skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you get "creative" when you discover or create a game with new rules, and then explore this landscape in an exhaustive fashion.

For example:
Like Miles Davis playing both cool jazz and jazz fusion.
Cubism, paint on a flat surface all sides of a 3D object.

Most people either do one or the other, thinking that just doing new things is enough to create something new but lacking the stamina to stick to it, or blindly follow the rules of an old tradition that has lost its relevance.

A good artist actually know this theory and will seek to apply it. But I think its also where modern jazz and art lost its way, just as the corporates, is that they are to buzzy being creative todo the actual work of creating.
Although I generally agree,

> you didn't have a place people are mentally addicted to to inject the content in. - you didn't have a whole generation of people that didn't understand the basics of where the media they consume is coming from

I think these two points in particular are incorrect.

For the first: We are social animals. Churches, political rallies, mobs, have all been around for a long time; they are tribes, and most of us have a strong aversion to being kicked out of our tribes.

For the second: we demonstrably tend to forget if something is fact or fiction even when we create the fiction, let alone when it is told to us by Lords, Kings, Bishops and Popes, zero-effort tabloid press, or even deliberate satire that doesn’t want to be believed.

• https://abcnews.go.com/International/times-people-fooled-oni...

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism

• https://www.futurity.org/lying-memory-belief-1919992/

• https://core.ac.uk/display/51139808
Not to take away from the post (which is nice), but it's kind of funny that the illusion is to make a black and white image look sort of color only by overlaying it with some color.

This reminds me of the old King of the Hill episode where Dale says "If you want, I can show you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite."
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Well, super interesting, in that it is the first time I'd heard of a tin plasma laser (produces the EUV)!
> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.”

This reminds me of the excellent "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" [1].

As a person with a hyphen in his first name I also get regularly mistreated by all kinds of web forms, worst of all flight tickets, which is especially ironic as you are usually explicitly requested to provide the name as stated in the passport.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
> Code in examples doesn't change, and the way they are highlighted doesn't change.

I'd consider it an accessibility issue - hardcoding the syntax highlighting on the backend makes it more difficult for people to change using accessibility tools. Whereas with js-based highlighting, you can probably just change the theme and get readable output.
Yes I've noticed that with my younger colleagues as well. (Dev work)

They can certainly type faster than the average 50-year old, but they can't touch type (or only partially).

It's odd that in the day and age of a lot of computer related work we don't teach touch-typing in schools anymore.
A brilliant read. Just what I needed today. Thanks for sharing!
> Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine designed to be used as User Interface layer of modern desktop, mobile and IoT applications.

> JavaScript variant of Sciter.. The plan is to use QuickJS..to make alternative to Electron

This would be very welcome, and seeing how successful Sciter has been as a long-lived project, sounds promising.

But with only 5 days to go, and 5% reached of the $100K goal, looks like crowd funding is not enough. Really, some companies need to hire/sponsor this person!
The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger

Oh yes. At some point this was a very annoying problem on Facebook. Our last name has ‘de’ as well and Facebook refused to have ‘de’ in lowercase in my wife’s name unless she sent them a photo copy of her ID.

At some point they started permitting lowercase Dutch ‘tussenvoegsels’ again.

But it showed so little appreciation of other languages and cultures. (It’s like Apple/Siri and others pretending that everyone uses a single language in their daily life.)
In the here and now, at all times, you are very much correct, as correct as a free thinker will claim to be anyway.

Over the course of 400 years, creativity and freedoms of expression has indeed been on the rise.

However, companies and human organisation still have the same needs to funnel the creative input, hopefully into something valuable with minimal externalized costs.

So the balance is between personal creative freedoms and benefits, versus organisational control, exploitation and value extraction.
Happened with me many times. I run various amazon affiliate site. Some times I get expired brandable domain names which are available to buy. When I share any post on fb page from them I get same error and there is no way to fix it. I just have to stop working on those niche sites on fb promotion.

FB sucks sometimes. I can feel this guys frustration.
TikTok is nothing new – to marketers, it’s just another ad platform
Seems to me like every newspaper would accumulate 10k pages within a year or two?
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they got rid of stupid puzzles at least.
I would second the book and also suggest having a read through https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/?cards-body.sort-by=....

There are some interesting problems and concepts at scale explained really well.
Correct me if I misunderstood, but that sounds insecure.

I imagine an attack where someone attempts to log in to your Internet bank account, and at the same time calls you and tells you that they are the bank and that they have sent you a notification on the phone to confirm this.

You accept the notification on the phone and all of a sudden they're not just logged in to your Internet bank, but also on the phone with you, with you trusting that they are indeed the bank.

The only way I see that this could be avoided is if they provide you with a verification code that will appear on your phone.
Maybe if the acceleration is smooth enough, but the sudden appearance of a new g yanking your head to your chest might be dangerous for a baby.
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Which was implemented under the assumption that 1+1=2
Also Cymer is a US company acquired by ASML (https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/cymer).
They provide the technology for EUV source.
I took some time to learn from Microsoft's cloud design patterns as well. Thought to share with you all with some videos i found useful as well

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-04-10-first-four-desi...
https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
Again this shareholder nationality things? (A Japanese shareholder don’t make ARM a Japanese company). Because by this metric a lot of US companies are not US... (a couple of them can even be Norwegian or Saudi despite having no presence were there shareholders resides).
The article was edited in the interim. The error the ancestor posts describes did exist before (I saw it, too), but no longer.
This is a false equivalency. Putting on a seatbelt poses no danger and requires no effort. Giving police military-grade vehicles and weapons, on the other hand, costs money and isn't safe, considering their track record.
>The Fox Newses and Huffington Posts provide the seeds

Seeds? They are desperately trying to fight for attention of common man that is sucked into social media dopamine drip.

Its a loosing battle and they are pushing boundaries of journalism (though not sure if that term applies to fox news anymore).

Report something second too late and loose half of potential viewers/readers - when facebook/blogs have no problem reporting anything, how a newspaper suppose to verify story before publishing? By the time its verified its old news and people are already on some other outrage.
> Is there anything stopping an organisation from defining some standard types of serverless environments?

We have some already, e.g. RFC3875 and its descendents https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875
> Just grab a rock with a big gold vein and haul it back.

That's not how it works.

Simply put, most small asteroids are undifferentiated. Meaning, they all have roughly similar mix of materials that depend mostly on the distance to the sun of where they formed. Unlike on earth, since they formed they have never been molten or been subject to erosion and transport by weather and water, which concentrates like materials together. Most asteroids are basically balls of dust where any grain is pretty much in the place where it landed when it first hit the ball.

The upside of this is that gold (and similar heavy metals) is much more abundant in asteroids than it is in the earth's crust, because when the whole earth was molten, all of our native gold ended up deep in the core. The gold we do have on earth is mostly what has rained down in meteors since the earth's crust has been solid. If they were on earth, each and every asteroid would be made of an exceptionally rich gold ore. However, add the cost of moving all of it back, and even with implausibly good rockets, it's just not worth it.

The feasible options are either:

1. Refine in situ. Develop some process of separating all that gold (and other valuable materials that are much more abundant in asteroids than on earth) from the less valuable materials, and then just send the gold back. The fact that we are talking about dealing with a ball of barely-compacted dust makes this in some ways easier, in others harder.

2. Find one of the much rarer differentiated chunks of rock and metal instead. They have much higher concentrations of the stuff you want, and are in many ways much more convenient to deal with, given how they actually have a hard surface and all. The biggest problem with them is that they are generally going to be very big. As in, less rocks floating in space and more minor planets. The most promising candidate for this is 16 Psyche, which is believed to be an exposed iron core of a protoplanet that got smashed apart by a very energetic collision. It probably has more gold than all of earth's crust, and it probably exists as an uniform solid gold layer.

The problem with 16 Psyche is that you are not moving it anywhere. It's >250km across and masses more than 2 quadrillion tonnes. So you have to dig into it. And, the layers above the gold layer are made of solid nickel-iron. So you either hope that there is a crack into the deep layers formed when the protoplanet was busted apart, and use that, or you somehow tunnel through a hundred kilometers of iron.
There is no way the staff resonsible for the adnetwork has seen those and noticed that they were scams. I saw them everywhere. What adnetwork did they run on? The article sais Facebook but I most have seen them somewhere else.

The adnetworks need to be held responsible for running scams when there is no due diligence what so ever. There is add for a fake Super Mario game running too.
Casey Handmer has a great blog taking hard analysis of what activities will be practical in space. He argues there is no real reason for asteroid mining to bring resources back to earth. So the challenge is to identify a large market for resources to be used in space.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/there-are-no-k...
Agreed. Captures a lot of the issues you get at scale.

Very solid book. Wish it had been out when I was still working on systems at cloud scale.
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It’s a rather long post, but let me know if anything is missing!
The Case Against Quantum Computing (2018)
> When GPT-3 writes a text, is it experiencing anything like what a human experiences when writing a text, even thought the output of the two processes are increasingly hard to distinguish?

No because GPT3 doesn't involve state.
> In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type

Holy Lord that is unfair. MBTI is egregious mumbo jumbo.
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We use serverless in a project and our monthly revenue is $6K. It is not true to assert that only people with no revenue are using serverless.
> All the data may be on the disk, but (last I checked) POSIX didn't require that filesystems not get completely corrupted in the event of a system crash.

It does. It specifies how the filesystem should behave in a particular (non corrupted) way. There is no exception that this requirement is somehow voided if the system wasn't cleanly shutdown.
Interesting! Those screenshots are pretty.
Without having read the paper, I believe the approach forward should be inspired by GPT-3. If the AI responsible for procedural generation can look at a very large set of existing games, then it might be able to generate the content given a few examples (i.e. few-shot).
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Discussed at the time fwiw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18462374
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> How feasible would it be to create a plugin that stores the data elsewhere?

Currently there is some processing done (in PHP) on the server like getting IP, generating user hash, getting exact browser version from UA. I think this could somehow be integrated directly into the datastore, but I never thought about it before so I'm not sure how doable it actually is.

> When you desire to view analytics, a bootstrap script

Ok, so the main idea is to provide a better separation from data collection and data vizualization.
Currently the UI and back-end can be separated, the UI just makes requests to the backend API, which loads data from the MySQL db and a few extra PHP calls to check for permissions and convert it to JSON.

> AWS AppSync, API Gateway, or other primary application datastore

I am not very familiar with AWS or those technologies, but I am not sure how they can handle user authentication and custom data mutation before storing it. I assume the point of using those is to have an auto-scaling data store where you only pay for what you use. The scaling part is always tricky, it is probably cheaper for low-traffic, but for high amounts of traffic you might be better of renting your own powerful VPS or dedicated server.

I assume the main reason to have the userTrack dashboard load only on-demand would be cost. This is a good idea, only that the benefit is not that big as the dashboard can easily run on a $5/mo droplet, so you would safe at max a few dollars a month (if you manage to make the auto-provisioning server cheaper than the regular VPS).

In conclusion, it is probably possible with not a huge effort. I am not really into this serverless trend so I think that for small to medium businesses just having a VPS will be easier and probably as cheap as all those AWS services.
I am still surprised that the two-character icons which Zoom uses for accounts without profile pictures become "A�" for anyone called "Alice Ørland" or similar.

It is even more surprising that Ö, Š, etc. become �, but 文军 shows up fine.
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> You moved the goal posts.

What exactly do you personally interpret as the post, and thus perceive it was moved in any way? Have you been paying attention to the discussion?
I am assuming the correct spelling is "de Zwart"

Are you really willing to assume someone spelled their own name wrong before you question your own knowledge about Dutch names? That seems a bit unreasonable. It's much more likely that your assumption is incorrect than someone wrote their name incorrectly.

This is the premise that should drive software as far as user input goes. The rule should simply be "Trust that the user entered their data correctly and don't try to 'fix' it programmatically." Validate it, sanitize it, but don't change it.
Well, their first versions were, when they were initially introduced. Just consider how much legacy cruft C# has accumulated over the years, though. (Does anyone remember delegate?) If C# 9 was re-designed from the ground up, it would drop a lot of nonsense from the early days.
I'm not sure whether cars are in fact more efficient than bicycles. (in different situations of course, yes)

I also don't really believe that the "openness" of a transportation method fundamentally decides its efficiency.
I'm not a web developer but whenever this kind of thing happens I just wonder why there isn't a single standard library in every common web language to deal with this and if there is, why it's not being used more often.
No. You're confusing static dispatch with static typing.

Julia can do both static and dynamic dispatch. The latter works with function barriers works to maintain codebases that are impossible to achieve with just one or the other.

There's no resolving trade-off because when Julia knows types and call time (or a union of them ) it can inline function calls.

Anyway, neither numba nor cython has the combin of features that allows for one to define a fast custom abstract array and have another package seamlessly define a subtype that works fast and with other data structures, overloading only the necessary functions. Then a third package can come and build on top using traits from the first and some weird solver.
All they need is a single whale and they can afford 50,000+ clicks. Most of these games have dozens of large whales and hundreds of mini whales.

A player who ritualistically spends $10,000+ a month on your game is not that out of the ordinary (at a certain scale).
There should other markets TikTok platform could support. For example, TikTok might become a competitor of Zoom.
Pfff, such fabricated drama. This shit gives real digital rights activists a bad name.
It's a self-serving ideology dreamed up by a group of elite psychopaths who think of themselves as value creators... When in fact they never created a single ounce of value in their entire lives; they only know how to trick and coerce others and capture the value which others have produced (thereby concentrating that value into their own pockets at the expense of everyone else).
Thanks!

The micro:bit radio is fantastic for most classroom cases, but I'm doing a bit of teaching around data, and micro:bits really struggle with that - between the lack of append mode for logging the data, and getting the data off them for analysis on a real computer, it's been pretty frustrating - hopefully this new version will help :)
There are some who argue those engineering challenges make theoretical compliance moot:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-agains...

(I've also just submitted that link to HN separately fwiw)
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Not so weird when you consider the context. Zoom is an North American company with most (if not all) of it's product/engineering development happening in China. Just reading public information, it seems they have no development teams in the North of Europe nor Eastern Europe, so it's only natural that some character sets ends up better supported than others.
Poland I think had even more civilian deaths per population than USSR. - 5 million from 35 million vs 7 million from 170 million.
Well, it replaces one set of variables (those influencing infection rates) with another set of variables (those influencing percentage of infections detected as cases). If you believe that policy has no effect on infection rates, and you believe you can better control for the latter set of variables, then CFRs make a better metric for judging policy effectiveness.

I should point out this is all predicated on a statement I believe to be false. (I suspect policy does meaningfully affect infection rates.)
> incredible creativity at work there at this dutch company

I understand where you are coming from, and it might indeed appear that way. But the primary reason they are successful and have been able to make this step is because of the rich inheritance available to the researchers.

Most jobs under Capitalism today are soul crushing and exploitative. In my journey of going upstream to try to seek to understand the root of this dysfunction, I came to see that it is due to 1) the Intellectual Property system that creates contrived/artificial scarcity due to outdated economics, and 2) the credit monopoly [the way we are forced to mediate our interactions through capitalist debt protocols/agreements ($, €, etc)]. Our current system is truly the elephant in the room. [1]

I really don't think an Intellectual Property Monopoly is the only way creativity can happen. I think if we switched to FLOSS-everything we'd still have all the same tech. In fact I think we'd have more innovation than ever before. More chances for more people to work on things means more experimentation and results, could mean safer and more sustainable developments - and thus more sustainable technologies.

Silicon Valley isn't special. I am on here with you other technology enthusiasts and experts because the discussions on innovation do happen here currently. But it's not because it's unique. It's because Silicon Valley and American investors exert power over everyone else in the world through through it's IP system and agreements like TRIPS, together with the US-based money system and US-influenced 'development' organizations like the IMF and the World Bank. [2]

Imagine what the world would look like without IP?

[1] https://prezi.com/xmzld_-wayho/new-economy-new-wealth/

[2] https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/10/16/apartheid-in-the...
YouTube's strategy for showing me ads seems to be to show me the same ad over and over again for months until I am totally sick of the product in question.

For months it was BMW, who I wasn't going to buy a car from anyway, and then it was these games which I now passionately hate.
Specifically for that example, Zoom is written and maintained in China, so I would expect the developers made special code for segmenting chinese names but not non-English latin ones.
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>I think the author meant anti-trust as breaking up, not regulatory intervention. Regulatory intervention in the UPI case is more proactive and constructive as opposed to reactive breaking up.

That may well be true. However, the well understood meaning of "anti-trust" is anti-competitive/monopolistic behavior.

My quibble wasn't with using tools (whether regulatory or market-based) to deal with anti-competitive/monopolistic practices, it was with the completely unrelated and gratuitous quote:

“it is dangerous to apply twentieth century economic intuitions to twenty first century economic problems”. Antitrust is a 20th century institution."

Which is both incorrect and irrelevant to the next statement:

"India cut into the monopoly powers of Mastercard and Visa by creating a government-funded open-architecture UPI payments system."

What's more, the implication that I got from those statements was that Anti-trust issues were no longer relevant in the 21st century. Which is ridiculous on its face. Perhaps I misunderstood.

Believe it or not, back in those dank, dark ages we call the 20th century, measures to address anti-competitive/monopolistic behavior were not limited to just breaking up companies. In fact, that was pretty unusual.

Instead, lawsuits, fines and regulatory intervention were the mechanisms overwhelmingly used.

I'd note that such tools are used less today, despite the growing consolidation of market power in a variety of industries. More's the pity.