skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this has some meaning for the abundance of life in the multiverse. If most human-created systems of sufficient complexity turn out to accidentally support computation, then maybe most laws of physics support computation.

Hey, it's not better or worse than any other way to guess.
I've got one of those suits and would love to give your Python code a try with UE4, if it's available somewhere.
I've owned a Boosted Board clone, an M365 scooter and a OneWheel XR. The XR is by far my favorite ride. I would also recommend taking a look at EUCs (electric unicycles) as they have longer range, faster top speed and are easier to carry.
I miss the days before command blocks when it was still just about getting clever with good old redstone and a couple gates. The piston update was massive. I've built some ridiculous contraptions such as color displays and tape reels and programmable mob traps and variable-clock-rate machinery. And how could I forget minecarts... And IndustrialCraft took all of this to the next level. Wow, I miss the golden days of Minecraft.
Sure the world will be completely different, but in high likelihood it will be very similar.

To take your examples, the kid born might be completely different, but will likely receive a somewhat similar education that it would have so he won't be too different.

Wars that might have been avoided on one occasion might just have been delayed, (WW1 ferdinand assassination comes to mind).

In chaos theory, the space of possibilities is usually split up in different regions called basins that each converge towards around its own attractor point. But usually a small change isn't enough to make you change of basin. It only matter when you are close to the boundary, on the edge of chaos.

It's kind like re-rolling when playing D&D, you can get luckier and win the fight instead of losing it, but if you are not well prepared it won't matter in the long run.

At scale, the law of large numbers average effects out. In science-fiction the theme of order vs chaos is often evoked, because it's one of the most powerful tool for the underdog hero to turn the situation around. By definition the hero must choose the more risky side and chaotic situation that will give him his only chance to get out on top.
I completely agree. If Amazon pays their workers better, that won’t fix the millions of other workers stuck with bad pay and abusive jobs.

That's not what I meant by "more efficient." If every company employing low skilled labor suddenly raised pay above market wages it might help all those workers. But it would mean that prices for things produced by unskilled laborers were artificially high and prices produced by higher skilled laborers would be artificially low. This would cause the market to produce the wrong mix of goods and services and we would all be worse off for the difference.
I very much doubt that, given that Krita is an Illustrator competitor.
Also known as "unused RAM is wasted RAM".
I agree, unfortunately the search is really really sub-par and like others said, frequently doesn’t find basic things no matter how specific the keywords I use are.

I feel it might have even been better at one stage ?
Not the OP, but I found I had to do some digital spring cleaning once I realized 1TB of cloud/external storage wasn't enough for everything I was holding on to. I had useless data and archives going back to 2001, most of which I'd forgotten I even had. Long story short, after a few weeks of off-and-on cleaning, I got my mess down to around 200GB of data and archives, of which about 40GB is "must keep". That 40GB, mostly photos I don't want to lose, is backed up in iCloud (I have a 50GB plan) and is on my iPhone (128GB version) for quick access, as well as backed up on a flash drive and a SD card that I keep at work and my mom's house respectively. The rest lives on my spinning 3TB drive, which also houses about 1.5TB of Steam and GoG games so I don't have to re-download when I wipe and reinstall Windows on my gaming PC.

I could probably whittle that 200GB down to just over the 40GB "must keep" stuff, but I like having quick access to various operating system ISO and image files, Raspberry Pi images and backups, rips of my physical CDs, and various other project-related things. The bulk of what I deleted was forgotten detritus, left over crap from years of digital hoarding that served no purpose today. I'll probably purge again in a few years once all my hardware has changed and old OS and driver related stuff is once again obsolete.
Nothing wrong with that at all. I meant the "at worst" to carry an implicit "and there's nothing wrong with that, so it's nothing but a good thing."
That's a fair distinction here I suppose. From my perspective as a hobbiest game developer, and of course player, any benefits of trusting the client are far outweighed by the problems, but that's a matter of opinion I suppose.
Dwarfputers are a wonderful tangent of their own, with a not-unlikely possibility of flooding your entire computer with firey death in the form of magma in some of the more impressive approaches - this has been possible (but quite difficult) for some time, more recent game versions have made non-fluid based logic gates[1] more realistic and usable.

Someone has built an (admittedly simple) space-invaders game[2] using df which is rather impressive.

1. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Computing#Disc...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cMHwo3nAU
With arxiv papers, I usually download the Tex file and copy the formulas from there. Besides, sometimes you find interesting ideas that were commented due to space.
I don’t really get the logic, just use a good search engine in the first place ?
If they weren't you might get something like

Night had come to the city of Skalandarharia, the sort of night with such a quality of black to it that it was as if black coal had been wrapped in blackest velvet, bathed in the purple-black ink of the demon squid Drindel and flung down a black well that descended toward the deepest, blackest crevasses of Drindelthengen, the netherworld ruled by Drindel, in which the sinful were punished, the black of which was so legendarily black that when the dreaded Drindelthengenflagen, the ravenous blind black badger trolls of Drindelthengen, would feast upon the uselessly dilated eyes of damned, the abandoned would cry out in joy as the Drindelthengenflagenmorden, the feared Black Spoons of the Drindelthengenflagen, pressed against their optic nerves, giving them one last sensation of light before the most absolute blackness fell upon them, made yet even blacker by the injury sustained from a falling lump of ink-bathed, velvet-wrapped coal.

Which, yes, is deliberate parody.

https://www.tor.com/2011/04/01/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-d...
At least Waxman is pretty :)
> titanium (a technically flammable metal similar to magnesium)

Yeah, it didn't click with me immediately. I saw "titanium fire" but my brain substituted "magnesium fire".

The idea that titanium can catch on fire in a similar way, is…concerning.

… and of course there's a small-scale YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH76ObzYIxc
> I think at this point most smart members of HN should realize that the only reason immigration has much momentum is because the democrat party relies on it to win elections.

It's the “Democratic Party” and, no, they don't.

> All I see from Democrats is all talk about helping the poor but they don't do the most sensible and easiest thing to help the poor, simply limit the pool of labor by limiting immigration of low skilled workers.

Limiting immigration doesn't limit labor supply in a globalized market; it effects it's geography, but whether or not labor mobility is restricted capital and goods are largely free to move (and, no, Trump's tariff policies, while breaking with the neoliberal consensus, haven't been well designed to promote the interest of working Americans either. There was once a Democratic Party idea of “free and fair” trade that would have been good had it actually been substantially pursued, but in practice Bill Clinton pursued neoliberal free trade with only vestigial gestures to the kind of common, upward-moving standards they would prevent a race to the bottom.
I knew I should have been more specific to begin with.

Last year was neither a typical year nor is that the profit from retail.

https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/amazon-is-losing-money-fro...

AWS makes good money, but you can't really expect them to use it all to subsidize retail (even more than they already do) forever.
Oh, I see the point of confusion now. To be clear I am not attributing any motive to you at all. I take issue with what you actually posted, not your intent.
I made hacker news account just to post this. This post triggered me harder than anything I have ever seen on the internet. All that said, sorry for the screed below but I can't keep it in. This must be an elaborate troll designed specifically to make me mad :-P

"I would just analyze the HDMI output from my computer (via an FPGA)"

OH WOULD YOU

"(You also don't want to make your mouse movements statistically different from anyone else's, or it's the server that will pick up on your cheating... or at least a well-crafted MapReduce. Do game companies have MapReduce? I hope so.)"

Is that a * sentence?

What does it * mean?

Where did map reduce come from?

I HATE FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING EVANGELISM!

"All this anti-cheating stuff is mostly a scam to stop the dumbest of the dumb cheaters and probably collect information from your computer that's useful to advertisers/investors/law enforcement agencies."

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

"dumb cheaters" are the ones who don't want to spend 1000 hrs and hundreds of dollars on a fucking learning algorithm running on an FPGA reading from your fucking HDMI output!
Like WTF!
That HDMI output is outputting at a bitrate of something like 1080 * 1920 * 60 * 256 * 3 = 11GB/s of data.

I probably made a math mistake, but on the order of magnitude of 10GB/s which you have to fucking neural net down to a cursor position ON DEDICATED FPGA HARDWARE.

All those challenges are before you get to making your results look like a real player.

Note: after re-reading this more times than I would like to I realized he doesn't necessarily propose using a ML solution for identifying targets, so maybe some of those criticisms are unfair.
quitting entirely and working for someone else

Doesn't work if every other employer is also like that.
Totally distracting aside: I've always felt I wish I could walk around a store with a special set of glasses on so I could apply my own personal voting filters -
Chili - benefits monsanto $0.05 per can, KRAFT Foods $1 per can

etc...

I mean I have a lot of values - I buy small label organics and that does a lot, but sometimes I just want to buy cheetos- I think I would think twice if I knew my enemies were benefitting.

Honestly I thought that was one of the purposes of something like G-Glass.

Anyway - but yeah, these companies exist because even if we know they are bad - we have no way of knowing what we are buying that is making them stay in power.

Money is our voting power - and unlike presidential elections, we generally have no idea what we're voting for.
Would it not be even more in Amazon's interest to cultivate labor practices which make their warehouses places people might want, instead of merely being willing, to work?

"Oh, the market..." Bullshit. Amazon can afford to let people go to the bathroom without fearing for their jobs. They choose not to.
You could back off on the personal attacks some.

Imperfect data is a fact of life. Provided you understand what it represents ("Of startups that succeed, a large proportion have single founders") there is nothing wrong with using this.

It's much better than what you have offered: no data and insults to anyone who disagrees with you. You may want to consider this when thinking about why you have been unable to find a co-founder.
Anything can be an addiction, meaning if it stops you from going to school/work, building and maintaining relationships, having food and shelter then it qualifies IMO. So while I support trying to help people in this situation I would be careful to not make it harder for everyone else that is responsibly enjoying those things.
Doesn't their solution preclude restarting the engines? Maybe that was never intended.
The timeline should actually be hugely resilient to changes at smaller scales.

Consider the world in terms of large numbers of probability distributions.

When you combine distributions it's the variance and not the deviation that you add together.

I.e.: at larger scales the distribution of probabilistic variables tends toward the mean.

All that's left at smaller scales is quantum white noise.
Most CPUs aren't in self-hosting systems.
> After buying a screen which has only a USB-C DP-Alt-Mode input

OT, but what screen did you buy? I'm in the market as well for a USB-C powered travel monitor and was about to head down the what-cable-works rabbit hole.
Bamboo, maybe, although the joints would have been very difficult and you still have the problem of bearings and other moving interfaces.
allow javascript and whitelist following domains:
googlevideo.com
raw.githubusercontent.com
youtube.com
ytimg.com
Interestingly, Minecraft only added redstone to explicitly allow logic gates after users had found out how to create them out of flowing water and other select blocks.
Just because you have market leverage to do what you want to desperate people, doesn’t mean you should. If this were a wage dispute, I might agree, but it’s much more than that.
Preserving the Wilderness
Direct link to SpaceX press release: https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-s...
Is there some distinction to be made between Turing machines with tapes of fixed capacity, and ones whose capacities are limited by their execution substrate, such that they’ll support as much memory as they are “given” by the environment?

I’m picturing here the difference between Turing machines in the Game of Life that take place on a fixed area of the grid, vs. ones that attempt to just index out to whatever grid position they need, whether that causes wraparound or not.
If your user name is accurate then I should be welcoming you because I’ve been here a decade. Good job, you actually responded in a rational way. I hadn’t heard of this. Still, this is not what I asked for. This is not hateful rhetoric. Furthermore, it is not a statement by trump or his administration that highly skilled and educated people are not to immigrate here. It’s an expression of intent to stop Chinese people specifically from committing espionage. It has nothing to do with letting people immigrate here who actually intend on immigrating here and nothing else. The reason I’ve never heard of it is because Chinese espionage is a real problem and doesn’t fit well into the liberal dogma.
This seems like a disruptive way to save 1GB of space. It's not like we're talking about an upgrade from RC or something, mercurial is a perfectly serviceable DVCS used by everyone from facebook to google.
There is no other way. The market ALWAYS sets it, no matter how strong it’s regulated. The real minimum wage is zero.
Using DuckDuckGo is pleasant in ways that Google just isn't, but can be easy to forget.

I'm reminded every time I somehow default to Google by mistake (using different browser or PC, for example) and am hit with one of those "Before you go!.. some bright colours and dark patterns which we hope will shield us from GDPR" modals.*

It's just such a nice break from what the internet has become, like booting into Linux and simply not having that general feeling that everything you touch is out to screw you somehow to squeeze just a little more value out of the interaction.

No modals, no overlays, no cookie warnings, no needing to save cookies to avoid cookie warnings which have already been acknowledged. So refreshing.

Their branding and message is so on-point that after a while of using their search, a journey into chrome/Google feels almost seedy, like downloading a "Best Free Calculator/Flashlight App" from the android play store, or browsing sourceforge a few years ago.

*As a sidenote, I'd love to see the statistics of people who immediately stop and bounce to DDG when presented with one of those.
Yeah, I can't imagine month old cans would ever be a problem. What you describe is an effective way to use those cans that are no longer saleable but still in good shape. Working with charities is probably a very effective way for businesses to get very recently expired inventory off the books.

I can see why those same charities might institute a rule about no expired goods from the general public, however.
I don't have a source, and maybe I'm misremembering, but I think compilers (for software) and CPU production tooling (for hardware) both bootstrap off their own performance.

A better compiler can compile itself more efficiently, same for CPU/chip layout systems.
4:46: Let me just move this beaker of rocket fuel over a foot while I aim a syringe of oxidizer.
Show HN: CHIP-8 emulator with C and WebAssembly
We better worry about running out of aluminum. After all, it's only the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust. /s
What an awful company.
Assembling a bike from parts would be a challenge for many people here.

Assembling a wheel from parts is beyond most people, including many bike mechanics. In fact most wheels are assembled by machines, else labor costs would be too high.

Used to be it was mostly serious amateurs and professionals that had them hand built. They’re more reliable, but I think it’s more to do with the combinatorial explosion of parts. Machines are for making 5000 of something, not one.

And even the reliability will fall at some point (maybe already, I’ve been out of the loop so long) The human picks up on things that don’t seem right. But if you built enough telemetry into the robot, you could measure all the elastic and inelastic deformations and probably reject/reassemble the wheel based on information a human couldn’t or wouldn’t track.
So effectively you're saying:

As far as democrats are concerned, a worker from Bangladesh is just as deserving of a given job as a worker from Florida.

At that point, the party doesn't seem to be caring about American workers, but behaving more like a "global party".

Thinking further, might as well normalize wages for all low skilled american workers across the 7 billion or so world population. I mean why have borders if they're not affording any labor protections already, right?

I'm not surprised the term "globalist" took off in the last election cycle.
He did not say that, sorry.
It's always obvious after the fact
In fact, you can set up an eslint rule banning any loops from your code.
Your story is completely unbelievable. Automobiles are not impulse buys, the idea behind the General Motors strategy is to make a vehicle for each class of buyer lifestyle. Now sure if a whimsical or uneducated buyer walks in with no idea of what they want and money to burn the salesperson (never a GM employee, GM) will try to put them in the most expensive vehicle, the reasons for that are obvious.
The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy.

As a Minnesotan, I was wondering how long it would take before someone would notice them and shift their attention from Koch, but it had to happen at some point.
All sky X-Ray telescope to hunt for super massive black holes
Amusingly, most commercial screws today are made with rolled threads, where the wire is rolled between two ridged dies. But making those dies is a pretty high technology in its own right. The use of screw machines is now limited to making specialized or super-precision parts.
Actually, that's a great point. In Canada, we passed legislation that caps the amount a phone company can charge you in a billing period. We ought to do something similar for micro transaction businesses (though I loathe the appearance of a dialog box - "You have reached the daily spending limit as permitted by your jurisdiction")
We all do that stuff from time to time, but I rarely find someone who is consistently that bad in everything they do. I have seen them, but my point is they are also rare.
What about something like. Please don't implement that feature that benefits our competitors.
I think, like with other addictions, you need to take a holistic view of video game addiction that also includes the circumstances of the addicted people during their transition from casual use, to abuse, to addiction.

Why? Because most people don't get addicted to video games, just like most people don't get addicted to alcohol. And while you might be able to chalk some of it up to addictive personalities (predispositions to addiction regardless of circumstances) I'm guessing a lot of it comes down to environment more than pure chance.

For video games, I think there are a few serious structural/societal issues leading to addiction. First and foremost is that keeping kids busy is hard, and the lowest effort way to keep some kids busy is to give them video games. Couple that with most kids not being allowed to just wander around outside anymore, and living in a car culture where they can't drive, and video games become the primary way most kids can play with other kids.

A lot of video games addict will tell you that the thing that keeps them coming back to games are usually 2-3 things: well-defined goals with clearly actionable tasks to be completed to meet those goals (getting level 99 or a specific rare item, etc.), the community aspect, and the feeling of proficiency/accomplishment. In real life, important goals are harder to meet and less well-defined, much higher stakes, and are done over the course of months/years instead of hours/days/weeks, so video games are much preferable to hitting goals in real life. Social isolation is prevalent so videogames can easily replace that. And in real life, not everybody can be a winner, yet in videogames everyone can feel like a badass for grinding out a skill requirement or getting a rare/expensive item.
In a 100% renewable economy, there will be a need for storable chemical energy for filling rare prolonged outages of wind and solar. Refuse, and in particular high energy density refuse like plastics (made from renewables feedstocks), would be good for this.
Games can be an escape, just as book reading can be an escape. The problem lies in that the book ends, but the game goes on for months, years, or decades.

Many people bring up the positivity of quitting, or minimizing, social media. The same thing could be extended to gaming.

I have quit social media, only using twitter to follow my interests, and quit gaming back in high school. Both of which took many, many weeks away from my life.

I am amazed at how much time I have outside of work compared to my peers that are hooked on social media or gaming!

All that being said, neither are evil, and both can be fun, but for many people they silently rob you of precious time, and peace.

It helps to view things not on a micro, hours per day, scale, but on a lifetime scale. 2 hours gaming daily, 5 times a week, from age 10-30 is well over a YEAR of your life! Now consider the binge gaming phases of life and it certainly takes a lot shorter of a time to hit 1 year.
Yeah, I feel like pop culture in general gets that idea right (that a small change can have a large effect, and it is unpredictable).

Jurassic Park also has gets that concept correct.

I feel like pop culture uses the butterfly effect as shorthand for "don't change anything in the past because you have no idea how big a change it would cause in seemingly unrelated things"
It's pretty
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...

well
http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/statistics-most-letha...

documented
https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/2/120

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245314

I'm not sure why you get to declare a lie as a fact without evidence, and I'm the one who has to provide links to call that out?