skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be obvious, but... the reason we have a special name for things that behave that way (Lindy effect) is because this is usually a terrible heuristic. Most things are "perishable", as the article puts it - past a certain age, the older a human is, the shorter their life expectancy. This is true of most things.

The Lindy effect talks about the rare cases where this isn't true.
What's the intuition behind the name?
This is not surprising.

I was reading an article about an artist early on into the pandemic that mentioned he started a collection of peoms as his way of "processing" the pandemic.

Since I was writing some code specifically to track the Covid progression and estimate future evolution it resonated with me.

We all process the world with what we are and what we do. For some of us that included coding.
Maybe this depends on country but I don’t even remember having a bad experience due to any of this.
I'm not sure that's correct. I've heard that high CO2 levels trigger the parasympathetic nervous system which calms us down. One could get the same effect from breathing into a paper bag, I think.
You're not wrong and that your comment is dead is a great disappointment.

That you created a throwaway to criticize something so obviously astroturf-y is understandable but, also, disappointing.

HN is as much an echo chamber as any.
There's a trend where only controversial things get attention; because if it's uncontroversial, everyone can agree, no one argues with each other.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
Both Hugo and mkdocs appear to receive more updates than Jekyll these days. I was in the same situation as the author and decided for mkdocs, because it features better syntax highlighting and customization than hugo. I find it also better to read for long documentation-like posts (have a look du.nkel.dev). There are less themes available compared to Hugo, but those that exist feel more powerful and complete.
> I had a birthday party at the computer lab

It can't get nerdier than that, I love it!

I had celebrated one of my birthdays when I was at high school in an internet café. 4 hours of multiplayer Age of Empires 2, all paid for by my parents. That was the dream right there :)
Most forms of security rely on the goodwill of most people in society; the entire problem consists of handling the minority of people who lack goodwill. These people exist in every society.
FVWM sounds interesting. Would you like to share details of your setup? If so, I would like to interview you for my blog https://linmob.net!
Avatar never impressed me with 3D. Honestly I don't think any 3D has "wowed" me since Captain EO at Disneyland ;)
(author here) yes, the lack of updates is concerning. Interesting, I will check mkdocs out!
Ads aren't free to run and the price is baked into the product's. The poor don't benefit from them.
maybe a quick mvp would be to detect smudged images, and separate those out for manual handling, and the non smudged automatically rasterized.
Unless you have seen MISTer running (especially on an fixed HZ old school CRT monitor) vs running that same thing emulated on on a modern cycle-exact emulator. The difference is really noticeable.

This might come down to the emulator also running on a modern OS, which cannot guarantee at all times smooth framerates, whereas a dedicated FPGA can promise you that it's not running much more than the actual core needed to emulate that system.

Especially on a 50/60Hz CRT monitor the difference and latency from the controller to pixels to screen is noticeably faster and stuff like scrolling the screen and sprites are buttery smooth, just like in the original hardware.
Really got click bait vibes from this.. Wish I had not clicked and red it..

Maybe we could just sum alot of the assumptions to.. Smart phones will replace X predictions. Seems like where it all originated.
Is LLD on Mach-O considered stable?

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/8282

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...
Let's assume he had overdosed to an extreme degree.

In that case, he should have been very easy to control, and the ambulance crew should have been able to treat him.

No matter how you slice it, kneeling on his neck as he cries for his mom and pisses himself, while preventing the medical professionals from helping him, led to his death.

You can't shift culpability for the actions that we saw on video. If anything, the drug factor makes it more egregious how Floyd was treated.
This is fantastic, I would only suggest one more thing, yesterday there was article on first page about vectorization, so further compression and cleaning could be done if text would convert to vectors, links is:
https://mzucker.github.io/2018/05/14/maptrace.html
The Mightiest Monolith. Shuttle to SRE
>>Where I live, a lot of people have 3G internet.

>Well, yes 3G is Shared Spectrum.

Sorry, I think I meant 4G, not 3G. It's marketed as LTE here.

> Exceed available bandwidth of what? Per Spectrum? Shannon–Hartley theorem?

No, not Shannon-Hartley. That's just a mathematical model.

When EM waves propagate, they are subject to diffraction, which limits both the amount of information that can be transmitted per time interval, and also the spatial resolution of the transmission. Even with antenna arrays or distributed antennas you can't get past diffraction limits; you can just get closer to them.

To get around diffraction limits, you need to use higher frequencies / shorter wavelengths. (Which has the side effect that you loose the ability of signals to go around / through obstacles, so you need a lot more cell towers.)

We're at a point where new technologies just make different trade-offs (eg. shorter wavelengths for areas with lots of wireless clients vs. longer wavelengths for sparse areas).

With a fibre connection, you don't need to make these tradeoffs; you just need to dig up the ground and you can have as much bandwidth between two points as you want.
The meme is that California is full of Karens who vote Dem. and fetishize new taxes (new tax bill daily.)

Sadly, it's true.
I've spent a great deal of time in Austin, and a great deal of time in the SFBA. Yes the fires are terrible, and the homeless encampments are out of control, but still, my view is you get what you pay for. Case in point, drive a bit outside San Francisco, and you get Napa and Sonoma! Drive a bit out of Austin, and you get that gaudy Mexican restaurant with lousy food overlooking Lake Travis.

In all seriousness, Austin has its charms, but the city has done a terrible job keeping up with infrastructure (especially compared to the DFW Metroplex.) It's also very isolated and its hipster (+ tech-bro) culture can be quite suffocating, especially as there is little else nearby to escape to save San Antonio (which, granted, is a great town.)

The airport, while it's been expanding, is also problematic in that it's a hub for no airline, while two of the largest airlines have hubs just 200-300 miles away. This means that flying to/from Austin takes an unusual amount of connecting (unless you can time your schedule to make the smaller number of non-stops.) It's especially problematic flying to/from NYC, where there are a gazillion flights to/from Houston or Dallas, but only 2-3 from Austin.

And while Texas can be pretty in places, Texas-style sprawl (marked by non-stop big box stores and car dealerships lining the freeways for miles and miles and miles on end--as far as the eye can see) is inescapable even in Austin. The downtown is pretty to look at, especially from across the river, but nothing special once there (except for 6 street, which is tourist central.) Then there is North Austin, and the monstrosity known as the Domain (a complete failure of scale, design, and well--basic wayfinding.) The Less said about that (except that it looks and feels just like every other life style center that sprouted up in America in the last 15 years,) the better.

The population boom in Austin is not new, and Austin's biggest problem is it's inability to build infrastructure to keep up. For years, traffic has been snarled on 35, 183, and Mopac. In the time it has taken for the DFW Metroplex to build two rail-lines to its airport + a whole network of express lanes on it's highways (including the wonderful sunken portion of I-635,) Austin adds a single lane express lane on 7 miles of Loop-1. Oh, there is SR-140, but it's so far out of the way, the 85 mph speed limit rarely if ever makes up for the time getting to or from the road. (And if I recall, the private company that funded and built the road as part of Texas's favorite public-private-partnership system went bankrupt.)

So yeah, SFBA > ATX.
I do this with ProxMox and a passed through AMD RX580 and it's working fine, but the disk performance is terrible, even worse than I'd expect for the hard drive it's on. Luckily that doesn't matter much for gaming.

The Proxmox wiki has great resources on GPU passthrough, but you may have to install a kernel mod for the AMD gpu not to take the host down when the guest powers off.

I haven't been able to do this with VMware ESXi (I've tried); I forgot if it worked in unRaid or not (But it should, in theory).
There's a good reason why office chairs have five legs/wheels where regular chairs have only four: safety.

Office chairs have a reclining mechanism. If you ever leaned back too far in an old office chair with four wheels, you would find out the hard way that four isn't enough. It's very easy to lean back comfortably and not realize you've reached the tipping point, fall back and hit your head on the floor or have a close call.

My first jobs long ago had four-wheeled office chairs, so you can guess how I found this out.

The fifth wheel goes a long way to preventing this danger.

You're much less likely to be leaning back in a regular four-legged chair so the front legs come off the ground, and if you do you'll probably be more aware that you are doing something outside the chair's normal mode of use.

And even if offices go out of style, office chairs will likely be around long past then.
Oh, I thought a real nuclear lightbulb. The New York Central Railroad once developed one.[1], at 8:20.

[1] https://archive.org/details/0221_Big_Train_The_00_25_39_00
Only movie I saw that was good in 3D Imax.. Yeah. Not the business at home model of today, but worth something at the time.
As someone with an interest in both linguistics and programming, I’ve often wondered what programming languages would be like if they had developed from an agglutinating language like Cree rather than the mostly isolating languages of western Europe. English sentences and phrases consist mostly of isolated words joined together by syntactic words: ‘Lie down on the table’. This has carried over to the programming languages we use, which mostly consist of isolated keywords and operators joined together by syntactic rules. e.g. a ‘translation’ of the previous example into Smalltalk-ish pseudocode would look something like:

you lieDown; position: (table onTopOf)

Contrast this to languages like Cree — or Ojibwe, since I can’t find a convenient Cree example — where this sentence becomes as follows, with the verb becoming the central element of the sentence and each word inflected describing its relationship to the others (Valentine 2001):

Zhngishin doopwining.
you lie prone on the table

I’d be really curious to see how a native speaker of such a language would design a programming language — I’m not sure what it would look like, but I suspect it would look remarkably different to the ones we usually use. Corbett’s languages look like an interesting step in this direction, and I’d be interested in knowing more details if they’re available.
I suppose if you posit an alternate history where the entire rest of humanity completely left the Americas alone after discovering them and quarantined the entire Western Hemisphere until achieving a 20th century understanding of infectious disease and medicine, the demographic collapse would not have happened. The likelihood of this happening seems fairly remote to me.

Otherwise, it seems that any “close, persistent contacts” would inevitably happen and inevitably lead to the same results.
> an increased interest in “brain science” and neurobiology along with continued research on mindfulness and mind-body connections are shifting our psychological understanding from focusing only on the mind to seeing the brain and body as a cohesive unit.

This is exactly what my talk-therapist is helping me with. So if these ideas appeal to you and you want to explore them keep an open mind about talk-therapy.
C++ vs. Java for Interviews
I recently feel object oriented development is quite difficult in c++ in interviews and it is hurting my performance in interviews. Is it worth to make the shift to java given that there are so many more practice resources out there as well
It's an assertion of something as fact that has been disputed in the case. That's why it's downvoted.

Also, the word "fatal" implies causality but a fentanyl user can take a dose that would kill a non-user, and survive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/george-floyd-fentanyl-...
https://defimarketcap.io/token/0x8ba6dcc667d3ff64c1a2123ce72...

Market cap is now almost $1 million with a coin price of $0.15. Considering the initial offer was $0.002 per ALEX it seems like he's doing really well.

Of course he's now running a NFT startup https://tryshowtime.com so perhaps the 15% share of his income has the potential to max out at the $100k return he offered. I don't think I'd bet against him at this point.
Show HN: Pixel Physics
Main French lines are (for the time being at least) in fairly good shape and there's new investment being done. They've opened two new high speed lines relatively recently: Paris - Strasbourg (near Germany in the east of the country) in 2016 and Paris - Bordeaux (near Spain, in the south-west) in 2017.

Generally speaking, taking the train in France is a rather good experience. The trains are quiet and confortable, especially the high-speed ones but even regular trains are fine. Newer carriages have power outlets at the seats and are well ventilated.

The issues people here fear the most are strikes (which is the national sport, particularly in public transportation) and the creeping-up of prices, especially now that there won't be any more competition from planes.
> I fact, they enjoy more rights then the average Israeli, being able to enter West Bank freely.

I wouldn't go that far. Yes, Israeli Arabs technically have full rights. Yes, technically speaking they might be able to go to places non-Arabs "can't".

But that's being really "technically correct". I think for day-to-day living, Israeli Arabs effectively have a worse time living in Israeli than Israeli Jews (e.g. there is at least some racism, unfortunately, there are certainly differences in funding in e.g. Arab schools vs Jewish schools from what I know, etc).
> The only manager who is smarter than their team in regards to every decision is one who hires only idiots.

Reading this reminded me of quote from Skunkworks PM (if I recall correctly); "I only want to hire people who are smarter then me."
Pixel physics uses celular automata to simulate physics across all the pixels on the screen. This is a three hours code session implementing some ideas, more elements and complex interactions may arrive soon.

Choose one element on the top right of the screen and click the empty canvas.
It's mostly not that people in the US drive worse, it's that people in the US drive more. Similar risk multiplied by more miles leads to more fatalities.
> 20. Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

This is a really great point. Along the same vein: modularity has a cost too. A cost in terms of communication. The benefits of modularity should be weighed against this cost.

We're really good at talking about new patterns to increase modularity, in particular in the OOP tradition (always hide data, every data structure is its own little module with a public interface). We're very bad at talking about the costs associated with these.
AMS is currently a very typical option as there are links between Amsterdam and all major French cities. I used to take the LAX-AMS-BOD quite often before the pandemic.
I'm convinced 3d tv/movies only had that resurgence because movie theaters were using the '3d' (along with some other gimmicks') to raise the price of tickets.
Sets in Hibernate suffer because you can store an object before it was updated and Hibernate will update it.

E.g. If say

Person {
id: Integer,
name: String
}

Let's say I have some entity that stores Persons as HashSet. If I add them before saving, their hash set is taken without Id.

Id can be automatically generated by Hibernate on save/create.

After save the Id now has a new value. I.e. its hash differs from when it was saved.

Boom. You have HashSet with Zombie entries. That are technically that you can't fetch actually.
Kotlin is an alternative now, and it's great.
Vue3 PanelMenu
If he paid for this service then why is it abusive? Charter could take some of cash he is paying every month and install equipment to alleviate the neighbor's concerns.
React PanelMenu
The App Store is not a place you can trust
Angular PanelMenu
> For what it's worth I'm 15 years older than his son, and haven't used a landline in over a decade

In a similar boat. Last time I used a landline was about 20 years ago.

In fact, in India the landline has all but vanished.
Do you know whether Cree# is open source? Sorry if I missed this when reading the text too quickly, but I struggle to find more documentation or a code repository.
I know some folks at my university who are working with indigenous languages and cultural heritage, this could be interesting for them.
An Untrollable Mathematician
No only Google PR machine but also removal of Google-unfavorable news from their search index helps as well.
Clean (from '89) uses uniqueness types for I/O and mutability: https://clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean

I'm working on a language with object capabilities for safe I/O.
Because it doesn't make enough money by Google's standards.
The tribes mourning the death of their god Prince Philip
It works reasonably well, as long as you don’t “over-split” your screen.
>In an effort to provide a firmer grounding for their arguments, Kaufman and her McLean colleagues used artificial intelligence to develop a model of the connections between diverse brain networks that could account for dissociative symptoms. They fed the computer MRI data on 65 women with histories of childhood abuse who had been diagnosed with PTSD, along with their scores on a commonly used inventory of dissociative symptoms. “The computer did the rest,” Kaufman says.

Knowing a little of the issues with MRI studies (see dead fish fMRI study, https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/fmri-gets-slap-in-the-... ) and with ML models, and with the replication crisis in psychology, it does not inspire confidence at all that a team who strongly backs dissociative amnesia, feeds a bunch of MRI data into an ML model, and lo and behold after "the computer does the rest" they get the answer they had been hoping for.
Also we (in France) try to put back the night trains. They were removed during the 2 or 3 last decades because they were not competitive enough
I know someone on the internet saying you shouldn't worry doesn't mean you won't worry, but ... you should try to worry less :)

If you have the wherewithal to put away a year of expenses, and the self-restraint to double that if you needed to, I'm pretty sure you could find some gainful employment during that time.

You could also probably stretch things a bit farther if you really had to by doing things you'd rather not do. Skipping rent or mortgage payments probably doesn't fit with your ethos, and will have negative consequences eventually, but it'll take time to go through eviction or foreclosure procedures, and that gives a bit more time to figure out something.
There's no conspiracy.

What competition? The disabled are lucky to get a single workable solution.
Your question reminds me of this video by Wendover Productions:
Why Trains are so Expensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA (12m38s)
I'm a bit puzzled as to why the article suggests we should imagine ourselves as Neanderthals instead of homo sapiens? I understand that homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and people today may have a few percent of Neanderthal DNA but the most relevant evolutionary context for us is just an earlier version of us, surely.
Last time I was evaluating static site generators, Dimples and Nanoc both stood out for this recent-updates reason, among other personal criteria.

https://github.com/waferbaby/dimples

https://nanoc.ws/
Could very small wires of uranium be used to power electronics? How much plutonium would be necessary to get a 3v thermoelectric generator?
> “A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970,”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
AMA: Jordan Mechner, the Creator of Prince of Persia
Can someone who knows more physics than I tell me if the question is even meaningful? My naive assumption is that we'd have as many dimensions as there are distinct things (atoms, I suppose).
Doesn't really seem like what you are saying is true: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/13481.
For anyone here who has problems with a megacorp ISP about stuff like this in the US:

If you believe yourself to be in the right, file a complaint with your state's telecom/internet regulator. You don't have a bullwhip. The regulator does.
Like L&H which in return acquired Dragon Dictate?
For what it's worth, the author got banned from the OSDev forums in record time.
Indeed this change has several drawbacks:

- less competition for the affected routes

- harder transfers between modes of transportation (physically)

- harder bookings across modes of transportation

- disappearance of entire routes made possible by hubs from flight-only OTAs (the vast majority of them)

I agree with the sentiment, but I suppose they should just be taxed higher and somehow forced to include a note like:

“A train/bus transfer between CDG and XYZ is also available with <third party>. Wanna book just up to CDG?”
Sure, things that were produced by teensy niche companies got cheap when the met the economy of scale. That's true for everything, not just tech. On the other hand, phones are way more expensive today than when the original iPhone came out for 'just' $499, while wages have held steady over that time.
Hence the need for big government, the Libratarien said to the NeoCom...It solves the same problem just from a different perspective.
If you would check again: it’s the third advice, not the first. You cannot get it without consulting a psychiatric MD, and at least in Germany, you have to commit to long term behavioral therapy as well. To make it as clear as possible: I would not recommend popping pills as a solution to the problems faced by the parent comment, but as a viable part of an integrated solution. Fear mongering doesn’t help anyone.
The article is very interesting but it implies this will be mainstream. It won't or at least not likely to. I bet the examples in the articles are just about the only options out there (at least as far as the education goes). And for a good reason.
Identity politics FTW
https://jamstack.org/generators/ is a great list of static site generators.
"Bad practice - if you hide the database, you may get something done quickly, but it's a bad idea. If your Java code expects to have a collection of one million objects as an array, it does not matter if they are lazily loaded or not - some code somewhere might want to iterate over them, and this will kill the process. You cannot really forget that there is a database somewhere, and you should not do it."

https://github.com/l3nz/ObjectiveSync
I find creating a site with next.js then making a static export much easier and much more customizable than your typical ssg.

I'd love to hear other opinions though.
Are updates needed?