skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am not enough of a solid-state physicist to judge this proposal,..."

I stopped reading after this confession of the author. So this text is just as good as a opinion of some other random guy.
When I say bullying and exclusion, I’m speaking specifically about the practice as it exists in Japanese society.

This practice has produced an entire lost generation called “Hikkikomori,” Japanese people who were excluded from Japanese society so completely that they don’t even leave their homes. Some of them are entirely dependent on their aging parents for their subsistence, including shelter and food.

That says nothing of gay people, whose presence is tolerated at best.

When it comes to foreigners, they are welcomed as tourists and guest workers, but there will always be places and aspects of society that they will never be welcome in.

This is exclusion for no other reason than xenophobia. Even a person who learns the language, practices the customs, pays taxes and follows the laws will not be accepted in Japan.

What you’re hitting at in your response is “The paradox of tolerance.” To arrive at the paradox of tolerance, a society has to have a sufficient level of tolerance. Japan simply doesn’t.

When I say this is “bad,” I mean this is in two ways. First, it violates my principles of tolerance for good faith actors — a set of values shared broadly in the west, to varying degrees and with a lot of asterisks. Secondly, it’s bad for Japan. In a situation where your demographics are decades into terminal decline, the ability to integrate foreigners is the only option to continue to being a going concern. The breakdown of their society without foreign integration will be catastrophic.
That'll teach 'em to put it in a code block!
> So now the analogy is maybe "you paid for an autograph from Mickey Mouse, but Joe Schmo signed it instead (you didn't find out until later). Disney sold the rights for Joe Schmo to use the name Mickey Mouse in autographs."

Right, I don't think someone selling something under licence is a problem/fraud, but if it's a key part of the "product" that you're buying is the provenance as well as the content, then that's what makes it fraud. From the article:

> Some correspondence directed recipients to purchase supposedly supernatural objects, while others urged them to use provided green envelopes to mail personal items—family photographs, palm prints, locks of hair—against a promise that the psychic would use them to conduct personalized rituals. “Once this envelope has been sealed, it may be opened ONLY by me,” read one letter that included Duval’s photocopied signature.

You're buying a service where you send in a personal item, it will only be opened by Duval and she'll conduct a personalised reading. Actually, your personal item is getting binned & you're getting a templated response from someone else (if you get any response at all).

Disney Corporation is fine to sell photos of Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney's signature on it or to licence Joe Schmo to do it for them.

But if they said "Original preparatory sketch by Walt Disney, signed by the man himself" and sold it for $10k and it turns out it's a reproduction signed by Joe Schmo, then that's a problem.
It's Lupus.
> It was an honest post-mortem that revealed far too much incompetency to trust this service.

That's why post-mortems are heavily sanitized. Or not posted publicly.
Probably not much, seeing as every Nordic country has sub-replacement total fertility rates as well.
The law exists in its enforcement. Many laws on paper do not exist. Many laws that are not on paper do exist.
Not to appeal to authority, but I wrote my thesis on bicycle wheels. You got it the wrong way around.
Ever wondered how secure your Elixir-based applications are against SQL Injection attacks?
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> Don't forget that the QAMs can go pretty high, 128/256 points iif the SNR is sensible.

Isn't 4096-QAM already pretty commonplace these days? For example DOCSIS is apparently pushing already 16k QAM:

> DOCSIS 3.1 adds 16-QAM, 128-QAM, 512-QAM, 1024-QAM, 2048-QAM and 4096-QAM, with optional support of 8192-QAM/16384-QAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
Worldcoin Has Placed Spheres Around the World in an Eye-Scanning Project
I think that problem exists for any solution. Whoever funds the media is going to prefer information that supports their beliefs, whether that is governments or citizens or advertisers. Citizen funded media results in the least centralization of power, so is better imo.
This guy? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/matt-gaetz-se...

That lends a lot of weight to the "not credible" side of the argument.
It's a fair point, but it's hardly unique to Jupyter. In fact, while 99% of websites suffer from this problem, I think it's unfair to highlight it specifically wrt Jupyter. Heck, even the site we're on right now does a poor combination of uncomfortably-long lines AND unused left and right margins.
Having a lean and mean company doesn't make for happy investors.

The company was finished in 2020 when they raised $85M in a Series E. The fall after that is inevitable. Even the $40M they took in 2015 is a questionable decision for the very reasons you detail. What did they need tens of millions in investments for?
While reddit's failure with the whole strike was fruitless it does I think highlight that at the end of the day you cannot treat the community in a community oriented products as a second thought.

With stack overflow it's very odd how chasing some flavor of the year is seen as preferable than expanding and enhancing the community aspect of stack overflow.
Kids still do homework?!

(For additional irony, please see my about me. :D)
If that is true and obvious, you should get a discount already today for paying with anything but a credit card.
> really that much cleaner 100 years ago?

_Cleaner_? I'd assume it was _far_ worse 100 years ago.

I'm not sure what the mayor being socialist has to do with it. All across Europe, in every political system, there are water cleanup projects. Pretty much any big old city is going to have these problems unless you do _serious_ remediation.
Lots of similar ideas exist in politics. Look for Socialist or Communist in the party name.
Marriage is a dying concept anyways. With a few exceptions, it appears it is only used to secure relationships where children are involved. And given the declining birth rate and steadily increasing independence of women, marriage is a rather antiquated concept. It will not be missed.
I am a white European and took a greyhound bus on a 12 hour night journey approximately 20 years ago. It was an experience to put it mildly. The words 'prison transport' and 'LSD' spring to mind.

Inhumane, degrading, uncomfortable and totally weird. For some god unknown reason I decided the bus would be a perfectly good alternative to a short flight, my was I wrong. As the journey started the driver made a short announcement to the seated passengers -

"If you smoke crack I throw you off the bus.
If you have sex I throw you off the bus.
If you drink alcohol I throw you off the bus.
If you take off your shoes I throw you off the bus.
No toilet!"

With that strange welcome we were off.

The seats had no padding so it was impossible to get comfortable. It was cold. We were in late October just before winter. It was bloody cold to be clear, in fact the air conditioning was seriously blowing. Maybe it was colder inside than out.

Non of this made any sense to me. As we continued through the darkened landscape stopping occasionally to pick up, drop off and 'toilet' I decided to ask the driver if maybe he could turn off the chill air blast and maybe turn on some heat. I politely presented this request to which his reply was simply a shout:

'NO!'.
"No?" I am freezing to death I told him.
"What do you mean no?"
"The smell" he said.
"The smell. Any more trouble and I throw you off the bus."

At one place we stopped for about 40 minutes. It was some sort of downtown bus station. I witnessed a huge black dude walk through the seating area masturbating with his pants down around his ankles, otherwise fully clothed. He sort of shuffled past lost in a world entirely of his own.

USA is one strange place..
I think it's about time that we no longer accept this strategy as valid.
>Well no, the layer won't be rebuilt if you already have it from yesterday or last week and that + previous lines in the Dockerfile didn't change.

When people say it needs to be reproducible, they don't mean "reproducible in the same host machine, with the same cache lying around".
You probably never dealt with payment processing - otherwise you'd know nearly all payment processing reject and close account of perfectly fine legally operating businesses.

And very often without any explanations. Sometimes even without releasing acquired funds, like the last street robber (looking at paypal).

Let aside saying that whole industry is drowning in endless useless KYCs, often requiring documents on your grand grand mother, may gods treat her soul well.

I can go on and on, but that's the gist of it.
> absurd pricing for 2TB

Well, it can't be that ba..

$0.25 x 2000 = $500

Yikes. And this is without BW costs.

At $500/M you can just rent a dedicated physical server with a lot of HDDs and still have money left for your favourite pumpkin latte.

For comparison rsync.net says it's $0.015 per GB/Mo, for 2TBs that's $30/m and no BW costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland
https://xkcd.com/1963/

Other relevant XKCD
Many things have a "if my stuff keeps working, why is it a problem?" vibe.

On personal level we have health - why can't I have fries and ice cream all day, everyday. That's what any sensible children would choose. Education - why can't I play video games and watch tik tok attention grabbing videos all day. In fact many do.

On country level, why would we want to help Ukraine or Taiwan. Why would we want to reduce carbon footprint. Stuff just keeps working.

Lead pipe worked just fine. Asbestos worked just fine. Smoking was just fine. Until they aren't.

Secondary effects require experience and education. We are not so good at grasping causal relationship when the results aren't immediate.
Yes it died for us about twenty minutes ago, UK / EU located
I expected to be outraged at this (was waiting for the day articles started to come out in favor of normalizing fraud) but was pleasantly surprised.

However:

> This aversion to special treatment is a form of prejudice that relies on an automatic reaction: perceive a scam, repudiate the scammers. If members of a marginalised social group are seen as genuinely asking for equality, then they are making a deep moral claim that’s hard to dismiss. Morally and intuitively, the right response to inequality is solidarity and cooperation. But if those people are instead perceived as asking for “special favours”, then it seems morally optional to grant what they want. And if they are thought to be asking for special treatment but pretending they only want equality, that just seems like a scam, a reason to reject them out of hand.

While true, the author ignores the fact that this play leverages emotional manipulation (guilt) over perceived injustice (there is never investigation, trial, or even any critical thought) to unfairly tip the scale in one's favor. Decrying it as "special treatment" is being generous-- in practice it's outright cheating. You change the rules so you're evaluated on ability to evoke pity instead of earned merit, by jailbreaking the arbiter.

Small wonder all these overprivileged white kids on TikTok claim to have more disabilities than aging Vietnam War vets; it's ludicrous but that's what it takes to tare the scale and be able to compete again. You optimize for what works. Times and values change; honesty and merit are disadvantageous strategies in a now-kleptocractic society.

What the author suggests was accurate at one point in history, but has since been hijacked by opportunists of all stripes (the "Oppression Olympics"). I daresay that the author failing to pick up on this makes them a...sucker.
How is the current system unfair towards men?

As a married man, I feel that anything that is unfair between me and my wife is totally up to us - I don’t feel that the system itself puts me at a disadvantage.
Yeah, I'm surprised that a company whose core product could be run by three people for less than a million USD per year with room to spare for lavish company cars, somehow manages to lose $84 million USD.
Slack Down?
>The process of recovering the EC2 instance state consists of two steps: First,
reading all of the metadata headers from S3; and second, "replaying" all of
those operations locally. (These cannot be performed at the same time, since
the use of log-structured storage means that log entries are "rewritten" to
free up storage when data is deleted; log entries contain sequence numbers
to allow them to be replayed in the correct order, but they must be sorted
into the correct order after being retrieved before they can be replayed.)

Far be it from me to tell anyone how to write software, but why build a database on top of S3 when you can just chuck the metadata into RDS with however much replication you want?

The backups themselves should be in S3, but using S3 as a NoSQL append-only database seems unwise.

This would benefit from being further from the metal.
Issue appears to be specific to EU.
> I meant that sugar causes cancer through obesity, not that there's an intermediate step between sugar and obesity.

Yes, I understood that. However this is new information for me. Where did you get that?

> Most studies do differentiate between unprocessed and processed red meat. And the correlation is fairly strong, […]

Where are those studies? In vivo? In humans?

> […] not to mention the rest of health effects that a diet high in red meat is associated with.

You mean greater longevity, better mental health (less depression, less anxiety, …), better cognitive function?

> Do you really think it's easier to take out sugar of your diet?

Let's say processed sugar. And with "easy" I meant - that you won't suffer any negative health effects in the long term. If you stop eating something and in consequence suffer from malnutrition then that won't be "easy" to keep up in the long term.
Including Electron apps.
They weren't doing that before EME either, were they?
I use it all the time for aoftware development. E.g. when I write DSP code for audio it acts as a mixture of documentation and the actual math with graphs to visualize what I do.

That is why jupyter lab is not the wrong name, it is a bit like a lab. Not meant for production use, but very good for exploring solutions.
I confirm, at least where I am (EU)
Tesla cars being barred from China’s World University Games ahead of Xi visit
+1. I'm having problems in two different organizations, accessing Slack from two different networks. The messages are not sent.
Down in Japan too https://newsdigest.jp/news/2d8adce9-5b4c-46aa-8806-375871703...
"Entire continents are mostly empty."

For many reasons. Big one: water. Or lack of. Or too much. Also food.
I always loved the premise of the Chromebook: disposable device with a disposable OS; secure by default; your data is always backed up; if you have any doubts or problems you can always restore to the factory image and be back in action within minutes, etc.

I would love to see these principles implemented in a privacy-respecting manner: bring your own device, choose your identity provider (including self-hosted options that integrate with e.g. email or even plain old SSH), choose your storage backend (including other clouds but also e.g. Syncthing, SFTP...).

Immutable / secure-by-default OS would also be interesting, but nothing else out there is quite like ChromeOS. NixOS/Guix would be good candidates, but the underlying scaffolding is quite complex. Alpine & OpenBSD are both radically simpler, but lack the aspect of trivially reproducible builds. Then of course there's the question of providing a good UX on top of that base: I want to connect to Wifi, select the ID provider, type my username/password, and start working. That's an enormous gap to close.
Very limited support for third party software? The only device running a variant of iOS that doesn’t have third party software are the displays.
Good point, I didn't think of it like that and, oddly, I do often advocate for writing things "backwards" from highest level of abstraction to lowest. Maybe there is a good reason SQL has stuck around.
You're giving them money, for your own reasons, when it's well established that they don't need your donations for their core mission. They spend it on things other than their core mission. Isn't this just a problem which you have created yourself?

Just stop giving them money, give it to some other project which is also doing something valuable but which needs it more. If it ever turns out the Wikipedia needs your money urgently to keep the servers running, start giving to them again.
There's got to be an automated chatbot (or perhaps "voice bot") opportunity in there somewhere. ;)
heh :) https://status.slack.com/
Because I get other levels of isolation such as at the network, filesystem, and syscalls and I can run many instances of the same binary on a host much like a VM, but vastly lighter-weight.

No, containers are not a problem and they don't add any additional problems.
LK-99 is claimed to be room temperature and pressure.
Status pages are kinda pointless 2023 thanks corporate bureaucracy issue has to be massive if they acknowledge it.
The thing is it's a hard mode that's gotten harder. All my family in the generations above me had way more kids than me. Maybe it's an anomaly due to survival rates jumping, but even my aunt has six kids. It didn't seem to be such a burden until very recently. Even cousins who are older than me and make less money seem to be able to have more kids.

You're right about purpose though. I don't know what I'd do without them.

I have a number of friends who are just straight up single, never had a girlfriend (or boyfriend, friends are both genders), never even tried, live alone despite having plenty of means. It's like a sort of secular monk. So in a way I get it, but also in a way I could never do it.
I wouldn't use it if it means AI will be trained on my code unless they pay me per answer or vote. I already removed everything from GitHub etc. AI on SO smells like how Google's business strategy is advertising first, search second. SO will be in the same position soon.
Be careful what you wish for.

Calling it. If it does get legalized, it'll only be as Schedule 2.

As Schedule 2, it's dispensing, use, and possession will be strictly controlled by physicians licensed by the DEA. The guidelines for legal dispensing will basically limit it only to people using for glaucoma/pain relief. This will not greenlight it for recreational use.

As a result of being Schedule 2, all the supply chain controls will kick in, and dispensaries will be required to only produce in response to quotas set by... you guessed it... DEA.

Any other manufacturers/dispensaries will still be operating in a gray/illegal fashion. Banks will still not touch the majority of dispensaries.

...If it somehow happens in any other exceptional fashion, I'd be angry enough to try to push for the wholesale dismantling of the DEA, because if effing weed isn't Schedule 2, then Adderall shouldn't be either. And we all know that ain't gonna happen. If weed gets off schedule 2, and Adderall doesn't; then I truly think that very foundation and purpose behind the DEA's existence is far from any type of sane enforcement. This nonsense with "the war on drugs" has grown far too long in the tooth.

As far as I can tell, it's the only Federal Agency that basically "centrally plans" the economy; something even the Federal Reserve does everything in their power to pretend they aren't doing.
They see all transactions through Pix, so it's only matter of time until they start matching with with tax contributions (if they don't do it yet)
It's doubtful that ChatGPT would be able to answer so many tech questions, if it wasn't for the existence of SO.
I'd even argue that the burden of proof is reversed. There might be billion dollar companies which bring good, but I'll be skeptical of that fact at first.
You have my vote. Although as dictator, maybe you don't need it.
issues in India.

messages aren't posting, files aren't uploading.
Seeing it in Asia
> Just wondering if it might eventually be possible to use it in some power/clocking distribution layers of a semiconductor chip

There's an additional obstacle factor here which is that the material has to (a) be "sputterable" onto the surface, which may rule out things with fancy crystal requirements, and (b) not adversely react with the rest of the chip, which is why coppper is ruled out (!) and chips use aluminium for metal layers.
UNICEF has initiatives in Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Sudan and Tanzania to end open defecation. High levels of open defecation are linked to high child mortality, poor nutrition, poverty, and large disparities between rich and poor.

Is this colonialism? It’s certainly a cultural change.

The mixing of people and ideas through trade and migration has resulted in the fastest decline in mortality and poverty in human history. Cultures open to new ideas have benefitted the most.
Down in EU.
I would imagine this gets progressively harder the bigger you get.
My colleague has problems as well. (EU)
Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist
US family found dead in forest wanted to live off grid
Don't use to-do lists to drive your daily work
I would rather have governments punish criminals operating phishing sites, C2 and botnets, since, you know, it's _illegal_.
I'm a senior dev. The only thing I found useful in the last years was the job market on SO. They closed that down recently. Now I don't even go there at all.
If SO votes help train AI it will turn SO into the equivalent of how Google isn't a search company, but an advertisement company with a search engine.
S3: Upload bandwidth is free, download is what I'd consider to be astronomical at $0.09/GB ($90/TB).

Geez, that's really not improving the comparison with Tarsnap.
> one of my main uses of ChatGPT is to replace StackOverflow

I'm pretty sure it's the main usage of almost all the programmers who use ChatGPT.
Is it maybe possible to combine the black box models with more explainable ones in a reasonable way? Use a good black box model to do the actually prediction, and then consult some more explainable models for a(notice that I use "a" not "the")
explanation.

One naive approach would be to have an ensamble of explainable models, and pick only those which gives the same answer as the black box model, and then use the explanation from them?

I guess it depends on what one wants to use the explanation for. Usually you want to deduce some actions you can do to change stuff in the real world, and with an explainable model you hope that the model has captured some truth which translates to the real world, and with the very naive approach above you hope that the good black box model helps us pick the explainable model which had best understood the world (or at least the world according to the precise parameters it has been run with now).

Maybe one can try some thousand permutations of the input all around the original input(into the black box model) , and use that to find the explainable model which had best understood the solution space just around there, and extract explanations from it?
The Windows menu bar doesn't move. The activities overview moves my screen. That's unnecessary and intolerable ;-) We all have our own quirks.

By the way, I added a Windows style task bar to the bottom of my desktop. It autohides and that's OK because it doesn't move my windows upward when it appears.