skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are useful examples of a blockchain. But when I log into GMail I (a) do not want this fact to be a part of a public ledger and (b) I don’t need this to be trustless. The latter is an important point: I already trust GMail with a ton of my data including the ability to reset my credentials. There is little value gained and a lot of simplicity lost in adding a blockchain to the mix.

Blockchains have several uses but to date they are narrow. Everywhere outside of their core use cases (essentially contracts or keeping track of tokens of value) they are a hindrance. Blockchains are also hugely inefficient by design (if they were they’d be easy to crack or to perform a 51% attack on), so when you are communicating with a single third party which you trust to provide a service to you, you absolutely do not need a blockchain. We have seen time and time again people trying to throw this solution at all the problems from DNS to buying groceries and yet the only solutions still worth talking about remain cryptocurrencies. Turns out well defined client/server APIs and databases actually do work about as well as anything else.

In the spirit of discussion, what could you do if you involve a blockchain in logging into GMail that you absolutely cannot do without it? If the answer is nothing, then there is zero reason to go down that path.
Show a nipple?
Please don't store my garbage code from my teens for 1000 years.
The testing done for the ISO standard seems to be based on irradiation(1). Seems fairly straight forward although I'm not sure it's tested for all kinds of radiation etc., but with a specific temperature and light it looks like very few other things would matter.

(1) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jpol/2016/8547524/
The only part of Vice that's worth giving the benefit of the doubt when it comes to The Truth is their Motherboard section. The rest has been tripe for a few years. There was a glimmer of hope with Simon Ostrovsky's reporting from Ukraine, but he seems to have moved on.
Because when you are sensing something your brain tries to find associations with past experiences in your memory and builds an "image" from that, and because peoples have different experiences in their memories it becomes subjective and a little different for everybody.
Also when it's something very different from your past experience the mix of the closest memories can be weird and seemingly unrelated.
longtime notational velocity user. loved how simple it was but found that I needed some more structure as I took more notes. ended up creating https://dendron.so, a local-first markdown note taking app build on top of vscode. same modeless file lookup/creation as notational velocity combined with features like backlinks, tagging and vim bindings
Here in Michigan merchants tell me their bank limits the amount of coins they can get on a daily basis. Seems like it would be a pretty inexpensive marketing tactic to get new business clients.
Great. I'm a huge nature lover. Literally wouldn't hurt a fly.

But I'll be stocking up on insect-killing sprays.

To coin a phrase, this is the "progress of d!ckheads".
I can see how this sort of thing might be a useful component of an AGI. One function could be helping to generate lots of training examples for other subcomponents along the lines of chess AI self-play; this could even be involved in "bootstrapping" another subcomponent from something that starts out with a preference for organizing things into a full-blown reasoning agent. Another function could be as an 'intuition' generating a few mostly-right starting points solutions that a reasoning subcomponent could then choose among, and then fix up.

These things seem to have about the level of coherence of dreams. Which makes me conjecture, perhaps the mechanism that "directs" dreams serves a similar function as the above?
The furthest depth of field is only 30mm so it can’t see very far
Type-driven delta computation in Rust
As someone shocked how many of the commenters here are wearing cargo pants, I'll admit those gstar ones look pretty good and modern. That said, I think you're being very generous by suggesting this crowd is on the cutting edge of cargo pants fashion with slim fit and modern silhouettes.

This seems more likely: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dork+in+cargo+pants&t=fpas&iar=ima...
I love how each company experimented to come up with signature looks. Some are really nice to look at (like Olivetti MxVGA, Wyse 700b-2y correct 5:12, and the correct EpsonMGA Mono) while others are visually bizarre (like those insane r characters in Sperry, and pretty much everything about EagleSpCGA Alt2 and Alt3 fonts).

The tiny red-on-grey is so hard to read, though. But it's pretty much on par with what we saw back then.
Yes, I'll gladly answer those questions!

Worms Armageddon is written in C++, with some bits of x86 assembler. Though, we are phasing out the assembler code (for portability), and it isn't as necessary due to advancements in compiler optimizers. 300KLOC at the moment. No version control software was used back in 1999, to the best of our knowledge. The build process changed over the years, due to inheriting Worms 2's frontend/game split; these days it's just one Visual Studio project, though I'm trying to move to CMake/Clang.

The game engine was written by Karl Morton, and it definitely felt special. Information is propagated using a message queue system. Other parts of the code were in a completely different style, having been written by other people. Fun things like jokes left around in comments, and also "fun" things like UI code tangled with network code and other nightmares that we're untangling to this day. It's humbling being able to maintain this legacy!
As far as i understand it, its basically that.
But you want the temperature to be controllable and oberservable.
So the microcontroller is controlling the display, heating element and user input.
I don't have a choice. My dermatologist have not been available for "non-essential" situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Shaked

Nice guy, played blitz against him online after he already had left professional chess.
As QA I think testing, test environments, test ressources should be first class concepts in software. Building whatever "modern" architecture twice, and simulating traffic is not easy but possible, at least to an extent. You need to get that extra license for any piece of software for testing during procurement, and provide means to create test ressources, like typically test users as needed. Sounds trivial, but is often so complicated (banks, insurances...) that it should have been considered early during design.

So, I wouldn't use the word "lazy", but we could do better.
Why Are There No Technicians in Software Engineering?
Magnetism is a side effect of special relativity: moving charges have length contraction (depending on frame of reference) which makes them appear more/less dense and therefore an attractive/repulsive force.

Veritasium on YouTube made a much better explanation: https://youtu.be/1TKSfAkWWN0
Although GPT-3 is most certainly not immune from the relentless hype-cycle, the low barrier to entry provided by API combined with what appear to be SOTA results on many tasks, will undoubtedly upend the business models of many platform companies. There is a whole industry of feature-as-a-service companies out there providing domain-specific functionality to various industries...GPT-3 looks like it could make it a few orders of magnitude easier/cheaper for these customers to build these features in-house, and ditch the feature providers.
Twitter really is just poison.

I visit it once a week and exclusively follow programming related accounts. Even then I feel misanthropy and disgust seep in to my head.

Something inherent to Twitter makes it such a horrible place. Is it the character limit? Me always seeing what everyone reposts/likes? The way the feed is built? No idea. But I hate it.

And the worst part? It gives me very little in return. The occasional sneak peak at a products’ road map or strategy. Maybe release notes all in one place.
I think “restartability” comes down to what you lose when you restart it. In case of pods, you lose logs and in case of StatefulSets or volume mounted pods, some kind of state. Apparently, Kubernetes decided that this is too much to lose if they automated it.

But I agree with OP that it should be optional to restart them automatically since in a lot of cases it’s simply a state problem. Is that a problem needs debugging so we need to keep some traces? Yes but the same goes for container restart, too. So there is a tradeoff and I can see that it’s not much different than the tradeoff we make for container restart. Write the logs somewhere before the restart for example.
https://dendron.so has markdown and latex support (disclaimer, I'm the author). its an open source, markdown-based note taking app that works with markdown notes on your file system. also supports backlinks, hierarchies, tagging, and more. its built as a plugin for vscode so you also have access to vim keybindings and anything else you might need with vscode extensions
Thank you! We use D for almost everything else, but not the game itself. I'm still hesitant in making the switch, just so we don't cut ourselves off of targets where using D would be problematic (e.g. WASM where implementing a GC is difficult).
My total commute was ~3 hours a day. My quality of life has drastically improved since the quarantine started as well.
Maybe it's even more like if millions of Scottish people wanted independence.

Except they had a referendum, which is unimaginable in Hong Kong.
They're all, one literally, blood sucking pr!cks.
Isn't that just a tautology? The vault of gold is valued because it is culturally valued? The only "durability" is due to irrationally viewing the potential for a stock or factory to no longer produce anything while ignoring that gold already produces nothing. Like judging ashes as the better fuel since it can't be depleted.
The harassment has been flowing in both directions.
>WTF?

Symbolic computation is a way to look at the problem domain from a clear analytical standpoint. For example, Noam Chomsky did that for linguistics.

Does such approach constitute a red flag in specific area of human knowledge? Depends on who you ask. In case of Chomsky, his work allowed us to have software compilers and automatic translators between spoken and written languages.

Was he a mad non-conventional scientist? Maybe. But I think he was a prominent innovator cut from above who gave us a great reminder: you cannot undercut or overcome math and algebra. Even in seemingly non-related disciplines such as linguistics or medicine.
I don't see any need to invoke grand themes. We are perfectly capable of collapsing via our own unique failings.

Global climate disruption followed by mass migration, triggering fascist government, and then global thermonuclear war, could be our generation's unique mode of collapse.

In particular, you don't need to blame the Woke movement or the US's failed pandemic response. Exxon suffices.
Sadly our communication with Team17 is very limited, so we've had little insight regarding the game development that's not already public knowledge. Sorry.
During my classes, I always see waves going up and down to represent sound or magenetic waves. I really cannot visualize in real life. What exactly the ups and down in real time?
MasterCard considers changing its name
There is an interesting answer here with regards to how the Pauli Exclusion principle is related to magnetism.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/246439

As I understand it, with my limited knowledge, deeper down it involves the exchange of virtual photons between electrons. I can see how this explains repulsion.

Though how this leads to attraction and how this looks as a Feynman diagram I'm not sure.
Plant vs. animal protein intake lower overall, cardiovascular disease mortality
Conversation with GPT-3 on Nanotechnology as a Key to Human Immortality
I bet NetBSD will still run on their hardware.
I don't know, maybe I'm the odd man out, but I've been linked to this video tens of times and always hated it. I find Feynman comes across extremely condescending and wastes time explaining that the interviewer is too dumb to understand in a very roundabout way. One thing I've come to really respect in my CS career are people not only able but willing to distill knowledge down into an approachable way. I've come across so many people with the same attitude as seen in the video, especially in the DNS world for some reason, maybe that's why it strikes a nerve.
This claim is objectively false since Chinese people become more nationalistic after visiting western countries. The cognitive dissonance isn't that western countries are better than expected, it is that they are worse. Look no further than the political activities by Chinese students in western universities.
Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. If you're referring to things like encouraging diversity or CoC's or the other usual things that some personality types REALLY enjoy getting worked up over, the people that advocate them advocate them because they want to establish better meritocracies in the face of implicit biases. Biases that stand in the way of meritocracies (similar to things like nepotism, etc.).

You can disagree with them that those biases exist, or that that is a way to accomplish a more perfect meritocracy, but you can't claim that they are motivated by a desire to make anything less of a meritocracy. You can only claim that they're going about it the wrong way and give really thoughtful and coherent reasons why you think that's the case.
1. You can link to a note but it just seems like a second class feature - you need to share the note with yourself. Id like the ability to have off line only notebooks with links.

2. Thanks.

3. Per note encryption is useful, but it would be nicer to have the entire notebook stored off line on an encrypted disk. E.g. If I share my computer with people its easy to see what sets of files/notes are "open" by looking at Finders mounted disks list. If the data does not get transferred over the network it adds another layer of security - I do not have to rely on Apples implementation.

4. It is a limitation to me as reading/writing is the primary feature and its a personal preference to have a solid background. Same category as font size adjustment. Minor inconvenience.
Bah, this really is the low hanging fruit of progress.

Make cameras smaller, and super glue them to a bug. Is there really a point, besides the trendy headline?
He did an AMA of sorts in the Discord Server a few days after the "launch" mostly a sob story about how it "was all his fault" and how he felt bad everyone was let down. No mention of a number of the systemic or toxic issues mentioned in this article.

The Discord Server has since been deleted.

I can attest to the beta seeming like something I'd expect from a college kid and a few friends after a hackathon, definitely not something you hired a "team" to work on.

I'm curious why anyone else joined the team in late 2019 other than to attach themselves to a "cool and trendy" startup mess.

It should also be mentioned that his personal twitter has been scrubbed.
> No, this is not how it's mostly done correctly in practice.

I don't believe anyone was asserting that how it's usually done in practice is the right way to do it. Developers obviously have a strong preference for easy over correct and flexible.

What you describe is a reasonable compromise for developers who are afraid of multithreading even with a straightforward producer-consumer data flow. It comes with its own complications, like having to buffer input events along with their timestamps to apply them during the right catch-up iteration of the simulation.
Looks like a very nice list of topics. Glad to see GLMs in there -- I think if more folks had exposure to GLMs, then we could dispel the myth that statistics is a bag of tricks. GLMs are a very awesome expansion of regression that connect many themes in statistics.
Fundamentally the tendency towards short posts prevents any nuance or complexity and reduces everything to black and white. This is a poor model for the realities of the world.
The US had an intentional policy of opening up China through economic means. Which has not since it's implementation.
Even spies have hobbies.

You might be able to do some interesting wildlife documentary movies, though.
I didn't mean to disparage philosophy, but just point of that thinking pure in terms of abstract concepts is often unproductive.
Or, to put it another way – this advice is for "famous" people like Balaji, and is untenable for most people on Twitter.

Twitter is different because everyone can both send and receive from the same account. This advice isn't for normal people, but rather for people who want to build an audience in a one-way-direction.
Mostly joking. It's just been in the works for a while now.
I have a friend who opened a coffee shop a year ago. It's gone really well, she's been profitable beyond expectations, etc (this is not in the U.S. by the way, if it were I'd imagine there's a good chance COVID lockdown would've killed the business, but I digress).

I said "wow you're doing really well, have you thought about opening a second location?"

Her response? "I thought about it, but it's a lot of work. I actually wish that instead of opening this coffee shop, I had used that money instead to buy an apartment. I would've made more money on the price appreciation doing nothing than what I've made so far on this coffee shop."

I was so shocked and disappointed to hear this, but at the same time I couldn't blame her. And to me this basically sums up the problem with modern capitalism.

The incentives are all wrong. Our top university graduates overwhelmingly want to work in finance and consulting. Living the "dream" is owning 15 rental properties and living off "passive" income. Nobody wants to do actual work, and even worse, there's often even a negative stigma with doing real work, as if managers and executives are "above" labor.

When "making money" is equated to "providing value", it incentives and morally rationalizes the vain pursuit of money, even if at society's expense. I'm guessing this mental gymnastics rationalizing and even glorifying money making and price gouging is a big reason why in the U.S. we still haven't fixed the skyrocketing cost of healthcare and higher education.

EDIT: Since apparently people are misconstruing the point of the story, my point is not that the world needs more coffee shops and worker bees doing busy work, my point is that our system incentivizes the wrong things - namely financial asset speculation and wealth extraction over real work (the whole point of the book in this thread). Flipping a condo contributes nothing to society.
At that point I'd just grab a heavy resistor of the appropriate value and wire the controller down rather than accept a dead pixel in my line.

Usually this is a problem for 12V LED lines with 3V3 microcontroller like the ESP32.
Yeah. I don't have kids so I have no idea how I'd actually react in that situation, but I'm pretty sure I'd sell all his stuff, change the locks, rent out his room and completely disown him.
Tough question, but... I love French Sheep Strike, just because of how majestic it looks. Some of Danny Cartwright's best!
It contains all the repositories with atleast 1 star. So yeah.
1. The answers from google aren't always correct and/or up to date.

2. Google can't help you if you don't know that something exists in the first place.
Cancel culture invariably effects the poor and powerless to a greater extent. The poor are shackled to their next pay check, the truely powerful cannot be cancelled.
American is back to working until you die. Its what the plutocrats wanted. We had a brief go at labor rights, but its gone now, destroyed by the greed.
A personality quirk. Nothing sinister here.
Funny how there's a list for natural persons, but not (large) corporations.
you know the old phrase "two wrongs don't make a right"?
Why not 2,000 years?
Attaching a camera to an insect is probably not even a blip on the radar of a university ethics board compared to all the mammals that are used and killed annually in various experiments.
If your audience is hardcore HN readers, this is true. Most normal people have an email address but not an RSS reader. And without that a blog is a completely different thing, requiring you to actively check it.

Newsletters can also make things not-completely-public without a user account system.
Not if it all melts first.
Related also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 from last November.
Not shotguns but equally entertaining: Chess boxing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5TQSKmS3o
BTW, there’s much less reason to use these approximations on modern hardware.

Divps instruction (32-bit float divide, the precise version) was relatively slow back then, e.g. on AMD K8 it had 18-30 cycles both latency and throughput, 21 cycles on AMD Jaguar, Core 2 Duo did in 6-18 cycles.

Fortunately, they fixed the CPUs. Skylake has 11 cycles latency of that instruction, Ryzen 10 cycles.

It’s similar for square root. Modern CPUs compute non-approximated 32-bit sqrt(x) in 9-12 cycles (Ryzen being the fastest at 9-10 but Skylake ain’t bad either at 12 cycles), old CPUs were spending like 20-40 cycles on that.
ICP proved right again!
OK, we've changed to that from https://gizmeek.com/github-the-world-s-largest-open-source-s....
my question is the other way round - where is the state of the art for extracting meaning from
existing text? How close are we to understanding legal contracts for example
Since you're the new maintainer, I assume you're unaware of Worms Armageddon's old "official" page, that currently has a broken certificate. A lot of the old playerbase think it's dead because the old site isn't up - any chance you could fix the cert and update it?

wa.team17.com
Is it actually filmed? Haven't played anything like it. Thanks.
I like this approach and used something similar for a while myself. For me the main drawback was syncing between devices. I had to remember to commit and push on one device and then pull on another. Maybe not a big deal for lecture notes, but a little fussy for just adding a book to a "to read" list.

Also in time I found I never really used any version control features. Backing up to a remote was the only thing I needed.
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html still holds true.
For us, it is because we do want to hear from you, and getting lost in an email shuffle isn't helpful to either one of us. So we send from a no-reply, but include info on all the various ways we do have to get in touch with us. Directly with us, so we can talk immediately and resolve concerns, not have you send emails into a black hole.