skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here, cool seeing this on HN. If you'd like another history, here's one on stock quotes which also forms a nice history of sending data far away: https://blog.cloudflare.com/history-of-stock-quotes/
This is a really cool project and the demo at http://lxc.im/ is fun to play with.

It would make a great teaching tool or even a great interview tool with a customized image. I see a lot of potential for this project!
The secondary market for Nokias is pretty good, a Nokia 6.1 can be had for ~$160, which is a reasonable price for it.
If we could travel at (just below) the speed of light, then getting to the next star would take somewhat under four years from the point of view of the travelers assuming an acceleration of 1g (or no noticeable time at all assuming serious magic, with close to infinite acceleration). Of course, the energy to make the acceleration is the big problem...
A bit pedantic but considering an acceleration and then deceleration of 1g, i can see the 100 year number being valid
Even better, traveling at c, it would take exactly zero shipboard time. Space contracts infinitely for the sufficiently fast. Only outside viewers would see it take 4.5 years.
Not necessarily, but it still does grab a huge amount of data. Internet provider, device, session time, pages navigated during session and even ways to segment users across devices, using that data for testing or ad targeting. Not to mention I was able to unintentionally identify my neighbour browsing on one of my client’s sites using those metrics.
Honestly just classic Google..
In discussions with older Viet Nam vets there were numerous complaints about the reliability of the earlier M16s. Seems squads would use captured AK47s when they could since they were found to be considerably more reliable in combat scenarios. Always seemed strange that the military wouldn't have adopted some re-engineered Kalashnikov design. The vets chalked that up to bureaucratic chauvinism.
With the iPhone Sputtering, Apple Bets Its Future on TV and News
Very interesting read.

IMHO, such researches have become arms race between superpowers. If environment-friendliness is the only concern, the U.S. may not survive any attacks based on AIs from China.
Maintenance and updates are just more bits, which can be copied just as easily as the original bits were, so the same two attributes apply to them.

User support is different, yes. But user support is a service, not a product; users will pay for it if they gain enough value from the support to make it worth it. But for many pieces of software, the set of users for whom that is true is small or even empty.
This is really the beauty of the Fermi Paradox because the issue isn't "would everyone do this?". If there are starfaring civilizations (or just civilizations with the necessary technology) within detectable range, it just takes one to go this route.

Since we've been unable to detect the telltale signatures of such a megastructure, it either means that none of the civilizations within range have gone this route or there are none. Given what we know about the benefits of a Dyson swarm and how relatively low-tech it is, the idea that no one has gone that route becomes increasingly unlikely with the more civilizations there are.
Sure, but it's helpful to compare our models of artificial intelligence with biological intelligence to see if there's anything to be learned.

We learned how to make airplane wings from the shape of a bird's wing. Of course we should not model our artificial wings so closely as to make a plane with wings that flap. But there was still plenty of stuff to learn by asking the question "why does a bird fly and my contraption doesn't?"
Is it? Gotta change my plot now then :)
Ancient? That genuinely hurts. I got out just after first qualifying with the brand-spankin'-new C7. Now, the C1 was "fun".
That's the level called "multiplicity" that tells you level names are hints, right?
Monogamy is pretty much limited to birds. It's uncommon in mammals and in primates in particular. It's interesting that humans arrived at it.
Given that you said km instead of miles, I don’t either.
Chrome mobile doesn't support any extensions.
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your One Game a Week project. I've been following along with your articles and I find them to be pretty interesting and helpful. I've been learning Unity the last few months and I've come across the same issues as you a couple of times. Your games are a lot of fun, too -- Curious Castle is probably my favourite one so far! Looking forward to following along with the rest of your blogs:)
The right choice is `inputmode`, which says how to input the value without specifying semantics.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#inpu...

It'll work in Chrome (and other Blink-based browsers), but nothing else.
> A whole lot of software could be engineered to completion and then left only to occasional maintenance requirements.

The iPad isn't software, it's hardware. It's very hard to predict what hardware upgrades users might really want a few years from now. So even if all the software on the iPad could be engineered to last a hundred years, it would still need to be updated every time the hardware changed.
These are typically cultures also where men have few choices. There is probably no way that a sustainable advantage of one sex over the other, in a reproductive sense, could be maintained by evolution.
It doesn't matter. Google is an American company and hence it is imperative to take it down by all means possible and promote a pure European alternative. If it means taking a hit by using an inferior product so be it.
Also, perhaps that the idea of a Dyson sphere is crude and irrelevant to more advanced civilizations. If we look at our ideas from 1000 years ago they have virtually no predictive power for future technology.
I'd say everything related to building a website on the internet.
> does inflation really hurt the real value of people's retirement accounts?

Yes, of course it does. The higher the rate of inflation, the higher the rate of return on your retirement account has to be to give you the same amount of buying power when you actually retire.
How can you be so sure that a Dyson swarm is a sensible route at all given more advanced technology? We can't even figure out the sensible route for tech 5 years out.
A Dyson Sphere is not a solid object. Instead, it's many small objects each of which is in a stable orbit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A&t=331s

Also, a huge laser can certainly direct energy in a direction that nobody will notice. Unfortunately, creating the laser beam also creates waste heat, and that waste heat can be seen. Even collecting waste heat generates waste heat that you cannot collect.

On the other hand, if you want a huge laser for some other purpose (such as vaporizing distant planets), then a Dyson Sphere is the ideal way to create one.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sci.space.tech/uh5iB9X...
The problem with that plot is that even if it's true, it doesn't change anything. You can't leave the black hole (because space-time at the edge is expanding faster than the speed of light), so there's nowhere else to go.
just out of curiosity, what's the benefit of using functional programming in companies? productivity? I think the cost to find engineers proficient in functional languages would be more expensive than losing cost by using normal language such as java, python, etc.
Why would an advanced alien civilization be bound to the limits 21st century human engineering and physics?
> does inflation really hurt the real value of people's retirement accounts?

It certainly does to the extent the accounts are or hold fixed-dollar-return assets (fixed annuities, bonds, etc.).
"be fat like GTK or suffer from underwhelming API", not necessarily.

Sciter( https://sciter.com )/Go (https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter) has pretty compact API and is of 5mb of size. Yet full set of basic input widgets including WYSIWYG editor and print/print-preview. Yet H/W accelerated graphics with support of Acrylic and Vibrant theming: https://sciter.com/blog/page/2/
Lately I've been playing with Coconut [1], a functional language that is a strict superset of Python 3. It transpires to Python and can use all of Python's libraries. I've been playing with it lately and quite like it.

[1] http://coconut-lang.org
I went to a Dave and Buster's for the first time in many years last week, and couldn't believe the number of people who were lining up playing games, especially the VR ones. Is it just me, or are arcade games making a comeback of sorts?
If you handwave enough at this, it looks like capsule networks.
In the case of ants, the beneficiary of the altruism/self-sacrifice is the queen, which always carries the gene. That's why I said:

>Biological altruism will generally mean an organism helping another at a small or no cost and/or the benefited organism is a close relative that likely shares the gene.

Ants and bees are extreme examples of the later.

In your theory, the only beneficiaries of fewer individuals reproducing are the straight (and bi) individuals who are still reproducing. It's a really bad theory to explain homosexuality and I don't know why anyone would insist on it when it's so easy to come up with better ones. Just think of something that would benefit the individuals carrying the genes themselves. Maybe an attraction to muscles (or some other manly characteristic in that species) that leads to stronger offspring when the individual mates with muscular females, but can go too far sometimes leading to homosexuality.

>one surprising (to me) thing that came up is that there have been substantial revisions in the estimated speed of evolution as a process since Darwin's days. Sexual selection in particular is a mechanism that turned out to work much faster than originally anticipated, and can in fact push other traits that wouldn't be viable otherwise over the viability threshold. One theory is that it developed in the first place because faster selection - i.e. adaptability - is itself a selected-for trait, so it's kinda getting very meta.

That's actually really interesting! Got any good links on that? The speed of evolution is something that sometimes bothers me when looking at highly complex adaptations.
> Shareholders in Careem, whose backers include Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s investment firm and Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten Inc., [...]

Isn't a public Saudi Arabian fund already heavily invested in the Softbank Vision fund, which in turn has invested a lot in Uber? [0] I don't know who the respective principals are of these funds but that seems noteworthy to me (especially at these valuations).

[0]: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/saudi-arabia-pif-tech-in...
I've never understood the almost religious devotion many hackers have to the idea that the brain is a computer. The brain, or more practicably the brain, body, and a pencil and paper, can slowly simulate a Turing machine without great difficulty. But a Turing machine can simulate a DFA too and that doesn't make it one.

This should not be construed as denigrating the wonderful achievements of AI researchers. Just because what they do is inspired by the brain rather than isomorphic to the brain doesn't mean it isn't great work.
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think the bay still pays more
> It'll work in Chrome (and other Blink-based browsers), but nothing else.

What's interesting is it used to be partially supported in Firefox, and has now been put behind about:config [0]. I'm curious as to why, since the MDN docs seems to endorse its use. [1]

[0] https://caniuse.com/#search=inputmode

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
My better half finds everything larger, even .25" or .5", beyond the pale for comfortable use. Which pretty much leaves her with no other choices left.

Selling points for me are the headphone socket and sharp edges that for me gives a much more positive grip than thinner or rounded. Oh, and I actively don't want bezels to go away. If asked, I'd add a lanyard post to an SE 2 design. :)
Visit your local library. I guarantee you they'll be running Windows and you can just do the test there.

Linux may have taken over the world but its percentages are still crappy in the desktop side of things. If you're gonna make the choice to use a minority desktop OS, you have to be prepared to deal with the fact we're still living in a Windows world and things like this can and will happen from time to time.

A typical person won't "lack technical wherewithal to circumvent these difficulties" because even the poorest folks are using Windows in one form or another. It's mostly the tech-heads who choose Linux, and they made their bed.
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That’s great to hear. It’s been a while so I should go back and try it again!
>"I write blog posts about all the hobby stuff that I do now."

What is your blog? I would be interested in reading how you designed your own RISC-V chip.

>"This may not be the best route for those who don't already have a hardware background, but there are various open source tools now with make it accessible to hobbyists as well."

Can you recommend some of those open source tools that would aid in learning for people who don't already have hardware backgrounds?
"For high quality photography, I (and butteraugli) believe that JPEG is actually better than WebP."

That's interesting. Of course, the subjective part of that is one person's take, and the "objective" part of it is pointless because the whole point of Guetzli (the jpeg encoder) is to try to maximize the Butteraugli score, so saying that WebP gets a lower score is not significant.

Personally, WebP looks a lot better to me in the direct tests of equal file size that I've seen. It even looks better than Pik, which is Google's experimental successor to Jpeg that also uses Butteraugli.

And it would be odd, to say the least, if a codec from the early nineties could beat a modern one on Intra-frame coding, which has been a subject of immense research over the years.

Take a look at some of these for yourself. https://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison/
See also https://zotlabs.org/channel/hubzilla-announcements/ for the 4.0.1 announcement.
See [1] and [2] where the idea of hiding a Dyson sphere is covered in depth. It essentially means breaking the laws of thermodynamics, specifically entropy. Hit and object with light from a star and it heats up. It radiates away that heat in a predictable way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuK8la0y6s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8
Ha, easy little piece but interesting, keep up the good work.
Open Adventure: Open-Source Colossal Cave Text-Only Adventure (2017)
Screen res/size, 3D (aka force) touch, front camera (5 vs 1.2MP), slightly bigger battery.
https://phys.org/news/2012-05-black-hole-universe-physicist-...
Kind of a workaround, but if you desired the feature to enable loading the numpad keyboard on mobile or onscreen accessible keyboard, etc, could you possibly override the on-scroll handlers, preventDefault etc?
Well... The spec actually says it's not the "correct" thing to do

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#number-state-(type=nu...

>The type=number state is not appropriate for input that happens to only consist of numbers but isn’t strictly speaking a number. For example, it would be inappropriate for credit card numbers or US postal codes. A simple way of determining whether to use type=number is to consider whether it would make sense for the input control to have a spinbox interface (e.g., with "up" and "down" arrows). Getting a credit card number wrong by 1 in the last digit isn’t a minor mistake, it’s as wrong as getting every digit incorrect. So it would not make sense for the user to select a credit card number using "up" and "down" buttons. When a spinbox interface is not appropriate, type=text is probably the right choice (possibly with a pattern attribute).
>Price is nearly equal to value except in rare edge cases of market failure

this is just wrong on the face of it
Paywalling obituaries is probably a really offensive use of paywalls.
The rifles at cflrs are ancient in that they are heavily used and poorly maintained by recruits. (All are upgraded to c7a2s, with the scopes.) Mine was from 1996. The newest in our platoon was 2004. I never realized how old they were until i got hold of a shiny new c8.
Choosing memories and architecting them into systems is much more difficult
I learned a general rule about numbers vs strings, and I think it’d apply in this example as well: if you aren’t doing math with it, keep it a string. (Phone numbers, numeric postal codes, account numbers, house numbers, etc).
Do extensions like uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger already accomplish this?
Uber's network effect is localized to cities. If Uber attempts to enter a market with a strong local player, the local player stands a decent shot at defending since Uber's global dominance doesn't really transfer over to that particular city.

This is unlike social networks, like WhatsApp, where the network effect is truly global since people often have friends and relatives in distant cities.
Good post. They are enslaved to their datacenters now that they have built them. It influences the way they think.

Every time I see Google's "searched X trillion articles in .5s" message, I do wonder what kind of wastage is happening.
No it's not. Webpage bloat is a developer issue, not a technical problem.

QUIC is a new protocol is to make user experiences better. There's a tradeoff in more server CPU but that's cheaper, more scalable, and will only be short-term as things quickly improve. The actual comparison would be rendering engines and Javascript runtimes that have become more complicated to build and run but are faster and more functional in return.

Nobody would return back to the 2010 tech days just because some people decided to make fat websites.
Ugh. Can I just say that using the scroll wheel for anything but scrolling is one of my all-time UX pet peeves. Probably #1, in fact.

Above all, Google Maps repurposing it for zoom. Like, I'm scrolling down a webpage, there's an embedded Google Map, and suddenly it stops scrolling and starts zooming in by orders of magnitude and it's just a WTF moment... you're breaking the web. Nobody wants to zoom by orders of magnitude like that. Nobody asked you to stop scrolling the page. It's beyond useless.

Likewise, this is doing the same for numbers, at least in Safari. Again, nobody wants that. I can't think of any good reason ever to have that as a "feature". I can't even imagine what goes through the minds of people who think that's a good idea. Worst. Design. Decision. Ever.
Because I strongly prefer iOS and have >$500 of apps in my account.
Closer to 0.1-0.2 percent. Maybe a little more if it's very very early.
I use Hammerspoon to hotkey Terminal (and a bunch of other apps with other shortcuts) with ctrl+` like I used to do with iTerm:

-- Give Terminal the same toggle as iTerm 2
hs.hotkey.bind('ctrl', '`', function()
if hs.application.title(hs.application.frontmostApplication()) == "Terminal" then
hs.eventtap.keyStroke('cmd', 'h')
else
hs.application.launchOrFocus("Terminal.app")
end
end)

I’m not opposed to iTerm, but I needed a break from heavy customized environments for a bit and this was the one feature I needed to replicate.
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They went out of stock again soon after that post. Whether Apple is finding devices down the back of the sofa or what I don't know, but they keep coming in and out of stock. There's no "notify me" feature on their store, so people make posts like these.
> It radiates away that heat in a predictable way.

Unless that heat energy itself is also caught and used.
The linked video to the coin pusher 'pro' was underwhelming to put it lightly; the dude lost all of his money. The way him and his friend were talking reminded me of how "slot experts" in Vegas talk. Disconcertingly they seemed to have an impressionable child with them.
It's never been about price, it's about form factor. The iPhone 7 is 28% larger (HxW) than the iPhone SE. That's precisely why I've refused to upgrade to the later versions too: They're absurdly large.
As great as this will be for the tech ecosystem in the Middle East, this type of consolidation should be blocked for antitrust. It'll be bad for customers and drivers.

But it won't be blocked. Uber and Careem share common investors (aka Saudi) and this would be a huge win for them.
And yet despite the monopolies and despite the superstar compensation for top programmers at Google, mediocre programmer salaries did not suffer. Because everyone still needs mediocre programmers. Because they still provide a lot of value.

Fighting off monopolistic tendencies and the disproportionate influence of monopolists and oligopolists – both economic and political – is already one of the greatest challenges of capitalism.

Automation makes this problem worse because our political institutions are corrupt and incapable of fixing the rise of monopolies, not because automation is bad in itself. And unlike brand recognition, lobbying, and other barriers that monopolists put up to keep their moat safe, automation is generally available to everyone, so it doesn't make sense to penalize it.

Inequality is a product of market regulations, not automation. Put a 90% tax on income over $1M, make 20 hour work week / 12 weeks vacation the new standard, introduce a land value tax, make it impossible to hide wealth offshore, and find a good way to distribute all the extra revenue so that people don't starve but still have just enough incentive to work (in a world that needs much less work because of automation). That'll go a long way towards fixing excessive inequality in a heavily automated world. Half of this can be done to great positive effect even today.

I don't know, maybe that's "a whole new system" that the author theorized that we need. But really it's just turning a bunch of knobs on the existing system. We haven't tried even that much, and everyone's already spelling doom.
"Forest of parens" can be intimidating for sure, but if it's really a forest, then it usually means there's too much nesting. Which is a problem for any language/syntax. Overnested Python code is hard to grasp, and wide fields of whitespaces doesn't make it better than deep forests of parens/curlies, or mounting slabs of begin/end pairs.
In accordance with the Church-Turing thesis, the Turing machine stands to be capable of doing anything that should be called computation. It follows that if the brain is capable of simulating of a Turing machine (this is called a universal Turing machine, by the way), then it too can do any computation. So then the class of things that both can do are the same, and so it is reasonable to call them the same thing, in some sense.
I think it's worth giving drive letters some credit. It makes it very easy to mentally designate a drive, whereas people can get confused about the concept of UNIX-style mount points since people don't mentally distinguish between a regular directory and a mount point (they'll look both the same).

Also Windows has had the ability to mount a drive at an arbitrary location for a while now (so not just a drive letter), but as far as I'm aware it requires the command line to do so.
Antidepressants are linked to memory loss. What percentage of them were taking antidepressants"