skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one for the Amstrad CPC, where you can see the ball actually being drawn in all its 16-colour palette glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Go8cwSDzQ
Do you have any evidence of this, or is it just your pet theory?
That's not obviously the sunk cost fallacy. The $180 is gone, the only relevant question is "how much more do I have to put in before I win?"

If you think that amount is more than $180 and you continue to play, because you've already spent $180, that's the sunk cost fallacy.

If you think that amount is less than $180, continuing to play is (to a first approximation) the correct decision. You can either get a tablet for less than $180 here, or for $180 in a shop; also, you've just burned $180. If you were to stop playing, in order to avoid committing the sunk cost fallacy, that would be the sunk cost fallacy fallacy.

It seems likely to me that the mistake being made, after spending $180, is the same mistake that causes people to start playing in the first place. (I couldn't say precisely what mistake that is.)
> Many, many GIFs I see around now are longer, if not full length clips and/or at obscenely un-optimized resolutions/sizes

Which is why I wrote that the length promise can be broken.

> This isn't really such a problem with a change of a browser preference or use an Haddon.

Yes, it is such a problem. If you promise the user that the clip is silent, you also promise the user that it can be consumed in silence. Yes you can click a youtube link while keeping your computer on silence, but guess what, chances are the video is made for consumption with audio.

> and their posting platform only encourages/supports raw GIFs.

All the gif purveyors support webm. It is typically called gifv, because users recognise the gif word and believe all the promises I mentioned. But there isn't an alternative as ubiquitous as animated GIF.
Also, some websites looked more like this:

http://www.ozones.com/
> Even crazier, the physical size of your font can influence peoples’ understanding and feelings about it.

Now, I wonder if I can make this work the other way around. If I'm making an offer on something, I wonder if it's more likely to be accepted if I write it in giant numerals.

I don't think the many-syllables thing is likely to work, though, if I offer some crazy non-round number then my bargaining partner is likely to just come straight back with "How about we round it up to...?" -- though I suppose that could be useful if even the rounded-up number is a nice low one.
give that thing a bit of a redesign, put up nice LED lights with a warm color and you have the perfect 'smart' light. In Japan there is a company selling good but cheap LED fixtures with very simple and well built remote controls, temperature setting and three dim modes. It works perfectly with existing switches, you can reset its state by switching on and off twice in succession and the remote buttons are illuminescent. That's smart. Keep your wifi and app interfaces away.
Yeah, that falls into the "just work a few extra hours in the day job and save yourself the hassle" category... Good to know that's how the numbers stack up.
If you haven't read it yet, check out "The Design of Everyday Things" [1], which covers just this kind of annoyance, and is a great 101 on any kind of interface design (be it physical or on a computer).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
Because drugs are addictive and lead to a death spiral?
Mapillary is VC-backed. OSV is backed by Telenav, a publicly traded location services company. Your call as to which is the more sustainable model!

(The OSM Foundation has no connection with either project and is traditionally focused on its core task of collecting and distributing openly-licensed vector geodata.)
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Excellent content. I was surfing your web page and it seems ridiculous interesting. Tomorrow I will read everything, do you make all your source code available ?
How about a bollard in the cycle path just past every driveway? Expensive, but would prevent access to the cycletrack by vehicles.
The most clever part of deflate is actually how they store the huffman trees without storing the frequencies but rather the length in bits of each symbol. Combining the length of each symbol with its lexicographical ordering is enough to uniquely specify the actual tree.

Ok, some research showed me that the idea can probably be traced back to Schwartz & Kallick 1964 (can't find the text), popularized by TAOCP vol. 1...
I'm not exactly Lance Armstrong, so I can barely make it to 25km/h on my bicycle (without a good tailwind or a downhill run) and I certainly can't maintain it for long.

What's the bottom end of that effectiveness curve look like?

It's 100% clear that helmets have zero effectiveness at 0km/h[1] - I bet the "effectiveness" of helmets is statistically the same a zero at 1km/h and 3km/h as well - where's the data that shows the shape of that curve? How does that compare with various categories of cycling?

I note that what the linked study/article "proves" is that if you have a crash in which you might die, a helmet will improve your outcome in some of those cases. To me that has (at least) two obvious responses: 1) wear a helmet, or 2) don't have those sorts of crashes. Me pedalling to the shops or the cafe at 10-15km/h on cycle paths or quiet backstreets is enormously safer than me riding at 25km/h on a busy or main road, or on a downhill mountain bike course - with or without a helmet. Why to "the helmet guys" get to choose which risk minimisation strategy I'm required to employ?

[1] to be more accurate, the benefits of having a helmet on while stationary on a bicycle are no different from the benefits of having a helmet on while standing still - something the safety-crats haven't (yet) suggested is necessary...)
Witten:

> But I think there probably will remain a level of mystery regarding why the brain is functioning in the ways that we can see it, why it creates consciousness or whatever you want to call it. How it functions in the way a conscious human being functions will become clear. But what it is we are experiencing when we are experiencing consciousness, I see as remaining a mystery...

Understanding the difference between __workings__ and experience of consciousness, the hard problem of consciousness [1], is crucial for understanding what Witten says. Witten says that while science will figure out how mind works in great detail the hard problem of consciousness remains outside science.

It's easy to be sympathetic to Witten. The problem with consciousness seems to be with intuitive meaning of a word and concept.

Imagine that someone builds small programs -- or really small brains in a vat -- that are conscious of color blue, or feel universal love and nothing else. Program's attention and awareness never goes elsewhere and it performs no other cognitive tasks than being conscious in the moment without long term memory. Can you imagine scientists going trough the __workings__ -- code, neuron diagrams or state representations -- of it's mind and going, oh this thing clearly conscious, we can see it now and agree.

There seems to be assumption that the hard problem of consciousness is tied to multiple high level cognitive capabilities. I don't see the connection. The crux of being conscious is having the cognitive ability of aware-consiouns-attentative-reflective at least tiny amount of time. If we could scientifically determine what consciousness is, we should be able to make nice hyper-aware-of-blue-and-knowing-it program and it would be relatively simple one.

[1]: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hard_problem_of_consciou...
Lens is really cool but sadly it depends on ghci being available which immediately breaks ARM compatibility. :(
eBay involves naming a price for an item, which you pay only if your price is accepted and you receive that item.

Penny auctions involve naming a price, purchasing a bet nobody else will name a valid price after you, and you receive the item only if your bet wins, in which case your "prize" is actually an option to buy the item at your named price.

What's ridiculous beyond belief is that the "skill level" involved is sufficient to make it not gambling when poker is a regulated game...
What I showed in the pic is induction probably, most new stoves in Switzerland are. It's ok for directness, but nothing beats gas. I don't even need the damn knob to tell me how strong it is, I can see the flame! There's beauty and fun in cooking with something as simple as fire.
I'm assuming that 3/4 is 3-4 hours, rather than 45 min, that could be in your case but the question is how "common" is your case compared to the rest of the population.

Many people I work with in the UK live still around why they grew up and commute to London.

Quite a few of them are N generation Londoners so they haven't really moved anywhere.

I've also done quite a bit of work in Manchester and Newcastle and the %age of locals there is even greater.
Newcastle has Sage and quite a few other tech companies and the majority of the people I met there was from around still pretty much living where they grew up and they as sure don't have 4 hour commutes to meet their friends.

So while I can see how some one from the North coming down south to study and work or vice versa, or even moving to Scotland/N. Ireland might create a pretty big social rift due to distance I just don't know if that's the only, the main, or even a major reason for it.
Might be something in our lifestyle, how we consume information and experiences and many other things that affect this. I've lost touch with most of my childhood/early adulthood friends because I've relocated to the UK.
But even in my mid 20's I could remember more than one occasion on which I could not be arsed to drive for 30 min (on a company leased car so even gas money wasn't an issue) for a meetup. What It seems to me is that all of us moving from the early 20's to the mid 20's onwards just became more "lazy" as far as the effort we were willing to put into our social interaction.
That too me is the more interesting part, I can remember orchestrating social events during highschool and late teens early 20's back when we had considerably less agency and free resources to do it. But a soon as all of us got high paying jobs and company cars it seemed like we stopped giving a damn.
> If I can summarize what you are saying, we have been experiencing early symptoms of end of Moore's Law for the past 5 to 10 years, and nothing drastic has happened yet, so there's nothing to worry about?

Yes, and what's more, the software industry seems to be stronger than ever.

> To be frank, I am less confident in your comments regarding the dependence (or lack thereof) of global economic growth on technology consumption.

Oh no, I think a large part of global economic growth depends on technology, I just don't think it depends on continued exponential improvements in the underlying semiconductor process nodes. There are other ways to innovate than just relying on automatic hardware improvements.
This reads like a social experiment.
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A bicycle helmet is not designed to protect your head from the impact of a car. It may try, but your helmet would have to be huge.

A bike helmet is made to slide across the pavement in the event of a crash. This allows you to decelerate at a slower pace and minimize damage.

Think of a bike helmet more like a ski helmet. It protects you from the ground, and will do very little if you ski into a tower.
http://www.bhsi.org/mips.htm
This is obviously an area too big to adequately address in a HN comment, but just the broad strokes:
Spontaneous thoughts that you were referring too, can basically (simplifying) be seen as the mind's way to avoid certain feelings that it has labeled as "bad". For example there can be some situation which you translate into feeling "alone" (only an example), and that feeling is labeled as "bad". Every time such situation will happen, that feeling will start to manifest in your system, but the brain will usually very quickly start to think some thoughts in order to distract you from such feeling. For the brain it sounds like a good idea, because there will be less of that "bad" feeling in your conscioussness, while you think.

Now of course, in general, it's not a very good solution, because it only masks a problem. The problem itself is that you don't fully accept and understand all your feelings, and instead are labeling some of them as bad. Additionally to this, if you don't accept the feelings, but instead try to mask them with thoughts - that just makes them grow, because the feelings are not being let out of the system and start living their own lives.

What happens during meditation is that you force out all of the thoughts, so that feelings that exist in you become much more clear. You can finally switch your attention to the feelings that have been craving it. Then you become more aligned with them, understand them better and they stop being problematic. Each time you stop meditating - it's just so much more easier to notice that certain thoughts come from feelings, as opposed to "just randomly initiate".

So it's not really about being aware of the thought process during the meditation, it's more about using the experience gained from meditation, as a reference point, in order to notice deviations from it and how they are experienced.
So what happens when you disable Desktop Bus and use systemd?
Lowest-unique bid auctions and penny auctions are different things though. The former is often considered gambling while the latter not.
West Germany had the official stance that only one Germany existed, and it was them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_mandate

This resulted in all kinds of awkwardness, because of course both German states had to interact in practice (just think of public utilities of split Berlin), but somehow didn't want to set a precendent proving the other a) existed and b) was legitimate.
Sorry to tell you, but you're 100% confirming my opinion.

Drivers as you (I suppose you are describing the way you're driving), are in my eyes the most dangerous on the street.

They probably won't be causing the most accidents directly, but they put other people under stress and push them not to respect their own limits.

We have more and more elderly people who need to be active in the society and also more and more people who only drive a car a few times a year.

And when you will get older (and it will happen! believe me!), you will still want to drive a car and you will have the same attitude my mother has: driving too fast, because she does not want to feel like an obstacle. But you will not be driving as well as in the good old times.

Anyway, statistics don't lie: 93% of the US drivers seem to consider themselves better than average... (says Wikipedia)
My oven has a goddamn menu and requires several presses on a touch screen just to start regular heating. The manual is almost 50 pages.
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Just like enjoying the delight of using Cool Retro Terminal (for short bursts) ... you too can turn any web page into a mid-90's geocity-alike unpleasant mess here: http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

Consider what it does to this HN discussion about Under Construction) http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=...
I've never heard of that.

Learn something new everyday :)
I struggle to determine how we would evolve into that minima without opportunity for free will, without producing a complex solution.
This is so bizarre to me.

I'm 30 years old (also from Britain) and see my closest four or five friends on most weekends. These are friends I have had since the age of 12/13 years old.

I have a lot of 'mates' too that I don't consider as close as 'true friends', but frequently spend time with as well as a result of spending time with my close friends. Social circles overlapping with other circles.

I couldn't imagine not doing this. My life would be far less worth living without those few people I consider more or less my family.

Even if I'm not doing anything particularly special with them. It could just be a few hours in the afternoon of some old school co-op games on an emulator or something. Could be a few hours in the pub on Friday evening.

I am in a relationship but have no kids (never wanted any), so maybe that's the reason. Perhaps I just have the free time to maintain these relationships.
Try waiting 25 seconds.
> all brain activity is done in the simulation (aka real world), but consciousness no.

The simulation hypothesis does not make such dualistic arguments.
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Someone else in this thread mentioned legal requirements about how long elevator doors are supposed to be open for.
Would you agree that we should choose which forms of transit to accommodate based on their needs and their utility? Cycling is a well-established form of transit that many people participate in, and which can serve a large portion of the transit needs of a city in relatively little space and with zero carbon footprint.

Getting more people out of cars (and off of buses) and onto bikes requires making them feel safe and unstressed. The best way to do that is to create dedicated bikeways. The Dutch have been doing this for 70 years or so, it works amazingly well, so much so that people don't even wear bike helmets!

Also, nobody is saying that Segways, skateboards, inline skates, unicycles, etc. wouldn't be welcome in the bike lane, if they can stay in their lane and move predictably at a speed compatible with cycling.
Here you pay for each bid, so you pay whether you win or not. AFAIK in eBay you only pay if you win the auction.
Lots of [citations needed] there.
I'm a pretty relaxed cyclist. I ride more or less upright, but the forward momentum is precious. It's no problem to stop while walking, it takes no more energy to start walking than to continue walking. Same goes for driving a car. On a bike on the other hand, starting to cycle requires much more energy than keeping momentum.

That said, some "avid cyclists" are total jerks.
I dunno, even in the ideal Universe of Apple devices talking to each other I have headaches. AirDrop is my main bugbear - sending files (pictures) from my iPhone to my MacBook Air should be as easy as it gets but Airdrop has failed to discover the MBA for the last month or so, there's no direct Bluetooth file transfer as I can see, Mail kinda works as a bit of a kludge, but warns if the filesize is over a certain size. And iCloud is something I'd rather not touch (Apples cloud services can go take a hike, after Apple Music decided that a huge chunk of my music should be deleted forever).

I had phone->computer file transfer working via Bluetooth back on a sketchy old pre-Android Motorola, if such a simple workflow fails then what hope is there for anything more complicated. </rant>

edit: sorry this is slightly OT, it's irritated me for a while and this felt at the time like a good time to share/vent!
I tried to ethically and fairly provide my professional services. Clients ended up going to the shady, incompetent and dangerous providers because they used scare tactics and charged 3x more than me. The clients thought this high price meant they were higher quality.

Not all, but some. I stuck with my fair pricing because I believe it's the right thing to do and it pays off long term. But these psychological factors definitely matter.
Incedentally, OCaml gets some of these right.

Record update in constructors is statically checked:

type myData = MyData1 of { name : string } | MyData2 of { value : int }

let x = MyData1 { name = "hello" }
(*
* rejected:
* let y = MyData2 { x with value = 0 }
*)
let y = match x with
| MyData1 z -> failwith "todo"
| MyData2 z -> MyData2 { z with value = 0 }

And one can write:

match x with
| A | B -> f1
| C -> f2
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Yet I don't think that's where the accidents happen, the biggest risk for cyclists seems to be traffic (in particular lorries) turning into and out of junctions.
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Of course, it's worth noting that this wouldn't be such a big issue if nearly every city surrounding SF weren't hell-bent on remaining (depending on your perspective) either 'quiet leafy suburban utopia' or 'dystopian car-choked sprawling asphalt hellscape'.

Maybe some of the other cities nearby should pick up their fair share of residents.
Got to love the way that some HN commenters seem to know how it all works.
Well, djb's dns has bugs (zone corruption, lack of
duplicate outbound surpression leading to trivial
poisoning, query pool flushing) and missing essentials
(IPv6, and most DNS since 2007). Some of these bugs
were paid out in fact. There are patches, but not
everything is fixed, and not all the patches play well
together. The lack of maintenance and an upstream
has caused some distros to consider dropping for
security reasons.

I'd agree the C code is easier to read than Bind's heavy use of macros.

Probably the best part of djb's dns was the source port
randomization. The logic was key to responding NS
eviction attacks (Kaminsky's attack and its variations).
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"or forbade children living there"

I'm stunned that this would be legal for all but a small class of dwelling (retirement homes, perhaps).

If you get pregnant you're kicked out? How does that even work logistically?
>> Within the keyspace, identifiers are well-ordered [6]. That means each ID has a successor and a predecessor.

> Minor nitpick, but really it only guarantees a successor.

Not really. Finite sets can be well-ordered, too.
Google working on a new OS?
I was assuming that "first principles" corresponds to the point where human design knowledge starts. Is that a strange assumption?
Copenhagen? Amsterdam?
Isn't there evidence that drivers give you more room if you don't wear a helmet.
r14 is not used at all in that snippet except for that one instruction; its increment can thus be put anywhere between the others, and where the compiler put it is as arbitrary as what a human would do in the absence of any further information. In any OoO architecture (for Intel x86, everything except early Atoms and the tiny embedded cores) the CPU will reorder instructions anyway and can look ahead several dozen instructions:

http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2013/05/measuring-rob-capacity/

The repeated use of rax is also no problem because of register renaming. Despite two dependency chains specifying rax, the CPU can detect that they're independent and assign different physical registers for rax, allowing them to execute in parallel.
Yeah 3-4 hours is what I meant.

I definitely fall into the category of coming down from the North to work, so maybe my experience is different to those from London or the South. I see myself being able to keep in contact with my universities friends and see each-other occasionally since we're all in the same industry, but the common denominator for all of us is that none of us are working in the places we grew up in due to the scarcity of tech jobs in our respective areas.
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Sorry sounds like you were scammed. I don't think that is too strong a word.

There is a conflict between what they like to offer to attract talent vs. what they offer culturally. I have not experience unlimited vacation, but at my limited vacation shop I just took 6 weeks off (on the last week now) albeit some was unpaid, but I am getting market rate so that has to be a better situation.

A good way to get a lot of vacation is to take breaks between jobs and make sure the jobs are paying you what you are worth.