skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even Ramessess II is not really "remembered" by more than a tiny handful of people. Most people who recognize the name know nothing about him, and most would never come up with the name unprompted. Most knowledge about him is lost.

We know him in the very abstract, not all much different to how we know the Ozymandias of the poems.

Does that level of being remembered matter?
What's "inside" of a black hole, meaning behind the event horizon is forever causally cut off from our universe. The Hawking radiation comes from the space around the event horizon. In theory black holes can become very hot if their mass is small.
This happens at the end of their life which is in the order of 10^80 years for stellar black holes.

Here is a calculator to play with some values.
https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
From checking the video, it's the default export of one of the project's core libraries. I gather it's meant to be in scope for all use of the project.
At least the Nintendo 64 had a GPU that you could control with microcode, maybe that could be called a GPGPU ?
I need to write a book. I was also a 17-year old pre-release Mac beta tester, and a Vic-20 game studio founder, also at 17. I worked for Mandelbrot in '85 - that work is in The Beauty of Fractals book. I was at E.A. during the E.A. Spouse Era, and on the Tiger Woods PSX team that had the South Park scandal. I was at Rhythm & Hues Studios too, through 9 feature films, leaving just before the collapse. I am also a Deep Fakes pioneer, I wrote the global patent, with a completely working VFX pipeline for them in '08 (but went bankrupt trying to realize Personalized Advertising, and refused to do porn.) After my 3D Avatar / Personalized Advertising efforts crashed and burned, I went into facial recognition and became a lead engineer. Yeah, I need to write a book.
I really like DF Tube. And I use Youtube Blocker for regex based suggested video blocking (really useful if you are trying to take a break from one particular interest of yours).
I'm good with software estimates. The issue is that when I give an estimate, folks want to haggle, as if they are trying to buy something for cheap at a mall.

That is what I'm against mostly. If I give you an estimate, you accept it, or don't ask me for one.
Sounds like they’re really pushing you to… uber-eat.

(I’ll see myself out…)
Discipline equals Freedom
Anywheres vs. Somewheres and the New Geography of Work
Another, less serious issue in the memoization example for JS:

(cache[key] = cache[key] || fn(...args));

Will not memoize results that equal 0 or an empty string.

I guess it goes to show that copying answers from stack overflow might not be the best idea, whether it's done manually or using ML.
I was going to ask if this was the one that Techmoan reviewed a while back, but in fact it seems as if it was a modern version of the same idea (the Squareoff that others have mentioned already): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLOj-TylGg Of course the modern one requires an app ...
Ask HN: How to do you build strong work ethics?
I want to change my relationship with work. The couple of things I am in particular interested in are:

- Developing strong work ethics

- Being as valuable to my team and company as much I can be (in reasonable range)

What I have read (from Atomic Habits in particular), the change requires a change in how we see ourselves. I think there is a good amount of truth in it.

I have seen myself as someone who gets D or C grades in their studies would do.

James Clear suggests the change comes up with consistently doing what "this newer person" would do. They act as votes on our new identity.
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I want to know about your experience. Another way to form this question would be to know your experience (direct/ indirect) from being a low performer to a high performer.
This makes sense. My entire life, I have been badgered about my non-drinking. Apparently only religious zealots, severe former alcoholics, and terminally ill people, abstain from alcohol. No other response will satisfy a person with a drink in their hand. So the problem quitters must be a large category, whether it gets recorded that way or not. And frankly, if we’re talking about former alcoholics, we’re also talking about a lot of compulsive liars; there may be reason to distrust their survey results.
In Germany, there's also the excellent grundstoff.net, which has remarkably cheap basics that are still of high quality and fairly produced. Highly recommended to anyone who is in Europe (though I don't know whether they deliver outside the EU).
> Both thanks to investing in infrastructure, education and health care.

Reality about China:

- does not have health care unless you're CCP or you can pay cash

- residential infrastructure (7% of economy) is "tofu buildings" that won't last 5 years

- 340,000 Chinese university students are in US.

Not a good look to me.
A more pedestrian imagemagick script that uses a "fuzz value" that's a number of degrees on a hue wheel instead:

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/replacecolor/index.ph...
As an electronic musician and as a dev, who is interested in touching DSP, React and FP... This is awesome :) thank you
Amazon says new FTC chair shouldn’t regulate it because she’s too mean
I'm a long-time user of Quiver and feel that it's just about perfect. It is MacOS only though, and I haven't found a suitable equivalent for Linux or Windows (work). However Joplin comes really close. If you're a fan of Joplin but are using MacOS, give Quiver a try. They also have an iOS app, and someone made Quaver for Android.

https://happenapps.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andrewt.qu...
Looks like TNI is run by the chairman of the BBC. They have a unique and interesting history in this area. [1] I am personally not a fan of censorship and prefer people debate important topics. It feels to me like we could use a modern day equivalent to Radio Caroline [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_banned_by_the_BB...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
A Report on Exercise and Sleep
You have to remember that most historians and archeologists are leftists, if not explicit marxists.
The writing on the wall has been clear for Hong Kong ever since the HK police turned violent against the protesters. Yes it's an outcome of horrific consequences for the people of Hong Kong but they need to rebuild in another place as other great cities have been rebuilt in the past.
I think the common theory is that lactase production is stopped during early adolescence in mammals as a sort of safeguard to not compete with younger siblings for milk (when you're old enough you can get other food, while your younger siblings depend on milk).

Some human subgroups (e.g. Europeans) are different, as they mutated to produce lactase even in adulthood (an evolutionary advantage in farming societies).
The world you describe is alien to me.
“Work poorly and blame it on bad tools. Work slowly. Bring up irrelevant issues”
It was a law firm that knew nothing about design, research, debugging, etc.

I might be able to use it if it pulls legit code, and not joke code.
Yellow emojis not neutral symbols of identity
This is one of the first things that jumped out at me when looking at the Copilot landing page.

There was another one somewhere else on there that calculated the number of days between two dates, but assumed that all days were exactly 24 hours long and is no doubt ready to introduce a maddening bug into someone's codebase when it is used inappropriately.
It doesn't reach users.

On iOS, that's not even an option. On Android, that's hidden behind some scary checkboxes that state they're only for developers.

Side-loading apps like this is advertised as "insecure" and "dangerous" so as to discourage people form doing so.
Great idea, similar to what I understand is done in accounting. The idea is to force everyone in the actg dept to take regular vacations of several weeks, requiring others to cover their tasks. This is so that others can uncover financial sleight-of-hand to prevent embezzling (or at least structure it such that successful embezzling requires a larger conspiracy, increasing the likelihood of getting caught).
Google Research releases AI for automated game testing
The sad thing is the author owns the 'fetch' standard which could have, like all its predecessors (superagent, axios etc) encoded URL parameters itself, but chose to go for a (apparently deliberate) low level approach.

Now the author is pointing out that you need to encode parameters manually. Maybe this is a good case for sane defaults like we had in every HTTP client 10 years ago?
PyCharm and Data Science
The amount of people who think that GitHub Copilot is a good idea is just frightening. Just shows how many people never thought about the semantics of their programs for even a second.

Am I against AI supporting humans? Of course not! I think it's the future and holds almost infinite potential. But the way this is done matters, and this is done just so utterly wrong.

How could it be done properly? Well, let's say you have a system in place where you actually prove the correctness of your program. Then of course there is no harm in letting the AI construct the program, because you know it is correct. Or let's say you wrote the program, and now the AI helps you to prove it is correct. Or both.

Of course, when the correctness of your program does not matter in the first place, but just its output, and you happen to be able to judge the quality of the output without knowing anything about your program, then something like Github Copilot makes sense.
> lack of investment

What? You’re grasping. If you want to see the problem, compare government budgets and look where all the money goes.
I’m waiting for a Greg Egan short story to explain this better.
I have never liked wearing obviously branded clothing, it always seemed counter-intuitive to me.

People want to show off their brands, and I'm ok with that, but as a nerdy guy who has never had style as a priority (though I'm quite militant about the cut of one's suit being just right), it just isn't me, so that's always ruled out GAP for me in the past.

If a brand splashes their name across the clothes they sell, I'll avoid them, but this limits options a lot of the time.

When it comes to Superdry, I like a lot of their clothing and own a few pieces of it, but I often choose not to wear many pieces because of the branding. I have some really nice jumpers from them which have a little label on the arm, which I find unnecessary. For work I'm more casually dressed than outside of work so I keep the Superdry branded stuff purely for work.

A couple of years ago I found Uniqlo, it was basically perfection, they have a line of chino type trousers I like the fit of, and a T-shirt I like the cut of, as well as some light jumpers, no branding or markings whatsoever, so I bought about ~20 of each in various colours (some of which go unworn to this day because they were a little too wild), and then a year or so later bought another ~10-15 of each.

EDIT: Trying to work on making my writing/comments less bullet pointed and monotonous so restructured a bit.
how can the temperature of a black hole make sense? Is it the temperature of the singularity point? Is it the temperature of the space inside the event horizon (but it can't be, as that space is empty)?
Holy cow, this opens up so many more questions.

I knew the way things are interconnected nowadays is unprecedented in history. This insight brings me back to one of my ideas I had few weeks ago. Hold on with me since my technological background is certainly lower in several magnitudes than yours.

Given that Facebook just won't delete anything it has stored about you I tried to think about other ways to decieve it. It might be impossible but what about generating alternative accounts with slightly different information. Eg. creating several (hundred?) profiles that are basically decoys, pumping "input noise" to the system eventually confusing the algorithms.
Your characterization of the theory as “cute” is spot on. There should be a name for this type of theory - puts a nice tidy bow on an observation but isn’t based on science and falls apart upon inspection.

And in terms of lactose intolerance, I lived in Asia and milk is amazingly popular with young kids. And I’ve almost never heard of much lactose intolerance beyond what you’d hear in the west.
It's fun! One time I described how bitterly my three dead grandfathers would cry if they knew I'd overpaid, and the seller responded in kind.

Maybe that's... not the usual type of negotiation, but making them laugh also seems to work. Problem being I got the giggles myself.
Warmer Clouds, Cooler Planet
Isn't this the principle the entire Javascript/Node ecosystem based upon?

Downvote away. You know who you are.
It went downhill as early as 1.44MB floppies being 1440*1024.
The Great Resignation: How employers drove workers to quit
I’ve experienced both, were the dev team also had to do QA, and a dev team with QA people.

I personally hated writing automated tests, but it did give me a much deeper understanding of the product. Especially when writing tests for features I wasn’t working on.

That said, having a dedicated QA person within the team is far more effective. The dev team can build features, while our QA person works with the business to come up with test cases and test data.
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity
How are people afterwards.

I refuse to use email at work anymore because of the constant phishing tests. Sick of the gotcha mentality.
Cannot relate to people trying to "well, actually" this article based on their absolute certainty that evolution happened the way it did for a specific reason (a thing we can never actually prove). The point of the post is to tell an interesting story and the writing is fun and funny. Lighten up people, sheesh.
Revenue up almost 5x from Q1/2019 to Q1/2021, yet they are still bleeding money since losses also went up almost 5x. Bad sign for a platform business.
In some countries (DE) this is not true. Here they apply the law of the hole i.e. the new technology is inserted where is a hole in coverage. That has a very good marketing value ( look, we have 5G) and regulatory value (look, we have 98% coverage). For the end user it is a disaster: in a given area only one technology might work. But they say in the future we will all be connected.
"Temperature" in this case refers to the amount of energy they emit due to hawking radiation.

By comparing to a black-body curve, you can define a temperature for the hole. Obviously it's not a real object with a real temperature -- if it were, I believe the temperature might be infinite -- but this still works for the purposes of deciding whether it'll grow or shrink.
They probably mean non-military investment?
I'm a bit late, but I'll ask my question anyway.

Data science requires a very strong mathematical background. Thee are libraries and software that do take care of some of the most complicated processes, but I don't believe someone can become a good data science engineer by always relying on such libraries/software.

Hoe rigorous is the treatment of mathematical topics in the AI course you offer?

Do you teach the concepts of probability/statistics, linear algebra and calculus required for the course, together with some testing or examination relevant to the subject material being taught? Or is your approach similar to Andrew Ng's Coursera course where he does give some introduction about the maths involved without going into details because they are not required, resulting in acquisition of, at times, half baked knowledge about core concepts.
This is close to utilitarian ethics. The problem is that, taken to the extreme, it is easy to yield obviously wrong moral decisions.

For example, if we define 'survive as long as possible' as having 1+ humans alive, we might decide we should kill 1/2 of the population (Thanos did nothing wrong).
This debate reminds me of the old days when teachers cautioned against the use of Wikipedia, assuming people would treat it as an authoritative source of information.
What it means to be in engineering at a high growth company
I have penned some of my leanings that have helped me navigate in a hyper-growth, consumer-product start up
I never quite understood the economics of clothing. Primark is well-known for being cheap, but also for having not exactly great quality, so clearly part of the cost-saving is in the production (e.g. materials, thickness, etc.)

An average wage for a factory worker in Bangladesh seems about $0.33 USD; in Cambodia it's $0.85 USD; other countries are somewhere in between.

I don't know how many clothes a single worker can make, but let's be extremely conservative and say it's two pieces of clothing per 10-hour workday. So that's between $1.65 an $4.25 in wages for a single piece of clothing. I suspect it's actually much much less (but can't find any resources on this at a moment's notice). Even this amount is ... not that much. A 50% or even 100% increase would make a huge difference in people's lives, while having a fairly minor impact on this end.

I grew up fairly poor and for the first 25 years or so I basically never had enough money for anything, so I understand that "a few € more or less, who even notices?-attitude that someone more well-off/middle-class might say is actually not so easy. I know from experience that those "few euro" actually can be quite significant. This is one reason Primark is so popular in the first place.

But still: the difference is stark, and there is little doubt in my mind what is clearly The Right Thing™ to do is here.

I understand that companies want to keep costs down, and that's perfectly reasonably, but this is just ridiculous and extreme. In many cases workers barely have enough money to buy food. And for what? So it's €1 or €2 cheaper? I find it so hard to believe that, as I said in the first line, I must not understand the economics of this somehow. Or maybe I do and people involved in this are just ... ugh...
She was appointed (on a bipartisan basis) to pick a fight with amazon. Whether you think that's good or not, you can't complain Amazon are proceeding on that basis.
Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste
Strategy for novice crypto traders
What would you say they'd have to do differently/better to get it right?
My understanding is it's the temperature of the event horizon: because it doesn't emit any blackbody radiation, other than the tiny amount from Hawking radiation, any heat measurement from it would be approximately 0k.
I remember Trumpet WinSock and Mosaic for Windows 3.X it didn't come with Windows you had to buy them separately. We had "Internet in a Box" to sell to customers from my computer store. Microsoft at the time didn't like the Internet because they could not control it or profit from it. Didn't see the potential until Netscape went public and Internet Explorer was developed.

Some people used AOL to get on the Internet back when we used dial-up modems.

Windows 11 has MacOSX features and only runs on new hardware with TPM 2.0 I think I'll pass on a Windows 11 upgrade until 2024 or 2025 when Windows 10 support runs out.
Here in Amsterdam there's probably more people who don't speak Dutch than there are people who don't speak English.

Heck, I've worked at companies where over 50% of the employees did not speak Dutch at all.

So English will reach a wider audience in Amsterdam, ironically. Not sure how well this applies to the rest of the Netherlands (especially outside Randstad).
This reminds me "El Ajedrecista"[0]. A mechanical chess player from 1912, built by the spanish engineer Torres Quevedo[1].

There's a short video demonstrating the workings and seems very similar[2] (article in Spanish).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Torres_y_Quevedo

[2] https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/06/ciencia/1551836790_1601...
What kind of experience you are missing from fairy tales? You can take any fiction book and read it from side to side with ease, bun no fiction book reader can take a whitepaper and read that few pages with understanding. So, you have to proud that you can read the real things. Keep doing that, please.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668370
I guess it could refer to JIT compiler.

Either way this is very interesting.
The terms for both patent and copyright are way too long. Instead of increasing over the years as we advanced further into the Digital Age, they should have been gradually decreasing. The whole point of the US patent and copyright system is not to "give a special reward" to inventors and authors, but to "promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts" by building up the public domain commons of inventions and art. The current law, with its lenghthy terms and slipshod processes that invite abuse by trolls and encourage the smothering oppression by monopoly power, is at odds with those original goals. It needs to be torn down completely and rebuilt for this not-so-new century.
Oh aha, thanks!
This looks very cool, I will check it out for sure.

One note: minor typo here: “I want the signal flow through my applicatioin to look like S."

Applicatioin -> application
I think this GH Copilot looks really cool but I wonder how many more or less subtle bugs are going to end up in codebases because of it. The snippets it generates are rather large, a tired dev on a deadline will probably not take the time of carefully reviewing them if they seem to mostly work as-is.

Paradoxically I think that the more it'll improve the more dangerous it'll become, because if the Copilot gets it right 99% of the time you're more likely to miss the 1% of the time it doesn't. It's like car autopilots in a way, the better they become the more the driver lowers their guard and the more dangerous they become.
There are economists who try to explain things, but there are also economists who really want to influence policy/politics. It's hard to separate the two. After all, most economists of renown are advocates for some policy they think is best.
Yep. I find it odd that the article doesn’t even mention IPFS. Brewster Khale is a big proponent of IPFS, so that would have been a perfect opportunity to bring it up.

IPFS has its flaws, but content addressing and immutability are powerful.
Just imagine how many bad coding practices are going to be promoted to junior developers relying on "helpful" suggestions from this tool which is operating from an AI model and doesn't really understand what the programmer is trying to do.

This whole thing just sounds like a bad idea from the start. Code should be written by humans. If you find yourself repeatedly writing the same boilerplate code, use or create a library, framework, or higher-level programming language, don't rely on an AI tool to attempt to guess what you want.

Dijkstra must be rolling his grave right now.
It's a fun story.

For myself, I tend to avoid pissing off scammers. I just let the relationship wither on the vine.

I had a friend that attacked a forum hacker, and the hacker responded by completely destroying a years-old online community. They probably used a bot to register a scammer login, but the attack got their attention.

My friend would have been far better served by deleting the login, and fixing the holes in his forum.
How Can I Scrape Candidate Data from LinkedIn?
Zara always has queues when I see it, but my wife tells me the quality of everything she's bought from there has been dismally poor, especially given their relatively high prices. Usually the issues she's described are around the quality of the work and not the material, seams falling apart, buttons and accessories falling off etc.
Unfortunately this seems all too plausible, and it really is too late to have a society that allows privacy imho.