skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the last few years, the author I have enjoyed the most has undoubtedly been Joe Abercrombie, especially "The First Law".
You've probably heard it before, but exercise will help. It does so much good for mental and physical health, it's basically mandatory.

After that, removing dopamine feedback loops (browsing the internet, social media, etc.) will help tremendously with motivation.

After reading a number of books on psychology and behavior it has become clear that the adaptability of humans works for and against us. If you browse the internet you adapt to that type of mental effort, where fast, shallow patterns of thought and action are rewarded. Alternatively, reading books, exercising, working on hobby projects, etc, all train you to subdue the desire for immediate gratification, in favor of future gratification, which is more healthy and rewarding.
As you get older, you should read fewer new books, and revisit the ones that have you the most joy. Vacation sounds like a great place for that!

Edit: why? Because you believe in the leverage algorithms can provide
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

There are probably a lot of single people here that would benefit from that book as well (the stopping problem)

We all "know" the algos. But reading/hearing how they can be applied and what effect they can have on your life can be enlightening.
Bardeen was an amazing guy. I love this quote from his Wikipedia article in particular:

"Bardeen was a scientist with a very unassuming personality. While he served as a professor for almost 40 years at the University of Illinois, he was best remembered by neighbors for hosting cookouts where he would prepare food for his friends, many of whom were unaware of his accomplishments at the university."

Something about a man whose accomplishments have given us computers and the MRI being a friendly neighborhood dad, whose neighbors weren't even aware their hamburgers were being cooked by a man who had changed the course of human civilization, is so appealing to me.
The existence of a secondary market helps the business to sell their IPO in the first place. Additionally they can raise more funds by selling additional shares.

Additionally the people who own shares own the company so what benefits the shareholders benefits the company and vice versa as their interests are the same.
Endogenous Gridpoints for Tax Policy Evaluation
I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time.

Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster.

Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on?

For what its worth, I see some hope the last few years. Some people are doing something both on a scientific and sociological level. Things are finally moving, even if it is not yet enough.
You are not quite correct. The deconvolution only works well if you know exactly the convolution kernel and you have infinite signal to noise. In practice neither is true and you'll have artefacts if you try to do deconvolve. And the reason why it's hard to know exactly the convolution kernel is that it will depend on the wavelength of the photons, position in the focal plane and potentially orientation of the camera, if optical elements are moving around.
I believe this was essentially the hope of "Lytro", or light-field cameras more generally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera
Building a Simple Air Quality Monitor
There could be good reasons we wouldn't see von Neumann probes. They could be extremely dangerous to deploy similar to the arguments that are currently being made against autonomous weapons systems. That might result in them having many built in limitations such as needing to phone back periodically or being saddled with multiple redundant systems or safeguards that would prevent them from mutating into something that could harm the originating civilization.

Also don't forget that the purpose of the probes is exploration and/or resource harvesting. For exploration you only need a handful of probes at each star system and they may depart after completing their survey which would result in a very small footprint. For resource extraction you need some means of transporting the resources back to where they will be used in a timely manner which puts limits on the effective distance at which they can operate.

A civilization may even decide that it's pointless to explore the entire galaxy this way since it would take millions of years to gather and transmit the information, what government do you know of that's capable of planning over that kind of timescale?
I was referring more to thinking through the climate effects, and changing to EV, which even with the long tailpipe are still way better than ICE. But it's fair to say there must be a transition plan.

EV vans designed by a current-century auto company would be nice! That's a top item for what I wish Tesla would work on next.
> the otherwise encrypted database is an unlocked sqlite db while the app is running.

this is news to me - i will definitely be using/chasing this lead to get my data, thank you!
Tangents and secants are how we learn.

And if we don't stop to smell the roses, how will we remember how good roses smell?

So let's not defenestrate curiosity wherever it leads with the culture of "no," because you're not a moderator. So don't pretend to be the king who decides what is permitted and forbidden to be discussed; that's contrary to an open and free society.

There's nothing wrong with "viruses" or "octopuses." Please read and understand that "faux Latin" means these tweaked "smarty" words aren't even Latin half of the time.
You've positioned it now so that anything I say will sound sympathetic to Nazis.

But what if the USA was WW2 Germany, and they had dominion over your entire technological infrastructure.

I'm not necessarily saying that's the case, but I'm not so quick to throw in pure unadulterated trust to any foreign country, and ultimately, USA could decide the rest of us are bad for nearly any reason, just look at how much pressure the US exerts on Sweden, which is hardly known for human rights abuses.
The way it's demonstrated in this video looks geared towards search and rescue, anti-piracy, hostage situations, etc.
why hasn't someone come out with a camera with a junky single-piece lens and a fancy image processing backend and won the market?

I believe it’s called the iPhone.
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> you still need to hypothetically cover the short position during the trading day, or you could be violating the law

Selling futures short isn't fundamentally different from opening a long position. It sounds like you're confusing it with some stock market regulation. Though yes, you do need some capital to back your position, and you normally need to be a member of the exchange.
I think to a large extent people overestimated how much this feeling, specifically in the Hobbit films, came from the high frame rate vs. how much came from other artistic, creative, and budget choices they made.

I saw them in both normal frame rate and HFR as they were coming out and it looked kinda low-budget, weirdly lit/color corrected, and generally just clunkier than the LotR films did in the moment.
My grandma tells me that a draft in my apartment will make me catch a cold.

If only there was a method for differentiating old nonsense from advice that actually works... A scientific one, even?
The thing is that these don’t hold up well when compared to other peer nations, especially with the top EU healthcare - per capita spend is double in the US and outcomes are not better (actually worse than some).

The more likely issue are lack of competition and high cost of entry (regulatory and educational). Regulatory you can’t really loosen, as that’s a direct protection for patients. Educational costs for doctors we can absolutely fix.

The lack of competition probably cannot be fixed with the normal “market” approaches because you are not dealing with a rational consumer behavior - when people are sick they are anything but rational. This is where something like a public option health care plan could come in with a strong negotiating position. Unfortunately, there is a good chance politics would prevent that from negotiating as well…
Isn't the location that a ray strikes entirely a function of angle of incidence, its frequency, and the particular lens? Why couldn't that function be determined and inverted?
Terminal escape injection in AWS CloudShell
Typically, the ones that work are quickly synthesized and a method that can be patented is developed. Then the plant is scheduled and kept illegal so that you have to pay the pharma for something that grows naturally.
Took a bit more time than expected, but here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107037
Do something then, you can be the example to us all.
The general consensus of HN seems to be _the action resulting in the most profit creates the most desirable outcome_ because of 'economics'
> figured out that they can identify you based on your click patterns and timing.

This isn't restricted to just Amazon either; as I understand it, this is the core of the current reCaptcha version (and even more so, its evil twin, reCaptcha V3, which is seemingly so effective it can rely on those mouse events exclusively in most cases)
Bookstat didn't share the list of 268 books with me, but they did share the one book that sold more than a million copies in 2020: it was a Kindle-exclusive Thomas & Mercer title called “If You Tell” by Gregg Olsen…
Or maybe they don't fill their atmosphere with pollution for us to detect and have no need to spray E&M into space.
If you want to go even deeper down the rabbithole the Alphas are also great manual lens platforms.

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/manual-lenses-sony-a7/

Plus, a comprehensive list from the same folks for all the E mount lenses:

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/fe-lenses-sony-comprehensive-i...
Some countries have pushed it further : for administrative decisions where a program was used (whether alone or helping a decision), all the steps of the algorithm resulting in the decision must be provided in clear and simple language (if a request is made).
Details please! I haven't heard about this.
Archaeologists discover remains of 9 Neanderthals near Rome
Try working somewhere that does pair programming. I work at a full-remote company that does pretty much 100% pair programming. We're constantly talking all day.
> The couple hasn’t said what prompted the split. One source of concern for Ms. Gates was her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the people and a former employee of their charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Gates’s concerns about the relationship dated as far back as 2013, the former employee said.

The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but this stood out as really poor writing.

> according to the people

Who are "the people"? This is tabloid garbage.
I usually come off as a bumbling idiot when I try and pair program. It completely breaks the way my brain works trying to explain something while also trying to reason about a piece of software as a whole
Why not use a Google Container?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Oh... you are using Chrome!!!
There's no point then. You won't be able to hide from Google no matter what you do!

Firefox + DuckDuckGo is just as good as all that "Googlish" things ;)
RonDB has the capabilities to both scale on VM size and number of VMs as online operations. The auto part requires that we support in the managed version as well. Hopsworks have added auto-scaling to AI worker nodes. So auto-scaling in RonDB seems like a natural progression to this. Thx for the suggestion.
My goodness, is intelligence testing now so taboo that this constitutes an argument?
These stats are total book titles. Not just fiction. So non-fiction is somewhere in there!
Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a map
I'd be skeptical that more than a handful of self-published books sold more than 100K copies (if that).
Sorry but the idea of abstracting bio hacking for the unwashed masses seems like a horrible idea. Sequencing and info extraction sure, but you don’t want Joe Dirt having an automated way to synthesize anything that can augment biological processes.
I used to love excercise -- but a decade of power-lifting at the gym and going hard from 25-36 has destroyed my back/shoulders/hips... everything. Have been enjoying the longest streak of sciatica-free pain for the last 8 months since gyms have been locked down due to COVID. Still get out and walk lots, but I really wish I had been far more moderate with excercise when I was younger.
Full changes here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Alpha25

Been at least five or six releases since I've messed with it, but seems like they're still going strong! The new AI system seems to be paying off with all the small improvements to, e.g. domestic animals fleeing when attacked.
reminds me of the PogoPlug (2007-2012). some light coverage here[1].

side note, the PogoPlug was one of the first hackable ARM systems, is what got me off openwrt & using Debian on ARM. along with some other nearby devices, the openrd board, sheevaplug, guruplug. based off a Marvell Kirkwood chipset. i wish Marvell was still more competitive with their ARM line up, making low cost devices. the 2016 EspressoBin was a pretty good offering for the time, from an old hand (GlobalScale, makers of the openrd & one of the plug devices), but a little on the slow side & there hasn't been any follow-up since. still, one of the only devices available with m.2 pcie, although that is slowly changing.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/5/2910802/pogoplug-series-4-...
beginners care about cameras, amateurs care about lenses, pros care about motifs.
Pair programming was invented so consultant bodyshops can bill customers twice the price for half the mediocrity.
It would be interesting to have a timeseries plot of this sort of information. Did it used to be easier to make a living as an author? Presumably there was some point at which the ease of making a living as an author peaked. This article suggests that time is in the past, but how far in the past? Has the absolute number of people who can make it as an author decreased, or just the relative fraction of the human population? So many questions.

I do also think that the expectation/standard of a $100k/year salary is a bit high. That's almost double the US median household income, for a job that can be done (some would argue is best done) from a house in the woods. I also know that some authors are turning to Patreon. N.K. Jemisen famously started a Patreon that allowed her to quit her job and begin writing full-time. I personally have donated >$100 directly to favorite midlist authors who have made a big impact on my reading life.

FWIW, I used to read more, but I still buy at least three or four full-priced books a year.
They used the life savings of the butler and the lady of the night who took in Winthorp to fund their operation.
It will likely lead to less continuity in the story and far more cliffhangers as it jumps through the chapters like Dan Brown.
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> should

Why?
Now imagine what the Tuesday afternoon strippers at the ATF, DEA, etc. etc. are up to.

The ATF is busy 4am porch-stepping on law abiding gun owners, shooting their women, children, and dogs in the process.
Sure, in Latin. Cactus is (also) an English word and thus its plural is cactuses.
Excellent points. Here are some good ideas for getting started.

https://medium.com/@maaret.pyhajarvi/the-driver-navigator-in...
Deequ is the big data / Spark alternative for similar functionality in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/awslabs/deequ

Looks like a great project and wanted to highlight why projects like these are much more useful for file formats that don't have metadata (CSV) vs file formats with metadata (Parquet).

Parquet file footers contain metadata that provides column-level metadata, file-level metadata, and schema information.

Cluster computing technologies can use Parquet metadata to skip entire files (Parquet predicate pushdown filtering). If there is an age column in the data, then the min/max values will be stored in the Parquet footer. If you run a Spark query for df = spark.read.parquet(/some_folder).where(age > 90), it'll only read in the files that have a max_age greater than 90. Data skipping is one of the best performance benefits.

I wrote a blog post on analyzing Parquet file metadata with PyArrow if you're interested in learning more: https://mungingdata.com/pyarrow/parquet-metadata-min-max-sta...

File formats that make you infer the schema (CSV) are on the way out. Enjoy Parquet and the other benefits it provides, like column pruning!
I've decided this article is so unclear in its terms that it is unusable - for example:

"According to Bookstat, which looks at the book publishing market as a whole, there were 2.6 million books sold online in 2020 and only 268 of them sold more than 100,000 copies—that’s only 0.0001 percent of books. By far, the more likely thing is to sell between 0 and 1,000 copies—and there were 2.6 million of those last year (96 percent)."

what is up with that 2.6 million, it isn't explainable by just being 'the number of titles!'
should

why is that?
I have not read the paper the video is referencing. But, I assume all major military papers would discuss the biological weapons to a certain extent. Actually implementing is the scary part
But my point is that Aggregate and reduce can handle that in this case because they both can simply add to the PriceAndRows instance incrementally. You can sum the total and build the list in the body of the Aggregate/reduce method. Teeing is pointless here. There's no need to use another collector.
Besides what others have said (this has to be compared to next-best options, fire suppression can come from someone besides the jetpack flyer), it would be possible to mount a gun firing over the shoulder/head that would be controlled by head movement, rather than hand movement. This is already done in Apache helicopters, which allows the pilot to fire on targets while leaving his hands free to fly the aircraft.

> One of the revolutionary features of the Apache was its helmet mounted display, the Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS);[51][52] among its capabilities, either the pilot or gunner can slave the helicopter's 30 mm automatic M230 Chain Gun to their helmet, making the gun track head movements to point where they look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache#Avionics_a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQp6o0Hm7o

I have heard it described as "like having guns firing out of your eyeballs".
As I see it:

Observation: most people suck at dancing.

Judgement: most people suck at dancing, and that makes them worse than me, for I’m a great dancer.
Again, spoiler alert:

The books don't really specify that *all* civilizations are actively hostile to each other but hints that the best chance for survival is basically being quiet since there are unknown civilizations that yield tremendous power and are in fact actively hostile to any signs of other intelligent life which they can destroy with relative and terrifying ease.
It's that sort of status-quo that makes the dark forest theory so scary and why everybody that eventually reaches that conclusion would want to remain hidden and/or silent. Throughout the story we only ever get to see from the point of view of two civilizations so who knows if there wasn't something like a star-trekian federation at some place or time since we do eventually get to know that there were many many civilizations in the end.

It does get really crazy, but I personally found the whole trilogy really awesome. It would be hard to build such a story relying only on our current understanding of physics and technology and even some of the crazier parts are still kind of based out of real theories and hypothetical developments or discoveries.

I still highly recommend this trilogy to any sci-fi/first contact fan.
Yeah. WikiFoundation have their own problems. They're definitely not in a good position re: spending. I was more referring to fundraising just.
I have to agree. It sucks, because I have skills and experience that could make people with established corporations millions.

They just can't seem to bring themselves to work with people like me, unless they are doing the whole "alpha dog" thing.

The NPO I'm working with can't afford to pay me squat, but I'm not constantly mud-wrestling knuckleheads.
I'm going to give up after one last try: I want something that only communicates with my phone with nothing contacting Apple.

People keep telling me "well yeah it only does that, except also this other stuff," right after I explicitly say I don't want that other stuff. This is the weirdest HN discussion I've had all year.
How common is this ? At the human level, arent most adults less and less excited about their craft ? Unless they can focus on a set of deep and long term beautiful aspects (a sense of precision in thinking, in execution, a bond with the customer or person you're doing it for, a sacred like service say like medical workers) ?

I have a feeling that naturally the purpose of adult work is less self centered and ambitious but broader and fair for more people.

I'm just asking.
The Martian was released one chapter at the time. Same with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. As for the last one, it's felt that it was written as it was going along, with certain changes the author normally would have gone back to fix. Like stuff ending up not mattering, or certain inconsistencies in the world building.

But even for larger book series this happens. Like Wheel of Time, one can in an earlier book read about Lan sitting and sharpening his sword. Some books later it's mentioned that his sword never loses its edge. So in later versions of the first book it has been changed to him sharpening his knife instead.

But my guess is those things would happen on a larger scale when not having the opportunity to go back and edit previous chapters.
> DPreview largely seems to write for the crowd that doesn't even care about the art aspect and just wants validation that they have better photo gear than others.

To be fair, the author of this article is Roger Cicala of LensRentals fame [1]; optical testing is his bread and butter. He's also the first to point out that optimal lens performance is neither necessary nor sufficient for good photography, and is famously snarky in his writing towards "spec sheet warriors" and sharpness-obsessed gearheads.

[1] https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/author/roger/
I'm not sure what you mean by a "real war". Is it just because there aren't fighter jets and nukes involved that makes it a fake war?

If there are Russian soldiers firing guns and occupying Ukrainian territory then it's not a "matter of perspective"; it's an act of war.
The state of enterprise machine learning (2020)
The lateral/transversal movements could resemble UFO descriptions, but that those altitude you'd probably need a whole life support system to keep the pilot alive.
The End-to-End Argument and Application Design: The Role of Trust (2011)