronous perception too is an illusion your brain pulls to show a coherent world (and is likely part of why optical illusions work - your brain is “projecting” where it thinks the world is a couple microseconds ahead so it matches what you’re hearing). Selective attention is a real thing - check the video someone linked above for a solid example. The peripheral blindness mentioned is real, and occurs for similar reasons to your blind spot (your actual blind spot, the spot in your retinas where your optic nerve passes through your optic dish and you have no photoreceptors, so your brain just.. makes up what should be there).

Vision is not a process by which your camera eyes capture an image and your brain reports it, it is a process where your brain makes a guess about the world and tries to truth check it with external stimuli. It is not a faithful process, and where it renders reality, it does so because it’s expected to be sufficiently advantageous for your survival to be worth the effort.
Ask HN: Will AI PhD students have to use AI hardware at Google/Microsoft now?
It seems unlikely that universities will have the hardware that they need to do state of the art AI research.
Doesn’t prove much honestly. How do you even know those users are real ? What value are the products providing ?

My Apple products continue to improve my day to day immensely. The meta products are just rubbish on the whole. How has Instagram improved in the last 5 years ?
A fact in this Wikipedia article shocked me into understanding how much juice an aluminum smelter plant requires.

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

"The Shearon Harris site was originally designed for four reactors (and still has the space available for them), but cancellation of an aluminum smelter plant in eastern North Carolina in the 1970s resulted in three of the reactors being canceled."
Nails it. This needs to be upvoted more.
Noto isn’t a cheap-looking font, but it’s the wrong choice in this context. It’s a very wide open font with big counters (eg. the middle bits of a and e.). That means it looks bigger than other fonts at the same size. It also takes up more space for the same amount of words. In the example above the text looks slightly too big for the surrounding space which makes it look cheap.

Verdana, the font HN uses, was designed to be readable at small sizes on lo-res screens, so has very wide counters. It’s also why it looks ugly in high-res or when printed.

Good interface fonts tend to be more condensed, so you get more on a line - think Roboto or Inter. It’s also probably why Apple moved from Helvetica, a good print font, to San Francisco which was specifically designed for UI.
Would that be the half-flat theory? ;)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/flat
within 15min of you posting this, hitler has become the #1 ranked thing on the leaderboard
I "stopped out" (a Stanford term I heard, though I wasn't at Stanford) for a year and I'm glad I did. Should have done it for two years (that would have been enough). I actually stopped for a calendar year (interrupted my second year).

But I already had a plan. That's very important. When I got to the end I'd re-enrolled and started back right where I'd stopped. I had a job for 8 months and a trip for four.

It did put my out of sync a bit with the kids I'd started with, but that was no big deal (and in some ways I was ahead). Otherwise school has its own calendar so it was no big deal.

Another self-inflicted problem: by my last semester, due to my work during the time off leading to work over the summer, was that I had a full time job thousands of miles from school. As a result I didn't finish my last semester in the last semester and had to pay for an extra one just to take one class. And I was pressured by my team at work to drop out and not worry about it ("You already have a good job"). So glad I didn't listen to them!
Won't that happen anyway? A typical instance with 1000 users is likely to be subscribed to greater than 50% of the active communities out there.
Everyone knows they have specially shaped cockpit glass that warps your FOV to give the appearance of a round earth.

/s
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You can now sort by recency. I hope this helps.
I question how important an extension is if there’s not enough incentive to port it to the new paradigm, at least eventually.
They can then apply to launch formal clinical trials with a control group. This initial evidence of efficacy is of-course anecdotal evidence with more traceability.
There is a whole world of nerds who do this in their job every day. They are fun people.
Funny, I don't see any such tweets. Literally zero. Perhaps you're following the wrong accounts?
Was curious about this as an architectural solution as well.

We're really talking about X-per-client as the primary reason to move away from processes, right?

So if you can get most of the benefit via pooling... why inherit the pain of porting?

Presumably latency jitter would be a difficult problem with pools, but it seems easier (and safer) than porting processes -> threads.

Disclaimer: High performance / low latency DB code is pretty far outside my wheelhouse.
I challenge any in-house team to achieve the same reliability as S3.

To be fair most businesses probably don't need it, but it is worth taking into account.
> Luckily you are mistaken that it is "medical consensus" and your opinion isn't the only valid one.

Well, it is the only valid one in the sense that there exists a medical consensus, an it is what I described.

> There are studies that show that hormone blockers don't actually decrease psychological distress

Mind sharing those studies?

> (which is why England just said they're going to limit puberty suppressing drugs)

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the conservative government desparately trying to distract their populace from the terrible job they are doing keeping the country running.

> I think it's more interesting that people think children who can't possibly comprehend lifelong implications of most things are being given life altering drugs that don't have proper long term research is a good idea.

Puberty blockers have been researched since the 80s. How much longer do you want studies to be done?

It's also funny that people like you always say "children who can't possibly comprehend lifelong implications of most things are being given life altering drugs", when the whole point of the drugs is to give them time. By delaying puberty those children have time to actually grow up and make an informed decision at the right time. You want to take that ability away from them, you want to condemn them to a lifestyle that is proven to drastically increase suicide rates. I'd like to know - is that a bug for you, or is it a feature?
"However patients should be allowed to enroll for free into multiple treatment trials at the same time."

But this would likely mess up any data, you can get. How can you tie the cure or the bad sideeffects to any drug then?

Apart from that, sure, I think patients should have the right to try anything.
We squandered the opportunity presented by PG&E's bankruptcy.
From a brief search, it looks like the semantics around destructuring and what exactly gets disposed were causing confusion?

What's the not-C#-like method that would have allowed destructuring in a better way?
This is how it already works - this is what a clinical trial is. If you want to include the data point of a medicine working well as admissible, then you better have more than one patient try it at a time. Unless of course your drug is so good at curing patients who are absolutely terminal (like ibrutinib was). But most meds are not that much of a blockbuster. Thus you don’t know if a single patient survived if it’s because this medicine was very effective or if it was just as good as any other available treatment regimen.
“Integrated capture and solar-driven utilization of CO2 from flue gas and air” [pdf]
""...we demonstrate CO2 capture from flue gas/air and its direct conversion into syngas under solar irradiation without any externally applied voltage. The system captures CO2 with an amine/hydroxide solution and photoelectrochemically converts it into syngas (CO:H2 1:2 (concentrated CO2), 1:4 (simulated flue gas), and 1:30 (air)) using a perovskite-based photocathode with an immobilized molecular
Co-phthalocyanine catalyst. At the anode, plastic-derived ethylene glycol is oxidized into
glycolic acid over a Cu26Pd74 alloy catalyst. The overall process uses flue gas/air as carbon
source and discarded plastic waste as electron donor, opening avenues for integrated carbonneutral/negative solar fuel and waste upcycling technologies..."

Dataset - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/ea20972e-c6c4-4553-89...
If you're not making something from scratch in every development assignment, probably, get another job.

The article isn't simply disparaging using existing code, but using an existing approach.

Using an existing approach might mean, say, reading a paper about it and writing your own implementation from scratch, using only the paper's description and pseudo-code as an example.

That goes a long way to keeping you on your toes as a programmer, and can exercise some computer science muscle as well.
Unveiling the Game of Life: Your Mind as the Ultimate Simulating Playground
The issue with that argument is that it is way too general.

IE, suppose one lion has shaper teeth. It uses those teeth to catch antelope more efficiently. The other lions see those sharp teeth as inherently anti-lion because those teeth deprive the rest of them of delicious antelope.
Partially that mental illness was the result of the CIA involving him in the MkUltra experiments as a subject.
I thought it was primarily to ensure standardized testing, labeling, etc.
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The winrate is terribly high or he wouldn't be first.
never heard of an owner dying from OSHA violations
I'm in an even smaller minority and I think C++ was a monstrosity already in 99.

To use an analogy, it looked like a cat with 11 legs, even back then. Of course they added more legs since, and they keep on adding.
After the fires a few years back and PG&E's subsequent bankruptcy, Newsom threatened just that if they couldn't get their act together.

https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/02/what-happens-if-calif...
Definitely it's for the meme.

(Also the history of Rome has definitely been more impactful than Hitler.)
I've been working under this engineer-manager's supervision for almost 5 years now.

I consider him a good manager for several reasons, but most of all because of his insistance on me working as independently as possible. When I started out, his approach was basically "here's the problem you gotta solve, come up with a solution, call me if you need help with something particular", which frustrated me at first, but after a few months grinding the documentation and trying (and failing...) several times to solve the problems I was given, I've developed ability to think very systematically and come up with high-level solutions myself. I now have high confidence in my abilities (and I am not a very confident person) which I am very thankful for.

Trust is also a big part of it. I would trust that guy with my life, and that's the kind of relationship which makes work so much easier and less stressful.
Sure. If someone's being paid have a simple contract. As the parent said, that's not the norm at tech conferences unless it's an analyst or some name-brand keynoter from outside the industry.
There’s a copyright notice for someone named James Ferguson directly under the artwork who seems to make similar art if I google around a bit.
Agreed, Kaczynski was a loser. Why anyone sees fit to try and promulgate his ideas is far beyond my reasoning. Not as violent as war? Seriously? That's the best you can do?
Its at 2031 elo now, while the closest to it is 1500 elo. Lot of catching up to do but I think there is still good chance to catch it before it becomes much harder.
Or anarchists or whatever other ideology you have.

Great problem descriptions, unworkable solutions. So far, no one has created a well working social order from first principles.
It can be. Anything can be. It is far more treacherous, though.
Oh that is an amazing use case!
Exactly. The current trends make a lot of places suddenly out of reach for passer-bys.

Thanks for posting the link. I am aware of the current location of /r/DaystromInstitute, and registered on that Lemmy instance already - but to reinforce my point, I actually learned about it thanks to someone posting that link on HN a few days ago, randomly, in the middle of the Reddit blackout discussion thread. Much like you posting it here, which will hopefully help some other interested people find it.
I studied electrical engineering, but power engineering isn't a course that I took. The most enlightening quote I've heard about this was a response to a question:

"What happens when I turn on an electric device in my house?"

"A turbine in a power plant spins more slowly for just a moment."
Utterly untrue.

https://www.marticliment.com/#start

Inspect: https://imgur.com/a/ljJl0nr
This article is just agit prop trying to use the news peg of Kaczynsci's death to associate his ideas with The Guardian's political opponents like Musk and Carlson, to make them seem "dangerous," and justify some response to this new fictional danger. I'd insult the author and editors but kicking down at journalists only reinforces the spite that drives them to produce things like this.

The conceit of Kaczynsci and other rebels is that they think forming sound criticisms absolves them from the responsibility to prevail. If you want to change the world, maybe try making something it wants.

If you are frustrated because nobody wants to listen to you, maybe index on solving that problem instead of forcing people to listen to you with bizarre political acts and attacking prominent individuals so as to capture some of the reflected attention for your tedious opinions. While that advice is for journalists, it's perhaps also applicable to would-be immitators of Kaczynski as well.
1. Person X wants attention to their manifesto.

2. Person X becomes a terrorist for that purpose.

3. People say "Y'know, because of all those terrible things X did, I took a look at their manifesto, and they have some interesting ideas."

4. Person Y sees this, and repeat.

Suggestion: When people actually care about ideas, there are plenty of thinkers they could read and talk about, without encouraging future terrorists.
> The difficult part is that one person's inefficiency is someone else's lunch, or yearly safari to Kenya, so every move to cut costs is politically untenable.

I think calling it "inefficiency" whitewashes the real problem. That "inefficiency" leads to a much higher rate of unnecessary deaths and adverse health outcomes in the US than nearly every other advanced nation.

And often, even if you can get good health care, the financial consequences are devastating. Even if you have insurance.
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Roger Waters Sets the Record Straight [video]
I certainly replaced my highly starred projects on GitHub with randomly generated crap (build passes!) when they announced copilot
> it's a huge change, with only modest advantages

+significant and unknown set of new problems, including new bugs.

This reminds me of the time they lifted entire streets in Chicago by 14 feet to address new urban requirements. Chicago, we can safely assume, did not have the option of just starting a brand new city a few miles away.

The interesting question here is should a system design that works quite well upto a certain scale be abandoned in order to extend its market reach.
Yep! The singularity concept people talk about relies on a feedback loop like you described. So, she isn't wrong, per se, but just telling a fragment of the story that exist today.
Agree parents are too often harmful but trademarks seem necessary for trust.

If I’m buying a can of Coca Cola with the logo I want it to be the real drink and not some fake import.
Now I kinda want to hear a heavy metal remake of Mr Blue Sky.
Thank you for posting this, one of the best insights I've read regarding this type of problem.
> Canva now has users across 190 countries, who design in over 100 languages thanks to some amazing localization work done by our Internationalisation team.

How may of those countries are profitable? My sense is Internationlization is a relatively fixed cost, but how does customer support in Burma, for example, not trump any realizable revenues there?
FYI Bitlocker shows ntietz as a virus and won't let me access it.
He was a sympathetic villain. Hollywood writers would struggle to develop one as good. Like all sympathetic villains you are supposed to read the first half of his story (what happened to him) and come away feeling bad for him and understanding his desire for revenge. You are then supposed to look at what he did to achieve that vengeance and hate him. It’s a step over the line from an anti-hero. Had he targeted CIA offices and politicians that supported them we would consider him an anti hero more like the punisher, Gerald Butler in Law Abiding Citizen, or John Wick. Instead he chose to kill random people that had nothing to do with his tragic origin story so he is just a sympathetic villain that needed to be put down. Of course there is a segment of society that would put down anti heroes as well as sympathetic villains so your position on the topic it really more a judgement statement about your moral stance than an objective statement.
> Continuously "improving" a language has upsides and downsides.

It has zero downsides. If you are interested in new features you're free to adopt them. If you are not interested in them then you can simply not use them, or even sit out a specific version. There are zero drawbacks.

> A significant downside is the added complexity once there are very many features.

There is zero complexity. No one forces you to play standard library bingo. No one forces you to use each and every single feature ever devised. No one forces you to adopt a new standard.

That's the best feature of C++'s standardization process: it specifies existing features, and provides you with a convenient way to onboard or not onto them.

I've worked on C++14 projects until a couple of years ago. My team inherited a C++11 project and we decided to migrate to C++14 mainly because of std::make_unique. We considered C++17 but we didn't bothered with it. C++20 was already out. No one held a gun to our heads. It's ok if you don't jump onto the latest and greatest.

> Question for you: Should they start adding variadic templates and mutable lambdas to C? Would you like that?

C would greatly benefit from supporting templates. I don't understand what point you tried to make. The question sounds too luddite.

> Not wanting to rewrite code is the very reason they should stop adding features.

This is a pretty lame strawman. No one is forced to rewrite stuff when bumping a C++ version. I was involved in a couple of projects that underwent those upgrades and basically the migration consisted of flipping a switch in the build system and addressing a couple of compiler errors caused by the compiler flaggin a couple of warnings as errors. That was it.

Things are simpler if we don't invent problems.
What is your plan for retrieving the 99.999% of them that indicate nothing is wrong?
> the Granny Smith

This apple is as ugly as sin (it's all lumpy) and it's too sour to eat (it's a cooking apple).
Doesn't the usenet have a spam problem?
The cute idea is:

> the only control flow you get is error handling

(and function definition/call, just without returns)
> Maybe the API is just very simple and somebody is just sending upvotes to Hitler infinitely

Yep, it has no authentication. You can just keep posting to the API with Hitler beating everything.
Not give a few executives hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses for destroying the environment and failing to provide adequate power? That's socialist talk! If a few rich people aren't bilking the public and providing poor services, it's not American.
Like the previous submitter ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30885700 April 2022 ) I found classless.css while investigating semantic html-oriented css libraries and this one stood out to me as having a good balance. I'm not ideologically opposed to using classes, but using them for every bit of styling seems off and I'd rather see good default styles for regular semantically structured html. For example, classless.css uses the "card" class for cards which don't have a clear analog in among standard html tags: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element

Alternatives:

Water.css: https://watercss.kognise.dev/

MVP.css: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

Missing.css: https://missing.style/

Aggregations:

https://css-tricks.com/no-class-css-frameworks/

https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less