skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonderful analogy. I'm keeping it.

That said, this is not totally unlike many human explanations. In fact, increasingly, if a decision can be explained entirely as a product of decision making policies, it's likely to have been automated already.

Eg. If I ask you why you chose to give this analogy, you will probably be able to provide a plausible explanation. But, that explanation is probably constructed after the fact. What we decide to say or write "comes to us" and we don't really have access to how that works.

This is also true of judge's rulings, for example. They refer to rules (laws, precedents and legal concepts), and rulings must be justifiable in these terms... but the giraffe metaphor still plays.

I suppose this is equivocation in a sense, but I'm not arguing that human and AI decision making are equivalents whether or not they share this core feature.
If somebody is trying to stand out by having a github with two projects, one is a merge sort implenentation they typed essentially 1:1 from a book during an algorithms 101 class and the other is an almost-trivial shopping list app that neither compiles nor they can explain anything about it, and then put a link to this github at the top of their resume, then they'd have been better off not having created that github account at all. It's easy to see through this nonsense and the filter of evalutating this helps avoiding wasted time of a few interview hours.

And yes, I'm totally preducied agains people with those kinds of github contents. That's my whole point.
Some friends discovered during quarantine their old Amstrads still worked but their monitors weren't.
Don't remember if they were green phospor CRT or color.
Suggested title: "Google to disclose some reasons it returned specific search results"

(I know HN generally prefers the original title, but this original title is so vague that it's uninformative)
Here are a couple of small fusion projects that get a decent amount of peer-reviewed publications and respect from other fusion researchers. They're both attempting boron fusion, which is almost completely aneutronic.

https://lppfusion.com/: literally a garage-size experiment. The reactor core is the size of a coffee can and that's big enough for the production reactor. It's a "plasma focus," in which the plasma pinches itself into a tiny ball. Team is half a dozen people, and they have endless engineering issues that a bigger team would probably knock out a lot faster, but they keep at it and put out a detailed progress report every month or so. It's been pretty fun to watch over the years. They've gotten the plasma to boron fusion temperatures (a couple million degrees C), but density is still a challenge.

https://hb11.energy/: A terawatt nanosecond laser hits a target that generates a 4000-tesla magnetic field. Then a petawatt picosecond laser blasts the fuel pellet. It's not like normal laser fusion that compresses a target; it just hits from one side, so hard that it shoves the nuclei into their neighbors behind them. In theory this can kick off boron fusion, and according to some experiments (not entirely by HB11's team) this actually works a lot better than expected due to a cascading reaction.

What's great about that one is that the petawatt lasers have been improving exponentially, at a faster rate than Moore's Law. They're just now getting to the point where theoretically they'd produce net power from boron fusion, with a large energy gain. The lasers aren't even that big or expensive, they're basically tabletop devices in a medium-size room, costing a few tens of millions.

HB11 Energy, the company, just got seed funding, but their lead researcher (Hora) has been talking about this for decades and wrote a book about it, and experiments have been done by various independent researchers around the world.
Obesity rates correlate as well.
Same in chinese search results for programming related question, most of the time I get was some bad translation from stackoverflow or github issue. Now I had to rely on browser plugins to automatically remove these domains from search results.
Disable it. If you don’t want to, limit it to weekly or monthly. I agree that Dependabot is super noisy especially by default.
I can't find it right now, but there are some optimizers that optimize code by swapping, deleting, inserting or mutating lines of code, then discarding all mutations that don't compute the same result (which for integer arithmetic you can prove with a SAT solver). Maybe somebody has the link, I can't find it right now.

I think it's also important to realize that making new stuff, like creating a new type of protein, is very rare in nature. Most evolution is just number tweaking: make the neck or beak a bit longer, increase melanin levels, etc. And the way those "variables" are encodes seems to lend itself to natural variations, which is (one reason) why humans have so different height.
Maybe this is a better link: https://digitalvegan.net/

The other has facebook and google trackers and is just a link to a shop really.
CSS Selectors for Input Ranges
Interestingly, given it was one of the strategy games I was thinking of when I made that comment, the Paradox devs for CK3 commented on why they use a lockstep architecture and not sharing the state of the game by server decided POV in their dev diary a couple of days after: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/anatomy-of-a-ga...
Doesn’t work at all for me. Since I don’t have a numeric keypad, I can’t use the keys not on the numeric keypad.
They certainly look like remnants of a gigantic impactor. Would explain why the Earth is slightly denser than Venus too.
Greggman… I swear I remember reading him blogging back in 2000? 2001? Maybe worked for Nintendo in Japan?
Or states demanding yearly inspections if your car is up to safety standard and your modification didn't make it more dangerous / unlhealthy for the public. Absolutely ridiculous.
Well angular repositories tend to have tons of dependencies.
JDK Flight Recorder support for GraalVM Native Image: The journey so far
There's a pretty good book of essays, "Group Theory In the Bedroom," which touches on the quest to unravel the DNA code in the time between the discovery of DNA chemically and the invention of the high resolution microscopy technology that allowed for direct observation of DNA strands.

Multiple mathematical approaches were taken based on myriad theories of information encoding, compression, and redundancy. For a brief period of history, the question of how DNA worked wasn't one of biology, but one of statistics and information theory.

Unfortunately, once they had the technology to observe DNA directly, they discovered that almost all of the theories were just wrong, because the encoding from DNA trigraphs to amino acids is basically nonsense. It's not structured, or organized, or elegant. Like so much of biology, it's a hot mess of accident and coincidence, and massively, inefficiently redundant... But, that redundancy has an interesting property. The most commonly used amino acids in protein formation are encoded by a large number of DNA triplets, and in general, one edit to those triplets results in a triplet that codes for the same amino acid.

In hindsight, it is perhaps not surprising that the encoding schema from DNA to amino acids is edit-resistant.

(What cooks my noodle regarding the redundancy is: do we see the redundant DNA encoding because those amino acids are most commonly used, or are those amino acids most commonly used because a large number of DNA triplets code for them so they are statistically likely to be more prevalent? ;) ).
Fastly Launches Highly-Secure Serverless JavaScript with Zero Cold Starts
The Croissant Diet Specification
I had a Mac before the iPhone came out. Apple used to be pretty great.
What about the customers who bought/consumed that faulty product? They should also pay Y dollars, since it was their decision and responsibility to take the risk of buying the product and not vetting management, developers and the CEO before hand.
Spotless Starlings here in Lisbon are already mimicking the location beeps from rentable Scooters.
If the M1 iMac is an indication of things to come, you might get your wish.
Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games
I very much hope not. If you don't like the way Apple does business, feel free to buy from someone else. They are a minority player in the marketplace by a significant margin; getting all upset about how they manage their platform is a weird, weird look.
I find the idea of running a VM with Linux as a dev environment super interesting but I was wondering if anyone knows how Mitchell persists the VM build and updates it when he switches to another machine? (or what the sensible solutions for that could be?)
The outcome of a mutation on the biology isn’t binary.

Some mutations are so bad that they are fatal to the organism (don’t compile). Where a gene isn’t that important, the mutation will just confer a fitness change.

this is mediated through a variety of mechanisms. Some mutations just alter the performance of a protein, or the expression dynamics (when, for how long, and how much) of the gene expressed as protein. Many proteins don’t act directly on things but are part of complexes of proteins that perform a function, or are receptors that trigger other things, and thus many genes are “meta” in this way.

Imagine a complex sequence if gene expression during vertebrate development. At one point during elongation, a series of enzymes alter how this process starts and stops. Small variations in the performance and availability of the genes involved in this will nudge the outcome of elongation to result in a longer (or shorter) necked animal. If that is helpful for that individual, the gene will survive and flourish.

This gets more complex as in animals w sexual selection we have multiple versions (alleles) of each gene. There is also a huge realm of epigenetics and modulation (methylation, promoters, antisense, etc).

It’s really stunningly beautiful and amazing.
Pot plants, you say? I am sorry for your loss.
Reply, because I can't edit: so far, only the second stage stage of Starship has been flown. The SuperHeavy booster has not yet been flown at all,nevermind successfully landing, and ditto for the two-stage system.
You should be using /permissive- anyway unless you are dealing with a legacy codebase that breaks with that.
Posted 2019-04-01

i.e. a fun April 1st paper.
Rainfall flooding is becoming an issue
So... next we should try feeding random traffic noise through voice recognition and see what Perl makes of that? (SCNR)
I’d still rather not. I’m more of a complainer than a do-er.
I always place the taskbar at the top of the screen, and make sure that Outlook is the first icon in the taskbar, on the left (dragging & dropping it if I have to), so it's always in the same place.

Would not be happy if that no longer became possible.
In 2007, our one year old son was tossing them food while we’d turned around. We were on a 9th floor patio and hadn’t seen the bird join us.

We just avoided him getting pecked!
It's amazing they effectively ignored him.
Yup, very much agree.

> If we don't, nature will, as we all know.

In a way, it's already happened, it's just that there is a delay effect and it takes time for things to... unravel ("the future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed yet")

I recommend this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WRojM9_uAI by Pablo Servigne (agricultural engineer, PhD in ethology and behaviour of complex systems).

I'd say we've basically known since at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth (but in many ways much earlier than that) and have simply been in denial. Yes we adapt and leverage technology and innovation, but there are rather hard time limits and we've exhausted our window quite some time ago. The correction (to use a friendly word) will be very painful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WRojM9_uAI
Petty but I'd like the ability to replace that Windows meta key.
The Microsoft Game Development Kit is now available for free on GitHub
Twin sisters forced to kneel and executed on Instagram livestream
Seeing this on HN, reading the article and the comments, really reminds me of how much I respect KSR.

His 2312 brought me back to reading hard sci-fi after too long not really reading much fiction at all for a long time. The ideas presented in it reminded me of a sense of wonder at the scope of future possibilities that had previously been lost under an ever increasing pile of marital, parental, and financial responsibility.

The problem I have now is, he somehow seems to write 'em faster 'n' I can read 'em (the responsibility pile still exists and is as demanding as ever)

Anyway, thanks KSR.

(Mostly off topic, but I'm currently reading Patrick O'Brien's Master and Commander, the first in a series of 20 nautical-historic fiction novels, and it's incredibly tough going with O'Brien's detailed and accurate nautical terminology, of which I know nothing - I just loved the movie. A challenging read - and I've covered The Mars Trilogy and some lighter Pynchon).
Stop using your smartphone. Use a dumbphone instead. Don't communicate with your smartphone, use only it's smartness
Where he HILARIOUSLY insists Vista was better than anything else on the market.

It's like that Iraqi general saying US troops were nowhere near the capital.
"I want to work here because I need money to eat and you seemed like a safe choice"
Rise of Gamification in Marketing
Marketing is already super creative field and it is great to see brands getting creative "ethically"

So a trend that I have noticed that is working well is gamification. They include providing a fun and engaging experience to the end user in order to meet marketing goal - sales, awareness, profit, cart abandonment. Games could include competition, ranking lists, scoring systems, and incentives to give the user a feeling of "winning".

As a shopify freelancer, here are my top picks and tips to check out:

1. Tada App - this app helps you add gamified pop-up to your store. I've used it for over 20 stores actually works to increase sales.Check it out at trytada.com
2. Check out the blog by shopify to get deets in to gamification [https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/gamification-in-busine...]
3.BlingRush is great app to help you easily host a competition on your store. They have a commission model so only pay if you get sales - not risk! Check them out on shopify app store.
Can't wait to use this during Central Park walks with my SO!
> Also it's nice to be able to see more code if you're into that.

I guess that depends on font scaling but if there is code that long there is usually something wrong with it :D

I like to have views side by side but the 3:2 doesn't really help with that either (at least for code on 13")

> Why don't you like that they are American?

That usually complicates payment and shipping (at least with smaller companies) plus I don't really like (indirectly) supporting a government that thinks human rights are for citizens only.
The expansion modules themselves are USB C dongles designed to fit flush in the case

If the internal USB C ports get damaged, presumably the device can be opened and repaired.
He is fabulously wealthy now. He doesn't have to work. What is the percentage of his ownership in this $5B company? 10%? More? He's achieved his goals likely. Probably will want to slowly cash out and diversity.

Do other things...
This is horrible, not interesting.
A Guide to Switching from I3 to Sway
I don't think you understand UB, because clearly, this is not UB.

But I congratulate you. You have enough knowledge to engage in Internet discussions involving fancy names without understanding underlying concepts.

Hint: 1) Read my original post. 2) Contemplate whether the compiler is removing anything in this instance.
Javascript is parsed and executed on one core.
> people born after 2000 are so used to getting filmed and photographed everywhere that they don't have such reservations

It's more complicated than not having reservations -- younger people share more online but are also more likely to take steps to protect their privacy:

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/2/13390458/young-millennials-ove...

You can find what you want in the data, but my personal read is everyone does what they have to do. Older people have the option of just opting out without losing access to their community (how much social capital are you losing by not checking out that link?), while younger people have to engage in order to be part of their community, so they get more exposure to what can go wrong and take more risks but also more steps to protect themselves.

If you're engaging with people of a different generation I'd strongly encourage taking this approach -- if I assume you're making smart choices about dealing with the social system you're in, rather than doing something dumb, what does that tell me about the situation you're facing and what kind of support you might need?
McDonald’s Plans Three Days a Week in Office
Almost certainly a trigger press. True accidental discharges are very rare, and in modern guns they’re usually a product of slam fires rather than drops.

Here in the US guns need to pass a drop test before being legally available for sale. I’m sure Europe has similar restrictions.
If you use 3rd part clients for Google services - YT, Gmail, Calendar, etc. and run non-Chrome browser (Firefox is very good on Android, and supports many extensions) you can largely avoid Google. However, Play and Location sharing are much harder to block.
Mac OS X for its era was astounding. Think about it. The ease of the Macintosh (journalist, media people) that's it, a good looking OS and the security and Unix tools preinstalled which would be helping ex-Solaris/Sparc departments. As it was shipped with XQuartz, a Terminal by default and tons of Unix utilities, even Motif worked, so porting expensive Unix stuff between Solaris, Linux and OSX was a breeze.

Windows... well... w2k was for companies or the enterprise, people followed Windows 98SE as if it was a cult and ME was a polished turd. W98SE was crap on security, FAT32's performance for an installed OS was a nightmare, having to defrag a lot and performance degraded a lot over time.
You had to format and reinstall once a month.
Oh, you need to reinstall the chipset, soundcard, and video drivers? Some BSOD on the process will be guaranteed.

Linux and KDE by 2004 was nice, but broadband wasn't everywhere and setting it up was not as easy if all you got from a retailer was a Slackware/Debian DVD with an installing book. For everything else you had to be ready to learn a lot. And X.org wasn't as ready as today.

OFC my KDE3 setup from 2004 with bells and whistles like the Nvidia Geforce 2 drivers was nearly on par on OSX' features, (even with Cinelerra and JackD) but OSX set it up everything for you by default since 2001-2002.

Even Microsoft Office under OSX looked beatiful.

And today, ironically, I'm almost the opposite, by using CWM, void, OpenBSD, groff+ms, sc-im, Gnuplot and so on.

But to each its own. OSX by being a Unix helped Linux/BSD's a lot too, even if it took a huge chunk of market. CUPS polishing, (CUPS ofc worked pefectly in 2003 without Apple's support, but I think Apple gave them more support on weird printers), Bonjour, HTML->Webkit...
I would say that your stipulation is (if anything) the wrong way around - most people I know would limit representation theory to linear actions on a vector space (or module over a PID), but would not limit it to a group G: there are groups, Lie algebras, algebras in general, etc etc.

I think going down the route of trying to identify fields of maths with specific “things that can be stated in category theoretical language” is a bit wrong and bordering on hubris - sure, all group representations can be stated as some kind of functor between categories, but this is just convenient compact language for describing the definition. Any deep theorems that follow can almost certainly not be deduced from the categorical description, and are many times inhibited or obscured by it.
I think demethylization would very much be a smooth direction of descent to produce more fruit. It's just that the production of more fruit is not beneficial.
Hug of death. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YHqgGfy...
Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights
WebSockets vs. Socket.io
Is yours a genuine concern?

To me it seems a rehash of this years old controversy:

https://www.tweettabs.com/googling-european-people-history-t...
Roughly half of the PC in use are in Enterprise and Corporate.

Part of the reason why moving Windows forward with Backward compatibility is so god damn hard.
They are indeed part of what's difficult, which is why we'll be bringing out a number of tools & features to help simplify things.
Well, Taskbar only existed since Windows 95 and onwards, so you're at least forgiven for the previous versions :)

But as far as I remember, even since '95 you could move the taskbar to whichever edge you wanted.
This shows me almost exclusively pinterest results.
A website I've never in my life used, but for some reason always get recommended to go to by google.

Sad to see NRK being abused like this tho
I would say once multi core processors became the norm we moved away from what can be strictly considered ‘von Neumann architecture’.
I would have to leave it to a professional, I can barely solder connectors on my RC car power packs
My banks no longer allow SMS 2fa. The only 2fa available are those through their mobile app. So without android or iOS banking will quickly become impossible.

And I wish I could just switch banks but in some situation it's not possible and in the country I currently live in, it seems that now no banks support 2fa SMS for any transaction above a tiny amount anyway.
Do you have a comparison of battery runtime with each config?
I think this thread should get Dang'ed.
> probably won't see application in software and networking until a number of conjectures in prime number theory are answered

The thing about conjectures like those and their relevance to practical applications is you can just assume whichever ones you like.

That's because either your choice is correct (or, for the pedants, at least 'not inconsistent') in which case great you didn't need to wait for a proof, or your choice is incorrect. In that case, then if that wrecks your application you've just found some excellent observational evidence towards resolving it. If it doesn't wreck your application, then that means you didn't need to have considered in in the first place.
Super disapointed. Just a few weeeks ago I bought a macbook pro with an M1 from Apple, it's kind of the default choice at the moment. I love the concept of this laptop so much though. If it was available when I was making my choice, I would have seriously considered it as an option.
That's a fun read.

I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.

I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.

[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.

@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.
Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.
> You can't parametrize over namespaces (at least not directly) which is an annoying and arbitrary restriction.

It's not a restriction, namespaces are neither types nor values so they would need specific support. Given that you can (ab)use classes with static members as namespaces which are also a type it's simply that nobody cared enough to add support for templating over real namespaces.
Exactly what you want to have: get a bot merge fixes for security issues prepared by another bot without any human oversight. Then let Copilot add features to your software automatically as well.
Ask HN: Ever told your employer, “I'm considering resigning.”?
You're a gross person and should be ashamed.