skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bending light (1840s)

-> Fiber optics (1954)

--> fast network connectivity

---> Internet

---> Telephony

--> fiber optic endoscopy (1956)

---> better disease detection

---> laparoscopic surgery
Is there a collection of fictional ‘"documentational" illustrations like "the map of the Polar regions (hand-drawn by Verne himself)’ illustrations out there? I love that hand-drawn style and often want to find examples for tattoos.
I've once built a color picker that used HSL and was very usable. It wasn't standard color wheel or set of HSL sliders. Instead you would modify the color directly on the design in relative fashion by slowly dragging cursor in one direction. Each of HSL values was modified by dragging in certain direction, for example hue was left to right, lightness was up-right to down-left and saturation was up-left to down-right.

It was very intuitive and fast to find a good shade using this design. The key was modifying colors directly on design instead on separate UI panel, and using relative tweaking model for incremental approach to correct shade. HSL was great choice here.

Maybe other color spaces like CIE would be more successful if they were less CS- and math-heavy and simpler to understand for designers.
Proton is fantastic, but you’re still saying I am going have to accept less compatibility and more work than on windows windows. Not worth it for me, especially with an nvidia GPU. I understand that’s mostly to blame on Nvidia but it’s still the reality of the situation.
I agree, but took the intent to be worse than sarcastic, rather a manipulative effort to invalidate another's position by implying the very language they use to describe reality is invalid. In other words, it's like prefacing the words with "so called."
Note that we specifically recommend _against_ using Immutable.js, and that there's many misunderstandings about the hypothetical performance benefits that Immutable.js provides:

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-plain-javas...

Instead, we strongly recommend using Immer for immutable update logic, preferably as part of our new Redux Toolkit package:

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-immer-for-w...

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-redux-toolk...
It is an argument against free market - to the extent that some people think it's a panacea for all problems. It isn't.

Free markets work best when needs are diverse and not easy to identify. The money flows along feedback loops and finds its way to where it serves best. At least for a while, until those with money use it to redirect more money towards them. But that's a topic for another day.

Ultimately, both Gates and Koch brothers got their money in the free market. It's hard to have one without the other. I think it's best to encourage more rich people to be like Gates, because we'll always have plenty of Kochs.
I find Philips brand bulbs appear to have circuitry to "smooth out" the voltage and provide consistent light levels. I use my phone camera's slow motion mode to record my bulbs and see the flicker. Every brand I've tested via the above method, save for Philips, have suffered from flicker.

Give Philips a try? May just be worth the premium. Hopefully a standard like the one mentioned in a comment below is put into place.
I guess what I don't understand is this part (regarding the compiled mode):

"The drawback is of course that breakpoints in code that is stepped over are missed."

what exactly does that mean?
Link to GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed
Schwinger Limit
Which universities are you talking about? State schools are not flush by any stretch. Yes, tuition money is up, but funds from state legislatures are down significantly. Some state universities get less than 10% of their revenues from the state government, down from 60+% in the 1950s through 70s. That is a fundamental change in the role of a university in the country, and in who it serves.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
Try a white noise generator. I live with noisy roommates and it has changed my life. Ear plugs fall out, and can prevent you from hearing real emergencies and your alarm clock.

I went from borderline psychotic from them waking me up, to sleeping like a rock.
And the roads.
Sadly, in my professional opinion as a chemist, I would say that the the haber process, is not actually that simple, either in its original conception or as implemented now.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
I wonder why wxGo (https://github.com/dontpanic92/wxGo) is not maintained.
Advanced formatting. I could do things in Microsoft office that Google Docs can’t even dream about.

As much as it pains me to say it the power of excel is uncomparable, especially for people who can’t program and are never going to learn how.
I wish this idea would sink in for scientists! Academia (my experience is in biological sciences) has a long tradition of hiding negative results and only valuing the rare positive results in a sea of messy data and unexplainable failure.
It's the opposite actually: we try to lead (or co-lead) if someone hasn't signed a term sheet yet, but if they have accepted a term sheet then we're happy to co-invest. $1m-$2m checks are generally enough to lead almost any seed round these days.
venv is shipped with Python 3, not virtualenv, unless I am mistaken.
any books/papers that address "goal" oriented NLP or hybrid based discussion?
Looks like the story is fake news though.
Think about how many people in the world are missing on the benefits of such markup languages because they aren't interested in non-WYSIWYG/M. The market potential could be much higher if syntax learning can be avoided.
You're in luck! This week, via kottke.org: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/
Post-it Notes
I work in deep learning for 3D imaging, and memory has constantly been the primary bottleneck for our group. U-net for example tends to be fairly "chonky", and isn't really super great in terms of parameter efficiency (but it is nice when you need an out of the box network that just "works"...). This has led medical imaging to use a lot of "patching" and other sliding window sort of techniques to help get over this burden.

I tend to think that a lot of this is due to Facebook/Google/Etc being more interested in 2D picture images, and hasn't really put a ton of effort into developing approaches that are exponentially harder in terms of parameters. While I don't think I can comment on if parallelism is the future to solve (vs. single massive GPU memory chips vs. more efficient NN design vs. data compression techniques), I think this is where a lot of the bleeding technical edge will come from.
You can cook chicken in 23 minutes in a rice cooker?
2 birds, 1 stone

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kill_two_birds_with_one_stone)
Right, although apparently it can as well, at a very low levels cause the same degeneration to neurons as seen in Alzheimer disease, unlike any other heavy metal tested as far as I know. I found this video pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8nSn5Ezd8
Twitter was broken, and it was great
Yup, but I find it somewhat ugly. It would be great if it could mimic platform native widgets like Qt does.
I love that fiber optics are really rather complex in the underlying theory, but they're so simple in construction (ok it can take some very complex machinery, but when it boils down to it you could easily make a functional, basic example yourself, useful for real purposes, say piping in sunlight to a room)
Kodi Raspberry Pi Distros for a Raspberry Pi Media Center
The context is that 5 year olds are being asked to read legalese and understand their rights to stay in this country. This is a small piece indicating how inhuman US immigration has become.

An analogy would be a 5 yr old American kid being read Miranda laws and asked to sign a release while in front of a cop. Do you know a single 5 yr old who understands what this means?

If this still doesn't sound brutal to you, I can't help.
And that supports the argument that PL evolution is slow and unlikely to fundamentally change in 20 years time. Anyway, while people where arguing over C vs Assembly, there were Lisp and Smalltalk machines that didn't become the future.
How to drive traffic to your blog
Definitely far from simple, but definitely important.
1 based indexing introduces a whole class of errors that are solved in Rust. Why aren't you using Rust?
Those allow you to set telemetry to "0- Security" via gpo.

This notably does not disable telemetry phone homes on either edu or Enterprise SKUs. It reduces it, but there is still an awful lot sent back to MS.
> Apple doesn't play well with enterprises

Well, it plays too well actually. At my current job and at previous one we had a choice Mac or a Windows laptop.

Mac ones were alway much more rigid with restrictions, less hackable (e.g. Installing Linux side by side was impossible on Mac, because it broke macos somehow as a result of enterprise drive encryption).
Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
I see what you did there?
Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again
How often does a user switch their keyboard layout?
This realization come to new questions.

In some regards, we are beyond democracy since the voters do not know what is going on and to be fair even if they knew it, most of them will be unable to know what it means.

If the system is hidden who is making sure that who control remain in the good side?

Is something changing inside the system?

Who is going to make sure the system stay on the good side?

Now Star Wars plot comes to mind...
Ok sofos, tell us how rlm model solves the spin problem of the proton easily and how the spin is conserved with 4 spin1/2 particles
What a butthurt article. This is why the Atlantic is not very profitable nor popular.
Okay so the complaint is essentially “this doesn’t feel fair!”. I guess this really does come down to envy, just as another commenter pointed out.

>but harms the end consumer

It doesn’t though, without the second hand market someone would be using that domain for something silly and you wouldn’t get it anyway.

> Consumer first, companies second, random third parties last

But companies are the primary consumers in the domain name market. Internet end users benefit from squatting because the companies doing something with value are the only ones who end up actually using the good domains.
Show HN: Flutter Running on Fuchsia
Botanic Garden Butterflies
How does one get technical writing work? I enjoy writing and wish to do more of it, preferably for money.
Forgotten Map Types
In some cases in C# you can write a tail-recursive function and then have Resharper rewrite it into a loop for you.
currency without a gold standard is arguably the original system of money (see debt: the first 5000 years)
That might be handy, also probably something like an "athroative user" could respond and even minimize the view or visibility or something.

Even if they don't have an answer some way of making sure FUD doesn't take off too quickly.

I'd say a high % of managing any situation and the politics that follow is accurately defining / revising the problem and making sure everyone is on the same page with it. Dodging / handing the inaccurate information leaks sometimes is a big job.

Granted that's all office politics stuff and not just technical... still gotta solve the problem ;)
Montreal has a crazy-low cost of living for what is otherwise a fantastic city. Been there three times now and all were grand.

Part of it is that QC has crazy high taxes, which drives down demand and keeps the big money in VAN or YYZ, and also that there are a lot of open / in demand jobs in the QC. They offer decent salaries -- but they want people who are bilingual or purely Francophone. I get weekly notices from LinkedIn for Data Center Mgmt roles around MTL -- HydroQuebec = cheap power and therefore cheap colo -- but I don't speak enough French.
> I've worked on a few applications with 'rich/complex interactions' and everyone on the team was opposed to using any sort of JS framework

Ah but if you actually looked at what you built, I am 100% sure you folks built your own framework instead. A framework that has no community support, no stackoverflow articles to help out and most likely minimal explicit documentation. You will never be able to hire talent that already knows the tools for your framework. You'll be spending all of the next eternity cobbling together features that you could have had out of the box had you adopted somebody else's framework instead.

The choice is never "use a framework" vs. "don't use a framework". The choice is "do we use somebody else's framework" vs. "do we build our own framework". What you implicitly and unknowingly chose was the "we are gonna build our own framework" option.

In my experience, the minute the few folks who pushed the "no framework" option leave the company, all the rest of the developers smile and scramble to replace the hot mess of a codebase with something using an industry accepted framework.
I’d like to recommend James Burke’s series “Connections”[1] and “The Day the Universe Changed”[2] from the late 70s early 80s.

He was a bbc journalist covering NASA and doing science communication and one of his particular fascinations (and mine, having grown up with his work) is the cumulative effect of ideas and technology shape not only how we interact with the modern world, but how we perceive it.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078588/
[2] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0199208/?ref_=m_nm_knf_wr_t3
I believe you actually mean "The Mysterious Island". I read this book last year and was amazed by the level of technical detail.
Work for equity? You mean, only work for equity? Without a salary? No. Work for a salary that's lower than the market, plus equity to make up the difference, sure.
If what you claim is true, it's not just the internet that will be changed by NLP but all of civilization!
People Mazes
You want political hacks that obey. You dont want actual science and call everything fake news or hate speech when it contradicts your currently held belief. Fake trendy biggot.
At Netflix we build internal tools and systems that basically did all this stuff, so it looks interesting, out of the box.

One of the nicest things was that we use a single deployment tool for almost all deployments, and it could insert the deployments into the timeline so we could see every deploy both during and before the incident.

But the biggest issue was voice. We always had a conference call running for incidents because some people would be in a place where they couldn't open chat (driving to the office or similar) and it was always a pain to integrate the voice data.

We got to a point where a recording of the incident call and a transcript could be added to the incident, but during the call the Call Leader usually had to quickly type the voice highlights into the chat.

I'd love to see a real time voice transcription as a feature. But it would have to be pretty good to not just get in the way.
Hacking should not be illegal? So if someone hacks a bank and steals money from people--totally legal?
Did you pay for priority access, or was this with the free version?
I agree that the heart of the matter is abstraction and composition. I agree that function composition is an important part of FP. I agree that FP languages should allow point-free composition

However I think the claim "functional programming is about function composition", together with the claim that "other things commonly associated such as immutability are not defining features of functional programming", is a stronger claim that seems unsubstantiated. There are many design choices analogous to immutability vs mutability that people argue are defining features of or are not defining features of FP. A Lisper might argue that closures over first-class mutable data can be part of the FP paradigm, or even that an FP language must allow that, while a Haskeller might argue that no, this must be modelled on top of immutable data. I see merit in common arguments presented for both viewpoints. A Haskeller might argue that monadic composition and syntactic support for it is a defining feature of FP, because simulating it with only "plain" function composition is deficient in some way. A criticism of this might be that monad transformers don't compose well. They might argue functions that functions should not be strict by default, because non-strict functions compose better than functions which are not. There's a great Quora answer that talks about this (https://www.quora.com/After-Haskell-there-is-no-language-whi...) and I remember a blog post framing this more explicitly in terms of composition that I can't find right now. I'm just sketching arguments that I've heard/thought about, but all these arguments deal with composition, abstraction and functions.

I don't like the framing of "does a procedure or an object compose better" because not all design choices fall into one of those, in fact I think very few do in a useful way. Is multiple dynamic dispatch (e.g. Julia) a way to compose functions or objects?
I am merely give my opinion, but a service created by the US government/Military is going to have undocumented "issues". I would not trust it one shred.
This one is pretty fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ono_no_Takamura#Takamura_in_la...

"子子子子子子子子子子子子" --> "the young of cat (猫, neko), kitten (子猫, koneko), and the young of lion (獅子, shishi), cub (子獅子, kojishi)."
The redistribution is happening every day, every day people are buying land-grab era domains they can extract value from.
harmful is google purposefully blocking their properties to mobile edge when everything worked with changed U/A string.

Concerning at best, since they're using first party grounds for advertising but that does not make it harmful.
The ability to set your own goals and task yourself to achieve them is the essence of AI. Not "AI" as we know it today, but Sci-fi AI where it's a machine person.
Am I the only one who hates most animation? If the animation doesn't serve a clear purpose in signalling something to the user, I want it gone. I'm not convinced that we've seen any meaningful advance in OS UI design since Windows 95.
First you adopt an anti-democratic mindset, then you read accounts of classical antiquity, and then things kind of fall into place on their own.
Very well written, I was taken aback with footnote that it is a translation.
You can get a simple one that is probably 80% of the way to a modern commercial washing machine, and several orders of magnitude better than going to a stream and washing:

for example "wonderwash"
I read a number of Jules Vernes novels recently. The pattern is a similar one where he describes the known science of the time in quite a bit of accurate detail. Starting with that as the premise, he then runs with the idea to create the plot. The result is both science and science fiction. My favorite is still "Around the World in Eighty Days". A Jules Verne novel was rediscovered not long ago: "Paris in the Twentieth Century".
I seem to recall building small AM transmitters in elementary school. I don't remember if I used a transistor or not. I think it was easy to construct the capacitor and the inductor. (I build it in the early 70's and don't really remember how.)

We also made crystal diode radios, but I have no idea how to construct a diode from scratch, so maybe those are not simple.
This is an answer to the "most important invention" question I've never heard before, and it's a great answer for the "simple" qualifier too. I've never even heard of this device before.
One thing the N95 and almost every other phone back then didn't have was a decent 3D accelerator like the PowerVR chipsets in the first iPhones.

So ya, it's UI, but most other phones were physically incapable of translating touch events into 60fps graphics like the smooth scrolling lists or mobile Safari's zooming interface.

Phones that did have PowerVR or something equivalent at the time didn't have a 3D accelerated double buffered GUI baked into the OS like what Apple had already developed for OS X.
As a kid when I learned to read I soon devoured trough books in children section basically reading all books from one author, then moving to the next.

First Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Mars series. Then all Jules Verne books available. Verne is technically very detailed. They were great reading experiences. I can still remember where the books were placed in the library.
> I'm one of those "old dogs" who don't quite get the advantage of using React in the majority of the cases it's used. This article didn't really help...

When you feel like this, just remember two words, "developer productivity". That will be the excuse (reason?) for using it.
Huh? So? Surprisingly, Ubuntu MATE has bugs too, you can look here too see some of them: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate
It does on my S8, try any google website and you'll get notifications and I've even gotten emails every time I sign in on a device with a gmail ID but don't have the google apps on that device.
As an economist, I've often wondered what would happen if i came to an agreement to split household chores in a certain way with my wife.

Then if I could automate or outsource all my chores, I would only have free time to spend around the house while still doing my share!

Surely marital bliss and mutual appreciation would follow! :p
The second hand market already solved this, why does Verisign need to be the one doing this?
Prolog _really_ helps with learning recursion. Much easier to learn the core concepts in a declarative way than in a procedural way
One problem is the metaphor of place. The internet is not composed of tool sheds that contain lawnmowers; it is not composed of places at all. The internet is a network that allows hosts to send packets to other hosts. These packets are, fundamentally, communications. A communication can constitute a fraud or a slander or a copyright violation or certain other communication-oriented crimes or torts, but communication is never theft.

The "place" metaphor was intended to help people who don't have an intuitive understanding of communication networks. Since POTS had existed for many decades, it's not clear that this metaphor was ever necessary. No one ever confused a phone number with a place. Now that most living people have had childhoods during which the internet existed, the metaphor is certainly not necessary now.

If host A on the internet responds to a simple unauthenticated GET from host B with PII, we really shouldn't be blaming host B. The "place" metaphor obscures that fact.
How a Kirkcaldy inventor’s soluble wet wipes could help save the planet
I highly recommend the podcast "50 things that made the modern economy".

They're in season two now, with a second set of 50 things.

Every podcast is about a simple invention that had a huge impact.

Incidentally the Haber-Bosch Process (mentioned in this thread) is number two, after the diesel engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Things_That_Made_the_Modern...
Biggest thing I notice is on USA labels there is no % next to the grams of sugar in foods.

I heard the sugar industry lobbied very hard to remove this because a typical adult only needs 30 grams of sugar or so and if soda companies had to put 150-200% per serving next to the sugar it may hinder sales.