skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this is true, but Kubrick's underrated "Barry Lyndon" (1975) shows you that you can film in realistically dark candle-lit rooms.
On the first P algorithm found, or any P algorithm?
Sadism, addiction, domination, waste, these are all completely natural. Nothing that's unnatural exists. All existence is natural.
What would make you believe otherwise? Just the fact that they don't align with your particular survival agenda?
I think we got some signals crossed. I wasn't talking about being unserious—just that you don't have to be an expert to write a fine essay.

I haven't read all the authors you list, but the ones I have support the point. They were not specialists writing about topics they were authorities on. They were good writers and thinkers exploring the topics they were writing about.
Well, sounds good, then. I'll give it a shot, thanks.
Building 3 products with backends, frontends and mobile apps in TypeScript
My intent was not to attack you, but to respond to your assumptions about the business model, and your comparisons to geoblocking and LinkedIn's anti-crawling stuff.

There were APIs. I won't go into the business relationships that existed over their use.

There were still scrapers, regardless.
I'd go so far to say we should just dispose of it all. I used to be all in on reprocessing the waste. Nowadays I only want to do it if it's actually cheaper (which I don't think it will be for many decades). Nuclear has economics issues, not uranium sustainability issues. Uranium from seawater with runoff can power the entire planed 10x over for a few hundred million years. It's borderline renewable. We need to be doing things that make nuclear reactors simpler and cheaper to operate, not more complex and expensive.

Disposing of the waste from a once-through fuel cycle is totally doable. We just have to let the world know that the Finns are doing it at the Onkalo Repository, we can do it in WIPP, and Deep Isolation LLC is working on a pretty slick deep borehole option.
I’d have thought so too, but Wikipedia describes it as one, so who knows
Yes, and since there are so few varieties of screen size, having it cut off perfectly with no ugly hints (scrollbar, cut-off icon, or even off-centered item) is no accident and shows much higher they prioritize better-looking over more-useful.

When I got my first iPhone, my first touch screen device, I noticed their beautiful little slider switches for all the settings. They didn't work very reliably, though. I would use the touch interface to drag the slider, and it sometimes worked but often failed. Well, touch screens aren't perfect, right?

Until someone eventually saw me doing it and said, "You can't drag it, you have to just tap it." It turns out to be just a checkbox. A real slider switch has to be dragged and won't work if tapped, and an on-screen checkbox is the reverse, and they decided to use an image of the former as their standard implementation of the latter on a touch screen. Someone at the very top very deliberately decided that was what they wanted most.
I don't remember the OS version at the time. I do remember it was the PowerPC era.
He's got a new venture, kitchens for restaurants that only deliver.

https://fortune.com/2019/11/08/uber-travis-kalanick-cloud-ki...
I wonder if this will have any relation to the Quantum Vacuum Plasma Thrusters that NASA Eagleworks was investigating.
Bias and inaccuracy are two different ways to get things wrong.

Briefly, bias is the wrong mean, and inaccuracy is high variance.
There are now many known attacks that can overcome address-space randomization. From Javascript in the browser, even. If someone can execute something locally and can peek at memory even in a limited way, they can find the code.[1]

The problem is buffer overflows. Fix that, and you don't need ASLR. ASLR is a form of security theater. It protects against dumb attackers.

[1] https://threatpost.com/bypassing-aslr-in-60-milliseconds/121...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207354/

Just a jumping off point review on the weakness of the amyloid theory.

The connectome dysregulation theory is my own, it hasn't appeared in the scientific literature as of yet due to our inability to perform fine mapping of synaptic connections without microtoming a cadaver brain.
Increasing overall accuracy won't help if it's applied to all ethnicities. It has to be an increase only for the affected type of people. But if you're going to do that, you could also just artificially cripple the accuracy for the too-accurate groups. That sounds like the easiest solution, if it's actually a problem to be solved in the first place.
No offense taken at all. You may not have gotten it, because it probably isn’t explained fully (or even realized fully by him) until his second book, which I like much more. Whereas ZMM is an inquiry into values, Lila is an inquiry into morals, and is where he lays out his metaphysics of quality. Plenty of people think it’s garbage, but I’ve yet to see someone take it apart, which is why I asked the original question of you.

You used the phrase, evolutionary forces in your explanation. To him, that’s quality.

The force that compelled the amoeba to move towards nutrients and away from danger is quality.

In Lila, written for something like 15 years after ZMM was published, he posits that quality can be broken into 2 essential forms: Dynamic quality and static quality. They basically correlate to liberalism and conservatism. In his mind, both are essential for evolutionary progress and are the source of all that is.

Dynamic quality is often random, unconventional, and disruptive. It’s some wild mutation that ends up being a positive, or some rogue actor who ends up birthing a movement for good. It is essential to progress beyond what is currently.

Static quality is all that is good currently. It’s the breadth of learned knowledge. It’s the safety of what’s gotten us this far. Abandoning it entirely is a recipe for chaos and potentially great loss.

In his estimation, the combination of these 2 forms of quality is what makes evolution work, and he believes humans are not the highest expression of evolution.

He outlines levels of the world that are conquered in the name of progress and that each one supersedes the one before it.

The first level is non-living matter. It’s just there, not doing much. The second is biological. It bends the non-living stuff to its will.

The next level is social. It uses the living stuff for its benefit. The good of the whole outweighs the good of the individuals. People are to the society like food is to people. They power it, create it, become it, and it carries on after they’re gone.

He uses the example of New York, consuming human productivity for its own benefit. Feasting on humans to grow bigger and stronger, and shitting them out the other side.

The final level, as he sees it, is intellectual. Ideas supersede the societies. They bend them to their will. The idea that slaves should be free is strong enough to risk destruction of the society.

His ethics is based on these levels. At the biological level, sex is always quality. At the societal level, the wrong sex can threaten the community / society and becomes more nuanced, only quality sometimes. Society > biology. At the intellectual level, slavery is bad, even though it results in strong communities and cities and has many benefits.

My plane is taking off, so I finished that off poorly, but read Lila is that’s at all intriguing. It’s my favorite book.
That's probably a huge and mostly hidden factor. Another is the ambivalent reactions people have to influential personalities, which pg has been in this community.
I have a good friend who tried mushrooms for the first time. He went completely psychotic. We had to call police/emt to subdue him. Ended up tied down to a gurney until he sobered up in the hospital for a couple hours.

Psychedelic are NOT for everyone. It is dangerous to suggest they are.
Yes, we've removed most evolutionary pressures so we are kinda just drifting aimlessly.
I originally followed your link on your website, which opened App Store and gave me that notice about it not being available in this country.

However, now I just opened App Store, searched for "angeldust", and bought it for less than 5€... so clearly it is available.

So it has something to do with the path a user takes from the link on your website thru the Apple dialog that asks where to open the link [App Store], etc.
Creativity is as much a numbers game as Monopoly (the literal board game) is a numbers game: it is and it isn't.

Sure, I mean you can use statistics and wave your magic eugenics wand around but I see right through you. It's a disgrace that in the modern neoliberal hegemony a crock of shit like this gets published in an outlet like Scientific American.
Can you give examples of something that scales via threading but requires in a single thread the function takes 500 microseconds instead of 600 microseconds to compute that actually contradicts that "most" systems aren't this way?
Even More Blazin' Fast PromQL
They just connect your browser to an account that has that data. If you have a Facebook account, a tracking pixel makes it easy.

If you don't provide that data, they can guess based on browsing history (e.g. if you look up baby products, you're likely in the 20-30 age range). They can use AI to see how your online behavior matches up with other people in a known demographic. All of that data paints a surprisingly clear picture, even if you don't create an account (e.g. browsing data by IP is likely from the same person/family).
This pro geologist (James Conca) is talking about it. His favorite option is crushed shells/limestone. The side-effect is that they reduce ocean acidification.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/09/10/solar-geo...
Perhaps you lack context. At the time navigating and running almost anything under Windows without a mouse was not a problem at all. Being that the OS was relatively new and evolving (transition from W3.1 to W95 era I believe) most everyone using these machines were used to learning and using keyboard shortcuts for everything. So, yeah, Windows users at the office had no problem if we removed the mouse. In fact the prank was pointless because it was almost a challenge to show us they could still function. With Mac users --again, at that time-- they just crashed and burned.

As a side note, this was also the pre-Google Internet era, with super early Linux (can't even remember the version). I remember using NCSA Mosaic!
This makes me wonder if something similar can be done with petri nets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net
That article says he took "two doses", which could mean just about anything but likely means at least 200-400ug, or at least 8 to 60 times the doses in the microdosing trial. The highest dose in the trial was where users just started to feel any drug effects at all.

In alcohol terms, they're studying the effects/safety of a fraction of a beer whereas that guy chugged a case of beer.
Apple, Google, and Amazon create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard
V8 JavaScript Engine 8.0 Reduces Heap by 40%
I’m quite disappointed by Yang’s false claims. I’ve come to accept him as the truth and logic driven candidate who thinks things through. He could have advocated his position without these statements. He should focus on Gen4.
SiteSucker is $4.99: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sitesucker/id442168834?ls=1&mt...

The Unarchiver seems to be free now but I felt certain I had paid for it.
HomeKitADK
Unless you're implying there are a lot of embedded machines running VxWorks on overclocked i9 9900K's because they needed the single core throughput I think we are talking about completely different concepts.
I use USAA for everything. I have a spending account, a billing account, a savings account, and a mutual fund. I also have TSP (like a 401K).

Every month, I put $600 into my TSP, $1000 into savings, and my total bill amounts into my billing account. The rest goes into my spending account.

Whenever I get tempted to buy nonsense, I ask whether I'd rather buy that or put that money in my savings. If I don't really need it, it goes in savings.

When savings gets over a certain amount, I transfer a chunk into my mutual fund.
I'll note that they now have a calling tree and it's harder to get a person on the phone. This is fairly recent, in the last year or so I think.
Man, that was an infuriating read
That's not good enough.
Imagine what the intersection of two long range masers might look like.
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
It lacks first-class Windows support.

That's it. That's why it fails to gain the traction it deserves.
> It remains that way but it will be much clearer in the new version.

nope. open source isn't making anything clearer in this case. in fact using that word made me wonder what exactly the license is for this... still not exactly sure what it is.
40% heap reduction seems awesome. Almost too good to be true. Can anyone knowledgeable enough verify this claim?
http://ammonite.io/#RunningScripts ?
That's like recommending Office via Wine in 2001.
Uniform list data access in Kotlin with subscripts
Same. And I only see it referenced to talk about mass surveillance, while at least to me, it wasn't even the most frightening part of the novel. The erasure of History, the formation of Newspeak, or the indoctrination of children were way more terrifying.
That never stopped the Go community from porting Go to Windows. It was never ported by core maintainers, but by Go developers themselves.
When I read the tile and skimmed through the article, I thought: define pessimism.

I mean, I consider myself pessimistic, but what do THEY who designed the study consider pessimistic. I tend to find the fault in things, see how they are wrong, or in general anticipate some negativity that most people will overlook. It's literally what makes me good at my job.

So I clicked through to the study. Which mentioned it used the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) to test for pessimism.

So I looked up the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) and found what questions and answers they consider pessimistic.

These are questions a 'pessimist' is supposed to answer as being 'very true':

3. If something can go wrong for me, it will. (R)

7. I hardly ever expect things to go my way. (R)

Welp I can't say these are views of pessimists. More of someone depressed or someone who has been beaten down in life.

I admire what they are trying to do, but I'm not sure this study really is proving anything until there is a clear measure of someone's pessimism. And for that we need I think better testing for someone's natural inclinations toward belief and skepticism. I've always associated skepticism as highly correlated to pessimism (seeing why not) and a tendency to believe in something at first sight as highly correlated with 'positivism' (seeing why yes).

Objectively speaking, of the 7,000,000,000 people in the world, some percentage will have objectively way less things 'go their way' then for others. It's simply how distributions work. So for someone like that to answer question 7 affirmatively, they might not be pessimistic, just someone who has objectively had a shitty life. And for someone like that, well, less life expectancy should be expected. I know I've been lucky in life and would answer 7 and 3 as absolutely no despite myself considering myself a pessimist (and I've been called that enough to suspect others view me as such too)
Thanks! That clarifies the distinction.
Have you ever actually taken LSD? I’m pretty sure many people have lost complete control of their judgement and rational mind drinking alcohol in their college days... or any age, really. I would never suggest driving or anything dangerous on LSD, but I was still able to tell myself “ok, this is real, that’s not real” when I took LSD.

The most surprising thing from my (single) LSD experience was it somehow changed my perspective at the time on work and school. Almost overnight, I went from being apathetic and unmotivated to seeing work as the most moral thing one could do, and something to be proud of. I’m not sure why since I don’t remember any conversations about work at the time. It felt like a lightbulb.
Do you remember what else happend that day at Fukushima? 15k people died from the tsunami. Yet people could not tell you anything about the tsunami except that it caused problems at the reactor.
I just inherited a 2009 MacBook 13" Pro from a family member. It has 2 gb of ram and a hard drive, which I plan to upgrade for about 50$. Note that it is trivial to upgrade these things. Even without these upgrades it works fine.

I have a 2013 MacBook Pro that I bought refurbished during undergrad that has been the best computer that I've ever had.

I prefer both to my work computer, a Touch Bar 13" MacBook Pro. In fact I suspect the 2009 will become my daily driver soon. Making a solid computer that lasts over a decade doesn't erode Apples profits- in fact I suspect this opposite is true. It is the same reason Toyota is the biggest auto mfg there is.

Imagine if the newest Camry was unreliable or something.
Two things that I immediately respected about Crystal's landing page [1]:

- It shows numerous code snippets covering various functionalities. Not just "Hello world" but code samples that give you a very solid flavor of the language.

- Its spinning logo can be manipulated with the mouse.

[1] https://crystal-lang.org/
I dont believe she is underage. But she is half naked
BPF programs can be attached to uprobes and thus much of the same tooling applies to userspace as well.
1. Save enough money to last longer (1 to 2 years) Or
2. Save and invest until you have enough passive income to put food on the table for your family Or
3. Moonlight and try to get some traction and sizable investment first before you quit.
Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

Our standard text for SE was Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville.
I have an iPad Pro 11” I use for all kinds of things every day: email, reading news and books, watching movies and videos, Google Docs. I can code on it with Blink (terminal with ssh and mosh), Working Copy, CodeHub, Textastic, and Dash. I work on remote servers over ssh, iPad works great for that with a small Logitech keyboard.

Clunky text selection and no dev tools in iPad Safari prevent me using it exclusively. For work I most often use a Pixel Slate tablet with keyboard. Larger screen, better keyboard, and real desktop Chrome, plus a trackpad (or mouse if you want) make it a better developer system for me than the iPad Pro.
Seattle’s Wage Mandate Kills Restaurants
Another thing that some proponents of subscriptions don't seem to get, is that pay-once software competes with each other only once; when I decide what to purchase first.

I could buy App A now and buy App B later.

But subscription-based apps/services compete with each other every single month; they are constantly at risk of me cancelling a subscription – and realizing that I can live without it after all – whenever I review my needs and finances.
No paywall http://archive.is/LnomN
And yet it was ported, and has OK support. Crystal on Windows is a non-starter right now.
I don't think that's necessarily true, most of us on HN were probably aware of it as an option for a while considering that the main audience of the site is fairly "tech crazed". I wouldn't necessarily take that to mean he's succeeded in bringing this sort of thing to the attention of the masses.

Particularly since any of the other people who pretend to care about the climate haven't revised their weird "no nuclear" policy despite it all.
This looks incredible. Gives me vibes of old school Runescape, mixed with Minecraft. Plus the performance as you've detailed it sounds like quite a feat! Also very cool to see a project that supports old hardware--I remember being a kid with hand-me-down computers struggling to play even some Flash games.

Gonna give this a play tonight. Rock on, dude!
I like the idea of using FSMs for UI logic a lot but this article barely even scratched the surface on the topic. Their “state machine” is basically just a switch statement with some useless boilerplate around it. If anyone’s interested in the topic I’d recommend looking at the statecharts from overmind (https://overmindjs.org/guides/intermediate/06_statecharts?vi...) and xstate which I believe was their inspiration (https://xstate.js.org/).
One thing I don't understand about American culture is thanksgiving and how it interracts with Christmas. If your family meets up for thanksgiving does that mean Christmas isn't so important to meet up with extended family?

We have an elderly neighbour who has 3 children and I'm horrified to find out she'll be alone at Christmas, but they all met up just a few weeks ago so I'm not sure if its normal or not.
I think the trope "rubber forehead aliens" is broader than just that literally, but is referring to aliens who might as well just be humans. Daleks are still "rubber forehead aliens" in that they aren't really that alien psychologically -- they are basically just metaphorical Space Nazis who think they are superior to everyone else and who want to rule the universe. And Tribbles don't really count at all because they are just props and not characters. A true non rubber forehead alien would be the squid-like things from Arrival -- not only alien in shape but alien in mind.
Perhaps it’s time for a new monastic lifestyle - Gibson and Stephenson should write a book together.
It looks like this was patched a few months back, around ~M66

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=813540
> While these drugs will make healthy people high and overexcited, it will help ADHD patients calm down and focus.

And beyond that, this simply is a misconception and myth perpetuated by uneducated people. ADHD patients calm down when they take Adderall because they’ve been on it for years and have a tolerance. That’s just what happens. You don’t get the exact same euphoria that someone who takes it monthly feels. The underlying mechanism of action is the same for all humans.
Easily expandable and redundant storage pool for home serve
Yeah, that's the whole problem. "Monopoly" has become a generic and unspecific term, but it's still very politically significant. So laypeople cry for X company to be regulated "because they're a monopoly" without having to have any sort of actual objective backing.

The point OP is making, and you seem to agree with him, is that we shouldn't overload the terms. "Monopoly" is a very specific enconomic term, a political term, and a subjective layterm used to portray large companies negatively. Bundling all those meanings together creates miscommunications.
Another thing I meant to reference would have been that page with those stunning visual examples of what can be achieved by combining ordered dithering with error diffusion in clever ways (it's not unlikely I got there via HN not more than a month ago). You know the one I mean?

This one?

Show HN: Ordered Error Diffusion Dithering (observablehq.com)

37 points by vanderZwan 20 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682070
What about their password reset?

Does it take several weeks? For every user?
I disagree with your analysis. Taxes due are going to be less a function of your income and more a function of tax law. At least in the United States, we have enjoyed many years of low and lowering taxes, at the expense of ever-increasing debt, and are likely reaching the limits of what we can expect the magic of monetary theory to insulate us from. Upshot: tax rates will have to increase substantially in the medium term.
What kills me about Apple TV apps is the inconsistency between apps. Ex, the video player works differently between every app. To see how much time I have left do I swipe? Press the main button? I never know, and end up moving the currently playback time.
There's a reason we call MRI machines MRIs, and not NMRIs. Rebranding around public perception matters, whether we like it or not.