skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to add some corroborating info. A friend worked in the Apple hardware group, at a fairly high level. It burned them out pretty bad, to the point where they had to see a therapist. I didn't quite believe what they told me at the time. This posting brought back those memories.
If you have an eval function or some kind of API to start that execution.
You could do everything that flash did with IE 5.5/6 tech as well. SMIL 2.0 and VML, in 1999, did all of what flash did

The waters will always be muddied
https://blog.coinbase.com/make-your-voice-heard-share-your-t...

privacy rip
> No rational person should want to die unless their life is full of suffering and they have no hope of recovery.

Or, no rational person should want to live, because life is mostly drudgery and inconvenience and it also includes a fair amount of pain and anxiety. If you're a materialist, death would free you from that and any regrets about missing out on any positives or guilt about unfulfilled obligations.
Just got a split keyboard, so mainly trying to unlearn bad typing habits :)
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>The singularity fandom has always baffled me.

It basically comes in two flavours. The "it's dangerous" crowd is as Ted Chiang put it imagining the singularity as no-holds-barred capitalism, because when they imagine superintelligence the only thing they can come up with is the companies they work for.The paperclip AI is just a VC funded startup, the only difference is it's even better at disruption than their employers.

The Kurzweil one is basically just recycled Christian eschatology, where the final judgement comes around, we'll resurrect the dead, defeat death and so on.

So it's basically two American timeless cultural classics, the funny part is that people in that crowd don't seem to notice it
FYI you don't need to run the second stage of debootstrap/dpkg on the device. You can install qemu-user-static, "cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static path/to/sd/card/mount/usr/bin/" and then you can chroot there from your x86 machine. It works by registering a handler in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc and then it runs the binaries with qemu.
Hmm, I think I get your point. But still, I don't see if it will ever be as effective a market for individual creators as youtube.
This is a great quote. Thinking of Einstein working at the patent office...
I once worked at a robotics company doing Automated Guided Vehicles.

I was stunned that they handled everything with a tiny team. Mechanical design, welding, electricity, electronic design, programming, etc. Crazy. That company started with 2 brothers, and they did everything from top to bottom with only the both of them.

It was really inspiring to see how some people can have knowledge and skills (eg welding) in so many fields, and are able to pull it off commercially.
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Reminds me of that time when I went to an Apple store to have them check my failing MacBook Pro screen. After waiting an hour for some fat dude to come along with an iPad in which he apparently had some sort of store service app installed, he concluded that the price for getting the screen fixed was $800.

Went to an independent shop and had the problem fixed for $100.

Fuck Apple.
I’ve been working on one that runs on top of React Native Web. Compiles to atomic CSS on web, and StyleSheet on native.

It marries in-line style props (like JSXStyle) with SwiftUI style stack views.

It’s very much alpha, on my GitHub.
hamburger emoji for a menu icon is for sure an underused design pattern
Naw. Recently tried some again. Not gonna name names. I was so immediately blocked by lack of flexibility I just went back to code before going deeper into the sunk cost fallacy. It seems like these no/lowcode things need to approach the "problem" differently. I don't have the solution, I just know theirs isn't working for me.
It isn't a zero knowledge style. It is an experimental, or knowledge-acquiring style. To employ that approach most effectively it makes sense to have competing teams with purposefully different styles.
I remember reading “The Age of Spiritual Machines” and the “events vs time” plot (criticized below)

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-singularity/

was the calling bullshit moment for me [1]. It is a nice thought though - if we just wait then technology solves all of our problems.

[1] https://www.callingbullshit.org/
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This is very cool. Some minor nits, since you seem to be open to feedback here:
1) Received (not Recieved)
2) represents (not repersents)
3) I have a random late night buddy because I sent no texts between 12 and 3am.
4) The "Good morning sunshine" block tells me my first morning text was sent at 13:39 AM on average, which is not a real time (should be just 13:39 or 1:39 PM) and not in the morning--which further suggests you're taking my overall average text time and not my average morning text time. This might be clearer as "You sent your first text at" (skipping "morning").
5) I got no days of the week data and no map data.

Once again, these are minor nits and didn't detract from my enjoyment at all. Just thought you might appreciate the chance to fix some easy errors.
Why on earth would anybody confuse the two?
Don’t forget Alaska. There are roads connecting the Yukon to Fairbanks and Anchorage, and the unpaved Dalton Highway connecting Fairbanks to the North Slope, but there are no roads connecting Fairbanks to the western part of the state at all. Most of the state and its towns and villages are accessible only via aircraft. There are no roads to Juneau, the state capital, for instance. Hawaii has an interstate on the island of Oahu, but Alaska has no interstate highways to speak of. It is a VERY undeveloped state.
The whole boomer thinks technology will allow him to live forever is something that was really common when I was growing up. I long decided animals are not at all evolved to last.
What stunned me in 2020 is that it takes 20 people to program a simple web app. Too much money in this industry now, people became hyper-specialized plumbers, with no siloes and yet everyone has their own little island. Very depressing.

In the world of the web in the late 90s, 5 guys designed, built and shipped an entire product without any frameworks.
> “An undercurrent of concern is developing with regard to the influence of machine intelligence. There continue to be differences between human and machine intelligence, but the advantages of human intelligence are becoming more difficult to identify and articulate. [...] On the other hand, few decisions are made without significant involvement and consultation with machine-based intelligence.”

> MOSTLY RIGHT

This first one should be “mostly wrong”. The vast majority of decisions are made without any involvement or consultation with machine-based intelligence.
> Even pre pandemic it was patently obvious to anyone who paid attention that certain foods just don’t deliver well.

Before the pandemic, many people had literally never ordered delivery before!

I for one only ever ordered carry-out, or ate at the restaurant. I live in an urban jungle of restaurants, all within walking distance; why would I pay someone to drive to a place that's within five minutes' walk?

Recent months have been educational about both the virtues and vices of delivery food. This has not been an education I would have ever otherwise received.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)
> maybe the site's reading time estimator is broken?

All of them are. I first started disliking Medium for just that reason.
> because they stick to the takeout containers

Technological solution: some sort of return-for-deposit Teflon-walled thermos. Only available for regular customers, of course.
> Yeah; but thats all so incremental. Better compiler error messages? Really? That makes the top 10 list from 25 years of work?

Aren't good error messages very hard to implement and also a _major_ productivity increase? They're also a boon to beginners.

Both are very important as the most powerful resource we have is people.
Is this fiction or history?
ctrl and page up or down move forward and back across tabs in most browsers. ctrl (or alt) + number switches to that tab.
How often do people make non-trivial decisions without ever using Google?
Or run your own JavaScript interpreter, of course nesting interpreters that way is going to be horribly slow.
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Right. Computer architecture hasn't evolved since von Neumann. Operating systems - since Ken Thompson. Programming languages actually devolved from Lisp and C to JavaScript.
The only fundamental improvement I can see is proliferation of GPUs, but it's still only marginal.
Exactly this is what a lot of deniers fail to understand. People do die from underlying causes when infected by covid but those causes would have been manageable without covid.
That's for drawing the sketchy style. Smoothing a hand-drawn shape is something different, I guess.
The main restriction when I was starting out was the cost. Now pretty much any language you want to use is just a download away.
It's a bad store of value (-86% swings 3x in the last few years), it's a bad currency (7tx/sec)

Bitcoin is the best performing asset of the past years compared to stocks, gold, commodities, etc.
Reality: hiring takes an unknown amount of time. Candidates often prioritize prompt hiring, to do things like start health insurance, paychecks, etc. On growing teams with open reqs, this is equivalent to never being allowed to take a vacation.
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This has been going for ages I'm not sure why it's popular today? Any new breakthrough?
Oh interesting, I see now! Thanks for clearing this up.
Welcome to the Other Side (Nye in Virtual Notre Dame) – Jean Michel Jarre
This is more than a year old.
Even when telling an actual human being to do something there are misunderstandings and misinterpretations. The idea that it's feasible with our current technology to just design programming such that we can just write natural language and the computer will do what we envisioned is absurd.
Natural language is very imprecise and squishy and not at all suited to programming. Attempts to make code look more like natural language such as AppleScript and COBOL suck.
why 2 blades not 5?
Silly me - the syntax that I proposed was the second one

err := close(ch)

to handle case when you don't want a panic on closing of closed channel. The first one was discussed on golang-nuts, but it died there.
Programmers don't read, they skim in half the time, then auto-complete in their mind with false assumptions!
In the line of your comment about tax payers money: one of the biggest issues IMHO is the disfunctional "market" here because most of the work is paid easily by the tax payer . Particularly publishers are mostly not paying for reviews but are paid for journal and conferences largely on quantity (with few noble exceptions). The effect for a long time now was an ever increasing number of conferences (peer reviewed proceedings still make a large share in CS) and journals. What is actually worse IMHO, the review request get more and more and are largely boring. So you really have to attract the attention of the reviewer to not trigger the reflex of looking for reasons to reject (or worse the opposite, which may account to the same because there are always other reviewers, so its a matter of luck who gets assigned)

I think better structures are needed that actually incentivise good reviews. This would lead to better papers, too. There are multiple options for this. Maybe it is simply time to see reviews as publications themselves and say goodbye to flawed blinded review process. Another thing would be to take the publishers out of the game. Even IEEE and ACM have become largely a playing field for power politics between the US, China and Europe . I think we could do better and be more inclusive here. Publishing reviews and rejected work would further make meta studies much more reliable removing also bias towards positive results (who actually wants to hear about easily replicatable negative results at a conference)
Before globalization and huge logistical advances there was barely any way to capitalize on works in the public domain... your parents probably didn't benefit nearly as much as you may think. Also, calling this "legal abuse" in any way is just insulting to true abuse and detracts significantly from your comment.
At least 4chan is in a narrow corner of the internet - most people don’t get exposed to it, ‘specially not like prime time TV and mainstream movies, which contain just gratuitous levels of physical/sexual violence and are readily and regularly accessed by the majority of society. 4chan is comparatively inconsequential I think.
What about the blood sugar and insulin devices now available for diabetics?
Why is life+70 so standard? Even life+50 seems excessive. I can understand life, I can understand protecting copyright for a number of years after death so something written just before an author's death still benefits their family. But to preserver the copyright of works written when they were young, for literal generations after their death, that's just plain ridiculous.

Also, life shouldn't even matter once the copyright is not in the hands of the original author anymore. Just give copyright a set length from time of publication (30, 50, or even 70 if necessary), unless it's held by the original author, in which case it's the maximum of life or that number. That already seems way more than necessary. Anything more than that is just monopolisation of culture and has nothing to do with protecting the interests of the author or the initial publisher.
These ideas and script snippets here are outlandishly horrible.

George Lucas is quite the fountain of ideas, but he needs a partner to help temper his vision.

If he teamed up again with another director like Spielberg, he'd be a powerhouse.

I imagine there are a lot of people like him out there in the world. Tech tree spent 100% in the visionary / idea column, but lacking the well-rounded, sensible pragmatism.
I'm surprised AngularJS is on there but React isn't.
That is from old diesel cars. They are getting banned from cities.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/#lifespan 3.6 EOL 2021-12.
And I think that is, indeed, in Public Domain.
So, Wikipedia, except with some sort of syntactical structure that allowed for formal evaluation and analysis of arguments...we could call it a "compiler" for "compiling" sets of rules, or "libraries"
Per snippet.
> There is a special lifetime, named 'static, which is valid for the entire program's lifetime.

I've heard this many times before, but as the guide[1] says:

"You might encounter it in two situations... Both are related but subtly different and this is a common source for confusion when learning Rust."

'static means different things for references and trait objects.

ie.

'a: 'static --> reference with lifetime 'a lives forever and can never be dropped.

T: 'static --> Type T has no references in it; it is effectively 'entirely owned' by the owner of an instance of T.

These are totally different things with the same name.

(I believe technically there are actually three; `<T: 'static >` is a type constraint and `T + 'static` is a trait bound, but that both mean the same thing as far as I know)

[1] - https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/scope/lifetime/sta...
Public Domain laws vary by country. In India, works published 60 years ago enter public domain.
Why does a 2kw hair dryer seem out of place? For a hair dryer you'd strongly prefer more power now to get it done quickly, so all the cheap best selling hair dryer models are 2kw (e.g. as amazon shows at https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=hair+dryer), it's pretty much the default power level for a hair dryer, and many hair dryers (intended for hair, not for warming up engine blocks) have more than 2kw. I'd interpret the "diesel-powered" as they likely have a diesel generator for electricity.

In USA the default seems to be 1.85kw (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hair+dryer) possibly because 2kw appliances are trickier for the 110v wiring.

P.S. I'm also surprised by the assertion that "the Russian for hairdryer (фен) happens to also mean a regular fan", as IMHO it does not, a regular fan would usually be called вентилятор, not фен. Фен means either a hair dryer or (as строительный фен) a heat gun for construction work.
The fee someone pays to get a transaction into a block is similar to what passengers pay to be on the same flight—everyone pays something different.

You could have paid $300 while the person sitting next to you could have significantly more or less, depending on a whole host of factors.

Same with bitcoin: someone could have paid $1.50 for a transaction in the same block as your $9 transaction, depending on its size and how quickly the sender needed to have it confirmed. Someone also paid $.50 to be in that block but they were okay with waiting for an hour before it would be confirmed.

A dashboard such as https://bitbo.io will show you fee estimates.
Whenever someone uses the term "bias" in ML in anything other than its statistical sense (E[\hat y - y]), it's helpful to mentally replace it with "opinions I disagree with" and see if the argument still makes sense.
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Why did the author delete the story?
>But maybe I’m imaging things.

You're not. You just don't know enough.
or fear of Roko's Basilisk [0]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk
Language servers often run anywhere, and generally aren't using up all the ram.
Ok. I read the whole thing. As someone who participated in the proto-less-wrong type forums on anti ageing/longevity/being immortal almost close to two decades ago, I just want to add that even back in 2002, cryonics was ALWAYS plan B to many of us who spent our evenings chatting about how to live forever.

There is too much to say..but short version: Cryonics was not just bad science. It was considered by many of us then as bad science fiction...at its best. At its worst, no more useful than the Egyptian mummification attempts to become immortal. In the end, the Egyptian mummies ended to as fertilizer anyways.

Alcor that went by Life Extension then got into a right royal soup later when Ted Williams frozen body was separated from his head that went missing and was kicked around by a rogue employee. Several of his DNA samples went missing.

It was GNARLY. I slowly became disenchanted but I have to admit that reading this now, great strides have certainly been made..not so much as getting closer to anti-ageing, but more in terms of clarity of purpose.

On a slightly related(nostalgic) note: ‘neural link’ was always the reachable and desirable goal. And I think that’s where we will end up eventually. Neural links and clones/bionic/prosthetic aided clones.

Re: Ted Williams and Alcor .. https://connectingdirectors.com/53931-ted-williams

[..]But the worst was yet to come. Fast forward seven years to 2009, when a book by a former employee of Alcor hit the shelves containing explosive allegations of Alcor’s abusive treatment of Williams’ frozen head. Author Larry Johnson wrote that an empty tuna can was used as a pedestal to support the slugger’s head while experiments (which subsequently cracked his frozen brain) were conducted. When the tuna can became stuck to the head, an Alcor employee allegedly tried to dislodge it by swinging at it with a monkey wrench, in the process missing the can and connecting with Williams’ head instead. Johnson wrote that the impact sprayed “bits of frozen head” around the room.[..]
There’s also nimterop: https://github.com/nimterop/nimterop
Searching for "pdf search" isn't finding anything significant.

"PDF drive" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240373, 0 comments) just appears to be an ebook crawler over in the less-than-#FFFFFF-department if you get what I mean.

I also found a thread talking about searching PDFs for specific queries (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154527) which appears to have generated some interesting results back when the thread was posted, in 2015.

Not seeing anything recent though. But on the subject of a search engine specifically for finding redacted content, I couldn't help but imagine the discussion...

"Hi, I would like to find a •••••••."

"You specifically want a •••••••?"

"Yes, literally."

[Person 2 walks away scratching their head wondering what person 1 would do with a 'hunter2']
Sorry to horrify anyone but we actually do this at work (mechanical engineering company) - JavaScript calculated component dimensions as form fields based on user input (e.g. pressure or load rating) overlaid on technical drawings.

Reason it's done in pdf is a lot of our technical is spat out in PDF format (generated from CAD - SolidWorks).

There are other options like Traceparts or setting up a variable input SolidWorks model to generate loads of static outputs, if you have the time and money.
What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
If you weren't confused, then it worked!
It’s more than that in my experience, often the concept was a non starter, or the output is nothing an enterprise couldn’t do it self if so motivated, and certainly aren’t going to bother picking through the mess of some academic code base.
i m even more confused by this. than namecoin.
Cool ! never heard of those until you mentioned. why is regular keyboard bad?
> One of my favourite lecturers at Oxford.

Same here. I was part of a room full of brand-new undergraduates to whom Dr Neumann did an excellent job of explaining Real Analysis - something that few senior fellows would have been willing to do. A class act.
It is a discontinuous improvement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

https://www.rust-lang.org/

https://github.com/microsoft/verona/blob/master/docs/faq.md

https://plantuml.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code
I believe we will find cure to cancer in 2021;
There are plenty of cases where you can write a complex program in Rust without ever needing those things.
Of course rational people should want to die.

Death is a good thing on the whole. If we cease to die then humanity is doomed. Young people need to invent a world of their own at each new generation; if old people (and therefore, old ideas, old prejudices) never die then there is no room for new.

Additionally, from a practical perspective it becomes indefensible to make new people (have kids) because where will they all go?

Not dying is the most selfish attitude imaginable; that level of selfishness is irrational.
See, this is the joy of PR BS. Context gets changed to mislead people, and the wrong people get blamed.
Mr. Disney did alright with the stories published by the brothers Grimm.
A grace period of about one to two months seems reasonable.
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