skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This scenario may not be hypothetical for long.

It has already been the scenario for years. I know adderall-popping fresh grads is a valley stereotype, but I’m here with an update from the flyovers. It’s not just there, just young people or just office jobs.

This lack of insight in the article was kinda surprising until I realized they were writing to normalize it. It’s easier to buy it as something new than spinning a current negative into a positive.
Reading the handwringing over health in the comments it's pretty obvious some people have absolutely no idea what they're actually eating when they consume meat products.

Oh no! Processed seed oils! Give me a fucking break, we pump cows so full of hormones 8 year old girls are getting their periods [0].

Let's have some moral and factual clarity around the issue here, Vegetarians and Vegans are about the last people to argue processed foods are good, but we should keep our eyes on the prize: modern meat farming is awful for everyone involved. If you don't like it then don't eat it.

[0] https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2016/06/22/precoci....
> I think this depends on the field and the audience.

Fair enough. I should have specified the "software engineering field" as the scope of my statement. I don't know enough about other fields (such as branches of science or history), and certainly writing a fiction book doesn't anchor you as an expert.
This hearing went really, really poorly for Epic. The judge repeatedly told Epic's lawyers she wasn't particularly persuaded by their arguments with regards to several key aspects of their case. Epic's case hinges on being able to establish that Apple has a "monopoly" in the single-brand market of "iOS app distribution". However, the judge seemed rather unconvinced that a market definition consisting of only iOS devices was actually the correct market to analyze. If Epic can't establish that "iOS app distribution" is in fact a valid antitrust market, they're going to have a lot of problems with their case, as both their section 1 (tying) claim and section 2 (monopoly maintenance) claim rely on that market definition.

As an aside, I've read a number of comments here lamenting that the judge doesn't understand tech, but I think the opposite is true as well: many of the commenters here don't understand the law. The judge needs to work within the framework of existing legal precedent when making her decisions, and unfortunately for Epic, it doesn't really seem like existing precedent is on their side.

As a specific example, many of the comments here point out that smartphones are not like gaming consoles because smartphones are general-purpose computing devices whereas consoles are entertainment devices. Be that as it may, there's nothing in US law that says general-purpose computing devices are supposed to be treated differently than other products for the purposes of antitrust analysis.
Preflight and engine start procedure for a WW2 P-51D Mustang
Thought some of you might find this as interesting as I do.

Take off and flying can be found in Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyDaMtjhfc
Brain.
In that case I'm curious how the behavior changed. It was linking me to an image on internet archive, but now it seems to be pointing to the source mentioned by @moonbug.
If I may ask, why are the Inception style workloads still popular, rather than architectures like EfficientNet?

Also, why FP32? CNNs are some of the most robust models to train in FP16 (much easier than language models) so you could get yourself a quick XXX speedup and 2x memory savings by switching over.

(btw not intending to be accusatory or anything, I just think FP16 training deserves a lot more adoption that it currently seems to have :)
Terminology nit: the effect is the ground effect; the vehicle might be a wing-in-ground-effect craft.
I just posted [0] as well asking if others noticed ReCaptcha being down. Wonder if it’s related.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632818
You can fuse atoms at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Yeah, but what happens when someone blows the free money on something besides basic needs, and still needs assistance with food/shelter/medicine/etc? Does society step in again and also provide "managed money" in that case?
In my opinion, having read parts of jQuery's source code on various occasions… You should only read it for entertainment value, it makes for fascinating brain teasers. Here's one snippet I had the opportunity to read recently:

contains = hasCompare || rnative.test( docElem.contains ) ?
function( a, b ) {
var adown = a.nodeType === 9 ? a.documentElement : a,
bup = b && b.parentNode;
return a === bup || !!( bup && bup.nodeType === 1 && (
adown.contains ?
adown.contains( bup ) :
a.compareDocumentPosition && a.compareDocumentPosition( bup ) & 16
));
} :
function( a, b ) {
if ( b ) {
while ( (b = b.parentNode) ) {
if ( b === a ) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
};
The source code for WorldWideWeb is available: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb. I've got it in the back of my mind to try to get it building at some point (either in Previous, or on real hardware; I have a few working NeXT machines).

As an ObjC programmer who started 15 years after it was written, it's interesting to see how different it is from even NeXTStep 4.2 (aka OpenStep) era code. Most methods don't have explicit return types (still valid, but ~never used), lots more C, no Foundation (didn't exist yet), AppKit was still using NX, etc.

That said, you can tell it's fundamentally the same toolset. There are still classes that more or less exist and work the same way today on modern Mac OS versions, it uses a NIB file, etc.
This argument only works if you assume that clandestine payments and money laundering are impossible. You don’t think a foreign government could hide payments to someone? Inversely, you think bribes and shady payments from a government are going to show up on taxes? Haha. Come on. This does not settle anything related to Russia.
The best part about fish is you don't have to configure it much to be productive in it. It is really nice that the fish maintainers think hard about what should be configurable, and what sane defaults should be. This is not as common as it should be in OSS. Contrast with zsh, which has a billion knobs to tweak, and the consensus is that everyone should install a huge "community dotfile framework" (whatever that means) consisting of tons of opaque aliases and settings, some of which might make your shell startup lag.

More to a specific point: I haven't had much of an issue with fish's subshell/backgrounding control. That doesn't mean that there aren't issues, just that my interactive use doesn't trip into them.

I will note that you can write an async git prompt using nothing but fish itself, which I consider an advanced use case for a shell. Check it out:

https://github.com/mattgreen/lucid.fish
The issue is the one that Andrew Yang built his platform around. If full automation outpaces the rate that people can retrain, you end up with a growing unemployed population. This in turn can drive political change to account for that fact (such as the institution of a UBI system, possibly funded in part by taxes on large automated companies).
Cats are the devil, and I have reasons to believe they've recently entered into an alliance with the human infant community.

I begun suspecting that one day when my wife was preparing dinner. Soon after she took the meat from the fridge to work on it, our baby started crying and making noise for absolutely no reason. My wife immediately dropped everything and went to investigate, and the cat used this opportunity to attempt to steal our dinner meat.

Ever since, I've been noticing many more cases where the baby and the cat are either simultaneously attempting to do things they're not allowed to, or the baby starts distracting us while the cat goes out to carry out some mischief. It's all coordinated too well to be happenstance.
I'm not the one who started with the comparison between past and present. The original post I was responding to was clearly saying that people were better in the past.

My assertion is simple: people have always lived in bubbles (honestly this is so blatantly true it's hilarious anyone even tries to argue against it) and the internet has only strengthened those bubbles in so far as it has forced people to confront the edges of them more readily.

No one ever had to "block millions" until twitter existed. The concept was meaningless. Every day of anyone's life before the internet every single person was ignoring the lives of countless people who had no way to reach them, an effective but implicit block on literally everything uncomfortable in the world.
The private messaging app?

Depends on where you are.

Telegram eats Signal's cake hands down in Russian-speaking countries... and worldwide[1], with 400M DAU vs. maybe 20M for Signal.

Note that people flock to Telegram specifically because of privacy and us living in the "age of fear and distrust". The ongoing revolution in Belarus is fueled by Telegram, to give one example.

That's not to compare Telegram and Signal on their virtues. Just what is actually the app that people end up using in this context.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/telegram-hits-400-million-...

[2]https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-featu...
Documents Show How the LAPD Was Trained to Use Palantir
> do require some authenticity verification have already been proven

can add levels.fyi to that list as they now use actual offer letters to build their data set
You get to accept it, or not. That is 100% on you.
That's a good point. That would be deflating to have a book where the code examples wouldn't work with the latest stable release. I guess this is where a self published ebook would be a better fit (plus automation to make sure that your code samples were up to date with the latest runtime).

I guess it depends on how much the technology evolves too. I think of my own experience in writing a book on cordova. The amount of work to revise it for new editions would be, I estimate, about 50% of the effort of a new book, just because there was significant overlap between the versions.
UK Police to be told they can use NHS Covid-19 app
I would parse it and then re-stringify it and stop there until someone gets upset about performance.
The amount of "observable universes" would be at what number given that each one is a string? How many potential strings from the initial moment? Seems... just mind boggling.
so, if cows go extinct or nearly extinct like pandas because there is no demand for beef, will we blame vegans? :)
Depends on if those companies are negotiating lower local taxes when opening a local office with the argument of "hiring people". If so, that argument won't hold anymore.
US rail network doesn't need 4-track mains. We run gigantic freights (3+km) on huge loading gauges, so we have many fewer trains. There's also nearly no passenger traffic because it takes 2 full days to go from Chicago to Seattle.

Adding 3 more tracks would be a gigantic capital investment in never-used capacity.
And now you know why the Twitter API has all IDs as both numbers and strings.
> Disenfranchising issues (such as gay rights, police brutality, immigration, right to abortion, etc.) is not only theoretical to some people,

Immigration is a zero sum game. No developed country can accept all immigrants wanting to live there. Neither leftist nor more conservative immigration policy gives every immigrant who wants to the opportunity to enter the United States. The claim that left-leaning individual's immigration policy is not 'disenfranchising' is laughable. For every person entering from South America, some number of people cannot enter from another country. You can say this is not the case all you want, but given that immigration does put pressure on a country's resources, this is always true. Similarly, if you let in everyone from South Asia, you will disenfranchise some South Americans, etc.

You can't just say something is disenfranchising and thus non-negotiable. For example, you say the pro-life position is disenfranchising because -- I assume -- you believe it takes away the right of a woman to not have a child. However, a pro-life person would make the obvious argument that actually the pro-choice position is disenfranchising because there is a person -- the child -- who is being killed without having a say in it. Should the pro-choice position now become unmentionable?
I think it's referencing the color support that didn't really hit until the 90s.
As a layperson, this design seems far too complex to be useful for fast iterative research and ultimately, economic replication.

It reminds me of the principle that one shouldn't start a space travel project that is estimated to take more than x years to complete, because by that time, technological progress will have surpassed its speed and capabilities, and would physically overtake it (the 'wait calculation').
The people didn’t decide with this information because it was deliberate withheld.
And who gets to judge that it isn't equivalent? Equivalency implies measurability and this seems like an immeasurable assertion based solely on personal opinion.
Well, until it's fully automated, human safety is still important.

I think the problem we have is that destroying a human body with mindless repetitive tasks is often still "cheaper" than engineering an automated solutions. It is simply cheaper to feed off desperation than to value human lives, and there is the engrained notion that humanity cannot be productive without putting humans into positions of desperation. This is a mindset issue that needs to eventually change.
The low ranking of Scryfall results is actually why I search this way. Couldn't agree with stnmtn more.
See the previous story and discussion

"Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618472 (87 comments)
Crockford says JSON existed since JS was formalized.

He says he discovered it in 1999 but it was in use Netscape as early as 1996.
So the subsidy backed the wrong horse, and the ban eliminated a useful technology, but it also accidentally supported buildout of LED bulbs, which we could have just accomplished by subsidizing LED tech and not banning incandescents?

Yeah, that seems about par for the course for this kind of regulation. Sometimes a blind cat catches a dead mouse.
Academics Map Future of AI
> And yet Amazon has no real interest in solving its counterfeit problem

I don't get this Amazon hate. Weren't they the ones who originally came up with the idea for putting purchaser reviews with the product, and the 5-star rating system? It seems like their solution was to 'crowdsource' the problem. Now people have learned to game the system, but I buy plenty of electronics from amazon and from ebay, and I'm careful enough that I've never ended up with a counterfeit.

Edit: I've noticed that ebay gives seller ratings, and amazon does product ratings. I guess that belies the different focus they each have. It would be cool (and probably a big improvement) if amazon put both product and seller ratings in equally prominent positions.
This is actually spot-on for my views in this area. I have a QoL in mind, the inputs required, and a general expectation that I won't get morality from my workplace unless I go to the civil service.

It brings a form of inner capitalist peace. Rant incoming....

I think many Americans, of which I am one of course, expect their offices to be that moral link, and from there all of this anger (justifiably maybe once it shows false) flows as that morality doesn't exist there. This anger gets made worse by the SV trope of "Making the world a better place by X," which overtime starts to ring untrue because of course it's untrue. This then gets further exacerbated by seeing a-hole, incompetent Brian's lifestyle far outstrip yours, and it seems like Brian doesn't much care about making the world a better place but is succeeding at these companies. What management books has he been reading?

This is an old hand but it's true: if you want morals and a sense of tangible community, seek out a bowling league, your Boy Scout troop (RIP s/), your church, Boys and Girls club, a soup kitchen, the PTA, local govt, school boards, mentorship programs, jesus I can go on and on. These are places that are crying out for volunteers usually and make tangible impacts on local communities that a fleet of donated Chromebooks will never make. Why do I feel empty inside after closing this project? It's because it doesn't compare to mentoring a low-income kid into college that only requires of you 1x Thur night a week to do vs. 400 sprints and Brian to get those Chromebooks out the door and into a school.

Want to go really wild? Take that dev or infosec job at your city govt. Lord knows they need the help - be the team that unfks the COVID unemployment API (if only it was that simple haha, but still). But no, that job pays $90k to my $160k and no Asana.

What am I supposed to tell you friend :shrug:. Morality is out there but it takes a paycut or IRL interactions on a Thursday night. Buy into tech capitalism and the UES apartment and all the tradeoffs or don't, but you can't have it both ways in this system.
We've already seen the large tech hate, it's just going to be more intense after even the most menial jobs are automated out of existence.

That and potential driverless trucks are going to create a potential jobless future of the less fortunate/educated, that is an enormous political issue - though the burden will not be completely on Amazon, it will be a huge part of that.
In that analogy, it would be more like you can only know that your local post office delivered it to their local post office... you have no idea if the carrier actually delivered it to the mailbox, or if it is just sitting in their sorting room still.
Just throwing this out there, but going plant-based doesn't mean you have to eat meat alternatives if you're against them for some reason.

Lots of stuff you eat right now is probably plant-based or easily convertible by substituting in regular vegetables e.g. curries, burritos, chilli, lasagne, pizza, sandwiches, pasta, stir fries, bean burgers, soups, stews, fries, cereals, cakes, breads etc.

Could you really not enjoy a pasta dish without meat (think tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, basil, garlic, capers)? Is it the taste of chicken you really enjoy in a chicken curry or is it more about the spices and the textures?

Ever notice you flavour almost every meat dish with lots of vegetable products and spices (e.g. people say chicken is tasteless without flavourings)? You can try the same flavourings on vegetables too without having to look for meat alternatives.
and the reduced water flow increases the likelihood of clogs in your sewer pipe - clogs which might be cleared with high pressure water jets (if normal snaking is not sufficient)! EVEN MORE WATER USAGE! (and also expense and frustration)
Safari has proved to me the web has potential to be much, much faster and more memory/battery efficient than most believe who just use Electron/Chrome.

Projects like ultralight[0] also show there's even much higher room for improvement. That, and libraries like React starting to leverage WASM, and SharedArrayBuffers sharing memory and potentially moving all application logic off-thread (worker-dom is a cool project, I was able to get a medium-size React app fully running with it).

Finally, you could fork Safari and remove quite a few features. A lot of legacy things, simplifying the DOM quite a lot, etc.

If someone did that, I think we'd have a really ideal setup for cross platform apps. A much faster, lighter, smaller bundled app that supported 99% of modern web apps out of the box.

[0] https://ultralig.ht
Yep, I got counterfeit parts for my 3d printer that resulted in it need a lot of repair, and fighting with Amazon only got them to pay half the cost of the repair...It's the last thing I'll order from them for sure. Canceling prime, just done with them.
> but I'm guessing shield has the same limitation

You can launch the games directly from the Shield if they appear in GeForce Now on your PC. They usually show up automatically, the only issue being UWP games (like Hellblade I mentioned early), the workaround there is to create a normal shortcut to the game and add that to GeForce, manually.
Kudos for adopting the "dynamic range" concept.

I agree that accessibility support is a good proxy for maturity. Even if somebody tries to game perception by doing accessibility "early", there are benefits.

On that topic, what are GTK's and Qt's accessibility support like? I remember that once when there was a real prospect of Free Software being made preferred for public acquisitions, somewhere, a big disabled-support group argued that the Free Software stacks lacked accessibility support, and would shut them out. Would such an objection be plausible today?
Dell Readies a Tiger Lake Refresh on XPS 13 Ubuntu Linux Developer Edition
All links have a thin red line through them: https://pasteimg.com/images/2020/09/29/strika.png
I keep seeing stories like this, and they continue to mystify me. Sweden had TEN TIMES as many deaths per capita as their Nordic neighbors. It's also not at all clear that their economy has fared particularly better, as they also have the highest unemployment rate among the Nordic countries. I guess if the goal is to kill more people and lose more money, then sure, Sweden is the model for you.
Yeah much higher bypass ratio. Current turbofans bypass ratio is limited by the fan diameter. With a series hybrid you can power multiple fans from one engine. Or more likely engines. So you could design a plane with two engines and four fans.

For a reaction engines thrust is proportional to mass flow X delta V. And power is proportional to mass_flow X delta V squared. You can see why high bypass turbofans are more efficient. More thrust/less power.

Couple of other benefits. Much safer in an engine out condition because you can power your fans off the remaining engine. With a battery hybrid you could power the fans for a limited time with all engines out.

Probably less throttle lag with an battery hybrid. Throttle lag is what kills people during take off and landing in bad weather. Wind shear causes the airspeed to drop, pilot needs more power but the engines take seconds to respond.

Take off and landing under battery power --> way less noise.
Caster Semenya is a cis woman, not trans. People are so preoccupied with stripping the rights of trans people that they ended up stripping away the rights of cis people while they were at it.
To me it looks like alien technology. Such an organic shape. So many valves an openings. What is their purpose? How deliberate is their placement? Awe-inspiring.
Sure, I’d say the West is less so over time as laws and attitudes shift towed being more inclusive. But as for capitalism in general, it’s just an economic system that any society can make use of. I’m of the opinion that it does a better job of growing the economy and producing more opportunities than other systems, raising the standard of living in general. It does also produce more wealth inequality. It also has a tendency to produce powerful corporations. So those two tendencies along with a few others need to be kept in check.
At an IRL social gathering, when someone starts getting cranky, you see and/or hear everyone else in the room going clammy, and know they feel the same way as you do. There's a certain loudness to their silence.

On the Internet, those same people are completely imperceptible.
There were (a few, not just one) app stores on Palm OS devices too. I forget the year and I don't know what the cut was.

I vaguely remember that when Steam launched and started charging 30%, it was way less than what retail charges.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?minPopu...

Worse for the first six months. Sweden's curve was comparable to Italy and USA in some sense.