skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The article doesn't seem to consider real life practicality enough.

It considers it plenty for an article in the category "neat trick/wrinkle of processor caches and pipelining you may not have known/thought about to its limit." If you're actually doing binary searches on sets large enough to where this would matter, most often some kind of hash based solution is going to be preferable anyway, because of its much higher degree of cache efficiency and better asymptotic performance. That's not this article's purpose, though. Not every article is a tutorial.
Nothing you provided is evidence that any Facebook activity has ever swung any election. The very people that paid Cambridge Analytica for their services in 2016 said that the company’s strategies were ineffective at best, referring to it as “snake oil” [1]. You have provided evidence that people attempted to use Facebook to swing an election. Those two things are not the same.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/2...
Build a 6502 Computer
Notarizing Your Flash/Air Applications for macOS
That's why Ninja build is so amazing for C/C++. It can use the whole dependencies output from the compiler and knows exactly what to recompile, even if only a header changed.
What's holding potential customers back the most? The quality of the work, implying you are already exhausted after your current job? Or the fact that 20hrs is often not enough time for a meaningful contribution in a development team and you have to spend time to catch up every week?

Courious to know what your experience is and if a price conscious buyer would be willing to accept the trade-offs.
Well, there was 3dfx Voodoo before that.
The book Sapiens explored some of this. I can see how agriculture has shaped us and the planet negatively. Not sure what the alternative would have been, other than remaining foragers.
SilentLab's standalone MicroOffices to shield workers from “excessive noise”
It is not a function of only the number of samples. It is also a function of how costly are false positives (type I error) and false negatives (type II error). That is (from my understanding) the paper's main point.

But then you have to be able to calculate how costly is a type I and a type II error! That's seems a relatively straightforward question for a business (for example in A/B testing), but how do you measure that cost in academia?

I think this would only introduce confusion and another variable for p-hacking.
That ideology had nothing to do with the use of spying coupled with advertising ("targeted ads" in their modern sense) causing the creation of rents-seeking monopolies in the online ads space. The tech that enabled that was really just a few things (Javascript that could make and modify requests while also being able to hook into various user-generated events being a huge one, though not the only one) and I don't think many or any of those were developed for the purposes of information freedom or whatever, in particular.

And anyway "information wants to be free" is more descriptive than it is ideological. It's a statement about what tends to happen to information. Cheap Internet access and cheap storage have changed how that works so much that it's qualitatively different from the previous status quo ("the medium is the message") but the tech creating that would've probably looked pretty similar regardless of whether the inventors thought it was wrong to pay for information (which I doubt most did anyway).

[EDIT] TL;DR: "information wants to be free" isn't a statement about the ethics of charging money for information, and the reasons that advertising won on the web and the reasons monopolies took those over rather than even small or midsized publications being able to continue getting by with their own ad sales desk wouldn't have anything to do with anyone subscribing to that notion anyway. It's an entirely incorrect association.
Except you know, shills exist, and are real, so lets not make up some kind of even lamer "Godwin's law" about it.

Doesn't mean its (always) sensible to accuse people you disagree with of course.
My favorite pastime playing MUDs in the early 90s was to do dumb stuff.

> Eat horse

> YOU CAN'T DO THAT

> Eat horse

> YOU FEEL SICK

What I read in this article doesn't show much I (of AI) to me, but highlights how 30yrs ago there was a lot of creative thinking to generate an open seeming environment.
As others have stated, thread switching overhead is much higher than even the cost of a main memory fetch, so we can't afford to switch a thread on every pipeline stall. Numbers Every Programmer Should Know: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l... (Although I see that this does not include thread switching latency, possibly because it depends on the OS and thread type. I'll leave the link because it's generally useful.)
There are three cameras there and they are spaced out so it is possible the occlusion is not as much as you imply.
Betcha that women tend to be protein deprived in hunter-gatherer groups, at least the ones where they don't get to run a bunch of buffalo off of a cliff. I should look around for a study based on dental remains.

I've always been amused by the concept of egalitarianism in tribal societies. Prison (or high school) should teach you otherwise
This would never fly in Switzerland. You need to accept Swiss Franc Banknotes of any denomination as settlement for any monetary debt (this includes a purchase of a 1.- stick of gum paid for with a CHF 1000 Bill. there will be some arguing required for that one in practice, but the law is clear).
How Much of Humanity Is in Your Hemisphere?
Fancy video - still have no idea how this works.
...You know, you can do that with plain old make, too?
"Be my guest, regulate the sh1t out of it. I'll give you side-doors, back-doors, trackers, whatever you want. Just don't shut it down." Intense scene.
Good decision by Germany/France on this one. This is the kind of thing has to be stopped soon because once it starts being popular it becomes more of a corporate power-capture pandemic.
This wasn't about Epstein. It was about Marvin Minsky who was a director of the MIT AI lab where Stallman started his ideas about software freedom.
Ugh this looks so addicting
Let's not pretend the Sierra club and ACLU are _incorporated_ entities whose speech could (and would) be throttled by restrictions on "corporate" spending.
Well this is certainly bad news for anyone who invested $35k in a vantablack wristwatch: https://www.h-moser.com/en/collection/1801-1200-endeavour-pe...
Wanting an inherently repetitive game to get the fluff out of your way so you can actually play it is hardly the hallmark of "instant gratification".

I prefer to call it "a strong dislike of bad interaction design".
It seems to me that it would be difficult to separate those valleys from the valleys you see from long term cycles in mass human behavior...under/over population of labor for example (or under/over supply of prey animals and food plants).
> how does the USA treat the US Dollar, would they be willing to just let it wane or die, be "invaded" by a foreign and private currency

This can only happen one of two ways:

a. US government declares that currency legal tender. They won't do it ever.

b. all of US citizens voluntarily agree to accept this currency instead of dollars, only using dollars when they must (e.g. when paying taxes) but otherwise avoiding it like plague. This has been a common occurrence in places with unstable national currency - e.g. exUSSR countries in 90s-2000s, and many others. At that point, the US dollar would be effectively dead anyway as currency, and the only way to recover it would be stabilize it back and make it preferable means of trade.

The only way for other currency to push out US dollar is for US citizens and the whole world to become convinced this currency is better for them - safer, more stable, more convenient, more trustworthy - than the US dollar. If anybody can ever do that, it's not Facebook. So there's nothing to worry about.

> wildly uneducated about macroeconomics and political theory

What exactly in macroeconomics or political theory suggests that any private coin - of which literally thousands already exist - pose any threat whatsoever to the existence of national currencies?

They, of course, pose tax-avoidance, money-laundering, etc. risk - and if particular state's central bank goes completely bonkers and ruins their own currency with their monetary policies - as it happened in Zimbabwe, Venezuela and many countries before that - then the national currency can vane and die. But that happened many times before Facebook even existed and will undoubtedly happen again. Libra has zero to do with it, and nothing you just described comes even close to explaining bizarre and non-sensical action of European government. It's mostly looking as "this new thing is confusing to me so I ban it just in case". Funny thing it's not even new, it's just pure ignorance.
Yes, but three, not just one.
World's largest bicycle park built below Utrecht train station
Which is exactly why you can't risk to have anything even remotely approaching a monopoly in any part of the systems involved in making transactions.
Which is why I (also as a German) am very happy that we have a competitive (read: better in literally every way) alternative to credit cards, plus a strong cash culture.

Oh and for completeness' sake: if paypal (and libra for that matter) are not regulated according to all the rules that other financial services have to obey, something needs to change. But then I don't know enough about the specifics of that to say if that is a hypothetical or not.
Some games are just good so you can play them for a long time. As long as there is a community. I occasionally fire up HL deathwatch and have people playing. Plus CS:S is almost 15 years old and that is quite active (surf communities anyway)
this is complete nonsense that denies the factual agency these people absolutely have.
I think the article says iron fluoride potentially has double the capacity as conventional cathodes but in it's raw form isn't stable enough. I think it's a big deal because 'even' a 50% increase in energy density is a huge deal. And doubling means the absolute end of internal combustion powered cars.

Who knows. I remember articles about LiFePO4 back in the late 1990's. Took them a long time to solve the problem of high cathode resistance and put them into production. Seems like there is a huge space to explore here and little to judge what will work.
There appears to be a source file at https://littlealchemy2.com/js/chunk-vendors.1828b6b5.js with answers under the key: "2e77". I'm bored on a Saturday, might try this out =)
Wait what? This cannot be serious.
Interesting concepts and ideas. There is definitely a lot of room to simplify frontend frameworks and I'm glad to see work in this direction.

In the composition sample code [1] I see two counters in the code, but only one shows up in the rendered view. Am I missing something? I would have expected two independent counters.

[1] https://stackblitz.com/edit/solenya-samples?file=app%2Fcompo...
fwiw 15% is really low in my experience, across a range of locations and hiring at all levels . More common would be 1/4 or 1/3 1st year salary, with 3mo trigger (or clawback)

Of course YMMV.
Not sure if it'll be important but it'd be fun for sure!
Think I'll have no luck on Linux though.. blizzard does not give Linux any love :(
It's illegal anywhere in the US; the NLRA is a federal law.
Yeah, pretty much this.

And to be honest, as someone who's both done independent journalism and known people who do the same, it's honestly kind of worrying. I suspect the old guard despise the new media sites and creators the internet has brought about, and the competition it's giving them, and are trying everything they can to try and make them go away.
My wife's Show HN: climate news + "recycling visual search" website/app she made
It depends on the use case of course. Low cost with no other constraints is good for utilities, medium cost with smaller size and weight for vehicles, high cost/high capacity/small-light for portable devices.

Since the rest of electric cars is essentially designed, I'm looking forward to someone who really cracks the battery problem. It's a real game changer for a large part of everyday life. No wonder the car companies are thinking twice about building new ICE models, the world could change in a minute.

Question: Is there a graphable Moore's Law at work for batteries?
The rise of a mysterious lung illness begins to expose the dangers of vaping
It is stated to be an order of magnitude better across the broad spectrum than other broad absorbers.

I wonder if there are any narrow bands that it specifically excels at compared to existing materials, and how big the difference is.
A debit card is just as cashless, what is your reason for using a credit card?

Hotels or car rentals which want to block a certain amount on my card as guarantee are one. Other than that I never needed a credit card.

In case of an emergency most bank accounts in Germany can go into the negatives, I guess making minimum payments on a credit card is cheaper but that style of life isn't at all common in Germany.
> There are lots of privately controlled currencies. Miles, points, certificates, game gold, etc.

Yes but these other currencies don’t have the possibility to be the most used and powerful currency for everything you do, and who knows what shape, direction and impact Libra will take/have over time once that Pandora’s box is opened!
Im on Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mirrae; my proof: https://keybase.io/mirrae/sigs/qmChLwaMk7AR5hZFElL497Nf_giaBXc4ndVLiUGk5cA ]
Text manipulation is far easier in Python and a lot of other high-level languages than it is in C.

Incidentally, this ease (such as string concatenation with '+') also makes it easy to unknowingly/accidentally create a quadratic or higher complexity algorithm.
I agree. Any biologist worth their salt would see that result and imagine the outcome that we got. Unlike physics and chemistry, where a set of trials will behave in a mathematically nice way, biology experiments are notoriously variable. You will get outliers, and they will be weirder than you can imagine.
>Now do you tell white people that their success was because of the ideals and open society, and they should cultivate them more, or do you tell them that their success was due to oppression of brown/black people?

Both are true. Part of cultivating the ideals and open society is being aware of the artifacts of racial prejudice and privilege that still influence it. One can accept that white privilege exists without interpreting it as a blanket condemnation of all white people.
> hunting and gathering so hard that you had no choice but to farm

That's not really how it worked. No one culture made a decision to stop hunting. Even ignoring the costs in leisure time, agriculture allows for much (MUCH) higher population densities and a life in a fixed location that allows for development technologies using equipment that can't easily be carried with you (like walls, long term food storage, arsenals full of spears, etc...).

Eventually someone learned how to do it, and discovered after a generation or two that they outnumbered their competitors, who were either pushed aside or borrowed the same techniques to survive.
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502
Life Skills to Raise Confident Children
Pretty much any genre you can imagine was emulated with WC3 custom maps.

Proto-MOBAs and tower defense games were basically singlehandedly popularized by WC3, of course. Some of the WC3 TDs, like Wintermaul Wars, were way more complex than the mobile games you see today, though -- they involved strategies like building truly gigantic mazes to expose enemies to more tower fire and precisely angled walls that took advantage of quirks in the pathing AI to confuse enemies and keep them in the kill zone juuust long enough. Some of them were really unique, too. Battle Ships combined MOBA mechanics with the auto-firing of a tower defense game. Skibi's Castle TD had a ton of unique Mario-Party-style minigames that you'd play against the other players between waves.

There was also a whole genre of reverse tower defense games, where you would buy and upgrade tons of units that would automatically march into the middle to battle enemy units, until one pushed far enough to take out the enemy's bases. Or until there were so many units on the map that the game crashed. But what a spectacle it was.

There were games that were sort of a mashup of RTSes and Betrayl/Secret Hitler, in that every player built villages but one was secretly a "werewolf" whose goal was to convert all the other players.

There was a game called Darwin's Island and other similar ones in an "evolution" genre, which were basically prototypes of Spore.

There were games similar to Civ/Risk played on a map of the world.

RPGs based on popular books and movies were super common, and some were as as good as or better than missions in the WC3 standard RPG campaign. Some the multiplayer ones incorporated a system where you could serialize your stats as a code that you could copy and paste into the next game you played to start were you left off.

There was a CTF-style game called Tree Tag where one player was an infernal who had to tag the other players (treants), who could build defenses and countermeasures as they hid. Then if they got tagged, they'd be sent to jail, where other players could rescue them.

Board games like chess and checkers were common too.

There were platformers like Run Kitty Run.

Even micro-MMOs like Life in the City where you basically just hung out, got a "job", and played some resource gathering minigame. Some of them were crazy complicated, several-megabyte maps with some players playing as institutions and others as citizens. Of course there were fantasy and sci fi themed ones as well.

The best part was that there was zero quality control, because anyone could edit anyone's map, so you constantly encountered variations and remixes of popular maps. Apart from a handful of very popular main maps, you often had no idea what you were going to get.
[Response to a deleted (but fairly reasonable) comment asserting the NYTs is no longer the newspaper of record.]

Was there ever one then? And if not, then what did the term ever mean?

Before you answer, please consider the case of Walter Duranty and the NYTs covering up Soviet-lead genocide in Ukraine during the 1930s (the Holodomor, a term many Americans have never heard before.) It wasn't until 1990 that the NYTs came clean (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/opinion/the-editorial-not...), more than half a century too late. Were they the newspaper of record in the interim period?
Drones just attacked the world’s largest oil refinery
How do you deal with stale data?
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1021/acsami.9b08290
Other advantage is LiFePO4 is a lot safer than cobalt based batteries.

My company abandoned cobalt lithium ion batteries in our products because installers will mount our product in utility closets and then people will do things like store cardboard boxes in there.
I have no problem with letting the rich fly as long as they pay. Just use that money to let the poor access eco-friendly transportation more easily.

Here is the problem: a short flight may cost $50, the bus is $40 for the same trip, it is less desirable but much greener. In that situation, people with a $50+ budget will take the plane, people with a $50-$40 budget will take the bus and the others will stay at home. Now bump the plane ticket to $100 and use the money to subsidize the bus down to $30. The result may inconvenience the $50-$100 class as they are now taking the bus but it will open travel for the $30-$40 class, and help the planet at the same time.

It is even better when we take high speed trains into account. The train is often faster and more comfortable overall than the plane on short distances, and cleaner. But it is also often more expensive. Bumping the price of plane tickets and use a bit of that money to help the train will put things back the way they should.
Most of these "credit cards" in Germany aren't really credit cards though. They take the money from your account immediately instead of sending you a monthly statement and letting you decide how much you want to pay towards your credit.
These descriptions all seem like nonsequitors which limits my interest. If it had any coherence it would seem super fun.
My view of the state-level (golden) rule for cyberwarefare:

(1) Thou shalt not publish the goods on another country's elite else they shalt do the same to you.
Fleet of Autonomous Shapeshifting Boats
Overt and covert censorship.
Training ML models with ideological biases.
Covert subversion of the concept of justice.
Weaponization of cultural symbols.
Promotion of histeria and false allegations to increase cultural subversion.
Amen!

It is slightly better now than it used to be, i.e. you now have to read two sentences to realize it's incoherent gibberish, rather than just one. But thinking you're getting closer to understanding this way is like the metaphor of climbing a tree to reach the moon: you can keep reporting progress until you run out of tree.

As for it being entertaining, sure, the first attempts were entertaining and instructive. Now, years later, reading more gibberish from a neural net on HN, not so much.
Fb deciding what's on fb is not as harmful as a govt deciding what's on fb, IMO
So you don't want to know about _anything_ until it's available inside phones that you can buy today? I personally like to know what may be on the horizon. It's interesting to read about it, and remember it one the day it arrives (or something else does)!
I’m a content creator who has run three successful Kickstarters. It has generally been a great thing for me, I’ve been able to use it to make self-publishing comics a much less financially risky affair than it was before crowdfunding.

I do not think any of those goals for their employees are evil, or the exact opposite of what a content creator wants out of a fundraising platform. I am all for shrinking the gap between what the company heads and the lowest employee make; I am all for it not being nothing but straight white dudes (I’m not one myself), and I have no problem with their employees having a voice in how the place is run. Especially with KS having restructured itself as a Public Benefit Corporation rather than a pure-profit affair; there is a certain sort of “put your money where your mouth is, guys” thing going on once you’ve made that decision IMHO, and firing union organizers is really not a good look.
I treat everything like a trade.

If I have shares in my portfolio even because I happened to have issued them, I trade them just like anything else I own.

Do I want fiat? Sell asset for fiat. If I see an opportunity I would consider rebalancing the portfolio. Some shareholders have anxiety problems grasping for confidence from aspects that are irrelevant.
any efficiency claimed should be about how much water its able to wipe from the view of the occupants, not motor efficiency.
I see almost all comments on this article are sympathetic to China. I have not dug deeper but I wonder if the accounts making these comments are all real, or could they be part of China’s propaganda apparatus?
There is a graph right at the top of the abstract that shows the reflectance of this new material compared to Vantablack across a number of wavelengths.
Wireless Sensors That Stick to the Skin to Track Our Health
Does the use of cryptocurrency allow people to evade taxes? Does it allow bad actors to transact dangerous goods? People have good and evil within them. If you give people complete freedom, there will be those who allow evil free reign. Trust but verify./