skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Art is a form of communication.

There has to be more to it than that. Otherwise, this very message would be classified as "art". If everything is art, then the term becomes meaningless.

> This work is original and creative in the sense that it packs what wreaks our world into havoc into one device and puts it on the pedestal

Works of art have historically required some effort. This is very low effort. I could take a potato battery from a kid's science fair, give it some fashionable title (something something society something technology mumble energy from nature) and it would become a piece of modern art.

There has to be some standard, and these pieces should be amenable to criticism. Otherwise, how would one distinguish someone's garbage dumb from a piece of art? You can't.

From your link (Jeff Koon's ball):

> However, this state of perfection is fragile and impermanent. Temperature fluctuations and vibrations blend the solutions of water, causing the ball to move off-center and eventually to sink. The improbability of this sculpture underscores its metaphorical associations with life, death, and ambition that Koons carefully considered when he made a series of works for Equilibrium

That sounds to me like an excuse. "I'm unable to perfect this and account for the required variables, so I'll concoct some story on how this is done by design".

As for the goldfish in a blender...that is also low effort and provides no real insight on human nature.

> The fish in a blender were put there as an invitation to kill a being.

Yes, and we know people will do that, by observation. A single fish and a single blender would have been enough to prove the point. But then, it would look like a 5 minute job.

In fact, it would take just as much to drop a pair of glasses against the wall. This would be art by the above definition, and people actually though so:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/arts/sfmoma-glasses-prank...

It could be argued that it was a piece of art challenging art itself.

> In that laptop lies the power of immense destruction, contained in a cheap plastic container.

As a modern day's pandora's box, it's not too bad. Still. there must be a way to convey this in a more profound way. Which way is that? I don't know, but I only dedicated 5 minutes trying to come up with an answer. Maybe we could come up with something better in a month.

Or we could place a MicroSD card in a pedestal with a couple of viruses, in 5 minutes and be done with it.
I lived in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo. Never saw any rat where humans would go. I think I spot mice in Paris in the streets once.
I wonder if it would have taken FB that long to demote the video if it had depicted Sandberg or Zuckerberg slinging racial slurs.
Correct statement would be that it generates a product of one or more new primes.
At first I read

> The similar sequence that chooses the largest instead of smallest prime that divides 1 plus the product of the previous terms avoids an infinite number of primes.

as saying that it avoids having an infinite number of primes in the sequence (i.e. that the sequence itself contained a finite number of distinct primes), but it's actually that there's an infinite number of primes not present in the sequence.

Fascinating sequence, good article, thanks!
It would be nice if the mitigations could be applied per-core. Then the OS could set the affinity for processes like games that really don't care.
Rightwingers see pro-migration and liberal organisations like the UN and the EU as wanting to sow discord and disrupt society though. So this type of argument goes both ways. The distrust of institutions is already there.

Foreign anti-western forces feed off of that, because the modern western right is essentially anti-western from the start.
> Yeah, but apparently in the web we love making things complicated and then going back to the basics. We do that every year or so, just wait for it, we are going to do assembly in the web in a year or two.

Genius. Took me a while to realize this wasn't satire, and was actually about WebAssembly.

Also: imagine how much worse it is if you don't yet know HTML/CSS.
It's worth noting that this is a pretty old article.

The last 3 years has seen significant development of neural models for text (and graph) processing and almost all the state-or-the-art results listed there are outdated.

Notably, modern large language models turn out to be very good on their own at large parts of the knowledge extraction problem. OpenAI's GPT is state of the art on the SNLI task[1], and GPT-2[1] is approaching human performance on tasks similar to knowledge extraction.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/language-unsupervised/

[2] https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
I played with this thing for like a half hour at Vintage Computer Festival a few months back, it's a very cool thing. The computer packed fully in to a case built around a VGA display and usb ortholinear keyboard, and in to a shoulder bag. The "Lisp Machine" itself speaks serial in/out. The keyboard plugs in to a USB-to-Serial interface, and the screen in to a serial terminal to VGA emulator.

Cool stuff, and the creator's goal of creating a machine for interactive learning with a hand-coded scheme-alike is pretty wonderful.

EDIT: It looks like it went on sale two days ago and the full kit is already listed as out of stock. Hopefully they can increase stock. I've wanted one of these since I first put eyes on it.
> Daily standup

I have never worked at a company where this actually goes right and could not be replaced by [insert ticketing system here]. We use Basecamp to do daily check-ins on a very high priority issue, if we have one, which we usually don't.
I can add another anecdata point for that one.
>Institutions might not be a "nice" place to live your life, but it's a hell of a lot better than living on the streets

That's just your opinion. Many prefer the freedom of the streets over the imprisonment and forced drugging of mental institutions
> I wanted to follow up with you on this one last time

This sounds rude to me, IMO. It's like a thinly veiled ultimatum–I find it interesting that you've gotten success from this, since it feels antagonistic to me.
Are you saying it's rats today, humans tomorrow?

Also,

>I think there is a severe deficit of empathy in Western culture.

Why? I suspect most Westeners would agree with you, which to me indicates a glut of empathy (ironically higher for non-humans than for humans, usually).

To the cultural norms I inherited, the idea that society should extend any protections toward non-human animals sounds comical. (And the callous kind of rationalism I've personally cultivated agrees: it seems philosophically misaligned. But there may be big differences there. I assume we value humans because they're so intelligent because that's the most legitimate value I find in them -- not because they can easily hijack my emotions. Thus, I value non-human animals far less. But from here, things get even more arbitrary and subjective and arguably extremely right-wing with what entitles an entity to personhood, whether severely intellectually-disabled humans then have personhood [and, if so, why fetuses do not], whether a non-human with superhuman intelligence would not only have personhood but whether it would be that bad if, by the same rules, decide we don't and abuse us the way we do rats, and also can't chimpanzees absolutely destroy humans in short-term memory[0]? So where does that fit in here? I'm too dumb for this.)

But uh. My gut agrees with parent; it's silly to worry so much about rats.

0: https://youtu.be/zsXP8qeFF6A?t=50
Of course you mean numbers of the form 2^(2^n) + 1; without the increment, primality is easy to check. :-) Anyway, are you sure that it would be so easy to check primality of 15-decimal-digit numbers without even a pocket calculator, especially with no guarantee that there was any reason to do so? (Notice, for example, that you needed to add "if someone told me to".)

For more on this, see KConrad's comment https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/16636/is-t... and kcrisman's comment https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/16636/is-t... on the post linked by your parent.
Microfeedback at work: create bite-sized clarity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19984530
If you look at transistor count, yes. But single-core performance has stagnated since ~2003, that’s when we hit the 3Ghz mark. Progress since then has been a lot slower.
This is exceptionally cool, but even for someone like me who has disposable income, a deep love of retrocomputing and several years of Lisp experience... it's just very expensive. For the machine, GPIO headers and USB keyboard support (really the bare minimum for interesting things) its over $300.

You have to really, REALLY love offbeat baremetal lisp machines to throw down that kind of cache for a system where your USB controller is probably more robust and powerful than the entire rest of the system put together. Hell, I'm pretty sure my TV's remote control clocks faster when it's on...
Related impractical fun: you could fit a small Lisp (such as standard R7RS Scheme) in some PC motherboard flash chips used for the BIOS/bootstrap, using Coreboot. Maybe ThinkPad X200 or a Coreboot-friendly Chromebook.
Instead of calling it a tax, let’s just say we’re going to stop subsidizing carbon.
Wait, you expect to be able to easily check primality of 2^32 + 1 by hand? Like with a naive algorithm you’d need to use erastothenes sieve to find primes up to 2^16 to test against. Granted, 641 itself is rather small but if you didn’t expect to encounter a factor that early...
You can use a syncing application that encrypts beforehand. The one I use is git-annex, which supports many cloud platforms (as well as plain SSH/FTP/SMB/etc), but there are others.
> Steven Hawking even publicly brought this up.

And was rebuked for it.

https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/earth-is-not-at-risk...

Even in the absolute worse case scenarios we'd expect to see a temperature increase of around 10C, which is nowhere close to Venus levels. Also he threw in "raining sulphuric acid" just to make it sound even more apocalyptic I guess.

Earth becoming Venus is not even a "less likely" to happen scenario, it's a completely implausible scenario even if 100% of humanity dedicated itself to releasing all carbon into the atmosphere as quick as possible tomorrow just for kicks.

Prominent scientists like Hawking publicly making such groundless and hyperbolic statements IS hurting case for action against climate change, and that's exactly what this article is talking about.
I'm not sure why you're looking only at the house price change. To be a good investment, the (price change + rent - mortgage repayment - maintenance) value has to be higher than other means of saving. Thus may be true even if the house itself losses some value.
That is an interesting question and could be empirically determined with an experiment.
Sure. Plenty of people can ignore the cheaper devices. But if you work for a government agency, you may not be able to. Or a bank. Or a utility. Or a telecom provider. Or a 1000 other businesses.
Managers are the only people that like daily standups, so far as I can tell.

I've never figured out why you couldn't just do it over slack or equivalent. It's massively inefficient to get everyone to meet up in the morning.
Hate speech and a slowed down video are two very different things.
Your assertion that rats weren't involved in the spread of the black plague is misleading.

Rats do spread disease. Some experts believe they were not the vector for the black plague, but there are several other (many of which are quite recent) outbreaks where rats have unquestionably spread disease.

Take a look for yourself:

https://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html

Personally I believe we should preserve human health over rat health, and a good way of doing that is to exterminate rats.
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We used to get power from a local hydro project, at the power station they used to (ie prior to ubiquitous computers and all that) have two clocks on the wall, one on the local grid and one on the national grid, periodically they would manually speed things up locally to keep the clocks close together as possibly
Well, let's try it and find out. What we doing now ain't working.
$1.5 million reasons why she doesn't sue: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000033563&cy...
Also, I sometimes have files cross-referenced with a different indexing or names through symbolic links; is there a better UNIX way of doing that?
>so are New York Times articles, because classy journalism looks good on the platform

Interesting that a journalist thinks that Facebook is optimized for what "looks good" rather than what drives eyeballs. Facebook is just giving the people what they want. (To say nothing of how self-congratulatory that sentence is)
Personally I prefer beancount, incredibly pluggable in python (imo a friendlier language to haskell), additionally much stricter in multiple aspects. Been maintaining my ledger with ledger-cli and then beacount for 10 years now.
I think the title and parts of the article are misleading. Using volatile will never make a correct program incorrect. It cannot "break" a correct implementation.

It should not be overused, because as the article mentions it makes for slower and more confusing code, but it's not quite something to be afraid of either.

It is slower to use volatile, and bad form
This is my understanding of volatile as well: volatile just forces read/write to memory. What a read/write to memory entails is a different story. What happens with no volatile is again another story.
If my understanding is wrong, someone please enlighten me.
Ask HN: How to render a partial screen with full resolution?
Is it possible for any operating system to display a partial area of the screen and enlarge it to the maximal resolution of the monitor?
> "Side note: although at first glance this code looks like it fails to account for the case where TCNT1 overflows from 65535 to 0 during the timing run, it actually works properly for all durations between 0 and 65535 ticks."

From example 1, ignoring device and setup-specifics what to do when TCNT1 overflows, it actually works properly for all ticks, both "first" and "second" are unsigned (therefore behaviour is defined), and the delta between them both is always between 0 and 65535, no matter what values they may have, and also correct in all cases.

E.g.:

timeDelta = timeStampNow - timeStampLast = 0 - 65535 = 1
I mean, what? You are like a local store with foot traffic complaining about the global internet restrictions. Of course it doesn't affect you.
That's why I try to keep as much email as I can in accounts that are under my control rather than ones that aren't. I have a friend who refused a corporate email when offered one for similar reasons–it kept communication tied to an identity that didn't expire if/when he left the company (this was an early-stage startup, so I'd assume the security policy was lax enough for this to fly).
>I wish there was an easier way to just buy content, in a way that I knew was going to support the creators and not line the pockets of the distribution network.

I agree (Bandcamp for movies?) but the economics of this are hard. While you can make a solid album with free software, cheap instruments you own already, and a few hundred dollars worth of equipment, even a well made indie movie is going to run into hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in costs. They have to recoup those somehow, and it's a terrifying leap to go from a traditional production / distribution network to relying directly on consumers to pay for your product. It's "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" except in the movie distribution industry.

I suppose if there's one industry leading the way it's in video games. If I'm not mistaken several AAA games have been included in Humble Bundles, which means you pay what you want and get a non-DRM copy of the game. (Even a torrent link!)
well technically they use this to reduce hum based interference (the alternative is a slowly rolling hum bar through the screen)
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000033563...

$16,450 to her in particular for those interested
Anyone know how/if this issue affects Django, which uses pytz?
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>People should be able to pay for the individual series or even episodes.

Isn't this already a thing? iTunes and Amazon both allow you to purchase individual episodes or season passes.
Standups can have their use but I can't imagine a 20 person standup being useful. Why do you bring so many teams together for it?
The Simple Solow Economic Model of Software Engineering
Are startups getting value from project estimation?
If the firm is going to be liable for policing the fake positive reviews, anyone with an ax to grind.
Yes, thanks for the correction :) I've fixed it above.
A Simple Web Developer's Color Guide
Intel can barely keep up with manufacturing their own chips, and have nearly lost to AMD
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow%E2%80%93Swan_model
The most baffling quote from the article, citing Zuckerberg

>“I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong.”

Ah yes, the very common good faith nazi. You seriously have to wonder if Mark Zuckerberg would have such nonchalant views about speech and misinformation if he didn't have a tail of private security and a fenced in mansion.

What's the Muslim store owner in Myanmar going to do when the mob comes knocking on the door after some lie about him got the local village riled up? The degree to which these people live in an alternate reality isn't even funny any more. Nothing has consequences for Zuckerberg et al and it has distorted their worldview.
2^(2^5) + 1 is 4296967297 = 641 * 6700417. Not at all a huge number today, but in those days it'd probably be considered "astronomical".

Also, the series 2^(2^n)+1 grows extremely quickly; the next number is 18446744073709551617 = 274177 * 6728042131072, and after that 340282366920938463463374607431768211457 = 59649589127497217 * 5704689200685129054721.
I believe everything on the internet. It doesn't polarize me either.
Can be argued that Sanburg isn't a public figure. Very few ppl know her outside tech/leanin circles.
I don't really have that much industry experience but have been reading a lot about development processes and practices. It seems there just isn't one development process that will solve all your problems and allow you always create successful software. To me it seems you just need to find what works for your team and continuously work on improving on it. What might work today, probably won't work for your team tomorrow so you need to always look at how can you improve your process.

ACM recently had a series of webinars[0] by Ivar Jacobson on Essence[1]. Essence was kind of confusing at first, but it is essentially a language to describe practices from the different processes. The idea is that you can build up a library of the various practices in your company and allow teams to pick their own and evolve their process by swapping out practices that just don't work out. Essence seems like an interesting idea, especially if it allows teams to create a development process that fits them.

[0]: https://www.sigsoft.org/resources/webinars.html

[1]: https://www.ivarjacobson.com/services/what-essence
It doesn’t need to be efficient because the sun supplements it with an endless supply of free energy.
But they’re going to be doing that (coming from out of town to take a high paying job) anyway. Without condos being built they’ll just be putting that pressure on the rental market.

Also, a lot of the condos being built - at least here in NY - are rental units.
I never understood that foreign influence complaint. The whole world is sharing opinions and misinformation about the EU elections, just as the whole world was sharing opinions and misinformation about the US elections. How is it worse if it comes from someone in another country and is a bot compared to a real person in another country or a bot in the local country? Do you really think that these political bots are there to create chaos rather than either to generate ad revenue or get their preferred candidate elected?

No purely. But people certainly attribute it to bots or they wouldn't be concerned about bots if they believed they had no effect.
Are we still talking about these dated concepts?

Agile is a mindset.

Understand the mindset, absorb it, make it yours, and build the process that's working for you based on that mindset.

Stop complaining about Scrum, it's just a tool, and tools deprecate.
He's not wrong. Having been involved in the Agile movement since before the term Agile was coined, I think of Scrum as the least interesting of Agile processes, but also the most successful in terms of adoption.

I used to think that was a contradiction. Now I think it's almost inevitable. I wrote more about it elsewhere [1], but the basic deal is that most companies have other priorities than being effective, so the processes that dominate will reflect those priorities.

On average, the first priority of managers and execs is maintaining the power structures that make them a big deal. But true Agile processes are about empowering teams to self-organize around serving users. Ergo, Sturgeon's Law [2] applies here too: 90% of company software process is crap.

I think reason why Scrum in specific won out is that it combined a process framework unthreatening to executives with the multilevel marketing scheme of Scrum certification. Executives got to keep doing what they were doing, the workers got a "didn't stop breathing" certificate, and coaches got paid. Win, win, win!

[1] http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-an...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
If you keep building more and more housing you'll end up with a mega city like NYC, Tokyo, Paris, Cairo, Munbai etc etc. Those places are still expensive, just bigger. SF could easily go that route.

The people who live and own there dont want to do that because it'll ruin their quality of life and they'll be just big city dwellers in a polluted over-crowded environment.
It could be fake troll bids. Internet auctions of items deemed "funny" often accumulate a lot of fake bids from trolls who don't intend to pay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Artists-Beanie-/111913567870
I agree. Perhaps evidenced by yourself, the people who we call insensitive or trolls today, could be the pillars of society tomorrow. We should be very careful when trying to answer the question "what do we do with these people?".
Anyone who'll say something is amazing without saying what it is is trying to game you.
There's nothing self-congratulatory about that sentence at all. Facebook's algorithm used to promote a certain kind of clickbait until they changed it in favor of real news (which killed a bunch of media startups that were optimizing for Newsfeed traffic). Facebook has specifically courted media organizations with Instant Articles or video for Facebook Watch.
I'm assuming people railing on Zuck here don't like Zuck, so it's odd to me they would prefer he become the world's arbiter of permitted speech.
It used to be a very simple static website, and much more likely than not was just that at the time people were writing to the wiki

Like last year or something they apparently decided to migrate to this mess of a system, for reasons unknown to me. I think it might be mediawiki software?
beancount does, you can transparently encrypt your data.
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