skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem is a lack research. I think the problem is that terms describing art are often subjective and few things are built without having inspiration.

People who write games play games and get inspired by other games they've liked. So while someone might declare something being a first in a genre, someone else might say "this earlier game is similar enough to that genre that it still counts".

It also doesn't help that 3D is such a (mis|over)used term that it can apply to a broad range of different styles that are worlds apart from one another (as I describe in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668287)
Solution in search of a problem.

Whats the issue with having the domain name, an essentially flat map from name to number, going from least general to most general, and a path, representing a file system tree, going from most general down its nodes to the most specific?

Is the argument they make up two parts of a url, and thus should behave the same way? Seems a bit superficial.
Thank you! I use concrete [1] for styling that does take care of it. My favorite micro CSS framework :)

[1] https://concrete.style/
Agreed, we’ve all watched the president say all the wrong things at the wrong times during this episode. I don’t doubt he is pulling the wrong strings behind the scenes too.
Tic-tac-toe in the browser without callbacks, listeners or mutable state
> imagine that chickens had to adapt to the cold

They already had that adaptation. Chickens are members of the fowl family which are all homeothermic animals, meaning that they maintain their own body temperature. Chickens thermoregulate their body temperatures through their respiratory system. Heat is lost by the bird as sensible heat directly to the atmosphere when the temperature gradient is sufficiently great and as insensible heat by the evaporation of water from the respiratory system and skin when the temperature gradient is less but relative humidity is low. The layer of fat usually found under the skin plus the coat of feathers provide very good protection from low temperature and it is unlikely that birds other than young chickens will die of hypothermia. For a constant deep body temperature to be maintained, heat production must equal heat loss.
Wirecard is 'beyond salvageable,' according to analyst
I was looking for a laptop to replace this here 2013 13" retina macbook pro. The only high res display 13 or 14" machine readily available in Australia seems to be a Thinkpad x1 carbon. I was hoping there would be more options in laptop brands.
I hope we do start to go back to the more decentralized way of living, where smart highly educated workers don't concentrate in the largest cities and instead live all over the country.
This is how it used to be 50 years ago.
Or just forget them. Most users click on accept all anyway, because they want to get to the content, not dealing with cookies.
Because it's relatively easy to make JSON-serialization fast if you know the shape ahead-of-time. It's a solved problem.

Here's a pure-JS solution: https://github.com/fastify/fast-json-stringify
There's this strange phenomenon on HN sometimes -- or at least I've noticed it here several times -- where people will somehow manage to condemn the article while arguing for exactly the thesis of the article. That's what you're doing here.
I double checked and the one I use is an old model (FL100) that appears to have been discontinued. The FL350 mostly resembles it, though it appears you are correct that the FL350 does not have an alarm. My apologies for the misdirection.

This one does have an alarm: https://www.amazon.com/Wellue-Fingertip-Saturation-Batteries...
If you start at $10/hour it won‘t hurt a company at all if you rise prices, for like, 100%... But who will charge that much and still make a living?

Part-time freelancer might work, but you need to know your customer and your customer needs to know what you provide him. Otherwise you might to loose customers over „I‘m sorry I‘m only availble Fridays“.
> just because I want to make sure that writers of my consumed media get paid doesn't mean I have to agree with how the publication model of monitization.

You don't have to. Just don't visit these news sites, boycott them, don't visit them.
Funny, when I saw the title before clicked I thought to myself: "I am sure it's a B+Tree really" :-)
I think you'd make a stronger argument by instead of making a military or other things argument, and just make a 'fund other things more' argument.

The reason I think you should stay away from pointing fingers, especially at a relatively divisive issue like military or especially aircraft carrier funding is because then you shift a question of "should American be world leading in commercial air travel regulation, pandemic prevention and control, and medical development" to a far more complex one of what America's role in the world should be.

The combined CDC, FDA and FAA budget is something like 35 billion dollars a year. Overall DOD budget is is nearly 700 billion, making up nearly half of annual discretionary spending (roughly 1.5 trillion). You could literally double the funding of those three agencies and barely budge the overall calculus of the budget.

Edit/Add-on: I think the whole sub-thread under my comment (my bad =/ - I get the irony...) is an example of the types of distractions that might be avoidable if you don't scope military spending into discussions.
That would defeat the purpose of being minimalist, don't you think?
I'm in the slow process of migrating my personal wiki from Google Sites to Markdown + Jekyll/GitHub Pages. I love that everything is in plain text and version controlled and I feel like I can organize it however I like. I also use VSCode to edit and create the Markdown files but without any special plugins.
MOND is appealing from a purely philosophical point of view: we have a separate (“modified”) theory for when thing are very small, another one for when things move very fast, so, the need for another modification for when things are very large should not be seen as entirely unexpected, should it?
Part one of this[0] is discussed here[1]

[0]https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23663071
I know that, as an election officer, the easy thing to do is have the voter cast a provisional ballot on the spot.

The voter then has to get down to the court house in the next day or two to sort out the details.

Elections are not rocket surgery, and neither is database maintenance.
> two dedicated servers with any reasonable provider and being able to have a hot-failover for everything.

Except you have to implement that hot failover yourself, rather than using something like EC2 auto-scaling groups or an RDS multi-AZ deployment. I'm not confident that I'd get it right, and the middle of a night is a hell of a time to discover that you got it wrong.
The Atari had a lot of copy protection approaches[1]. No wonder, with the floppy controller being so flexible.

[1] http://dmweb.free.fr/files/Atari-Copy-Protection-V1.4.pdf
> If I don’t agree with how a company does business, I don’t buy their products. I don’t go into their store and shoplift.

Yeah, it's strange people think shoplifting is a moral way to protest. It's not. Boycotting is.
For the mathematically disinclined (such as myself), the total savings are at least $229/mo .. not bad! Curious if you could use Cloudformation to provision these instances and setups? https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...
It’s another in a very long line of mistakes over the past three years pointing towards one thing: process matters. It’s boring, it’s not dynamic, but it’s also the thing that prevents organizations from making some extremely bone headed mistakes.
Look for the heading, “The IEEE Standard” in “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic,” then scroll down to the subheading “Operations.” That section begins, “The IEEE standard requires that the result of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division be exactly rounded. That is, the result must be computed exactly and then rounded to the nearest floating-point number (using round to even).”

A few paragraphs later, it adds, “There is not complete agreement on what operations a floating-point standard should cover. In addition to the basic operations +, -, × and /, the IEEE standard also specifies that square root, remainder, and conversion between integer and floating-point be correctly rounded. It also requires that conversion between internal formats and decimal be correctly rounded (except for very large numbers).”

I will admit that I worked as a programmer for several years without knowing that. I learned it from a former physics professor who has now moved on to become a quant with a hedge fund. He usually didn’t worry much about it, but when he needed to be sure a particular calculation was as accurate as possible, he’d start counting individual operations and stay away from particular function calls.
A broader question that puzzles me, not specific to this phenomenon. Pulse length is often used to bound the size of a source in space (it cannot be smaller than light takes to traverse the object). But it’s possible that two phenomena can be correlated without being close, if there is a delayed action (akin to setting two alarm clocks and separating them in space). How can we confidently use this as evidence of size?
> If I've got that right

You did.

> it sounds functionally similar to the Python way

It definitely is, however it allows to handle all operators by defining a single method, so it's a bit more usable.

> does the coerce thing automatically happen for any type, or is that special behavior implemented by Ruby's Number types?

Only for number types. For other core types using binary operators, you have dedicated implicit conversion methods. For instance `"foo" + MyType.new` will try to call `MyType.new.to_str`.

`to_str` being specifically for implicit conversions, and `to_s` for explicit conversions. So implicit conversions won't happen unless specifically defined.
what's funny is I hear people say they use an adblock so it'll teach people to not use advertising as a source of revenue. When those sites have other means then those same people want to bypass paying. People don't want to pay for stuff and want to have everything too. I fear we will end up in a situation where just few sources of income , content etc will remain ...A monoculture of sorts
> Here are the parameters used by Pirsch to generate a fingerprint:

> * the IP is the most obvious choice. It might change, as IPs are reused by ISPs as they only have a limited pool available to them, but that shouldn't happen too frequently

> * the User-Agent HTTP header contains information about the browser and device used by the visitor. It might not be filled though, but it usually is

A couple of questions:

1. Does anyone know of a decent Firefox plugin that can subtly change the User-Agent string for each new tab? I'm not thinking changing it to a different browser rendering engine string but maybe add a random key like

hash-buster/$randomstring

2. Isn't Chrome making its User-Agent string static? (ref: https://www.osnews.com/story/131177/google-is-seeking-to-dep...). @marvinblum (looks like you're the maintainer?) wouldn't this then skew your results?
Is selling something on Etsy ever a good idea? How to know if there is demand?
Nothing can prevent terrible people from using an open source project. Meanwhile, Reddit doesn't do much of anything about this problem either. For, example /r/metacanada exists, and white supremacists from there are also moderating /r/canada subbreddit, Reddit hasn't taken any action on that. At least the developers of Lemmy are very clear [1] about their stance regarding nazis, that's more than I can say for Reddit. It's also worth noting that Mastodon has millions of users now, and it clearly isn't attracting the worst people. In fact, I find it's a far healthier and friendlier community than Twitter.

[1] https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/34286
Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record
Show HN: Google Translate for “Thick Black Theory” has been gamed
> What happened with Wirecard? Who knows?!

Wirecard poured enough money in E&Y that the verification step was no longer deemed necessary.
At the moment we're well beyond the CDC. We have a President and his various acolyte governors who have so utterly botched and politicized our COVID-19 response that many people won't take the most basic steps to protect themselves and those around them. It's maddening and leaves those of us who are trying to do the right thing feel totally unprotected and unsupported, especially in states like Texas and Florida.

The CDC may have made missteps, but there's no way it can possibly operate as well as it should in this political climate.
After having tried Roam, as well as Zettelkasten and Bullet Journalling, I'm starting to think you're right. I keep searching for a magic tool to help me organise all my reading and research. But I think it's about 90% procrastination.
Putting the OPs remarks to one side, that's a rather simplistic view of science.

> And the theories themselves can't be proven as true, since this isn't math but empirical science

This distinction is meaningful and extends to logic, metaphysics, etc.

> When people continue believing in theories that are non-falsifiable or that have been falsified, that's pseudo-science.

Popper distinguished between rationally justified claims and "scientific", i.e., empirically testable claims. He only claimed that falsifiability was a feature of empirically testable claims. That he should do so should be obvious because the claim that all claims must be empirically falsifiable is not itself empirically falsifiable and large swathes of human knowledge lay beyond the empirically testable, hence the restriction. That they are not empirically falsifiable does not make them pseudoscience. Indeed, the viability of empirical science hinges utterly on unfalsifiable assumptions.

> Scientific theories are a dime a dozen and in the presence of empirical evidence that falsifies them, we should consider such theories as falsified and move on.

Not so fast. Even within the domain of the empirical sciences, falsification is not simply a matter of performing a tidy critical experiment. As Duhem (and Quine) observed, the theory under scrutiny hinges on many other hypotheses, theories and assumptions. Even something as simple as observing something under a microscope hinges on the soundness of optics as well as many other assumptions that are not falsifiable.

There is most certainly an economy, a parsimony, an order to how science and common sense proceed when met with conflicting evidence. We tend to doubt the the outer layer of the epistemic onion where there is less certainty before asking questions about our assumptions.

And of course, science occurs in a social context such that it is subject to practical and cultural forces that influence what is given priority. In any case, the point is that falsification is not simply a matter of demonstrating that an expected outcome does not occur.

> but we can get an idea about how well they predict natural phenomena and we can disprove them by empirical evidence, observations that show these theories don't predict the universe well.

Predictability is only part of the story. If we reduce science to predictability, then we're back to a purely instrumental view of science. But as Hillary Putnam notes, science aspires to describe reality as it is. It does not merely want to produce a model that "works" which is to say one that allows physical phenomena to be predicated. In any case, that predictability should be a feature of empirically testable claims is not falsifiable, and predictability itself presumes that the universe is a certain way that affords predictability which is, again, not falsifiable.
The part your missing is that basically all dedicated server hosters are this cheap.

DO, Vultr, AWS, GCP, Azure are the odd ones out and extremely expensive.

The only reason ever not to use dedicated servers is if you're in the bay area and ops wages are so overinflated that you literally can't afford an ops or devops person.

For everyone else on the planet, the comparison between the wage of an ops person, and server costs, is always in favor of dedicated hardware with your own ops people.
The Impossibility of Fast Transactions [pdf]
Producing a deepfake – a faceswap workflow on AWS
Bell Towers - Another Lonely Night in Berlin (Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqc8EvnyyBM

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A simple workflow for producing deepfakes using cloud computing provider AWS. And a conclusion on my thoughts of the limitations of the technology.
> Now that could mean EY Germany is an isolated case of incompetence and (criminal?) neglect

E&Y Germany was bought from Andersen. That should be answer enough.
>but sincere Stalinists just aren't very common

Maybe the figure-head isn't en vogue anymore. The methods are always popular.

Leftists(Socialists, Communists, Anarchists) often publically revel in the idea of when "the revolution comes" to put anyone dissenting up against the wall or sending them to a Gulag camp of some sort. I don't find that exactly reassuring. Seeing how "protesters" in the US and Europe act like chinese Red Guards during the cultural revolution, this day doesn't seem far off.

I'm reading the "Three-Body Problem" right now and the first chapter eerily reminded me of the current situation where not being enough of an "ally" to the racial BLM movement is a thought-crime punishable by having your life destroyed.
Thanks for the info. Yes that would be great if you could check that. My issue was the built-in speakers popping whenever audio stopped and started (sound card turning off and on). It was especially loud and unbearable when using headphones plugged directly in.
I once built a cookie-less tracking app without using IP address or user agent. The idea came from this[0]. It would serve a file to the user with an etag that let the browser cache the file for an indefinite period of time (effectively acting as a cookie but not being classified as one). There might be some quirks as the caching behaviour is not guaranteed (I think the caching is discretionary to the browser based also on the available cache). But it is an interesting approach to use something that is similar to a cookie but technically isn’t.

Also user agents are not unique[1] but combined with IP addresses should be pretty safe to assume the fingerprint generated from both is.

[0] https://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent
It implements Roam-style syntax, backlinks and graph view, in what way is it not a Roam alternative?
I‘m wonderhing how much sense it makes to penetrate a service that‘s for free with 80k certificate requests just to check whether it‘s up... I mean, isn‘t there an official status page for Let‘s Encrypt?
Future trends in software mododeling (talk)
You said: "China(and potentially other places)". You explicitly put it in a seperate category when the source you linked didn't.

Notice the weasel word "plenty", you're still trying to imply there's something special going on there when this whole thread is full of people talking about steel contamination going on globally.

You also claimed they "are willing to accept incredibly dangerous(and expensive to recycle) material and melt it into their main steel supply." when your own article is about radioactive contamination being tracked down in a way that indicates that it's not the norm.

Here's an article about China explicitly denying radioactive scrap. None of the examples involving other countries in this thread seemed willful either.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/07/03/China-demands-check-...
While the stationary background universe model proposed by Peter Ostermann doesn't rule out „dark matter”, it at least doesn't require „dark energy“ in order to match with observational data.

http://peter-ostermann.org/assets/sum_os14.pdf
A close family member died of Parkinson’s. It’s an awful way to go, especially if you get it young. Godspeed.
I'd assume because CloudFlare doesn't charge anything for bandwidth; so their costs are exceptionally predictable
I mean, outliners are literally 60s/70s tech and they're just now getting their heyday (in the form of Roam and others). Give mindmaps time :)
> it doesn't stop bad actors from joining or returning through credit card fraud.

It still raises the barrier to entry significantly. Stolen credit cards are not free to obtain, either you buy them off someone else for $$$ or you obtain them for free through your own means but then you're losing $$$ by wasting them on spam accounts instead of selling them for actual money.
I love this "half of annual discretionary spending". It is designed to confuse the fact that military spending is only %15. [1]

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medica...
Nice! I used to spend my summers sailing in Georgian Bay and really miss it now. Such a beautiful area.
This is an effective time-saving device for an individual, certainly, but taking this strategy to an extreme leads one to hedge your statements away into nothingness. Some questions are worth discussing (what the first x is may or may not be), if not always because of their intrinsic importance, then because of details and insights that emerge from the ensuing discussion.
Well, seeing that Supreme Court decisions on what is legal to censor has absolutely no bearing on what a private corporation can do. The right to free speech only applies to what the government can and can’t do.
There was some early evidence it could be effective. I’m actually supportive of the FDA’s move to do both the emergency approval and the retraction. Without the ability to take calculated risks in a situation where either approving or unapproving can cause harm, the agency could be a hindrance more than a help. And that means some emergency measures will prove wrong. If none prove wrong, the agency is being too cautious and allowing people to die because of it.

EDIT: I hate the politicization of HCQ by Trump, of course.
> But then I remember that my species comes from eastern Africa...

via Madagascar via South East Asia, assuming I'm remembering Jared Diamond correctly. I wonder if there are any Polynesian strains with interesting genetic diversity.
Eight tips to relieve those Postgres headaches
Hey everyone,
my name’s Jiri, and together with Vojtech, who is the Director of Engineering at productboard we wrote this article about some of the common problems we face using Postgres, and I thought it might be useful for the wider community. So here it is!
I hope it helps. Of course, any feedback is welcome.
Thanks! :)
This is the natural course of the hype cycle. Like kids with a new toy, infatuation and then boredom. But the underlying technology in this case is absolutely world changing. I think we are only a few orders of magnitude away from systems that are genuinely intelligent. GPT-5 or 6 will have your jaw on the floor and GPT-10 will probably be smarter than all of us.
Maybe with the rPi 4 with its single PCIe lane (not trivially accessible out of the box), but as far as I know it's the equivalent of a 1x slot.
Ah yes I've read about that method too, but I think it's saver to use the user-agent and IP address as that's probably more reliable. The browser might ignore the ETag.
AI is like the internet pre 2000's or electricity a century ago - barely been applied to the world. It's not time to get disappointed yet.
The beauty of Roam-style approach is that most of the work of updating the graph is implicit - you just reference a tag or a keyword, and it automatically gets connected with all other instances of that keyword (with context).

And explicit block referencing is near effortless too, though I do agree that there you can run into issues with the structure becoming obsolete and useless over time (I know I did).