skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, the perceptron was developed in the 50s, and it's kind of hilarious to read the original press release which claimed it was going to be conscious of its own existence.
The data behind .ly look truncated. I find it hard to believe that registrations came to a hard stop in 2015. I wonder what’s going on?
Well, they can be 6,000hp or more depending on the model. And 20,000 ft-lbs of torque. The actual torque at the wheels might be much higher or lower because there is not a mechanical transmission, there's a generator and electric motors called traction motors and like most motors they have peak torque at slow speeds. You can probably look up the output of those.

The engines are designed for running at peak power for a long time, which a car engine cannot do. They run at a low rpm and last 30 years; millions and millions of miles. They run on low quality fuel. There's basically no weight constraint, in fact locomotives are required to be really heavy for the sake of wheel friction.

Finally, most power is needed at startup, not for maintaining speed. One locomotive can't actually pull an entire fully loaded train from zero. There is slack between each car, and they are accelerated from zero one by one, from front to rear of the train.
I keep the `-p` (pretty) option as a single option. Not a convention at all. I toyed with 80x3 and 80:3 but ended up with 80.3. You are right though, it probably make sense to support two options as well to avoid the unusual convention. Maybe a `-edge` and `-max-depth` options in addition. Issue created:
https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/issues/36
The air outside your house counts as a thermal reservoir as well. That it doesn't store anything to the next season is annoying and makes it not work well in cold temperatures.
News are providing that information for scraping though, viewing source of any of those sites and look into the "og" or "twitter" meta tags, they are designed to be used that way.
This may not change end of year results, but this kind of research is what gives Google a credible voice when it comes to shaping public discourse and influencing legislative process, for instance.
This might be of interest to you: https://twitter.com/theavalkyrie/status/1349458442734469123
Is Total Cookie Protection a Mozilla Intellectual Property ?

In short, should I say we are talking about TCP/IP ?
I understand that the desire for a Proof of Work to be useful is strong and that's what is the appeal for these kinds of things. You should know that everyone would be totally onboard if there were a way to keep critical cryptocoin properties AND make the computation useful. The naysayers here don't dislike folding or any other useful computations. They just have experience with the cryptocoin design elements.

There's some subtleties to how a cryptocoin works that aren't obvious and they're absolutely critical to making it work. Bitcoin can have competing chains of blocks that eventually get orphaned. And it's because there's this race condition while block solutions are propagated across the network. Eventually, after enough blocks the network agrees on which chain wins. But imagine if you could know how the next block would start - what its inputs would be. You could start solving that block now.
What are the pros and cons of using pymc3 vs writing a model in Stan and using pystan/rstan? It looks like the minibatch support of variational inference is one feature that pymc3 has up on Stan.

Another question, what are the practical limits of MCMC with lot? I asked a question on statsexchange a year ago [1] that had ~2000 data points, but it is analogous to a research problem I have that would have more like ~100 million data points. Would a model like the one I suggested there ever finish running?

[1] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/441250/pope-effect...
I'm duplicating this text higher up, lest it be buried deep in the argument below:

> At normal cooking temperatures, PTFE-coated cookware releases various gases and chemicals that present mild to severe toxicity.

> Only few studies describe the toxicity of PTFE but without solid conclusions.

> There are some reports where PFOA was detected in the gas phase released from the cooking utensils under normal cooking temperatures.

> Due to toxicity concerns, PFOA has been replaced with other chemicals such as GenX, but these new alternatives are also suspected to have similar toxicity.

> The toxicity and fate of ingested PTFE coatings are also not understood.

Source:

PTFE-coated non-stick cookware and toxicity concerns: a perspective

Muhammad Sajid 1, Muhammad Ilyas 2

PMID: 28913736

DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-0095-y

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28913736/
The flu kills the same amount every year. Nothing new
No. There’s no hard coded list. You get the same heuristics as everyone.
It might not be undervalued if the mobile app wasn't trash.
Probably a DC-DC adapter, bypassing the power brick entirely.
Opinionated Opinion:

That's an incredibly XML-ified version of a color table. I can clearly see the tags now. Can't just do a look up of a color color, instead I would have to iterate over the members or store it in a different data structure.

Why even use JSON? Blech.
I can hardly understand what this is saying. Is it merely that fructose consumption correlated with inflammation?
I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.
You missed the bits where Reddit should start trying to occupy the space of other content-hosting sites to generate more ad revenue and harvest more data from users.

It comes down to the fact that Reddit isn't really a social media site - it's a link aggregator with the trappings of social media, or a slightly fancier network of forums (fora? fori? I forget the declension...). I think it is perfectly valued, and fits a niche that maybe only Pinterest comes close to filling. If it tries to expand its social media elements, it will be trying to be something it isn't and users will respond accordingly (one would hope).
What HBO's documentary gets wrong about open relationships
People get weird about sampling, covering, and "authenticity" in music. I've seen covering called stealing. I've even seen a comment on the last movement of Beethoven's Sonata Opus 79 saying that Chopin "stole" from Beethoven for Etude Opus 25 Number 9.

Copyright aside, I hate this attitude that seems to exist independent of legal issues because I think that if a piece is good, it should be expanded upon. Who cares if a riff isn't original if it takes it farther then the original ever did? I hate it when a theme is touched briefly at one part in a ten-minute song when it's good enough to be a song unto itself.
How many loot llamas does it take to buy a suit or a rolex?
Sure if no methods/work exists. In this case there already has been some work done, to mitigate these issues. So either mention them in related work and/or highlight why theses methods arent enough.
I read it as HFCs and juices are the smoking gun in obesity and type-2 diabetes.
This same Epic that is screaming to the world how Apple and Google are so bad boys.

Good example of dual morals.
Reel Engineering: “No Highway in the Sky (1951)”
Electric commuter trains have other major benefits. They stop and start frequently, and electric train sets can accelerate and decelerate faster than diesel. On the upcoming electric Caltrain, this will save quite a bit of time for long commutes. I believe that many electric trains can also regenerative brake. They can operate safely in long tunnels, unlike diesel. I suspect that diesel locomotives are considerably less efficient under the varying load conditions of a commuter train than they are for long freight routes.

And, as far as I know, all major high speed trains are electric.
Reinventing Existing vs. Creating New Markets
yes, but the solutions I have seen they seem to store the state also in a cookie and then check against it on the redirect that it didn't change
Fair enough. Most of the books aren't really comedies, as such. _Good Omens_ definitely is, though, and for me, it remains hilarious after 31 years. One of my very favourite novels after THHGTTG itself.

I would probably suggest reading it before watching the series, if you were so inclined -- it's very good indeed, but strongly aimed at the readers of the book. It's a bit wordy in places.

The radio adaptation was also excellent:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knt4h

It has cameos by both Gaiman and Pratchett. A sample from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LMCx9nfAk

Some samples...

“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”

“She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.”

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Possibly true. We've tried instigating such a convention, but it requires explaining to every new person and every now and again someone in a hurry drops a comment in a place we don't want it.
Wow what a fascinating post this was. I had a questions and a comment.

>The IBM 1401 could also boot from a magnetic tape using a similar process; pressing the "Tape Load" button on the console loaded a record from tape, just like booting from a card.

Were the tape consoles prohibitively more expensive at the time? Were there certain workloads that lent themselves to magnetic tape vs punch cards or was this purely an economical concern?

>"The photo below shows the card that implements this flip-flop. With the 1401, you can actually see the physical transistors that implement each function."

Would you consider diagraming out that card like you usually do for circuits? I think that would be great addition or maybe even a separate blog post(s) on discrete CPU components in these old mainframes?

Lastly where did you manage to find access to a working IBM 1401?
Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
I think the likelyhood of it being done in the "New Tech" fashion of bi-directional real-time data flows with high level languages is high, and the security of that will be low. So I'm not super pumped about the inevitable grid software exploits. Privacy aside, it's got other potential risks that are more important to address I think.
That would make sense, really interested in the details. Unrelated to anything, but makes me wonder how horribly inefficient running a car I4 is for providing power.
Have you considered using something like Expounder (https://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder/) in your posts? (Disclosure, I made it but it's a small open source lib).

I don't see why we can have full-blown web apps but our text needs to be very specifically just text these days.
The picture also shows seven kids! Now, that doesn't mean they're his but lots of kids would still be a pretty good reason for a gigantic car.
Show HN: A website to find music playlists made by devs
Do you have any good examples of sites that don’t work on Firefox? I hear this a lot, but I don’t seem to experience it. I exclusively use Firefox on the desktop, while I use Safari on mobile.
settings that are known to break websites are disabled in the default configuration, and labeled clearly in the settings pane.

firefox doesn't exist to "win" the browser wars. it doesn't even exist to give users the best possible browsing experience, although that's certainly a primary goal and in my experience they're doing well.

the #1 reason that firefox exists is so that mozilla can have a seat at the WHATWG table -- because very important decisions about the fabric of the world wide web happen there, and the other seats all belong to apple, google, and microsoft.

mozilla is the closest thing we (the users -- not just firefox users, but all web users) have to a "representative" in the WHATWG, because mozilla doesn't answer to shareholders.

> What good is amazing privacy stuff if your userbase is rapidly dwindling?

aside from a noticeable dip when the new chromium-edge started shipping with windows, firefox browser usage on desktop has been pretty steady for the past 5 years.

the value in adding privacy features is that it solidifies a certain use of the protocols, making it harder for WHATWG to make spec changes that undermine the provided security.
But does when somebody claims that "iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market."
No, it is not too much to ask in the specific case of Gebru’s bad paper. Several of the arguments are specious, like comparing the total energy consumption for training GPT with car trips, or demanding that NLP researchers have to keep up with rapidly changing activist “woke” vocabulary and ensure their models are respecting it.

These are ridiculous claims, and it’s fair to respond to them by saying, “well, what exactly do you imagine a solution or mitigation looks like?”

Essentially, by the nature of how specious Gebru’s stated problems are, they demand clarity over what an “ethical solution” even is, conceptually, and why everyone would have to agree.

For example, you could discuss economies of scale or train-once-finetune-everywhere approaches with GPT that reduce total energy needs. Or you could discuss how researchers can register the corpus they use and the snapshot of time it was grabbed, with an open understanding that as long as the methods and data are reproducible, there is no research ethical issue with studying that corpus, no matter how much bias or lack of woke vocab a given person believes it has. (And also, nobody is required to just accept activist language as important or valid.)

Gebru did none of this. The article could literally be summed up by Gebru saying, “I think <supposedly shocking evidence> is bad, therefore its connection to something in ML is bad.”

E.g. “I think, subjectively, that the raw energy use to train GPT is bad. Here are some shocking comparisons. Therefore GPT is bad.”

It’s incredibly unrigorous and juvenile. Dean’s comments that it needs to clearly state mitigations is actually a super generous, polite way of saying the paper is just subjective amateur hour.
Facebook to restore Australian news pages after deal reached
Brian Broll will be taking about 0 A.D. today between 11:10 and AM–12:25 PM PCT for Microsoft
's AI and Gaming Research Summit. They seem to still accept attendance registrations.
https://lnkd.in/d5y5Y37
Isabelle also has code generation facilities and very good tooling, and uses classical logic.
A politician who said politicians shouldn’t run NASA wants to run NASA
Yes, I also think that realtime is something where Firebase or Supabase may help. The app I'm talking about has no such requirements, and likely won't have them ever.

Even then, if I were to build an app with a predictable realtime requirement I would (a) find a full-stack framework with this as a core feature (b) use a framework without this core capability, but look very hard for the simplest library that would allow me to pull off the requirements, and only if all else fails do (c) which is to isolate the realtime component into something like Firebase and build everything else in the core stack. (I haven't tried Supabase, but from what I understand it might fall more into (b) than (c), since you can bring your own infra)
If there's a chance of setting a poor precedent for them, even a minuscule chance, they'll often settle after racking up the opponent's legal bills.
Both the websites are fancy ways of saying "one JSON object per line". The idea of laying out data that way was in common use before either of the website, they're just recording the practice.
So, essential what a real 10x engineer is?
Hi there! You're right that the C grammar in particular is one that could use some love. C is not one of the languages that we're syntax highlighting with tree-sitter yet, nor is it one of the languages that we support Code Navigation for. That means that my team has had to prioritize their work in other places, and no community members have stepped up to take over or help out with maintenance of the C grammar. Not a satisfying answer, I realize, but an honest one.
Julia multiple dispatch allows dynamic polymorphism.

Check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1801216/what-is-the-diff...
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
This is not "utterly unremarkable". Rational investors don't buy investments whose very basis is a lie. It's only unremarkable to cryptocurrency gamblers who've already accepted everything they're doing is a slow motion scam.
Just want to share what I learned from personal experience:

Don't give up on winning over your partner's mind. It may take a little while, and you have to be patient, diplomatic, and gentle. People are resistant to change. But it is not hopeless, and it is worth it in the end, because their health is at stake.
> - Even if everything alleged were true, it really wouldn't be a drop in the bucket compared to the kind of shenanigans central banks have been pulling for centuries. If the crypto-currency market is illegitimate due to money printing by Tether, then so is the conventional financial system due to quantitive easing by the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world.

Currently Tether is printing $3.5B worth of Tether per week.

They, and supporters are claiming with a straight face that those printings are supported by USD deposits. But who knows what bank this supposed $180B/year is going into?

Recognizing that revenue is not a straight comparative metric (but that much revenue is banked and/or/then invested), that would put Tether's deposit rate at the top 20 in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). We're going to need to accept that there's some pretty large optimism needed to believe this.
> following a workout regimen for a few weeks.

This got a chuckle out of me sir.

I imagine the sperm sent you a memorandum of protest about your unhealthy lifestyle. Sure it was an illegal strike but it worked.
We've switched to carbon steel from cast iron; while it's easy to warp the carbon steel (and we have), it still works fairly well on our electric range. The seasoning is just as good as cast iron. A heavier high carbon steel pan might avoid the warping issue, but ours are all pretty thin.
I mean sure, we've seen the capabilities of the Reliant Robin as a tiny 3-wheeled car, so electrifying such a vehicle only makes sense.

First, the incredible handling on cobblestone and narrow streets in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

Then later, scientists were actually able to launch one into outer space as a viable alternative to the space shuttle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdrlWR-yFM
Land is the typical recommendation. A noisy crowd thinks gold is a good hedge. Personally, I think that high quality companies with pricing power should retain their value; Coca-Cola and Apple can probably increase their prices to compensate for inflation, leading to increased earnings, leading to increased stock price (the increase compensating for inflation).
> Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers

How does this work out? Say I want to launch a new popular login provider - how do I get past the Firefox gatekeeper?
Not really. If you want to convince people that COVID-19 is significantly different the seasonal flu, all you have to do is compare COVID-19's ~500k death toll in 2020 to the flu's ~50k average death toll for recent years. That said, I haven't heard of anyone using the "just the flu" argument since the first couple months of the pandemic.
That would only help you if you had a novel, valid folding solution.
Essentially it's a clash between the Great Man conception of history and the process version. The Great Man version is easier to understand. You can look at a specific individual and easily conclude that their actions had an enormous impact. For people such as Mao who had sway over billions, it is certainly a conclusion that seems to withstand quite a bit of scrutiny. But any person is a product of their context and we have to deal with multi-factored forces that might be impossible for a single human mind to model or grasp given the quantity of data. This is particularly relevant for scientific pursuits as opposed to political decisions. Newton and Leibniz sound irreplaceable if you read their biographies, but they came up with calculus separately around the same time. The same goes for Darwin and Wallace. If the conditions are ripe, individuals matter less. Technology isn't a predefined ladder like in the civ games, but every civ is at a juncture where so and so technology has a probability of being discovered. It's not unrealistic to assume that if certain lab conditions exist, it's only a matter of time until someone stumbles on to penicillin even if from a historical and emotional perspective it seems like a freak accident.

I can't draw a conclusive answer to these questions following the logical consequence of my own arguments, but at least we have to come at the problem with the knowledge that our own minds are drawn to simple narratives and to individual achievements. Hence assuming replaceability in the absence of very strong evidence to the contrary
So this is a a sample of the reason why I like Elixir (or Erlang). Your 'traditional' microservice architecture, running on Google/Amazon/Azure infrastructure, using lots of their pieces is very hard to test in an end to end way and you've got no chance of running it up locally. Kubernetes provides an abstraction layer that improves this but it's not perfect. Even a Django framework probably has a load of workers doing stuff off process.

In Elixir, what you've got is a lot of Elixir. Sometimes you need other external services and there's some work there, but you can often get a surprising amount of your system in one codebase, running on one more instances of the VM. It makes testing SO much easier.
> Here, a bicycle or a scooter / moped is the way to go

This is the street outside my window this morning: https://i.imgur.com/ObMrzMn.jpeg
I bet they pinkie-swear those new coins are really really backed by dollars this time.
we don't send notifications for @-mentions, by default. instead, mentions ends up in your activity feed so you can check it on your time. But, for when you need to reach someone, we have !!-mentions — which will send a notification.

(you can also set per-channel and per-thread notification settings — so you can turn it down, or turn it up.)
I don't see what Devo has to do with this...
> Milk is primarily suspended fat in water.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100+g+cow%27s+milk says it's primarily carbohydrates (7g/100g), protein (4g), and a bit of fat (2g) suspended in water. Also, the website is somewhat confusing, but poking around a bit it looks like they are targeting the production of protein (casein specifically), not fat. You may be attacking a strawman here...

> You need at least a magnitude higher funding unless you plan to outsource everything to India.

... as well as a large fraction of the world's population, for no discernible reason.
What an absolute travesty. Epic is running a casino, encouraging players to gamble, but not for something of value, but an infinitely repeatable digital good. To be able to "pay off", if you could even go as far to call it that, in digital goods at effectively no cost to them then we're just encouraging further bad behavior.