skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's amazing!!!

And it illustrates perfectly why what I am doing is cool.

I played that game in the browser and it looks great.
But the controls are quite a bit laggy.
That is not the developer's fault, they cannot do much about it. The medium that they chose is not designed for low latency.

My project enables developers to make a game like that more fun when you actually play it.
Quote the article:

1. Generate some White Noise.
2. Perform a Fourier transform on the White Noise.

Are the two separate steps necessary? It should be possible to directly generate the Fourier Transform of the white noise, rather than applying FFT to the waveform, right?
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Imo flip these "punishment" jobs into "reward" jobs. As it is, we give the jobs no one wants to people who don't have any other options - or are struggling to exercise their options. We use them as boogeyman for kids when we remind them how important school is.

If everyone is taken care of, these jobs should come with some extra benefits - both socially and financially. Remember all those bs commercials thanking essential workers toward the beginning of Covid? What if society really appreciated its essential workers and compensated them like it did?

Cleaning toilets is somewhat unpleasant, but there's immediate feedback on your performance (the before and after is clear), and people should appreciate the people that keep them clean. There should be an understood, and spoken, sense of "Thank you" for the people keeping them clean.

Perspective -> feeling - > actions. I don't think this is a particularly difficult issue to navigate, but it would require a shift in perspective.
Pointy haired boss.
Perhaps a more general observation is that a measure that faces pressure by intelligent agents needs to be monitored and adjusted by equally intelligent agents to patch the exploits.

So you can either use a simple measure that doesn't work, or a complex measure that does work, but at potentially great cost (evaluating all the terms, bureaucratic inertia by the controllers, etc.)

Some metrics seem to provide more of a free lunch - be more robust - than others. It's not obvious which are robust, however.
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most actions the majority of corps take when it comes to "diversity" are purely performative. Diversity is important and more people should care about it, but what constitutes as "diverse" in the corporate environment is only what looks good on the outside and has a minimal (perceived) impact on the bottom line.

A good example is exactly what is going on now: multinationals all temporarily slapping a rainbow on products to take advantage of a movement (like Raytheon. wtf... https://twitter.com/RaytheonTech)
An interesting question is how the salaries would shift. If everyone can fulfil basic needs without much, will the jobs that no ones interested in doing be the ones on a high pay grade?

edit: just saw that you replied to "maybe money isn't needed at all" so my reply is not really relevant
What are the advantages of this tool in comparison with e.g. pandas' json_normalize?
Much like they were better of using PubSub rather than just GenServers, I wonder if they would actually be better off using Phoenix Presence (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Presence.html) rather than a hand rolled implementation.
Agreed. I have a little office nearby. I drive my bike daily. It has become part of my shutdown procedure after work.
No, cinnamon is a fork of gnome but it's a heavy fork that has been diverged for a decade now. It's not really gnome anymore.
"We do not joke," said Nessus. "My species has no sense of humor."
"Strange. I would have thought that humor was an aspect of intelligence."
"No. Humor is associated with an interrupted defense mechanism."
"All the same--"
"Speaker, no sapient being ever interrupts a defense mechanism."

-- Ringworld
But the opposite is the case. The sun will get hotter for the foreseeable future until the earth will also become uninhabitable. And then the sun will expand and swallow Venus and probably also our planet. So if we base the choice only on the expected future intensity of the sun Mars would seem the better choice.
As somebody pointed out, all nuclear reactors built of a long time have been build to defend against that.

But with modern GenIV reactors it wouldn't actually do what you think it would do. I would recommend you actually read about how these reactors work instead of writing comments like this.
Pair programming and code reviews are actually easier remote.
"the NFT hype never made any sense whatsoever to begin with"

I felt the same, but now regard NFTs as the first meaningful application of blockchain.

First, let's talk about land registries. In developed countries, the state administers a land registry. There is a strict, human-administered API against this registry. It allows users to inspect the full history of land; cause property splits/mergers; execute land exchange; and there is capacity for extensions like water-rights and native title. There is formal governance around some of these operations - conveyancing; council approval.

NFTs have the potential to do something similar, initially for artwork.

Imagine if every time an artist created a painting, they issued a NFT against it, and got this authorised by an authority. That authority does not yet exist, but Christie's and Sotheby's could set up in this space with low effort. Each time a transfer of the artwork occurs, both the NFT and the physical artwork change ownership to the new owner.

This would have a snowball effect, and quickly become the new standard for provenance. Insurance companies would insist that works were marked on the exchange. A stolen artwork would be nearly worthless. It would be pointless to duplicate artwork, because the sold duplicate would effectively destroy the original.

Extension: firearms. Firearms are valuable goods, and would soon be forced onto this registry. Perhaps the state would encourage this transition by asking that firearms ranges mark the transition of guns to and from the range premises by marking this on the chain.

Extension: wine. There is a live problem in China, with rubbish wine being fraudulently marked as premium Australian varieties. Each bottle could be chipped in the cap with an on-chain identifier. In the wine shop, you could use your phone to scan the identifier, and witness custody of that wine back to the producer.

Evolution: complex goods. The next evolution would be to trace the grapes that went into the wine back to the vineyard that they came from.

Reputation becomes very important in this system. This would encourage a new type of auditing profession, who serve a similar role as conveyances, but for chain operations. Once you have that, you could mark carbon credits of goods on the chain, you could have eggs tagged as being free-range or organic, etc.
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I would rather pay someone to take my turn for me.

There’s a whole theory of competitive advantage [0] where I’m better doing some things than others. I’d rather do the thing I’m good at and use the money to pay others to do stuff I’m marginally worse off doing.

I’ve lived in communities for a few decades and every day it crosses my mind that I want to establish a price for someone to come clean my toilet.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comparativeadvantage.as...
> Python is considerably slower with musl libc than with glibc

I've noticed this years ago too. Interacting with the pg package (PostgreSQL) which has a C dependency was noticeably slower on Alpine vs Debian when performing common database operations like selecting data. Since around 2018'ish I've been using Debian (Slim) and haven't looked back. Haven't had a single issue.
Might I suggest using an image of used tampons and spatters of menstrual blood as a standard. Surely no one is disturbed by something so natural and none of the boy who like to play with their woodys under the desk while giggling over centrefold pictures will be discouraged from continuing with the class when forced to look at it.
Django: PostgreSQL vs. Elasticsearch for Full-Text Search
>I expect this to go like Reddit has

"Download the app to see the answers!"
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> I have a very good idea why it was written like that, however: the mere availability and ease of use of abstract data structures naturally leads to their overuse by what seems to be an overwhelming majority of developers, and the eagerness to "futureproof" and add unnecessary complexity is also very common.

Or perhaps the code is shared with some other project which does require the added complexity.
This article is shockingly light on sources, so I would call it more of a hypothetical opinion piece... which seems to just reinforce a truism about management metrics.
> What if society really appreciated its essential workers and compensated them like it did?

The person I was responding to was arguing against compensation as a concept in general.
Cryptocurrencies have also been used as a way to escape hyperinflation and retain savings despite a coercive and highly restrictive government, eg Venezuela.

When a system becomes corrupt and dysfunctional and normal transactions and savings become ineffective or illegal, cryptocurrencies have proven themselves as a viable means of escape. The value of that is hard to understate.

I agree that a lot of other applications are overhyped, and that there is a lot of bloat and excess in the crypto space. I think their core use case and value is in providing an extremely difficult to block form of value storage despite restrictive and irresponsible governments. The value of that depends on how restrictive and irresponsible your government is being.
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Funny you mention the machete. Last time I was in Suva in Fiji, some of the locals come into town for their evening drinks, directly I guess from cutting sugar cane in the fields, all with machetes hanging from their belts. It's a head turner all right if you're more used to people being kicked out of pubs just for wearing their jandals.
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This is the kind of comment I came here for.
> It will lose a fight against a true 5th generation air-superiority stealth fighter (an F-22 or equivalent).

Are these expected to be in any theatre at all in the near future? Any fighters like that seem at least a decade or two in the future, if not three.
It's weird until you are living in a culture where it's not weird. Doesn't take long for curiosity to overcome any reservations and you can always find insects prepared in more appetizing ways. Source: my time spent eating insects including worms and protein flour.
Yeah, same for me! I only keep albums that I really like. And from those I only keep that few thousand on my phone that I deem “essential”.
Those were not the words you used, and (continuing the pointless arguments about words), "morally abhorrent" does not mean the same as distasteful, at least to most english speakers.
Hard to say in hindsight. I’ve been getting contacted by recruiters mentioning my SO profile for more than a decade, but I’ve also been active on Stack Overflow since the very beginning, and earned a lot of reputation very early on (and much less since). I’ve since dropped of the first page of top users (second or third now) but I can’t tell whether that’s led to a decrease in contacts (it probably has but that’s been balanced by an increase due to seniority in my field).
I tried so many ways to avoid that "feature" but they keep changing their implementation every few weeks.

It's super frustrating.

This is my current uBlock filter against it, I think it still works?

google.com#?#div:has( > div > div > h4:-abp-contains(People also))
What's the difference with just using some_golang_or_rust_program_without_dynlibs directly?
Amazon Ring’s neighborhood watch app is making police requests public
Yes? Some of your backups will be the encrypted version of the file. As long as your system remains hacked it is useless to restore anything. You will first need to purge every disk in your organisation and reinstall everything from scratch (depending on the sophistication of the ransomware, maybe just buy new disks altogether), THEN restore from a version that is good.
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As I see it, this is one of the major problems for democracy to solve.

Today, there are more issues than ever that need solving and the average Joe either cannot keep up with them all or is not interested in many of them—or just doesn't have the time to do so therefore getting popular support for some reasonable cause that has merit can be very difficult.

For example: copyright. As Cory Doctorow has said, one of the problems in getting copyright reform is that the majority of people are not interested in the subject—or they're not au fait with its Byzantine rules, regulations and laws—that's despite the fact that most citizens would benefit from reformed copyright laws.

With so few citizens pushing for reform, politicians aren't going to spend much time on the matter. Instead, they're much more likely to enact tighter copyright law in response to the powerful and very entrenched pro-copyright lobby. And in fact this is what has actually happened over the past 30 or so years.

We see this problem in many areas of political debate, another being the Right to Repair — once this was taken for granted until corporate interests reckoned they could screw the citizenry for even more money. Whilst this movement is (fortunately) getting off the ground it should have never been necessary if the status quo had remained in place.

Same goes for privacy, government and cooperate surveillance, etc., all of which eat away at an individual citizen's autonomy. In every case, individual citizens have to band together and organize to fight just to maintain the status quo let alone gain benefit for themselves and this is both difficult and very time consuming. It's a never-ending battle and in recent decades the citizenry has been losing out to both corporate and government interests.

In modern democracies, a small organized group backed with money and self-interest can wield a great deal of power and thus influence the law at the expense of the vast majority. In effect, due to the complexities of modern-day life, democracy is not serving the populace as effectively as it once did when life was simpler and we see this disenchantment echoed in just about every recent survey.

The fact is that Democracy just isn't good at protecting its citizens proactively. How we reform it remains the big unanswered question.
I've been reading Chinese posts on the network, a lots of people are actually debating whether or not the OS is related to (not solidly based on) Android due to the confusion. I'm personally also not sure about the fact too, because there is no source code to confirm that.

Based on my understanding of the copyright law and licenses, in addition to keep the same license, the fork must also display/state the original authors in their copyright declarations. There are also implications on the patent front.
There's even a CPPCon talk about Google's "Swiss" tables with interruptions by Hyrum each time the new code's observable behaviour changes because, at Google, they internally have enough users for Hyrum's law to kick in all the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZE3_0qvrMg

The talk was presumably better live because Hyrum doesn't have a microphone, so his interjections are hard to follow, but it's a good way to illustrate.

Some of the examples are much like this story, you design this sophisticated, heavily optimised unordered container for millions of items, and then your users put three items into it, and they depend on the order of those items and you "broke" their code by not having this behaviour you never promised and it made no sense to depend on.

And the defence mentioned in this thread (randomise things which aren't guaranteed to have stability) is introduced because these are Google employees, they know about Hyrum, it just isn't enough. Sure the code failed when I tried to store 40 items due to your randomisation, but I found it worked OK with ten items as then the randomisation was defeated, so now I store ten items, and then your latest change broke that...

The pathological use of data structure is why stuff like making the constructor for empty strings very cheap has a big effect on some codebases. Rust const-ified String::new() because an empty string doesn't need any heap store. So this means code which loops over a large array setting all the members to the empty string is only about as expensive as looping over an integer array setting all the integers to zero, it doesn't incur a heap allocation, or a function call. Of course modifying these strings now takes on the expense of allocating, but guess how often people who do stuff like this never actually touch the string...
Let's see how it goes for them. I'd bet it's going to be a disaster. That time I was asked to appear in the office of my employer after years of home office, that catapulted me into a burnout after just a few weeks.

See, working from home allows you to be comfortable with yourself and your body. You organize yourself to do as much work as you deem useful to meet your goals. It allows you to take a ten minute nap or just to let yourself go for a few minutes. I had months filled with focused work. Something I'm only able to achieve in solitude.

Going back to the office after having adjusted your work to excel from home, is a nightmare.

Suddenly you're subjected to the office's furniture, its space, foreign people, the (shitty) food, noise, a commute. You don't have privacy. You'll have to use your will muscle to stay focused and to appear working. Working from an office is putting in effort to be present. WFH is not.

I work freelance and my results are better in a space where I'm in control of. To me WFH is more economically sound.
> Why do they do this? That doesn't make any more sense either.

If someone sees my work, they will buy an original piece. Or buy merch. Or buy a print. Or pay me to teach.

Or I think the main reason is that I like to make art and like people to see it. It makes me feel good for people to see and comment on my work.
Unless the example is from 2.79 and earlier it shouldn't take any or only minimal adjustments. There have been some API changes between versions since 2.81, but they usually wouldn't affect a lot of add-ons or are very easy to change.

All the API changes are also documented in the release notes [0] and the API docs allow to view the Python API for each version [1].

What change between versions caused you problems and what parts of the API docs were lacking?

[0] https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes
[1] https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html
Fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.

Great quote: “Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.”

Also, I like this journal’s web design. Very well done for mobile.
I thought it was common knowledge that the quality of life for people in the upper quintiles is based on the people in the lower quintiles not having options.

Hence the hotels and fast food and other low paying fields complaint about not finding workers since the government gave them an option.

If everyone was fluent in English and could type well, then the price of rote white collar office work would go down and the price of hard labor and public facing and more undesirable work would go up. Which is what has been happening in the last decade.
There are more electric vehicle manufacturers than Tesla and many of those are specifically targeting the cheaper price brackets.
Any sources on how many Venezuelans actually moved their money into crypto?
The only possible explanation for the way Huawei design their UI is to try and trick the non tech savvy into thinking they're buying something that runs the same software as Apple products.
This trips me up at least a few times a week. Infuriating!
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Of course, I am talking about "recreational" Ketamine usage (not controlled by a physician or similar), but:

I have lost two friends to it and another one went to the hospital multiple times. Considering that I am just one data point, I find that these are a lot of connections to people who had fatal events due to ketamine usage. This is not including the people I know who had a mild and severe addiction.

Since you mention daily dose requirements, I would add that that is really the health risk here, since you would need double or triple the dosage (to get the psychoactive effects) after just a couple weeks of daily usage and it keeps increasing. This really puts a strain on your body until it will just fail to work anymore.

Also if you use it in sub-anasthetic doses it can really fuck your head after a while and lead to dissociative episodes or even disorders as well as anxiety and paranoia and a loss of the `sense of reality` (like most other drugs do).

Additionally it should be mentioned that

- the neurotoxicity of Ketamine is not really explored

- most street `Ketamine` is not that at all but often research chemicals which are even less explored health and addiction wise
I have to pay 40% of my income as income tax.

I have HAD ENOUGH. This is infuriating.

What can we do?
>That iteration process builds up more skill, thus, better writers.

this would explain the commonly accepted theory that writers from generations before the personal computer were all crap and cannot match up to the present generation.
Probably tooling/CI/dependency management that would have to be changed a little, which might break backwards compatability.

Basically it‘s a hardcoded regex with two digits everywhere, I assume.
Emil Kirkegaard the individual who wants to legalise child porn and reduce age of consent to 13 year olds? https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_Kirkegaard
At least when using Gaussian white noise, the DFT of the noise is the same distribution with a smaller variance: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/24170/what-are-the-s...

I don't think the same neat result holds when you use uniform white noise, but I haven't done the math.