skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be difference between Eliud running and average male walking.

I would not dare event to try running a marathon, but I've done 100km walks 3 times already, and numerous shorter distances. Never walked extactly the marathon distance, but it should take me ~6:00 hours. However, I am definitely among the faster walkers (at the last 100km event they told me I was the first to finish, but it was not a competition, so who knows).
“Sure, but where's the evidence?”
No. There is precious little science in CS at that level. But a decent high school mathematics course forms a solid foundation for work in other fields, including computing.
A “dirty” thunderstorm erupts in Chile
What a disappointing and disingenuous piece. To take an egregious example, the article points out that 90% of fires aren’t caused by electrical equipment, but fails to mention that the most destructive ones have been.

As for the idea of homeowners in fire prone regions shouldering all of the risk, is that reasonable when the frequency and magnitude of the fires appears to be changing so significantly? (I’m not sure, but I think areas of risk have also expanded significantly.). There are also huge externalities: it’s not just homeowners’ problem when smoke blankets regions housing millions of people hundreds of miles away from the fire.
There are lots of places where the variables are constrained enough that the current state could be useful. An AI shunt truck would be super useful and a much easier problem than a self driving car. We don't even have those yet and nobody seems to be trying to make them or similiar. I think most of the reason is there's no chance of hockey stick growth for niche commercial applications so VCs don't care.
California adopts nation's broadest gun seizure laws
Guys working on Homotopy type theory are trying to do something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_type_theory
That's kind if what I was thinking.

Scumm as far as I'm aware never existed on ARM, ( or Risc V for the sake of argument), so ScummVM on those platforms are in a sense Python on Ruby.

This is of course hugely muddy. Nim for example can target C and Javascript, neither is an emulator, I'm not sure a 3rd target by a separate developer would be either?
How so? Doesn't seem related, except maybe that I'd expect the IDW to criticize Moldbug's ideas.
Just what he said... A city with no cars at all.
New Yorkers already do have their say in how the community develops - why do you think something like 40% of the buildings in Manhattan couldn’t be built today under existing zoning?

New Yorkers have made it illegal to build the very same buildings and neighborhoods they claim to love - while also demanding that existing neighborhoods be preserved because they’re so “unique.”

It’s almost like there’s some other agenda at play...
Curse was still very good - Murray the demonic talking skull was hilarious and the art and sound design was great.
All browsers on iOS have to use the same engine, though, so you can't use Firefox add-ons there.
That's awesome, thanks! I'll probably revise my ongoing USB-C nixie tube clock design project to include one :)
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I don't know for sure but I strongly suspect that Pratchett was heavily influenced by Operation Black Buck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck

In particular, this diagram from that page makes the process clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck#/media/Fi...

Hopefully the name of the original mission is enough to help you find a link to some relevant mathematics :-)
paulgraham.com isn't secured by HTTPS. The reason why sites like this should be secured is content manipulation attacks. Now I can't trust that the Bel source code that I see is actually written by pg.
or you've grown up with them, without knowledge of the times before cell/smartphones.

Guess what the “74” in my name signifies?

Where there is no cell phone reception now, a cab/taxi/uber is probably still too expensive nowadays.

There are very few populated areas on the earth without cell phone reception from at least one provider.

I don't want to read books on smartphone.

My phone is about the size of a page in a paperback book and the words are definitely the size of normal text. Also, any modern phone you can increase the size of text if your eyesight isn’t good.
It's not of unbounded complexity, though.

That doesn't imply it's not complex, it is very complex, but it's way, way off being a problem whose solution maps to any other problem, i.e. only solvable by general AI.

Remember also, the goal is not dealing perfectly with every possible situation. The goal (at first) is dealing slightly better with the average predictable situation than the average human driver.
>I'm so fed up with Apple and its second rate software. I have lost music playlists in this ill fated Catalina "upgrade" as well. I've been wanting to move on to a more flexible and less oppressive environment for a while. At least this finally breaks my inertia.

Try Linux or Windows! Their first rate apps will keep your email safe and secure!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/372...

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=88648

https://blog.lightlyseared.online/2010/04/06/fixing-corrupt-...

https://windowsreport.com/outlook-emails-disappeared/

https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/06/20/outlook-coms-mis...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/237103/five_outlook_nightmar...
The ones listed seem to have something novel about them, like a new method of construction or a unique design.

Was there anything like that for the WTC, or was it "just" tallest?
I wonder if you could get the source code to compile for x86_64.
>How is that a Linux-centric vision?

In that many people consider the Linux kernel and basic userland as the "OS", and the applications, packaging, etc as the "distro".

Even casually, when we mention OSes, we say "Windows, macOS, Linux", not "Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, etc etc...".
> a problem of unbounded complexity

A loosely used term here. Especially in terms of it's practical meaning, not theoretical. In this sense, both Dota and Starcraft II were also problems of unbounded complexity, and Alphastar is doing pretty good there.

> nothing short of AGI will get us close to the current below-average human driver

What are you basing this assumption on? Most prominent scientists in this field don't seem to be agreeing with it. It is by no means self-evident or backed by any substantial direct evidence.

More generally, I just can't understand this attitude you have. How does your thinking process work here, what is that attitude good for and where is it coming from?

Here we have world's brightest people trying to tackle a very important and useful problem, it's hard to know when it will be tackled, but it seems it will be eventually. Some people are disagreeing about when it will happen (perhaps you think it will not be for a 100 years), but at least they are doing something and are making progress. Investors similarly know that it is a hard problem and no one knows when it will be done, but they want to give their money for this problem. And here you are just complaining about the whole situation? What would you have all these actors do, just do nothing? Stop making these cars? Stop trying to solve the problem, stop bringing the progress forward? Or what, working on it in secret and never telling anyone so that god forbid any one person would ever happen to see their presentation and build a faulty (a too optimistic) view on the current state of the technology? Where is your negativity and sarcasm coming from?
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It seems to me that the problem with this is that accepting natural selection will only be attractive for the people who are selected for not for the people who are selected against.

That being the case, people will continue to compete to be the "winners" even if that means that they must utilize non-sustainable strategies.

The only way I could see this working is if society somehow puts in place a system to provide for the people that are "selected against". What would that even look like? How would it be implemented?
> Yes, my worldview is obviously very different from yours.

There's worldview, and then there's confidently stating speculative mind-reading as fact.

Like when you say that the true reason behind payment processors and governments backing Libra was to "hold off the cryptocurrencies for a few extra years." Can you source your claim? Or any of your theories? Is this something you just 'know' to be true?

The cryptocurrency community is rife with people describing in exact detail the thinking and motivation of players behind the scenes, but often it turns out to be just "Here's what I am imagining".
> Would you want your local (almost certainly public) transit operator to take over your electric service?

I would love Transport for London to take over electric and water and internet provision in London, yep. And I feel like most everyone in the UK would prefer the trains to be renationalised.
> when he and others run their next marathon under race conditions they have the psychological benefit of knowing that the human body is capable of it.

One of the world major marathons is tomorrow in Chicago. Similar elevation to Wien and ideal temperatures are predicted, though breezy.

Let's see if anything happens.
Huh? Never happened to me, much less "every time".

I had some apps break and need update after an iOS update, but not layout problems in apps... at least not in the 50+ non-Apple apps I use...
Sounds like dynamic programming
Let's not pretend we care about life and safety, when we discuss a handful of lives while we glide over the 30,000 yearly deaths on the road in the US alone. The only truly safe thing to do with cars would be to ban them or to vastly increase licensing requirements.
Always wondered about this too, but there doesn't seem to be a way of knowing which implementation your code will end up calling in Objective-C. "Final" would be helpful but there's no "final" in the language.
>Everything counts

Not everything counts equally. If something affects the adoption by 1M users, and another is only a concern for 100 weirdos, the second is not exactly a major issue to focus on...
First thing that comes to mind is using an HP-12c calculator and only having 4 stacks available. You can go further than a regular calculator, but only a little bit at a time so you keep chipping away at a long equation and eventually your stack collapses down into the final answer across the desert ;-)
Mostly when I submit something myself and then I come back to it during the day. So take a look at my submission list, multiply that by 3, and that's how many votes I gave to the new tab, presumably.
Purity spiraling has always seemed to me to be a good differentiator to tell apart the pragmatic and the purely ideological. The pragmatic will happily tolerate some dissent from their position as long as it gets them closer to their goal (even if they fundamentally disagree with it). The purely ideological will vehemently reject anything that isn't purely their flavor and will happily sacrifice making any advance in their direction if it isn't on their exact terms.
> Instead, they forfeited both.

How did they forfeit both? Do we have any evidence for Blizzard being pressured do this?

We absolutely have not, all we have is a bunch of social-media hysteria were this claim originally came from, in complete ignorance of the fact that Blizzard has banned plenty of pro-players before for voicing "negative speech" [0].

In that context your response is exactly what I was referring to: People are not interested in what actually happened, people only want to hear what they THINK happened, even if there's zilch evidence backing it up and it never actually happened.

Again: What evidence is there that Blizzard was pressured into doing this and as such debunking their reaction as a straight-faced lie? There is none, while there's a long list of other competitive players who've been banned for exactly the same reason.

I do not even understand why this is so controversial on HN out of all places. This whole comment section reads like Reddit, lots of appeals to emotions, very little sticking to the facts at hand.

[0] https://liquipedia.net/overwatch/Banned_players
There are also (at least) two relevant followups to this paper:

Response to “Fibers under the magnifying glass”:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p086...

Response to response to "Fibers under the magnifying glass":
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p152...
But from en engineering point of view, we are looking forward to the time when cheap Sobs and people of low intelligence just dissaper.

We want people to be in constant communication, and just understand what is right to do and not do anything wrong.... We are sick of people using software in ways other than intended...

Solving a problem by just removing the variable is not exactly a solution...
Disclaimer. I’m a believer. But at this point isn’t there money behind both sides? I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be.
CTBUH have an interesting set of skyscraper data[0] that's worth perusing, if you are willing to register (or block certain elements..)

Also, interesting piece of trivia: the voluntary demolition of buildings taller than 200m is unprecedented.[1][2] The first of these buildings to be built was the Metropolitan Life Tower,[3] completed in 1909, which is still standing today.

[0]: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/

[1]: 9/11 and the destruction of the WTC towers being the implied involuntary demolition.

[2]: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/praising-squareness-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Life_Insurance_Co...
Non exhaust emissions account for 85% of PM 2.5 produced by a car. As EV's are heavier than equivalent combustion engine cars, the end tally is a savings of just 1%-3% by going electric.

Don't get me wrong, any savings is an improvement, but EVs are not the 'green' transport revolution the industry wants to picture them as, just an incremental step.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297889793_Non-exhau...
U2 but with rounded corners!
> The design strategy of the Leadenhall Building centers around its lobby’s elevation above the ground plane, creating a

... three storey climb up the fire escape from the basement if you arrive by bicycle!

Architects love this building, but there are too many little facepalms that come with actually working in it.
I don't know that much about biology, but my understanding is that if the bacteria does not target our bodies, then it will be just some inert material that will eventually be eliminated by one mechanism or another.
Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to Detect Unintended Model Biases
Starcraft bot and a self driving car are not even remotely close to the same problem
You're eliding the part where said employees are often one generation away from subsistence farming and this is a step up for them.

That's how it happened in the west, too, no? Textile mills? I'm not saying anything about morality but it sounds standard to me.
I want it delivered to my door on demand. To schedule a slot in car pool or book a rental I need to pick-up somewhere is out of the question. (Also the whole “pool” things sounds way to social, just want to pay someone and get going)

I don’t live in a city, so would need to take the train or bus to the city to pickup a cheap rental as it is.

Don’t think we have Uber or Lyft here but my assumption was that they are mostly useful as a taxi replacement to get around within a city.

My use case are more focused on removing the need to have a car in the garage but keep the freedom drive on short notice to run errands and take trips. Perhaps drive to work but take the train home after a beer in the evening.

Having remote controlled cars was simply a way to optimize costs. Should be cheaper to have drivers located offshore somewhere than tied to a particular car.
Another paywalled story that is not free to read...
I read on but for me the story was over at the end of God Emperor, which felt like the end of the core arc of the first four books. The rest gets harder to follow—like other Frank Herbert novels I’ve tried to read—and doesn’t provide the same motivation. The characters especially just do nothing for me, past God Emperor.
A rule devised on college summers from a state school. Students had money or time, depending on if they had a summer job. Seems to hold true to most peoples existence.

until you have enough money to make more money without adding much time..
This reminds me of the findings that torture doesn't work because people just tell the torturer what they want to hear.
Don’t buy cheap crap.
It's good analogy and it's really much simpler. Physics is grounded in reality. Literary criticism isn't. This is because most of the former is experimentally verifiable, or follows from experimentally verifiable results via a chain of rigorous formal reasoning[0]. In other words: you can't bullshit others as much in physics as you can in literature, and more importantly for being smart, you can't bullshit yourself. You have constant feedback from observable reality, which lets you refine your thinking abilities much better.

--

[0] - You'll note that the weirdest, most nonsense things in physics happen in places that are furthest from any experimental verification.
Is this something Paul Graham has said?
Does anyone have a up to date how to available how to get ScummVM on iOS? The release notes mention some changes to the iOS version. The wiki page [1] is for iOS 7 which is super old. Additionally the whole setup requires downloading some library pack...

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Compiling_ScummVM/i...
Honest question, has anyone ever been fired, imprisoned, or killed for saying that?
Eliud Kipchoge runs first ever sub-two hour marathon in INEOS 1:59 challenge
No. Far from it. If you buy cocaine from Colombia your contract won't be enforceable in a court of law.
Why do that when you can just not and keep the money with no consequences. It's not like California has a history of corrupt utility providers or anything.
About as much sense as reading about it from a tech forum site.
The problem is the GOP is bought by fossil fuel, even though solar and wind and nuclear can lobby, they can not compete with record setting fossil profits in 2019 dollar amounts, thus the GOP will continue to get on their knees before this industry. We need to technologically destroy the profits that drive denialism. We need to make EVs, renewables, nuclear, etc. so much better that fossil can't compete... seems unlikely but tech may be the way.
Those benefits would also be true in something like a Messerschmitt car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200

If we can build electric versions of this that don't need huge crumple zones because they don't crash and don't have to share the road with huge vehicles that do crash, then that might be an appropriate vehicle for cities with inclement climates. But designing cities around todays cars definitely seems to have been a mistake.
> Unless we create infrastructure that radically reduces the complexity, like invisible “tracks” and banning as many variables as possible

This is the road Chinese companies chose. Biggest interest are from public transport companies. Most work with very simple directional radio beacon and obstacle detection (not obstacle avoidance.) Works as an experiment in a few cities.

The interest from the state is a very distant hope to automate low speed traffic in cities, after the state lost all hope to fix local driving habits (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chinese+drivers). Second to it is also a distant hope to do something with road congestion if traffic will be forcefully directed by some capacity optimising computer program.

My own take on that would've been trying to automate high speed highways instead. Some cars are quite capable of 150kph+, but most of drivers aren't. China has the biggest network of elevated/isolated expressways in the world, and adding computer guidance should be the easiest option out of all others.
Isn't that definition just consistency, both in theory and in practice?
Sure. But to pace Bannister on e.g. lap 3, his pacemaker had to run those 3 laps at wr pace. And Bannister had to run the final lap alone.
Its funny to see that even games company are into politics...
Such statements aren't about "4000 software engineers" but "4000 employees", and the answer always is, "3960 of those are in administrative or sales and marketing roles".
I have no clue how this is having 52 votes and no comments on it. How am I supposed to know this is a good book? I'll highlight the goals of this book as it explains more about the title.

> We place an emphasis on
active learning and on developing students’ intuition through their investigation of examples. For
us, active learning involves students – they are DOING something instead of being passive learners.

I found this goal the most interesting.

> To help students understand that mathematics is not done as it is often presented. We expect
students to experiment through examples, make conjectures, and then refine their conjectures.
We believe it is important for students to learn that definitions and theorems don’t pop up
completely formed in the minds of most mathematicians, but are the result of much thought
and work
And who judges what is intolerant, and should therefore be suppressed ("by force", none the less), over simply what those who yield the power don't like, or the ideological fashions of the "good people" of the times don't like?
Commie websites like the economist are stuck in a jam.
Are there trackpoint with FOSS firmware out there that could be used?
In general, no, as message sends are observable and swizzlable so they they must go through the bare minimum of objc_msgSend just to make sure that they can be called from the cache. The only exception to this that I know is the retain/release methods, which are rarely overridden and called extremely often, so they have code that doesn't go through the message sending machinery unless necessary (in the case of a custom implementation). And of course, pure Swift calls don’t use the Objective-C runtime at all so they can be optimized as usual.
No, but "polymaths are smarter than non-polymaths" and "polymaths are much more likely to go into physics than French literature" combined essentially prove PG's point.
I hope in 100 years you're right. I hope in 20 years I'm right.
I'm currently using a CPU-slow machine, and I've discovered everything is slow among the popular scripting languages, except Lua. I've thought JS has good startup time, but some of my Lua scripts that are doing file i/o finish faster than node.js does a ‘hello world.’ Lua is also very lightweight on memory, to my knowledge. I think it can even do true multithreading, via libraries.

So, there's a Lisp on top of Lua―compiled, not interpreted: https://fennel-lang.org

It's deliberately feature-poor, just like Lua: you use libraries for everything aside simple functions and loops. And it suffers somewhat from double unpopularity of Lua and Lisp. But it works fine.