skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Back in high school one of my friends' moms was a semi-professional astrologer. More than once, when visiting his house, she would ask someone she just met for their "birth data", type it into her astrology program, and proceed to blow their minds by telling them all sorts of personal things about their personality just from their chart. She also gave pretty good advice some of the time.

One day we were looking at the computer and somehow got into the settings for the astrology program and we noticed that she had configured it wrong, so that none of the charts she was reading were valid according to the internal logic of astrology. The charts were wrong (not just in the sense that astrology is bullshit, but extra-wrong in the sense that they didn't even conform to the line of bullshit) yet she was "good" at astrology.

FWIW, I think she was just a good psychologist, but didn't know it.

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I didn't say they don't work, just that I don't expect them to work. The prices are such that you can, and should, buy three items from three different vendors and cross your fingers that one works.

In professional engineering, where time is money, Digi-Key or Mouser is always more efficient, if they've got what you need. For personal stuff, where the value of your time is ~zero, the opposite can be true.
“3 Easy Steps to $500 per Day” (Zero Experience Necessary)
> We were too young to notice anything but the sense of limitless curiosity that it inspired, especially when we began to realize that the scenes were based on actual places.

It's funny because I got that feeling from a lot of games. It's why I loved adventure games. Some were set in made-up places, but some were from real places. (I remember playing one where part of it was set in ancient Chichen Itza, Mexico among the Mayan pyramids, for example.)

But I also remember when Street Fighter hit the scene, arcade games went downhill fast. They all became variations on the same theme of memorizing sequences of button presses instead of having goals to achieve or interesting puzzles. Going to the arcade stopped being fun for me at that point, and home computers were starting to get powerful enough to have far more interesting and involved games on them. And shortly after that networked games started becoming a thing.
> hysterical

That's not called for.

As for the rest, it seems to me that it's slavery based on race that is the biggest motivator to changing the term. Obviously all slavery is a horrible problem, but other kinds of slavery are much less relevant to the terminology debate.
Why do (almost) all the functions have event.preventDefault() ?
99%+ of my hobbyist electronics bits n' bobs are ali express/banggood specials, and they have all worked fine, from arduino clones to sensors and ESP8266's.

If I were working on something more important that dinking around for fun, sure, I might care a bit more about what's actually on the board. But as it is, the clones are more than adequate for my needs, particularly at their price point.
While not nearly as bad as what is in the article. Predictive text in Messages on iOS now suggests "cancer" when I type "can" and "chemotheteropy" when I type "ch". And to really rub it in "ma" brings up "magnesium". The magnesium one being the worst because if I type it that means they are doing a magnesium infusion and that means I am going to feel like I have been hit by a truck for the next two days.

A lot of the times it is actually picking the right word but somethings you don't want to be constantly reminded of.
Shipping cost is the biggest downer for a hobbyist just wanting a couple chips from Digikey or Mouser.
Ethics aside, are they accurate enough for e.g. home brewing or fishtank usage, compared to parellax reading error on a traditional mercury/alcohol thermometer?
Saudi Arabia...?
I tried to find some evidence to back up your assertion that macOS is losing market share, but failed. Everything I can see shows that macOS is either holding steady or slightly gaining market share.
This is why I don't run pihole or NextDNS at the network level anymore, my wife had too many annoyances with slick deals and other things. Whitelists covered most but not everything.
The “My This” Naming Convention. Good or Bad? e.g. MySQL, MySpace
There can be ISA-level differences: Itanium’s VLIW structure meant a lot of memory was storing NOPs filling unused slots unless your work aligned perfectly with the CPU and you had a brilliant compiler.

These days, I think you’re right with the possible exception of density: if you have comparable resources, vector extensions, etc. an ISA which uses memory more efficiently is going to get a little more out of its cache and memory bandwidth, but that’s probably not going to be huge.
> We want our 401k's to continue to grow

No, we want more wealth, as measured by food, housing, healthcare, leisure, art, etc.

These ads produce none of that. They are a waste of human time and resources, and even if they make some stocks grow, they don't contribute to well-being, and make us poorer overall.

The stock market is a very poor measure of quality of life.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert.

I mostly use it on Pi. I use either Raspian Lite for most things or Kali Linux for security.
Yes. The interview was a all expenses paid week long trip to another country, with a couple dozen other contributors, to hole up in a hotel and hack on the project, with a few organized tours as breaks. Based on that, the company made me a job offer a few months later, which I declined, largely because I wasn't looking for another job. So they hired the company I worked for to have me do some work for them.
As a counterpoint, Facebook also happens to be a great tool to organize people in times like this. Just today I saw a post in my feed where some acquaintances had organized to raise money for a girl they know who was diagnosed with cancer. They managed to raise about $38,000 for her. That’s a big deal.
> I'm amazed that a social-only network hasn't taken off yet that provides this basic functionality

You'd have a hell of a time making it profitable. It'd have to be run like a charity, which would cost nearly nothing in the scheme of things, but we just don't seem to have any people who want to do good and happen to have enough money to do it.

It'll take a rich rebel who gets tired of billionaire fine dining and says fuck it, I'm for the people who don't have a penny to their name, not you rich schmucks.
How do I post? There's no send button
I haven't used GCC in a while, but clang's template error msgs are way better than MSVC's in my experience. Still not like--good--haha. Like not Elm-level.
At the moment, we are using two mutually incompatible theories to explain sunlight. We need gravity to explain how the sun formed and we need QFT to understand how it produces radiation.
Hey, that's pretty much exactly what I would have said :) And the language is similar enough that we could be the same person ;) Except that I use sentence fragments. And of course, the fact that we aren't.

That's a good point about using Tor in VPN chains. If you want to do that, you must ensure that you're anonymized as well as possible from those VPN services. When I do that, I use Tor (Whonix) via nested VPN chains. And I pay with Bitcoin that's been mixed multiple times, using different mixing services, and with each mix in a different Whonix instance. And I start with Bitcoin that's not linked to my meatspace identity.
What is going to happen to all the printed books and technical docs? This seems like it might cause a lot of issues going forward.
> How long till Apple GPUs can take the fight to discrete graphics?

I already play Fortnite, Call of Duty, PUBG, etc at 60fps on my iPhone.
Counterfeit chips are a huge problem, these days.

I suspect that a significant number of Bluetooth chips are fake; even in very expensive kit.

I got tired of having expensive headsets croak after less than a year, while my cheap 20-dollar exercise headsets lasted for four years.
They could, but any money Intel pays TSMC is money they aren't investing in their own fabs. Intel has invested a lot in their fabs, and they really could catch up.

It could perhaps be argued that Intel is playing into the sunk-cost fallacy, but I really don't think they're far enough behind for that yet.
You should check this out if you're not aware of this feature: https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-remove-words-fr...
I started using the Facebook container extension for Firefox to prevent things like this from happening.
I'm sure someone will tell me why this isn't happening, but I perceive a correlation between anything I type into FB Messenger (or HN) and subsequent ads. And I mean quickly.

So, my question for you is have you been making comments or sending messages online about debt, money, wealth, etc? Then again, maybe Skynet just knows you're unemployed and that's what makes you a target for get-rich-quick.
> It’s not proprietary.

Yeah. I was being snarky without enough context to make myself clear there... Sorry.

> Usenet is flooded with spam to the point of being unusable,

What mechanisms do you see in place to stop this being an inevitable result for Minichan as well? It's a social problem not a technical one...

> With a decently sized crowd from HN, there could be a lot of interesting content on a Minichan like site.

Maybe. pg's recent comment about the amount of time and effort it has taken to curate this community into some semblance of civility suggest even "we, the magnificent HM community" are subject to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory as well... (I've had a few "bad days" and needed pulling into line by dang or others over the years...)

> Imagine an imageboard with people from HN

From what pg says, that'll most likely end up closer to 4Chan that HN - without several people in full time (well paid) roles who's job description includes community management/moderation (and who are good at it).

HN is a magical place _only_ because YC values it enough to have people like pg and dang and scott spend as vast chunk of their paid time making it this way. Those of us who benefit from this place owe a debt to pg's vision and YC's commitment, and are lucky it was founded by someone like pg instead of moot. (And at the same time, people who benefit from 4Chan owe similar thanks for diametrically opposed visions there.)
Silly question but to help learn how should the JS file be done?
https://mobile.twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/29014045421...
If I were to paraphrase the comparison, it might be something like:

"An AI is some constructed entity which, starting with a goal, uses its intelligence to make changes to the world in order to bring that goal to fruition. One of the things about AI that is worrying is that its system-of-values might have no relation whatsoever to those possessed by human beings, and the best way for it to accomplish its goals might be to do things that most people would consider quite nasty. AI systems that are trying to maximize something are in constant tension with the laws that we put in place to try to keep them from steamrolling over everything in pursuit of their goals. Corporations fit the bill, under the assumption that the goal is 'maximize shareholder value'."

While a nest of ants or a swarm of bees certainly exhibit interesting emergent behavior, perhaps even collective intelligence, they 1). aren't constructed and 2). don't have clear goals.

You could argue that smaller groups of people fit the bill too, I guess. Maybe the difference is that corporations tend to have distinct goals which outlive their members, and that they have special recognition under the law as independent entities. Not sure.
Plenty of other tools exist
I would have agreed with you before, but then I worked at a car dealership for two years. A lot of people can't calculate a monthly payment. I was surprised at the time, but since then I've learned to be a lot more understanding.

And that doesn't make them stupid or dim witted.

Math is a skill, just like kindness or empathy.
- The bad optics would tank their share price

- TSMC have limited capacity

- Intel's designs are tightly coupled to their own foundry (hence the Skylake rehashes instead of porting the improved Ice Lake architecture back to the 14nm process)

- Intel are still improving their own foundry processes. By the time the above could be solved, Intel's own 10nm may be improved, or their 7nm process might be ready
Downvotes might be because the article distinguishes between a theory of quantum gravity and a theory of everything:

> Physicists would much rather have all these forces unified to one, which means that they would all come from the same mathematical structure. [...] At the energies that we have tested it so far, the symmetry would have to be broken, which gives rise to the standard model. This unification of the forces of the standard model is called a “grand unification” or a “grand unified theory,” GUT for short.

> What physicists mean by a theory of everything is then a theory from which all the four fundamental interactions derive. This means it is both a grand unified theory and a theory of quantum gravity.
Now, there are as many meditation practices as there are teachers and practitioners. So approaches and answers may vary wildly.

To really investigate, I'd recommed to stay off the self-help books, tapes and apps, and seek out a well-established group doing regular practice. There is more to it and the support can be much more helpful, than just following words and sounds. An experienced meditator could easily slip into meditation anytime just by closing her eyes. Though there is nowhere to go and nothing to attain, practice can be used throughout life. Letting go of expectations is key. A robust group can help through many misconceptions, provide clear path and reassurances, beyond that of meditation alone. If everything is not applicable forever, at least it broadens perspective of life immensely, and provides reference points along more dimensions of possibilities.
Intel locked their designs not just to their own fabs, but to specific processes. Most other companies don't do this. It buys you better, more optimized performance, but completely prevents design transfer. This really bit Intel when their P1274 ("10nm") did not work for years, leaving manufacturing stuck on P1272 ("14nm")... with microarchitectures designed for P1274 and unable to be easily ported. They could have invested in porting -- it's not impossible, only resource-intensive -- but the manufacturing group kept insisting P1274 was about to enter HVM... for years... so the designs were never ported.

In hindsight, this appears to have been a serious blunder.
New York Times, the organisation that repeatedly falsely claimed that WMDs were in Iraq, complains that journalists are receiving scrutiny and compares the work they do to work of journalists in authoritarian countries.

While they proceed with their standing policy of yellow journalism, doxxing and lies leading to death, I don't see how anyone can defend this organisation.
May I ask what you bought? I've been looking for something like this but everything I've found has been pricey.
So the base case that they prove is S(1). And the inductive step is to show:
S(1) ->(implies) S(2) -> S(3) -> S(4) -> ....

Or to write it more succinctly, that S(n) -> S(n + 1) assuming S(n) is true.

In this particular problem, the proof that is provided can be used to show S(2) -> S(3), that S(3) -> S(4), etc... are valid and true.

However, the proof could NOT be applied to show that S(1) -> S(2).

So whilst you CAN assume S(2) is true in a proof, the whole inductive chain needs to be attached to a valid base case.
Right, it proves S(2)->S(3), but induction asks you to prove S(n)->S(n+1) for n in general, and not just for some n. The inductive proof doesn't work for S(1)->S(2), so it clearly can't work for the more general n->n+1.
Wow I’m actually amazed, you replied the exact words that came to my mind when I read the parent comment above you. Kudos.
Let me answer by way of another question- "Why can't Google move its cloud servers to AWS?"

If a major company like that adopged a competitors product, huge numbers of customers would question why they are on the platform/product in the first place.
Sometimes when I'm planning to buy something. I'm sure I haven't searched about them, and just talked with my friend verbally. Few hours later, ads shows in my feeds. I ask my friend about this, many of them confirm and still don't know what happened.
There is good open source alternative to youtube is newpipe. Since there is no ad in it you can't creator but by contributing with helps the creator.
Why Apple cannot use discrete graphics? We don't know that yet. NVIDIA already starts to have support for aarch64 so you can expect AMD not that far away.
I think it's unrealistic to expect publishers to vet advertisements - all the "hur dur ads evil must ban" stuff aside - it would be nice if there was a good way to incentivise the publishers to do the right thing while being realistic about what they can do and that ads are here to stay - I'm not sure what. Technically it looks like a thing where an AI could do a 80% of the way there job - and with a human layer of sanity checks on top of it should be realistic - but still don't see a way to structure the incentives - this would cost a bunch of money and realistically do very little for FB (maybe prevent some bad PR from people getting scammed but TBH a lot of people won't even recognise they got scammed)
I've often bought parts from aliexpress because they're available for <$2 with shipping, and can be somewhat vetted easily with an example arduino sketch that comes with the library. (IMO, the goal in designing a board for your problem is getting someone to clone it and sell it for cheaper than you could hope to build it. Ideally, better too)

Sparkfun and adafruit deserve commendation here, as their designs are open enough to even have low effort clones work reasonably well. (I'd buy a legit version if I was doing something professional, but prototyping for the sake of research is a different story)

I'm a special case though, since deliveries from the local AVNET subsidiary to my employer are often comped due to volume/location.
I worked with a guy in a position of considerable responsibility who seriously believes that reptilian aliens under the Denver airport are controlling the US government.
Bringing GPU Acceleration to Inkscape, Week 2
That would also have made it easy for a fork to remove the code which disabled optimizations on AMD processors. I suspect that their managers viewed this as an edge since they could post high benchmark scores even if most common software didn’t use icc.
Central banks are creating trillions of dollars of fiat out of thin air to push down interest rates to their targets. While there is an enormous amount of capital chasing yield, contributing to yield compression, central bank monetary policy is the primary cause of zero or negative interest rate policy.
In defense of Thoreau, here's where he lived:

- His brother died of tetanus, death by muscle spasm, with no knowledge of modern disease.

- Death by disease, such as the plague, was the fault of a weak constitution or evil spirits.

- The Unix epoch is 50 years old today. Thoreau's Unix would have been oxygen. When he was born, electromagnetism has yet to be developed. Alchemy was still a thing.

- Criminal punishment? Hard labor or just run you out of town, right after a horrible corporal punishments and public executions. The British dumped prisoners from over capacity gaols. They may have stopped bringing them to America, just like South America stopped the drug trade.

- Napoleon just invented conscription.

- Multiple presidents died horrible deaths or had death hang around them.

- Everyone was getting ready for the big one, either ourselves or Europe, again.

- A horrible frontier of death mostly from exposure.

- Impressment and crimping was a thing.

It's a good insight of what people do when pushed. He lived through a collapse in theory agreed since Aristotle.

Another important question to ask is, how are you guilty of the same thing Thoreau did to others? Very little sympathy for Lee or Jackson today. They were in many ways the exact opposite of Thoreau. They did what others around them asked of them, gave their lives. The Halls of Montezuma, that was all them, going so far to weaken even the presidents between Jackson and Lincoln.

By attacking Thoreau, do you defend them?

They had zero ability to know it was wrong, see above. Before you say slavery negates everything, more people suffer under worse slavery today. Before you negate them as traitors, Jeffersonian Democracy presents a very different US Congress, hands-off, more like the UN today, one in which the monarchs of Europe and emperors of Asia could have sent delegates.

The goal of life is to lessen enemies, not create them. Anyone else you want to tear down? Any other political slogans I need to follow before you horribly murder million Americans?
Ubuntu LTS. I chose it because it mostly just works and there's plenty of documentation and q&a online (StackOverflow)

As for the problems, on the desktop side I wish it was more polished. For some reason every time there's a wireless printer in the network it tries to reinstall it (fix: sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed), error reporting is annoying (fix: sudo systemctl disable apport), can't easily set full RGB out on HDMI (fix: xrandr --output HDMI-1 --set "Broadcast RGB" "Full"), volume change is laggy on some soundcards (fix: enable-deferred-volume = no) and small quirks like this.
Another thing is that the way we store information in our brains is different than the way we store information on paper or in computers. It's not possible to communicate ideas directly between brains so we're always going to be losing information in that transfer.
Same here. Multiple times. Not a coincidence. I don't know how, but there has to be something going on there.
I'm a sysadmin, been running Linux for 25 years.

These days I almost exclusively use Ubuntu, largely because the free release and the LTS release are exactly the same thing, and are released on a predictable schedule. I used to do mostly CentOS, and liked it, but having to have it at arms length from RedHat did introduce some problems and uncertainty. Debian (and I know some argue this, but I don't agree) doesn't have an LTS release.

I run it on my desktop, laptop, and servers. Nice having the same OS on them all. I can build packages and test things on my laptop, with an eye towards production. Our developers all use Windows.

On the horizon: NixOS. Though I haven't really looked at it seriously.
Atomic Tests Were a Tourist Draw in 1950s Las Vegas
Visualizing the 4k Year History of Global Power
Brings back memories of those “Born American Buy American” bumper stickers. I was only a kid but I remember them everywhere.
Wouldn’t it be better to link to Google’s patent application itself?
Just press enter.
There's an imprecision here, but that doesn't break the proof. Note that from step 6 on, all it needs to show is "if P and Q are any members of G, then they have the same age". If P = Q, this is trivial, so we really only need to consider the P ≠ Q. This probably should have been stated, though.
I think AMD killed Itanium. I think Intel’s plan was to leave x86 forever stuck at 32- bit and have Itanium be the natural upgrade path as computers started running into the 4 GB limitations. I think it would have been a nice transition story.

However, when AMD released AMD64 it killed this strategy. You could now buy a chip that natively ran x86 32 bit at full speed, plus be able to run code that could address more than 4 GB of RAM.

Once AMD64 came out, Itanium was a dead architecture.