skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software can be cloned. Doctors not, and have a limited amount of time. If everybody wants to see the same doctor (a lot would do it for random reasons like appearing on a TV show or marrying a celebrity), their agendas would get stuck for months while the other wait
Graphic 5.2 in http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2019GraphiquesTableau...

In France it was down to less than 1% at the time of Revolution, but some countries like Spain that had centuries long wars, was closer to 6-8% range.
The writing through the first season was pretty good, but also pretty mixed.

The general technology/corporate story arcs were pretty great, but a lot of the scenes they wrote for Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) were atrocious. The writers basically kept changing his fundamental character traits every episode. Lee's a great actor and did the best anyone realistically could with the material, but it was a complete mess in terms of the writers introducing constant character whiplash. And then the way Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) was written as a romantic arc with him, I'm not sure anybody could have cared less if they wound up together or not, or never talked again the rest of their lives.

I've heard the fourth season is spectacular, and I'd like to get back to it someday, but the first season really wasn't strong enough to keep a lot of viewers, including myself.
But arguably the coolest people
I think most visualizations suffer from identifying the wrong piece of complexity — the essential complexity is state management, not code management.

Ideally, we should be able to visualize state and how state changes. This isn’t a state machine, and it isn’t database modeling. It is an understanding of information flow. Sometimes this flow of information has real-world side-effects (moving a robot’s arm), but mostly this flow is about information being created, transformed, and delivered.

I use the word information because this decouples the visualization from concerns about data and modeling. The important thing is information, not necessarily the way we model that information — those kind of visualizations already exist and are helpful for writing code. But the kind of information flow visualization I’m imaging would help us to understand not how to write code, but what code that needs to be written in the first place.

The most complex pieces of code tend to be buggy when changes are made to them, because they are acting upon state in ways that are essentially complex and interdependent. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that when you update a person’s first name that is is actually affecting systems X, Y, and Z rather than merely systems A, B, and C? Maybe the credit card validation system utilizes the first name in some odd way that your profile page doesn’t, but how would you know that by looking at the code for the profile page? You wouldn’t.

An information flow visualization could potentially identify that. Or maybe not. People don’t usually reference visualizations or keep them updated. A visualization would have to be 10x more useful than they are today to become a routine part of the daily grind of software development, ideally built into the dev experience like IDE type errors are.

Imagine an analog to jumping to a function definition for a state usage — jumping to a visualization of the information you are about to put your dirty paws upon. I suppose this would require a many-to-many relationship between the information flow visualization and state (and anywhere that state was stored, accessed, or mutated).

Fun dream.
That's exactly where I stopped. I really didn't understand why any of the characters were doing anything, and why I should care.

The pacing was quite slow, I also didn't enjoy westworld for the exact same reason, so maybe i'm just not the right kind of person.
Yes, of course I thought it's a good idea to post this, this is irrelevant. Anyway, after my experience with them I don't respect any of those people, no matter the gender. It's not really a gender issue here. I dislike them all equally xD
I understand your point and agree with you to an extent.

But there are also these cute packages of DNA/RNA in nature that can cause extreme illness in humans - they're called viruses :D

There are also a great many plants and microbes with toxic components - we just happen to have very effectively eliminated them from the modern food system. This wasn't the case for primordial hunter gatherers, say.

So it's really not a good argument against caution and conservative safety protocols, because lots of things in nature _are_ harmful to us.
Maori still managed it without much of the above just next door. Australian lands are so fertile that it half Asia with wheat and meat. Just wasn't their time.

>From our best understanding of pre colonial life, famine wasn’t a feature of it.

Yes it was. Killing over food theft, cannibalism and general hardship are a staple of Aboriginal stories. Agriculture, even early transport, power structures and communication systems made it possible to store and redistribute excess food. A single very dry season in a particular part of Australia meant its inhabitants would have to feed on someone else's land or die trying.

Aboriginals are also way more susceptible to obesity and type 2 diabetes than Europeans, basically lacking European adaptations to abundant food.
An assumption here is that attractive men both pair with women at a higher rate and also have more children. I don't see any reason that's the case - the very largest families I am aware of in my extended social circle belong to men who are not necessarily the greatest catches.
The current approach does not seem suitable when dealing with rare conditions where the best patient/trial matches are geographically sparse. Efficient matchmaking would make this process far less taxing and miserable for the patients and families looking for options, even if the speedy answer is "sorry, but all the spots have already been filled with eligible patients in closer proximity to us".
It is if you prevent the population from growing, meaning you have to limit immigration.
Do you see where I wrote, "Sure, whatever." upstream? What do you think that means?
Plenty of women complain about the lack of pockets in women's pants. I think women feel others' judgment about their clothing choices more sharply than men do. This isn't a personality quirk. The condemnation comes down harder on them. Look at what is happening in Iran. Women are being killed for how they choose to dress. So if women make different choices, don't ascribe this entirely to differences in their personality. They face different constraints.
Could Flexor for ChromeOS Bring an Android Desktop to Chromebooks?
Initial bursts by definition only last so long, but is it really so crazy to think that love might persist indefinitely?
80/20 Spanish
When you want to run a local version of a service, you start it locally as normal and configure either local stubs of dependencies and dependents, or you can hook up the actual “production” services to your local service process.
If doing the latter, you can create special user accounts and events that change how the networking routing happens. Events from those fake users pass through regular production apps up until the service you’re testing, then they are instead routed to your local version, and you can continue the calls to other prod services.

Uber employees’ apps are special and allow us to log in as these fake users and create fake rides or deliveries, and then we can look at the traces and logs to debug and stuff.
Snoop Dogg, Sentient AI, and the Arrival Mind Paradox
Massive salary inflation is seen for almost all white collar jobs--a trend that began specially post-2009/2008. Bigger and and more profitable companies (relative to GDP growth), winner-take-all markets, network effects, etc. means large companies paying top dollar to attract talent due to higher stakes and greater ROI from top performers.

It shows also how college is not such a bad deal despite all the hype about student loan debt. If you graduate, the ROI is strongly positive, even for less lucrative majors and schools.
My point is that the actual version of the MWI requires the Born rule (which can't be derived from the Schrodinger equation, and which is also known as the measurement postulate) just as much as any other interpretation.

I wasn't building a strawman, I was trying to explain why the simple explanation you had given in the previous post (which is the commonly presented explanation of the MWI in many popular channels) doesn't actually work. You were the one who was claiming that the MWI simply says that the observer is in a superposition itself, which is indeed what the Schrodinger equation predicts. But this entirely leaves out the other half (why does the observer in fact observe a single outcome , with some probability X) and I was explaining how the same maths as the oh-so-hated collapse sneak back in through there.

Basically, the MWI and the CI agree that from the point of view of the observer something happens when the observer opens the box which they can't predict deterministically. The collapse versions of the CI say that this event actually changes the wavefunction, it collapses it, and all other possible results don't happen. The MWI says that this is just how it looks like to one observer, and all other results happen to other observers, in a very precise proportion. The "shut up and calculate" version of CI says that it's unscientific to even discuss this distinction, since a single observer anyway observes a single thing, talking about observations that didn't happen and how real or false they are is unscientific speculation.
On Nagging
Honestly, these days, I would be surprised to not have Linux hardware support with any PC I might buy.

At least, in my experience with the 3 brand new computers I got (T460s in 2016, T14s in 2021, Custom Desktop (Ryzen 5, ATI 7900 XT)), everything worked out of the box.

It's been ages since I had a real issue (like the dreaded Broadcom wifi cards back in the days).
It either completes the entire launch sequence, or none of it.
The world's most popular painter went after me because he didn't like a review
Yep, ZeroGravitas mentioned Magic Eye in another comment, also this:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cross-your-magic-eyes-to-pl...
I have never seen 2 digit years being used in YY/MM/DD formats. So I have pretty high certainty which place is the years.

The month/day confusion is very real, but that isn't what parent complained about. In fact, if the site had used 4 digit years like 08/11/2002, as parent requests, it would still be equally confusing. So that was clearly not the point of contention.
You’re mistaken about what the European systems have in common. It’s not being “socialized,” and it’s certainly not “free at service.” France, for example, requires 30% co-insurance, and most people get private insurance to cover that. Obamacare is structurally very similar to the Dutch and Swiss healthcare systems.

What the European systems have in common is price controls. The major difference between the Dutch and Swiss systems and Obamacare is that the Dutch and Swiss systems directly regulate the price of services.
I would totally live in one of those. Do you think they have a vibe? Haunted?
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect
Well, I don't browse Web on my phone because it's always a frustrating experience.

But, you sort of confirm what I wrote: mobile display, interactions, navigation are a lot worse in general, so any small detail that goes wrong has larger impact in the already painful environment.
Just talked with a Sales person yesterday. Indeed, from the new models, only the XPS 13 runs Ubuntu, but the keyboard looks like a nightmare. The sales person did send a link to a Precision with Ubuntu option, but it was 2022 model (Precision 5570).

Will probably get XPS 15 and put Ubuntu on myself. Annoying to fork money over to Microsoft for nothing.
I assume it's a trademark thing when smaller companies get spun out from the mothership, but it's weird how companies are so willing to ditch their fairly reputable brand names. Similar thing happened with Solidigm. A noticeable amount of people aren't comfortable trusting their data to a company that sounds like a Amazon brand generated via Markov chain... but back when they were Intel-branded they were considered top tier.
Depends where you live. I don't live in a gated community and I am not affected directly by crime. Power blackouts is called loadshedding and has to do with capacity. Get solar and batteries and you will be immune to that. It's being fixed too.
(mostly joking) On the downside, it makes it really really hard to find post-apocalyptic evidence of alien species, from the other side of the universe.

"Sir, we've set up our 3 kilometre array of precisely calibrated space telescopes, capable of detecting the slightest wobble in the deep space radio frequencies, and automatically translating all possible alien languages!"

Aliens: No bueno. You'll actually need to find the 1 millimetre disc of quantum-lithographed Nickel buried on one of our physical moons, 1000 light years from your location. There, you'll find our entire history and knowledge! Enjoy! ;)
> I would wager that very few engineering managers have significant formal training in management.

I would wager this is true of most managers.

I would also wager that any formal training would fail HN approval anyway.
Very little, broad stroke RISC ISA was nailed between 6502 and ARM-1 (1975-85), conclusion is 32-bit is enough for eternity. Same with IPv4, just add a byte for the internal mask (/24) and be done with it, long (64-bit) is way overkill... and IPv6 choose 128-bit. I say 4GB RAM per process is enough.

Competition (also eternal growth) only works when you have infinite free energy. Now we are at the end of the curve, current Risc-V (64-bit) is not perfect by any means (lacks vector/SIMD), BUT it removes the real morons (lawyers and "owners") from the picture somewhat.

The practical evidence is: Vision Five 2 software is going forward fast, the GPU is stalled for some reason, probably related to Imagination (PowerVR dumped by Apple and bought by the Chinese governement) being British, but who knows.

Pinetab-V uses the same chip (JH7110) so it's also grid locked by the GPU drivers. TH1520 also uses Imagination GPU but a bit beefier, that one will have more trouble since the CPU is a new architecture and the JH7110 uses the same as the SiFive Unmatched.

I tried to help by building my 3D MMO engine for them. I sent the profiling data, they wanted to see the OpenGL call stack and I lost hope because it works on ALL machines I have tried (PC Nvidia/Radeon, Raspberry 4 and Jetson Nano).

I mean they have the game executable right there a 10MB download away?

Popcorn time at the end of the world, at least I tried.
Fixing this problem doesn't imply patients getting to insert themselves into trials unilaterally. And surely the principal investigators of many of these "treatment for a rare condition" studies would similarly benefit from efficient matchmaking with compatible participants (obviously still at their discretion and subject to however the experiment is designed).
My experience with PGO it that it's a much larger footgun. If you can't profile your actual production workload then it's very frequently just going to make your program slower. Even if you can profile production, it's still an easy way to completely blow out your long-tail latency for codepaths that PGO decides don't matter.
You see pillboxes all over the place in England. I guess they are just too much effort to get rid of.

It must have been terrifying to be in a pillbox if the enemy managed to get close enough to throw grenades in or, even worse, if they had a flamethrower.

BTW analysis after the war showed that the Germans had pretty zero chance of a successful invasion of the UK in WWII (Operation Sealion), even if they had managed to gain air superiority. The Royal Navy was too strong and the Germans had no amphibious landing ships. They were considering towing flat bottom barges full of troops and equipment across the channel. Probably 3+ barges per towing ship, at near walking speed. It would have been suicide.
Back before The Incident when I was watching Linus Tech Tips, Kioxia was featured in a number of their videos.
I mean that’s great but government benefits and pensions are a big chuck of the overall labor cost. It’s more efficient to force everyone to go to 48hrs cut 20% and pay overtime for the 8. Sucks for the people though
No eyeball bleeding per se but yes, I predict that you would definitely sustain a significant amount of hearing damage.

My dinky 9mm leaves my ears ringing shooting it just once, without protection, in a grassy field. So I'm drawing from that experience.
For me the link just went to that site’s homepage which aggregates all of the stories there. This link seems to be what the poster may have intended?

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-a...
Scientists record powerful signal in the brain's white matter
Grimes
I was hoping your link pointed to this picture.
Czechia is a more average EU country than Germany, which is the actual outlier
WASIX?
Thanks thats probably it.
> But when things don't work as I expect, it's far more efficient to be able to view the code on both sides, rather than only on my own side and try to guess what the other side is doing.

Are you able to view the source code of your platform vendor? Everyone is at some level dependent on Black box APIs.

If you can document where with certain input you don’t get the expected output, you reach out to the team that is responsible for it whether internally or externally and they either explain it or they fix it.

This is the API service I’ve been working with over the past five+ years - three actually working at AWS (Professional Services).

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/inde...

I found a bug in one relatively new API that a service team released, I reached out to the team with a documented scenario and they fixed it.

Other times they explained what I was doing wrong. That’s what any large organization does.

I’ve worked with other vendors and internal teams plenty of times over the years.
"no stealth in space"
Several developed countries have mandatory health insurance without a “public option.” E.g. Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, etc.
I've never heard of fast fashion being attributed to just women's clothing. There are plenty of men's clothing options at stores like Zara and Uniqlo
But they never claimed that it was "so safe" that you can ingest or douse yourself in it? It says so right in the MSDS.

https://labelsds.com/images/user_uploads/Roundup%20Pro%20Con...
Even that stunt might not be enough for a sufficiently evil shill, e.g. Thomas Midgley Jr. He famously did a similar move at a press conference for tetraethyllead (TEL), where he washed his hands in the stuff to prove its safety:

> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#cite_ref-Se...

It probably won't shock you that he frequently suffered from lead poisoning.
Have you considered 3d printing this? It would be a massive project, but would be a museum level display piece.
The progression was more-or-less figuring out how to get it to not fall apart.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9238147/

https://www.matinasbiopharma.com/lnc-technology/lnc-platform
Darklua can compile Luau to Lua 5.1: https://github.com/seaofvoices/darklua
The more you can shift into types the less you need to put in ad-hoc documentation, so it's not an extra burden. Conversely, if you "keep the language level rules simple" by shifting more stuff from the types into the documentation, that's not making it easier to think about IME - the more you can shift into the lower levels the better, so the documentation can focus on the higher-level things you weren't able to encode in the types.
> I don't know of any other system that accomplishes as much with the same amount of code lines

Possibly STEPs?:
https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2012001_steps.pdf
Thinking about instruction packing and if this is something a JIT could have helped with, if we'd had state-of-the-art JIT's at the time.
I don't see why? You can safely use it as long as you don't ever connect it to anything that isn't also at the same or higher level of certification.
Are there public hospitals in Switzerland? Isn't the healthcare system entirely private?
The same brands carry more colorful clothes for women than for men. I don’t suppose that their offerings for men are higher quality than their offerings for women.
When I first starting using Ubuntu 10+ years ago, getting a new laptop was like going to battle. My patience has gone down for this stuff as I've gotten older, but fortunately it's gotten commensurately easier every year.
Personally, don't
Keep the pager in the secure area. Turn it on when you enter, turn it off and hand it back in when you exit.

Also, I’ve been to places where they do things like “no external laptops; however you can bring your phone in-we will cover the camera with security tape, and check the tape on the way back out”. Obviously that is not what they do for classified stuff, but not everything sensitive is classified (indeed, some governments have a category “sensitive but unclassified”). And some private sector entities copy aspects of public sector security, but rarely to the same extreme, which can produce similar rules.
Watching that video, to me it seems like in the first few minutes he was playing a low energy guy, but was just doing a bit he expects people will find funny.

As this lady says, what people feel they're coming across might be quite different to how others perceive them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owORxKqX0nU .. in her book she uses an example of Obama feeling great after a debate with Mitt Romney, but the public's perception was he was too stand-offish...
> The only sure-fire way to guarantee that important information can be recovered in the event of a catastrophic event, is to back it up with specialized archival media that are designed to survive and be recoverable, even without access to computers and electronics.

I mean, I guess you don't need a computer to read this, but you sure do need a good microscope.

I guess I'm not really entirely sure of the point. If you're really trying to preserve basic knowledge to restart civilization, I'd think you'd want libraries of full-size readable books spread across the world. Not something that requires you to first build a microscope.

While if you're trying to store as much historical and technological data as possible, it seems like you'd want to encode it digitally with error correction codes, not as optically readable text. The encoding/decoding instructions can easily fit on a single cover page, optically encoded.
But in practice people don't do that in Go either, they just add a bunch of if error != nil lines, so you end up with no more information about what went wrong (in fact less information than you'd get with an exception, since you don't even get a stack trace) and just have more clutter in your code.
I can never see it for some reason. I assure you I just saw the eye doctor and my eyes were also fine 20 years ago when these were popular.
I'd like a better baked version to be more prevalent.. right now it seems a bit 'how can we standardise a way for everyone to have a walled garden'.

I want bitwarden, or whatever password manager, to be the (cross-platform) provider, not the OS. It's coming, maybe/hopefully?
Huh?

If they cannot get a warrant, then they cannot do the search. Done and done.

I'm not sure what are you talking about?