skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sorry, maybe it is a wrong analogy. What I want to emphasize is that there is no calculating time in nature. At least, we could not feel "lag" in our "Nature Server".

Yes, but the reality is that there is lag in our projection of what nature is and that we just ignore it. Different parts of our perception actually don't exist at the same instant.

>For the part of chips, did you mean that it runs the "for loop" as parallel in each micro-chip (or gate or whatever tiny structure it is)?

Pretty much, the for-loop is unfolded and ran in parallel.
I tried for a while to get Wayland working in order to get rid of tearing I saw in X Windows, until I found out a kernel module parameter for the Nvidia driver fixed tearing in X. I run xmonad as well, which doesn't work with wayland. Don't see any reason to run Wayland at the moment.
Could ask the same about SF, LA, maybe Portland OR, Seattle, Vancouver and really anything in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

I'd trust the Japanese more in anything related to earthquake proof building, in spite of their little fuck-up with Fukushima.

At the end of the day, no matter where and when you are, it's your mandatory share of risk in the lottery of life.

Deal with it.
Wow. Thanks for sharing that! Fun!
But why not minus infinity? As the same argument holds by approaching from -1, -1/n.
> It's incompatible with modern debuggers.

Any debugger that can't debug this binary is broken and should be treated as such.
Oddly enough, one of my professors wrote textbooks for his classes that he gave to us for the cost of copying them. He was outraged by the price of textbooks.
No they cannot because it is a decentralized system. Whenever they try people would quickly post tin of material how to access bitcoin over TOR/VPN. And since it is money people do care to learn these things to be able to transact freely.
Well, you can build shit with the wood that's going to last a long time and plant a new tree. Though I'm not sure the lumber processing & construction isn't producing more carbon than the tree sequesters...
I'm curious, what's wrong with this?
Less than you would expect for Powell's, since they have an excellent online store for their books.
What do posits do when you run out of bits? 32 is ... not very many bits.
But Photo ID was forged long before the computers came along. There's always some way of getting around the security if you really want to. That is part of why we don't want to give in to electronic voting even though we work with computers.
A private tutor in graduate-level mathematics, with emphasis on subjects that can be applied to your work - what a great idea!

Like the sibling comment suggested, I imagine there must be an over-qualified and under-paid talent pool around universities, with enough candidates for you to select a suitable tutor.
So you just fire it up whenever you need to login and write a post, and then shut it down or?
CZU Lightning Complex: CalFire Failed the Bay Area
72 hours after 08/16 5:00-ish lighning strikes and 7 obvious fires which resulted, CalFire, either deliberately or due to sheer stupidity, chose to take no action. All this is documented. The strong South winds over the next 24 hours allowed Butano Ridge to burn, and with it the towns of Loma Mar, Bony Doon, Boulder Creek, Dearborn Park, and almost Felton and Ben Lomond.

This was a complete lack of leadership and responsiblity. 75K+ acres of precious Redwood forests have been burned, numerous homes and other structures are now embers. All this could have been prevented with no more than 7-9 helicopter bucket-drops. It was observed by CalFire (or contracted personnel) and yet allowed to happen.

Makes me wonder why, and who is truly responsible. The CSU Complex is almost a deliberate act of arson. If you are reading this, contact your local fire district, and ask why? Why did the folks in charge stand by and watch and roll the dice on this?
I think the boards I used for http://yager.io/vumeter/vu.html had even less memory, like 8kbytes of SRAM or something. Rust wasted a few kB on error reporting functions, iirc, but other than that everything fit without too much effort as long as I didn't try to include soft-float emulation or something.
Many of the bigger companies are continuing to expand their office footprint even though they have nobody in offices right now, and it’s very much conventional wisdom among the people signing checks that in-person collaboration makes a big difference. More companies are certainly getting more friendly to it, but a near future where remote work is the default seems very implausible.
Musk to unveil Neuralink progress with real-time neuron demonstration this week
Well, if you add nuance, it’s fine. The limit of a number divided by another number x as x approaches zero is infinity.

That’s almost the same thing.

Much of math just doesn’t work if you try to add infinity as just another number. You say dividing by zero is undefined because once you have that infinity anything further you do with it is also going to be infinity, it breaks the way you prove things, it breaks the idea of a number line.

There is plenty of math that deals with infinities, but it is all handled delicately.
Lots of educated professionals also work jobs that cannot be done at home. I think this BBC article is ridiculous. I can't do wetlab biology at home. And my university is busy firing people, not installing copper benchtops in the kitchenettes.
Our office closed in March, when the virus first hit Australia, and people went into full WFH for a couple of months. The office reopened in July, with people allowed to choose whether or not they wanted to work in the office, or work from home.

Most people chose to continue working from home.
Eg https://fullfact.org/health/children-silent-super-spreaders-...
The 3 Most Common Reasons for Startup Failure and How to Avoid Them
I prefer losing the keys to my email than to lose my hand because someone wants to empty my bank account.
It's entirely possible that you are right except for construction and civil project jobs.

I've built several large-scale buildings and developments at urban scale in California and Nevada, both heavy heavy union states.

I can't point to the systemic problem leading to the delays but I can tell you that any job even tangentially related to construction requires high wage labor. This is universally true for civic projects.

Some of those unions (e.g. electrical workers, carpenters) provide exceptional training services for apprentices. Others (e.g. the people holding the stop signs at highway construction sites) are mostly strong-arm groups.

These groups could be causing delays and from personal experience I can tell you they do, sometimes. But overall I can certainly say that the point you made here is not the reason why projects are delayed.
Glad to see others talking about being a solo founder. I run a virtual meetup for fellow solo founders. We share the notes at solofounders.substack.com
Add a Language to a Polyglot
Take some time to research safety and deaths in large construction projects happening today at the scale of bridging the Golden Gate back in the 1930s. E.g. Channel tunnel - 10 deaths, Panama Canal Expansion - 7, Three Gorges Dam - 100+, Gotthard Base Tunnel - 8, Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge - 19, Istanbul Airport - 55. I'm not sure what statistics you are looking for, but construction isn't a no-risk profession even in modern times. If you want to just look at America - 3 people died at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans last year. Two people have died in the last two months building the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Two more died digging a trench in Phoenix two weeks ago.
Look at the resources at PMI: https://www.pmi.org/

The greatest challenge to planning is to train yourself to think in terms of moving targets and contingincies. It doesn't matter where a thing is right now or where it will be. What's important is where it can be and working backwards to the present.
Give me six sentences written by the most honest of men...
From the article;

“ These towers would contain new dwelling space—light-filled apartments of twelve-hundred square feet, each equipped with a balcony and parking spot”

Where does your assessment come from?
At least one quote acknowledges Zuckerberg's communications and is named:

Kelli Ford, a spokeswoman for Sen. Hawley said the senator’s concerns about TikTok predated the meeting with Mr. Zuckerberg. “Facebook has recently been sounding the alarm about China-based tech as a PR tactic to boost its own reputation,” she said.
Thank you for your comment.
You can find more detail on the video in the github repository: https://github.com/tonyaldon/inside-emacs.
1. You can see the keys being pressed in the mode-line (I'm using keycast).
2. The window that holds the point is the window that have the mode-line green.
3. The letter s d l r are used to select the window to be scrolled. It's a custom command that leverage the ace-window package. See my github repository (inside-emacs), there is the code.
4. I just play with emacs and share some stuff I like with it.
5. If you have any other question about the video tell me. I do my best to improve each new one with the comment I received. Watch the new one: https://youtu.be/96jn5A73-oQ
Touchless everything sounds good to me, as something that's a very small lifestyle change if implemented properly [1] but should provide a consistent (if small) statistical benefit against disease. Similarly, making those things that must be touched out of materials with antimicrobial properties benefits everybody, with no particular special effort needed by any individual.

[1]: In this case, without the biometrics - there are other options with fewer privacy concerns.
> According to a study by Tokyo University, 87% of the city's buildings have been constructed according to modern anti-seismic standards.
I've been working at the same desk I had set up for my personal computer since quarantine started and it's mentally a disaster when the difference between personal time and work time involves zero physical movement (not to mention it's harder to have all of the personal equipment I want + work equipment I need to fit all on one desk and I haven't exactly set up my apartment in a way that really fits two desks in here without giving up on some other hobbies).

One reason (among many) why I'd be very resistant to permanently working remotely is that nobody is going to be paying me extra to move into a 2br apartment so I can have a home office, despite the fact that all the employers would hypothetically be saving a killing on their real estate.
The entire reason medians exist is because they are a crash safety device. Consideration for crashes is not an edge case, it’s the entire point of a median.
You can, but it looks like everyone else in this thread is lazer focused on Japan (likely due to the prestige of Japanese culture).

But that doesn't explain Switzerland. Is Switzerland closer to Japanese in culture than they are to Dutch? I think obviously not, but from the thread you would assume otherwsie.
Old news, this has been known for years.
You can even do one better, you can construct shellcode out of valid english sentences.

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf

Since COM files are basically just raw binary code without headers or metadata, it should be easy to adapt the technique to make valid english language COM files.
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers
That's the whole beauty with your own domain. They don't have to touch your server at all, it's enough if they can social engineer their way into your account at the DNS provider and point your domain to their own email server. Your security isn't even considered in this case. The only thing that can save you there is how good the DNS security is.
All it has to do is show two subdirectories for any subdirectory that you enter. It doesn't ever have to return a file. Also, it can be slow.
" but gmail as a single source of failure makes me nervous. Using any email provider besides gmail makes me even more nervous, because they don't have the full power and knowledge of Google protecting their databases. "

Good Practice: Never use gmail for registrations. If you get locked out, that's it. Good luck trying to call google.

Am people have gotten locked out or their gmail accounts been closed. I myself was not able to log into one of my gmail accounts and I had to reset a PW for a domain register that was about to expire. I was able to log in and save it since I managed to boot up an old laptop with a corrupted had drive for a few minutes. The Browser must have had a cockie associated with this gmail account.
I don't think remote will be the norm in 5ish years, I could be totally wrong, but I think in person work offers things that remote cannot, and things will go back to the way they were in a few years. In that case companies looking for in person will be pulling from a smaller pool of engineers who stayed in the bay area during this time of exodus, hence more bargaining power.
What is this a reference to? “Chrome-plated gods” reminds me of Caves of Qud, but the other bits are unfamiliar.
At risk of overselecting on the coffee thing, that really ties the ribbon on my judgment that this is a wish fulfillment fantasy. We’re going to radically transform all business norms to fight disease risk - except for the parts I like, which will of course remain un-transformed.
And we let more politicians have a hand at bikeshedding the project (to their interests, of course)
The book this is from (follow the contents link) is dated 1997, which I find very disappointing. I think it is part of Paul Wilson's garbage collection archive. It was apparently intended to go from an introduction to Scheme all the way to implementation details. Unfortunately, it was never finished.
In London huge number of (old) houses are listed as protected, you can't just change your windows like that.
Stop the spread of Covid-19 by changing your light bulbs?
Hahah. That made me laugh out loud. The idea of having a more open standard to be able to talk to devices in other people's houses is an a pandora's box; but I could also see a lot of interesting use cases. I'm just toying with the idea of warming the color temperature of the lights in my parent's house at night to help them sleep (since I can't get them to care enough themselves). Or think about some type of live poster that your circle of friends streams content to. I'm sure there are tons of interesting possibilities.
RollerCoaster Tycoon: The Most Impressive Game Ever Developed
I taught myself to read Greek recently and couldn’t parse it at first either.
As expected, macOS Big Sur refuses to run the resulting executable:

$ ./program.com
-bash: ./program.com: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
$ sh ./program.com
./program.com: ./program.com: cannot execute binary file

It's quite finicky in what it will accept ;)
And to be fair that graph is weird

-100%? If something lost 100% of its value it is now free? I don't think TVs are free now.
This is a very heartening comment to read and I would love to know more, or to receive advice to be pointed in the same direction as you.
Irishman De-Aging Deepfake Is Better Than the Original Movie
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Unfortunately, Covid is killing regular transit in ridership and next year, taxes.
I think the document web markup language would have to be more like server-side HTML templating languages[1] with the added ability to talk to REST endpoints than markdown. That means declarative support for

* declaring JSON (or similar format, but why reinvent the wheel) variables

* rendering the values of these variables

* interacting with the variables with controls (inputs, check boxes, selects, etc)

* conditional rendering based on those variables

* iteration over them

* submitting a form as a JSON object

* saving a JSON response from the server into a variable

* re-rendering the effects of a variable change without a full page reload

I think a major reason for why we ended up here[2] is because browsers did not add these features to HTML and thus devs resorted to AJAX and small JS snippets at first and then kept expanding the use of JS.

[1] as a Java dev who used to do front-end before the ascendance of client side SPA frameworks I'm thinking of JSP, JSF, Thymeleaf, etc. Maybe the client side stuff used nowadays is similar, I'm just not familiar with it.

[2] being forced to run a turing-complete programming language just to display a fully static document, leaving one exposed to security risks (yes, the browser guys are doing a much better job sandboxing than Flash, Java Applets, etc) and tracking.
Most people with your kind of posts either never bothered to read what Wayland is or what it does, or, are employed by Law enforcement.
The antimicrobial obsession on full view here is recognized as being the cause of maladaptive immune development

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/health/immune-system-alle...
Indeed. The Win32 API (and UWP et al) is the only one that's officially stable.

Kernel syscalls themselves are entirely unstable. Not even just the numbers but the calling convention and everything else. Microsoft reserves the right to add, remove or modify anything in or exposed by the NT kernel. Of course they won't do so frivolously but syscall numbers are especially prone to change with a new build of the kernel.

So as with MacOS, BSD, etc the stable interface is provided by userspace libraries.
> It also reduces the humidity to help prevent germs multiplying

Too low humidity is also bad: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9493/files/Humidity-H...
Our whole company was told they could work from home or office as much as they want. Almost everybody was doing 4 days a week in the office, which is pretty much the way it was before.

A very small amount have been choosing between 0-3. But I’m expecting most of them will give that up after they realize how much harder it is to got pay rises, promotions or interesting projects to work on when you’re the only one in the team who’s never at the office.
How about "X is insecure, flaky, unsupported, and solves problems nobody actually has"? Such is the considered opinion of just about anybody who knows spit about the Linux graphics stack. Hint: The major Wayland devs are former Xorg devs.
Configure Fedora to practice and compose music
It's shocking how HN is just overlooking this trait in addition to the very many related things in this regard that we would consider in America VERY "right-wing" to put it kindly. Having Japanese family members over there and listening to their remarks amuses me since I hear their candid opinions on race and such, but uh... Americans who idolize the country and identify as "progressive" or "liberal" would probably do well to think a bit more before praising their society while condemning the conservative wing of the US political alignment.
I once read an article linked from Hacker News. I don't remember the title or anything that could be used to rediscover it. It might have been something about Scrum, waterfall etc.

It said there are 7 ways to deal with impeding deadlines, and only 4 of them are available to the people in the trenches. The other 3 are available to managers.

They are:

- extending the deadline

- assigning more people to the project

- changing the scope of the project (requirements)

Managers are notorious for avoiding responsibility and pushing it on other people. In degenerate workplaces, they want you to think failing a deadline is ALL YOUR responsibility and solely within your capabilities. Just work faster! Harder! LONGER!
Gap Years, Future of Education, Future of Work
> and can’t move to any next node until you master the one you’re on

Oh that's the absolute worse way of teaching people (or, ok, that's my pet peeve in education)

"but how do you expect to learn stuff without knowing the basics blah blah blah" well, because maybe actually knowing how it is used in the end helps with learning. Instead education seems to focus on wasting a lot of time with "basics" disconnected from reality then finally teaching things how it is.
Still there in Finland. :) https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv
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Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?

"the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class"[1]

As a tutor, my goal was to identify gaps and misunderstandings. Consider: how can you give a driver helpful directions if you don't know where they are?

As a student, I noticed that teachers are routinely ambiguous in ways they cannot understand. And mostly, these alternative interpretations work... mostly. So when they cause problems many layers later, the learner can see no clues to the cause. But an attentive tutor can.

Subtle gaps and misunderstanding have an outsize effect, and maybe could account for 2σ?

OTOH teachers accidentally trained me to disentangle ambiguity, and that is a valuable real-world skill.

The mentor relationship has magic in it and I remember the moment I learnt certain things. So maybe social aspects contribute too, as wiki suggests.

What to do? Like mandatory military service, mandatory tutoring service. We appear to be wasting obscene quanities of human capital. Imagine the economic productivity unleashed by a more fully realized workforce.

PS did pc receive one-on-one tutoring? Intelligent parents often tutor their children, conferring this outsize headstart.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Yeah.

My eyesight is terrible and my recollection of Greek is lousy, but I was going "Aren't those Ms?? Isn't that a D?"

Thank you for that.
It's my understanding that since each app is shipping with its own Electron version/runtime, that the resources of these are not and can't be shared or managed centrally. A chromeless web app running via the browser would effectively be just another tab use the current browser's resources (and extensions +1).
>Now they can bring people back.

Or they can increase executive compensation.

How far in advance do you think these deals are decided before public announcement?
In a pinch you can just spoof the wifi MAC address of the chromecast/firestick/roku with a PC, connect to the wifi, deal with the captive portal, then connect the actual device (change your MAC back unless you want fireworks).
> CalFire, either deliberately or due to sheer stupidity, chose to take no action. All this is documented.

If it's documented, link to such documentation.
> People socialize a lot less than they used to,

I don't know if people socialize less, but they socialize differently. I see plenty of people riding buses, trains, or walking around and endlessly messaging someone on their phones. It's easy to find complaints mocking these people as being drones and slaves to their phones, but they're actively socializing everywhere they go. They're just doing it with someone you can't see.

Most people 30 years ago weren't chatting up everyone on the bus during their daily commute. They were merely tolerating people. People today are silently talking the whole ride these days.

Yeah, it's harder to sit down and have dinner with friends and family every week than it used to be, but it's easier than ever to talk to them all day if you want to.

I know my grandparents would have people over for dinner almost daily, but they never left their small town. They knew those people their whole life and never lived more than 20 minutes away. Seeing them was easy, but if those people couldn't visit for dinner, that was it. There was no talking to anyone else for days if nobody randomly dropped by. Now people often move hundreds or thousands of miles from home, yet it's possible to have a conversation all hours of the day if you want to.
Is this a case of "netflix did those articles, so we'll do the same so geeks like us too"?