skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trumpet, possibly one of the most commercially pirated pieces of software in the US. Casual piracy was definitely a thing, but many ISPs sent out Trumpet Winsock to their customers without paying a dime.
> it’s hard to predict anything anymore

Only 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and your crypto exchange experiencing lengthy outages when people try to cash out.
> I learned a valuable lesson about the difference between messing around with hardware vs software.

Tesla Autopilot developers should read this.
FHIR is a breath of fresh air but it's so kinda worse because while it's great you still need the HL7 parser logic lying around in your code and now a bunch of additional code paths for FHIR

:/
Thank you! What got me interested in the first place was seeing some pages of the Shahnameh on display at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto:
https://agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/isfandiyar-kil...
Same. With magit's "instant fixup" it's quite easy to maintain a stack of patches on your branch. I didn't realise this was considered anything special really.
"Determinism" covers a wide range of possibilities. Superdeterminism is more specific: every single piddling bit of apparent quantum randomness is actually already stored in some vast lookup table somewhere.

And everything else in the universe leading up to it, no matter how seemingly irrelevant, is constructed to lead up to that. To get that exact measurement from the device, you needed to set it up in that exact way at that exact time. The amount of time it took the clerk to count your change when you bought ice cream thus is a crucial part of that experiment. It was coded up at the beginning of time precisely so that the experiment could occur to give you that result.

Ordinary determinism can be a bit more lax about the specifics. It doesn't have to be, but it could be. It could focus on some other time scale: "It doesn't matter whether you pick chocolate or vanilla, you're still getting hit by a truck on the way out of the ice cream shop, so you get to choose what flavor you're enjoying when you get flattened". Superdeterminism denies that, right back to the beginning.

So it really is plain old determinism, but with a specific focus on, well, specificities.
Doesn't it aim to compete with the abridged version? At this point, I'm being asked to subscribe, so I won't
> that random appreciation in terms of "likes" is not a sensible measure of how much a person is worth

I suspect many of the so called 'influencer' accounts buy likes and followers. A quick Google for 'buy instagram followers' leads you down a rabbithole of merchants willing to sell you followers and likes. The thing to notice is: when you've gained traction and are over 10,000 followers, the followers that you do buy, become un-noticeable, because there's so much noise on the platform (no-one notices).

This is why new accounts that suddenly have 1000 followers in 7 days is a red flag.
They're trying to fool noobs into believing they are the smart money: "Look at this hype, if I get in now I can make a ton of money before the house of cards collapses".
It's not really a good blanket statement that compiled languages are significantly faster. There are a lot of problems getting tools written in JavaScript to run fast, and the fact that JavaScript is "not compiled" is a bit farther down the list. There are other pressing issues, like the fact that code written in Go, like esbuild, is free to run multiple threads and freely share data structures between threads.

The distinction between compiled and interpreted languages is also a bit fuzzy to begin with.
Seems like a really silly lisp with string operators and is incredibly hard to read when not trivial. This will probably be the first and last time I ever ask this question, but why not just use something like clojurescript?
I've heard that a lot of children's media often looks to help encourage pattern recognition (eg: counting the Very Hungry Caterpillar's foods or the structure of a Blue's Clues episode), but I don't know how true that is.
I echo all of this, including in appreciation of Carle's work. Despite the simple language, there's a sophistication and depth to the best children's books that mediocre ones lack.

My favorite to read to my little guys is _This is Not My Hat_ by Jon Klassen, which is one of the funniest, most subtle ones we've come across.
Essentially JSON s-expressions.

I'm doing something similar in a side-project of mine as a temporary stop-gap to avoid writing (or generating) a parser for a proper s-expression syntax.
And this is how LISP is invented.

Any sufficiently complicated program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. (Greenspun's tenth rule)
The Switch: How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer
I mean more the "Why don't you ..." It's quite obvious that it's rethorical but it seems so nonsensical to put this into a question while camouflaging what is really going on.
Sometimes I deserve my downvotes and I'm okay with that. When I'm sure that I don't, it is either some political spat that is not worth thinking about because opinions differ, or it is just HN having idiots like any other online place. Accept that there are always people who will downvote and you can do nothing about them.
It makes perfect sense. They're advertising in the subway, not the Financial Times.
>> Was just trying to find a way to offer access to a DB for a non-technical person

Yes, you can say we are advanced version of MS Access for all databases that can talk to even 3rd party apps.
I am aware I have almost no knowledge about dark matter in physics, but whenever it's mentioned, I can't help but think that our modern 'dark matter', is the 'ether of the 21st century'. That is, an interrim scientific theory that will eventually be completely replaced by revisions of our physics.
Yes, as the link I shared mentions, there's concurrency via actual threads, and proper memory sharing—by no means implying compilation is all there is, but it does seem at the very least to be a contributing factor, and understanding the change to bottom-line performance would still be welcome.
People always say this kind of thing. You're probably mis-remembering a headline of an article you barely read and are suggesting that was the global scientific consensus at the time. If you actually look at the real predictions about the climate, which always come packaged with the level of certainty, worst case, best case etc, then predictions have been remarkably accurate for decades. By comparing this to doomsday religious predictions that of course are nonsense you just add to the widespread public denial.
This funding graph suggests lack of money is a key limit: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fu...

I had similar discussions ten years ago with a Cambridge PhD in this field, who was of the opinion that the money spent on Iraq War would have been more than enough to resolve all known fusion reactor related questions (he explicitly did not say the result would be a working reactor).
You might call me pedantic as well, however I would argue that your definition of successful differs from others; it certainly is insane though, greed as a leading metric tends that way.
Sorry, I don't buy this argument at all. I'm not native speaker either and somehow have been able to write comprehensible sentences since elementary school. There is no excuse for not using punctuation, not capitalizing letters, not breaking statements into sentences.

Here, an example [1] right from SO, raw copy-paste:

>please can anyone point out what I have done wrong this is code for permutation which stores all possible permutation of the small vector "vec" and then display it

And this isn't the worst I seen, but those get deleted quickly. But this one already tickles half of the points I've made.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/67723738/
This is how people get sucked into a bubble near the top - it’s hard to watch other people getting rich with no effort.
How to change or reset your Mac Password
Someone correct me, but I think hMetis is one popular software/algorithm for multi-level graph/hypergraph partitioning. There is also KaHyPar which is a bit more academic.
A lot of DOS programs using 32-bit CPUs would embed a "DOS extender" which would take care of the switch to 32-bit mode and needed translation of interrupts and device accesses, forming another layer of mini-OS on top of DOS while leaving the "launch application from DOS" flow unchanged to the user. Windows 3.1 also had Win32s which provided partial compatibility for 32-bit Windows applications, though that wasn't directly related.
I'm not a cryptocurrency promoter. I bought early (~2012) and researched how it works and why and have watched the aforementioned disinformation campaign kick in over the last six months.

Everyone who disagrees with your point of view isn't a conspiracy theorist. Have conversations with people, don't be ignorant.
Yes, it does. I run my macOS nativecomp Emacs on it. Just the UI is not as good as on X. I have my mouse miles more than on X.
The Suez canal requires constant maintenance (dredging) to avoid being swallowed up by the desert. It is not hard to imagine most evidence of a canal that stopped maintenance in 767 being lost to time.
You are correct.

Some switches could do with much better cooling. A POE switch or one that is putting 10gb down a cat 6 cable is very toasty though. I’ve got one that is borderline too hot to touch. Thanks Ubiquiti.
I do not have the knowledge to judge Herodotus (for his other stories), however even if he lied purposefully on that one, he is right about many things that practically none could have guessed with the current knowledge of his time.

1- the position of the sun when navigating in the southern hemisphere.

2- claiming a journey of 3 years

It could be a coincidence of course. But then that would make from him a very smart and lucky liar - smart because he had to know the earth was round and lucky, because 3 years, it's what it would likely take to do it.
Considering the subject matter, could be Alone/The Last Psychiatrist @ https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
Influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism
I imagine their Phase 2 campaign is some vague "They don't want you to win" sort of messaging.
It’s extremely easy to learn, and takes a day of practice, at most. This is the place to learn how to do this as a sighted individual (type literary UEB [Unified English Braille] here): https://uebonline.org/

To start out, you use your normal QWERTY/QWERTZ physical keyboard instead of a virtual braille keyboard (screen braille keyboard) or a true Bluetooth braille keyboard [1][2] (also known as a Perkins keyboard or Perkins brailler) to learn this.

Seriously, if you do the lessons on UEB online with a physical keyboard you will learn this 100% solidly and will have absolutely zero learning curve with the iPhone/iOS braille keyboard or Android braille keyboard. The iOS/Android braille keyboards are aware of your fingers, their positions, and your hand orientation, so it translates pretty much perfectly when you transition your learning onto iOS/Android braille keyboards.

This is because your individual fingers are assigned a “braille dot” (excluding thumbs). UEB literary braille uses six dots per braille cell. However, some braille codes have eight dots per cell. As I said, all you have to do is learn UEB literary braille. You can learn it in a day by doing the practice lessons at the link I provided above.

Braille dot finger assignment (for braille chords):

LEFT HAND

Dot 1: (left index finger, “F” key on physical keyboard)

Dot 2: (left middle finger, “D” key on physical keyboard)

Dot 3: (left ring finger, “S” key on physical keyboard)

[If the braille code uses 8-dot cells]

Dot 7: (left pinky finger, “A” key on physical keyboard)

RIGHT HAND

Dot 4: (right index finger, “J” key on physical keyboard)

Dot 5: (right middle finger, “K” key on physical keyboard)

Dot 6: (right ring finger, “L” key on physical keyboard)

[If the braille code uses 8-dot cells]

Dot 8: (right pinky finger, “;” key on physical keyboard)

_________________

So a 6-dot braille cell using all 6 fingers would spatially “look” like this, linearly:

(bottom to top of cell) LEFT HAND SIDE|RIGHT HAND SIDE (top to bottom of cell)

dot 3-dot 2-dot 1|dot 4-dot 5-dot 6

The easiest way to remember this is:

3-2-1|4-5-6

Where dots 1 and 4 are the top two dots, and dots 3 and 6 are the bottom two dots if this is represented spatially as a Unicode braille cell.

If this was 8 cell braille, it would be

7-3-2-1|4-5-6-8

Where dots 1 and 4 are the top two dots and dots 7 and 8 are the bottom two dots.

Anyways once you practice the lessons on the UEB braille website there is no learning curve whatsoever for the iOS/Android braille keyboards. For typing a space you use your thumb.

You can also get a physical Bluetooth braille keyboard, if you were really into it. Many blind people, who do not regularly use braille, not only prefer to type on the virtual braille keyboard, but also like to use a physical braille keyboard with their mobile device for typing ABC letters.

[1] Orbit Braille Writer (physical Bluetooth braille keyboard) http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-writer/

[2] BraillePen Slim (manufacturer link with specifications: https://int.harpo.com.pl/products/braillepen-slim/)
Absolutely wild that PCIe 4.0 was saturated just two years after introduction in the consumer market.
Do things in your regular life that help the planet:
Don't drive; bike.
Don't eat meat.
Stop buying products you don't need.
Plant trees in your city.
Donate to climate action foundations.
Its not just a matter of birth control. In many of these countries, there are ingrained patriarchal practices which lead to men pushing for their family unit (which sometimes includes multiple wives) to simply have as many children as possible.

In other cases, its a ponzi scheme, where people have an excessive number of children in order to ensure their own livelihood in old age.

The solution is probably to stop sending all forms of food aid, to stop interfering in local and regional conflicts, and to replace all aid with education, abortion and contraception for women.

For example, in countries like Somalia, about half of the population rely on food aid for survival [1], but the fertility rate is 6.07 children per woman. The population is forecast to double in the next 25 years [2].

It would seem reasonable to me that if we are offering food aid, that we also require all recipients to undertake long-term contraception.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/somalia-people-depend-on-food-aid-to-p...

[2] https://www.populationpyramid.net/somalia/2021/
Thanks! AWS Lambda supports Docker image sizes up to 10 GB (according to their docs), so on the back end, 3-5 GB could still work.

Convect, in its current state, is still limited to small models (e.g. < 0.5MB). This is because the deployment happens by posting to a REST API, which hasn't yet been tested for large payloads.

I wrote up some tips for decoupling a large model from the data that's causing it to be large (https://convect.readme.io/docs/news-topic-model). However, it sounds like you're asking about a truly large model. Convect is still in the MVP stage right now, but we plan to handle larger models. 3-5 GB models will likely be feasible in the future.
Yes, its just like your google spreadsheets. You can insert/edit/delete. And share views with and without password.
I can definitely redefine a struct in a module.
IR is usually represented as a sort of linked list of instructions where you can easily move around instructions, add/remove them, and replace higher level instructions with lower level instructions as you go through compiler passes. At the end, the IR is a linked list of machine instructions, which gets written out to a code buffer as the last step.

Bytecode is usually a buffer of high level instructions that is compact and fast to read (for the machine). Good for interpreting and holding the semantics of a program in a format that is more efficient than the source code, but it is usually not a good format for running compiler passes.
Why don’t we just limit it all around? Why does someone need to have 4 kids which then, in rich countries, forces them to get a bigger car, use more energy, cool a bigger home, etc.
Yes, there are huge opportunities for small / medium data. Maybe 90%+ data problems are in the small size range. The biggest pain point is converting the insights from the analysis into an actionable plan that actually improves things.

Thinking this through, the main pain point I've experienced is convincing people to act on the data, follow through, and connect changes in product (however defined) into changes in the metrics.
This sounds like it should be so fast I'm surprised they even kept the interpreter. Is there some delay setting JIT up or something?
2.8 million people die during childbirth every year. It's absolutely a medical condition. And you should absolutely have a doctor there.
IMO an important ingredient of the TTIC formula is physical proximity to the university. Your researchers can give talks on campus/meet up with Uchicago researchers/visit academic libraries by just crossing the Midway, a short and walkable distance.

So if you do decide to go this route, make sure whatever university you choose as the host has enough space within walking distance that your researchers can easily interact with the campus, go to conferences, etc.
>FB (and YT and Twitter) should never have been arbiters of discussion. They became privatized Ministries of Truth.

I think they knew there would be issues like this and they would sometimes get it wrong. This is why they tried to avoid being the Ministers of Truth by having so called "fact checkers" determine what is true.

The credibility of these fact checkers and social media should both be tarnished.
> Are you implying you can arrange for sanctions that would not have the population suffering from them

Of course not. My point was that the elite will continue to enjoy most of their privileges while common people will struggle to buy a loaf of bread, which is more or less what happens with sanctions. International laws prohibit any other type of intervention, so the change has to come from the inside, and in my opinion the only way to facilitate it is to use sanctions to push the difference between ruling and poor class to the extreme so that it could ignite public revolt. It stinks, badly, but that's how politics works.
I don't think the Serbia example applies here, back then there was a war, and I recall one of my school teachers, who was from Friuli (north east Italy) just meters from the then Yugoslavia, telling the then 10 years old me in the mid 70s about the mutual hatred between various ethnic groups in the area, like they were just waiting for a chance to go at war against each other. In Belarus, unless I missed something (corrections welcome) there is "just" people against their corrupt decades old oppressive government.
SN850 is getting close to the limit of PCIe 4.0. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16505/the-western-digital-wd-...
You don't think that current science can explain a bee trying to push toward a food source that it can see and smell?
The Danish title is very similar to the German and Dutch ones, Den sultne larve Aldrigmæt meaning The hungry larva Never-sated.
I'm not sure it's true either, but the fact that his account does correctly describe the position of the sun in the sky and the fact that Herodotus includes this information to discount the story to me tells of at least some kind of trip down to the southern portion of Africa. Total circumnavigation, though, I do doubt.

Edit: Also, it wasn't Egyptians that did this but Phoenicians at the order of the Pharoah.
The epidural costs $6000. A 10 minute procedure.

I saw my wife before and after an Epidural so I could not dispute it's effectiveness.

But I generally can't see a reason why we need to spend 12 years in school to learn how various needles and rules of thumbs work.

Only the US has such an education burden, and only does the US have such a strong physician cartel to mandate it..

Edit, and even with midwives you will be hitting max out of pocket with 1 night stay.
Isn't qucs licensed under the GPL? Which would make that quite illegal.
This is dubious. I am not going to be using this. I just randomly typed in my password in my terminal. Would have ended up in the hands of some VC. No thank you.

You can say that this is great mongering but the dubious claims around no telemetry (which were fixed after HN feedback) and the closed source completion engine and calling it open source is not trust inducing at all.

Man page hunting, jumping around help commands is how you learn things. You don't get Unix in one day and definitely not worth graphics. I say that as some one who is a visual learner.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/americans-have-texas...
Even if you do consider bytecode to be an intermediate representation, the statement "Sparkplug doesn’t generate any intermediate representation (IR)" is true. It goes from one existing representation to machine code without creating a new one in the process.
I also did this some year ago. A big learning was that you should define the allowed input types in the logic object.

https://github.com/pubkey/secure-json-logic#readme
In a lot of ways philosophy is some kind of fringe pseudo thing, by dint of having been constructed that way. As soon as something isn't fringey and pseudo, they stop calling it philosophy.

What's left is a mishmash of unrelated notions: metaphysics, ethics, axiology, and (for some reason) logic. Or whatever other slicing you want to apply; the whole point is that what's left as "philosophy" is specifically the stuff that's not locked down. Except logic, which philosophy clings to, rather than letting it live in the math department, even though geometry and arithmetic (also formerly the domain of philosophy) live there.

I agree that we ought to just call it all "philosophy" again, since we all love wisdom. Even the "scientific method" is really just a thing we all do every day, even when we're not practicing "science".
I think you'll find that most of the organizations promoting climate apocalypse agree with your ideas about population control.

Interestingly, they proposed population control before promoting the climate agenda. Many view fear of a climate apocalypse as a vehicle to advance the preexisting agenda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Biodemography_and_...

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-le...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation#Eugenic...
Climate nihilism is the next stage of climate denial. We CAN do much to manage growth and encourage sustainable development. Wealthy western nations need to concretely embrace technology transfer and infrastructure investment. As nations develop their infant mortality decreases, people naturally invest in the children that they have and their birthrates decline to replacement level.

Already we're seeing a difference in how technology infrastructure has been distributed in developing countries. People are coming to depend upon their cellular phone and wireless data connections to be more reliable than their electricity infrastructure.
You mean the Holocene extinction event which is directly tied to climate change? It's one big connected system.

Also the low hanging tech you talk about is a compete cluster bomb of terrible ripple effects. They don't solve the issue only kick the can down the road while causing massive other problems.
Ha they heard of "truthy" and "false" but apparently stopped reading before "... are a really really terrible idea!".
well, this trip sounds way more plausible than Troy/Iliad story. And Troy was discovered based on folk tales more or less. So who knows, may be Egyptians did it.

ps: for Russian speaking crowd: there is a YA book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Foam which is a fiction version of would-be such a trip.