skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This PDF is clearly a mocking, derogatory, and provocative article, written by people who are not ... they are not procrastinating, on the contrary, they immediately commit to writing something nonsense against useful reasoning; why is not relevant. the facts are decisive, the facts in this PDF are these:

+ put random sentences that are blatantly meaningless

+ they write the word STUFF as if to mean that whoever is to procrastinate uses this word as an important word

+ do not in any way describe a real experimentation

+ quote someone's phrase without a relative rational sense

+ they put on an image of an hand, clearly provocative, senseless, expressing nothing

these in this article are considered academic-trolls, discrediting the natural method of procrastinating something not essential at the moment

then if we could go and look in the world for all those who are against procrastination we would see just who the directors of these trolls are

procrastination is rationality when applied to something not essential at the moment, it cannot be useful to apply it to everything, it does not refer to everything, and it is relative, like any other method of action, to rationality

there is no rationality in committing to using an academic context to discredit a topic, you are not going anywhere; this is a world that instead of procrastinating what it can to do something else and optimize resources and possibilities, produces 1000 things when 100 are needed, allows 100 companies of a service when not even one would be needed and the service should be managed by those who know how to perform it (such as the Internet: experts and graduates in telecommunications ... what are the others?)

reading this PDF is depressing (I'm sure they had some crazy laughs while writing it).

or maybe I wrong all my comment (this comment) and you can try to procastinato to ∞ any reaction versus me and my comment
Harvard's CS50 course is by far the best complete-beginner resource - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T381L3iZyDTxR...

It's completely free, it's accessible for people from various backgrounds, you get exposed to quite a few different concepts and tools, David Malan is a great teacher and there are some really helpful online communities around the course.

In addition to this youtube playlist, if you search youtube and google, you can find their lectures for the same course from other years, their official website, their edx version, subreddits and other helpful resources.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download

https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

https://www.python.org/
Why not save some words next and just write "you're an idiot" then we'd all know you're not capable of rational discussion.
I use C++ to mostly to develop backend servers. Since I use multiplatform libraries all active development and debugging happens actually on Windows. I maintain parallel project for CodeLite and makefile on Linux. Normally after I satisfied with the results on Windows I just click a button that triggers my build/test/deploy pipeline. From here all happens automatically but if the tests on Linux fail I would then fire up CodeLite to debug and find the reason. Mind you during last year I only had to do it twice. If I add/remove files / libraries this would be another reason to launch CodeLite to adjust Linux project accordingly. In theory I could do this on using CMake but it is simply not worth it for me.

I tried CLion and bugs / crashes with debugging and some other parts (do not remember exactly as it's been a while) prevented me from using it. Was not fond of its sluggishness either.
Not to mention that in far two many places the second location is on the other side of the river from the first.

I was in finance when I looked up the physical address of our back up data center which was in another city ... 5km up stream from our main data center, both were within the 30 year flood plain of the river.
Straight up don't believe this. Even the premise of using lumens as a byway to quantifying an hour of light is flimsy. There's no way we have insight into babylonian economics or everyman illumination to know this to the level of certainty espoused here.
Because there are subjectively better alternatives.
Like, I go to toilette each night and baby in pre-industrial village will wake up everyone. So it is safe to assume they will generally go piss and drink too and it will look like activity.

Rural cabins had while familly in one room so one person needing to go is likely to cause cascade.

Perfectly consistent with travelers observations in article and still dumb to call it "first sleep" and "second sleep" as if it would be something special.
Give OP a moment to say hi before trying to convert them to the cult.
There is a logical fallacy referred to as the “red herring”; you do not fool me, or anyone, by using it.

The side points you make are irrelevant to the point at hand; rather than hand waving address the point at hand:

Why is this an excuse to do nothing?

If not, what action do you propose instead?

How do you justify it?

Be specific.
I tried to make the fastest sorting algorithm I could think of in rust
For people saying Pinterest has mastered SEO and that's why they're at the top, what exactly are they doing that is so effective?

I'm not understanding how individual Pinterest pages or users would gather that many quality backlinks for example. Do they have quality backlinks? If not, why is lack of backlinks not hurting their rankings?
Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0

Full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0

I don't take Roger's view about consciousness for granted but it is very interesting nevertheless.
We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now

...or more than 16 levels (4-bit) of grayscale, something that a hobbyist has already shown is possible:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140284

We could also have mass-produced electrophoretic sheet (basically the display without the electrodes), that you can "draw" on with any suitable voltage source; you can see someone playing with one in this video and showing how the technology works (and is fundamentally quite simple):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXxSOR1PHpE

...and someone else, coincidentally also Russian, making his own eink display(!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVZCEuoccE
The truth is obvious to everyone. We just don’t agree on what we think is true.
A SAK is some action that only the kernel can detect. On Windows user-level programs cannot receive the ctrl-alt-del key sequence, so if you do that and something happens you can be sure you are interacting with the real authentication GUI, not a fake one.

I don't think any of your solutions provide that capability.
I don't think it's needed to be honest,unless the course is specifically about the body language,facial expressions,etc.
I like PluralSight approach: a small profile photo on the intro slide, that's it. I don't care how the guy looks, all I want is the knowledge.
I don’t know where you got your information about fitness+ playback via airplay but it is incorrect. I just tried it and it works fine.
What about you? :p
2020: A Year Full of AI Papers- a Review
Even if your invention isn't easily reverse engineered, it could still be re-engineered by others once you've demonstrated the concept and the market. Trade secrets aren't guarantees.
The truth is very obvious to everyone. You can find a truth to fit whatever you prefer to believe, even when you don't think that's what you're doing.

That's why.
Does google have a legal obligation to be fair or transparent? I thought what made google tick was the army of manual and arbitrary blacklisting where SEO cheating like e.g showing a full article to the google bot and a “subscribe to read the full article” to everyone else was way over the line that could lead to a ban
I've had success with the llvmlite Python binding. It has a Python-native utility to help build the intermediate code, and then it internally emits text and uses the llvm C api for codegen.

Both the text format and the C api are alledgedly more stable than the C++ api, so this may be a usable pattern in general. The text format is very well documented in my experience.

One downside to using text is an extra emit-and-parse-back step, but unless your code is huge, it's more than fast enough (and it falls away against optimization anyway).
iPAQ for example.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-typical-on-screen-keyb...
Great post!

A non-technical detail that the post misses is the human story here. Katalin Kariko, the biochemist that pioneered the idea of delivering vaccines in mRNA form, got nothing but rejections for her grant applications for this very idea and was eventually demoted from tenure track at U Penn.

Whatever you think of this, it's a misleading understatement to describe it as:

> As with other fundamental scientific research we are now reaping the benefits of, the discoverers of this technique had to fight to get their work funded and then accepted.

From the article[0] the post itself cites:

> By 1995, after six years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó got demoted. She had been on the path to full professorship, but with no money coming in to support her work on mRNA, her bosses saw no point in pressing on.

[0]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-...
The flip side of your observation: Every device your comment is being read on represents at least hundreds of patents, profits from which sped up the development of microcomputers from none when I was born to hilariously inexpensive now.
Care to elaborate on the insane part? I feel sane.
I’m actually in the middle of a bad GI flare-up, and soylent is a god send. I forget to eat, solid foods are hard to digest, I oversleep and miss meal times, etc. A bottled soylent helps me get back on track quickly.
Yes I know. I didn't imply otherwise. The games are too expensive to buy outright (IMO) and too few to justify a subscription.
My knowledge of modern genetic engineering is limited to some popsci literature, so I understand only parts of this story. I was surprside by this part though:

"Over many years of experimentation, it was found that if the U in RNA is replaced by a slightly modified molecule, our immune system loses interest. For real. [...] The really clever bit is that although this replacement Ψ placates (calms) our immune system, it is accepted as a normal U by relevant parts of the cell."

This sounds like a serious backdoor or attack vector to me - would there be any risk in introducing this Ψ, allowing some natural occuring permutations to turn wild or dangerous?
Hardcore fleshy here. I have no ethical concern in killing an animal for food. But if someone can lab grow meat that tastes like meat sign me up. My only concerns would be taste, cost and food safety.
OS design methodology doesn't really have anything to do with its suitability for constrained environments. There are plenty of small monolithic and microkernel designs around.
One possible approach today is to compile C to WASM, then run WASM on the JVM as GraalVM supports WASM. https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/wasm/
You aren’t, also of email clients show the actual from address then it would stop most of these.
This is actually pretty easy to do, and indeed vanilla Rust does sort of guarantee that memory leaks can't happen, at least when using its normal ownership rules.

However, Rust's standard library also includes types (implemented with unsafe code, but only accessible through safe interfaces) that allow shared ownership through reference-counting like `Rc`/`Arc` and also ways to mutate shared memory like `RefCell`/`Mutex`. These two things, in combination, allow the creation of self-referential data (i.e: effectively a leak). For this reason, it's necessary to consider leaking a safe (if generally unintended) behaviour.

After all, leaking isn't "undefined behaviour" and it generally isn't intrinsically harmful to the program, except at the limit when the computer runs out of memory in which case you get a safe, well-defined OOM panic. Heck, there are even a plethora of useful techniques that use leaking. Leaking a data structure proves to the compiler that it will stay around indefinitely (i.e: it has a "static" lifetime), for example, which allows you to do things with it that Rust would normally forbid.

That is not to say that Rust doesn't provide any protection from leaking, however. Its ownership model generally makes leaking extremely difficult to do accidentally, particularly when designing programs idiomatically, and its standard library contains a variety of abstractions that aid in managing shared memory correctly without leaks (Weak RC references, reference swapping, etc.).

I don't think I've personally ever experienced a leak-related problem that wasn't a result of badly-considered unsafe code despite the fact that I've been writing Rust every day for about 5 years and as my day job for the last 2 of those.
The time is now 99:51
What I learned from this is that formatting date/time as text will lead to all kinds of edge case bugs.
War has rules? Until it doesn’t. Look at the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was concluded by an agreement for a total withdrawal of PLO forces from Lebanon with promises by the Israelis not to attack Palestinians. This was negotiated through US mediators. So what did the Israelis do? They lit the sky for their proxy forces to roam the newly defenseless refugee camps and carry out their killings [1].

In the end, I wonder which has destroyed more human lives?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
Comments like this make me wish I could down vote things.
Indeed I still use git bash on a secondary Windows box, lots faster and more functional in a few ways with a VM.
I used to like TWIV, but once they aggresively and unprofessionally tried to "debunk" the lab origin hypothesis of the pandemic (which is still pretty much viable one) I kinda lost any respect to these people. I'd rather listen to UCSF podcast, way more professional.
Yeah, while that was even less important in winning WWII (the Germans were done for, and the Japs were just grasping at straws, uterly defeated), it was hugely important for the cold-war period, and probably forever.
Is there a Elasticsearch-like server that uses language models? Or does it require a sophisticated team to tune and host?
> You can target the projects you want and the technologies you want.

Sort of. But it's often one or the other, sometimes neither. You're still beholden to what the market wants (95% of the time that's another JS app). Even if you specialise you won't be always working on greenfield projects.
Some people are not comfortable killing an animal to eat it. To them it's not an ethical choice. I have no problem killing an animal for food. I also have no problem with someone else finding it unethical.

Each person has their own beliefs that govern their ethics. As long as we all find a way to live peacefully together there is nothing wrong with that.
Interesting that IBM thought there was enough of a market for the Sterling option to make it worth the design and marketing effort.
Yup this is where this article went off the rails for me.

After-tax income makes sense when income is what you’re taxed by; the day job creates the income and the tax.

But the day job shouldn’t be laden with all costs of living: only the costs of the day job.

The author must know either way more economics than me or way less.
They are doing this not the first time. They are extremely aggressive against any hypothesis about the lab origin of the pandemic - and yet it is increasingly becomes acceptable by the mainstream media (BBC News tried independently verify some claims, but had literaly obstacles (physical) on their way,set by Chinese government). Racaniello (?) was big defender of GoF experimentaion on flu during 2012-2015 moratorium on this research; Osterholm AFAIR was against. TWIV are strange people, it turns out. UCSF podcasts are way more professional.
I'm playing around trying to create a JIT execution engine for Rust code. I was struggling a bit with the codegen part, so the description of the function structure helped make more sense of what I'm trying to do.

Thanks
Here are some options from the IM docs:

https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#adaptive-resize

Be sure to scroll down to liquid rescale also.
This is awesome and cute. Mandelbrot picture output on slow machines (vintage, retro in this case) always appeared to be something like Deus ex machina to me.

I always admired Mandelbrot pictures. First picture, that came to light was a program I ran on a C64 I ran before bed time. The next morning the magic came to light.
Interesting, and great video find!
What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?
Why do you dislike it and why do you keep using it and not an alternative? What would make you switch to a new service or alternative in a heartbeat?
>No Time Machine

There are plenty of ways to sync files or clone disks, either natively or using third party applications, both free and commercial.

>Software compatibility: AppleScript, Office, Keynote/Numbers/Pages, Skype

Office and Skype are available for Windows. Windows has PowerShell and it is cross platform, available on both MacOS and Linux.

>Cannot sync iPhone over USB

On Windows, you can use iTunes or SMB via Files.

>Generally heavier, worse webcams, non-replacable batteries

That depends on the brand and model. There are many laptops that are lighter than the MBA and offer more ports.

Apple's 720p webcam in their laptops is not that great, it is a decade old at this point and on par with many other laptops. You can find Windows laptops with 1080p webcams, but they are usually on premium models.

Brands Dell, Lenovo, and HP (and other brands) have replaceable batteries which use screws and brackets to hold them in place. You might mean user replaceable and this is the same as Apple, the manufacturer will only allow authorized service for battery replacement. Unless you have an onsite service (which many brands offer), you need to mail the laptop to the manufacturer for a battery replacement. That said, there are plenty of third party sellers of batteries for Windows laptops.

>No leaked schematics, boardviews, parts, iFixit guides for repairers.

Dell, Lenovo, and HP (and other brands) have freely available hardware support documentation on their websites. You can find repair guides for many of these laptops that available from third party sites including iFixit and YouTube.
I see your point. Working around abusive behaviour, and accepting that as a solution, just enables further abuse. I don't think we can influence said engineers here on HN. I know for a fact that I personally wouldn't be influenced, and I also think that if the product managers will want something, then it will get done, no matter what people write here.
I like the idea. This site is a classic but it definitely fits the bill in a more casual way:

https://www.halfbakery.com/
PGP is not the only solution, therein lies the answer

Prosecuting the people that do this is also a way of helping with the problem, acting like a coward and paying extortion money only makes you an easier target
Upvoted for the pure passion that just oozes through the sentences. Didn’t understand half of it but that did not detract from the reading fun! :)
Ahh. If you are using wg-quick, the the script automatically adds interface level routes to the routing table that would override any manual static routes. You could add a Table=off flag to the wg interface config, and then you won't have the automatically generated route table entries based on the AllowedIPs flags, and your manual routes will be respected.
That's a nice hack, thanks! I've just modified my Google search engine entry in Chrome to include this.
The refresh rate is really good for an e-ink screen. There's no significant delay when typing. It's not blazing fast, but it never gets noticeable enough to be annoying. I even watch videos on this thing, although I account for the lag by adding a 200 ms A-V delay on mpv (Ctrl++).
>Perhaps it already exists?

Yeah, it does. Not sure if it's available on all DAWs, but the capability to enumerate and control the various options corresponding to various widgets exists in the protocols.

Logic and Ableton Live do offer this view as alternative.
> Ibuprofen makes me feel like I’ve been poisoned if I take too much or on an empty stomach.

Yes well, it will. Do not take it on an empty stomach. IANA doctor, but if one prescribed you ibuprofen it would say 'with a meal'.
Show HN: System for Private Data Management
> It's absolutely relevant. Git needs the "rebase" command to stitch independent histories together; Darcs doesn't.

That's the part I don't get from your argument. Git has rebase. It works. So where exactly do you see the value added by Darcs? I mean, it's not as if users can only merge or rebase if they use Darcs, right?

> As for workflows that "require any of those properties": There's wide agreement that Git is overly complex (...)

No, there isn't. In fact, that statement is patently false. git is the simplest and most straight-forward version control system I ever used. Things just work out of the box, they work well, and they work exceptionally fast. Branching is free, merging is free, tagging is free, it's trivial to checkout, it's trivial to setup a shared remote repository, and it's even trivial to setup a remote repo on a USB pen. You don't need to install servers to get it to work locally or remotely, you don't need to bother with extensions to get basic functionality working, and you don't need to use absurd ad-hoc patterns to get basic features such as branching.

So is there actually any objective point that can be made in favour of Darcs? I mean, being fast and usable surely is not it. So, what real-world value does Darcs offer?
Of course no machine could compare, but this little humble-looking site does pretty well (with what few Latin phrases I can recall). https://www.translatero.com/latin-english/translate
I see your point. While this uses the normal authentication method (user, password), the undisclosed nature of the account makes it a backdoor practically.
Almost certainly a super fan of some kind. The Literary business world is all about insider info, gossip, worthless prestige of one kind or another.

If I had to guess they sat down to write their novel and this is the ultimate act of procrastination.
> 3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!

Here is the recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU

I actually also watched the video before reading that it was a female voice and also thought it was male.
I suspect the target of the bombing was the Melting Pot, a fondue restaurant. Have you ever had fondue? Burns the roof of your mouth, every time. It should be illegal
That's interesting, I've only ever seen cross boxes (ugly green boxes) with RCUs in them. Then again I may have seen tons of disguised RSUs and never have known it.
Its a shared garage. It would take 20 seconds of social engineering for your “neighbour” to lock it.

I think some can have passcode tho.
mRNA technology, I have a hunch that the current situation could give this area a boost similar to what computers got through WW2, and we could witness a cambrian explosion. CRISPR in contrast seems overhyped to me.