skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numbers exist only in our heads. They are results of formal symbol manipulations.

What does "to exist" mean for number which can not be written down as some formula (in broad sense of this word) in formal language?
Ontoclick – Turn a free text description into a proper ontology term
Why have the RDBMS as the default? Why assume you need ACID and transactions when they're overwhelmingly likely to bring you nothing but trouble (the number of web applications that make effective use of database-level transactions is approximately zero).

You're far better off starting with a system that does seamless active-active by default, and then figuring out what kind of transactional guarantees you need. An RDBMS might make sense for a few specialised use cases, but most of the time it doesn't.
Most of the people buying Chinese phones live in the developing countries barely earning $300-$400 a month.

They could stick it to the man by buying the latest iPhone/Pixel that protects their privacy and at the same time takes a strong political stance against a shitty regime, but they have other more pressing and immediate issues to deal with.
https://archive.ph/Le7Sz
I found out the other day that pet can have the molecules repaired and be circularized commercially. In the lab pet can be reverted to the monomer and so can polystyrene.
The cloth masks contribute to bacterial and fungal infections of the lungs and nothing more. It's like the metal scanners on airports - they create a false sense of security and nothing more. For example, there are non-metallic composites that are stronger than metals.
>Despite how blurred the parasocial lines may be and how hard platforms are working to erase them entirely, the reality is rather simple: the notion of a special bond with a creator is contrived, and what seems like unfettered access to their lives is curated. It’s the intimacy you’d get from any imaginary friend.

A very wise ending of a very thoughtful article.

And I think it's deeply unethical that some creators abuse this artificially created feeling of intimacy. In this case it's more like "parasitical relationships".
Look at what your contract/NDA states
As much as I enjoyed those MECC games, I am much more appreciative of how they helped to get computers into schools. With computers being found in everything from computer labs to regular classrooms, it was usually possible to find a teacher who would let me in at lunch or after school to explore programming.
Analogy in EFF's letter in response to YouTube-dl DMCA takedown (2020) [pdf]
Ask HN: Reinforcement learning for single, lower end graphic cards?
On one side, more and more hardware is being thrown in parallel to ingest and compute astonishing amounts of data generated by realistic 3d simulators, especially for robotics, with big names like OpenAI now just giving up on the field as from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861201 ; on the other side, more recent simulators like Brax from Google https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/speeding-up-reinforcement-learning-with.html are aiming at “matching the performance of a large compute cluster with just a single TPU or GPU”. Where do we stand on the latter side of the equation then? What is the state of the art with single, lower end GPUs like my 2016 gaming laptop’s GTX 1070 8GB? What do we lower end users need to read, learn and test these days? Thanks.
Yes, but it is not without limits. The hard limit is (supposed) to be 48h/week down to 44h/week after 12 weeks, including overtime. And even if employees and unions want to work more, legally, they can't.

It can go up to 60h/week in exceptional situations. Notably, it happened during the pandemic for some essential workers. In the article, that's 84h/week.

For the Smart car factory scandal, the work week was 39 hours, which is more than the official 35, but well within the limit and perfectly legal. The problem is that it should have been paid overtime, but it wasn't, which technically meant it was a wage reduction.

There are still some people in France who do absurd work hours, but not factory workers. Among them are medical interns (that's illegal but still done), self-employed people, and some high level employees who don't work on the clock.
How phage technology is taking over Africa
That was the decent narrative in between the dogma.
Can't we have a law that says that companies who sell stuff can't be the same companies who provide the reviews?
> More "subtlely" excuses this abuse, and there's no excuse, even if the subjects of colonization where "bad people", "uncultivated", "underdeveloped" or whatever, there's no excuse to invade their sovereignity, and it's not up to the colonizer to judge them or fix them.

I don't disagree, but it's kinda hard to talk like that on historical contexts. Might-makes-right has always been the truth until pretty recently, though you could make a case that it's true even now. I don't think judging the people living that way when everyone else around them did that too (albeit less successfully) is useful.

Do remember that most of misery in the colonies came from collaborators. Yes, they were paid by the colonial oppressors, but they just wanted to profit too, damning their fellow people.
What exactly do you mean by homogenous? More than one in five Canadians are foreign born. More than one in five Canadians are visible minorities. More than half of Torontonians are visible minorities.
> whether this is an actual movement or a very small handful of people trying to astroturf some anime-techno-utopia philosophy

Isn’t that how literally every movement starts? Maybe we’re seeing the birth of a movement.
Rally (YC S20) is hiring a product designer
This is the best part:

“So, what about safety? fast-float-rust uses unsafe code fairly liberally, so how do the merged changes fix that? Well, all unsafe code except when needed was removed, and it was shown to have no impact on performance or even assembly generation. In fact, the generated assembly is slightly better in some cases.”
Firstly, exercising creativity is not an indulgement, it is a necessity. Just like you are not indulging yourself by drinking water or going to the toilet.

Secondly, lower class already sacrifices their hard work to indulge big corporations without societal concerns.
Just like those workers in Fritto Lays that work for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

I am not talking about taking an even larger cut from their labor and give it to someone else to sit idly. I am talking about creating the means so that people can improve themselves if they want to without worrying about not eating or feeding their families the next day.

Or you think it is ok to lock people into those inhumane conditions? If people had the possibility to leave work and seek better conditions, big corps would think twice before overworking and underpaying their employees.
Well sure. Banks himself said that he would definitely want to live in the culture though, I don’t see it quite as dark either :)
I used to work for a mid-size startup that got investment from a "scale-up VC" with 5-year funds in 2016. There have been rumors floating around the internet since January (with an extra boost in June) that this company has been looking to IPO in 2021 with a unicorn valuation. There have also been rumors that investors laughed in their face at that valuation however and the IPO has been cancelled (at least for now). However as I understand it, the VC will still need to wind up their 5-year fund.

Can anyone explain what the usual procedure is at this point? As I see it there are a few options:

- IPO still goes through but at reduced valuation, VC eats the "loss" (more like reduced win but OK).

- Company somehow convinces IPO investors to still pay a high valuation.

- Company goes public via a SPAC and since the marketing regulations for those are much looser, perhaps they can advertise themselves into a higher valuation.

- VC fund offloads their stake to some other investment company and IPO is postponed indefinitely.

- ???
This coincides with the Dryas impact era - there seems to be a lot of cultural advances, settlements, and other artifacts that pop up around that time. It seems very plausible to me that many of the discoveries aren't the first of their kind, but the first reimplementation after humans began to rebuild.

The Dryas impact is a fascinating event - if validated, it has the potential to shake up a lot of the currently accepted historical model of human civilization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothe...

The impact hypothesis suggests a global hellscape was caused, radically and rapidly causing massive flooding- a likely source for great flood mythologies found in almost every culture.
I highly recommend reading the rest.
Adding Climate Risk in Investment Assessments Is No Passing Trend
Civilization. Nothing taught me more history, hands down.

Bunch of leaders to read about, bunch of civs, techs, cities, wonders.
I agree completely. My intention wasn't to toe any party line. On the contrary, I think the history of many conflicts is so ugly and complex that people can legitimately feel very differently about the same event.

I can't even begin to imagine how various groups of people (ethnic groups, women, young men, ...) or individuals in Afghanistan may feel about the various interventions during the past half century.
except that "making" anything, or any commands in a new language he forgot, etc = entirely unnecessary for a single static html page.
I've worked as both a manual laborer on a construction site and a software engineer at big tech corp. The burnout I get as an engineer is way better than what I felt as a laborer, I don't think most people who have done both would consider them similar.
Are here any documents how to start?

For example, Pharo github repo doesn't have any C code at all, and to build it I need Pharo VM already running. It is Ok for building new version for existing platform, but what should I do if I want to build VM for other platform (OS)? Hardware platform is supported already, so, I think, I don't need to have new assembler / JIT / Whatever, but I need new glue to new libc, kernel, etc., and new executable file format, am I right?
Sure we were liberated by having a military junta take power for 21 years. Civil liberties vanished and people were secretly disappeared. Great democratic liberation!
I really like checklists. If you need convincing, read Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. They let you focus on the decisions rather than remembering the steps.
Does terracotta somehow magically increase the power output of the candle?
Every app I’ve worked on has used transactions to maintain data integrity. And before you say I could have stored everything in a document, I had to move away from MongoDB because it couldn’t handle the ways I needed to query the data in a performant way.
It seems to me that the reason the USA may not be a superpower anymore in the near future can hardly be blamed on anything other than stagnated American politics.
I don't think Red Hat are forcing anyone's hand. I think the fact that Red Hat are hiring passionate developers to work on something they love full time is something they should be lauded for. Of course Red Hat have to pick a project they're going to focus on, they can't focus on every implementation, and it only makes sense that community projects aren't going to have feature parity with software that's being built for enterprise use cases, worked on people whose it's their full time job. It's because of the wider support that the majority of distros decided to go with them.
Imagining some serious improvement in battery capacity or drone propulsion tech in the next 20 years does not seem super far fetched, and this video is probably looking more at 100 year span.
nice looking app, nice premise, too bad it's not on Android tho, but I like it a lot and wish you well ♥
NYC Mesh Community Internet
The vaccine is free, even without insurance. Anyone can walk into a CVS and get it. I don't see what the health care system has to do with that. That's actually an instance where privatized health care should work better than a government controlled one - and it does compared to a lot of other countries. The US does much better than many European countries for example.
I see that you are upset, but try not to spread pseudoscience
Turning the misery of others into entertainment, great content.
It depends on the use case, I'm quite happy with 5ms :-)

Ftr, on Pipewire on a Dell xps with iRig2, I'm getting 4.6ms reported with just PREEMPT. An xrun every few minutes if I try to go to ~2ms. I suspect I could get that working reliably with RT.
We are already many steps of the way there.

https://replika.ai/
Their sourcing and labor practices possibly save a dollar or two

https://knowthechain.org/wp-content/uploads/2020_KTC_ICT_Sco...
It does say there’s a heroku edition “coming soon”
Remote Authentication Landscape and Authentication Methods [pdf]
I love the fact that it can help write tedious, repetive, and simple logic code blocks! It'll save me time googling basic stuff that I tend to forget.

Will it also learn (i.e. feed GPT) from the code we're writing which it is also helping to write? How do you think it'll learn to deprecate bad practices or evolutions observed in a language (think writing concurrency code in Java 5 vs. Java 9, or any other relevant Programming Language evolutions)?
My impression of this as a programmer is that if one is modelling a system in which different people may have different beliefs then one must design the model accordingly, otherwise there will be bugs.

But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with logic itself. Whatever model you come up with is still going to be based on classical logic so at some point you still need to assume that that remains valid in order to do anything at all. And I've never heard of a case where this could fail, at least not within the finite worlds one can in practice model.
The promise of Cloud-Native games (2000)
I would definitely consider Haiku for music if it had the same low latency capabilities as BeOS, but latency aside, a lot changed since the BeOS era: today pretty much all non consumer audio interfaces are external, therefore driver support for them is needed as well. Also it's not uncommon to see hybrid systems in which
Linux runs a DAW and its plugins under WINE. It's a mess to configure and breaks very easily (lesson learned: don't do that in your tinkering machine that you upgrade often or install/compile different kernels etc. use a separate machine for Linux+music), so a WINE port would be useful as well, but I guess it'd be a huge job.
It's definitely getting better, but errors have to be corrected computationally, and it still seems like a big challenge.
If the media shows doom and gloom, doesn’t that mean people work harder to prevent it?

Maybe we reach a point where it gets so bad that more people give up than fight against it?
Interesting to see Nim used here. I participate a bit in its community because it's a fun language, but I had not yet heard that it was used in opsec circles.
Since this is the first cannabis topic I've seen on HN, I have lots of questions/ideas/problems I want to share. I'm going to post them in no particular order. Maybe someone has a solution

>I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious.

>Is investing in weed stocks encouraging drug addiction/use? Is it ethical to promote drug use?

>Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny, controlled amounts every time.

>Is there a solution to munchies?

>Has anyone been able to convince a fortune 500 company that they need(medical) marijuana for work? As mentioned I'm significantly more focused, but I don't like the social stigma. I already have the job, it's purely a cultural/social problem.

> Are my memory problems due to weed or is this just age? (When not using) I feel like I've lost lots of childhood memories and I have more difficulty than ever with names.

>If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can do for focus that isn't drug related?
> That is an unfortunate, probably unavoidable, byproduct of the freedom that brought Linux on so many computers, platforms and users.

People love to bash linux for this and they are right. The single feature that makes linux historically suck on the desktop is the one reason it succeeded everywhere else.
> most online games with anti-cheat etc.

Any notable exceptions?

What's the performance like compared to the same games in a native Windows install. I tried proton several months ago and I had to go back to Windows because it wasn't even close to good enough as far as compatability goes.

I'd really love to abandon Windows as a desktop OS and just game in a VM though.
I have LineageOS on my Xiaomi phone and the only hassle is contactless payment. Spotify works fine and I did not try Netflix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...
Borg... sounds swedish?

ST first contact
He is a supposed mental health professional, and he turns the misery of others into entertainment, without any regard for what happens to his "patients" afterwards.
Why Crash Weight Loss Programs Don't Work: Clues from Hunter-Gatherer Societies
There are millions who distrust the mainstream narrative, only a few reputable public figures that dare to do the same

For idiots just turn on the TV and you'll find them by the thousands
What’s amusing about that?
Turing school q2 2021 jobs report
See this answer for slightly more info https://stackoverflow.com/a/54855964/126995

Just don’t use `LoadLibraryA` like the OP, that API is only there for compatibility with software written for Windows 95/98/Me. Use UTF-16 encoding for the path instead, and `LoadLibraryW` function for the remote thread address.
This was interesting to me because it gives a baseline of salary info for new bootcamp grads, something I hadn't seen before.
> Housing usually cost about 3 percent of one's wage

And people tell me Socialism was bad
It's a 4:20 reeference
Search 420 weed to learn more
That is incorrect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067431
My phone currently has 19 alarms on it with things like "feed cat", "put dishes away", and "give child medicine". The difficult part is that I don't always get to do the thing when I have the alarm set: Kids get up later or eat lunch earlier, we are out running an errand, etc. I'll give this a try, thanks!
Discontent is not allowed in censorship marketplaces.

This is why jwz had to censor his covid virus animated screensaver to keep the foss xscreensaver in the App Store.

Apple are jerks.
Both are (in part) owned by Duan, and are manufactured in same facilities.
This area interests me but being completely honest there are a few off-putting grammatical/spelling errors. Might be worth getting them cleaned up..
"Maintain data integrity" sounds good, but what does it actually mean? In practice with an RDBMS it means you drop a write on the floor (or worse, deadlock) if it violates a constraint. And in practice that's almost never good enough, so you end up having to build the same kind of application-level validation logic that you would have written in a non-RDBMS system anyway.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861813
While I'm really tired of what's become a terrible buying experience on Amazon - where even trying to ascertain which Kindle version of a classic book you're actually buying has become almost insurmountably difficult - the headline and article itself really goes out of its way to suggest that the Fakespot developers have been 'stitched-up' by some sort of shady 'big-corp' secret deal between Apple and Amazon, which the stated facts in the article (such as they are) doesn't seem to support, at all.
Many more details on Esolang including full (?) list of opcodes.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/BANCStar
I suppose I'm looking at point 3 of the article here (mentions "a post-scarcity, post-hierarchy, post-capitalistic world").

If we remove all the reasons for conflict, it is difficult to see what political confrontation means. If we live in a post scarcity society - why do I care about tax rates? If the world is post-hierarchy - why do I care about the qualities of the people who are no longer my superiors? Post scarcity and post capitalism go almost hand in hand, capitalism is a tool to manage scarcity. Hierarchy too, in a practical sense.

The essence of politics is how to resolve these questions. Assuming that we can do away with them using technology is just ... if we could that would be great. If the jump from pre-modern to industrial didn't do it then realistically it isn't going to happen.
Do you know where this is documented? This would be very useful to me.
> In addition, you have footguns with non-obvious behavior around [Docker] volumes.

Anyone know what these are?
I very recently got access to Copilot, while I was in the middle of learning and playing around with Clojure.

It’s surprisingly useful when you’re not sure about how you want to proceed. E.g. While I was trying to make a simple function for printing all palindromic numbers under 10,000, Copilot inferred from the function name what I was trying and suggested a function using threading macros (something I hadn’t yet come across in Clojure). The result was a much neater affair than what I came up with on my own. I feel it could be a fantastic way to build familiarity with a new language.
Serious question. I have a foster child with severe ADHD. How can I teach them to shut the hell up?

It sometimes take 20 or 30 words to say something that can be said in maybe 4 words. When they ask questions they don’t wait for answers before saying other things. It’s like talking as an exercise to continuously hear your own voice like political talk radio but even less intelligible and all over the place. A continuous stream of talking long past having anything worth talking about that people don’t want to listen to.

Their communications and social skills are severely affected and under developed and immature because they won’t shut the hell up. They can’t listen because either they are talking or they are deliberately pausing the talking to pretend to listen only to be thinking about other bullshit they wish was spoken.
> GitHub Copilot is a tool that helps you write better, faster, and most importantly, more code.

I’ll agree with faster and more code, but from the many examples I’ve seen, it’s not better.
Lol yea, feed it even more licensed code. That’s exactly what we need even more of now.
Soviet scientific calculator gives up its Cold War-era secrets
Is it really native performance? I find it hard to believe but now I'm curious and will have to try this out...
Welcome to the Oberon+ parser, code model, compiler and IDE
I'm using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 ('whyred') from 2019. The first thing I did was get that unlock code (it took ~3 days) and unlock it. For the latter I used MiUnlockTool [1], a Java program which ran OK on Linux - no Windows needed. The tools seems to work on more recent models from what I gather at the related XDA thread [2].

[1] https://xiaomitool.com/MiUnlockTool

[2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tool-win-lin-mac-miunlock...
> why isn't the ideal interface for developing in teams something more like editing in Google docs

Engineering and debugging are hard enough as it is. Doing this while one or more people are changing the code in real time would be a nightmare.
Usually its made by Qualcomm.