skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the OP described is that as a rich person you can set up a "charity foundation", donate a bunch of money to it (reducing your tax burden), then have the foundation hold on to most of the money and when it spends it, spend it on "administration", which could be hiring your friends and family to do fake administrative work

In the case of the Gates Foundation it's more likely to be real administrative work, but even the "good" ones are sitting on a ton of money that could potentially be put to more profitable (for society) uses
See also schizotypy (every schizophrenic is a schizotype, some people progress to the more serious disease) and the scandal that schizotypes are “bullet magnets” in school and the subsequent mistreatment worse’s their conditions. (e.g. you are already inclined to think “they” are out to get you and they show you, not tell you, they they really are.)
I wonder how many people just fell into alcohol, isolation induced depression, sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, etc... and that their health decline had nothing to do with COVID.

That's the issue with these anecdotes
Framework Chromebooks feature 8GiB RAM.

Chromebooks, in general, require less RAM to operate than a PC or Mac. So don't overestimate the gobs of RAM you'll need. By the same token, it is much less common for vendors to build Chromebooks with large amounts of RAM. Mine is a cloud gaming machine!
> The military is considered one of the competent parts of the US government and the amount of waste is staggering.

This is not universally agreed upon. Military spending has been a deeply controversial topic along political lines given its overall amount and lack of transparency.

As far as examples of competent spending goes, there are plenty but they tend not to get as much attention as the failures do. A big example that most aren’t aware of are the government backed small business loans granted by SBA. Clean energy subsidies are another (Tesla was originally capitalized by a government clean energy grant).

You might not have known that about Tesla, but you’re more likely to have heard about Solyndra, which was funded by the same initiative and tarred in the press as an example of wasteful spending. US gov stimulates a ton of business investment behind the scenes that often goes unnoticed.
But first the crop needs a whole season in the sun. You grow normal green endive, pull the whole plant, chop the head, then you’re growing the second flush in the dark from the root mass. Effectively using all the stored energy from the root for one final round of leaf production, but no light prevents photosynthesis and you get Belgian endive.
There's a transcript here, but not very readable:

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=rl2Q9xH8e7M
I mean, your argument seems to be that since the government does some good we should give them complete access to our bank account
I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analytical_Language_of_Joh...
This results in the apparent plane insulting the pilots: https://youtu.be/vmbzKsqKQoI

But it’s just telling them they can flare.
you pass it in?

it looks like it is a two argument function
> From what I've observed with my comments, my "popular opinion" and "unpopular opinion" comments aren't that far apart in terms of comment karma.

I think that's because HN is smart and doesn't just allow a fresh account go on a downvoting spree. It seems so obvious in retrospect but so underutilized.

There's a lot of debate over whether we should have dislikes/downvotes on modern social media, but it seems strange that the Slashdot mentality of "you need to earn the downvote" seems to have only spread to here and to the "answerHub" styles of forum (wikis, StackOverflow). I remember one interesting feature of Voat (back when that was making waves) on how it limited votes per day and was criticized for it, but I think simply applying that limit to downvotes would have fixed many issues there. It seems ideally you want to encourage as much positive feedback as possible, but require a little friction for negative feedback.
Is the configuration still "paste this mystery lisp code somewhere in a config / ini file in x,y,z place" or is it finally plug-and-play like in VSC?
> need to comply

Define "need". If there's no legal jurisdiction, where is this "need"? If a company wants to follow the rules, sure, it will so the thing. But otherwise, is there international legal jurisdiction that covers, for example, a company in Seychelles offering e2e encrypted comms that has users in the UK? Isn't it up to the UK to put in place blocking technology or laws that prohibit specific app usage?

I'm kinda thinking about the US TikTok situation.

What if the service is free, like Signal and WhatsApp? (and TikTok)
Agreed! Similarly, ice baths/cold plunges are a great way for me to mentally “reset” and clear up a little brain fog. Minimizing carbs has, for me, also helped. Not eliminating them mind you, but reeling my consumption of them in to a healthy level and focusing on proteins, fruits, veggies, etc for most of my caloric intake.
The “perceived incompetence” is propaganda-induced perception causes by the private sector and pro-business ideologists… (And when you defund public services it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy)
You attribute it to twitter so you don’t have to admit you know anything about the notorious hacker 4chins.
I think its probably that Go was being worked on by Google employees and the fact that GC languages were well accepted. A lot of early converts to Go were Python programmers, C++ devs didnt jump ship to anything else until Rust, I am seeing plenty of places integrating Rust with C++ code in some cases for mission critical code. I mean just look at when Discord switched from Go to Rust. They also used Rust to aide their BEAM VM code.
For me libraries vary substantially. My local library in the burbs was nice, but they decided to close every Sunday and only open from 12-5 on Saturday. And oddly, 4 libraries about 10 miles apart from each other all closed after a storm due to rain damage. Even though they are different buildings build many years apart in different styles. It seems odd they wild all have water damage.

And while they are closed to the public, the employees are still working, they are just working from home. Every week. So their plan is to have remote workers doing library work on Sunday.

But when they are open, they are very nice places.

But drive 30 minutes into the major city and it’s not a nice place. There are many homeless inside so it is messy and not a very safe place, if you don’t want someone yelling at your kid.

I think it’s appropriate to use our own experiences with libraries to form judgements.

I’m glad you (and I) have good experiences, but should we extrapolate our experiences into universal ones? What makes you think all libraries are great like yours?
As an equal-parts driver, biker, e-scooter rider and pedestrian, this is horrible. Yes, you have to focus on the driving, or walking, or scooting, but you're in constant stress because you can accidentally hit someone coming from any direction. Or they can hit you.

It's far better to have separate spaces, and cross only when you really have to.
Did it demonstrate plaque as cause, or effect (that gets cleaned up with meds)?
> do the tests really cover all of the non-redundant transistors, which I assume are a substantial portion of them?

In the limit, yes! "Design for test" (DFT) tooling inserts extra logic beneath the RTL netlist, which allows the chip to be put in a test mode where each flop can be driven or read as a giant shift register. Automated tooling designs test patterns to clock into these registers such that every gate in the design is verified. For large chips test patterns may be multiple gigabytes (though highly compressible).

Of course, this is "in the limit" and frequently (density, routing, frequency, etc) there are reasons where DFT engineers would choose to omit DFT inputs. In those cases more involved tests are needed to exhaustively verify those regions.
That's irrelevant unless you assume that they use the word "decolonization" in a bad faith. I argue they don't, and so it's a non-issue (people are being offended for no reason).

But IIRC, the first time I encountered the word "master" in computing, it was in the context of serial link data transfer, and there was a "slave".
This is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes! Reproductions like this somehow always end up feeling just a bit off, like being so close but something is wrong. But this one seems spotless.

Pure UI that works from before the word "ux" was invented.
Plants can at least convert CO2 combustion products back into carbon compounds and molecular oxygen, but what chemical pathway exists to free up the oxygen consumed by burning subsurface hydrogen in our atmosphere? Wouldn't this deplete the atmosphere of oxygen relatively quickly, and in a way that's not easy to reverse?
That runs the risk that the buyer keeps that business running and takes the money.

They must think they won’t be able to do that because they loose the link with Lyft’s car business. Why would that work? Does Lyft run CitiBike at a loss and expect it to be less successful on its own because it will have to raise prices?
In what context can you use Emacs but not another editor?
No. There was a drug released that targeted that pathway, but the approval in and of itself was a scandal - I spoke with a pharmacist last night who said people at her hospital were disgusted by the FDA’s decision. It was removed from the market two weeks later. There was basically no evidence of efficacy.
I think the mailing list flow is a hindrance to attracting the next generation of contributors.
I don’t have time to search to show my work (nor do I care to do so), but my understanding of the data is that suggests the same or lower.

The real incidence rate is hard to tease out because of the presumption of criminality baked into the American system — we know, for example, that Blacks in America are on average charged more frequently, convicted more frequently, and imprisoned for longer than any other group. White defendants are more likely to be offered diversion programs or be offered leniency, even if they are from the same economic circumstances.

In Canada, that presumption of criminality is placed on Indigenous peoples and the imbalances between groups on charges, convictions, and imprisons are similarly lopsided as those for Black Americans.
Imho - the driver is being scapegoated here. If you watch the actual video (graphic, don't recommend), the victim only appears for a few frames before the accident. In a normal car where the driver sees them and reacts, at best they hit the brakes at the same time they hit the victim. Distraction doesn't matter when the accident is unavoidable.

On the other hand, autonomous breaking systems might have actually made a difference here if they hadn't been disabled (at least in reducing the severity of the accident). And given the conditions, a human might have been driving slower. The driver here had no control over any of this, while their employer did...
I believe "genius" is largely misunderstood, the being that one labels as "a genius" is really "just like most people" with two exceptional aspects: 1) they are very very good at their specialization, and 2) (this is the real reason) they are phenomenal communicators within their field, to the degree the majority of the members of their field appear inarticulate when compared to 'the genius' and their ability to explain, to convey complex, nuanced aspects of their specialization. The genius is a "genius communicator" more than they are a genius at their specialization, but due to that exceptional communication skill the become an attractive magnet for similar specialization gifted people like themselves whom are not as articulate, and together they achieve the advances - but only the genius communicator gets recognized because they are the catalysis, and those critical other collaborators don't have the social language skills to gain recognition.
In addition the many weak points of the article's main topic that have already been addressed, this sentence:

> Growing up in Silicon Valley—a place full of scorn for politics—and attending a STEM-focused high school, debate was how I learned about public policy and economics.

Is absolutely insane to write for someone with her educational background. This is a school for kids of VCs during the height of SV openly playing political kingmakers. (Isn't Sheryl Sandberg her aunt?)
> Your outrage at this seems to be analogous to outrage of people who think that it is horrible that Unix has a "kill" operation.

The reaction is more similar to people who ARENT bothered by the use of kill, master, etc. The article about “decolonizing” functions is a shoehorned idealogical venture. A completely unnecessary political aside.

I also wouldnt call it outrage. That just seems like a way to make the point sound unreasonable without addressing its logic. If his reaction is outrage then so yours.
I’m prescribed trazadone for insomnia, and it’s magnificent. Virtually zero grogginess the next morning like I’d get from an anti-histamine, no compromise on sleep quality as the drug actually improves length and quality of REM sleep rather than negatively impacting it as many other sleep-aids do.
>Experts can bullshit you all day and no amount of critical thinking is going to pull you out of a deep well of ignorance.

that would be a lovely problem to have in modern social media. Meanwhile, I wonder if it would even hit the top 100 these days.
But vscode has basically all of it out of the box. Maybe after installing one or two extensions, which it recommends for you and you can install via a GUI.

As someone who uses emacs most often: VSCode is shaped a lot more closely to a modern aesthetic by default. If you've been following along with emacs all this time and keep up to date with the latest changes, you can easily accrete the configuration to make your emacs look like a modern tool, but it doesn't start configured that way.
It's a shame modern distros don't ship with it...
improving language (and communication) is never a solved problem
What makes them more important? I agree that in the short term it’s an allocation of resources problem, but the framework and criteria for the resource allocation model doesn’t seem clear to me, and I suspect is far from optimal.
The second link's clipping command is not ideal in my experience. For some god known reason, ffmpeg behaves differently depending on whether you put the -ss and -t/-to flags before or after the -i flag. And for me, before worked better.

It's also an issue in the original post.
As I’m currently a TMM myself I’d say that in times of tight cash flow and limited budgets, I’m helping keeping the lights on.

I’d rather not do as much as I do, but right now it’s “needs must” for the good of the business.
Absolutely. Which may be a lesser problem than a closed protocol.
The worst about it is how much of other people's time their wasting. Other folks are trying to verify/disprove their claims. Of course it is some kind of measurement error. Do your due diligence before you claim that you broke physics as we know it. All these people could be spending their time working on something worthwhile...
For me, my Ctrl+S moment was with Apple's Writer, on my first Macbook back in 2005 or so. Lost a whole evening's worth of work due to a crash.

I'm mostly in the `:w` camp now, but still...
M-x customize exists since forever, and is more plug-and-play than VSCode ever was.

The real problem with Emacs is the shitload of bugs that case weird, undocumented and annoying behavior. A scripting language like elips is not meant for programming something as large and complex as Emacs.
I guess it depends on what you mean by citizen-only and successful.

How about Bolshevik? Or Cuba? Or Vietnam? Or China?

If you consider the French Revolution successful (that didn’t work out so well) then I guess you can say the Sudan revolution was successful as we now have South Sudan. Or Libya was successful as Qaddafi is still dead.
I wonder how hard it would be to develop/train a machine learning method that ingests a photo of anywhere outside and maps it to corresponding satellite/aerial imagery.

We are of course very good at object recognition from still images. We are reasonably good at inferring depth from a single still image (monocular depth estimation [0-2]).

Combining these, we should be reasonably good at determining relative positioning of identified objects in 3D, and thus computing their overhead 2D positions. Imagine discretizing overhead x/y positions, essentially yielding an image where each pixel corresponds to a 1 meter square looking down, whose color is the inferred identity of what occupies it.

For example, in the linked album cover, we could infer that a street occupies a set of pixels with coordinates S = {(x1, y1),...(xN, yN)}; a building occupies pixel set B1 = {(xb1, yb1),...(xbM, ybM)}; another building pixel set B2; etc.

Now, we are also reasonably good at object recognition (and MDE) for overhead imagery [3]. This would let us build a giant set of overhead object identities inferred from the entirety of satellite imagery. The tricky part would be efficiently indexing this, such that the overhead coordinate sets inferred from the ground-level image could be quickly (and fuzzily) queried in the satellite data. A brute-force approach would essentially convolve the overhead object coordinates inferred from the ground-level image over every region of the satellite imagery, at every possible angular orientation (and likely several different scales, since MDE is often imperfect at inferring absolute depth), but this would be impractically slow.

I would bet that intelligence agencies have had this capability for some time now.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095070512...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20909-x

[2] https://keras.io/examples/vision/depth_estimation/

[3] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/17/2719
Office still has this.
All Ive ever wanted was to convert mp4 to gif.
*the only thing they bring to the table

I'm not talking about past pros, but current advantages.
What region is this?

Excellent catch.
“Central bankers are evil” is the upper class version of flat-earther. Looks like in this day and age, every sociological niche must grow its own stupid conspiracy theory…
High school debate has always been broken. It has only very rarely been about the contest of ideas, and always been about how to win. For example there is a concept called 'spreading' in policy debate. This is where you speak as fast as humanly possible to lay out as many points as possible and if the opposing team fails to address or mention any of them you claim victory. For some reason this strategy, which makes the debaters all but unintelligible is allowed and leads to victory.

In Lincoln Douglas debate it was common to construct what is called a 'collapsing tautology'. Your argument is constructed to look like a series of logical steps with which there can be argument, but in fact all it is is a tautology that ultimately can't be refuted. It's a trap and if the opponent engages at all they lose.

More generally HS debate is politics and persuasion. Know the judges, build charisma, learn what works regardless of the content.

The introduction of a new noxious debating strategy might be noteworthy, but it is no more ruining debate than all the others, and the students don't actually care about the strategy or its tenants any more than they care about the validity of Rawlsian justice.
Sorry I don't follow how this "standard" configuration is relevant. If you want more just buy more? If you don't want to pay pre-built markups build it yourself.

And the point about gaming setups is very relevant because you can get consumer hardware (aka cheap), instead of being forced into "workstation/server" which carries a huge markup.

You can get 128GB RAM and stupid amounts of ssd storage for cheap with consumer hardware.

The hardware hasn't stagnated at all. I think you're problem is simply with pre-built markups?
It's irrelevant that the usage of a word, by the word's very construction, favors the formation of false beliefs, so long as there are good intentions behind it?

The fact that a word can be used in the context of slavery doesn't mean the word always and everywhere carries the taint of slavery. What could possibly limit the reach of such a principle? Can I talk about how I like cotton shirts better than other fabrics, when the mere mention of cotton might bring some people back to an uncomfortable place?
Yeah, I have used it happily on Linux
That would change the title into your reading.

What does that mean?

The title is literal.

It is literally incomplete and the missing context changes the entire meaning.

Pharmacological treatments are proposed - for humans.

This isn't what the title says or implies.
Yup, exactly the point. Corporate garbage not making it into the kernel is solely the outcome of Torvalds-like style of saying "this is garbage and you're an *diot", where it's very rare that any processes or governance bodies would do anything about it.
And you’ll also find that in the past 20 years the link between money supply and inflation hasn’t followed the orthodox model and the macroeconomics textbooks have come under question by mainstream economists.

That said, it’s clear there was incredible asset inflation in the decades leading up to 2022, so it could be that an outsize proportion of the increased money supply simply ended up in the hands of rich people and homeowners.
That is why we have Navigation Warnings:

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You can't really debate experience. OP just reported what they found out of themselves.
Pull Requests are cake or puppies
Good points made, but the attitude is absolutely repulsive.
In what way is that my argument? You said:

> Can you actually give examples of competent public spending?

I gave you an example of competent public spending and you’ve somehow transformed that in your head into “we should give government unfettered access to our wallets”. Absurd generalisations are absurd.

You’re very obviously not coming to this discussion in good faith. Feel free to argue against straw men in your own time but I won’t be wasting my time joining you.
This title is still a bit click baity because ultimately this problem has very little impact on any real world usage of stochastic gradient descent - and especially the more important ones, where getting infinitesimally close to any particular local minimum is specifically and totally not what people care about (and getting to a global minimum is something we've long known to give up on).

It is a theoretically interesting result about the PPAD complexity class itself. Not sure if it should be STOC best paper though, if it was nominated as best paper because of the weak link to machine learning I'd be a bit disappointed.
Then your money would be worth a ton due to deflation, but unable to purchase anything because the workforce is near non existent…

I’m happily child-free myself, but for natural reasons. I’ll let the breeders keep the Ponzi scheme going.