skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very weird movement right now underestimating the drastic power of ML/AI. Take facial recognition for example (there are many many others, but this is very illustrative). The possibilities of revolutionizing society with facial recognition is legion. Imagine having a camera attached to your jacket which is hooked up to your phone and immediately gives a compete profile of everyone you meet. This tech is possible today. It probably won’t work with total strangers, but will with people you are likely to meet given your social circles. The power it gives governments as well for monitoring and policing is very dramatic as well.

Just look at Hong Kong’s recent law outlawing masks.

NLP (GPT-2/BERT) is also extremely powerful and is evolving at a frightful pace. Just google news over the last month. I read a lot of generated text and non generated text and more and more I really can’t tell the difference. Yes, it doesn’t work in isolation, but human guided NLP is stunning in what it can do. Self-attention applied to many other areas is huge as well, such as Software engineering.

Drones is another revolutionary technology which has already completely upended how war is executed.

There are reasons why leading technology companies such as google, Microsoft, Amazon are dealing with employee blow back around the military and government. They recognize the possibilities here and are uncomfortable with with potential contributions to the disruptive downsides of what can be done by “smarter” algorithms (or whatever you want to call them).

Software truly is eating the world.
The heavier bike will reach the terminal velocity of the lighter bike sooner than the lighter bike will. If that's not extra acceleration then I don't think you're looking at the problem from a practical perspective.

Yes, acceleration due to gravity is the same, but air resistance has less effect, at all speeds, on the heavier bike. The rate at which the heavier bike gains speed is higher. It accelerates faster.
It never ceases to amaze me how this pseudo-intellectual hack is taken seriously at all. But I suppose it must be by people who have not really been exposed to any serious thinking before.

Leaving aside how unoriginal and trite the things he is saying actually are (I imagine it's what Trump would sound like if he had a wider vocabulary), just consider his smear of Bloom and his book. It's amazing. Here's a very serious book that tries to address the problems he just presented, and all he's got is something worse than a straw man. Suggesting that the classics have a place in the curriculum is 'a couple of smart guys deciding what the great thoughts are' and paramount to imposing authority and trashing everything else. He even manages to sandwich it into 'turning the schools into marine corps'. I think only two conclusions are possible - either he had not read the book in question, or he is willfully lying about it (and not very convincingly).
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IMO the ideal way to get your library used is to generate a single .h and .c file.
Historical Socrates and popular Socratic Method are different things. Studies whether it actually measurably teaches critical thinking are less optimistic.
Current Intel is so f#%$ed! Either someone at the company has the power and knowledge to make deep foundational changes or not even their size and “business prowess” will be able to maintain the current structure and culture.
Perhaps a change of perspective has the potential to reduce your level of amazement?
Interesting browser, but dear devs we are not in 90s -just a pc for net-browsing at home - and I am talking about the lack of sync of extensions/bookmarks.
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If we don't do anything about it, the good old days of newspapers being owned by billionaires will be gone for good :(
My old band brother did the soundtrack and sfx for that. Before he went for the interview in Germany we had a long talk about it. I propsed to him to try and make the soundtrack more dynamic, so we came up with an approach were everything was a soundchannel which could be turned off or on. If you went into area of danger music would intensify without you hearing any fade in fade out between entire pieces.

He went to do the interview and got the job because of this suggestion. He later went on to do hitman and Hans Zimmerman took over on FC2
The PC was supposed to die a decade ago. Instead, this happened
But that has virtualization overhead. You don't want to measure that/risk being accused of measuring that.
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> An area where AI can make a major impact is improving the efficiency of human experts in the developing world and underprivileged communities even in developed nations.

Few people seem to notice that "computer revolution" has largely been taking jobs from white collars way more than blue collars:

Lawyers: Google.com devastated the paralegal profession, and seem to be now taking on more "retail" law services.

Marketing: Marketings is the biggest IT services spender in a lot of companies now, but the amount of people involved is less and less with each year. Marketing execs seem to be first C-level people to feel pressured by the computer industry. Operations and strategy that previously were a job for 100K a year man now being taken on by marketing interns for 30k

Operations and admin staff: very clearly, email, Google Calendar and MS Word has allowed people to do more fancy documents, and organisational work without aid of professional typists, and secretaries

Project management professionals: no explanations needed, MS Project, no matter how badly it is normally used, have made PM work available to less trained staff without formal PM training

Finance: the entire class of "retail fund management" shops are now being driven out of business simply by banks with better GUI apps. The entire need for them was previously dictated by having somebody on the phone who was ready to do all financial formalities for the millionaire class.

Investment: same as above, cheaper brokerages with online GUIs have displaced a lion share of brokers. Even well moneyed M&A people now often see 30 something junior partners taking their work with use of Google and ctrl-F
False equivalence. No, but I’d let someone convicted of a robbery 20 years ago and nothing since serve me at a fast food restaurant since they’ve served their debt to society.
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LLVM got where it is primarily because of GCC's licensing (and because GCC's design is deliberately compromised to support that licensing). It's unlikely that LLVM would have been maintained otherwise, and I would expect GCC to fall by the wayside in due course.
Except the Pentagon doesn't actually do that. Vast amounts of what they do is in fact destroying the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_Sta...

What you focus on and what you achieve are not inherently related.

AFA focus, the US military is actually focused on putting as much power as possible in the hands of its commander in chief for US interests. It is not allowed to determine those interests.

If Bezos wants to express the ideology behind his life choices then I think that is great. If he doesn't then he should be upfront about that. Acting like everyone can be rational and driven by incremental money is a pointless conversation.
> The weird PS1/PS2/PS3 were because of Japan's heavy arcade culture, where quirky hardware/software designs were the standard.

TBF until the early aughts bespoke hardware was the only way to hit a suitable price target and get the performances and graphics snazz you wanted.

The first "consumer" PCs which were competitive with consoles in terms of gaming (late 90s, starting with the Voodoo 2 or so) had the graphics adapter alone costing as much as a current-gen console.
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A general ignore_missing_imports=True in mypy.ini is very bad advice. This will hide lots of real errors. It's surprisingly easy to set up mypy such that it will silently not check types in many files.

Additionally I can't be the only person who utterly despises pipenv. It is confusing for most people who don't know python packaging internals, phenonomially slow for everyone else and besides discourages building proper distributables (or:wheels).
found on marginal revolution: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31iht-edmyers.1.1...

an opinion piece by Pete Butigieg on Somaliland from 2008. Gives you an interesting perspective on his past experiences and foreign policy stance. (Also is a bit shorter than the guardian article but still gets the point across about Somaliland)

My take on the situation: when you're a small country you're just a pawn for the bigger countries around you, including the world powers.
"Revolutionary" is probably not the right term, at this point it was pretty much inevitable given the progress of PC hardware, but it was ahead of the curve by necessity.
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> Compared to PCs of the same era they were very underpowered.

Compared to top-of-the-line PCs of the same era yes. But the GPU alone of "PCs of the same era" would set you back as much as a 6th gen console, and you'd have a shiny graphics adapter sitting in a box.

The 7th gen is where consoles started really falling behind (though somewhat ironically also where MS decided to go with somewhat more bespoke hardware than the "PC in a box" Xbox).
Probably some guy trying to clean his ToDo list, but in recent times as we scratch more than the surface, there’s a real possibility that guy’s paycheck was “Genuine Intel” too.
I can see the points he discusses. There was a lot of quality in that game. e.g. The enemy dialog in Afrikaans was an interesting choice.

...but the gameplay mechanics itself were horrendous. After doing the same thing 10 times. (Drive through open space full of checkpoints full of baddies that keep respawning)
Also, MOV is far from only a bit copy. It's (potentially, depending on the operands), left shift, add, load, store.
Plenty of gen 4 SSDs on the market
There is indeed cairo-dock / glx-dock [1], that can probably be used as a desktop environment too by using a separate window manager like Compiz.

I thought this link was about it. The name clash is very unfortunate here.

[1] http://www.glx-dock.org/
> And then a bunch of the community responded as petulant children and attacked sonys main business and released products that allowed others to infringe Sony and other game studios property with impunity. These actions killed any chance Sony would engage with this community for the next decade or so.

Which sony regulary acts with impunity of being toxic towards it's users. (One thing to note: you can never get a refund on something you "bought" or something that was fraudulently bought on your PSN account. Do a charge back on a psn purchase, you loose all of your entitlements you purchased before)
I am the author of PetitParser, feel free to ask me anything!

Note that there are also ports to Java (https://github.com/petitparser/java-petitparser), Dart (https://github.com/petitparser/dart-petitparser), PHP (https://github.com/mindplay-dk/petitparserphp), and a few others ...
I hate science writing like this.

Seriously, people don't need baby talk.
I played FarCry, FC 3 / 4 / 5 / New Dawn - I am yet to play FC 2. Why? Every time I start it I found myself bored by it after 30 minutes. I even had my kid play like 1 hour, maybe it will delve better into storyline, then picked from there, all to no avail.

So when I've read this article Immersion section a small smirk started on my face. You want immersion in a game? Play Gothic 1/2.
Space metal? Like, Gloryhammer? To be fair, i'd probably start dancing too.
I've done so many physics questions that explicitly instruct me to disregard air resistance... Reminds me of Feynman's speech:

https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

> There are no experimental results mentioned anywhere in this book, except in one place where there is a ball, rolling down an inclined plane, in which it says how far the ball got after one second, two seconds, three seconds, and so on.

> The numbers have ‘errors’ in them – that is, if you look at them, you think you’re looking at experimental results, because the numbers are a little above, or a little below, the theoretical values. The book even talks about having to correct the experimental errors – very fine.

> The trouble is, when you calculate the value of the acceleration constant from these values, you get the right answer. But a ball rolling down an inclined plane, if it is actually done, has an inertia to get it to turn, and will, if you do the experiment, produce five-sevenths of the right answer, because of the extra energy needed to go into the rotation of the ball.

> Therefore this single example of experimental ‘results’ is obtained from a fake experiment. Nobody had rolled such a ball, or they would never have gotten those results!
> illegal actions against them

What's illegal about reverse engineering a physical product you sell to someone?

> Disabling psn

Are you kidding me? The PSN was notriously insecure. Sony didn't give a crap until they were embarassed.
The two rules of game AI:

1. Cheat.

2. Never let the player catch you cheating.
"# Carrying. This is where it gets complicated"

Oh, I thought we were past that already...
This is what i call the difference between getting an education and getting educated.
Can’t help but notice that most algorithms are implemented imperatively.

Any chance for efficient pure functional string search algorithm?
In a similar vein in Vienna there was also the Rotunde built for the Vienna World Fair of 1873 which burned down in 1937.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunde

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunde_(Wien)
A few years ago we bough our daughter a set of Snap Circuit https://www.google.com/search?q=snap+circuit&tbm=isch She liked it a lot (get one with a fan). I think it's a toy for a 7-10 year old, so not in the range of age you want :( , but consider it in a few year.

Later, we bough her an Arduino set, one with instruction for small projects. I can't find the exact set, but there are a few sets of $15 in https://www.amazon.com/s?k=arduino&i=electronics We added a few additional pieces, like a 7-segment led display. This can be suitable for the 15yo.
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No, its' tragic that blaming developers is even considered an option. Developers are human and can be expected to behave as such. The value of developer time is well known, and if anything developers undervalue their own time, and are far too willing to waste their time microoptimising for a gratuitously difficult CPU design rather than getting on with more valuable work.
If you did the deed, people should be able to know and make their own decisions. It's part of your history. Serving some time in a facility is beside the point.
What does that mean? Unfollow him on Twitter?
Oh LOL, I guess the animation mechanics got in the way of user experience.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts, I really appreciate you taking the time to check it out!
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pseudointellectual n. A person who claims proficiency in scholarly or artistic activities while lacking in-depth knowledge or critical understanding.

As someone who disagrees a lot with the views of Noam Chomsky, I must say that you can never call him pseudointellectual.

Chomsky is an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. Academically he has contributed into linguistics and theoretical computer science. As a political thinker he forms his toughs and arguments irritatingly well.
No, none
I prefer to use keyboard instead mouse.
Not really. What problem would it solve?
The article is vague about the significance of the bacteria being able to thrive on the meteorites.
Are these metals rare on Earth? Was it unexpected that the bacteria could survive on the meteorite?
> Hempcrete, made from mixing woody hemp fibre (from inside the hemp stalk), with lime and water, is then pushed into timber frames by hand to build an insulating wall.

So it's a reinforced lime mortar, rather than a concrete alternative. You can use it to fill space, but not to bear load. More practical and quantitative detail here:

https://greenbuildingcanada.ca/2017/advantages-building-hemp...
Sure, first of all there is no such thing as C ABI, only OS ABI.

C ABI happens to be the mixed up with OS ABI, on OS written in C like UNIX clones, on mainframes, and other competing OSes that isn't the case, because they use other systems languages on their stack, or even some kind of bytecode based interoperability format.

However since the context here is game libraries, C ABI == OS ABI pretty much applies everywhere (except WebAssembly or Android JNI) and lets leave at there.

Since C++98, writing a library in C++, even if exposing it as extern "C", provides the following benefits for the quality of code implementation:

- less implicit conversions

- use of reference types instead of pointers for memory accesses we can be sure are never allowed to be null

- use of namespaces instead of Assembly style programming of having to come up with prefixes for code organization

- bounds checking for strings, vectors and other related data structures provided one uses the library types. They can even be left turned on for release mode, if the profiler shows there is no visible impact on hot paths

- use of RAII to manage library internal state and reduce leak occurrences

- ISO C++ working group is actually striving for reducing the amount of UB from its 200+ use cases, unlike ISO C group

- strong typed enums introduced in C++11 don't have implicit conversions and must map to their underlying types

- type safe compile time code execution, specially helpful in games, used for stuff like generating trigonometry tables

- templates as replacement for pre-processor magic that eventually goes subtly wrong when the #include order gets misplaced or too few parenthesis are used

If this still sounds absurd, well all major C compilers are now implemented in C++, Microsoft rewrote their C standard library in C++ with extern "C" entry points, Android NDK is actually implemented in a mix of C++ and Java (via JNI) also using extern "C" calls.
Like others, I clicked on it because I thought it was related to the Linux project.
This looks pretty neat, but most features listed are sort of customised clones of standard Windows behavior so I'm not sure it's compelling enough to switch (or, the explanation isn't doing justice to what it actually does)? For example:

- The Cairo taskbar preserves desktop area for your wallpaper and applications

I think I've yet to see a taskbar which doesn't do that :)

- The list button shows your open windows in an organized, easy to understand layout.

Alt/win-tab isn't a flat list, but I'm not convinced this is faster or easier. Part of this is learning process though: I know the icons of the applications I use most, making alt-tab fast because in a glance I know where to be.

- Never again waste time hunting for applications in poorly organized menus.

Win key and starting to type is usually faster than clicking, at least for me. As another poster mentioned this doesn't seem to always work as good depdning on the exact Windows build, but I've never really had problems and it works well for me, applications/documents/directories I use often are at the top of the list.

- Cairo lets you organize your apps into categories that make sense to you, using an easy drag-and-drop interface.

This is nice, and looks faster than the alternative (pin folder to taskbar as 'toolbar', populate folder with shortcuts).

- Tired of hunting for the same files over and over again, interrupting your work?

No because of win-key + typing, or pinning to taskbar, or fzf or similar in commandline shells. Though I think this might be something which I can only really figure out by trying.

tldr; maybe the front page, or a link on it, should provide some more detail about the features listed?
I've been to the ruins, which are atop a lovely park. It's a real shame that it never got rebuilt.
GCC does some things better than LLVM. It supports more architectures, has a not broken implentation of restrict (which should be useful for Rust), and optimizes some code better. They both have their own pros and cons.
My initial intuition is there's limitations in test samples that are used, in the sense they only have so much information. At some point overfitting is likely to manifest not in test risk per se, but in random variations over alternate test samples. Eg overfitting would evidence in susceptibility to adversarial regimes not cross validation risk.

I've always been skeptical of cross validation based inference though and admit it's a fascinating phenomenon in the paper.

It just seems, informationally speaking, to be proposing something akin to free energy: that more data is worse and if you just increase your model complexity you can magically infer truth. It seems more likely to be an error in the inferential paradigm.
I prefer the simplicity of https://github.com/firecat53/networkmanager-dmenu, which works fine under sway
Are you looking for a safe way to use your computer? Turn it off.

Other than that, I'm not surprised the file in question is C. Even ignoring the fact that it was you to get the link. And even ignoring that it's about a security problem...

Other than that, from a user perspective, software written in C is among the most reliable software I'm using. I'm looking at Linux, vim, xterm and so much of the infrastructure that I don't even know by name.

Some people value "security" more than they value the beauty of a nice, a maintainable, or a practical program. That's ok as far as I'm concerned...
Llvm is better than gcc at modularity and extensibility (or at least it was when llvm was released, I haven't followed gcc evolutions in a while). People who work on new languages typically use llvm because it's designed to make such things simple.

Now, in terms of end results, llvm and gcc each have their qualities. When llvm was released, gcc typically produced faster binaries but llvm optimizations were easier to understand. Since then, both have evolved and I haven't tried to catch up.

Bottom line: having two back-ends for rust or any other language is good. Among other things, it's a good way to check for bugs within an implementation of the compiler, it can be used to increase the chances of finding subtle bugs in safety-critical code, etc.
This is so true, and makes me so sad to think about. I regard formal education as a form of emotional abuse for this very reason.
how is this carbon negative? since lime is used for the mixture, doesn't it mean the carbon was removed earlier during production and released? so essentially any carbon absorbed was the carbon released during production.
Are you suggesting dd is about local minima sort of? Like if you extended the risk: parametrization curve out you'd start to see overfitting again?
I had a similar experience when playing Half Life for the first time. As a child grown up with Doom, Quake and perhaps Unreal (can’t remember if that came afterwards or not), it was the first one that really caught my imagination. That intro level on the monorail still rates as my best immersive gaming experience I’ve had.
Pleasantly surprised that this is actually very simple, was psyching myself up for some horror of pipes and /dev.

The output from nmcli is quite pretty to boot!
What was the verdict?