skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our large brains are good for prediction and problem solving in complex environments... capabilities needed to be a generalist rather than a specialist.

Changing food sources may be part of the picture, but it seems more likely that it'd be a need to utilize more varied and unpredictable food sources, not just a different staple, that'd require these capabilities.

It also seems inevitable that there'd have been multiple selection pressures all acting on whatever evolving capabilities we had. Maybe changing food sources upset the status quo, and favored some initial spurt in brain growth, but that in turn would eventually have lead to new social/communication capabilities (and what else?) that would have themselves then acted as differentiators for selection.

The story of the selection pressures acting along our evolutionary history is going to be multifacted and messy, ergo any simple explanation is at best incomplete or wrong. Why didn't all animals preying on these larger animals develop large brains? Where are the sabre-tooth developers among us?
This is where the difference between theory and practice comes in. Who is 'people' here? Billions of people today have no idea what bitcoin is and will have no say in 'collectively' deciding which chain tip to call 'Bitcoin'. BTC is decentralized in theory, but with literally .0001% of the population owning like 99% of BTC it can't get more centralized..
Ha - thanks!
Also long descriptions of features that seem absolutely standard. Most of it read like an introduction to modern editors/IDE-lites.
Clever. And I bet you learned a lot more about those than you ever imagined.
For anyone looking for cheap gpus (quite a bit cheaper than this even), I highly recommend the marketplace on vast.ai
I’ve spent hundreds of dollars there and will spend many more.
CGA color looked even better on a composite color monitor (like a standard TV). Developers were able to abuse NTSC color artifacts to get a surprising amount of color out of their games. The downside was that text became generally unreadable.
I think large institutional investors buying credit (as opposed to treasuries - not sure what really happens there now) are still mostly following a buy and hold strategy. But yes, I'd agree that's likely the case for individuals (including through retirement accounts).
I'm a bit sad to see that awkwardness is seen as worse than resolving the conflict. I don't know the situation but I like to think that I would find it worth it to have a difficult conversation rather than keep everyone smiling.

But then I also am not part of any minority group. I'm a white male in a western country who is good at what he does, which would let me incur a lot of awkwardness before someone thinks that the problem is me. That might be different in your situation, or simply in that context, I don't know. Regardless, it makes me sad that there was a need to bury the topic.
You typically won't find adjacent stations, like 91.3 and 91.5, in the same area and when it happens (perhaps you're on the edge between the two broadcast areas) you'll hear one station bleeding into the other.

Back when I used to listen to terrestrial radio, I noticed that "bleeding" was much more common with "Christian" radio stations. I could be trying to listen to NPR broadcast from 30 miles away, and it would be totally drowned out by a Christian station an entire channel away (e.g. 92.3 - 91.3) broadcast from a different state.
Audacity is a great audio editor.

Very intuitive GUI and easy to learn and to teach to others.

I was able to teach a musician friend of mine to be able to lay tracks, edit and splice in about 20 minutes even though had very little technical abilities.

Sometimes too much is a bad thing.

Trying to learn something like Pro Tools as a beginner is enough to scare someone away from digital recording/editing
Oh yeah! I learned everything there was to learn about my Atari 8-bit computer. Of course, programming it and others is something I'm still learning.
For a crowd that constantly parrot “DYOR”...you should really DYOR.

No stablecoin has even been audited. Zero. None.

Most perform attestations, which doesn’t even come close to an audit.

Tether does neither.
The NFT itself can be redistributed. That has noting to do with the artwork.
ICE power trains can be about as cheap to manufacture as 50 miles worth of battery. Reusing ICE designs and manufacturing won't introduce cheaper electrics, it would introduce more expensive electrics.
Netflix did this.
You can look at the retraction itself [0] and it says nothing close to "it wasn't based in reality."

What it says is that Trump's actual words were that the state official would "find things that are gonna be unbelievable" and that "[w]hen the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised."

The specific words were a misquote, but there is no doubt from the call itself that Trump was pressuring state officials into supporting his big lie.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/correction-trump-geo...
Brilliant. (Truly!)
Sure. The change itself means nothing to me, I don't think "master" or "main" makes any difference, it's the use of github's corporate megaphone to project this triviality onto the wider discussion about social justice that I take issue with.
From the perspective of a salesperson, does it matter who gets offended, or for what reason? They lose the sale either way.
very nice theme. Are You using the "https://themes.gohugo.io//theme/hugo-book/"
For most of the things Audacity does, Ocenaudio does them in a less clunky way:

https://www.ocenaudio.com/
Just curious, why GraphQL? I say this as someone who runs a very large Federated Apollo GraphQL architecture at work.

Seems like overkill if you have just one client (your app).
This outage has caused thousands of websites to be offline for many hours today. Redundancy at the DNS level is so important now. Dyn / Dynect / Oracle / OCI had an outage recently. DNSimple has had an outage recently. Cloudflare has had numerous outages in the past year. When will companies start to care about DNS and put the redundancy where it belongs? I know there are services like dnsmadeeasy.com that have specialized in this. It has never been so important (during this time of Covid) to keep the web resources online.
In tech, though, asians often outnumber whites at US FAANG companies. Foreigners are vastly overrepresented, jews are overrepresented, blacks are underrepresented, spanish are underrepresented.

In American politics/history I totally hear you. But maybe tech is a slightly different animal? 'White supremacy' is a tough sell when <40% are domestic-born christian white.

(none of the above comment is intended as a value statement on various ethnicities doing well/poorly, just an observation of how well they're doing).
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Unfortunately they don't seem to have a link to the final "full-res" image. I'd love to put that with my collection of other massive-res images. My screensaver pans between random spots on massive images in a folder.
Technology and science move to the heart of UK security
The comments here are like that bit in the original Robocop:

"Ooo, guns, guns, guns!"

https://youtu.be/z5-1nVswz0I
The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash
I use some form of TeX (LaTeX or XeTeX) almost daily, and I often think about the future of (La)TeX and potential replacements.

I think that we desperately need some modern language for document preparation, which will replace TeX and its derivatives, but I also don't see anything like that on the horizon. The biggest drawbacks of TeX are lack of proper Unicode support; lack of support of modern font formats; and outdated programming practices. Tools like XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt tackle these problems with some success, but they are still not perfect. Also, they are too similar to TeX to bring drastic changes to programmers. We need something that is designed from zero specifically as a TeX replacement (including compiler, package manager, popular packages, bibliography manager, converters, etc...). I can only hope for better future...

BTW, fun fact: TeX is still actively developed. Knuth fixed some bugs in the kernel last month (after few years of pause).
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

-- John F. Kennedy
All you want is a banana, but you end up getting the gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle...
It sounds like you have grown much and now are one the good guys. Job well done.

Did he tell you anything juicy?
> How does that happen?

Is it easy to convert LaTeX to ConTeXt?
I love it when you press play and nothing happens.
Not really off-topic, IMO. The state department of education has it for state-level statistics in CO and NC. CO even publishes a browser in map form. Local school districts publish their own local budgets in these states, too.

That doesn't directly answer your question, but that's where I think you should start.
You pretty much hit on a sore point I have.

Issues up for discussion require rational thinking, discovery of facts, forming a "until new info arises" judgement and then you go with that for now.

Left? Right? These are for hands, car indicators, molecule orientation and other two faceted scenarios.

Complex social topics - and they are always complex - two orientations are not nearly enough to consider the full range of possibilities.

Edit: bit more concise.
It shines on a CRT with composite input. It's still the same eye-piercing nastiness people are familiar with today if you used an RGB monitor like the IBM 5153, which IBM marketed for use with the CGA card.
Wow that’s a mindfuck. I understand it in an optical sense but not intuitively. Do you have a good explanation for this?
A linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TS, HTML, MD, CSS
I can believe that you might believe that, but you’ve also demonstrated a lack of reality based belief, so excuse me if I don’t care what you think.
You missed the point that I have to be paid to use InteliJ.
Perhaps your path to enlightenment is different. Try reading these manual pages and this handbook:

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps

ps has one set of options and has used getopt() since April 1990.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inittodr&sektion=9

Documenting the operating system encompasses documenting the kernel as well.

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

"Part of the o/s" is not the best description. The idea is that there is a clear demarcation between all of the programs that come as part of the operating system, and all of the programs that are applications softwares that are installed on top of the operating system.
You'd be surprised as to how many early holders sold at local maximums. And at the very least, that inequality can't be permanently maintained by printing more of it to give to the wealthy.
Early digital cameras could be fingerprinted by looking at dead pixels (there are over a hundred million ways to have three dead pixels in a one megapixel camera, so if these are uniformly distributed, that, in the early days, when few cameras existed, have almost guaranteed uniqueness). It wouldn’t surprise me if that still is possible by looking at minor variations in light sensitivity across pixels (that might require having access to lots of photos by a single camera, though)
Not everyone but it's been out for 8 years.

If you're worried about congestion, you're probably going to see ac.
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Having developed shipping apps in swift 1.0, using GCD, it wasn’t any more awkward than using GCD with objective C, indeed generally it was easier because Swift is more concise.

I guess in relation to your original statement, I am refuting it.

They had a strong solution which was pretty easy to use, and as good as the language they were replacing, and well integrated with the platform.

The idea that they ‘didn’t have a strong solution’ doesn’t really hold from my point of view.

It was strong, and working which gave them the luxury of time to develop an idiomatic solution as the language matured.

If there really hadn’t been a strong solution in place, I would have agreed with you.
What is the value add? How does it store value? How do you get your money (in large volume), into or out of BTC with a transaction associated with you or your company? It's not even a good anonymous store of wealth anymore. It can't handle transaction volume at any kind of reasonable scale. It also doesn't have an order book deep enough to facilitate large transactions in the market. You'll have to figure out a deal with a sketchy OTC broker.
Let me be clear, when I say clunky, I mean clunky, not old-fashioned or anything like that. I live in Vim and the terminal. I know perl. I can handle un-shiny UI.

To give a concrete example: suppose I want to apply noise cancellation (something very few free audio tools provide I must add, and a really cool feature of Audacity):

- You select your track

- You go in Effect, you skim through the long (alphabetized) list to find "Noise reduction"

- You realize that you forgot to generate your noise profile, so you close the pop up because you can't reselect when the pop up is active

- You select your noise reference

- You return to Effect, skim through the long (alphabetized) list again, find noise reduction again

- You tell it to use the selected audio as noise reference.

- You close the window

- You select the entire audio again

- You return to Effect, skim through the long (alphabetized) list again, find noise reduction again

- You can tweak the various reduction parameters, then you can click "preview" again which pops a 2nd window up with a rudimentary audio player that doesn't let you do anything besides listening to the selected audio from the start. You can't focus on a particular zone or anything. If you want to do that you have to apply the noise reduction, close the module, return to the main window, listen to your track on the proper timeline then undo the reduction and return to Effects, skim through the long (alphabetized) list etc...

If there's a better way to do any of this I haven't found it.

I don't want to really to be too hard on Audacity, I'm genuinely thankful for its existence, but it's not a good example of UI done right IMO.

I like minimalism in UI, but I think it works best when it's flexible and composable (like Vim commands for instance). Audacity UI's is neither, it's just a long series of ad-hoc modules.
> I feel most people would have predicted the outcome to be negative

With a company like Microsoft that sits on a monopoly? They could fire all their staff and still sell licenses just fine.
I'm guessing this ends with someone being offered a choice of colourful pill...
Nova _is_ nice but as a longtime Sublime Text user I still prefer the latter (and yes, I paid for both). Nova just doesn’t feel right to me, ironically.
Of course it's a neologism - the behavior is new! Most individuals in the nineties did not have the ability to collectivise and instantly broadcast their desires to corporations with an audience of followers - hence brands generally did not partake in social causes.
and the bathroom attendant in the guys bathroom not letting two guys go in the stall together to do cocaine, while getting berated by everyone in line about equality because the girls go in stalls together routinely
Indeed. What is the action that corresponds to "hit" in your explanation, and who is undertaking it when the extremism "pops up"?

Deleting someone's account doesn't remove them from society, and doesn't change their views, and doesn't prevent them from using other websites, talking to people offline, organizing groups, et c.

In whac-a-mole, you boop it and it goes down/away, you having scored a point.

What do people want to do when online extremism is detected, and why do they think that will be an effective technique for their goals?
This is a good point. I think products like these have strong network externalities (more the number of people use it, more beneficial they become). For this reason, a new product may not replace an incumbent product even when the incumbent product is slightly inferior. I spent a lot of time learning and using ConTeXt. Wrote one of my articles using that. When the time came to send it to a journal, they wanted it either in Word, or formatted using their LaTeX style files. At that time I gave up on ConTeXt, since I did not want to keep learning and using two different systems.
Reminds me of Frederik Pohl's "Chicken Little" from the book Space Merchants:

"""

He swung open her door. “This is her nest,” he said proudly. I looked and gulped.

It was a great concrete dome, concrete-floored. Chicken Little filled most of it. She was a gray-brown, rubbery hemisphere some fifteen yards in diameter. Dozens of pipes ran into her pulsating flesh. You could see that she was alive.

Herrera said to me: “All day I walk around her. I see a part growing fast, it looks good and tender, I slice.” His two-handed blade screamed again. This time it shaved off an inch-thick Chicken Little steak. (Ch. 9)

"""
I believe the assumption is essentially that PRNGs (pseudo random number generators) exist.
Seems like we both need to do more vipassana meditation then. I hope schizophrenia doesn’t run in the family.

Edit: oops sorry for actually talking about meditation in this thread
Yeah, similarly pain for me too. But I think it was accurate based on my experience and I think showing the four broken, jerk people was really representative and accurate. Turning them into likable characters would be even more of a fantasy than it already was. I suppose there’s nice people somewhere, but I had the bad luck of not working with them.
There are scummy folks in every space, can't generalize the way you did at the end there.
Yep and I fully intend to when I get back to that. I also intend to extract my dark mode styles in the same way so I can add an optional/progressively enhanced setting to override the prefers-color-scheme query for visitors who (like me) have a non-global preference.
Indeed, the transition from pixel art to 3D games really set back the beauty of the games for some years.

The Last Blade II (1998), IMHO the pinnacle of 2D fighting games (both in terms of graphics and replayability): https://www.nintendolife.com/games/neogeo/last_blade_2/scree...

Virtua Fighter (1993), pioneering 3D fighting game: https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/virtua-fighter/screens...

IMHO even Tekken IV (2001), released three years after The Last Blade II, aged worse and looks uglier today: https://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/tekken4-p2.html
Not the best headline, but I think it's a great app idea.

As much as we'd like it to be true, we've seen that we can't rely on large entities to make necessary changes without making changes in our own behavior.

It's a huge challenge to change individual behavior. Some say it's insurmountable, but I think time will show that it can be done.
>We had no mass murders here. There were some deaths during workers' protests.

At least 40 people were killed during martial law, and over 10000 interned. Dozens of people were murdered by security forces in the previous years too. Reducing that to "some deaths" just feels tone-deaf.

>The public infrastructure (roads, trains, hospitals, schools, etc.) improved so much that comparison with the state before war would be a joke.

It would be surprising if absolutely nothing improved for over 40 years. But in the end, economy and infrastructure was a joke when compared to Western block. When looking at it it's hard to classify infrastructure development during PRL as success, really.

>(arguably the '81 was done to avoid such an intervention)

This is widely disputed, and most people who promoted this view were themselves involved in introducing martial law, so...

>History is not black and white. "Communism is bad and makes people do bad things" is very wrong way to look at it.

It certainly isn't black and white, but whitewashing totalitarian regime because they didn't kill enough people to classify as mass killing isn't solution either.
Is Firefox? It definitely doesn't seem so.

The more options you support the harder is to fix/change things.
I think it's really weird how you still act like you have any qualification in this arena.
> Censorship (of which deplatforming is one form) is not the same as choosing not to listen and hence, is not part of freedom of speech.

Deplatforming is choosing not to actively relay speech. While, yes, such does (as “self-censorship”) fit in some of the broader conceptions of censorship, it's absolutely part of the freedom of speech (and central to the idea of the “marketplace of ideas”, the same as people being free not to buy, distribute, and resell your goods is central to classical markets in goods and services.)

The “freedom of speech” isn't limited to choosing not to listen, hence why it isn't called the “freedom to choose not to listen”. Freedom from making speech at the direction of another party is at least as fundamental as freedom not to listen.
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I'm happy with IntelliJ (>9 years of ~daily use), but if there are long-term users of Eclipse here who are familiar with both and prefer it to IntelliJ, I'd be interested to hear why.
Nice writeup! I have fairly recently written CLI programs in Common Lisp, GAMBIT Scheme, and Swift. All good experiences. To be transparent, I don't write bash scripts more than a few lines. For something short, I would prefer Ruby.

EDIT: in the last month or two, I have experimented with Babashka (mentioned in this thread) also.
Technically I'm not sure it's really true either way. Well, there's some debate that we could get bogged down in, but really I'm just an old Math major having fun with that comment.
HFSP
ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers (although I'm sure this is possible). The community behind ConTeXt has always been involved with books and more complex material. So I guess they evolved into a niche of the TeX market, like music typesetting (MusiXTeX and friends).

Regarding Lua, I think it is a strange idea from the point of view of the typical LaTeX package writer. Not only you need to learn Lua, but you also have to write packages that are accepted only by this implementation of LaTeX. This is a clear disadvantage if you want to have a widely used package.
Common Lisp is awesome: image-based development, compile-time type checking, self-contained executables, stability…

https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... (Atom, Sublime, VSCode, Jupyter…)

https://lisp-lang.org/success/ (and https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies)
Thank you, I see. The site looks great!
Pure Maps
:) The 2600 is a bit different than the 8-bit computer lines (400, 800, etc.). On the computers you have an ANTIC chip that drives the CTIA/GTIA using instructions in display lists. On the 2600 the CPU has to program the TIA directly and basically in realtime.
> These 6ish people are responsible for pretty much every revolution and success in the tech sector?

But they weren’t. All their “revolutions” were me too products alongside compaq, aol, and yahoo. It seemed like how there were lots of almost-wases around those times. Just look at all the ibm compatible companies who all made similar stuff and didn’t make it.