skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised WaPo actually produces some interesting content besides political propaganda
“The future” != “future of gaming”
Once again you claim all of this very forcefully from personal experience, but I haven't been able to find a single source which agrees with your story. I highly doubt that all of US and European media is collaborating with the Vietnamese authorities to hide their death toll - it is far more likely that the reports you have seen are colored by local political biases and conspiracy mongering.

I'm open to the possibility that they are cooking their numbers somewhat, as all authoritarian regimes are inclined to do, but it simply can't happen to the extent you are claiming without becoming at least a well-known conspiracy. Especially given that Viet Nam is not some great friend of the the US or Europe (say, a Saudi Arabia).
Yeah this is Italy, not a common law country. There aren’t precedents there
Interesting, I see why this news slipped by given the date.

Edit: If I'm reading this correctly, the EU is not walking back their recognition here but rather updating it
That can't be compared. Drugs are addictive, which makes the decision to stop hard.

Legislation has been shown to work in nations which outlawed weapons for example.
It will be a long time (maybe forever) before the masses use Monero or equivalent though...
Individual actions are the raw material of a collective shift in mindset that adds up to hard societal pressure to create laws that do make a difference.
Yes, because we exported our environmental responsibilities regarding plastic manufacturing and processing to those countries, which inevitably pollute for us.
I mean you do have a point but on the other hand you aren't paying for that os so you could change it anytime (without litterally voiding money). It could also make more people start to use Linux which isn't bad
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Edit to repair link [0]: https://www.who.int/vietnam/internal-publications-detail/cov...
No, electric vehicles were 'the past'. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422912

Hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars were 'the future'.
Try Scandinavia. E.g. Finland or Denmark
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And as it turns out, it's your childhood friend that get to raise those children and not you, so if you wanted to help posterity then we'll have to hope your friend isn't a climate change denier or something.

Have children. Not too many. Raise them well.
Fear of bandits attack may paralyse education in northern Nigeria
hahaha I do the same! Especially for any product/consumer goods, there is no alternative really.
The EU may be looking into breaking end-to-end encrypted chats
I think it took a while for the Ballmer effect to kick in at Microsoft. Organizations have creating new things baked into their DNA, and it does resist corrosion. So I am curious to see if Cook can avoid squelching that like Ballmer.

Operations is great to have and Cook is really good at it. Focus on ops can destroy the creative process though.

I figure another 8 years and we'll know for sure (Ballmer clocked in at 14). I look forward to being wrong, Cook is a great human being.
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Many of these "wine" experiments show more general human biases, so "are humans bullshit?" would be a better question.

Historically, even some physics measurements show herd mentality biases, with scientists being reluctant to publish values too far from generally accepted values.
Another perspective to this is that Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi. Aldi's model used to be to provide a limited inventory of good and cheap goods.

I don't know if that's still the case, but it definitely used to be what they were doing.
> What do they expect to get out of creating an API that is proprietary to their specific non-monopoly device, and that therefore very obviously nobody will ever actually use?

You mean like Cuda, which is wildly successful, has a huge ecosystem, and which basically ensures you'll have to buy NVidia if you're serious about GPU computing?
Does that imply it's possible to implement 2D font/vector graphics rendering on a GPU and end up getting burned by patent law? I am having a hard time imagining they were awarded such a generic patent.

Anyway, I will adjust my question based on your feedback.
And what would that be exactly?
I think it is more likely to be lobbyists at companies with business models that directly benefit from short-term policies rather than hedge funds, who could just exit their long position on companies most affected.

The key point is that the scheme only works if no one is willing to make a loss buying LPFs. But in reality, there are companies that would willingly lose money on LPFs if it meant buying short-term policies in their interest that pay back more for them than what they lose. This scheme would provide a legal way for them to outright buy such policies, and hence probably do more harm than good.
You assume wrong about my nationality. One doesn't have to be Trump-loving caricature of an American to deeply mistrust restrictions of basic individual liberties.. And if not marginal health benefit then most definitely highly ambiguous, debatable health benefits as far as a large weight of evidence is concerned. Some countries with lockdown measures have had lower mortality rates while others with just as strict rates have had high mortality rates, and many countries without much in the way of restrictions have had mortality rates little or not at all different from those of other countries with severe restrictions. There is no existing consensus here and all evidence seems to be all over the place. The themes I mentioned in my previous comment however are normalizations that bode dangerously for the future of supposedly free countries, the future of social globalization (a good thing overall because it strongly counteracts nationalist tendencies) and none of this is to even mention the still unknown long term consequences of the vast economic destruction cause by so much callous but ambiguously backed lockdown policy in so many places.
That's... A really good argument.
Yeah. There is also no requirements here in the US because alcohol is regulated by the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) rather than the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) or USDA (Department of Agriculture). The regulatory scheme here is more about making sure taxes are paid and bootleggers are caught and punished than creating transparency of product or consumer protection.
That is simply wrong. Underground storage is not a panacea. Few mines are suitable and even those require expensive preparation and maintenance for coming decades or even centuries, with many hard to predict risks (think earthquake, flood).
> they all secretly want to be painting painters

This is going to be literally life changing for them! Quick, someone inform the artists of that!
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"Systems thinking" is useful to manage any organization. I don't know if it scales, but I can't count the number of times I've seen an engineer put in charge of a project just because they can understand a data flow diagram.

Software is eating the world. IT costs and benefits are high. Getting IT right in many organizations is now more vital than ever before.
The problem would be that everyone would have a different time depending on where they are on the globe, not only different hour but also minute. That would make things like meetings between people living in slightly different places very difficult. Timezones are needed by the modern organization of society, and I guess that organization is not necessarily very friendly with human needs.
The M1 chip and moving Jony Ive on points towards Cook being in a different league to Ballmer.
The meow 0.4 was faster at short keys, but failed at the smhasher "LongNeighborTest" [1]. However, doubling the AES rounds makes it pass that test. Two rounds is enough for full diffusion in AES [2]. I recently looked at computing 4 Meow keys per hash function [3], and found the speedup to be almost 2x in a microbench. That puts it in rare territory for hash speed.

[1] https://github.com/injinj/smhasher/

[2] Section 5.4 of Introduction to Cryptography by Trappe and Washington -- It can be shown that two rounds are sufficient to obtain full diffusion, namely, each of the 128 output bits depends on each of the 128 input bits.

[3] https://github.com/raitechnology/raikv/blob/3ce2b23e0d9853fe...
Use a squeeze bottle. Problem solved
Trap them with a honeypot: disable HSTS and automatically delete all messages containing "HSTS" string.
It's like a layer between the sciences and the people these days. You almost certainly will always need something like that. Science can make discoveries but it doesn't amount to much until they get transposed to the human realm.
I get it. It’s hard to eat well, to sleep enough, to exercise. Taking time off is one of those things in my opinion.
Hi there!

Sorry for the self plug. I grew up on Neopets and MySpace and I have been teaching CS for years under the guise of introducing retro web back to today's kids.

I usually teach students from 10-15 but I mainly hope that they feel empowered to tackle anything even if it's not programming(since programming, in its essence, is all about debugging/building processes).

I'm lucky that I'm able to teach on a YC startup called Outschool.

Check me out here: https://outschool.com/classes/hacking-web-games-an-introduct...

Also, if you see this and sign up, just private message me on Outschool and I'll give you 25% off.

Anyways, I hope you at least get some ideas that might help by looking at my courses(though there are a few great ideas in this thread too). :)
I hope the best for VR/AR, and the worst for Facebook

It's funny, Tron was one of the most memorable movies of my childhood. Later I watched Star Trek with the Holodeck, read Neuromancer and Snow Crash, dabbled with VRML, played with the SGI CAVE at university. I ought to be hugely excited by the progress in VR. But... I'm just not. Because Facebook and friends are not doing it because it's cool or because it will be useful to humanity, to them it's just another siphon to hoover up and monetise your personal data by steering you into purchasing and voting decisions that benefit them, not you. After literally decades of anticipation, I doubt I will bother to participate in VR.
It appears that the famous, often retold, story of the experiment were experts have been deceived by simple red colorants in white wine is a significant distortion of the actual experiment :
https://sciencesnopes.blogspot.com/2013/05/about-that-wine-e...
This is a natural consequence of a) software is eating the world and b) software companies tend to be founded by software engineers.
In the past 10 years the amount of news stories on the web is probably 10 times bigger. Similar other things, like video and images and journal articles. (Random article says way more than 10 times)

The original stories have also been repeated and mutated. Plus content farms are literally mixing it all up.

I have thought Google is getting overwhelmed with content and it feels like they are pulling back.

But without a metric who knows?

The information available is better than ever, but are we talking it must be in the top 30 returns? Long tail is failing? Worse for grandparents or the computer literate?

We just old people complaining about the past if we are talking the information Google is a portal too. It's amazing what Google returns now.
I have a reverse osmosis filter so there is never any mineral buildup in our kettle.

We have a glass kettle which cost £35, and is as good as new; even after a few years of use several time a day.
5.3s at 1.4gb on a laptop is 53ms at 14mb, is >70ms on mobile before adding any increased download time. 14mb is one retina image, even Reddit already weighs 8mb. It's silly to pretend this stuff doesn't matter, you can't even get search ranking without addressing it, for reasons that don't require concocted scenarios to explain.
Lantau project: silver bullet for HK housing woes or costly white elephant?
tarfile sorts names only since Python 3.7:

https://bugs.python.org/issue30693
Overdraft Fees Have Increased by 64% Since Last Year
Maybe (I've never tried to look at WaPo comments). I did find that the WSJ comments are much, much worse than the FT comments (angrier, less interesting).

I wonder if this is driven by the different susbscription prices, or just the different audience.
China’s stock market has wiped out $1T in value in the past three weeks
Enjoyable article, thanks!
Yes, I've noticed my kids start time shifting themselves leading up to daylight savings. Similar ages.
I think that wine connoisseurs can distinguish between a 2$ wine and a 20$ or more wine.
The problem lays in rating two wines in the same price range, in that case preferences become personal tastes because differences are very difficult to assess.
When you drink very cheap wine the defects are quite easy to perceive.
I’m not sure why the downvotes, for Mars to become anything more than say Antartica would require a fundamental shift in human society that isn’t likely to happen within 100 years.

Technology needs to advance considerably more before a new gold rush that could give an opportunity to people and even then It would be probably only attractive and possible to a select few.

It’s also a bit weird to think that somehow the “NEET” problem can be solved with that as if there are no more opportunities on this planet right now.
Yes they're starving but without a natural predator to them then they will just rebound if kelp grows back.

The article did mention that the starfish predator of the urchin died from a mystery disease. I wonder if that starfish was reintroduced into the area if it would be able to survive again or simply die from the disease again.

I think the key to fixing this issue is to figure out the reason the starfish died of the disease. Then it might be possible to mitigate for that.
Further if you follow the linked example I still cannot do the objdump or gdb (and hence still not reaching the goal of getting the asm reading). Back to the vector.pcc program, I can compile the vector.pcc program (after adding int main() and some cout etc.) You do need a few more apt install commands (especially the last one to add c++):

```

apt install qemu-user qemu-user-static gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu-dbg build-essential

apt install vim

apt install arm-linux-gnueabihf

apt install gdb-multiarch

apt install arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc

apt install g++-aarch64-linux-gnu

```

For the vector source, I wonder why use c++ for testing instead of just c. After adding cout and int main(), the program can run. However, as the linked one seems not work for arm64 so far, I am still somewhere in between and not able to move to the reading assembly part, as the target of all test.

Cannot get the ld to work but use a simpler c source can generate something like this:

```

cat vector2c.S
.arch armv8-a
.file "vector2.c"
.text
.align 2
.global normSquared
.type normSquared, %function
normSquared:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
sub sp, sp, #16
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
stp x0, x1, [sp]
ldr x1, [sp]
ldr x0, [sp]
mul x1, x1, x0
ldr x2, [sp, 8]
ldr x0, [sp, 8]
mul x0, x2, x0
add x0, x1, x0
add sp, sp, 16
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 0
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
.size normSquared, .-normSquared
.align 2
.global main
.type main, %function
main:
.LFB1:
.cfi_startproc
stp x29, x30, [sp, -32]!
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 32
.cfi_offset 29, -32
.cfi_offset 30, -24
mov x29, sp
mov x0, 42
str x0, [sp, 16]
mov x0, 12
str x0, [sp, 24]
ldp x0, x1, [sp, 16]
bl normSquared
mov w0, 0
ldp x29, x30, [sp], 32
.cfi_restore 30
.cfi_restore 29
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 0
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE1:
.size main, .-main
.ident "GCC: (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

```

from vector2.c

```

#include <stdint.h>

struct Vec2 {
int64_t x;
int64_t y;
};

int64_t normSquared(struct Vec2 v) {
return v.x * v.x + v.y * v.y;
}

int main() {
struct Vec2 v;
v.x = 42;
v.y = 12;
normSquared(v);
return 0;

}

```
> What do they expect to get out of ...

Nvidia did exactly this with CUDA, so go take a look at the ML world for an example of how it works. It seems to be going quite well for them. A common enough refrain is "I don't really want to buy Nvidia, but my toolchain requires CUDA".

Pretty much every FPGA and SoC vendor does exactly this as far as I understand things. It's why you can't trivially run an open OS on most mobile hardware.

Apparently such schemes don't meaningfully affect the purchasing decisions of a sufficiently large fraction of people to disincentivize the behavior.
What Happened to Tinyupload.com?
it suddenly went down nearly a week ago and hasnt come back up at all since, i know sites go down but not usually for days at a time with no explanation. they hosted a fair amount of files but there seems to be no info on why theyre down or when/if theyll be back.

anyone have any information?
Yes, and the point is that this is not what art NFTs do at all.

PS It would have been quicker to google A16Z than type out those words, but I’ll save you some time by telling you that it’s (the podcast of) a top three silicon valley VC.
Even cheeper solution with tatoo pedals and Arduino
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> I just don’t get why a website would want to harbor a community that toxic.

In my mind, the answer is quite easy: increasing the amount of page loads increases the amount of ads people see. If you deliver emails along the lines of "someone replied to your comment", people are gonna click on them and you're going to serve another set of ads.

Moderation requires effort and reduces the amount of page loads, therefore most websites that use comments don't want to do that.
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> Burger from McD taste pretty good as well, right?

That’s something I could never comprehend. To me, it doesn’t taste any good.
Why though? Do you think it's worse than just closing the comment sections?
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Reddit also sells super-upvotes (called "awards") that you can buy individually or as a component of a premium (ad-free) subscription. Not sure how much revenue that produces compared to ads, but it's definitely a component.
How does buying products from s country make them poorer?
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If Wirth would have been an US resident, working at UC or MIT, Delphi would have taken over the world instead of C and descendants.
Instead of disabling comments, why wouldn't they use one of the techniques that successful discussion forums employ to filter out spam, extremism, and other noise?

HN being an obvious example, but there are plenty of others, each with its own approach.

Many successful online discussion forums rely on user moderation, which makes it feasible without Inquirer hiring a huge dedicated staff.
By the time the developing world develops and slows their birth rate they'll have a massive population. They have a big population now and are growing fast. If we don't actually solve global warming the addition of billions more wealthy people will be a huge environmental burden.

I think "doing nothing" is what people who advocate reduction of consumption and having fewer kids are doing. Those plans won't be implemented and they won't work. What I'm advocating is technological development to solve the problems related to global warming.
the wording of your parent comment is ambiguous (maybe on purpose), but the early (western) philosophers weren't so concerned with telling people how to live than they were with raising the question of what it means to lead a good life, which are two different things.

mental health professionals today are more concerned with the former than they are with the latter. the ones who do practice the latter are very marginalized in the united states (i heard it's less the case in europe), but they do really interesting political work that might or might not start a flame war if i talk about it here so i won't.
The problem is that supposedly knowledgeable people hype the concept as something new and clever, they claim it solves a real problem.

I don’t feel sorry at all for the clown that paid 69 mill for the url to a jpg, I just think the hype is stupid. Not that we can be sure the buyer was real and distinct from the seller.
Yeah, this phone number lock is really annoying. Depending on the state of the account you may have a link on the desktop version to bypass adding a phone number.
A similar question could be asked -- is mathematics a science?
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So the idea is roughly "give legislators a 40-year stake in the success of the nation to incentivize them to think along that duration".

First question: why just legislators? Why not give stake to the electorate who yield power to those legislators as well?

Second question: doesn't every individual more than 40 years away from death already have a 40-year stake in the success of the nation? They'll need the support of a healthy nation more and more as they near retirement and old age. If you're within 40 years of death but have loved ones that are more than 40 years from death, this should amount to a similar thing. Why is this not sufficient?

Third question: won't this become just another tool to indebt the future generation to the prior generation? We start at 0.01% gdp_ratio of GDP, but once this cat's out of the bag, doesn't it incentivize legislators to optimize for the maximal GDP(t+40) * gdp_ratio product? i.e. return isn't maximized simply by bumping GDP 40 years down the road, but by increasing the ratio owed 40 years from now past the point at which GDP begins to decrease until the product settles at a maximum.

This proposal does one thing which I find novel. It takes the stake that most people already informally have in the future of the country (point 2) and makes it more immediately monetizable. It allows a person to advocate for the future while avoiding the issues presented by delayed gratification. I think that's the insight worth building on. Whether this is the best way to achieve that, I don't know.
It was coined by the UK’s social exclusion unit in the 1990’s

https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/15119/2/bridging-the-gap.pdf
In 2005 Loop & Blinn [0] found a method to decide if a sample / pixel is inside or outside a bezier curve (independently of other samples, thus possible in a fragment shader) using only a few multiplications and one subtraction per sample.

- Integral quadratic curve: One multiplication
- Rational quadratic curve: Two multiplications
- Integral cubic curve: Three multiplications
- Rational cubic curve: Four multiplications

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
> Only about 2 percent of Inquirer.com visitors read comments, and an even smaller percentage post them. Most of our readers will not miss the comments.
Most tools do not become obsolete as quickly.

Unlinking a path is hardly something that sees cutting edge improvements, cryptographic hashing, filesystems, and compression is something that is.