skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I mean. On the one hand: plausible. On the other: terrifying.

And just that, from a cosmological perspective, the chances of us being hit by a gamma ray burst after the kind of technological advancements described but before the capacity to evacuate or shield biological lifeforms arises is... slim. I figure it was introduced more as a plot device than anything else, the biggest deviation from potential veracity (and a "take that" at anyone questioning said potential veracity, which goes just beyond cheeky to slightly obnoxious).
Could be, even yesterday the BBC was blaming CF at the text scroll thingy on their newscast
supermarket has never been more than 2 miles away - certainly not a 20 minute drive and it's even within biking distance

I'd consider that far, far away.

My walk to the nearest train station is about one mile, takes about 15 minutes to get there on foot, and that's irritatingly far, too, considering the trip is two way and repeats every day. Something like a grocery shop should be accessible within decent walking distance, a five-minute walk or so.

A rule of thumb is that if something is far enough that I have to take the car in the first place I'll be incentivised to drive further away to a big supermarket/other big stores while I'm at it.
Tartare should be kept bellow -18 for at least 3 days as far as I know. You should never eat it fresh.
The Better World That Bitcoin Builds Is Worth the Risk of Losing Money
This is common in any store, and has been this way on the Apple's app store since the beginning. No store is going to carry product marketing which actively advertises a competitor. It's best just to make device free screenshots to avoid this issue, and not have them become dated by showing a device.

Out of all the issues with the app stores, this is not one IMO.
What do you mean with "little more precise control"?

Probably relevant on HN: We're prioritizing an open API. All features will be accessible programmatically in the long term.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. As a software developer without a strong math education, any time I open a "from scratch" ml learning resource, I immediately close it because I don't have an understanding of the math happening in the black box of numpy.

Thank you for the Sentdex recommendation.
i do not agree with the implief premise that functional programming is not inherently the act of joy itself
Inherently dangerous in what way? Who is the last person who you know of who met an untimely demise due to their steroid use?
The Ambiq Apollo3 uses 6µA/MHz at 3.3V (so 20µW/MHz), so that's something.

You can also use it to charge a capacitor that can provide short bursts of energy so you can use it for sensors that sleep most of the time, taken a measurement and send some data, then sleep again.
IMO, the critical thing the human crew did in US1549 was the decision to take the Hudson; once they decided that, most crews could pull off the execution of that decision. (Then the presence/absence of boat traffic comes down to luck.)
And you might think, "Well, there are so many banks, that money probably won't end up back at mine," but yes, there are so many banks, all of them giving out loans. My million ends up all over town and the world, but so does yours.
I apologize if my comment came across as pedantic, I certainly wasn't trying to be.

The way research in the humanities and social sciences are conducted are fundamentally different, which is why I think the lexical distinction is important in this case. Most social science research applies the scientific method (hypothesis testing etc.), most humanities research does not.

>The quirkiness of specific forum conversations (this one, for example) is one class of interactions where I believe we could learn something useful that may shed light on broader trends we see in society, if we put some serious effort into it.

I agree.

>although, it's completely possible they produce excellent results, and are completely being ignored (which should be noticed in a proper review)

If I had to bet on it I'd say this is the answer, though I'd add that in addition to being ignored the research is being used in ways you and I wouldn't like. I know for example that app/social media development 2005-today relied/rely heavily on psychological research pertaining to addiction, human computer interaction, etc. I'm positive some of that was NSF funded.
Really happy with the direction Blender is going, more polish and better outreach. Just scrolling through and being able to see the before/after for new features is amazing, makes it really easy to share with friends who haven't checked Blender out before.
Tsar Bomb has around 50 Megatons. Radius of total destruction 35km.
Hah we actually will allow scheduling off a periodic to-do list.

I think we talk about the same thing.

like this: a category called “Repeats/Habits/Chores”.
every item in there has a count, e.g. 3x/ week.
every time you drag the item into your calendar, the count decreases
when you dragged it the 3rd time, it disappears until next week
No, it's not a question of whose responsibility it is—it's always leadership's responsibility. However, I have a tendency to think myself really smart and capable. Y'know——overconfident. And because of that, I try to offset it by refusing to believe it's anyone else's fault but mine. Like I mentioned, it helps keep me honest WITH MYSELF. Otherwise, I feel like I wouldn't have enough commitment to tackle hard tasks, I'd just chalk failure up to someone else, which is worse IMO.

Anyway, my habit of keeping myself honest sometimes backfires and when it does it manifests as running my head into a brick wall over and over until I'm REALLY sure that I can't fix it. But... I think I'm about there in this instance. Other devs are noticing the same thing I'm noticing, so I feel like I've got good evidence that it's a fundamental leadership issue here.
Well that was fast considering how long the 2.8 lts release series took...
> 1,000 - 2,000 dedicated quality assurances workers could review between 1 to 2.5 app per hour each week.

Are those people even out there and available?

I mean, maybe there are right now because of Great Depression II, but were they available from 2008 to 2019?

As a company, Apple is generally against remote work, with only grudging exceptions, so that's another issue in hiring.
Smalltalk is really quite small. All syntax is described in here: https://gist.github.com/jacaetevha/3795784
Anyone who disagrees with you can only be a shill?

I’m an iOS developer who frequently defends Apple on these forums because the walked garden is hugely lucrative for me and other developers. I don’t want it to be permanently damaged by poorly thought through regulation or restrictions, just because Apple occasionally screws up in App Review or a wealthy game developer thinks revenue share is only for poor developers.
i believe there are other issues with SCM arent there, for instance if you flip the same bit over and over, you'll wear out the media.. so just like with SSD's there has to be some wear leveling algorithms, but because the media has gotten so fast, the wear leveling would theoretically become a larger % of the bottleneck of using the drive.

but i totally agree, rethinking how data is stored is going to be key to the adoption of these types of new media. there's a company called vast data that has built out a full storage solution utilizing the unique properties of SCM, very cool https://vastdata.com/
Heh, well it makes ME feel better that I'm not the only one!

What area of software do you work in? (I'm assuming software here, which may be false)
Added the issue.

Yes, I did find the repo. Hesitated adding the issue right away because the source files have ".md.txt" and ".html", but not the original ".md" files for me to fix them directly.
FYI: Paul Linebarger used the pen name Cordwainer Smith to write a lot of good science fiction.
Hmm, so your point is that the main reason play games is for entertainment and not to improve a specific skill. But, does it matter? If it was not for games, they wouldn't have improved those skills at all, as they were not actively looking to improve them, or are doing deliberate practices is too boring or intense for some.

> If all they cared about was losing weight, they would exercise and play Table Tennis at the same rate.

They did care about losing weight, but going to the gym or exercising was not something that they did before or were ever planning to do, simply because they didn't consider it to be an enjoyable activity.
My point is, if it was not for VR Table Tennis, they wouldn't have lost that weight. Same with other skills, if it was not for the games that were facilitating the development of certain skills, most likely most would never aquire those skills, which, for the most part have clear real-life applicability and benefits.

I think it's the same like saying tracking steps taken using mobile's device gamification feature has no real-world benefit. Yet, my dad actively started walking more just to reach the daily steps goal. If it was not for that goal, he wouldn't have started walking more.

> Let's say a study came out that showed that RuneScape actually did not improve your real-life trading skills. Do you think that would significantly affect how much people played it?

There are certainly games and gamification features that make it really easy to learn a specific skill. That being said, most people play games because they like it, not to actively improve a skill. In this RuneScape example, no, I wouldn't care about the studies, but while playing the game I would definitely be happy to see me getting better are trading (eg. selling fish next to the fishing spot at a cheap price, or travelling a long way to the bank and sell it at a higher price, or even creating huge stocks of fish and then waiting for a price increase before selling). I think games are really good at making people find new skills and things they are good at, without them actively looking to improve in any way. Once you find a skill that you enjoy (eg. trading), you can go further, outside the gaming world, and actively look to improve that skill or use it in the real world.

> I'm pointing out that games must be fantastically designed because people will choose to sink hours into them regardless of whether they provide practical benefit or not.

People sink hours in anything regardless they provide a practical benefit or not: games, books, netflix, hobbies in general.
There are many different type of games, from those that directly play with your dopamine system and have the dreaded in-app-purchases monetizaton, to those that tell a good story or are highly competitive and make you feel good for defeating others. People have various reasons to play games, and one of them could be the well-designed game loop, but this one is usually the most relevant part in the addictive pay-to-win games mentioned before.
> What does a fraudulent bank have to do with the fact that the FR is the ultimate backstop to loans (IOUs) created by a bank...a "power" you claim is the same as a non-bank created IOU or a an individual IOU?

I'm not claiming it's the same. I'm saying these are differences of degree (my IOU vs bank's IOU), whereas the difference between central bank IOU and bank IOU is fundamental. We have several historic examples of central banks ruining entire economies by printing excessive amounts of money causing hyperinflation. Do you have a single example of a regular bank printing so much money that it causes hyperinflation? No. Why is that, if it's so easy for a regular bank to print a trillion dollars of fraudulent money without anyone noticing?
ARzoo-Learn with Fun
Wait, you’re saying that Facebook allowing you to freely download your own data is selling dossiers? Complying with GDPR is wrongdoing, when Facebook does it?
Will GPT-4 be any different?

That's the point - it does not need to be different. If it demonstrates similar improvement to what we saw with GPT-1 --> GPT-2 --> GPT-3, then it will be enough to actually start using it. It's like the progression MNIST --> CIFAR-10 --> ImageNet --> the point where object recognition is good enough for real world applications.

But in addition to making it bigger, we can also make it better: smarter attention, external data queries, better word encoding, better data quality, more than one data type as input, etc. There's plenty of room for improvement.
The reason why FP still doesn't really break through in the corporate world is a marketing failure, in the strictest sense of the word marketing, which means prioritizing the right features to target the right market.

A large proportion of this talk is based on the book “Crossing the Chasm". The book was originally written for startups, and this talk adopts the book to an open source audience, especially Haskell developers.

Gabriel Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNpsgTIpODA
Good god it’s stuff like this makes me contemplate leaving professional programming.
I wonder if this is non-radioactive enough to be sealed inside the human body for things like a brain/computer interface. Implant the electrodes + transmitter inside the skull and seal it up, then have a receiver device outside the skull receive and interpret the signals to control things.

Hard part would be making it safe enough and just how many people would need something bad enough to do literal brain surgery for such a thing.
Making products the consumer is satisfied with is not anti consumer behaviour. What else can you ask for from a purchase?

??? That's some powerful kool-aid. The issue is not that Apple makes shiny-looking products that many people like, and the quality of Apple's physical products is not a defense to their actions in other markets.

The issue is that Apple is abusing it's market position derived from the sale of those shiny products to bolster its market position in other markets like mobile apps, SaaS (see, e.g., Spotify vs Apple Music). That is what is illegal.
I think if a business is set up to scale by volume they can see gains from it. For example, say a business is already doing well at 100k conversions a day. They manage to apply "big data/ML" to optimize those conversions and gain a 3% lift, they are now making over a 1,095,000 extra conversions a year they would not have otherwise made.
If you're talking about American democrats and republicans, it's better to say "the far right" and "the not as far right". AFAIK, US politics does not have a "left" that has any power.
Agreed. The radio comms are also generally following a fairly predictable pattern of information.

If you suddenly transmitted "and I'll have a BLT on rye, hold the mayo", you're almost certainly going to be asked "say again?"
App store review and release is normally counted as hours now. The rules around showing other products are very clear.

I know everyone reads the problem stories, but for the large majority of cases the App store rejection/fix cycle is detailed and easy. For us, it's usually a doh! on our part, fix and resend.
Dude that's how you get the child of American senators kidnapped andmailed back in pieces or another 9/11.

Everything sounds simple in theory until you think of the consequences.
Super awesome. Is ITAR required?
> How can I learn Italian as fast as possible?

> How can I learn to play the guitar as fast as possible?

> How can I learn to submit jiu-jitsu black belts as fast as possible?

For some things in life shortcuts are simply not possible.

To get fluency you will have to: write a lot of code, read a lot of code, work on other people's code, have other people review your own code.

One thing that helps is already knowing a lot of other languages :). I usually duck-duck-go stuff like "$language for programmers" and "$language in 20 minutes" or "$language for people who know $similar_language" in order to find guides/howtos oriented a people who already know how to program. Because reading a Language guide that also teaches you what is an if statement or what is an exception is extremely boring to me.
But everyone hasn't paid their debts, and they won't pay the biggest one for a very long time. All that negative money is floating around.
What does anything in your comment have to do with App Store review process changes?
I just lost 1,400 BTC
Don’t rely on twitter. Build a presence on an open source and self hosted option like Mastodon.
Because you might have an occasional transient window where it's legitimate to disable minimization but you shouldn't do this for main app windows.
Blender is as far as I can tell one the best run and marketed Open Source projects out there. They seem to have a great way to pay for development. They are have a lot of industry invested in their success. They have a great focus on the end power user.
On Twitter usernames with lots of numbers
> why would anyone write code in his/her native language?

Well, actually, a lot of people already do.
With every new upcoming language, I always have the same ask; Please add a couple of section on what can we do with the language today.

Rust has amazing sites like arewegameyet or arewewebyet.

A single paragraph around what users can realistically do with this language and what are the most used packages in the ecosystem will be a great help to anyone curious about it.
That's great news. Glad to see Blender keep moving forward.

One thing I wish they would add is to export the color information along with the vertices in the Wavefront OBJ file when exporting an model.
In this context I wouldn't really include the social sciences, which leaves Biology and Cybernetics that were indeed suppressed for 20-30 years.
Does anything know if other countries have the same levels of conspiracy theory belief as the United States? I've tried to research this and largely come up empty.
Having used IntelliJ, the biggest advantage of IDE for me is the speed with which the errors are surfaced allowing me to correct them way more quickly than I could ever do in vim. It is so much more easier to find where things went wrong and how. That lets me focus on the logic instead of wasting time on things like fixing misspellings. Also totally agree with the ease of refactoring - it basically gives you the time and confidence to iterate freely.
It works great for Python.
You are debunking something I didn't claim.

Can you answer the question I posed, "Today's news is full of exactly the same attitude displayed by this person. Why are people not rejecting this today?"
> Radiation levels from a cell, says the company, will be less than the radiation levels produced by the human body itself, making it totally safe for use in a variety of applications.

That makes sense until you put say 10 of these devices into and on your body...
I believe it's because the video is sponsored. Cynicism aside, this makes sense because having a blog isn't as lucrative as having a successful YouTube channel. This content (both the video and blogpost) is incredibly well-done, so I tend to be okay with these type of things.
(Just realized my comment is replying to you, but I think a bulk of it is directed at the GP - just wanted to clarify)

Covid is real and I don’t think the numbers lie, but I also think we’re at an unprecedented level of measurement and quantification and it does make me wonder - folks I know who’ve died of pneumonia in old age probably didn’t get “influenza” as a cause of death in recent years even if it was what ultimately kicked off the over all failure of their organs.

There are whole classes of causes of death that just lack data/information to know the set of causes and to correctly attribute them to the mortality.

Anyhow, I’m seeing this as a huge global experiment to quantify a novel virus, and for that reason it’s interesting and exciting while also terrifying and bad.

What I mean by that is, we’re in the middle of the storm, it doesn’t really make sense to compare this to something yet, it’s not over, and not even close to understood, so let’s just treat it with the same caution we’d treat any other uncontrollable global plague until we know better, with extreme caution and suspicion, and we should assume it could kill us all eventually. We’ve never successfully made a coronavirus vaccine. Think about that. Read up on the previous trials - a successful vaccine still brings a lot of scary things, like, what it does in the wild if another novel coronavirus shows up, or the potential for it to turn a mutation into a more lethal or more viral strain.

So yeah, let’s hunker down and hold on until we have this collectively under control and we can START to understand what’s going on.
> Are those people even out there and available?

There are over 4 million of software engineers in the United States alone, and I'd wager that many of them are capable of doing QA. Apple is a company that is able to pay competitive wages for their talent.
content creators are busy creating content and that's their specialty--not IT support. As long as there are content creators there will be demand for platforms to support them; whether it takes the shape of fully managed / self managed SaaS, a self-hosted open source solution, or even a custom solution--isn't what content creators are spending their energy on.

not sure what the issue is. it's a great time to be a content creator. I guess haters are going to hate.
> In what way does you knowing that your foot is not a foot long undermine an argument about accuracy vs precision?

I know people whose feet are barely half as long as mine. So what exactly am I or others supposed to use as a foot unit? Something in between or rather towards the smaller feet? Tell a native Dutch person to use like two thirds only while telling some native Asian to use more like 1.3 foot as a foot? And on top of that not even their their own but the average of each, because you don't want to get it wrong by a factor of two? Yeah, who cares if it's 100 foot or 200 foot. Accuracy, right? A meter is easy to remember or to guess with a lot less variation. And if you are fancy enough, you could use a scale for example to get it accurate. A lot of other things actually, too. The magic of definition and derivation. But I am sure a foot can also be derived from Spanish tomatos or something.

> analogy to programming

How many foot is the circumference of the average straw man?

> Imperial measures have their place [...]

For example?
I disagree slightly. I think numpy (and scipy is so central to do anything mathematical in python (actually you could say python is just the glue for these libraries) that maybe one should spend a chapter or two on numpy instead of not using it.
Very strongly disagree. This again is a thing which both sides would claim equally. The right would make the same claim in terms of the left holding all of the power and how their party has been diluted and forced left.

You are just saying you fall left of the equilibrium point of the democratic party.
I don't agree, most of the low hanging fruit in ML engineering hasn't been picked yet. ML is like electricity 100 years ago, it will only expand and eat the world. And the research is not slowing down, on the contrary, it advances by leaps and bounds.

The problem is that we don't have enough ML engineers and many who go by this title are not really capable of doing the job. We're just coming into decent tools and hardware, and many applications are still limited by hardware which itself is being reinvented every 2 years.

Take just one single subfield - CV - it has applications in manufacturing, health, education, commerce, photography, agriculture, robotics, assisting blind persons, ... basically everywhere. It empowers new projects and amplifies automation.

With the advent of pre-trained neural nets every new task can be 10x or 100x easier. We don't need as many labels anymore, it works much better now.