skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish people didn't watch so much television. It's too good and too easy to watch an unlimited amount of content. Every hour you spend being entertained in front of your screens is an hour less you could be spending building actual social bonds with people in your community.

There is a correlation to increasing tv watching and decreased social club engagement. By social clubs I mean bowling clubs, skating clubs, 4H clubs, knitting clubs, quilting clubs, book clubs, etc. Whatever other clubs people used to do back in the pre modern television era.

Being a part of these clubs connects you with your local city. It encourages real social relationships. If the club membership is diverse, you are exposed to people of different backgrounds, experiences, and races, which decreases racism and xenophobia.

All of this will increase the amount of trust we have for random humans. And that correlates strongly to how well government is working for us.

This could also be fueling why the US has so much hostility in politics now. What if we were in clubs with people of different political viewpoints? You like these people, and you disagree politically. I think that would change things.

So please, do your part and stop watching so much bullshit on television. Sure, a few good movies and shows every once in a while is understandable. But really do you need to watch all these new TV series and every single made-for-netflix movie??
I found an article in Variety [1] that says "Additionally, ILM has a proprietary real-time engine dubbed Helios, based on technology developed at Pixar" which sounds like they adapted it from Renderman rather than build something entirely new from scratch. Pixar has been working on adding real-time/GPU capability to Renderman forever (supposedly it's finally coming to the public in RM24. We'll see).

[1] https://variety.com/2019/biz/features/video-game-engines-vis...
Check out the whole article at the link, it contains more and goes into that. It is a good one.
Thanks, I missed this explanation years ago when I studied industrial control systems! I truly appreciate it.

Though I wonder if that's me that got older and have better understanding of things that I now think I get it, or is it your explanation. Probably both.
I bet people downvoting you don't understand physics... :-/
From Zero to Hero: Sparse Networks from Scratch via Inverse Scale Space Flows
> Reddit's search really needs some work. It's practically useless for me unless I am using old.reddit.com/.

I always thought that “Reddit search is bad” is pretty much as old as Reddit itself. I don’t think they ever seriously invested in that, for whatever reason.

Here’s a post from 8y ago where people were already accepting that it has been like that forever, and it hasn’t changed a lot ever since. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/146gop/why_does_...
My cats brought me dead mice a few times, and one time I saw one playing with a mouse and didn't interrupt him. However I've never given them a live mouse to play with. I feel like letting them hunt a mouse and giving them a mouse that you've already caught and could kill quickly is very different.
One fictional world that got that right is the Classic Battletech universe.

The two things out our world are a FTL jump drive (the Kearny-Fuchida drive only working at gravitational balance points) and the hyper pulse generators (sending FTL messages using the same physics). Everything else is well within established physics. Fusion engines? Check. Laser and direct energy weapons? Check. 12m high walking robots? Sure, why not. All beyond current engineering, but not beyond physics.

Even space travel is using reaction drives (fusion powered ones, but everything space born needs fuel to move) with acceleration well below 10g. And even the space-based tabletop uses acceleration and vectors instead of speed. A bitch to track on paper so.
If there's no lightning bolt marking, it's just a charge & USB 2.0 cable, not thunderbolt. Genuine Apple Thunderbolt cables are marked, and the one you got with your MacBook for charging isn't one.
My strategy is to go straight to Wikipedia. It's not perfect, but their disambiguation pages are great for lots of ambiguously named proper nouns.
Imagine, people making art because they have something to say. The horror. The horror.
It depends on what you consider to be you, and whether continuity of consciousness is important to you personally.
What I Learned from Seeing My Business Fail
> Anyone who was around in the 80s and 90s knows this is a laughable farce.

Since this was 30-40 years ago, why do you find it implausible that he outgrew his previous CEO persona? 30 years is far too long to pay someone for an image rehabilitation plan.

Someone with fuck you money at the level of Gates has zero motivation to patch his public image especially this long after he passed from the immediate public view. e could be a happily rich anonymous guy right now.

> If he wanted to truly give away his wealth, he could do so.

Did you look at this from your own perspective? How easy would you part with your wealth? Why do you imagine that a far richer person would be able to do so more easily? Once they're accustomed with a certain living level I think most people have problems scaling back.
While debugging and coding.
Is this any different from vim's easy mode? I remember that being available as an extra shortcut by default when I tried gvim on windows (> 15 years ago).

Easy mode, aka 'evim': https://vonheikemen.github.io/devlog/tools/vim-easy-mode/
Also worth a look is this fascinating interactive map of reddit [0] from Anvaka [1]

[0] https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit
[1] https://twitter.com/anvaka
Inflation increases prices cumulatively, forever. Spending packages are one-shot boosts.

If you schedule recurring spending packages to compensate, you'll accelerate inflation by the same amount.
I wonder how costs were controlled.
MacVim which you mention isn't part of any standard distro. But also: why should it matter really? If someone is a Neovim user, they'll have very little difficulty using vi/vim when that's all that's available. Basic no-plugins Vim is pretty indistinguishable from basic no-plugins Neovim, for the user.
Then it's either not genuine Apple or it's not Thunderbolt. This is what an Apple Thunderbolt cable looks like:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD862LL/A/apple-thunderbo...
you can read marschalek's preprint submission to bioRxiv here:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.27.441606v1

in this case work is with transposition of genetic elements toward examination of the cellular dynamics of covid infection.

a search of bioRxiv for rolf marschalek yeilds 1 submissions bearing his name as a co-author.

at face value this is still in the realm of hypothesis rather than thesis.

[ADNDM]
a related pronouncement, and revelation.

>>For Vaxzevria, Greinacher and his collaborator Rolf Marschalek, a molecular biologist at Frankfurt University, are calling for tests of a simple solution: halving the dose. In AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial in the United Kingdom, a small number of people accidentally received a lower dose and had fewer side effects in general; perhaps a reduced dose is also less likely to trigger the kind of strong inflammation that boosts PF4 antibodies, the researchers say. And unexpectedly, those people were slightly better protected, perhaps because high levels of inflammation can actually block the formation of antibodies. “Part of the problem might be that they just overdose” the vaccine, Greinacher says.<<

to wit, currently accepted dosage of vaccine may be problematic.

also Grienacher and marschalek share a collaboration so there is a further lead to the entirety of this story.
> You're just replaced by something extremely similar to you with all your memories.

That happens every night I go to sleep and a fair portion of my atoms get swapped out by normal metabolic processes. My neural network changes as I'm unconscious or dream. I don't even remember all my dreams, but wake up with new thoughts/ideas sometimes.

We're always some delta from ourselves the previous day. I'm very different from the me of 10 years ago. The jump to a brain simulation may be a large change, but I could also tweak the things that didn't feel quite right or match with what I used to be like.
Obviously it doesn't. In fact, one common long-running justification for why we should helicopter-drop money to ordinary people rather than businesses and banks is precisely that ordinary people will spend it on goods and services whereas the wealthy will not - and it seems like we're seeing the consequences of actually doing this right now.

The trouble is that there's a strong strain of left-wing populism in the US based around a view of the economy that is simple, gives someone convenient to blame (the evil wealthy corporate class sitting on all the wealth like dragons on hoards), and bears almost no resemblance to the way the world really works. Which is why you still get people pushing for wealth redistribution as a solution to this inflation, even though the very argument that was being used to call for it before means that it will make the inflation problem worse.
Didn’t Europe ban this?
I actually created Scheme for Max to address this, it enables scripting all of Max in s7 Scheme Lisp. Max is a wonderful environment, but for experienced programmers, not necessarily how you want to code. It's strength is the built in integration with stuff that is a pain to code from scratch: midid handling, GUI elements, scheduler, transport, audio controls, etc. If you're interested in using the Max environment, but writing your work in Scheme, check it out.

https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
No. Displays make (relatively) sharp peak emissions at one wavelength. We blend their relative intensities to trick our mind into thinking it's seeing the wavelength in between those three spectral peaks. All the colors we can see are from the spectral response of our three cones (hence why we use three spectral emission lines). We simply cannot tell the difference between magenta and red+blue. The actual photons are not interacting with each other. Take a prism to your display and you'll see the discrete emissions. This wouldn't happen with an actual magenta emission (which also doesn't exist, further highlighting the limits of color in the human vision system).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell
"The room begins to crumble around you. You barely escape the earthshaking rmdir."

Dotfiles are invisible unless you use a Flag of True Seeing. (-a)

The player could collect and execute scrolls like teleport.bash (provided they have high enough permissions to execute the file).

Bard players could charm (chown) hostile enemies to make them friendly.
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I hope this is still true - there are moves, at least in the services division and associated products, that seem like short term money grabs, vs. part of a long term "customer experience-first" vision....
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Vim uses text objects for that kind of thing, t being the tag text object. `dat` deletes the JSX tag enclosing the cursor, `cit` deletes the contents of the tag and leaves you in insert mode, etc. Matchit (included in neovim) can also be configured to have % match tags as well as the default brackets/parens. LSP text objects are also available for more language specific structural editing.
Yeah that section seemed like creative writing and stretching for a metaphor. Kind of detracted from the overall point about rusting infrastructure.
https://hirund.in/blog/magenta-doesnt-exist

Paradoxical title - for the notion that magenta is something we perceive, not a wavelength.

An example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_color#Extra-spectral_...
Any reason counties need Blockchain for digital coins and don't rely on a central set of trusted servers? I could be wildly misunderstanding the issue, but isn't a point for coins to be independent of a nation?
The politicization and trend towards political correctness on reddit has been a huge part of its decline. It's rare now to find places where one can simply discuss topics with objectivity and curiosity instead of threads revolving around virtue signaling or demonization of the 'other side'
Can definitely see it for a company size of Dropbox, big enough to already be working with ODMs, big enough to be sensitive to the kind of headaches you get from a heterogeneous fleet of ILOM processors designed by deranged engineers.
>Is it the cover?

It's absolutely the cover, yes.

The photography, the fire effect, the composition, the typography choice, and the 'shine' effect on the text all scream low quality.
> What do you mean?

Apologies, don't mean to pick on you but wanted an example for a future comment.

This maintains context worse than GPT-3
The core customer profile appears to be aging startups that know how their software behaves and are currently way over 2k cores on AWS.
Biden Opens California’s Coast to Wind Farms
Their hijacking everything on Freenode and that stuff is now why I will no longer use it and now use Libera instead. This script to try to block everything, it is very bad. (It is not necessarily the only reason, but it is the major one.)

We see these complaints about Freenode, and about moving to Libera instead, anywhere, including on Freenode, Libera, HN, Mastodon, Usenet, ifMUD, and probably even more.
And yet they will charge from the 240W charger all the same. Which is what makes the standard great.
Aren't these features are subject to external configuration to behave properly? For example, C/C++ and #defines. The user has to configure yet another file for this to work properly. If the build system/tree is so complicated that I can't figure out what the final #defs are (like building MBED programs with literally a thousand #defs), I end up shutting off this feature entirely. This kills me with VSCode & Sublime, but Eclipse derivatives are usually more tightly coupled. What about neovim?
Only on the European ones. The UAE ones use cheap labor for everything not needing engineering masters.
There must have been some kind of calculation. Akin to some sort of overall spec. This vaguely reminds me of some prior HN article about a Spanish submarine that ended up being a laughingstock because the engineer in charge accidentally added a decimal place or two re overall goal weight/gross tonnage...
It is called infantile amnesia - our brain only figures out declarative memory storage by the age of 2 to 4 - some argue that is not linked to language as animals also experience this.
Another meaningful consumer response is just to not watch the movies. No one actually needs them. Take your dog for a walk or read a book or play a video game or whatever. I've never understood why some people feel like they're entitled to watch particular movies.
I'd suggest looking at code for how people have done it other projects, there are some really good open source implementations of those sorts of things in languages like Csound, PureData, Faust, SuperCollider, etc. Csound is old school, but the band limited VCO is brilliant (the vco2 opcode)
The answer is at the end of OP page:

Recommendations: It may be worthwhile to post at least one
staff member capable of remembering the existence of
SCP-055 to each critical site.
I'm adding one of these to the if-I-win-the-lottery list. Nifty home media server AND it'll probably keep the house warm during the winter.
>>"Every hour you spend being entertained in front of your screens is an hour less you could be spending building actual social bonds with people in your community."

I feel it didn't used to be like that; there was a brief period of limited TV choices where it seemed to increase the bonds - it was a shared experience, and unlike most shared experiences which you have with couple of people physically present, it was shared with any number of friends colleagues and strangers. "Did you see the movie last night" or "Did you catch Ed Sullivan" show, do even "Remember the Friends episode where...". It was a common cultural reference point.

Now of course there's so much content we are more divergent and everybody watches their own TV show or Movie or Youtube channel or TikTok etc.
I’m a little disappointed it got renamed as “climate change” because that phrase doesn’t have the same level of urgency to it although it is technically more accurate.
Which category does one have to dig into to find subreddits for social groups that span many topics, say, for women (r/twoxchromosomes) or something like ask men (r/askmen)?
At least that requires unanimous decisions vs civil cases where it just has to be the majority.
Explaining to my aunt or uncle or grandparents that, no, the cable and charger they bought isn't the right one for their phone/laptop/whatever even though it fits isn't ideal. Sure, it might just charge slowly (cue family tech support call), but it could also just show "not charging" on OS X for example, which is just confusing for most people.

It's a real problem, even if tech savvy people are fine with lower charge speeds because we know that the charger/cable/device combo only supports PD profile whatever.
It looks interesting. However, documentation is sparse. It doesn't clearly say what platforms are supported other than macOS and NixOS (which implies Linux in general, but doesn't clearly state it). Also, it seems to only target x86 and amd64. No mention is made of any other architecture, nor of any BSD other that macOS.

Do you have more information?
> Many responsible adults jumped on the 'it can't be man made' bandwagon out of instinct.

A common error or misrepresentation seemed to be conflation of "lab escape" with "man made." They're not the same thing; a virus from nature (smallpox etc.) could still escape from a lab.
No you have not. You pretend to have but you didn't.
I’d love for an oil free sunscreen - I have an OCD-ish type tendency where I can’t stand to have anything oily on my skin, especially my face or hands.

I take some sun protective supplements instead, which work well enough where I don’t get significantly burned from working outside all day.
Our history, and a lot of countries right now, proof you right.
You’re not from Europe I presume?
What about it? Nobody said anyone could be immune from having their reputation hurt, that's not what we were talking about.
It does seem like a big missed opportunity. My only thought is the failure of Wave loomed large and people didn’t want to repeat it. Consumer messengers with huge user bases all had simplified UIs and that seemed like a better market to try (repeatedly) to break into.
Another nice thing about Csound is that if you want to start doing C level dsp in baby steps, extending Csound is very straightforward. MUCH easier than adding objects in Max or PD for example. Max and PD externals require a ton of platform specific boilerplate.
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Meh, I would rather know that what I have is going to work correctly. Now we're going to have many more calls to customer service complaining that our devices aren't charging/transferring-data at the advertised rates and every rep is going to start by telling us to use only the cable that was provided with our device. I, a technical person, don't enjoy dealing with this stuff, and it's going to be hell for my non-technical family and friends (who will naturally come to me with their problems).

That it won't damage their device is certainly wonderful, but I definitely think the cons outweigh the pros.
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> Freenode knows that it is dying already.

This is a highly charitable reading of the situation, and in fact, Lee has put out a post claiming (more or less) that he's trying to do all this for the FOSS community.

From where I sit, it's abundantly clear that Lee thought he'd be able to come in and "own" the IRC network that hosts the plurality of FOSS projects' chat communities, and when they all started leaving, he lashed out and tried to stop them in the classic way an ego-driven control freak does: by imposing draconian restrictions, punishing those who dare to defy him.
> Why did Valve get out of the AAA game development business?

Dota 2 and CS:GO are both AAA games that are still under development. Valve never stopped developing.

The more accurate question would be why did Valve get out of the single-player AAA game development business? The answer is risk and profit. The same reason why Disney keeps making Marvel and Star Wars content. Established properties are good earners with very low risk - and there's no lack of rabid fans who love the companies for it.
That’s the genius of it. Why fight human nature?

As parent said, corporations are restricted only by the market and by the legal system, so it’s up to the voters to implement effective taxes and rules as needed
Who's running their vacuum cleaner all evening?

My fridge/freezer uses 25 watts average, but the 90% of things I was thinking about was ignoring the heaters and motors, just the lights, computers, speakers etc.

Next question, why 5V, when they're talking about 50V. That brings us down to 1/10th the amps.

Also this is only inside your house, not for power distribution. Generate your DC power with solar, store it in your car/battery, and power your LED lights, Smart speakers, computers, all the stuff that converts power to DC before it uses it today.
There are various studies putting deaths by poverty in between 2 and 20+ million a year. Just lack of clean water is generally around 8 million. None of these are seriously disputed.

Capitalism has existed for long enough to far exceed 100.

However to understand that capitalism causes poverty you would need to first understand its mechanisms. I recommend Lenin’s Imperialism if you’re serious about learning.
With the amount of money MSFT has invested in OpenAI ($1b+), is it fair that say that OpenAI risks being shadow acquired by MSFT at any moment ?
Well hardware maybe, but i think that software does not degrade the way hardware does. There is a lot of firmware which never gets updated and devices just keep working as long as the hardware is still ok.
Talc is a mineral in clay mined from underground deposits. It’s the softest mineral known to man and that makes it useful in a wide range of consumer and industrial products.
Asbestos is also found underground, and veins of it can often be found in talc deposits, leading to a risk of cross-contamination, geologists say.

Full article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/talc-asbestos-po...
They're about as open as Google is not evil.
This is great for 2 reasons.

1. It helps newcomers to reddit find the familiar, popular and sanitized subs

2. None of my prized niche subreddits come up here. The entry barrier stays high and so does the content quality.
Using a modern IDE after tunning and mastering vim command and modes for years is a real struggle.
I would say the US is a hegemony like any other...with the benefit of structural hedges of the Madisonian system to avoid the most egregious abuses of power. Not perfect but better than tyrants of the past...
Nothing wrong with (presumably) humanely butchering an animal to eat. I would guess you didn't pull it's legs and wings off one-by-one and watch it scream and writhe just for fun.