skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems likely to. In MCMC this is known as the mixing/convergence speed. If one valid transition kernel decreases the mutual information between samples faster than another it mixes faster. Meaning the sampled chain has better statistical properties (effective number of independent samples).
>this is not stuff modern kids should be presented with

Isn't that also true of violence in games and movies?

Or any morally repugnant behaviour, now that we mention it?

In fact, why let them read anything except the Bible?
It's because they know that Self Driving Cars are the way to Guarantee a revenue stream for the life of the vehicle.

Screw actual utility, this is about revenue, plain and simple.
Jamstack lists 322 static site generators plus there are probably many homemade solutions using standard unix tools etc. I am wondering if there are any unique selling points not yet covered by less than a dozen projects. Fast compilation and zero dependencies seems no fit to that category. Do not get me wrong, I really appreciate the creativity and variety of open solution, I am just wondering what it needs to get highly ranked on HN. In this case, it is because of the "Rust" keyword?
One of the better examples still seeing widespread mainstream use is email, and this even applies to multiple stages throughout the email ecosystem: sending mail, receiving mail, managing mailboxes. Imagine if email wasn't cross provider compatible
The problem here, as I see it, is that Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly interested in moderating and enforcing social policy.

If this doesn't scare you, it should.
> As a clojure fan, I think this is a really well balanced and fair assessment of clojure.

Thanks for the kind words. I tried to keep my biases out of it as much as possible and tried to avoid making it too ranty. And on the whole, I like Clojure; it's just not really my first choice as far as Lisps go.

> It's a bit surprising they didn't get into the whole "hygenic macro" business, which seems like the most obvious differentiator between the two languages to me.

I debated including a bit about macros, but in the end decided that this would be a bit too in-depth. Clojure uses namespaces in a somewhat clever way to work around the bulk of the hygiene issues you get in CL with defmacro, but the macro system itself is rather uninteresting. I think their custom syntax for gensym is a nice touch, even though it's yet more syntax.

Scheme's macro system is very advanced and relatively complicated indeed, and the R5RS/R7RS standard system is only pattern matching/rewriting based.

Maybe I'll do a separate piece on the macro system if people are really interested.
Not to mention the spreadsheet admits Autopilot was released in 2015 but they are still including deaths from 2013.

This can't be more blatant.
Btw. just came across your FOSDEM talk (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/) which I found very interesting. Modula-2 was actually inspired by Mesa, not by Cedar (see https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1238847), and you might also be interested in this paper (concerning the implementation language of the ST VMs): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335. Btw. a lot of good ideas from ST went into Ruby and finally Crystal which might be an adequate alternative solution for your two language (Oberon & Squeak) approach.
I see your single binary static site generator and raise you a single Makefile static site generator:

https://github.com/patrickbr/hagel
I am not an expert but according to Wikipedia this is a superior mirage just as the article says but not a Fata Morgana [2] which is a subclass of superior mirage that has multiple stacked images. So the uneducated author got it right after all. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
Hearing that VR works well with passthrough makes me want to try it again. I remember when I last tried it, everything worked great except for sound, which was staticky and choppy unless I handed the whole soundcard over to the VM.
Taiwan has high speed rail, mass rapid transit (MRT) [in Taipei and a few other cities], universal health care, and 24-hour convenience stores within walking distance. Murder rate is low, and COVID is under control.
Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer
There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on a relatively cheap VPS) and legal (so it would be much more difficult to close it). Most of the site data can be freely downloaded. Is there something you think any decent torrent indexer should have?
Evolution of Kube
I did not know this, thank you for brining it up! From the story it looks like this is the classic issue of bridging blockchain with the real world.

Am I right in understanding he's trying to withdraw USDC from Flow to Ethereum (https://support.meetdapper.com/hc/en-us/articles/36005912467...) and requires KYC and the process is actually centralised?

I'd have imagined that Cricle would have build a decentralised flowUSDC-ethUSDC bridge but perhaps there's a regulation reason which also explains the KYC requirements.

If this is the case, hopefully someone else can pick up the slack and create a Flow-Eth bridge/atomic swap.
Well, the bar should be a little higher, and in particular, it should be higher for the taxpayer-funded BBC, which would once have thought it had a reputation to protect, but now seems to have destroyed its integrity in favour of fluff pieces - whatever that is supposed to mean - empty articles for empty people?
Horrible and unusable. Pulls javascript files like hell and doesn't at all understand, how podcasts are being consumed. Listening states _must_ be synced across all devices. This is basic functionality

1. Missing Import/Export Functionality. It's called OPML.
2. Missing search integration of the biggest Podcast Providers. A simple lookup at apple's directory would've been enough, but I guess there wasn't a prefabricated piece of JS available for the task.

The only interesting aspect of this project, the WebTorrent and IPFS integrration, remains basically useless, since you would need a +500 user base for this, to work properly.
Dude, if US companies want to engage in this woke nonsense, then I quite frankly think they deserve to be cancelled. This country is honestly so pathetic, IMO, in the way that we pretend to be a "free speech" nation and yet in reality live under a woke thought police that has taken over through Twitter. I will eagerly and gladly take my business to Chinese companies, as not only do they stand for more traditional values that I tend to align with, but they are also innovating more rapidly (probably because they just focus on the tech and don't have to worry about every little thing they say).
No one is barred from reading these books.
What "Rust" keyword? The word "Rust" is not included in the title, or anywhere on the home page.
> without government intervention

Well that's the real trick, isn't it? </Han Solo>

Our government is "captured" by campaign financing. Now we have 2 problems: ineffective governmental oversight, AND Citizens United. We have to solve the latter before we can ever solve the former.
I took a class in college on cognitive linguistics taught about that last couple of decades of cognitive science research around framing. The field that we studied was relatively small so we became familiar with the major researchers in the field. The major figure was George Lakoff.

These people claim to use a proprietary method called Strategic Frame Analysis. I was curious to see if I recognized any names under the "People" section. I don't. As far as I can tell, they seem to be disconnected from the research project that I studied in college. I'm curious to know more about the political dynamic behind this. Is this a parallel research project? Do they have their own theoretical framework that was developed in parallel to Lakoff and others?

Looking at their history section, it looked like this was started by someone named Susan Nall Bales, who developed a method of "applying framing research", but it doesn't appear like she has any training in a discipline involved in "framing research". What research is being applied exactly?
I do it often, partly to troll people who religiously claim I must not. When I extract stuff from HTML with regex I don't really care about reliability, robustness, interface design, encapsulation, separation of concerns, etc. I just want that damn string and be done with it, and what's easier than curl | sed pipeline?

EDIT: OK, the article actually talks about parsing the tree. I meant just extracting some strings.
Try running it through proton, you might be surprised.
How do I create a Player for a Podcast using RSS Feed?
I am building a website using html, css and bootstrap for my podcast, my problem is that I want to put a player of the podcast in the hero image part of the website so people can come and listen to my podcast at the moment of entering into the website. I want the player to use the RSS Feed of my podcast to always update the player with the latest episode, I hace been trying to look for a solution for that but I have found anything. I made an account here on stack overflow to reach some expert on this field to help me with this problem.
Why not give billions to study sagittarius aura sparkles during a lunar conjuction!

We're learning about the world around us!

That money belongs in NASA or cancer researchers pockets not some stuff that will be minimal once the news stops reporting about it.
Nobody is suggesting that eBay should be forced to facilitate the sale of a patticular book.

The concern is over what society feels is shameful and how it's handled. Right now we are ashamed of things we shouldn't be and the remedy we're choosing is exclusion. That doesn't sound like a formula for success.

On top of that, this is all being pushed by a tiny minority that has gained more power than we realized. Surely some tiny fraction of people think Dr. Seuss is offensive. A tiny fraction of people overall, a tiny fraction of eBay employees/shareholders, etc. It's always concerning when these tiny minority views can push everyone else around.
How can any AI make sense from such a low-quality video? Why isn't there some kind of lens hood that blocks the sun glare?
We're looking at Gatsby now. We don't care about the language used to generate a site as long as it doesn't send silent errors into the finished result (always a concern with JS...)

What else did you try before landing on Gatsby?
What's wrong here? It's not like Elon designed the model S, Mercedes engineers along with Tesla ones did. Mercedes invested in 10% of Tesla and even ordered Tesla batteries for Mercedes models. But found Tesla didn't test their batteries for durability and safety. Mercedes reduced the range of their B models and added shielding to compensate. Tesla owners had to learn the hard way after several Model S cars caught on fire. Tesla fixed it after the fact.

I wouldn't trust a company cutting so many corners. Recent recall is another example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tesla-newera-insigh...
The difference between Ford and Tesla is that Ford is "one of the good ones".

Not interested in leading the pack; happy enough to follow, crush smaller competition by their bloat, declare bankruptcy and take in hundreds of billions in handouts because of their irresponsibility and ineptitude.
Hey don't diminish human prowess.
Beyond that it's pulling from a finite pot. Every Hz you allocate to upstream is one less Hz you can allocate to downstream.

Fiber doesn't have this constraint. It's trivial (and common) to deploy a pair to each premise, but, even if you don't want to do that you can shine light in both directions on the same piece of glass and reasonably* run a terabit across a single fiber (not a pair).
Another pro tip: Never use the word "should".

Avoiding reasoning about the nature of your beliefs (and why others might be subject to those beliefs) is a weakness in thinking.

"Should" is also the easiest way to create a clickbait headline to argue about because there are so many individual interpretations and following justifications of "should".
Nice writeup and a good summary/tour.

The biggest advantage of Clojure over more succinct Lisps is that the extra verbage and built-ins promote a larger shared base and patterns on how things should be done. This is less likely to turn each project into its own language. Clojure skills are much more likely to transfer between companies.

The other thing about being in the JVM ecosystem is that it promotes sharing so there's less reinventing the parts of the wheel that you need for 'this' project that's unsuitable for other use-cases.
Standard APIs still can require a fair amount of code to write. A plain text format with a well defined grammar allows me to pull out any old text editor, and get to a working change with trial and error.

Protocols and binary formats have their place too -- but there's simply nothing as universal as text.
Small, dominated by techies. Isn't that pretty much what HN has become, minus the porn that was on Reddit from early on? It's hard to argue that HN is still really focused on startups. They get an outsized influence because of who runs it and where it came from, but they're still a small percentage of the content.

Reddit was only founded 15 years ago, but I'm pretty sure HN is actually larger than the reddit of 12 years ago, when I joined.

/u/Deimorz (former Reddit admin, prior to that foudner of r/Games, which was one of the more successful attempts at doing a "same topic but more serious" competitor to a sub that ended up meme filled) is also trying his own competitor at tildes.net for more general purpose. Notably it's not a "free speech zone" like Voat and other attempted alternatives, so shouldn't be full of nazis when more reasonable users are looking for somewhere to migrate to.
Study: 83% of patients triaged remotely said it was as good as a “real” doctor
If you're a power-user sshing the framebuffer over + tesseract-jpn (or tesseract-jpn-vert) works splendidly for me. You can get it working in 100 lines of python from mix-matching existing scripts.
Adversarial attack on image recognition (funny)
Since definition of zero is x - x, negative zero is utter bullshit.
You may think you are helping by supporting these moves and empathizing with those who are offended, but I truly believe it has the opposite effect. Is it really worth saving some thin skinned people from offense if it pisses off enough people that the entire system becomes destabilized? Because that's exactly what's happening.
AP doesn't switch lanes. SO you turn it off during these events. It's not an AB test since AP is used in a very specific scenario where a person driving is used in situations where AP is incapable of handling like dealing with a stalled vehicle on the road.
Hey you responded to my comments elsewhere, but I just saw this - this definitely changes the tone for me, thank you!
Agreed. Most of the complaints I read that aren’t just related to awful management are typically to the effect of “I’m being required to function as part of a larger organization instead of doing what I want.”

There are no perfect solutions to project management, and if you prefer to work in tiny organized communes without corporate direction then that is your prerogative. I’ll be right there with you. Otherwise, it sounds like some developers here are just annoyed that their team and departments don’t revolve around their individual desire to not be managed.
>> That is how the impulse (sub-lightspeed) engines work.

That's wrong too. In TOS, it was basically a fusion rocket driving plasma rockets. In TNG and later, they added a sub-space field to decrease the mass of the ship involved.
> The placebo effect is very powerful, and placebo-induced symptoms are absolutely real symptoms.

This would be the nocebo effect, which definitely is as real as the placebo effect.
Rich text is expressed with markup. The rest can be done with protocol.

Just like clients would have to implement markup parsing and rich text rendering, they would need to implement protocol endpoints like notifications,etc.
Yoshua Bengio Team Leverages DL to Rejuvenate Symbolic AI
I suppose one way to test this theory would be to write bots that periodically and randomly query specific names, then see which registrars are bumping the prices for said names. They might exclude server providers from their scoring so the bots should run from home networks and look like real browsers. I bet there are folks here with experience in that area.
This is what I came here for. Thank you for the link.
If it's indeed a scam, people that lost their money should pool some money, hire a law firm, and sue.
I don’t think I used that quote, implied Dr Seuss doesn’t have all time classics without ethical issues, nor acted morally outraged.

I did ask a question. “Hilarious” how you missed that.
How mature would you say the project is (obviously a very subjective question)?
“In other words, it’s easier to learn the fundamentals and then the high-level tools, rather than the high-level tools and then the fundamentals.”

This is how a lot of school works and I hate it - they teach the abstract, generalized case first and only later do students apply it. They seldom get the experience of working through a practical problem like “my code runs like dogshit when n is a million” and then learning big-oh when it has context.

I need to know why I should care about something to learn it properly - I need concrete motivation. Otherwise.the lesson is just a bunch of facts, as dry as memorizing a phone book.

I generally prefer to tinker first, then learn theory and I’m fairly sure I’m not alone in this.
> It reserves all rights possible under copyright law.

Could you provide some source that corroborates this? Because my understanding is that this has no effect. It merely states something that is already true. That’s what I was hinting at with “possibly meaningless”.
Sure but in the fish tank is fish vs. resources and given that nothing else exists in the “fish tank universe” the flakes therefore function as the total amount of resources and also the entire economy at the same time.

I can triple the size and value of the fish tank economy just like how Reddit can increase the value of GameStop. The fact of the matter is it’s all still a zero sum game.
I'm not talking about anything US related, I'm talking about the concept of negative/positive freedom in philosophy. And no, there isn't anything intrinsically wrong with this concept, freedom of speech if essentially a negative freedom if your constitution has some exceptions that doesn't change that...
This has always been the intent of Stack Overflow, from its very earliest days. One of the stock reasons for closing a question used to be “too specific—this question is unlikely to help anyone else” (or words to that effect), though that has been removed now (I think because it upset too many people who took its blunt message the wrong way). People have always been nudged towards adjusting questions so that they’ll be generally useful.

Discussions on questions are routinely about unrelated or not-closely-related matters, and quite apart from that Stack Overflow wants to be a Q&A platform, not a discussion platform.
Ugh, do you really have to be this nitpicky? Fine, you wrote:

> the approximation is generally good enough for a game

No, it's not generally good enough for a game – only for some games, and not good enough for any game with 3D graphics.
Sad but true....
I find it is constantly being recreated in different subs, though they do tend to get more specific.
I was hoping that someone would have already pointed out that this is not quite correct phraseology, as the qualifier "old ways to" has to be inserted: e.g. "old ways to get time in GMT". The "new" ways have been around for nigh on 30 years in some cases, and aren't really "new" now. I've been using localtime_r() for almost that long, for example. Coming from another language, don't be fooled into thinking that what you are looking at in these lists is the current state of the art for the language.
> Business people don't have to be "clueless" to be constantly shifting priorities: they are reacting to the day-to-day business realities of client requests and biz dev opportunities.

That makes the business people sound a lot like the guy in Office Space who takes the specs to the engineers. If they are just a secretary who will rapidly oscillate priorities based on what customer yelled the loudest yesterday that isn't very useful to the business. The purpose of a product team or anyone in that capacity is to try and understand client needs prior to the client actually having them, rapidly changing priorities is generally evidence of that not happening.
Look! It's Asana!
How's reddit going to handle 500 mods going awol?
An AI that understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive
Not sure about the per-game config, but the Proton is definitely open source [0], as are DXVK [1] and D9VK [2].

Steam Play is part of the Steam client, so is proprietary. ProtonDB isn't open source but does data dumps to github regularly [3].

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/

[1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

[2] https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk

[3] https://github.com/bdefore/protondb-data
It isn't a monopoly in the space. There are so many widely used marketplace products at this point.
These viewpoints only exist because those who hold them are never held responsible for explaining why the last popularly held view they had is no longer valid and why they didn’t figure it out before it became unpopular.
Exactly... I keep reading these concerns that Proton will cause developers to ignore Linux, when really there's effectively zero incentive for developers to pay attention to Linux in the first place, given how few people use the platform to play games.

In my view any system that makes it realistic for people who buy games to use Linux full time can only increase the chances a developer will be able to justify supporting a Linux version of their game.

I use desktop Linux primarily (complemented by a Windows partition and a Mac laptop) and would love to see more support from game developers, but the idea of such a small niche of users turning their noses up at "ports" and demanding native builds with support is borderline absurd.
This is fantastic. :)
Showing support for linux is great, but what about DRM? What happens when the desire to prevent piracy of the windows client means attaching software that will never in a million years run on linux? DRM is why linux users have basically given up on ever getting access to games from the largest developers.
Like any new thing there will be profiteers, scammers, spammers and the like. The true value, just like any other art, comes from the value you place on it. I could 100% imagine myself buying a digital frame, hang it on my wall and display some NFTS that I own. Those tweet spammers who are pumping tweets onto the chain every second automatically are stupid in my opinion. Often times it isn't about the art as much as it is about the artist. They're just muking up the seas.
> But I would say, on average, that the difference is that it's cheaper to have a good life in Europe. If you earn 50k in Sweden, it would roughly give me the same QoL as a person living on 150k in NYC (or 80k in London!), and if I earned 60k in Sweden then it would feel roughly the same as 200k in NYC, because the costs don't scale linearly.

These numbers seem quite off as far as I see it on numbeo. It's a factor of 1.5 that you need to multiply the Stockholm /Swedish salaries with to get the same standard of life in NYC.

$150K in NYC should be something like ~$100K in Sweden.
And $200K in NYC should be something like ~$133K in Sweden.
Except for the Romulans using some sort of captured/artificial singularities (white holes?) for their power generation IIRC.