skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the simulation has to have a limited duration.

> Lightspeed gives structure to the computation of the universe but it doesn't reduce the load.

The load would be saved because you don't need to keep computing interactions between object, because we don't get to see these object/interaction since the simulation has a limited time. You save this pre-render of the universe and you just need to calculate whatever is closer to us (and our simulated world).

You don't need to calculate all at once and you don't need to calculate since the big bang, since we will experience a very short period in the simulation. And I suppose most of it can be just faked.

Imagine a spherical universe with the Earth at the center. You can calculate the outer portion of the sphere, then garbage-collect, then the result is added to the calculation for an inner portion, then garbage-collect, an so on until you reach the center of the sphere.

Another thing is the time-constant. Why our time has to pass with the same speed as the time outside the simulation^? What we think it takes time to calculate it's now completely relative. If time is infinite in the real universe, then they have plenty of time to build our world so effectively that our entire existence is ran in a fraction of a second.

Other aspect is why our universe has to be of the same quality of the real universe. Perhaps we have a sloppy version that is easier to calculate (but it's still complex for us to understand).

Of course, I'm just drinking my coffee and playing I am a genius this evening: I'm not going to defend the above as in a real analysis.

Edit: ^changed calculation for simulation.
Don't forget anonymous payments. Lots of vendors selling legally questionable (or illegal) things only take cryptocurrencies. I see that as a huge boon for these industries, who would otherwise have to figure out credit card processing, bank transfers, or being repeatedly shut down by Paypal/Venmo/etc.
The cryptocurrency space is quite alive, and is thriving. As much as people like to hate on it, the whole space rife with engineering, social, and economic challenges that attract geeks. Unfortunately, it attracts a lot of scammers too.
I think a lot of the cost of living calculators assume you won't downgrade your living situations with roommates, smaller living spaces, etc, so there's a lot of situations like yours where expenses don't scale the same way someone who wants to live in a similar sized single family home in both areas.
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Yeah, on the ballot in our state is a law that supposedly prohibits the enforcement of local gun regulation, only allowing state regulation. Except its so poorly worded its unclear to judges and police and such what it even means.
I appreciate their attempt to do this. I'd love such a thing. Unfortunately, their algorithm is woefully immature, they lack content, and can't double down on shows that get a slow start. In the short term this helps them grow at the expense of alienating early adopters, die hard fans, and their more flippant subscribers.

My biggest peeve is that Netflix keeps dropping and cancelling shows I'm really enjoying. I'm close to dropping them, and every other service. Months close. The hassle and cost of maintaining 10+ subscriptions is a worse experience than the prenetflix days of broadcast. If the industry could get their act together and go the way of music and pay royalties per stream then Netflix would probably have the biggest advantage with their algorithm. But their ux is still painful and proper discovery is completely lacking. I yearn for a Dewey decimal like video categorisation system, and way more high production value sci-fi shows.
Series being too long isn't really related to the topic of discussion. And don't you sit there on your British Islands and tell me that The Misfits couldn't have enjoyed 2 or more seasons (provided that they show Rudy the door, that bloody bell knob).
Yep.

If wikipedia page views are a good proxy, glow ranks even worse than OA. Haven't watched either show personally

https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&pl...
It could be a difference in assumptions. When I start watching a show, I generally don't imagine that I would have any reason to watch every single episode of every season. Rarely, I do. But more often I watch just an episode or two.
Somewhat tangential to the conversation at hand, but I feel part of the problem here is having two methods i.e. ReadOne/ReadAll. Why not just embrace OOP and go with one method (Read) that takes a specification which itself encapsulates the set of files you want to read? Then it works for none, one, and all files...and makes the argument about Mocking vs Faking somewhat moot; the mock is a simple "for any args return this" and the fake is just as simple.

I guess my point is that if you have to agonise over mock vs fake then really it's a sign that your design is not quite as testable as you might like :)
On windows you have to run

pip install windows-curses

after pip installing visidata
I was really excited when I read the title, but I quickly became disappointed. I've always thought macros were neat. Coming from Rust, macros like `vec!` make the language age a lot cleaner and easier to read.

The issue with adding them to Python is that Python is already clean and easy to read (for the most part). They point out Python's simplicity being one of it's biggest strengths, and I think macros will help add to the clutter on top of Python. I also just don't think we need them in Python. All of the examples they gave were underwhelming and seemed like they didn't offer a really good way to convince people that this is a worth while feature.

I guess we'll see how things play out. If it gets approved and implemented, I assume that they've found good uses for it.
The fact that there are teachers out there who will sometimes just refuse to allow kids to go to the bathroom is just insane. What good does treating students like that actually bring?
Not quite, it still has one positive use case: buying drugs (and other similarly prohibited items) off the dark web.

And there remains plenty of interest in academia, there are still many fascinating areas of research in this space.
> Bean counters shit up everything. This started in traditional publishing in the 1990s

I'd say the 1690s, beginning with John Dryden's subscription-only translation of Virgil. Otherwise on point.
I can't find the resynthesize function in Krita for one.
Adding sideways velocity shouldn't change your eccentricity, because it doesn't change the kinetic or potential energy of the orbit.
Like many, I subscribed to Netflix during the pandemic, and one thing the pandemic permits (especially when the cold season comes around) is binge watching.

With that in mind, I was sucked into The OA and I was annoyed to find out that it was halted.

ImHo, tell a complete story and then halt. A catalog & graveyard of half-completed shows will be Netflix’s undoing.

Because why would I want to risk getting sucked into a story that won’t ever be completed?
It's definitely true that it's easier for readers of traditional to learn simplified than visa-versa. After all, the simplified script was created by people who were already using traditional and were attempting to make logical and consistent simplifications!

On the other hand, your friend might find some very common traditional characters brutal to learn as a beginner. 醫生 (doctor) often comes up within the first few lessons and 鬱悶 (depressed) within the first couple of semesters. In contrast, someone starting with simplified won't be so daunted learning the simplified equivalents 医生 and 郁闷. Later, as an advanced student, the traditional forms aren't so daunting as they would have been to start with.

It's still more work for someone who knows 医 to learn the rest of 醫 than it is for someone who knows 醫 to learn that they just need to write the first 8 strokes that make up its upper left corner to make the simplified version, of course.
SNES is the next generation, with the Genesis/MegaDrive. SMS is NES era.

I prefer MegaDrive due to its distinctive sound; sampled audio lacks character. However, like with the GameBoy, it really matters what model you have. Rev 1 Genesis and grey brick gameboys have excellent sound.
You're saying that sunblock enters the blood stream through the skin and that some of the ingredients can cross the blood brain barrier? Titanium dioxide and Zinc oxide are generally recognized as safe by the FDA. The ingredients that are somewhat questionable aren't sold in the US or Europe.
My kids are a bit younger, but the article reads a lot like our life during the hard quarantine period in Spain.

They couldn't set a foot out of the door for 52 straight days and only walk around the block for a few more weeks, but they adapted perfectly, slept more, never were bored or sad, did great with their remote school tasks, enjoyed the extended family time and even had a fun and instructive peek into adult work life: they were surprisingly insightful and critical about the good and bad aspects of mom&dad jobs.

And while the reason for it was bad and my wife and me were worried, anxious and sleepless, in retrospect our life was good in a lot of ways: The kids were OK, we ate better, we exercised, work got done beyond expectations, we had more free time and discovered that many of the disagreements and tensions in our marriage come from the outside. Being together 24/7 was easier than getting along living the usual crazy "normal life".
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The last time anyone bothered to run a poll on this question, it was 65-35 Yes, which is roughly the same margin that Right to Repair passed by in 2012.
I think the Z80 was overall, due to its instruction set, the 8-bit CPU of choice unless the system builder needed to be cheap; and this makes sense given it was pretty much engineered to be a cheaper CPU than the Motorola 6501.

So it made sense that Commodore used a 6502 variant and I'm betting Nintendo chose a 6502 core for its NES to keep costs down. But all your old Japanese 8-bit arcade games of the 80s were Z80-based.
If it were redistributive instead of local that wouldn't be a problem, and excluding primary lived in properties gets rid of any moral hazard.
100% this, even if they did a 1-2 episode wrap up on cancellation it would alleviate most of the problems.
> If macros are used responsibly, they can make a program more readable.

(AST based) Macros can really be an asset in a statically typed language (like Rust or Crystal), they are crap in C since it's text substitution [1], but an interpreted language that already has a lot of meta programming capabilities doesn't really need macros. Python has problems, but you don't fix those with Macros on top of them. They will never be used responsibly.

1: With a better macro system C could have been a much better and secure language IMHO.
Miniseries would make a lot of things better. Keep the same budget, polish more and make a beautifully intense plot-line. Afterwards you feel fulfilled and have a sense of accomplishment.

It's the same with a lot of computer games. I remember i loved to binge when i was younger but when you are older than say mid twenties 50-70 hour games just annoy me. A good example of this is a game like Witcher 3, pretty cool game but just completely endless - frustrating for a person who also has a lot of work, family, friends etc. You never feel accomplished, its a stale feeling, and you don't remember half the plot because you don't have time to play 10 hours a day.
BTC is currently $11.5k USD, market cap $200 billion+. This is a valuable asset.
There's a lot of frames where you are not doing anything, so the image doesn't need to be updated, unlike most games where you always need to be refreshing the screen. Also, I believe that power management for webGL in general is/was quite bad. If I recall correctly, it didn't automatically adapt GPU power usage to the application, but rather it ran on a fixed power level. Maybe I'm wrong or misremembering, though; it would be great if someone else with more knowledge on the topic can give more details.
I ordered two today as they were 20 €/each during Prime Day. I plan on using them as speakers mostly, so I'll have a look at where they talk to and maybe drop that connection...
Maybe it's an inevitability of scale?
These is why I believe a BDFL is needed. To cut crap like this in the bud

Type hints already made the strict typing sharks crave for blood and start trying to turn Python into Java
I absolutely agree that it should scale with the numbers of customers. However, from my experience working for companies that have customer support, that was definitely not the case.
If the ISS were built like a scaled-up satellite, you'd be right. But as you say,

> ISS has a lot more empty (well, air-filled) space

and this dominates.
But it's basically an impossible problem to solve while not preventing running useful applications. You can only do that well until it becomes too difficult to do better.
The problem with that stance is that you're taking it on faith that the economy will do better without a quarantine than with one. A large number of sick and dead people and the fear of such will destroy an economy, quarantine or not.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-gdp-falls...
No.

If you want to bring up the value of intangibles, you then dont get to cherry pick certain intangibles that prove your point as to use them as the basis for your argument. You have to take into many intangibles, both pro and against your own stance to have a decent argument, let alone a realistic solution to the problem.

And if you actually pay attention to the argument, I dont mention to do ONE thing, as you straw manned me as saying to move to the suburbs. I say everyone needs to judge their own situations in an honest and logical fashion to better choose a solution for their personal needs. Not just listen to a random elitist trying to get on their highest of high horses to shame the rest of the population in their superficial future signaling. If you live in a heavy urban area with good public transit and high parking fees, hell no, dont own a car. It's a bad idea. But to imagine the exact same solution can apply to everywhere else in the world is a sign of a small minded twat that's never experienced life outside of their tiny bubble.
Moving to a rural area is even worse. In principle I can maintain friendships with people separated by any distance from me, but there's no substitute for being in a highly populated area in terms of making new friends. And the more highly populated the better.
I watched an interview with Damon Lindleof recently where he talked about how the ABC execs wanted and expected to draw out Lost as Long as they could. When they were trying to negotiate down the show, the execs thought they wanted more money. They wanted to do 10 seasons and 6 was the compromise.

It was mind boggling to them that the producers only wanted to do three seasons

Link: https://youtu.be/ej3ftLjmYlA
> All major nix-based operating systems and their distributions seem to disagree with you on that; Most programming languages included.

Yes, and I still think I'm right and they are wrong. You're welcome to disagree, but I personally wouldn't hold up the distant 3rd place in desktop computing as evidence against my argument.

> Oh yeah, especially mobile OSes where every app wants full access to everything or just won't install/run.

Like I said, only mostly correct.

> Pop-ups are just as bad because now you just train users to simply ignore them.

Agreed, so don't do popups.

> There is no silver bullet here, and SmartScreen isn't some "evil gatekeeper" that just exists to thwart independent software development. It's just an imperfect tool to address security and trust issues with random software packages downloaded from the internet.

I never said otherwise. I just think we can do better than SmartScreen.
> However, the main issue with Netflix is that they are cancelling shows without letting them wrap things up.

That's rather the norm for shows; cancellation is a business decision, not a story decision. And cliffhangers are often a tactic used to as an audience retention trick when the team behind a show knows it is at risk of not doing well enough to continue, so it's particularly common (Netflix aside) for it to be used at the end of a season that turns out to be a shows last.
> I trust my capability to moderate the sites I download from more than I trust Microsoft to prevent malware on the store.

So you are implying that your personal capabilities reflect the majority of users out there? That's a bold assumption!

The Windows Store is meant for a general audience, and the general audience are users that ended up with 10 rows of custom "toolbars" in their browser after a few days of using the internet.

The fact that you trust your own abilities over those of Microsoft (of course without giving a concrete example to justify your mistrust) has nothing to do with millions of non-tech savvy users that would otherwise just download Krita.Totally.Not.Malware.Believe.Us.exe from webshop24.ru, because they clicked on that cute cat image that told them to...
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Haven't been able to get into Stranger Things but the other two shows started very strong. In fact, with House of Cards in particular, it was almost certainly never stronger than it was at the beginning.

I think it's just a reality that in the era of streaming very few people are going to stick out a mediocre series in the hopes that it has enough good bones that the showrunners will eventually do something with them.

Netflix made a lot of promises about what data would enable. There's very little indication it's helped Netflix to develop better shows.
> Isn’t sport massively important in US schools?

For the kids involved in sports, sure. That's not all kids.
This, to me, is just furthering a new channel through which people try to get famous, like acting or being a professional athlete. Past the surface-level veil of "online presence," this article more or less just tells me "if you get famous, you can quit your job."

You could replace "online presence" with "acting," or "baseball skills" and get largely the same outcome. Growing my acting presence isn't optional anymore, because if I get famous I can quit my day job. Growing my baseball skills isn't optional anymore, because if I can throw a crazy 12-6 curveball I can get drafted and quit my day job. Growing my online presence isn't optional, because if I become an influencer I can quit my day job.

I'm sure I'm biased because I try to keep a very minimal online presence and it has, if anything, positively affected my day-to-day life, but this article just rubbed me the wrong way.
Yes, he has one of the most popular podcasts in the world. But if you are involved in particular political flavors, you might deem him as "problematic" because he hosts guests who you also deem so, even though objectively speaking, his guests are generally very diverse and his own political opinions are pretty mainstream.
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It’s interesting that the German automakers have only given a relatively small amount compared to the others.
Exactly.

The "pitch" for catching up on GOT now is much weaker now than it was midway through the series.
I think you have some rose-colored glasses with Seinfeld. The post Larry David seasons are not nearly as good. They tried to mimic his style with over the top storylines but didn't know how to weave them together like he does and none of the jokes really landed. Seriously go watch a random episode from season 9, it's not very good.
Citation please? According to here a typical offshore wind turbine will pay back its life cycle energy cost in 0.57 years: https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/energy-balance-analysi... (0.55 for on-shore)

Here is another article stating a payback time of 12.3 months: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257564430_Life_Cycl...
I'm hoping that this policy leads to much tighter story arcs which aren't designed to take 5 seasons to come to a conclusion. There's far too much TV that basically only has actual new plot elements in the first and last ten minutes, and then pads everything out to a full episode.

A world in which writers know they have, at best, 24 episodes to tell their story will hopefully result in much more focused story telling, and fewer filler episodes looking into the exciting history of what minor character C did 15 years ago.
Yeah but like, what's it valuable for? It seems like commodity trading, except the commodity that is being traded is who gets stuck holding the bag when it all collapses. There's no real value there.
They're really good with their data and analytics. They'll know if you're cancelling your subscription. I did.

Otherwise all your complaining still got them at least $8.99 a month, and they saved on production costs.
Did you try to install the Windows Terminal from the store?
> cryptocurrency is dead, right?

No, not quite. Total new investment into the space is falling. But it’s nowhere close to zero.

It will probably never totally die. Instead, like baseball cards or beanie babies, it will atrophy into obscurity.

There are enough people who have sunk enough into the project—financially, reputationally—that, barring a depression, it will continue to have backers for at least another few decades. As long as Tether doesn’t overplay its hand, prices should keep the illusion going. It’s a cautionary tale regarding the staying power of purposeless institutions.
I think Plasma automatically integrates AppImages on the first time you launch one.
The true glory of the game is the story it tells. Should be able to beat it in like 4 hours
Ah cool, that makes sense - I think that's called a citizen's initiative in the Netherlands and in the EU, where it has only existed for 14 and 13 years, respectively. Indeed a great addition to representative democracy.
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Ah kind of assumed it was mandatory for all children to have a sport or club in the US - films and articles about college admission make it look so.
"Social democrat", which is a category that hardly anyone in the US seems to understand.
Yip, I meant all the big companies like Google vs Microsoft vs IBM etc.
Totally agree. I end up watching BBC shows and think why the hell am I paying for neflix
It's like people's feelings on Ben Shapiro. If you are center or right, he seems like a smart young feller. If you are sufficiently left, you can't stand him and he seems detestable.
In California, tax revenue is already redistributed by the state to mostly equalize funding across school districts. Most of that funding comes from state income taxes, not local taxes.

https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays

In affluent areas the local PTA often gathers donations from parents to fund extra programs for things like sports, music, and technology.
Many harmful things are popular and well liked.

I dislike his interviewing style, in that I think he reliably lets guests just make assertions that go unchallenged. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experie...)

I find this particularly problematic when he's having "provocative" folks on; it gives them an enormous platform, and one that allows them to get Rogan to nod along where another interviewer might push back on readily debunkable things. We've substantial research indicating deplatforming folks like Alex Jones is effective at reducing the impact of their misinformation. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...)