skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't this self select people who are willing to ditch vehicles.

Shocking that folks selectively willing to live in an area with specific rules are happier living in the area with specific rules they self selected into.

I am all for people being allowed to self select into communities that fit their lifestyles.
It's a basic rule of economics. Veterinarians need to eat too.
Just to be clear: this is a "fifth force" that's intelligent and which engenders broad-spectrum healing on physical, emotional, and mental levels (a panacea) and nobody's interested?
I'd encourage you to look at the findings of the "evidence" for the Iraq War. Not only was it overtly fabricated, it was just lazy and sloppy. Our high level informant in Saddam's government with first-hand knowledge of what was happening, was actually a taxi driver and thief with 0 knowledge of anything [1]. The mobile weapon's laboratories were completely standard run-of-the-mill weather balloon refilling stations. [2] The rock solid proof of Iraq trying to purchase 'yellowcake uranium', were poorly made forgeries. [3] Literally all of the "Irrefutable and Undeniable" evidence was fake and fabricated.

Nord Stream had just finished completion in September 2021. The US was able to 'convince' Scholtz to defer certification of it, but it was an untenable position. Rejecting Russian gas would entail Germany doing what it was ultimately compelled to do - tanking its own economy for the sake of US geopolitical interests while also buying US gas at an ultra-premium price. Blowing it up not only helped ensure Germany would not be 'tempted' into turning away from the US and would remain heavily dependent, but was also extremely profitable for the US, and a substantially damaging blow to Russia who had again spent literally a decade getting that pipeline up, to say nothing of the viable income stream once the flows started.

And now, again, add on top of this years of us trying to stop the pipeline's construction, and then eventually going so absurdly far as to publicly threaten to blow it up. I view the world probabilistically, so I will happily agree there's some chance that somehow the US was not responsible, but I think that chance is very close to zero.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Iraqi_mobile_we...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries
> In Haskell, by way of comparison, any one-parameter function can be used as the argument to map

Ruby doesn’t have functions, but any one parameter block (to which any one parameter callable, and some other things, can be converted with an &) can be passed as the block parameter to map. And, yes, you can use function composition and similar operations to build up more complex callables from existing ones without an explicit new block or lambda.

Your examples mostly have pretty close parallels in ruby:

irb(main):044:0> ["hello", "goodbye"].map &:reverse
=> ["olleh", "eybdoog"]

is the more compact form of the form with the explicit lambda:

irb(main):045:0> ["hello", "goodbye"].map {|s| s.reverse}
=> ["olleh", "eybdoog"]

composition works similarly, though there is no compact notation to convert an operator and its right operand to a callable, only the left:

irb(main):048:0> ["a","bb","ccc","dddd"].filter &(2.method(:<) << :length.to_proc)
=> ["ccc", "dddd"]

But, you do have to cheat a little to do:

irb(main):049:0> [[1,2],[3,4]].map &:*.to_proc.uncurry
=> [2, 12]

in place of:

irb(main):049:0> [[1,2],[3,4]].map {|x, y| x * y}
=> [2, 12]

Because while ruby has Proc#curry, it lacks Proc#uncurry. But its simple to define:

class Proc
def uncurry
->(args) { self.call *args }
end
end
Delphi was great but a major deal breaker was that is was not free to use.
what is the best way to fine-tune these models? any good resources would be very helpful. TIA /\

PS - I have a brief background in Machine Learning, more in development.
In Poland I can keep my number and recover the SIM, but I guess it's EU-wide.
Could be. But still one would expect the Indian accent to lean towards the UK's because of the colonial past.
Isn't WebGPU far closer to Metal than to Vulkan or D3D12?
Infant mortality is something like 3.3 per 1000 in the UK. 25% of that happens in the first week, and women are usually discharged with their baby after 2 or 3 days. And that mortality rate includes things like known defects that are incompatible with life that would not be considered suspicious when the baby dies.

So, there should be far fewer than one death per thousand of the newborns in the hospital. Since her activities took course over a year, it's quite possible that no unexplained deaths happened apart from the ones that she was involved with.

It's also possible there might be one death not caused by her that just happened to occur on her shift.
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Love the fact that you can run just about any container by using a Python script as the bootstrap.
The word "AI" sells consumers an abstract image of themselves as having something "intelligent" and "smart" at their service + edgy feeling of having almost person at your complete command but without(?) the moral issues of slavery.

If you take away buzzwords and apply good product design, when ML-based stuff works it's invisible powering features like "autocomplete" or "voice control" or "internet search".
EVs don’t work for a lot of situations. What they are good at is around town driving. Maybe this will change in the future but this is the current reality.
Parkinson's disease detectable before physical symptoms show: Australian rsh
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It also depends on soil properties.

However, 100-200 lbs of fertilizer per acre is somewhat reasonable, so it’s probably on the order of 10-100 acres per ton of nitrogen atoms.

Source (this is an article about measuring available nitrogen, and their examples are in the 100-200 lbs per acre range):

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/Ext/corn/news/timeless/AssessAva...
I've never heard of him until I took a trip to Dublin, and happened to stroll around random neighborhoods until I saw a plaque on a house celebrating his achievement!
But did he get the job?!
Microsoft, Amazon among the companies shaping AI-enabled hiring policy
I'm not sure, it will definitely improve things, but insofar as the informational warfare part of the republican party in the US has shown us in the rest of the world, both Democrats and Republicans speak English and therefore the real barrier seems to be ideological rather than communication.

The only real solution is to remove our human/animal nature; a lot of people only care about something if it directly affects them. A lot of hot topic issues in the US at the moment seem to circle around controlling others (abortion, gay rights) and the freedom to do what you want even if it affects others (guns, owning an oversized vehicle).
I do see where you are coming from, but perhaps it is good that people think of it as proper AI (with all the inherent concerns) so that we enact rules and regulations before there is a runaway ML arms race that actually does give us AGI. Will we be ready then otherwise?
Git-ignoring your project-level .vscode directory makes little sense to me. That's what the user-level config is for.
It's been a long time, but I feel like "de" is just a tad shorter than "deux." Might that be on account of my youthful exposure to French was in the Alsace? It was mostly older speakers.
Just remember to close it from the outside!
Ask HN: Which (if any) computing device for a 6 year old?
My other half has expressed a desire to get a tablet for our 6 year old, to run educational apps and games. My thinking on the pros/cons of this

* On iOS vs Android: I imagine this is a price/quality tradeoff when it comes to educational apps? (any recommendations for specific apps appreciated). That said the cbeebies games on my android phone seem reasonable.

* Against both iOS/Android: compared to a laptop, I get the sense these ecosystems, by dumbing things down, funnel users into being more product than customer. I'm well aware windows does shady stuff as well, but I feel that learning to use abstractions such as a filesystem will likely put children more in charge of their own data.

* Against windows: I imagine there aren't so many good touchscreen focused educational apps as either iOS or Android, though I may be wrong?

* Against Linux (because I'm sure someone's going to bring it up). Presumably not so many educational apps/games?

* Against any device at all: I think we all know the reasons and honestly I'm willing to be persuaded not to get any device at all. Our daughter already gets to watch videos / play educational games on our phones enough as it is. Is there something I'm missing which makes a tablet preferable to continuing the status quo here?

Other HN parents you must have made a decision yourselves, I'd be interested to know your take on the above (plus any other concerns I've missed).
I've ended up on TV (local TV news station), gave a talk at Blackhat and a couple other big public facing presentations for various security orgs. The only two things that sure-fire worked for me in this exact situation: getting older and repetition.

The older I got and the more I forced myself to get up there and do public speaking the easier it got.

That whole "imagine them naked" thing is a hilarious hoax for what its worth.
That must be it. It's almost always 70+ percent US.
I'm guessing from your name that you are in the UK? That would explain why your experience doesn't map to other countries, as UK has a huge crisis of ketamine abuse.
This makes sense, but I guess I don't see, still, how this might get the beginner into too much trouble. Pedagogical methods and statements will always not quite stay true to the letter of the spec. When we teach, we say one thing "is like" another, or you "might understand this by comparing it to foo," knowing well that the concept isn't actually foo. This is never meant to confuse the student, but to help them get in the right position to actually understand something.

But still, I get your point. Certain diligent students might read that statement and, rationally, read a lot into the terms "namespace" and "binding," and then get confused when they look up those terms in the hyperspec. It does come across careless in this way. But I just don't think, in itself, this would lead to a confusion about what packages are good for, or why they are used. Whether a beginner wrongly considers a package a namespace, or something like a namespace, wouldn't affect the way they would decide to actually use a package in their work. (Not to disregard how an experienced, real-lisp-understander might use their precise knowledge of the way packages work to make even better/cleaner/organized code.)

But either way, thank you for the thoughts, and please take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
I don’t know what the old site was like so maybe this is actually an improvement, but I find this site really difficult to use and possibly even broken.

First off it’s really weird to start with a page that links back to the main site and then explains how to navigate the site. If it’s not obvious how to use your nav bar then you’re off to a really bad start. The home page should describe Vulkan and give me enough info to figure out where I need to go next. It should not be a mini tutorial on how to navigate.

Further, when I click on Education from the home page for example, it doesn't go anywhere (scrolls to the top of the page). When I click on the Vulkan Proposals link, it goes to a one paragraph thing that says it’s a cross link and when I click the link it goes back to the homepage. I’m so confused. I’m using mobile right now maybe it’s not broken on desktop?
OK, but what I love about being here is that I, personally, haven't driven a car here in two months. And there has literally never been a time where we said to ourselves "we could do it but only if we had a car" because the rare occasion where that comes up is what car-share (or van-share, etc.) is for.

And that way I don't have to screw around with taking my own car to the shop for (oil changes, tyres, brake jobs, whatever), or having it inspected annually, or shopping around for insurance, etc.

My original comment was about removing cars from the city centre, which is great for people who are _not_ in cars because, of course, drivers kill a lot of people and biking to school with your 6 year old is utterly TERRIFYING when someone decides to cut in front of them in a giant truck. Cars make the world worse for everyone around them (including those who are in _other_ cars!) and it's kinda rude to use one in a city.
While efforts are being made at modernizing quite a few things where it makes sense, many may have better luck with using emacs-bedrock:

> An extremely minimal Emacs starter kit uses just one external package by default, and only GNU-ELPA packages on an opt-in basis. Intended to be copied once and then modified as the user grows in knowledge and power.

https://sr.ht/~ashton314/emacs-bedrock/
If you look at their leadership. They have no one who knows how to code & understand's their core product at the helm. No one in their leadership team could use cypress themselves.

Decision like this come from the leadership team, and I don't think they have people with enough sense of what they're actually doing -- breaking trust with their end customers to understand this is terrible idea.

It smells a lot like what happened with Unity a few weeks ago. It's the same story. Leadership team weren't actually users of the product, they didn't understand that the company's key value was the trust they've built with the customers and they broke it.
> I have two young children and that poses further issues as this type of wildlife bring nasty insects and diseases along with them.

Since both badgers and foxes are night animals I guess his children play at 01:00 during the night in his garden?
To add to this: livestock make up 62% of the world's mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%.

Humanity, and especially the meat eating subspecies, is just a side effect of the Haber-Bosch reaction.
Maybe the correct way of addressing this problem is by using data sources that won't make others sue you, rather than hiding what data sources you're using.
Classic internet-culture comment, telling someone their own lived experience is propaganda.
I agree, car sharing is the way to go.
If someone is considering learning CL effectively, take this piece of advice: use Emacs.

You might think that it's an outdated piece of shit, maybe you hate RMS with a passion or whatever.

But make yourself a favour and use it at least for the month that will take you to go through a manual like this or Practical Common Lisp or several others. Just install SBCL, QuickLisp, Emacs and SLIME (or Sly, that is a more featureful fork) and start hacking. I promise that you won't need more than ten hours to get hooked. Maybe you'll eventually like Emacs.

If you're on Windows, watch this video right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI

There's a moment at 12:52 when he invokes SLIME from inside Emacs. If you're confused how he does it, it's using Alt-x (or M-x in Emacs slang) and then writing "slime".

Also at 2:40, to make a persistent environment string, there's now an easier way: in PowerShell write "setx HOME c:\Emacs" or whatever directory you choose. I use "C:\Lisp" and I put everything related under it: sbcl, quicklisp, emacs and my own projects.

Other than that, even if the video is ten years old, everything works as advertised. That's true for most of the resources you will find around. Apparently nothing is showing much activity, but that impression is misleading. The core sbcl is getting relentless upgrades and the rest simply works.

For web stuff, use Hunchentoot. Remember that quicklisp makes super-easy to download libraries.

More interesting resources, apart what others have already mentioned:

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

https://www.youtube.com/@CBaggers/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@GavinFreeborn/videos

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html

#clschool at libera.net.

If some of the authors of those are reading this: a huge thank you!
Yes, and now I'm even more convinced that you have no idea what you're doing or talking about in regards to the framework and it's ecosystem.
In best cities you literally do not care since everything runs frequent enough you don't wait.
I wonder if using your library (https://github.com/floooh/sokol) instead of OpenGL will alleviate some of these issues for newcomers! There's already a sokol port of the learnopengl.com code (https://github.com/GeertArien/learnopengl-examples), so it shouldn't be too hard to match between the tutorial articles and these.
> People imagine BEVs need to be charged every evening at some super high power. The reality is they need to be charged about once a week

Wouldn’t you say this is based on usage? Or do EVs run for a week regardless of distance traveled?
> If their kid needed a couple thousand dollars to live, a lot more people would be able to scrounge it up.

While I agree that many (most) people would make it work if it were for a child, I wouldn't use the insanity of the US's human healthcare bills to justify anything. It's also insane and a travesty that you can walk into your hospital and walk out with multi-thousand dollar charges you cannot pay. Both can be terrible and unjustifiable.
What is blocking android release. Keen to beta.
Unfortunately, flag-carrying is hard-coded into our firmware. :/

It does make me laugh to think of some fun places we can stick USB cables to initiate a DFU.
Part of the implication is that your habits would change with different transportation - for example a fairly common response about groceries is buying them in smaller quantities every few days at the (likely smaller and/or more specialized) grocer convenient to your home or transit stop; renting a truck or cargo van to self move furniture as needed if you can’t get it professionally moved (which probably isn’t a bad idea even if you do primarily use a car!); renting a car for a road trip or being able to use transit to get there instead; that kind of thing.
They ditched personal vehicles. Not owning a car is different than not having mobility. They aren't hermits.
There are definitely situations where legacy public transit makes sense, but at up to $1 billion/mile for urban railway that doesn't seem a practical future for the US. I'd love to snap my fingers and make more cities in the US to be like Amsterdam, but there are hundreds of historical, political, and climactic reasons why that is not a feasible path for US cities at this point. The consistent and deliberately boring progress of Waymo has me very optimistic that there is a better way. For tech crowds, the best analogy I have is the switch from dedicated copper to packet-switched networks. We're on the verge of unleashing dramatically more efficient utilization of existing pipes (road infrastructure).
The issue with third spaces in the US is making and keeping them fit for purpose. When they tend to be commercialized, squatted on, or otherwise put to exclusive use they are often no longer useful third spaces.

What we tend to have is third spaces that are policed in some manner. Often by commerce, as that does a pretty good job of keeping away those considered undesirable without literally calling police. Some call this privatization, which is accurate but overlooks that the money-based gating of access is a key feature.
> I think this is a clear 14th amendment violation but thats just me.

Care to expand a little? What exactly is a clear violation?
Not to mention the fact that even in the smallest cities there are several attorneys willing to take employment lawsuits on spec (lose get nothing, win get 30-40% of the award). If you're in a major city like NYC there will be thousands.

The math is pretty simple, Company has to pay its attorneys no matter what. Lawyer is working on spec, the client pays nothing out of pocket. Why would Company spend $400k on a trial that they might lose (and then pay out a 6-figure award on top of that) if they can just pay Lawyer $25k with an NDA and be done? Lawyer gets $7500 for a few days work spread over a couple months, interviewee gets almost $20k for a couple depositions, Company just "saved" $375k or potentially a lot more.

That's a hell of a lot of risk to take on just to send people an email saying "we thought it was bad that you bit the hiring manager." Just saying "we decided not to move forward with your application at this time" eliminates that risk entirely, including the $25k.
I'm sorry you have not yet or are not able to experience the unconditional love of a loyal and caring non human companion. Someone who is always excited to see you. Say, some day your wife or husband dies and leaves you in an empty house your children have long moved out of. You wake up every day thinking of everything you've lost and begin to recluse, especially after your retirement. The house is empty, the people are dead. You could understand that that would be a difficult and painful position to be in, right? Imagine that every time you wake up there is a little dog who is excited to see you. Every time you come home they are extremely happy and joyous at your return. Every time you sit with you dinner, they sit with you. Every time you cry they are there. Every difficult emotion is made sweeter and easier by the friend that loves you unconditionally and purely.

You think that person is a low life? You think that person is a caveman who should just die alone? You can't see a single reason that pure and unconditional love might be a good thing for some people? I hope you find some someday so you can understand they unadulterated joy and deep meaning of being alive on this planet, connected to other living things
Yup, suicidal attempts are often impulsive, so any barrier (in this case literally) even if it's relatively easy to get around, reduces suicide rates. Here's another study, this time on firearms:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...

> The researchers found that people who owned handguns had rates of suicide that were nearly four times higher than people living in the same neighborhood who did not own handguns. The elevated risk was driven by higher rates of suicide by firearm. Handgun owners did not have higher rates of suicide by other methods or higher rates of death generally.

Suicide attempts by firearm are far more likely to complete than most other means, ergo, suicide death rates are higher among those that have firearms.
You can use whatever passkey/password manager you want to though. You don’t need to use Google or Apple’s password/passkey manager apps if you don’t want to. Passkeys are WebAuthn credentials, which is an open standard, and it’s being supported by an increasing number of password manager apps.
This one struck me as something that elicits a bad knee-jerk reaction despite there being a good reason for it. I seem to vaguely recall something regarding moving vs copying related to file system atomicity, but can't remember the details right now.
OpenGL has been deprecated on everything but Android, Windows, Linux, and PS4. Vulkan is the new open standard modeled after Metal (macos, ios) and DirectX 12 (windows,xbox). Vulkan, like Metal and DX12, offer direct memory access to GPU resources. Modern OpenGL (buffers and vao’s) is close to what vulkan is but vulkan takes it further. With command queues for multithreaded rendering and everything is a buffer. Indices, vertices, shader uniforms, everything.

WebGPU (wgpu) is another abstraction on top of all of them that I feel is the modern bgfx, that is, a modern abstraction of those buffers and queues that work across DX12, Metal, and Vulkan. If you aren’t in the graphics space, I would skip learning vulkan and learn webgpu wgpu-native.