skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true, but it may also be true that systemic constraints (availability of arable land, climate, population density, the slow inter-generational process of plant and animal domestication that makes agriculture economical), held humanity back longer than would have been possible if millions of cavemen were appeared overnight in the Indus valley with modern wheat in hand.
With less efficient vehicles. If I order 10 things from Amazon its guaranteed to come in more than one box on more than one trip. If I drive to Target I can buy all of those things in one trip.
Snow Crash is one of my most lent books. People either get it quickly or it just fizzles out for them. I feel like a lotta his work is like that too. You gotta wanna read 20 pages of Sumerian mythology and a sword fight on motorcycles in the same book.
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It's pretty hard to pin this down firmly since attested pronunciations range wider than you seem to think, but based on what you've said in this thread, it seems like a good idea to sanity-check on the voiced/unvoiced distinction.

In the following clips, [1] has voice, [2] has unvoiced: [1]: https://audio00.forvo.com/audios/mp3/3/k/3k_9459069_74_57198...
[2]: https://audio00.forvo.com/audios/mp3/s/x/sx_9001968_74_57198...
I feel like his sentence explains clearly that they are reaching to comment/thank them and making the claim when they do so?
I think their secret is being run by people who are actually into movies, instead of people who are only into money
it’s not about conscience or shame. it’s about cost reduction and lack of incentives.

If I do this crappy thing and there is no punishment associated with it AND I save 10% I am going to do it. It’s my obligation to the shareholders.

If I do this crappy thing and if I get caught it’s a business ending event it’s my obligation to the shareholders not to do it.
Sure. I'm pretty familiar with Erlang's historic roots and motivations and I would agree that isolation is one of those fundamental components.
> There's too much money in Tech. It attracts the worst, and brings out the worst.

That is my thesis.

In New York, we have the finance industry, which is just as bad (if not worse).

It has also been like this for most of a century. That does not bode well for Tech improving.
> Many officials in Lebanon have previously said in private they believe a lot of the shipment was stolen.

This seems plausible. If so, this would be one of those few times where lawlessness/corruption/incompetence kinda paid off. Imagine the damage to Beirut if there had been 5x more ammonium nitrate to blow up...

(Of course, it was the same kind of general governmental
incompetence that caused the ammonium nitrate to be stored there to begin with.)
Unlike a human, you can usually just reboot the computer and try again.
"Self-actualization is the complete realization of one's potential, and the full development of one's abilities and appreciation for life"

From most classical philosophers, to Einstein, Maxwell, Darwin and countless other, their work was nothing else than an act of self-actualization.

And because this is HN, shall I include Torvalds? The FLOSS movement started from volunteers.
Canada leads the world in % of population fully vaccinated
> everyone in the network sees and agrees that the transact happened

Why would everyone agree that the transaction happened?
According to one of Wikipedia's founders, it's no longer a free and open platform. There are politically strategic topics where no arguments/edits are tolerated other than what fits the mainstream viewpoint.

The owner of the question definitely wants to push things in a different direction than mainstream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU
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What, exactly, is special about Alamo? I'm unfamiliar.
I don't think he missed the point. You should probably read all of this (which the Hole Hawg bit is an excerpt from) to a whole picture of this school of thought:

http://people.cs.georgetown.edu/~clay/classes/spring2010/os/...
https://ihsmarkit.com/products/fertilizers-nitrates.html

Global use of nitrate fertilizer is in tens of millions of tons and prices are ~$200/ton. The seized fertilizer was worth only half a million dollars; I can imagine repairs on a cargo ship could easily cost more.
> This exactly the kind of snooty academic dialogue that is subtractive.

It might feel like it is subtracting from your sense of being right, which I am not saying you’re definitely not, but I think some readers might find it valuable in terms of reaching to more well-thought-out conclusions.

> A personal attack couched as some kind of psychological diagnosis. "You're being emotional."

I'm sorry you felt attacked, that wasn't my intention. Having emotions is a human condition, not a psychological diagnosis, and I thought I made it clear that I didn't find anything demeaning about it. You just can't base your arguments mainly on it though.

> Please deal with the substance of arguments, and don't make the person the subject of discussion

It so happens you made your personal experience and your feeling about it the grounding of your argument; making rebuttals on that basis is not making it personal, it is actually an argument against making things personal. And at no point I invalidated your experience or emotions or your personhood.

> You also misattributed this as an appeal to emotions. I have a local problem. People are arguing about problems in other countries as excuse to block action here. Stop doing that.

Maybe the readers were mislead when you talked about 4 continents, especially after an opener of "have you been to any beaches recently". It wasn't clear, at least to me, you were interested in talking about the local phenomena. But thanks for clarifying that.

Let's get one thing clear though, since we can't read people's minds, it is equally undesirable ascribing intentions of blocking action and other negative predictions salient to you in your mind, to others. So I'll kindly ask you to refrain from that first.

> I hope you would consider not replying again with how wrong I am and how my arguments are so bad.

I've considered and still I think it would be to the benefit of the community to remove the confusion between the local-global, personal-general, emotional-rational. If you are upset about receiving responses, you always have the option of removing yourself from the discussion first. Asking others to stop talking is a bit censor-y.
Nice to see these kind of collections, I've been spending a lot of time recently running old CP/M software and there is a wealth of the stuff available.

Fun to go through text-based games written 20+ years ago, and even if I completed one a day I suspect I'd be dead before I'd played them all.
this attitude the author uses, that tech is only valid if used for some scenarios but not others, is quite scary to me. adopting an anti-flexible, narrow view of prospective uses is against the free form, ingenuitous, creative spirit that I hope tech can embrace. these days though I feel like a really radically conservative outlook is on the rise, that doubt & mistrust & denial are selling strong. and, as usual, it's scary inuendo & dogpiling that makes the case, not numbers or specific contentions:

> Think of the thousands of security patches and workarounds, the intricate DOM optimizations, the multi-webpage inter-process resource sharing. None of that will benefit an Electron app and will only slow it down.

meh. I don't think there's much to worry about here author. I think there's more to gain by having a well tread, versatile, robustly optimized, secure platfo underfoot. and I don't believe your claim that this comes at some great speed cost.

> To put it shortly, you’re misusing the software.

nahhhhhhh. you just have weird hang ups dude. chill.

I do really appreciate them acknoding that devs like the development environment. the declarative model is really good (although react & many others murky this assertion).

react-native to me seems like a natural continuance of this idea, of giving the devs what they know and want. I'm unsure why it hasn't succeeded more, but it's so always felt like it was kind of sticky, that there were long cimixated fights with the many underlying is layers & that in general native platform boggery set in. electron continues to offer that great web native platform plus well known cross-os node platform, and trying to beat that is exceedingly hard.
Absolutely, I just made the wording a little bit """moderate""" to avoid debates I'm not in the mood to have, but I agree.
I'm not American, and I am genuinely curious, why does the FBI investigate this?

I can imagine the US government wanting an investigation in cases like this, and I can understand Beirut wanting (or maybe just allowing) different countries to investigate, but isn't foreign investigations a job of the CIA (or, at least, not the FBI)?
I wonder if they debated waiting for the inevitable death of the Clubhouse audio app.
This was a Christmas preparation in our household one year in the 90s. It worked.
> If a judge tells you to stop doing something, you stop doing

Even if they have no legal right to?
As someone from a neighboring country who witnessed at least 2 such episodes, I advise to just relax it's not that serious at the moment :)
> The deepmind team etc type of group who actually know what they’re doing and the boundaries of what they are working with.

You claim that they "know what they are doing and the boundaries of what they are working with" -- and yet they recklessly make public a racist vision product?
The YC credo is about building something people want and shipping your MVP ASAP.

What I see time and time again with teams and people prelaunch is a lack of a catalyst to ship their MVP. I've met many people who have an idea and their MVP is 95% complete. Then things stall and feature creep sets in for three reasons:

1) Your MVP will, by design, have technical debt. No one likes debt.

2) Releasing means a shift from being a dev/engineer to being a marketer and building the company that builds the product. And you do this while also working on your technical debt. If your sales stall, then you are stuck in "should I spend more money on time on marketing" hell.

3) Anyone who can build something people want and create an MVP has numerous alternatives for certain income.

So as much as I'd like to ship my MVP next month I procrastinate since I am also a consultant who bills at good hourly rate and I can just do that instead. Good isn't just the enemy of great. Good is also a great hedge against the time waste of building a business that is no fun to operate and isn't profitable which is why many MVPs never ship.

Edit: typos, clarity
It’s not a computer, but it is quantified.
How to get your bomb materials through shipping customs and international regulations.

Have a ship loaded with explosives come to port. Openly report it as illegal. Levy fines and fees to someone that you know will reject paying them. Declare the ship unsafe to leave unless it is repaired by the same people that refuse to pay the fees. Do nothing. Now you have a legal bomb supply station.
Unless the fire and explosion was deliberate to cover up the fact it had mostly all been stolen... And maybe the explosion turned out much larger than the thieves expected...
To be frank: that very much does not make it clear to everyone involved. If you told the average Joe you had a “data driven algorithm” instead of “AI” you would likely get a blank stare in return.
I've been in parks and restaurants and seen whole families all on their phones. Last weekend I walked my dog around the park path, and was literally the _only_ person there who was not walking with their phone held in front of them.

The Black Mirror / Surrogates dystopia is already here, and most people can't get enough of it.
IMO the current effort isn't about improving privacy or reducing censorship or a battle to stop tracking. It's a battle for who gets to track you. Winning market share in the DoH space is the same as winning the ability to control one of the only hops where users can be tracked.

I think it's worse than having a ton of crappy ISPs doing DNS. Yeah, they probably sold my data to shady businesses, but DoH has the potential to be a much better mass surveillance and censorship system. Is it easier to get a US court order for Cloudflare and Google to block the pirate bay via DNS or to get 1k court orders from 1k jurisdictions around the world?

And the "benefit" we're going to get as users is un-blockable ads because that's the ultimate goal of DoH. Instead of my Roku trying to use 8.8.8.8 it'll use some DoH server at a CDN that's hard/impossible to block.

They're literally building the next generation surveillance / censorship system and selling it to us as "for your protection".
Canceling Olympics is difficult. Whoever cancels it, has to pay hefty fine, either the host or the Olympic committee. The pandemic is sadly not the valid reason to cancel them, at least not in committee's eyes, so Japan was strong handed here.
Anyone can be a creator. You have to be pulling in millions of views from people that are valuable to advertise to (not all views are created equally) in order to make a career out of it.
I never have any problems with YouTube; it works well for me. What problems are there? I use Google Docs only sporadically (mostly to read .doc(x) files sent to me), and it's kinda slow, but that's not necessarily Google's fault. Slack is (was? Haven't used it in year) unusably slow on Firefox too, and don't get me started on the "new" Reddit that couldn't even scroll right last time I tried it.
I wonder how they got busted?
I am American and this was my first thought when reading the headline. “Why is the FBI involved?” I can understand the CIA, like you said. So weird but a sign of our times.
FBI has specialists that investigate fertilizer explosions. It's not uncommon for domestic terrorists to use this type of weapon in the US. Oklahoma City being a prime example.
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Relying on google’s rendering engine is worse IMHO. And I think they are going to end having to pivot on funding.
I know that it is hard to comprehend why modern CRDT implementations are fast. But the data confirms that they work great. OT seems to be much simpler, but there are real advantages in using CRDTs. The performance problems have been solved through an efficient representation of the CRDT model.

The gist of the below [1] read is that it is impossible for a human to create a document that Yjs can't handle (even in the worst case scenario). But yes, it handles real-world scenarios particularily well.

The concept of "hidden classes" is super old. It has first been implemented in a fork of smalltalk and then became foundational concept of runtime engines for scripting languages. It is implemented in V8, python, ruby, spidermonkey, ..

Yjs does not assume a "real-world scenario" and it is not optimized for any specific runtime engine. It runs fast in any browser. The benchmarks confirm this. [2]

Yjs is being used in practice by several companies (eg Nimbus Notes with >3 million users) for quite some time now. I'm not aware of any performance problems.

[1]: https://blog.kevinjahns.de/are-crdts-suitable-for-shared-edi...
[2]: https://github.com/dmonad/crdt-benchmarks
That's a great example but there's something about looking at a glacier, right in front of you, and having a placard that says it will be gone in one year that really rings the cognitive dissonance of the inaccuracy of 'the science'.
I have seen many employers who look for unicorns rather than using optimal stopping (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping) for positions that are more flywheel multiplier positions rather than existential positions.

In the long term, it rarely leads to the death of their business, but it substantially lowers the quality of life of most/all of those working in the business.
They kick out people who text or talk during movies and they were the first theater I heard of that served alcohol and food.
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Is it controversial to state that many died?
I live in the US on the coast. The top waste I see in the brackish waters are plastics and car tires.

People (everyone from consumers to scavengers) tend to recycle glass and metal because they’re valuable. And paper seems to break down quickly.

Paper may be bad for energy usage. But energy consumption is not the only environmental issue to be concerned about.
Level oc corruption in Lebanon is unbelievable. Every government worker that has the right to approve something has at least two counter signer that need to approve or sign the same thing, still there is wild corruption running through the country.
I’m sure they considered that. It’s rather obvious, and the degradation of the material was openly reported in the news at the time.
"I think we can automate the janitor now."

Have you ever seen a robot unclog a toiler? Get into a greasy kitchen vent to clean it? Clean out the molt between the tiles?

Of fuck that, there is no cleaning robot that can even recognise a stain a scrub it off with a brush.

Do you know there are different kinds of cleaning products and brushes for different surfaces?

Cleaning is a very complex process made up of hundreds of little actions, each fairly complex. They require loads of dexterity
As a retrocomputing enthusiast, I find this horrifying. I imagine the beautiful Sony NEWS, Sharp MZ’s, NEC PCs, Epson QX’s and so many other amazing machines that were crushed in order to make decorations.
Maybe they want to confirm their knowledge about nitrate bombs for domestic purposes.

IIRC, the Oklohoma bombing was a simple fertilizer/nitrate bomb.
FBI has expertise in the matter and was invited by the Lebanon government to help with the investigation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/15/beirut-explosi...
I just read one of his books for school.
I generally agree with your points, but 1 to 2 hours? When I'm off-rotation I still find the time for at least 3-4 hours of intense productive work in the day, and on-rotation I am focused oftentimes for 10+ hours in a day. Perhaps it's different levels of mental engagement but I'm curious why you say, what seems to me to be, such low amounts.
Forcing changes to the spec/implementing non-spec features is one of many possible negatives of browser oligarchy, though. When I said the negatives are often theoretical, I was referring to the other arguments that are commonly raised, surrounding pernicious updates and privacy concerns.
Ask HN: Do You Take SSRIs?
And did they help you?

Sometimes I think that quite a lot of people take some kind of medicaments, SSRI, Benzo, and other stuff. Nobody tells this, but in fact I heard that X millions of ADs are sold per year or so in Russia (where I live).

So I'm curious, if half of people I know takes them :)
We are hoping for several outcomes. The first is web wasm compilation. We have some ideas on what architectural advantages can come from having BEAM controlled UI. The second is a WASI compilation. So targeting stand alone binaries. This is different than other "compile BEAM to binary" implementations. We are targeting a footprint size of 200kb (web and wasi) which gives Erlang and Elixir an opening to targeting more IoT devices.
When you hear CIA think intelligence (as in espionage), when you hear FBI think investigation, never failed me
People with exposure to tech support often complain that users never read error messages. It's almost understandable for low-skill users. But it's surprising and disturbing how many professional developers also don't read error messages.

Error messages can be wrong or misleading sometimes, but how do you not at least think about what they said and if that could actually be what's wrong?
It also ignores having to double-bag stuff, or losing produce when the bags get wet and split.
Perception is a funny thing. It’s entirely possible that the words seem distinct to you for whatever reason, but that no difference would be apparent on an actual spectrogram.
Good solution. Which one that allows for 128GB do you recommend?
And I think the person you are responding to was acknowledging that evolution didn’t just stop…as long as there are babies there are mutations, and the environment will select for some qualities over others.

If you meant super micro, then the same can be said of your immune system / gut flora, though I’m not certain of the relevance.

The point is that “evolution” doesn’t magically direct to some better outcome, or even towards a more sustainable local maxima.
20% of passively reading/watching materials, to understand the why, how, and avoid any bad patterns, and 80% actually creating/doing something I've wanted to do with that skill.

This 20/80 mix works for me well and keeps me motiviated.

I'll also notedown in a .txt file in dot points things that seem important, especially things that I feel are important and would be easy to forgot.
When 2000 to tons of explosive go missing paranoia about "where did it go?" is bound to attract attention from both.
If you’re interested in getting into civic tech I can’t recommend this book enough: A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1040593).

I read it about 6 months into my first civic tech job and it was so useful I wish I read it before I started my job search!
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> Are you at all close to this space?

I am.

> The example Cory puts on policing

My most upvoted comment on this website was discussing this exact scenario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655487

Could you perhaps clarify the generalization you're making about me and people like me so I can understand it?
In not so long past, there was another popular expression - "computer-aided ...", which was quite fit for the practical use (like CAD for design, CAT for translation etc)

Perhaps, CAI for inference or insight would express it more fairly.

Alternatively, AI could've stood for 'automated inference', but sure it's all too late to rebrand.

We humans still not clear about nature of our own intelligence, yet already claimed being able to manufacture it.
Your reply to pixie was really nice and authentic. It's gratifying to know people appreciate what you made!
In fact the only tool you need for time blocking is Google Calendar --or similar. The rest is just convenience, if any.
It would except that I use exclusively apple cidar vinegar. not the point.
Are vaccines creating an environment for viral mutations?

Have major mutations been noted after vaccines are administered in the population?
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> For the minority of us who realized this is a problem, I believe the only way out is to take lots of psychedlices, become hyper-intelligent, and be mindful of every moment in life.

That’s your belief sure but I can identify at least one other way out: return to a less “modern” lifestyle.
Well there are more thunderstorms this year, in Ohio at least. Even brick walls are getting destroyed by them.
I agree with this. I don't use Linux because of its architecture, but because it provides me the environment I appreciate, on the platforms I want to use, under the terms I can accept. The BSDs are close to the mark, and I would consider them for specific tasks. Linux is just where development is faster.
This project is badly in need of an update. It's using an ancient 4 yo. version of tesseract.js. The current version:
https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js
is based on tesseract v4.1.1, a newer your Ubuntu 18.04's.

The 4.0 version added new neural network system based on LSTMs, with major accuracy gains.

https://fossies.org/diffs/tesseract/4.0.0_vs_4.1.0/ChangeLog...
I didn't care much for these entire UI revamps as I felt they were far too complex, so I wrote a much simpler one: https://github.com/arp242/MartinFox

2174 lines of CSS vs. 53 lines :-)

I don't overly care how every pixel looks or what the icon is and such; I just want my tabs to have some contrast.