skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far the fishing expeditions in physics have been extraordinarily fruitful, both in the discovery of behavior that had not been predicted as well as in confirmation of theoretical results. But we are still far away from a UFT and there is a lot of knowledge that is still to be discovered in this field. On the total budget that humanity spends annually on far less productive things (such as weaponry) this is a small drop in the bucket. Let's see where it leads and if it turns out to be a dead end then we can all it a day. But as long as every new level of energy seems to give more and novel insight I'd much rather continue one step too far than to call it a day and maybe miss out on something crucial that we just had not thought of yet.

And even no result is a valid result!
Why is this surprising?
I was wondering why I was seeing this meme on my Twitter feed. When I first looked it up I couldn't find anything about it... Now I know...
This is possibly the single biggest failure in all the modern OSs. Even though they multitask internally, single-task mode is baked into the UI.

Not only is there no easy way to compose application chains, the UX discourages you from thinking that applications chains might be possible.

Automation incredibly difficult - it's impossible for most people, and not easy even if you have developer-level skills. But worse, your data is locked into these monolithic applications. Project interchange isn't usually a thing at all, and data interchange formats tend to be lossy and/or unreliably implemented.

Pipes in a command line shell are a poor substitute for the wonders that would be possible with a common and easy to use composable and automatable UI/API framework and data interchange system.
I find it amazing how James McElroy manages to blame "failed" ideologies and movements from "the counterculture(tm)" for the "Corporate Borg (tm)"'s sublation/sublimitation of the same.

Yes, Levi's jeans used rock and roll and rebellion to sell jeans.

What's your point, James?

(Besides using more words than even I do to attempt to waffle his way around being WRONG, lol)

(to anyone attempting to bring me back around to the ostensible class critique nexus of this piece, I apparently didn't get it. It went over my head. I'm kinda thick I guess.)
> I have to publish the stuff that I think no one will care about because I’m probably wrong. There’s a whole lot of people out there, someone is going to get some value out of what I have to say.

Folks, can we please not flag new people as they open up under this post? This article encourages lurkers to post and partake in online conversations. It's ironic that there's a dead comment at the bottom by a confessed lurker who tried to say hello.
This post seems absolutely crazy to me. If you look at history, one (if not the) main usage of censorship is as a tool for the powerful to oppress their opponents. Ideas that go against established institutions are often by their very nature offensive. Book burnings and similar atrocities such as Entartete Kunst aren't some hypothetical dreamed up by paranoid philosophers, they are real things that happened, are happening and will happen.

I think there are ways to deal with jerks without limiting free speech (e.g. user customizable filtering of content, so people can themselves decide whether to view content they think is objectionable), but if there wasn't I think you have to at the very least recognize that there is a very real cost attached to curtailing free speech.
I am amazed that I work at a company full of extremely intelligent individuals, some of whom are truly cream of the crop types given the work we do.

Yet, during the Floyd protests, our equity committee sent out an email with a recommended reading list including white fragility and other similar books.

Only books that had a similar premise were included, no smart, critical books (including some I can think of written by POC) with any other conclusions or arguments were included.

Everything in the company, from the big picture down to the smallest details, received critical scrutiny and thoughtful didcussion- from architecture to code style to customer experience to market position.

And yet, any topic that can end with -ism (racism, genderism, etc) can not ever be scrutinized. Words like "blacklist" are abolished, in spite of both prior art and POC employees being (privately) offended that they are thought of as being so fragile. The atmosphere is so thick on such topics that no-one speaks up for fear of being fired.
Are there any text editors that are? Maybe Notepad or Notes.app because they come preinstalled?
Illumination Tutorial for Software 3D Rendering (2/2+) [c++20] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXU-6_jmw7Q) was just released by Bisqwit and it goes over a rather naive implementation of real-time global illumination. The demo uses very basic geometry with a Minecraft look and shows the progress of paths being traced on the CPU. Compared to the Godot demo, the naive implementation is unworkably slow. Nevertheless, Bisqwit's video explains the concepts and basic code implementation admirably.
No, the central message of the book is that in order to become less racist, you need to become less white. This directly ties racism to belonging to a particular race, rather than making it a matter of individual choice and responsibility.

And even if it is still a matter for the individual, the book asserts that racism is an inherently white trait. Again, that's racist.

The book promotes far more racist ideas than it combats. Its popularity shows just how happy people are for the pendulum to swing the other way.
Emacs is just a different universe. You either learn to live in it or you don’t. That’s all there is to it.
As has C (since C99)

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/log1p/
I would hope that the Fed is investigating (along with FBI/SS/etc), but there is a whole lot of shady shit happening through money orders and gift cards these days...
> Can we not accept that both of these things are worthy things to fight against

I am pretty certain that the majority of people in the country can agree on that. The trouble is, it's hard to ignore the kid throwing the tantrum in the middle of the room.
Sorry, I can't off the top of my head. I was reading one on Friday, though, that was... some guy's unique Marxist perspective on... the global south, if I recall correctly. That wasn't borderline Marxist, that was openly, unapologetically Marxist. But again, no, I can't give you a cite. It was on "new" about 48 hours ago, plus or minus several hours.

I'm pretty sure I found that on "new", though, rather than on the front page. If front page appearances are your metric, then left stuff may be rather rare.
I have no interest in stealing from or fighting chinese people, except to the extent that profiteers in china have a material interest in stealing from me - which is equally true for local american profiteers. I have no desire to drum up Cold War 2.0 hysteria, or be suckered into it by those who do have a material interest in nationalistic competition.

> How many times have our governments and corporations been hacking by Chinese backed agents to steal blueprints, plans, and valuable information

I simply don't give a shit about american companies have their right to collect more ill-gotten, IP based profits in china undercut by people in china doing exactly the same thing. and if you do care about it, you're either an IP profiteer or a sucker. and either way this is incredibly xenophobic. sorry.
Is this because you’d have to use iCloud otherwise and pay for storage? What about airdrop?
My understanding is the amount of money we spend on this kind of defense is hilariously low. Like, less than the cost of running a McDonalds low.
Is that even legal? I thought you had to hold stocks for 3 days for transactions to settle?
It really is. Why do we should trust short-lived certs which might have been issued under shady circumstances like BGP hijack hour ago? How shorter validity terms protect against attack which takes days at most? Why they are so sure rotated key will not be stolen as well if it was before? How they ensure specific public/private pair were not already used before? Do they actually check it?

This is a security theater and I think it's intended to make TLS maintenance unbearable for non-IT businesses and to push them to cloud hosting providers like Google Cloud and Cloudflare.

Also latest drafts of TLS ESNI/ECH feature were written by Cloudflare for Cloudflare's needs.
Some of the comments here are focusing on the "fired" and "CEO" aspects of this post and missing the bigger picture:

The hardest part of working at a growth startup is that it is exhausting.

The downside and upside of this are two sides of the same coin: you're basically working at multiple different companies throughout the growth process. People who get comfortable at a given point in time are left behind when the company continues to scale. People who are scaling themselves have frequent opportunities to take on more responsibility and choose their own adventure.

You aren't literally "re-interviewing for your job every year" but you do need to grow with the company or the company will hire externally to fill the needs that have emerged.

--

A related note is that not every individual thrives at all of these stages. You don't need to "constantly scale yourself" if that isn't what you want to do. Move on when the time is right or join companies at the level of maturity that you prefer.

Some people love the initial launch and scrappy small team vibe; some people hate the chaos and prefer more structure. Some like being told what to do; some hate hierarchies and "bureaucratic red tape!". Some like to build from nothing; some like to refine and optimize what exists.

Be aware of your optimal environment, needs, and goals then try to find roles and companies that are a good fit.
> Payment processing is used as an end-run around the First Amendment.

What ever happened to "nobody is required to fund your free speech, buddy"? Market forces led to TV, radio and newspaper consolidation in the late 80s-early 90s, and the FCC abandoned the "Fairness Doctrine", which was essentially anti-market. It's good that this fine fellow has funded his own press in Gab.com, there's also Parler for the less stout of heart, but if market forces cause him to go bankrupt, I'm sorry, that's personal responsibility for you!
Like any project. Set quantitative goals and allocate time for it. Find ways to motivate yourself, like imagining the ideal outcomes.
That sort of cost is not necessary unless you're hosting a larger community. I run synapse (for myself, but it's idling at quite a low load so it could easily support more people) on a $10 USD/month Linode. For personal use you could get by on a $5 Nanode, but I'm using my VPS for other things, too.

The great thing about federation is that you don't have to host an entire community; just a slice of it.
SV types

What's "SV"?
While they are related, and the terms are somewhat overloaded and depend on context, I wouldn't call SDF ray marching (aka SDF sphere tracing) a subset of ray tracing, at least not according to today's common usage of those terms. Unless you are using 'ray tracing' to mean the family of techniques that do anything with a ray (which is not the most common interpretation, IMO), then there are things each technique can do that the other cannot. Ray tracing most commonly refers to solving ray-surface intersections directly, and/or checking visibility strictly between two points in space, one or both of which may be infinitely far away. SDF ray marching to a surface is iterative and doesn't normally solve ray-surface equations directly, nor does it generally give you a surface normal. Ray tracing, in contrast doesn't allow for neat tricks like single-sample soft shadows, because it doesn't give you any other information about the scene except what's along the ray.

While I wouldn't insist on it, I think you could even argue that it's the other way around, ray tracing could be seen as a subset of ray marching, because it's possible to build a ray tracing query out of ray marching, but not possible to build a ray marching query using ray tracing, for example, the kind of basic ray marching you find on ShaderToy can tell you by how much you almost hit a surface, but vanilla ray tracing can't.
Why limit it to the Executive branch?

I don't want to have to log in to Nextdoor to see what my local politicians are up to either.
I’m a software developer, that commonly talks about software development with a diverse group of software developers.

I’ve never had a conversation with a software developer where they didn’t know what vim or emacs are.
The majors rarely buy when they should, they only buy when they shouldn't (price based acquisition fever). Happens over and over again, with the latest being Occidental and Anadarko. The industry is almost universally stupid when it comes to acquisitions.

Notice Exxon and Chevron didn't launch any big acquisitions during the extreme implosion in the industry with the pandemic. They always go into hunker down mode at the wrong time. Why haven't they stepped in to take out Occidental + Anadarko (the Anadarko deal was valued at a comical $55 billion)? They want to wait until the combination's current $16b market cap rebounds back to $35b (and then pay $42b for the deal), so they can be sure of what they're doing. And since Occidental paid so much for Anadarko by itself, they'll pat themselves on the back that they're paying a good price.

Exxon bought XTO Energy (natural gas heavy) in Dec 2009 in an all-stock deal initially valued at $41b (plus an assumed ~$11b in debt). They bought them shortly after the natural gas price bubble crashed (I'm sure they thought it was a good deal) and right before shale production would permanently bury natural gas prices. Another classic poorly timed acquisition disaster in the industry. Analysts at the time of course overwhelmingly praised the deal as smart (calling XTO's price cheap).

If anyone scoops up Chesapeake coming out chapter 11, most likely it will be private equity types specializing in energy markets. Then Exxon will buy it from them at a huge price increase in seven or eight years, right before an oil crash.
I uhh… what? We’re talking about a soda manufacturer here. Look I mean I get the crusade against sugar and being mindful about how many calories are in a bottle. But that’s a harsh opinion about fizzy water that lots of people enjoy drinking enough to pay a premium for. Nobody buys a candy bar because of some existential crisis.

Like do you hold the same opinion of coffee shops that sell sugary drinks, pastry shops, candy makers, snack food makers, ice cream shops, breweries, distilleries? Does “treats taste good” not qualify as a positive?

Like it’s wild to me to think that if I served you a piece of chocolate cake you would be like “how dare you! It has excessive calories and will rot my teeth!”
> every type of cooking..

That's a euphemism for bad cooking, isn't it?

Kidding. We have a dish washer, but actually use it as storage space for things that need to be kept cool. You're supposed to rinse things before putting them into the dish washer. We just figured, if you have to do that, you're already half-way to the drying rack. And it's always cooler than any cupboard space that we have. Even in the summer.
The cache line on x86 is 64 bytes. Your whitespace lookup table is way too big. At the very least, you can subtract (with overflow) '\t' and check that the character is not greater than ' ' before hitting the LUT.

The ASCII table is ripe for bit twiddling (I suspect it was organized according with that in mind). You may find bit patterns in whitespace chars.
> Despite calls-to-action like that “It’s Time to Build” essay we’ve all read

So is this 'team' building something real or offering an sustainable alternative? Being snippy on social media is an even more rampant way to do nothing while patting yourself on the back about progress.

Besides, there's rarely ever seems to be a shortage of navel gazing and satire written about Silicon Valley.
Peaked at $60B in Q1 2001.

Edit: Looking again, appears items peaked at 60B, dollar value peaked at $9B in Q1 2007 (but inflation).
I don't believe either is possible. Life is way too complicated to guarantee anything. But I think everyone agrees we should strive to correct significant levels of unfairness in either opportunity or outcome. We just may disagree on what constitutes significance.
If you are referring to people gaming the credit card points/rewards system using gift cards and money orders, I don't think there's anything shady about that.

If you actually think people are doing that for money laundering, now that probably deserves an investigation but I doubt money launderers are dumb enough to use money orders.
Really? I don't think I've ever met a software developer that didn't know what vim and emacs were.
Is there also a Unicode encoding for the invisible interjection "fnord"? I tried looking it up in the Unicode dictionary but could not find it, but maybe I'm just not seeing it...

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

>In the novel trilogy (and the plays), the interjection "fnord" is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened. Under the Illuminati program, children in grade school are taught to be unable to consciously see the word "fnord". For the rest of their lives, every appearance of the word subconsciously generates a feeling of unease and confusion, preventing rational consideration of the text it appears in. The uneasiness and confusion create a perpetual low-level state of fear in the populace. The government acts on the premise that a fearful populace keeps them in power.

>In the Shea/Wilson construct, fnords—occurrences of the word "fnord"—are scattered liberally in the text of newspapers and magazines, causing fear and anxiety in those following current events. However, there are no fnords in the advertisements, encouraging a consumerist society. The exclusion of the text from rational consciousness also enables the Illuminati to publish messages to each other in newspapers, etc., without fear that other people will be aware of them. It is implied in the books that fnord is not the actual word used for this task, but merely a substitute, since most readers would be unable to see the actual word.

[...]

>Paulo Goode, a typeface designer from West Cork, Ireland, created a humanist serif font named Fnord in 2016 which contains 23 fonts in five weights. The geometry of the upper case ‘O’ is drawn on an axis of 23 degrees while the lower case ‘o’ falls on a 17-degree axis. The 23 / 17 numerology is reflective of similar numerical themes from The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
My guess too, also because Q doesn't get used much so there's probably one spare in the box
I like that 2nd criteria. Seems like a smart way to avoid components that are much more likely to get software decay.

Have you been programming for 25 years?
> > Payment processing is used as an end-run around the First Amendment.

> What ever happened to "nobody is required to fund your free speech, buddy"?

It's an end run when, as is not unheard of, it is government pressure on payment processors that underlies them cutting off services to unwelcome activities, if what makes the activity unwelcomenand a focus of the government pressure is an activity protected against government interference by the First Amendment.

If it's purely the uninfluenced preference of the payment processors, sure, that's not an end-run around the First Amendment.
I wonder what your take is on this.

"Brain computation by assemblies of neurons"

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/25/14464
I believe the US government still runs the check clearing. Checks are a convenient, portable form of payment, complete with government subsidy!
Lots of practice with lots of feedback on process.

Once you have walked them through a problem and shown them the process, have them implement that process. If they have cognitive breakdown, then engage in scaffolding (e.g., ask them what was done in a previous problem you did together).

Try to avoid just doing the problem for them over and over. Modeling is great at the start, but you have to have them implement the model on their own for them to learn.

This is a very brief answer to a problem that has a lot of nuanced issues. That said, it’s a start.

If you know a good teacher or tutor, ask to watch them work on this stuff. Some of these folks make it seem like magic (although it’s not).
By establishing initial guidelines and a regular process of evaluating the guidelines, changing them over time.

I get that there’s a core question of “what even is harmful?” that many will debate but “I know it when I see it” was the answer for the debate over obscenity and it broadly worked for most people. Sometimes a best effort is better than an endless debate over an final answer.
Why only exec?

In any event rather than the official account for the office, they’ll communicate from their personal non gov account —which given first amendment, they have a right to.
Didn’t they have a reverse split a couple quarters back?
Take a look at "How to record Slow Motion Sounds (Exploding Tomato at 60,000fps) - Smarter Every Day 184" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO7yzmc3ykw
Hey karlicoss, I'm in love with your writeup.

You should know about Timeliner; Matt Holt's attempt at solving some of the data sourcing / data silo problems. https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

He also points out Perkeep: https://perkeep.org/

Anyway. Data liberation is a huge driver for me. Making it a primary goal of my next app (primarily for bookkeeping/financial data, but I want to allow users to connect to the third party services I integrate with, eg. Uber, Amazon, etc, and be able to download their own data / play with it via an API).

Feel free to email me / tweet me (@Adys) if you ever want to chat.
You got me at the "Only Amiga" video.
That's like "condensed 80's" in a can!
yes, of course Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission says that!
History of the world – silly version [video]
Competition? MoneyGram and Western Union kind of picked up then.
> So, not all that much privilege anymore.

Your anecdote doesn't invalidate my statement. 2G/3G coverage isn't even highly available in most third world country. How do you know your homeless guy had a data plan? You don't.
Maybe it provided genetic evidence for this human oral history? I would consider that landmark personally. Although writing an article about it is harder.
History? i.e. track record of prior harm by type of speech? If similar content has demonstrably caused harm before, then chances are high decent it's likely to cause harm again.

ASIDE:
It occurs to me that the kinds of discussions being had in the modern era, have their counterparts from earlier times. The arguments for and against the freedom to publish holocaust denialism has strong parallels to today's disagreements around freedom of speech, though they clearly predate social media networks. Interestingly, though global approaches to holocaust denialism (in the west) range from strong disapproval to outright bans, the strain of thought has continued to survive, albeit in far lower numbers. Would those numbers be vastly different in a world where those ideas were more freely permitted to flourish?
It is surprising that in the day and age of online/phone banking so much money is transferred via. the post office. Postal orders have stopped being used in many other countries. My country (NZ) stopped them in 1986.

In New Zealand every few months another bank stops issuing and accepting checks.
Back a few years ago when I first started dabbling in side projects and wanted to grow some side income, I found the greatest motivator was wanting to get out of my day job (which I hated). I wasn’t organized and in retrospect nothing was well thought out, but the need to survive and the desire to escape was enough.
since I hijacked your attention I will mention that the Atari 1020ST was awesome because it had built-in midi ports.
you could sequence synths with this right out of the box.