skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racism is incorrect. It's simply false. Average differences between races are dwarfed by individual differences between humans. This is not an assumption that the past is morally inferior. It is a simple observation that when you eliminate confounding variables, racial differences simply don't account for differences in group behavior and outcomes.

You'd have better luck grouping humans by height, saying that we all know that a society full of people taller than 6' simply cannot govern themselves. We could group humans by whether they're left-handed or right-handed, whether they like cilantro or think it tastes like soap, whether they can smell asparagus in their urine, whether they have that widow's peak thing in their hairline or not, the shape of their ear, or the color of their skin. There is no evidence that skin color is more meaningful than any of those other groupings: it's simply more obvious and carries enormous historical weight.

You're wrong that the question can't be asked: it can. I've seen it discussed in the context of professional sports, where it may play an actual part -- nobody was banned for that. As far as societies effectively governing themselves, the question has been asked, again, and again, and again, and again. The answer is always the same: race isn't what matters. And every time someone decides we need to figure this out again, millions have to suffer and die. If you have new evidence, present it.

> a question leading to a racist conclusion disallows the questions entirely

This is called "proof by contradiction". Any answer to a question that leads to a known-false conclusion is therefore not the right answer to that question.
> Things like using source control, shared observability, feature flags, dark launching, continuous integration, and continuous delivery are widely considered best practices.

I seriously want to know which places this is! I've been at 5 different companies, and I've never been a place where people don't look at me like I'm speaking French when I suggest dark launching a feature or introducing feature toggles. I've yet to experience a place that actually integrates continuously, as opposed to merely having a ci pipeline without actually doing continuous integration.
How did my genes survive? What can shortness tell us about evolution?
Similar story in Venezuela. It's a political idea to 'give the land back to the people'. But the people they give it to haven't the training, equipment nor financial reserves to actually work the land.

Big farms have become big, to compete on margins. Splitting them is a recipe for disaster. No surprise when it goes sour, quickly and decisively.
very bleak, even bleaker still are the sociopaths in these threads dismissing poverty or environmental conditions and just shrugging an okay on assisted suicide. truly disheartening and disgusting the fact that people like this exist. I question their possibly traumatic upbringing...
15mL. Probably listed in the front of most recipe books sold in Europe, including Britain.
Why doesn't subtraction need personality?
Some kinds of feathers are as well. They're often used in soft goods like pillows as stuffing. Also they're dyed and used as decoration.

The bones actually have most of the micronutrients, and people used to eat marrow like butter to avoid wasting it.
I found it hilarious.

Reddit is a burning ship and no one can put out the fire now no matter what they do when they piss off their user base like this.

I plan to leave the platform in some spectacular way in a short time.
Package Node.js applications into executable binaries (Windows, macOS, Linux)
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/informing-nationwi...
Super excited for the vscode plug-in with code autocomplete coming from the deisgn file I’ve opened up!
I personally believe non-use of pullouts is more about the sorry state of the other drivers, not the RV drivers. (Assuming reasonable road conditions, which as you note, is not always the case.)

> coming to a complete stop

You're not meant to come to a stop. That absolutely kills what momentum you do have. It's exceptionally difficult to start a heavy vehicle from a stop. You're meant to pull out, maybe slow down a little, then pull back in, cars be damned. Some cars will pass, maybe not all. The new lead set of cars will get by at the next pullout, and so on in incremental fashion.

But what happens in practice is that the first or 2nd idiot behind you does not prepare in advance and then does not race like mad when you go into the pullout, thereby allowing as many following cars as possible to also make the pass. Even if that first car did execute it correctly, the 2nd car likely does not. Then the 2nd or maybe 3rd car is "in the breach" when the pullout lane ends, blocking your (RV) re-entry and forcing you to stop. Then you're doubly fooked. You have to start from a complete stop and you're at the very end of the pullout lane, with no speedup zone at all.

... this is why we can't have nice things ...

My daily commute involves a 2 lane highway (ie, 1 lane each direction) with a pullout for slow moving vehicles. Semi trucks and other heavy construction type vehicles use this road a lot, as it's the only viable route. They do almost always use the pullout, but they pull back in at the end without regard for anyone in the traffic lane. They have to -- they are even worse than any RV on getting started from a stop again. So I see this crap driving from the auto drivers almost every day. If I happen to be the first car waiting behind a truck, I race on past and then it's always the case that only 1 other car in a long line also make it past, when 6-7 should be making it. I also frequently witness the slow passing fool have to slam his brakes as the truck re-enters the lane.

I don't fault any RV for not using the pullout lanes.
If the contract doesn't outright prohibit people from exercising their GPL rights, then someone might be able to publish the source code anonymously to prevent their subscription from being terminated.
I don't understand why the prevailing opinion is that it's acceptable for software development to be complex. It's simply the nature of the beast! Not infrastructure though. Infrastructure should be simple because...?

Perhaps the reason your organization is only deploying once a month is the same reason it takes it a month to make simple code changes, which is because you haven't hired sufficiently capable engineers, and not because you're missing some magic.

edited: grammatical error
> Just a glorified spam farm for your info.

To be fair, that's all rewards/loyalty programs. But clearly, some are worse than others.
220 Bp * 8 = 1760 Bp

1760 Bp takes ~ 1760 Gb of (V)RAM when 8-bit quantized. Plus you will need some memory for state.
So you will need at least 1760/24=74 consumer-grade GPUs (3090/4090) or 1760/80=22 professional-grade GPUs (A100/H100).
It may be very undesirable as you grow older and your peception of pitch slowly slides over time, so you have to remind yourself that it's not correct and has to be adjusted. You can find interviews with many famous musicians talking about that.
For packages that I need to pin to specific versions, that's also easy to do with Nix.
MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs Are General-Purpose Motion Generators
I don't disagree. I picked "free shipping" -- if they want to queue mine after everyone who explicitly paid for shipping and those who pays for prime, that is fine.

My point is that the "de-prioritization delay" seems to have evaporated and I get items shipped in about the same time as the prime estimates (when they are "shipped by amazon" -- third party shippers are all over the board with shipping delays).
Because white people in SA are quite a lot more wealthy than black people? And it's no surprise that wealth brings stability and peace.
> I don't see what your point is;

You compared "local filesystem" to performance of S3. But you have no idea what are you comparing to what. Both are undefined because neither you nor anyone reading what you wrote can know what you are measuring.

Like I said, there's no such thing as "local filesystem". You invented / repeated this term after someone who invented it on a spot. You / them didn't have a coherent explanation to what it means. Now nobody can understand what is that you are trying to say.

In essence, you are counting angels on the tip of a needle.

Also, this is not about block devices. Filesystems are programs. A lot of them are distributed programs. They run on many computers at once. I'll repeat the example I gave earlier with NFS: it's a distributed system, it has a server and a client. Both of them are the filesystem. But you cannot say that it runs "locally" or "remotely" because it's both or neither, or whichever one you choose... i.e. it's a worthless definition.
Maps distort how we see the world
Apollo 11 command module computer did receive a patch from Houston to the running executive in core memory while in flight to the moon.
For nix: https://github.com/google/walk

You can also use dmenu's stest to do the equivalent to find's -type f, { walk $PWD | stest -f }
Hurricanes push heat deeper into the ocean than scientists realized
Railways Could Be a Key 'Utility Player' for Backup Power
I mean, it's also real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika
I read that as "How My Chicken" and honestly as much as I'm sure the process for children is interesting, I'd be lying if I said I don't find it more fascinating to get chicken to have absolute pitch instead :-)
> In May 2023, a colonel in the US Air Force revealed a simulation in which an AI-enabled drone, tasked with attacking surface-to-air missiles but acting under the authority of a human operator, attacked the operator instead. (The US Air Force later denied the story.)

This casts a shadow on the reliability of the whole article. While the retraction (they later stated that this was a thought experiment and NOT a simulation) may or may not be true, the current state of AI would suggest that this kind of chain-of-logic problem-solving is likely out of reach. To put this in here without such a caveat and instead use the 'later denied' language is a strong indicator that we're being sold a story, and not the whole one.

The quotes and other horror-scenario errata also come off a little thin. If Hinton really, genuinely believes the world is ending, then why is he working on the generational successor to backpropagation [1]?

Good way to sell 'news', though. Keep 'em scared, keep 'em reading, I guess.

1 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13345
Those who caused this (voters) will simply leave and blame everyone else but their own political views.
I can't imagine how the texture will be given that muscle bone and tendon are all mechanically responsive tissues that react to mechanical forces. Maybe something like the texture of liver or that cellular goop that congeals at the bottom of chicken drippings in a roaster.
Ferrari designed a car that won Le Mans on its first attempt
I live in the USA with no protective cages, gates, or private security. The murder rate in my city is literally zero most years.
...which actually feels "not" very Adobe like :)
What's a reason to use this over Wolfram Alpha?
People interested in this should check out Frink. It has been around for a while and has thousands of unit conversions with explanations, as well as a web interface for the unit conversions part

https://frinklang.org/
https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt
https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp
For those who are out of the loop, like I was, here is how I'm understanding this...

"CentOS" tracked behind RHEL, and is considered more stable? Regardless, CentOS 7 is the last supported major version, and it's reaching EOL soon and will not be maintained. This sounds like a push to get those who use CentOS (free) to move to RHEL (paid) to stay in the long-cycle ecosystem.

"CentOS Stream" is a flavor that tracks ahead of RHEL, is less stable, and is really meant for those who develop on RHEL.

Since the original CentOS is no longer supported, you had new flavors come up (specifically Rocky Linux and Alma Linux) designed to fill the void to track behind RHEL.

However, it appears they rely on the open-source RHEL for their builds. It sounds like this is going away now, and the only open-source linux RedHat is gonna publish freely is CentOS Stream.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or missed something!
I’m also really happy they didn’t pounce on the AI bandwagon before figuring out the right thing to make. At the same time, I’m excited about the Diagram acquisition to jump-start whatever they’re going to build!
“Bone meal” and “feather meal” are commodity byproducts of the meat industry. You can find them used in animal feeds and even pet foods.
That said, this isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the practices. :(
You mean ideas?

The left often doesn’t want to critique ideas because they conflate that with cultural bigotry, especially if the ideas are linked to things like religions. The right doesn’t like the ideas explanation because they believe in biological determinism and think it must be race.

Find an image of North and South Korea from space. Those people are genetically almost identical. What’s the difference? Ideas.

Why did Europe suddenly become the worlds powerhouse right after the enlightenment when before it was poorer than many places in Asia and the Middle East? The ideas changed.

Have the dominant ideas and mentalities in South Africa changed? How? That’s the question I would ask.
I live in Portland, and I have some friends who work in homeless services. They follow an equity model, which places those with the highest level of intersectional need first, particularly BIPOC people. White, cisgender men are thought to have the least intersectional need, and therefore they receive the least support. In practical, day-to-day terms, this means that BIPOC with marginal housing are given priority over non-BIPOC with no housing at all.
A notable improvement over the GLHF strategy for interacting with GPT models.
Hacking my Android phone to drive my car
Hopefully there is some requirement. The idea of unwittingly eating “chicken” doesn’t sit well with me.
Yes! I came to make the same comment.

It's got a catchy title but it leaves much to be resolved.
For me, reading on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch screen with 2560x1600 is an upgrade to paper.

I think the words are actually sharper but most of all the lighting is always absolutely perfect. The size is perfect.

Even beyond that though, my absolute favorite is an audio book read by Robertson Dean. Hopefully someday soon we can have AI Robertson Dean read any book.
Good academics fear the difficulty of good humanities. Bad academics enjoy having the excuse.

This is why "humanities" in general have a terrible reputation, but the individual people who've done great work are respected.
I heard from a former employee at IBM that management has been offended the media used FAANG to describe big tech, because they are delusional and still think they are relevant enough to be big tech…
What sort of platonic ideal project do you work on that the majority of SQL you write doesn't need dynamic WHERE clauses? You're positing a majority use case I haven't encountered in 20 years of professional and personal projects.
yeah this doesn't apply to South Africa really. Perhaps in a more abstract sense, if the wealth of the state is considered a resource...
Referring to your own impending downvotes in the opening of your post is a form of antagonism that creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The idea is usually that you can then use the downvotes as "evidence" of your correctness (of course, that's fallacious - downvotes can be for anything, and an antagonistic tone combined with portraying yourself as the underdog is one of the most prominent examples, regardless of the content of your post). And if you don't get downvoted - even better for your case! It's a cheap win-win for you.
I've lived in AZ. The amount of golf courses in the PHX and Tucson areas is mindbogglingly dumb as there's hundreds of other uses for that water, most of which are exponentially better for society at large.

Granted, AZ does have a rainy season, and if the courses are collecting that water en masse and exclusively using that water to keep the courses looking green, I'm all for that.

You bring up a good point though, I wonder how much fresh or recycled water a given fab uses, versus the annual useage by a golf course or group of courses.
In my experience (I have pretty good relative pitch but not absolute), absolute is strictly better than relative pitch (ie. people with absolute pitch can do everything I can do with relative pitch, they can just also do absolute pitch)
Oh I'm not negating the farm attacks. It's a big problem. Race in general is a big problem in South Africa, especially how it affects the minorities.
You may also get a bit of a reputation that may follow you around.

In areas with very close knit industries it can hurt your opportunities.
Thank you, I will definitely add it.
And also, fast food is no that much worse than traditional food anyway. home-made stir fry will have worse calories than a McDonald's chicken burger. homemade pasta is going to be as fattening as any fast food meal. it's just macros in the end. it does not matter where you get them from.
This also plays out in human-human interaction, it's not specific to anything artificial.
Apparently some countries use a fixed solfeggio method while others don’t. Meaning that in any diatonic scale the tonic would always be ‘do’ or if fixed ‘do’ would always be a ‘c’. This caused me some confusion how one could use solfeggio methods to acquire perfect pitch.
I find it hard to believe RHEL will get away with this. I hope the Linux Foundation weighs in, but it seems to have been bought by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and many other large corps.

All the drama in Linux with Wayland, RHEL sponsored init, snap/flatpak and now IBM/RHEL has been causing me to seriously evaluate the BSDs. I have been doing that for a couple of years.

I would be fully on OpenBSD now, but the hardware I have is one of those with 2 videos, integrated and Nvidia. And that system does NOT allow me to disable the Nvidia Chip.

When using Nvidia, that chip is correctly ignored by OpenBSD, but it gets so hot I can almost fry an egg on it. I have some mitigations in place, but it still gets rather hot, CPU and disk stays normal.

The same is true with NetBSD, I have not tried FreeBSD yet.

This RHEL thing may be the last straw, I may bite the bullet and see if the heat causes failures and if so evaluate this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36292831

FWIW, I did add paste, a full cleaning. And this was purchased used rather cheaply 2 years ago. It is 9 years old now.

Why am I bothered by this ? This seems to be a weak first step of companies making Linux go proprietary. Already we need many proprietary blobs.

And funny, NASA just signed a contract with Rocky and CERN went with AlmaLinux,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417968
> Wow, we really are at the point where you just need to insert "ChatGPT"

Except companies with valuations in the billions should be monitoring the darkweb and automatically revoking/resetting compromised accounts. Every good-sized bank and credit card provider does it.
The people generally get the politicians and government they deserve.
It would be a long list. I buy from local stores rather than online whenever I can. If I can't, then I buy directly from the manufacturer of whatever it is I'm interested in buying.

Except with electronic parts. For those, I typically go with Digikey. For electronic devices and computers, I go to a local recycler. They have what I need about 80% of the time.

I've never had a situation where Amazon was the only option, and rarely a situation where it was the best option.
Yes, I've reread is the first 2/3rds of "Understanding Media" several times and never finished it, but would still highly recommend it. There is also some excellent old interview footage of him when he was a pop culture figure which is originally what fascinated me. For me it would have been hard to read his writing without having seen those interviews first -- he has a very distinct style of writing/talking and is interesting as an integrated person within recent history and not just a collection of ideas. On that note, I'd also recommend Videodrome.

edit: There are also more polemic anti-tech presentations of his ideas, especially by Neil Postman or Nicholas Carr which are good in their own way. But to me the fascinating thing about McLuhan himself is his dedication to presenting his views in a such a matter-of-fact way that most of his early followers were probably very antithetical to his personal beliefs.
Usually, when I hear people say that, it's more or less "agree to disagree" when they hear someone else saying falsehoods and don't have the energy to deal with it. Or, when people have a disagreement or argument, each of them have their own "truth", that is, the story of what happened from their point of view. Personally, I've never heard anyone confuse those phrases for "objective reality is whatever I want it to be".
Pretty much anyone who has absolute pitch has relative pitch.
half of the vegans I know only care about the cultivation practices of the food and would be fine with this and consuming this

expanding restaurant menu choices by an order of magnitude when we go out

I know of a half dozen other reasons different vegans have, not about them right now
I don't think having absolute pitch makes you a better composer. OTOH, composing music as a child will likely lead to absolute pitch.

My anecdote is that I gained absolute pitch by playing on a Yamaha keyboard as a young child. Seeing the notes on the screen while playing and hearing them is almost certainly what made it click for me. I strongly believe that AP can be acquired at a rate that is an order of magnitude higher than what we observe today.
Video streaming is broken. 4K is a lie, UI and UX is clumsy and uninviting at best. There's predatory sign-ups for supplemental packages that customers have no idea about until they've been charged (sometimes for more than a year). Customer Service then tries to only refund for 1-6 months, unless the customer hires a lawyer. TV and Movie Titles that were available for free one week suddenly disappear (without warning) or require payment for continued availability (e.g., TV series), even though you pay for Prime and it was free for Prime last week.

For Amazon Music, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36372298.

I could go on...

When you start looking at all these patterns, across all these services (e.g., Prime, Alexa, Music, Video), it's clear that one type of team must be dictating all of this (e.g., Music and Video). It's all predatory, in the same style; homogenous. Talk about placing a bet on the wrong horse.
I can also vouch for injinji
Maybe they can use mores code?
You are wrong: https://go.dev/play/p/6PTQk0xWAAl
> Do you take your shoes off at work? (assuming you still have a non-virtual workplace)

In India, when the dust kills computers by clogging fans, you'll see workplaces with computers have a "leave your shoes outside" board. I'm not sure what happens today, but this was true when I lived there.

That's mostly because everyone coming in is usually spent the last half mile on foot and the shoes will basically flake-off indoors in the lowered humidity.

Also, for some reason my dentist's office has a "employees must change into shoes" notice, suspiciously in the bay area.

Maybe they had some contamination issues ("work shoes" that could be santized properly?) or maybe they had employees wear sandals into the office & they had to enforce the rule after someone dropped a sharp on a toe?
FYI: Installation is `pipx install ddqa` and then on first run it should ask you for userIDs and account tokens.
It's hard to convince someone when their livelihood depends on not understanding.
Mores code