skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, for example, on the file panel, not all the desktop events are caught. that means that you can open the pop-up menu _only_ with the mouse.

then, the last time I had a look at the plugin API, again, there were significant limits in the events systems (I don't remember which; I think they were again related to the tree panel).
Paying is always a worse experience than stealing, until you get caught.

It's very hard to get caught and prosecuted for piracy though, which is why the "experience" is so much better.
I'm not sure this was terribly uncommon at the time. My work for a thesis was prototyped in Scheme and then ported to C once I was sure I had all the kinks worked out. And I know I wasn't the only one who did that.

I found it to be a much more efficient way to work iteratively, because software that's written in a lisp is fundamentally more amenable to change than software that's written in a language like C.

Today, not so much, because the gap has closed a lot. IDEs and improvements to the ergonomics of lower level languages have made them a lot more convenient to work in end-to end, and cheap memory and compiler improvements have made it a lot more feasible to just ship code that was written in a higher level language.
I can't find it now, but I've heard the PowerToys developers talk about how the long-term goal is to move some of these features into Windows.
I have always feel a mix of amusement and scepticism regarding codes of conduct.

I don't actually mind them. They pretty much can all be boiled down to please act as a reasonably well adjusted and decent human being to a point I don't really see what they actually aim to achieve. I fail to see how writing a set of vague rules are supposed to solve deep cultural issues in a community but I guess that at least signal a willingness to tackle the subject which might in itself be enough. Anyway, if it gives some people a warm fuzzy feeling, I'm all for it.

What I find really amusing however is what they say about the culture of the people writing them. For exemple, I have always found it very amusing that the Rust code of conduct feels the need to explicitely address avoiding overtly sexual aliases as its second point, a long time before condemning harassment.
Great - you should then uphold the same standards against pro-CCP users instead of promoting them on this site bud.
And now this story has been flagged on hacker news... It's already off the front page despite 103 upvotes in 1 hour
Video games don't have NPCs in the same way. They have scripts.

The key distinction being that the purpose of knowing their wants/fears is to know how they should respond as unforeseen events unfold. Real RPGs have unforeseen events. Video games have branching, but highly deterministic, events - therefore, the "NPC" just needs a set of scripts that cover those branches. You don't need to predict anything. They don't need to be characters in the way that RPG characters are characters; they need to be characters the way that fiction characters are characters.
> The Facebook researchers compared their method to only a few of Mathematica’s functions —“integrate” for integrals and “DSolve” for differential equations — but Mathematica users can access hundreds of other solving tools.

> [...] it only included equations with one variable, and only those based on elementary functions. “It was a thin slice of possible expressions,”

> The neural net wasn’t tested on messier functions often used in physics and finance, like error functions or Bessel functions. (The Facebook group said it could be, in future versions, with very simple modifications.)

> Other critics have noted that the Facebook group’s neural net doesn’t really understand the math; it’s more of an exceptional guesser.

> Still, they agree that the new approach will prove useful.
Online learning sites like Coursera are booming during the pandemic
I've seen companies post feature comparison charts listing competitors, they are very useful when switching from a different provider or discovering what the product does in terms of established player
Sure we can. Especially UUIDS. They have a normal distribution of values (bits are random) so an associative cache would match entries faster than current devices can match highly-repetitive prefixes.

This is an example of what the IPV6 folks suffered from. They could only see the issues of previous implementations, and took an incremental step along those solution axes. Instead of considering future trends (cheaper memory/processing power) and "skating toward the puck". Instead they followed the puck, and ended up well behind.
With highly efficient grid you don't need to move around that much weight.

But I really wish the main argument was our survival. We simply won't survive if we continue burning fossil fuels.
This is the same experience I get when dealing with companies who have mobile apps but are actually just websites, like Instagram.
Our climate doesn't care if the engine is 14% more efficient. That is still vastly too much carbon emission for people or goods to move from A to B. Consider every time any ICE engine moves anything, those emissions will warm the planet for millennia. We can not afford to use these destructive engines, even though fossil fuel interests make them slightly less damaging.

We must have a sustainable transport system, which ultimately means using non-fossil derived fuel. That means way way better batteries, fuel cells, or other up and coming solutions. Any iteration on ICE is just kicking the can down the road.
> “It’s simply the electromagnetic fields in your own body, what we refer to as capacitance, affecting the circuitry through the electromagnetic field surrounding some device,” says Albert Glinsky, ...

This 'explanation' makes the instrument appear even more magical. It's less mysterious to describe it in terms of a resonant LC oscillator, where C (capacitor) value, i.e. its capacitance, is affected by the presence of hands or other conductors between the theremin plates/antennas. A sidenote, in common implementations the C change is later translated into L value, i.e inductance, change. More details [0]

Speaking of the mentioned clever espionage device. In modern days the similar principle is applied but using lasers and room's windows for vibrating surface. However, the thicker glass used in contemporary thermal packs may dampen the acoustic vibrations; still, by itself it's an acoustic resonator and the question is how sophisticated is the receiver.

[0] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/11573/how-do...
> The problem is if it's still behaving exactly the same for certain edge cases.

It is behaving correctly for all edge cases. That’s the benchmark you compare floating-point to decimal conversion—your algorithm is no good if it doesn’t handle all cases.

The start of the art back in the 1990s the algorithm used in dtoa, written by David M. Gay and included in Netlib, taken from a paper by Steele (I think). Since then, people have chipped away at the problem, making it faster. A few new algorithms have appeared, including Grisu and Ryu.

Something you’ll see in these algorithms is some “fast path” which uses ordinary double arithmetic, and then logic to detect when this gives the wrong answer and fall back to some slower path. The slower path may use arbitrary precision arithmetic or something else (Ryu avoids bignums!). These new algorithms generally hit the slow path very infrequently, which is why you sometimes see benchmarks with numbers picked to trigger the slow path.

The algorithms have associated papers proving their correctness for all inputs. You are free to read them.

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/florian-loitsch/p...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3192366.3192369
The hallmarks of Covid-19 disease
I don't have answer to your question, but it might just be that when you examine the details here, it just doesn't seem nearly as bad as the title suggests.

He was indeed warning about pandemics in 2019. ...which is close enough for me. Looks like he added a tag about coronavirus, but there were cases where he mentioned prior coronavirus outbreaks, like SARS/MERS/etc...
One of many[0] reasons Fallout 76 was bad.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8
I don't think it's a black and white thing. It's entirely possible to support Australia's peacekeeping deployments to Timor Leste and their humanitarian deployments after natural disasters while being opposed to their deployment to them murdering unarmed Afghan civilians.

I can't comment on other militaries, but the ADF does a lot of good, alongside the bad. They do a lot of critical work in the Asia-Pacific region, both peacekeeping and disaster recovery. At the end of the day, they're subject to the whims of whoever happens to be running the country at the time.

To quote the gun-loving Right, sometimes the only person can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The better solution is to prevent there from being bad guys with guns, but this isn't always possible.
You can't whinge about time spent on animations and then also complain about flickering. Teams being told that design doesn't matter is why so few developers on windows and linux care about flickering at all.

Although I definitely agree that it's absurd that in 2020 an operating system doesn't have a standard built in way to reconfigure key shortcuts in any application installed.
No idea but here’s WebGL version: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3sBBRK
This is one of the most exciting things I've seen come out of AI research for my own interests. The way that they distributed the mathematical equations is called an abstract syntax tree (maybe they mentioned this, but I was excited-skimming), and is also how computer code is represented. It also happens that there is _a lot_ more computer code laying around in computer-readable format than high school and college math problems. With this, you get: metamorphic code, better optimizers, more abstract programming languages (maybe), and probably lots of other steps forward.

If anyone is working on AI+programming languages, please send me a message. I'd love to work with others on this problem.
> lockdowns depriving Americans of their God-given freedom to attend pool parties and political conventions, regardless of the epidemiological data

I think your interpretation of that perspective is as shallow as saying that the Boston Tea Party was just just a bunch of people mad that tea had gotten more expensive.
What an incredibly petty set of complaints.

- "It takes ~3 seconds for WSL2 to start up the first time"

- "Windows Terminal [gasp] has animations"

- "The new spotlight search isn't already flawless"

- "File explorer right-click menus have... too many things in them"

(Paraphrasing, of course)

And I honestly wonder if the flickering thing is a problem with the author's GPU or something. Seems to happen everywhere and I've never seen it on my machine.
While the source code will be open-sourced, the fact that data is being stored in a centralized server is still worrisome.

There was no fake news. The topic was debated, discussed, in the public domain.
Another is sin^2(x) meaning (sin(x))^2, but by a more intuitive reading it should mean sin(sin(x)).

I don't know what exactly is being gained by the usual notation: surely better clarity should be preferred over the time/effort saved in writing the extra pair of paranthesis, and I would prefer it be written as (sin(x))^2 always.

Thing is mathematics, and mathematical pedagogy seems hardly concerned with such rampant notation confusion plaguing much of maths. Perhaps moving to some type of machine-readable notation will be better for consistency and avoiding of much notational confusion.
He also mentions Z Library, which is indeed an ebook piracy website.
I feel like the author is nitpicking over small issues just because it's Microsoft.

They already admitted that they were wrong about Open Source and even though there is room for improvement, I'm happy that they are supporting power users more and more.
An EC engine is a long way from 100% efficient. Model 3 Long Range is 310 mile range on a 75kWh battery. Cars are not hitting 310 miles on 2.3 gallons of fuel.

For the most extreme comparison, a Bugatti Chiron gets an EPA 11 MPG so the roadster is arguably the equivalent of a 56 gallon fuel tank where the Chiron is stuck with 26 gallons.

PS: A better comparison would be a similar ~200,000$ two seater but none of them are optimized for fuel efficiency.
Mindset Will Make You Happier Long Term
ed is in POSIX, so a system without it is seriously broken.
maybe that's what people want? a fast IDE, so far every IDE on the market are bloated and slow as fuck
Oddly enough, I find the DMG advice so specific to the type of gaming that sits in the general category of "D&D-type play" that I find it of pretty minor value in any other game at all.

Think of how much value the DMG brings to doing collab worldbuilding using "A Spark in Fate Core", as the prelude to a Fate Pathfinder game. Or even how much it brings to the Fate Pathfinder game.

When it comes to NPCs and stories, I find the NPC and Fronts guidance for Apocalypse World and Dungeon World to go much, much farther, and be much more generalizable. At least if you like sandbox D&D, versus railroad D&D.
Git has an included web server that covers a lot of this: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb
If you are using Terraform you are still “locked into” AWS since all of their provisioners are cloud specific.

Also if you are at any type of scale, your IAAC choice is the least of your problems.

Have you actually done a realistic project plan and estimated how much it would cost to migrate infrastructure from one provider to another once you reach any scale - including regression testing, auditing, training, etc? Do you really just use your cloud provider to host a bunch of VMs? Even then it’s not that easy at scale.
Same reason the field of behavioral psychology gets new names and explanations for the same concepts every year: It is not an exact science, and there are very few (if any?) first principles that everyone can agree on.

All we have are fuzzy concepts that require interpretation and constant refinement, and of course everyone's interpretation and method of refinement will differ.

The laws of thermodynamics don't need to be rehashed every year by some owner of a verified Twitter account. Marketing lacks that kind of foundation.
I had similar problems. I decided to take the dive to IPv6, but it turned out I was getting regularly-changing dynamic IPv6 addresses. I wasn't succeeding in getting ULAs to work, and it was starting to look like IPv6 was a lot of headache with no benefit that I could identify.
> one with respect to multiplication, the other with respect to function composition

And, of course, multiplication is a function so one is just a specific instance of the other.

Infix notation is another blight on the mathematical notation landscape. The amount of human effort that has been put into figuring out how to parse a+b*c is staggering. All of this confusion could have been avoided if we'd just started with s-expressions in the first place.
I like this prospect:

> Another unsolved problem where this approach shows promise is one of the most disturbing aspects of neural nets: No one really understands how they work. Training bits enter at one end and prediction bits emerge from the other, but what happens in between — the exact process that makes neural nets into such good guessers — remains a critical open question.

> Symbolic math, on the other hand, is decidedly less mysterious. “We know how math works,” said Charton. “By using specific math problems as a test to see where machines succeed and where they fail, we can learn how neural nets work.”
Biohacking the Digestive System
> If people want/need to do something such as bulk renaming, they can online search for it, as they do for everything else, which will tell them they can install a package from the windows store.

Or they'll find some sketchy exe file, and here comes the malware! Windows is really broken in terms of package distribution, and requiring people to go online and search for something so simple is hassle, dangerous, and decreases discoverability for software that really ought to be included in a vanilla install (unlike Cortana, which is a massively bloated feature that many people don't want, but can't get rid of, sort of like Bixby).
I don't want to whataboutism - but I will because I think it's way worse...

The WHO is literally still advising people not to wear masks: https://youtu.be/Ded_AxFfJoQ?t=33

...and I wish more people would be angry about it.

/whataboutism
just like a sect
> The attack vector can only exist when a set of people are treated as a homogenic group rather than individuals. Inclusivity initiatives should in theory never do this, but defining people as a homogenic group is sadly what most of them end up doing

I feel that you've summarized the issue perfectly here with these two sentences.

However I feel that it's not exactly problem of diversity/inclusivity but problem of tribalism itself, though I'm not sure how practical it is to separate these two topics here.

We can hope that tribalism will go away eventually but if anything modern culture seems to be actually encouraging it instead. This in particular really perplexes me. The world is as global as it has ever been and yet people push and actively create tribes — it's this ugly human primitive nature poking it's head out and there really isn't any cultural push against that. In fact every time I try to point this out I get down-voted.

We need more anti-tribalism awareness.
I don't think they're saying that's all there is to marketing, rather that it is absolutely a marketing tactic.

Your analogies don't quite work, because they lack the self-referential component.
Right, but doesn't that just prove that there's a market for the product? You could build a similar app with a more attractive/relevant UI, make it easier/quicker/cheaper to use, or market it towards a specific niche.
At lot of this has to do with a move away from solid statistical workflows within an already trend prone field. Computer Science departments have only widened the cultural gap between their work an that of the Statisticians (you know the ones you need around to explain what your model is doing). Hiring for ML/AI sounds better than hiring a bunch of Statisticians which cannot be expected to deliver product.
I found this (among many others) particularly good, by a gentleman called Jose M. Faustino:

I switched fields twice in my academic career — I believed the entire experience was part of growing up. The lesson here for young people: Do not hesitate to switch interests, majors, or fields of concentration. Find your preference or your passion, then focus on it to your heart’s content.

Success is a journey – not a race. Prepare well, retain good practices, and make a habit of effective strategies:

1. Do not be content to be average. Mediocrity breeds boredom, poor opportunity, and an unsatisfactory lifestyle. Instead, decide to excel in everything you do, and be distinctive, if not unique, in your approach.

2. Take well-analyzed risks, particularly when there is everything to gain and little to lose. Do not be afraid of rejection when you have competently and ethically tried to succeed.

3. Be skilled in political strategy. Interpersonal, leadership, and motivational skills are all important for success, but few consider political strategy. In my mind, there is organizational politics in any group with more than three people.
If it's recreational reading, most hard copy books I only consume once. It's nice to pass on a hard copy book to a friend and have the opportunity to hear what they got out of it.

Ebooks don't work this way. I borrow them from a library. You're right, once an ebook is read it's just bits. They don't have the same value as hard copy books for resale, gifting, donation, or leaving out on the coffee table. Even obsolete textbooks have value, my monitor sits a few inches higher on top of a couple. Can't do that with ebooks.
You have looked at the provisioners for the different providers haven’t you?

Terraform in no way provides you an abstraction layer over the different cloud providers.
Worse, imagine if someone set their shell as the suffix alias for .sh, just to save time on their curl shell pipes... Oh the horror. Suffix aliases should come with a big caveat.
I agree the weight is critical but kWh/kg is still not efficiency.
Efficiency = "power discharged by"/"power delivered to" battery
In my experience, most normal users would just assume it is something computers can't do and either rename all files by hand or not bother and leave them be.

And even the few who would do a search would probably stop at the scary though of "installing" something.

As a technical person, these are regular observations from my parents or non-technical work colleagues.
Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies
>point it at a repository locally and get a GitHub-like view of the repository, where I can browse all the files, see their last commit date/message, click on them, and see the contents as well as history and git blame

You can do pretty much all of these things with Sublime Merge 2, so?
The European Union and the United Kingdom: Forging a New Partnership
I've been horrified at how bad this is on Azure, I'm sorry to hear that AWS has the same issue. I've signed in some mornings only to discover that I've been charged $20 for a MongoDB instance that's been sitting idle all night. Support can only come back with some hand-waving about RUs, a term that defies any clear definition.
The problem is that lockdown is the much safer option to any leader. They prefer not to be accused of killing people due to not executing a lockdown. Esp given that covid-19 deaths are reported every day while lockdown related abuse/deaths/etc are not. The latter is much harder to quantify.
It's much easier to build a rec-engine that uses user data to make recommendations than it is to design one that analyzes intrinsic properties of items to build recommendations. Think how Spotify recommends music based on what other people who listen to this song like. This favors popular music. They could build an engine that analyzes musical characteristics to make recommendations, which would eliminate the popularity bias, but introduce others.
Why should we even allow our government to tell us ever again what products are “essential” and what are not? Not only was that distinction pointless, but it was actively harmful.

Another example, a ban on plant nursery right at the time people should be planting their own food.

Large stores, allowed to stay open, will be gobbling up smaller, closed competitors for pennies on the dollar. Private practice hospitals will never be the same again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/04/27/michigan...
Can you break this? If no, so your claim is basically hot air, is that right?
Right before jet engines took over the military aviation market, you saw some very complex, high efficiency piston engines. Mechanical marvels they were, only now are automotive engines catching up in performance. Ultimately they were all commercial failures, the jet engine had a lot more headroom for improvement and was mechanically much simpler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Nomad
One thing that always worries me about buying an electric car is the possibility that the rapid technological advances might destroy the resale value of existing models. That sounds like what this VW model might do.