skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it me, or is this just some animation trick?

I've tried on Safari 14.0.3 / Mac OS 11.2.3 and while the cursor does appear to move, its actual position, as determined by what happens when I actually move it, doesn't seem to change.

For example, if I manually move the cursor almost to the top of the page, but not quite, it will move around. Sometimes it disappears "under" the fixed part of the browser. But if I attempt to move it manually, the cursor "teleports" to where I initially left it.
"A political operator who tackles inequality through state redistribution of private assets"

The only difference is the politician employs the coercive power of state while the scientist merely provides the tools that "execute orders".

While the title doesn't imply the algos would be executed by a government, that's implicitly true. Who else would engage in such nonsense and for what other purposes than theft and vote buying by redistribution?
Implementing CoCs...
Yeah, that's what I figured. I get the idea of it being tied to a game, but you don't really get the benefit of block chain, except for making the token sellable without having to go through the proper market channels.

Overall I'm very bullish on crypto as digital gold, less so on Ethereum style apps and even less so on NFTs. It's an interesting litmus test. I see a lot of crypto enthusiasts speak highly about NFTs which I find odd. They generally have very well thought out and reasoned arguments for Bitcoin as a digital store of wealth, but then they go into NFTs and talk about scarcity. But the scarcity of Bitcoin is only valuable because it is the defacto digital currency, due to it's survival up to this point. It has dealt with governance issues, was built of strong cryptographic principals and most importantly stood the test of time (lindy effect). Then they speak about NFTs in a vague way as though they're naturally authoritative without pointing out the obvious: you don't actually own the digital asset you're buying. If it actually had some real concept of ownership (e.g. owning a tweet allows me to delete the tweet), then it would be a different story. But as it stands now I don't see the value.

The cheer leading from the crypto community is odd and makes me question their principals. I'd be happy to be proven wrong and have someone steelman the argument for NFTs without relying on "its a scarce asset and people want to own scarce assets". It's also very early days in NFTs, so ten years from now if the Twitter tokens are still selling for millions, I'd be more willing to agree as it would have Lindy effect by that point.
What's new is widespread participation in this oppression. Every buy from Amazon is another wage theft.
How well do differential neural nets perform in casual inference ? There seems to be a pretty good library from sciml that claims to learn models from limited data but wondering if they generalize well
Funny to have not just one but two Linux computers in your pocket. I wonder if there are still more of these.
I think the implication is that people are interested in their own race by default and everything outside of that is notable/unusual.

Not sure I buy it.
It is about risk adjusted returns.
Honeybees run vaccination programmes, too
I sense a trend https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-to-tech-work...
Here's a painful and personal example of the dysfunction one can experience in our broken medical system.

My mother is dealing with stage four pancreatic cancer. She has done OK but, of course, there is no stage five for a reason.

She is currently in the hospital (I was with her yesterday; I typed my prior comment from the hospital) with some complications. Doing OK, we think.

Here's the bullshit: Her oncologist can't go see her at the hospital because he is not in the system. The best they can do is consult with him over the phone for his opinion and then make their own decisions. Yes, she is on the ACA.

The sheer lunacy of this scenario is hard to describe with words. Screaming is more in line with a proper description.

I am not going to blame government for this. I have no clue how this situation is so other than to understand that it is about money, about who gets paid for what. And yet, our government makes the laws and rules that govern such industries. They have fucked up healthcare beyond what any objective observer would, I suspect, think is a good system that serves patients as first class citizens in a healthcare system.

Even in third world countries your doctor can come see you at any hospital. Here, in the US. Not so.

If you were wondering why I am so down on what our politicians have done (or not done) over decades, it comes from far more than an academic thought exercise.
Thanks. I imagined that for a really big telescope then a really big faring would be useful for that exact reason. Why isn’t that the case? Wouldn’t starship at least make it a lot cheaper to put a really big telescope in orbit?
Yep. Insurance companies use LexisNexis and Verisk ISO for claim handling.
If politicians, left or right, thought of climate as an emergency, they would behave _completely_ differently. Just look at the Green New Deal. If they truly thought of it as an emergency, they wouldn't pass highly controversial legislation with all sorts of policies with zero bipartisan support. Legislation taking climate change seriously would instead look like:

- Carbon taxes and carbon capture incentives

- Nuclear power

That's not what it looks like, though.
I'll give you that for sure. Any specific model you recommend?
No, not exactly. Thus ever the fate of tl;drs.

The discussion further down about "scope variables" foreshadows making structured concurrency more strongly, directly supported by the language's runtime:

> What about inheritance? Because SVs are immutable, and because structured concurrency also gives us a syntax-confined thread lifetime, SV inheritance fits structured concurrency like a glove
The confusion comes from how NFTs that represent images have become so popular right now (I believe it’s because it’s the easiest use case of an NFT and people want to make a quick buck).

NFTs themselves are just a cryptographic representation of something unique. It can be a token that says “you own this image”, but it can also be an in-game virtual item, a software license, a digital trading card, etc...

There is some level of centralization in many cases. For example, a trading card game will likely own the contract that can mint cards and own the art for the cards. Other services can read that contract to see what cards you own and use that data inside their own game logic (though probably not the images due to legal reasons).

This would already be useful for something like Magic the Gathering where unofficial online services exist to play by whatever rules you want. The last time I used one, you just put your deck list in so everyone used the rarest cards. They may have evolved now to check your Magic Online account, but you can’t do that as easily in Magic Arena.

Assuming the creators don’t limit your freedom in their smart contract, you can also buy, sell, or trade the NFT to whoever and for whatever you want unlike a centralized service which wouldn’t enable access to an open market outside of the game’s ecosystem.
I don't know him (only ever saw him speak once at a Wordpress conference 10 years ago or so, where he was a caricature of himself), and I can easily believe he is hard to work with. That said, I believe he was diagnosed as having Asperger's syndrome, which could explain his many personality quirks, and that makes the mention of "neurodiversity" as one of the many aspects of diversity they claim to protect rather disingenuous.

"The GCC Steering Committee is committed to providing a friendly, safe
and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender identity and
expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical
appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or
similar personal characteristics."
The Notorious Big Raps H.P. Lovecraft's Nemesis with AI
Yeah, I don't have any real intuition about the performance cost, either. But real-world Haskell problems do fine, as you said. And Haskell has fast-math libraries that, presumably, give you the fast-but-risky C arithmetic.

I also agree that a "more realistic" option is to just throw on overflow by default, the same way we throw on divide-by-zero.

But that won't happen either. :/
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LfJkT-...
My "teacher" (a cargo cult "craftman") banned the use of do among other ivory tower extremisms.
I've used quite a few combinations over the last few years. These days I'm using Termite locally on Linux. In the past I've used iTerm on macOS/OSX.

To be very clear here, I can copy text from pane to pane. (using control+] to paste)

Judging by some recently commented lines in my tmux.conf. I've tried:
# bind C-y run "tmux save-buffer - | xclip -selection c"\; display-message "Buffer copied to clipboard"
# bind y "xsel -i --clipboard"
# bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe "xclip"
> Note to the author: the illusion would be even better if you used the user-agent to render a system-accurate mouse cursor ;) (on macOS the real cursor is black and the fake one is white)

I've already seen sites that change the cursor's appearance, so I wasn't particularly "shocked" by that (I'm on a Mac).

However, what should improve the illusion would be to not move the cursor outside of the view area.
> Maybe I'm spoiled by other languages with more powerful type systems, but this is exactly what I want my types to do! Isn't this why we have type traits and concepts and whatnot in C++ now? If not for semantics, why have types at all, the compiler could figure out what amount of bytes it needs to store my data in, after all.

yes, but understand that, despite the name, what unsigned models in C / C++ is not "positive numbers" but "modulo 2^N" arithmetic (while signed models the usual arithmetic).

There is no good type that says "always positive" by default in C or C++ - any type which gives you an infinite loop if you do

for({int,unsigned,whatever} i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
// oops, n was zero, n - 1 is 4.something billion, see you tomorrow
}

is not a good type.

If you want a "always positive" type use some safe_int template such as https://github.com/dcleblanc/SafeInt - here if you do "x - y" and the result of the computation should be negative, then you'll get the rightful runtime error that you want, not some arbitrarily high and incorrect number

The correct uses of unsigned are for instance for computations of hashes, crypto algorithms, random number generation, etc... as those are in general defined in modular arithmetic
According to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu..., there has been pretty much no flu season this year compared to ~any other year (which in itself is highly suspect).

Last week of January reported 55 vs 23,972 on average any other season.
Real question: do you use any alternatives? I completely agree but have had a hard time finding other methods of searching information.
While you'll probably run out of memory first, there's the enormous overhead of running qemu's translation, too. Using QEMU to emulate x86 on my POWER9 system, I get... roughly the performance of a 2001-2004 pentium processor, and the host cpu is running at 3.8GHz and comparable speed wise to a 2018ish intel processor.

In spite of the author's insistence, I don't think Cosmopolitan is really usable on anything but x86, the QEMU thing is more a cute proof-of-concept. For very simple programs I guess...
A mental model is fundamentally a predictive tool. It doesn't describe reality, it just allows us to make educated guesses about what will happen.

I'm a constructivist so I'm under no assumption that we have access to the territory at all except modulated by our subjective perception.
Last year, OpenMW 0.46 also introduced limited support for
opening files from Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas. See: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/4715-openmw-046-bri...
I assumed it'd be maintained when the processes mapped pages into their address space, not at page fault time. Then if the process' priority increased, I guess it would have to walk the mapped pages to bump their priorities too for completeness.

Not that I spent much time thinking about the implementation details or seriously exploring how to go about making it happen. Having to touch all mapped pages when a process changes its priority sounds painful, so it probably requires more sophistication to make things optimal.
But fruit picking is a much worse job and everybody participates in fruit eating.
When I read this thread a day ago, it consisted of SC and project contributors unanimously agreeing to remove Stallman, and 3-4 extremely angry outsiders calling the SC traitors.
Apple has far too much money. There's no chance of being able to cancel them anyway.
there's also exponential stuff going the wrong way, too. all of cryptoland, for example. this stuff just works in logspace or logexpsum space
For the top of lower 48, sun angle is literally the same as southern France... Really we're not that far north.
Here you go. Third result for me, searching for "ad for turbo pascal in byte magazine" (which is where I first remember seeing it): http://tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/acrobat/...
Where is HTTP/3 right now?
Note that this is a comment from someone who does not appear to have contributed to GCC.
I had two foreign languages at school: English and Russian. English went pretty well because there were the internet, books, films, etc. Russian was like having an anchor attached to your body when swimming. It was so painful. I hated it and couldn't see why would I ever need because I know English ( the naivety of the young). A few years after the school, I went abroad and the circumstances brought me and a few Russians with no command of English under one roof. It was even more painful. Even basic things,such as 'this is raw meat' was almost impossible.. Months went by, the vocabulary improved. I could discuss wider topics and eventually it became pretty easy and we used to talk for hours. I learned more in one year than during 6 years at school.
Even now, I'd love to learn Spanish,or maybe French but the first thing you get after buying any book is 500 grammar rules before the first word is shown. It's like learning how to drive by reading books on mechanical engineering and oil industry.
If you look at the source you'll find a link to a youtube video that tells you all you need to know. Don't give up :-)
It worked fine in the early nineties on a '386. I can't tell how efficient it is, because I never had reason to worry about it.
I was self-studying Russian for quite some time, with decent progress. But when I came to Seoul and ran into some native Russian speakers, I discovered that I could barely put my sentences together in real-time. I made some changes to my approach and a year later was able to conversate, read articles, and watch movies without any aid.

The "one weird trick" to it was to spend literally hundreds of hours one on one with tutors online. It's not an option for everybody, of course, but if you can do it - do it. Studying with flash cards and apps helps too, but your brain more importantly needs to practice understanding strings of words and putting them together yourself in real-time.
> The culture, language and customs of people 100k years ago was probably very different from ours.

How so?

Our biology is virtually identical.

Our emotional, physical and spiritual needs haven't changed, have they?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "our culture", but if we assume some kind of Californian derivative, the most obvious difference is our built environment, which features more shopping malls, office towers, airports, highways and hospitals than Ga-Mohana. And more obesity. More guns too, but they had weapons and laws for the same reasons we do, didn't they?

What do you imagine are the differences between our culture, language and customs vis a vis people of 100k years ago?
Egghead Software, which I visited a lot at the time because my parents' office was right around the corner, was at I think 4th and University, or somewhere around there. KOMO and the other stations are adjacent to downtown so it would be easy for them to come snag the box before MS PR descended.

Honestly this prank makes more sense to me as a forgotten thing than as a modern meta-prank. I would not be surprised if Bill or some other prime mover from that era hears about it and confirms at some point.
Advisors can certainly play that role, though they’re often low commitment roles with a small degree of aligned interests. Advisors are on their side and investors are on yours ideally.

Consider also that bank loans require that you make frequent structured payments with interest. That simply doesn’t apply to venture backed investments. Nobody ever got anywhere at a bank by taking risk. The role of the VCs is to provide the right level of risk tolerance on their capital.

> I also don't think it's fair to call all ICOs scams. It's certainly in its wild west phase but provides an alternative funding mechanism.

Usually switching out of the wild west phase is marked by regulation.
The title should be "Where is HTTP/3 right now?" but for some reason HN has changed it to be "Where is HTTP/3?"
Sonic the hedgehog I think... Referencing Chaos Emeralds.
Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
Same here. When something can be answered in few written words now there is often lengthy video tutorial where most of the time taken by mouse aimlessly jumping all over the screen in search of that magical button. Same with podcasts obviously.
Also refreshes are real annoying/unprofitable when you have millions of old tech sitting in warehouses. Apple has pretty good science on the sneak peak / release / fulfill of new tech. You can basically get day1 or at least week1 release of any new product.
"google in 1996"? Google likes the buns but not the whisky i guess.

(even i'm cringing at the metaphor, but if you think about it, it sums up what i'm trying to say. Pretty well)
Does it become a problem if people do cross that line anyway?

Say Tiger Woods or OJ who seem to prefer blondes, or Nick Cage and Soros who seem to recently prefer East Asians. Does it matter?
Name three ICO successes.

Let's look at topcoinlist.com. Not the current version, but the one of three years ago.[1] See how the top 5 from early 2018 came out.

- Tripbit - Down to near zero.[2]

- Developeo - No longer listed. "Website not active" as of 2020.[3]

- Proof of Toss - "Coin is inactive"[4]

- BitRewards - Still traded, sort of.[5] Issued at US$0.003, now at US$0.0002, with a daily trading volume of about US$1.

- CoolCousin - "Coin is inactive" [6]

FAIL.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180403121628/https://topicolis...

[2] https://ih.advfn.com/crypto/TripBit-TBT

[3] https://icomarks.com/ico/developeo

[4] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/proof-of-toss

[5] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitrewards/

[6] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cool-cousin
That's a fair point! The kubernetes example I gave is somewhat contrived, but I will say that I prefer to have whatever resource id I'm working with in my clipboard vs. relying on myself to select the correct one in a tab completion menu.

Where I really like this tmux copy/paste workflow is for grabbing multiple lines of command output. From there I can paste that into some message on slack, or use it as the body of a PR message that describes some error or shows some output.

For the latter case, I have a zsh function that calls `hub` to open a PR, drops me off into vim, and once I `:wq`, it will send the API request to open the PR, and then open my browser up to it. This is the command I have in the function: `hub pull-request --push --file "$filename" --browse --draft`.
Children do not learn completely "unsupervised" and recieve frequent feedback from the agents. I would argue that a significant amounts of childhood development, (especially around "labels"), is due to our hardwired attachment to human faces.

I have always felt that the signifance of the "social software of human culture" in our general intelligence and learning capacity was underestimated by the AGI community.

So personally, I see more potential in communities of learning agents than any developments in the underpinnings.
There is something even cooler that was posted last month.

https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html
New Theory of Consciousness Gets All Up in Your Feelings
Pixel 6 will be powered by new Google-made ‘Whitechapel’ chip
I do have to wonder how much of this behavior is risk compensation [1] from people stuck at home.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
Well, Microsoft released an actual knock-off of Java in Sept 1996, J++. Either this website pranks that, or this recollection shows exactly why Microsoft wanted to quiet stories of this - 4 months prior to the release of their new product!
I think dry air is a larger driver, but that often comes with excessive interior temperatures.
Escape the Permission Trap with Healthy Habits
"I found an exploit in mom and dad's electric account!" =D
China's First 7nm GPU Nears Mass Production, Pics Emerge
I doubt it was a mistake. 1. some timezones were probably already on April 1, 2. better get it out first so it doesn't get lost in the other hundreds of lame corporate April 1 pranks.

I don't see how people could believe it's real though. VW is such a big company. how can people think they would rename to such a silly name.
A guide to Elasticsearch CPU/memory/node allocation
Pornhub is blocked in China.
> Go is a great programming language.

I'm going to assume and account for the the time difference the author posted this on april fools day.

> April 2, 2021

oh ok, you're not joking here. :/
‘The Dispossessed’ Is Still One of Sci-Fi’s Smartest Books
No. Crops need light, excellent soil, heat, and water. Warming the north provides heat but none of the other 3. Canada and northern Russia are lands of rocks and trees. You can't grow crops on rocks, at least not in the way that commercial agriculture is used to.
Hackers in the classical sense don't like being part of an authoritarian structure.

What do you do when the technological world that you may have had a hand in creating turns on you, when technology and computing becomes an enslavement rather than a liberation? It makes sense for hackers to then find freedom without technology.
By the way: If you are looking for relatives of typical LaTeX serif fonts such as Latin Modern, Computer Modern and friends, the keyword is "Century", e.g. Century Schoolbook. The latter is associated with documents produced by the US Supreme Court.

PS: Since I'm already citing Butterick in a sibling comment, I'm going to add another link here: https://practicaltypography.com/century-schoolbook-alternati...
The sad thing is that the necessary actions would impact people’s life directly much less that the COVID restrictions. Petrol and flying would become expensive, and some jobs would disappear and be replaced with other jobs, sometimes somewhere else.
This is an attempt at undoing institutional racism. The average black family is 10x poorer then the average white family. I'm sure you would agree that is also systemic racism. The quickest/most simple way to fix that systemic racism is to directly give wealth to black families like this.
What are "favorite people"? I can't find any way to see this phrase in a positive light.
Ah yes. Jokes. Such a great evil. You'd think the whole world is owned by the 1990s Microsoft, or Oracle: boring, lifeless and monotonous. Probably beige, too.

I can assure you, this wasn't within the top-ten of most annoying things that a retail worker would have to deal with in a day; it's minor and harmless, and the people who really cause trouble for retail workers wouldn't be in a position to buy every Microsoft product on a whim, either.