skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this simply happens to somewhat coincide with the US party split

That's not my reading. The negative polarity is clearly the US Democrats, but as Vitalik notes, the opposite polarity isn't anything obviously specific to the Republicans. His posts for negative were simply the first three posts and they're all of a very consistent political ideology and region. But he had to cherry-pick posts for positive polarity to try and sustain the claim that this is the opposite of the negative polarity, as Brazilian politics and Tesla people isn't something anyone would have picked if asked to guess what the posts would be about ahead of time.

Then there's the clear content differences between the positive vs negative polarity posts. The negative polarity posts are all highly subjective opinions, usually about the tone of what some famous people said. Their references are simply left-leaning US media articles which are themselves opinion. They could be easily disputed and frequently are. The positive polarity posts are cherry picked for the purpose of making a point, yet are mostly specific factual claims with hard data and references, except for the second, which is apparently disputing the claim that child trafficking doesn't even exist? I don't see any way to dispute any of the claims in the positive polarity notes. You'd have to fall back on "well that may be true but in wider context..." type responses.

So it's not really clear exactly what this algorithm is picking up on. The differences may just reflect the inherent nature of politics in which left and right are often presented as polar opposites, but which in reality is more like the left being relatively homogenous and consistent at any given point in time, whereas the "right" is more like a coalition of people who aren't on the left than a specific set of policy or cultural concerns.
It's become extremely common in tech discourse these days to label anything anyone sees that involves any level of "direct democracy" / "community consensus" (both age-old pre-computers ideas) as "crypto-esque", as if Bitcoin was the first time humans applied consensus.
It's explained in the article, but the voting system is much more complicated and attempts to converge on ideologically neutral results. Whereas the voting on twitter replies is limited to likes and downvotes, with no clear connection to how high that appears in the results.
> The article repeatedly makes effort to assure the reader that the left/right dichotomy wasn't hardcoded but instead "emergently" appeared,

No it doesn't. It's explaining that to you. It's explaining code that is available for you to read yourself. It is not trying to sell you anything.
Foxconn founder announced his Taiwan presidency run: touts Apple, Tesla links
The limitations of C++11 shouldn't really be relevant today.
This is well documented in each railway publication.

Also the risk is .... not existent. To damage railway infrastructure there are way more efficient and simple ways (getting a rail to derail, destroy some signaling cables, ...)

The "attack" here would require quite some investment in equipment (power etc.) and only bring a single train to a realtively quick stop, well in safe margins, where the driver after a quick check with the dispatcher can override and continue the ride, while investigators would collect the equipment.

It's impractical for a stunt (way simpler and more effective: just walk close to the tracks and they will do emergency stops for all trains close by) and ineffective for an attack.
>> I guess my main concern versus C is portability and ease of integrating libraries or exporting a usable C API, and secondarily the quality of the optimizer.

Interfacing with C APIs / libraries is really easy and portable across Ada implementations:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/inte...

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-B-3.html

The quality of the optimizer depends on the Ada implementation.

GNAT, the free software Ada implementation, uses the GCC backend so it is pretty good:

https://www.getadanow.com/

https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro
Jet fighters are too fast to be effective against cartel smuggling planes. Propeller driven planes such as the Super Tucano are much better suited for that role.
It has a central authority that can and has taken down community notes that were disagreeing with their narrative. Seems like the opposite of decentralization.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-x-elon-musk-vaccine-bronny-james...

May be it’s the false sense of being decentralized that makes it like crypto?
You can't really learn anything just consuming content, you have to put the work. This works for keeping up with news and trends tough.
Yes, passive voice is used effectively all the time. The rule was created by grammarian's who didn't understand its effectiveness or overstated its necessity. Judgement should be used to determine when it works.
Electric Cars Pass a Crucial Tipping Point in 23 Countries
https://archive.ph/jakiU
Among mainline Linux filesystems, xfs started doing this first. The test suite is still named xfstests, although many more filesystems rely on it now. They regularly test xfs on enormous filesystems which 99.9% of us will never see, both with hundreds of billions of tiny files, and relatively small numbers of very large ones, plus various mixes of the two. Pushing it into edge cases like billions of files in one directory without any nesting. I really like that strong engineering culture and that's why I prefer xfs for most stuff.
> this effort of small increases of commits is far outweighed by the modularity

Not remotely, as the scale of the codebase increases, the benefit of modularity goes to zero and the benefit of atomic changes increases.

Also: it's not always feasible to break up a change into smaller commits. Sometimes atomic change is the only way to do it.
I think this is too uncharitable. I'm not a cryptocurrency booster, but Vitalik has consistently been a philosophical explorer of ideas he finds interesting in this space, and this seems genuine, not an attempt to "hitch a dead ox to a live one". Most of the article has nothing to do with cryptocurrency at all.
They cause me to defect. I used to use CNN.com every morning to check stock futures. But the skeleton loading screen takes an incredibly variable amount of time. Sometimes, it’s just a second, but often it’s longer. I don’t feel like sitting there waiting to find out so I switched to CNBC.com, which doesn’t seem to have that problem.
I thought Waymo and Cruise are both using optical and LiDAR (using fancy sensor fusion algorithms to make those work safely together), so this would impact them as well? LiDAR alone isn’t going to be able to tell if something is a pedestrian, just that something is there, optical is still needed to determine that the thing is a person.
User account deletion sadly does not imply deletion of said user's previous messages. They are instead coalesced to a unified ghost user. Messages have to be deleted manually.
Web Content Compression Benchmark.zlib brotli zstd zlib_ng libdeflate igzip,...
The more relevant example is Iraq 1991. In a standup fight, the 4th largest army in the world was obliterated and no one in America would know if they didn’t read the newspaper.
> the "winning" strategy is to have high-level scripting languages where you can ignore most of the details, which call into hyper-optimized, high performance libraries. For instance, when you're using Scipy, you call into Fortran and C almost interchangeably.

That gets you about 70% of the way there, but the remaining 30% is tricky. Unfortunately, the library-call stage doesn't easily (with generality) let you fuse operations. For example, consider the example of a finite-volume code, where the flux is some nonlinear function of the interface value, taken to be the average of left and right cells:

flux = nonlinear_flux_op(f[:-1] + f[1:]) # Compute interface fluxes
f[1:-1] += dt/dx*(flux[:-1] - flux[1:]) # Update cell volumes based on flux differences
# Do something special for the boundaries

Each of the substeps here is fast. Sub-indexing these 1D arrays is trivial, and their local operations are highly vectorized. The nonlinear flux operator operates element-wise, so it's easy to compile it into a version that properly (CPU) vectorizes (and/or it might already be provided, like np.exp or *2). This code is also very readable.

However, real performance would require fusing operations. There's no need to compute a full temporary array for the interface values, but that's exactly what would happen in naive NumPy code. Likewise, there's no need to compute all of the fluxes before taking their differences.

A hand-optimized code would perform the full computation in a single scan of the array, keeping all of the data in CPU cache (blocking by a cache line or so in order to use vector registers effectively). Even if given the code naively written, an optimizing compiler would try loop fusion and get most of the way to the hand-optimized result.

Code such as this is relatively FLOPS-light compared to the amount of memory accessed, so effective use of cache can lead to an order of magnitude speed-up.

With a fair amount of work you can still achieve this result in Python, but to do so you need to use one of the optimizing Python compilation tools like numba. Unfortunately, this is not easy for the not-a-programmer domain scientist, since working with numba means understanding the intersection of Python and numba's imposed compilation rules.
For your safety, this is more or less what should be done, yes.

In practice, they follow AIR OPS regulations set by the FAA or EASA, with fairly up-to date weight studies to estimate the average passenger weight. So for your example, if you use the data average obtained for Europeans, you will be, on average, safe when flying Kenyans and North Koreans.

Here is a link to the latest EASA weight study:
https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/research-repo...
This is a completely deranged and disgusting partisan rant, and paints a much rosier picture of what reproduction throughout most of history was like. If you think sexual exploitation is only enabled by contraception, you have completely drank the Kool aid. It is also laughable to claim this is actually the take that doesn't patronize women. I can assure you plenty of people have slept around throughout history, it's just that the men would abandon their children. Contraception has saved women from the diseases and consequences of the predatory men in their life

The weird stuff about sexual confusion is also unwarranted. You might think this is a measured take, but it's Q-ANON level nutso.
I stopped looking long ago but to my limited understanding, when V says it does X in 1s, it means they delegated the job to gcc faster than others doing the whole work.

Either that or V author is up for a few ACM turing awards.
System redundancy rarely covers software faults.
Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.)

You're right about the context and grammar being usually sufficient to disambiguate. I thought about the examples 話す ("hanâsu"; to talk) and 離す ("hanâsu"; to separate) I gave earlier, and I don't remember ever confusing the two in speech dialogue. But it's probably that there are enough non-homophonous near-synonyms for these words in Japanese that would get used in practice, if we imagine contexts where a word could conceivably be confused with another homophone, e.g. 言う【いう】, 喋る【しゃべる】, 語る【かたる】 in the case of 話す【はなす】.

The above words are "native" Japanese words 和語. Definitely the problem of homophones is way less serious for those words than for Sino-Japanese vocabulary, 漢語.

I think Japanese is untypical in that it's a language with a limited repertoire of syllables adopting words from a language with a much richer system of sounds, Chinese, and trying to map the (compound) words character by character. By the way, that probably relates to why most learners find pronunciation of any variety of Chinese to be difficult; the language needs to make the necessary aural distinctions, including tone (famously), which are apparently subtle to non-native speakers.

There are countless two-syllable compound words in Chinese, a good portion being used in common speech, but of the ones adopted into Japanese, many of them turn into essentially two "syllables" also. (Actually, some modern terms are back-borrowings from Japanese coinages through writing, just so that I'm being fair and historically accurate in this comment.)

Of these terms there is at least a few, that in Japanese, would be confused in speech, that in practice the pronunciation gets mangled to disambiguate. Here are some examples:

私立 ("privately established (institution, organization, etc.)") versus
市立 ("municipally established") has the following disambiguation in common speech:

私立【しりつ】→【わたくしりつ】

市立【しりつ】→【いちりつ】

科学 ("science") versus 化学 ("chemistry") has the disambiguation:

化学【かがく】→【ばけがく】 (as if the word were 化け学 but it's never written that way)

Basically the native Japanese reading of a character 訓読み is substituted for
the Sino-Japanese reading 音読み in speech, even though the latter is the proper, original reading for that character in the word in question it occurs in.

For the reader's curiosity, there's also one case of pronunciation mangling that I know in Mandarin Chinese:

炎 ("inflammation") versus 癌 ("cancer"):

In Mandarin, we have 炎 yán, 癌 ái even though the sound value of 癌 ought to have been also yán, homophonous with 岩 according to the rules of sound change over the centuries. Contrast with the following:

Cantonese 炎 jim4, 癌 ngaam4, 岩 ngaam4
Japanese 炎 en エン 癌 gan ガン, 岩 gan ガン

Basically it's the consequence of packing too much information onto individual syllables/characters while Western languages would simply devise longer words (with more syllables) for more sophisticated/technical concepts.
I’m never sure if people posting like this really don’t know why, or are trying to do therapy.
I've noticed different tree species throw their parties at different times. Assuming that its not just a bad year for plants like last year was, where everything is impacted. If the White Oaks are having a bad year, its likely that the Red Oaks or the Hickory trees will be bearing heavier than usual.

I've walked in the woods for years; this is the impression i have from that experience. I don't see a good way to capture this in numerical data form, tho. You'd have to have a pretty good and consistent sampling technique over maybe 100 acres of forest; and would probably need to do sampling on multiple patches that size at some distance from each other. Over a span of decades.
Stop posting Twitter links.
>You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts... and you still bought one.

Yeah but the company is run by a hip cool memelord who's gonna get us to mars, and his cars have nice softwares like my iPad. Who cares about the metal parts of the car's rigidity structure? That's just something old boring people think about. Everyone knows EVs are more reliable than ICE so no need to ever look under the hood. $TSLA to the moon! /s

>Still I guess at least it's good to see Tesla living up to the reputation for American cars to be generally shit build quality.

The shit build quality has less to do with being American, and more to do with Tesla chasing higher margins, high margins which in part come from cutting a lot of corners in places where customers aren't looking for, which in a tracic-comedy way is what most American auto-makers did to get to their shit-build quality reputation.

To be fair, many brands have QA issues all the time, but that one from the article is so big and obvious it should never have made it passed inspection.
The Art of Collective Creation
Say what you want about the athlete in question, but has it not been shown that the power of placebo is a real factor in sports performance even for those with more “normal” beliefs?

How many athletes do the silliest rituals or recovery protocols that have no backing by modern day science and yet it works for them.

Our beliefs and expectations about the product are what honestly matter here, not the product in question.
file html8 : 100MB random html pages from a 1m Alexa Top sites corpus.

Number of pages = 1178

Average length = 84886 bytes

CPU: AMD 7840HS 3.8-5.1GHZ
Lemon law likely applies
You can't. So you learn while you are working (even when what you want to learn has nothing to do with your work). Of course, that can only be applied for office jobs.
The entire premise is an exercise in fear mongering, not aimed at people 10,000 years in the future but rather at people in the present. The message is that we must not use nuclear power because the waste is so dangerous that we have to go to elaborate theatrical lengths to prevent cave men in the future from killing themselves with it.

The most sensible way to deal with the waste, after burning up transuranic waste in nuclear reactors (common sense), is to put it somewhere that the effort to find and retrieve it is so great that only people who already knew what they were doing could manage to get their hands on it. The most obvious candidates for such a method are dumping it into the ocean. If you want to get fancy it could first be dissolved into water, or instead vitrified and sealed. Either way, it could be placed directly on the sea floor in deep parts of the ocean, or dropped into subduction zones, or buried beneath the sea floor. Any of these would be adequate. Another option is horizontal boreholes a few kilometers deep, but that's a bit less practical.

Of course people today lose their lids at the thought of a little tritium getting dumped into the ocean; this is the result of the same sort fear mongering campaigns that "this is not a place of honor" comes from. But this is a sociological problem deliberately created by activists, not a technological problem. A great deal of nuclear waste, including spent fuel and reactor components, was dumped into the ocean in the 20th century and nobody crying about Japan's tritium loses much sleep over that waste. China pretends that Japan's tritium will ruin fish for China, but they're not acting concerned about the several hundred TBq of nuclear waste the Soviet Union dumped into the Sea of Japan. Their objections to Japan dumping their tritium are political theater. The impact this oceanic dumping has had since it was done decades ago can be studied, and the answer is that it's not an issue. Water is a really great shielding material and very deep water is really good at keeping meddling idiots away from things. Much better than any spooky monument or deliberately poisoned land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...
I wonder how pissed Hilderman is right now over the editing of this piece and (presumably) the interview he gave?

His quotes seem to be all over the place. How can he both say "it's not reasonable to weight passengers for the purposes of safety", but also say "periodic weight assessments can help airlines determine if weight estimates are still accurate", and then add in a non-sequitur about European privacy norms and then seat pitches??
The most high-profile terrorist attack was probably the one on Tiananmen Square in 2013, for which the Turkistan Islamic Party claimed responsibility: https://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamis...
This is preposterous. If people want to have children, they are free not to use contraception. To suggest that demographic decline is a bad thing while also suggesting that it is due to people voluntarily not having children would be to suggest that people should be forced against their will to have children, which is horrifying.
No it's just poor QA. You can live with bad parts coming out of the prices provided you catch them when they do.

This shouldn't ever happen if QA is being done properly.

EDIT: which I recognise is "cutting corners" but the point is, any idiot can make one in-spec part. Making them consistently is the challenge.
Live worm found in Australian woman’s brain
> I'm a tiny bit worried by the way they are pushing development of so many products not directly related to core language development (a GitHub clone! A kernel!) and not focusing on creating a proper compiler.

So showcasing what the language and compiler can do is a bad thing?
One thing I noticed on the page:

> Fortran is a relatively small language that is surprisingly easy to learn and use

I suppose you could say the same of C. C is also a small language, but if you don't know your way around the libraries and tooling you're going to have a bad time. I wonder if the same is true for Fortran.
No, not really. There are different types of centrists, religious vs liberterian right, and even some socialist religionists. The world is a tat bit more complex than the loud minorities want to make you believe.
i'm working as a digital product designer for over 4 years in an agency, never heard about monotype really, there are some amazing independent foundries which fonts we were buying + using free open source alternatives on the projects with less budget. Currently I'm creating a notion file with the best independent foundries and their typefaces so it's easy to discover, pick favourites and come back to that file for the next time you need to choose a font, I will also add best open source typefaces to it, but monotype won't be in there
For smudging to have antiseptic properties, I think you'd need a great deal more smoke than you'd get from burning some herbs. The repellent properties are probably a bit easier to achieve. But I think a lot of the effectiveness of smudging comes down to aromatherapy.
Can confirm to some degree.

I had one dark skinned kid in dark clothes casually crossing the road in front of me during the dark months here were I live.

I didn't have to slam the brakes or anything because it was a bit ahead of me, bit it was scary because of how hard it was to detect.
AFAIK if there is a binary replication between two instances then you cannot upgrade without downtime.
While e-scooter rentals are a nuisance so are cars (a lot more tbh), it's just that we've come to accept those as default.
My employer makes a multi-band synthetic aperture radar that penetrate snow and is high-resolution enough to "see" painted road markings and reflectors beneath a layer of snow.

It is nowhere near small or cheap enough for self-driving car applications, but will be one day.

Another challenge is affordable real-time processing of the data. Churning through 3,200MB/s of phase-history data is expensive but again that will solve itself given time.
There is!

You move on to another website.

Voting with your feet is the strongest veto we have as web users.

I think this is happening because we as a collective are using advertisement based websites with traffic funneled to them by advertisement network operators.

Don’t let Googles algorithms decide what website you visit. Find alternate search engines and indexes.
Unraveling the mystery of John Steinbeck’s letter to Marilyn Monroe (2021)
Yes, but you'd have a whole set of additional data (number of dimensions e.g. 2 and then the order of access for those dimensions). And that would affect the size of every array instance, which is something you really don't want. Or the compiler would need to keep track of it on the type level so that a row-major array can't be passed where a column major is expected etc. In any case it would really make the APIs overly complicated.
Why would you need a table for each person or post? Those are rows.
What does "street-running" mean in this context? Could you provide some examples?
In my case, it was a few managers in the org who decided to change over from scrum to kanban.

If there are some teams in your organization or company using kanban, you can use them as an example. If issues brought up in the retrospectives are not being addressed and those issues are related to the scrum process, then that might be a way to get something to change.