skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard it ascribed to Oscar Wilde, although according to Whistler he probably stole it from someone himself.
There are lots of companies manufacturing phones not just 3.
Well an industry can form only when there’s a name, otherwise people can’t identify themselves as the target market or seek out the vendors.
> One example is why you multiply normals by the world_inverse_tranpose

I know linear algebra but I have no idea what the heck this means. Is this a gaming thing?
That shouldn't be an issue for cargo planes though.
To be fair, Elixir also allows developers to tag functions, which can then trigger macros. Some of them (like @doc) does not transform code, but others (like @impl, or Appsignal’s transaction decorators) will.
> Psychedelics? That's some very powerful stuff that should be handled with extreme care. Meanwhile you have youtube channels presenting them as you would have a beer.

Uh... alcohol is infinitely more dangerous than psychedelics, both potential and actual damage caused.

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug we have. Drinking too much at once can kill you (psychedelics can’t), discontinuing habitual use can kill you (only alcohol and benzos!).

Then we have the effects alcohol has on judgement and behavior, which aren’t good! Alcohol causes or exacerbates a ton of social problems.
I prefer to assume people may lie for everything but not for their soon to be happening death. If they fool me, I accept the consequences. The opposite, as in being cynical for even these kind of things, is much scarier and unhealthy for my mental state.
That wouldn't be ethical either.
"No matter where you go, there you are."

The intent of telling me this when I was impressionable was the opposite of what I received. I understand that "you bring your problems with you", but at the time I received "don't bother travelling because it's the same shit in a different place". So I've not been the globe-trotter my sibling has been. Night and Day.

The only regret here is that the original intent got flipped from the giving to the receiving. Be careful.
I've only got young kids, so I have only experienced tired and frustrated. But even our bad days only last a day, tops. What I haven't experienced, but do observe in colleagues with teenagers, is utter despondency and emotional collapse due to a cloud of rancor that's been hanging over the family for weeks on end.
First, you assume I'm an anarchist, simply because I'm trying to describe reality instead of pushing an agenda.

Second, you somehow think "scary place hurrr silly anarchist just doesn't want to admit..." is a killer argument. It is just slightly recast version of the "If you like communism so much then move to Russia" schoolyard silliness.

If you want to discuss how political theory intersects the real world, I love that stuff. If you just want to convince yourself anarchists are dumb, that's boring and I'm out.
Is Science Fiction (at least the less cynical descendants of Connecticut Yankee...) the bookish sort's version of fanfic?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Rckye2aV_ZM/S7Mm16X-JUI/AAAAAAAAB...

("Eve" has a fashion mag under her apple, "Adam" is looking in a collection of SF stories instead of his bookmarked text. The title doesn't translate well into english, which doesn't gender inanimate objects, but ends something like: "books - [the] best [girl]friends")
> Our volunteer military is small relative to the population

Eh? No it isn't. The US has 4.2 active military personnel per thousand. This is higher than almost any developed country (only exceptions are Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, who all have special concerns). Large European countries are mostly in the 2-3 per thousand range. China is 1.5.
> Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

Yeah, everyone got that. Immediately. In terms of inferential leaps I have to make every day that wasn't even a bunny hop. Why do you think it needs to be brought to trial at the Hague?
Not that I am aware of. We are working towards that possibility on JuliaHub.com, but nothing soon. I should point out that installing Julia and Pluto locally should take at best a matter of minutes and no fuss.
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Very interesting research findings from RiskIQ
You used to be able to at least hit the link to see all reviews. The all reviews filtering options included one to filter by format. This helped a lot.

I don't see that anymore.

Also, on the reviews themselves it used to state what format a given review was for. I don't see that anymore either.

So...it looks like Amazon deliberately decided to make it harder to tell if the Kindle edition is good or not.
Healthcare is really hard to sell into, that is why a few companies own so much of the paying field. The hospital system I worked for had 2,4 and 5 year cycles for their contracts, so things didn't the often and vendors had to be around at the right time to get consideration. It seemed very bizarre and antiquated to me. My best advice would be to to find vendors that have adjacent solutions and partner with them, maybe making their own sales funnel easier.
Which one is that forum you're talking about?

If you meant this one, it should be obvious that it's not exclusively about coders. Even if it was, your argument is quite weak if you don't qualify the non zero part a bit more. Zero chance of living how much longer than you would have otherwise? under what conditions? At what cost?
Just as an aside, your can freeze milk too - though it has to be in a strong container that doesn’t allow too much expansion or the fat will separate on defrosting.
Mold is the real issue for me, i live in a humid area where breads molds in less than a week if left on the counter. Putting it in the fridge is just a necessity of life if you want a week or two of sandwiches from a loaf.
I started hating web dev in general after working in web dev for few years. It's the same CRUD operations over and over again with some massaging of the data. On top of that everyone wants to apply their latest and greatest idealogy (tdd, pair programming, agile) like they are trying to solve world poverty or something.

I moved into high concurrency, low latency back end programming, jvm tuning sphere. Much more demanding and satisfying. Plus, no cookie cutter BS. I never want to go back to web dev again.
Do you also think the nuance of co- and comtravariant tensors should be understood, and the conventions of raising and lowering indexes, which is where a lot of value of Einstein notation comes from?
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Citizens [pdf]
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i found that putting store-bought donuts in the fridge makes them last long enough (a week) to eat before going stale. and as a bonus, the hardened glaze is both easier on the fingers (and clothes) and enhances the sweetness. mmmmm, donuts!
Not on the original one printed on Sept. 6, 2020
, Section ST, Page 4 of the New York edition
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Amazon is getting overrun by scams. They're behind eBay and Aliexpress at this point.

I kind of feel like they need to adopt a labor-intensive zero-tolerance policy for this kind of stuff.

There's a bimodal distribution. You can have a few scams, throw a ton of resources at each (to the point of prosecution, etc.) to deter that number from growing. Or you can have a huge number of scams.

Amazon just swung over to the other side, and if they don't get it under control, their brand value will go to nothing.
> The sexism and portrayal of women as morally weak

Is it accurate to describe an algorithm like this as "portraying" anything? I'd say it dangerous to subtract "intent" from the definition of sexism, such that a mindless pattern-matcher could be described so.
Old users have not upvoted this, I recommend sticking to Hacker News Classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
”But everybody dies, and there will always be places and experiences missing from anyone’s life – the world has too much beauty and adventure for one person to see.”

Damn gut punch...
Agree. Nothing about this reads senior engineer. The writing is quite lacking. The material isn't technical, or engineering oriented. It's essentially self promotion.
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It's insane to me that people can argue the OSI owns the phrase "open source" or that the FSF owns the phrase "free software".

In the current scenario, where the OSI has flatly failed to act to do anything necessary to protect open source as a workable concept, at what point can we decide that they aren't adequate stewards of the term?
> it's a bummer you lose all of your mix tasks

That's not true at all. Mix Tasks are just code. Assuming you stashed them in /lib (or someplace that elixirc reaches) you can call them in a release using eval.

path/to/bin eval "Mix.Task.MyMixTask.run(...)"
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The prisoner's dilemma of training your employees
Oh geez. This view is sure better, but the fact that it's needed indicates that hn is jumping the shark.
Sorry, I do not understand you.

Even the cake cutting problem you mentioned below takes into account both POVs.

I'll also echo the sibling: what is true fairness? If it matches individual POVs, then why bother? If it doesn't then what's the use of it?
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I like the thrust of this essay that we allow bullying and violence hierarchies to persist because we tacitly approve of them.

I would introduce an economic angle to this. Some people are dependent on patronage networks for their standard of living. Whether that person is a pliant corporate functionary, a public sector union member, a corporate executive lobbying the government, or a recipient of direct transfer payments, they are rewarded for loyalty rather than productivity.

The pot of money that is used to reward this loyalty need not be gained by coercive extraction, but it tends to be. Those who are rewarded for their loyalty also tend to be more supportive of hierarchical institutions. This patron-client relationship binds the client to the patron, even if the patron is a bully.
Advanced Linear Algebra (free book) [pdf]
Oh this is a good idea. Calibrate for the phone / camera version and test used and just let your phone read the test and run a little timer.

TestBuddy

Would be a good add in for ovulation tracking apps.

Also, if you are a pregnancy test manufacturer, maybe you release this app so you can see what other tests people use; educate them on the error rates of competitors; and offer 1 click purchase of your products.
Commenting a bit late since I had this tab open for a while, but I find this discussion interesting. Even more magical than consciousness itself, are people denying that there even is a hard problem of consciousness to begin with (if you assume the standard model) ;) You started with asking if consciousness is really that magical and finished with basically admitting that we don't have an answer for how it works yet.

The hard problem of consciousness is not just about the why, it's also about the how. That's exactly the magical part: how subjective, non-physical experiences (supposedly) come from physical interactions. Brushing it off as "evolution" is not sufficient to explain the how.
You reminded me of the close of one of my favorite Philosophize This episodes on Authenticity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfkJEWnsNy4
Ask HN: Do you “hide” HN submissions?
I've recently been narrowing down interesting submissions by grooming my HN board using the "hide" ability.

However, some submissions will show later (I'm sure they're not re-posts) and I'm wondering if there are any characteristics of "hide" that I'm not aware of (i.e. limits, duration, etc.) Do any of you experience the same?
I'm in agreement; though I don't like rust (can't read it) and am the author of https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zigler.html
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Thanks for the correction and link, guess I should have refreshed on it before commenting.
Show me a brownian motion that doesn't change coat (haircut) for 20 years.
A gender reveal sparked a wildfire in California that's grown to 7k acres
Computer graphics. When transforming a coordinate system by a linear transformation represented by a matrix, normal vectors to surfaces transform differently than regular vectors.
GA/exterior algebra explains this: the useful thing we call normals is represented by the same data (a 3d vector) but actually has to have a a different "type" to make sense. In higher dimensions they are not interchangeable with vectors.
I'm not disagreeing with that sentiment, but I learned a considerable amount while implementing my own annotations. I do agree that they can be maddening... especially in the case of Spring Boot where you can forget to add a @Component annotation, and unit tests will pass... then you'll deploy your app and immediately see it blow up in prod.
>even those societies whose men refuse to organize themselves effectively for war also do, in the overwhelming majority of cases, insist that women should not fight at all. This is hardly very efficient.

Reason for this is that if a society loses half its men, the population will bounce back in a single generation. If a society loses half its women though...
I once bought a Kindle version of a book that was originally published before Kindle existed, and the publisher never produced an ebook version. I bought the Kindle version because the print version was very hard to find, and the copies available were outrageously expensive, in some cases 10 times the original price of the hardcopy book. The Kindle version, which I assumed at the time had been automatically produced by Amazon, was horrible, completely unreadable. I've never bought another Kindle version of an older textbook.
Looking at OP's history, he seems to like sharing clickbait titles on HN. I am assuming he really wants to gather internet points
I would say, by and large, every conversation about a new license is near immediate dismissal because the OSI hasn't approved it. The conversation that should happen rarely does because the OSI has decided they have no desire or need to make open source development sustainable.
As a physics undergrad, most of these concepts started being introduced to me once we got into relativity and coordinate shifts were much more common.

I wish it had been earlier because I think it is important to have a strong idea of what the objects you are working with are and what properties they have.
In the 90s there used to be a web page for linux describing all the possible physical formats and one interesting side effect was changes in average kilobytes/sec transfer rate.

Obviously more tracks simply took longer to read more data in a linear fashion but there were weird interactions where long sectors increased average bandwidth, mostly.

I'm old enough to manually set interleave parameters on hard disks in the early 80s, so that was interesting. I don't remember interleave optimizing on floppies but I may just forget.
If you're doing that you might prefer to output to opus instead. Speech compresses well so you get the benefit of smaller files and have more space for other media. Just replace name.mp3 with ..." -c:a libopus -b:a 24k name.ogg"
It’s actually somewhat profound and fitting if you read it without cynicism.
Website looks like its from 2003
seriously like this website looks like a website from 2003 with the design of it being made in 5 minutes now remember this is my opinion
900,000 followers on YouTube.

75,000 followers on Twitter.

7,000 followers on Instagram.

Bethesda is making her a character in the Skyrim sequel.

She's 84.

I thought this was interesting and charming and quite inspiring.
Ah gotcha, why don't bivectors transform normally

e: I'm restating the question in a form I understand, not asking it.
To be honest what he achieved doesn't need any special tricks. You just be there do your job, and you will get it. Well actually depends on how hostile and competitive your work place is.
Could be worth your time to check out vapor, the server side swift web framework. Obviously doesn’t have the ecosystem as the more popular frameworks but has been under active development with corporate sponsorship for a few years now.
No. I think he's serious. The same author also advocates that the manufacturing and distribution of high-performance processors should be outlawed and regulated as nuclear weapons in order to save humanity from a potential AI singularity [0]. Also, since the computing power we currently have may already be sufficient to run an AGI via distributed computing, destroying existing computers may be necessary. Finally, since he concluded that software projects don't really improve social productivity (in this article), that (high-performance) computers isn't a good idea to humanity in general, therefore, reverting back to the early 90s and asking everyone to use 10 MHz computers is an acceptable solution - you also solve the problem of software bloat simultaneously. In addition, he also suggested that patent trolls might actually be the saviors since they slow down the development of computing and AI.

Later he extended these ideas to an entire book [1].

The author's ideas are highly unconventional, but I won't say it's unreasonable or even uncommon in tech - Bill Joy's Why The Future Doesn't Need Us shares similar concerns, the author simply took a much stronger position.

[0] https://berglas.org/Articles/AIKillGrandchildren/AIKillGrand...

[1] http://computersthink.com/
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Hey HN! I've been developing on a text-centric crash course platform for three months. It's now available for everyone.

It's called Mindspace. Everything is free and will be forever. And all crash courses and discussions are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.

The platform is designed with simplicity and community openness in mind. And to keep all lessons concise and true to the definition of crash courses, there is an intentional character limit of 3000.

I'd love some feedback on this.
Thanks for that hidden feature. And there's no ads aswell! Do you know what is the difference in the algorithm? They just count "old users" votes? How long do you need to have an account for to be considered old?
In LA you calculate the normal of a plane by taking the cross product of two vectors lying in that plane. If you transform all three with the same matrix the normal will in the general case no longer be the cross product of the transformed vectors, you have to transform it with the inverse transpose matrix instead.
If you're willing to be patient, I think that in the next year Elixir is going to get an add-in aggressive static typing library (better than dialyzer) enabled by compiler hooks. It's going to happen, and it's going to be very good.
LuaJIT is stuck in version 2.1.0, while Lua is at version 5.4.
I'm not being negative in any way. These are literal measurable facts.

Sorry you didn't get what was being said
My grandfather says this, and meets his age with a reverent smile. It's so unburdening to embrace age. The fear of it is encompassing and I feel it on the edge of my mind at times.

But it is _so_ incredibly liberating to meet it with a warm smile and acceptance.

Age is not a punishment, it's a gift, a privilege, to carry the memories we have and to wear our lives on our face like we're able to.
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I wish I could be this serious and sophisticated, and not smile at light-hearted stories about 84 year-old gamers. Maybe some day, I'll reach these heights of intellectualism.

It must be nice to worry only about serious discussions for hackers, as voted on by a select group of mature old-timers.
Yes, much more preferable to 4 years of talking about "row vectors" and "column vectors." Perhaps not so early though.

Introducing the concepts in the context of a euclidean metric seems unmotivated?
I was there too. In the year 2000 most Windows users weren't running an NT version of Windows. The web browser that came with the OS enabled constant popup ads, making it unusable. You were in theory supposed to "defragment" your hard disk periodically - this was purely theoretical because everyone had to reformat their hard drives wholesale before fragmentation became a problem, so that they could get rid of all the accumulated malware. Some golden age.
Agree, before changing office suite try changing adviser
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The discontinued closed source LifeBalance published by Llamagraphics took a stab towards that. DateBk6 published by Pimlico Software also was moving in this direction.

A PIM application ecosystem with a storage and RPC system like Newton soups (but updated to Internet security paranoia), stored in an open, highly-parseable format like Emacs Org Mode, with the enormous tweakability and context-sensitivity of DateBk6, combined with the dynamism of LifeBalance, would be very interesting.
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Yep, it is called Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE). Here's the website [1] which also contains installation instructions.

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
>random editions that are stolen from Project Gutenberg and sold for profit on Amazon,

Most of what is on Project Gutenberg is public domain so it's not being "stolen." If it's a simple copy and paste with no added value and it's being sold, that's a bit slimy but it's not stealing.
And Pluto notebooks are amazing in this educational context. With Jupyter notebooks I always wondered, why not just use the REPL? But Pluto's reactivity brings something new to the table. And being able to easily add UI elements like sliders bound to variables is something that you can't do in Jupyter.
The fact the majority of the discussion is about that title, and not the content of the article has me thinking that not everyone got that immediately.
Thanks, I think I was more confused by what `world_inverse_tranpose` is.
c++ was not created for the specific purpose of making a language feel like ruby

c++ added extensive new tools that the base language did not have

c++ did not get its engineering team hired off to work on something unrelated

c++ did not create problems by misunderstanding c designs and trying to change them

in these four ways, elixir and coffeescript are alike

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> Joe Armstrong himself was quoted as saying Elixir was some "good shit"

Yeah, Joe also said that object orientation was a terrible mistake, and if you read his design principles, Elixir was swimming upstream of most of them

When Joe got asked about this, his answer was simple: "I just like to support other peoples' programming languages. You can tell my personal preferences by what languages I use."

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> may he rest in peace.

I also miss Joe :(