skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, firstly, the claim can be broken down into two parts: taught himself, and reading at two.

I won't address the first because the discussion will get too long if you think that's genuinely how children learn, even geniuses.

on the later, because the basic foundations of math can be found in (at least some) ten year old minds. what the common man believes is possible in math is mainly influenced by cultural exposure and the order in which we learn it. But there's really only 3 - 4 meta-concepts that underlie all of math, and the rest is about exposure/experimentation, syntax and terminology. Terrence himself I believe says as much and if you read through the accounts of interviews with Terrence at a young age it's apparent that's how his mind is working (and explains the concepts he understands, the mistakes he makes, and those areas he hasn't had exposure to).

whereas the cognitive layers required for reading take time to develop in the child's brain, and you first have to wait for the verbal/aural language systems to develop the actual language structure first, then tack on some symbolic representation for letters, then understand composition for words, then attach words to their meanings, etc. You can skip some of those bits to perform party tricks (I.e rote symbolic recognition and repetition of aural sounds on cue), but this does not reading make. Reading we believe, from a cognitive science point of view, we think is a kind of a kind of kludge on top of later developed brain mechanics, whereas it's aural/verbal language that appears as an almost innate developmental ability around that age. (I say innate, but you still have to be exposed to other humans interacting and speaking for a young mind to learn the language).
Nice that it even provides the right answer for negative numbers as undefined behavior but only when optimizations are enabled!
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Been a while since YC has updated their Request for Startups list [1]. What are the spaces and areas that you think will be most interesting for founders this year and into the future?

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When you run proprietary software, you basically give full control over your computer to a third party. For the best security use a separate physical machine for stuff like this. Or a separate operating system (in such case your primary system should be encrypted and have a protected boot loader). Or at least a VM.
This reminds me of the horror pygmy marmosets or "Thumb Monkeys" endure.

There's a very high mortality rate as they're poached and shipped to people who have no idea how to care for one.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-pygmy-marmo...
> Under pressure from U.S. law enforcement, Apple has put a backdoor into their encryption system.

I'm not on board with what Apple's doing here, but is there any evidence to suggest this statement? From what I know, this is at best misleading and at worst downright false. For example, the scanning is done on user devices so that image data remains encrypted from the time it leaves a users' phone to the time it is retrieved by a user (from any client).
This is an unlikely stretch, but it looks like they're also attempting to read `/proc/PID/exe` -- they could be doing something (extremely) cursed like attempting to parse the program linkages and filtering by programs that link to `libX11`. But that's me straining to explain this in the context of the GP's hypothesis.
Incredible to see how the quality of stories on HN front page has degraded over the years. Literally a 4 paragraph "article" about some useless piece of trivia.
Hell yeah, I actually won a copy of Wing Commander Prophecy on a local radio station competition. I think it was one of my first 'multi disc cdrom' games.

Quake 2 was one of the first games I loaded up after installing my card. The coloured lighting, smoothed textures and silky smooth framerate were just totally mindblowing for me at the time.

It was all enough to make me forget about the fact that I had a janky heatsink/fan assembly with the PC case lying on its side. I gamed like that for at least a year or so until I could get an upgraded motherboard with AGP slot to support newer cards.
No that's not what good is, I in fact love languages with concise syntax, Java is probably the worst in that department.
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>Walmart is getting better, but still way behind on the web front. They'll show you things in stock, then tell you it's out of stock upon checkout.

Anyone who's tried to buy a video card or other in high-demand item from Amazon knows that the same thing happens there.
Think we might be waiting a long time for that.
> "Black cats are usually considered bringers of bad luck, but the circumstances over the weekend couldn't have been more fortunate."

No, they're not usually, but some superstitious people are adequately dimwitted to subscribe to that. I volunteered with rescue animals for years, and overheard some adult European lady with unplace-able accent malign black cats to her daughter, who was of a different mindset.

The others standing around who overheard it were like "what. the. fuck?".

Anyway, that NPR and whoever Josie Fischel (the author) is decided to publish and thereby perpetuate this nonsense, shame on them both.

That they pointed out this was a black cat being heroic: good on them.

Shelters don't need more nondiscerning humans fearful of black cats.
I didn't have the bullseye the second time either I was just extremely tired and had a mild fever. That's how it often goes, and if my mom hadn't recognized the nonspecific symptoms it could have been a lot worse.
This stack reminds me of Meteor, which came out nearly a decade ago(!). https://meteor.com

It never really took off in the mainstream - I think because it was before many developers really trusted JS on the server, and a "full stack" framework is quite a big commitment for a team to shift to. Also most CRUD apps don't need real time collab.

I remember being amazed when changes were instantly propagated between my phone and laptop browsers with almost zero lag. This was the demo that sold it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbmW9bwJh4
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So let me get this straight...

Facebook is the reason that Trump got elected?? This is possibly the most asinine thing I've heard in a very long time.

Trump got elected for several reasons, and Facebook had nothing to do with it.

1. H. Clinton was perhaps the worse presidential candidate in the history of the Republic. She rarely if ever campaigned in the all important Rust Belt states, she could not even articulate a reason, when asked, about why she wanted to be President.

2. She and her husband were sitting on a very suspect war chest of like $168mil US...remember, these were the same people who complained 15 years earlier when Bill left the Presidential digs that they were like totally broke with little or no savings.

So this couple had earned WELL over $160mil (not counting their quite significant expenses) in 15 years since Bill left office? Why? Why in the world were so many people just giving them millions of dollars?

To many a hard-working US voters who have struggled their entire lives to save a small amount for retirement, this smelled of "pay to play" on-the-come corruption...and she didn't even try to hide it!

For these reasons, and several more but I don't have the time to post them, H. Clinton did not get elected President in 2016,

Just to keep the record straight.
Cheaper is often because something was easier to make. Less materials and less energy.

That's certainly the case on a one plastic bottle to one glass bottle ratio, but I wonder just how energy efficient is making that bottle over the glass one? Twice? Ten times? A hundred? Then how many times will a glass bottle get reused on average? What sort of resources are used in the process of bringing them back and cleaning them?

This might be my bias as an Australian, tons of space but already having our natural wonder smashed by climate change, but I'm very uninterested in 'pro environment' moves that results in trading higher emissions for less land fill.

Although potentially an argument could be made that because ocean waste is less contained and more harmful than landfill, a 5-10% hike on plastic bottle drinks in low water polluting countries and using it to subsidise glass bottle drinks in high water polluting countries would be worthwhile.
I fondly remember Visual Basic 6 as one of the best general purpose development tools for Windows I have ever seen.

As to the “use case”, it still seems like a nice interpreted language for tiny computers based on microcontrollers and for embedded platforms in general.
They could spend the same amount per year and get results in 5-10 years if it were being run competently.

There’s no point in babying a facility if it means taking decades too long to get useful results!
No, but if you add whey protein isolate it becomes ultra-processed.

Unprocessed foods are the ones occurring in nature. In this case: Wheat, egg, salt, yeast. Once you grind the yeast, blend the ingredients together and bake it, it becomes processed.

Bread is always processed. Grains by themselves - wheat, quinoa, rye, etc. are not.

Similarly eggs are unprocessed. Extracting and filtering the protein so that it exists as an isolate (a form far from its naturally-occurring state) is processed.
This does not frame debate effectively. Debate is a process of testing ideas, it is not necessarily competitive. What characterizes debate is your purpose (to discover problems with ideas) not your tactics.
I wasn't criticising you. I just shared my take on the situation.
Currently the only channel that is capable of inviting 2 people with completely opposing opinions, and make a nice debate. On any current news: gender, environment, politics, covid, etc... Not like all others channel giving, and insisting, on a one sided opinion, and debaters just agreeing with each other

It is actually refreshing
> Also a person's relationship to food gets set in childhood

How do you know?
It brightened my day and I’m grateful for it.

From an HN perspective, this is a fascinating article that gives more weight to the intelligence and compassion of animals, especially ones usually marked as disinterested and selfish.

I hope you find wonder in something today :)
The last time I implemented a timing loop I came up with an approach that would mitigate jitter and oscillation artifacts occurring due to OS overhead (though not solving the aspect of video refresh itself being misaligned). One of my major assumptions was that I could run the game at higher frequency than refresh and therefore rely on downsampling my output, vs the norm of many higher-end games where the base tick is interpolated up to refresh rate.

1. Derive ideal number of elapsed frames using elapsed time from start divided by framerate.

2. Run updates to "catch up" to ideal frames.

3. Observe "rubberbanding" artifact as game oscillates between too slow and too fast.

4. Add limits to how many catchup frames are allowed per render frame to stop the rubberbanding. Implement a notion of "dropped frames" instead, so that our ideal time accounting has a release valve when too much catchup is needed.

5. Now apply a low-pass filter to the amount of catchup frames over time, e.g. if you have a tick of 120hz but your monitor is at 60hz you are likely to see an occasional high frequency oscillation in how many tick frames are supplied per render frame, like [2,3,2,3,2,3]. Filtering can make this [2,2,2,3,3,3]. (It's been a while since I did this, so I don't recall my exact algorithm)

The end result of this effort is that wall-clock time is obeyed over the long-run(minus dropped frames) but the supplied frames are also able to maintain the same pacing for longer periods, which makes the moment-to-moment experience very predictable, hence smooth.

While I haven't tried it, I think the equivalent thing when interpolating would be to freeze a certain issued delta time pace for some number of frames.
As of 2017 WHO was still recommending prioritizing girls under 15 for vaccination: https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/position_papers/pp_h...

> Vaccination of secondary target populations e.g. females aged ≥15 years or males, is only recommended if feasible, affordable, cost-effective and does not divert resources from vaccinating primary target population or from effective cervical cancer screening programmes.
Specifically, Xephyr is generally the go-to option, although there are others.
It was never going to die. There's still Glide wrappers out there, and OpenGL did way better than Glide in the market.

Virtualized was always it's end game and where well used APIs go to die.
Carbs themselves make most people hungrier, because humans evolved an instinct to load up on fruit calories during the limited window that fruit was in season, so that they could make it through the subsequent winter when food was more scarce.

Probably also has to do with the fact that bread has so little actual nutrition. The body isn't getting what it needs, so it prompts you to eat more.
I think we differ in what we consider "justification." It seems to me that you are using the moral judgement of the sacrifice of perfect-pretty-code while I am considering the business-operations evaluation.

For a company which needs teams to implement features independently, the bubble you judge to be negative could indeed be an acceptable, or even necessary, compromise. The business decision to have independent teams might introduce complexity, sure, but within the context of the company's needs and goals, it might be a good choice and thus the added complexity is justified in my view.

The goal of any company is not to generate the most optimized code base. It only needs code that works for its purposes. It's a necessary balance which carries risks and opportunities.
In a way ad targeting let’s businesses buy ad space to a smaller number of users for less money. This is in direct contrast to buying a small amount of space on a huge website, which costs more money.

That means if we go back to pre-internet style of ads, then it will be expensive to advertise your business to a niche community therefore only larger companies can advertise.

There is a privacy angle that needs to be figured out, and it is complex. But just going back to the old way just empowers larger businesses to beat out smaller ones. This is the sad reality we live in now.
From user perspective it’s a different thing. However Apple should know better. If they wish to reject apps because they use APIs they have provided, they should have not made those APIs in the first place.
Oh, that is cool. Sounds like a nice mix actually. Local vim, browsers, known system. And container with mount-bind to actually compile and run stuff in.
Tethers are a nightmare. A nightmare.
> That said, I really think you should reflect on how much research you did (read a wikipedia page) before stating that Africa's high HIV rates compared to the rest of the world are due to "a culture of rape/unprotected sex" or quack-medicine.

I never stated those things authoritatively. I threw them out as potential example factors because those were things I saw during my brief wikipedia foray.

> (Also, I don't see "rape" anywhere on the wiki article you linked.)

Yeah because it wasn't on that page but a related page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth
> By removing alloca instructions, the mem2reg step is turning stack-memory into registers.

This is true, but it's also misleading: the transformation of stack slots into machine registers is a beneficial side effect of mem2reg. Reducing stack use is an important optimization, but producing an optimal SSA form is even more important, since key passes like folding, DCE and SRoA rely heavily on the SSA form. The "reg" in "mem2reg" refers explicitly to the latter (SSA registers), as the text you've excerpted directly says.

You can also prove this to yourself by contriving an IR function that contains more SSA registers than machine registers: you'll see that, in addition to any ABI constraints, LLVM will be forced to spill any excess SSA registers back onto the stack.

Edit: but also yes, to confirm: `alloca` corresponds more or less directly to `add ESP, <adjust>` within the x86 stack model. But it doesn't have to! LLVM's semantics are target independent even when the IR isn't.
I think that actually points towards the issue of social media. Even without explicit collaboration from US actors, Russian actors are able to interfere in elections and other processes through reaching a large US populace on social media.

Prior media would have been a lot harder to coerce by foreign agents. New social media are way easier to take advantage of as a foreign power.

For example, I'm able to participate in this debate without even being American. I have new reach and influence over Americans I never had before. How many people commenting here aren't American? Half the comments could be from Russians all we know.

That Trump didn't ask for their help doesn't mean that he didn't play into their hand.

In a strange way though, you can't dissociate them anymore. He could very well have won all by himself, hacked email or not, fake accounts or not, etc. But they did hack and leak her emails, and they did create fake accounts, and had troll farms targeted at American voters.

I can see the hesitancy to acknowledge that, because it could discredit your own win, but it's also a very interesting new scenario that didn't exist before, which is that foreign powers didn't have direct means of communication with such a large portion of your citizenry as we do now.

If I were to speak for the past, it was actually the US media that were one of the few to be able to reach into other countries populace through movies, books, games, and all that. But it was very hard for non-US media to reach Americans, and that's no longer the case.
> Is there any way to prevent it?

Firejail[0] allows cobbling together various linux sandboxing features, including namespaces which should result in an isolated proc filesystem which doesn't see the other processes. But I don't know if the default profile for zoom does that, you have to test it or write your own.

[0] https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
>the Covid-recovered (who were explicitly excluded from the trials)

Excluding these people from the initial trials makes perfect sense to me. The various understood complications of COVID, like blood clots or minor strokes, could have been mistaken for consequences of vaccination.

Why do you suppose that there aren't any papers being generated on the topic of the recovered-from-COVID who get vaccines?

>Obviously spike protein antibodies are not the be-all and end-all of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, or we would not be observing relatively robust immunity even among recovered individuals who've had their antibody levels wane

No, but serum antibody levels against the methods viruses use to hijack our cells is a long, storied, well-understood and widely-accepted means of assessing overall systemic immune response to whatever the antibodies are against, in a way that third-order inferences about T cells aren't.
Sadly running dtruss on (modern) macOS requires disabling system integrity protection.
What a great distraction from the real problems!

If we had that free limitless renewable energy, and we used it as we do now to fuel "growth" building malls and car parks, extracting ores from the crust, and produce pesticides, then we will have solved no problem at all.

Spieces do not become extinct, they are being exterminated. Energy production is but a tiny part of the ecological crisis we're in. We need to solve the energy usage problem, not its production.

This is madness.
In the states they are associated with Halloween and as spirit familiars with witches; and, while that stigma is reducing, it may still be present.

Your own reply references the aversion to black cats that you argue isn’t there.
Really great font. I loved Helvetica, Helvetica Now was a great extension, but was just so many files, and this is a great fix to the problem. I would have liked slant to be yet another variable instead of just two variations, but this is still nice.

And yet, I just can't imagine ever using this in actual design. Licensing makes it ridiculous to recommend to almost all clients, and there are great, much more affordable alternatives, Inter being completely free.
On top of all of that, the Obama recovery from the 2008 meltdown started the K-shaped split. People came back from the recession, but not everyone got back to where they were. Many were just plain left behind.

It was very fertile ground for Trump to come along and address the anger of the lower middle class and promise them that they could get their share again.
Exactly right, from what you know, which is limited to the point of useless on a proprietary, closed source system. It's almost guaranteed to be backdoored being as such.
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I ordered six lbs of Salmon Fillet for pickup today. Website said my order was cancelled, however weight adjusted for 4 lbs. Then got a notice my order was ready. They billed me for 4 lbs. But they gave me 16 lbs. This happened once before for 32 lbs. They always give me a couple FREE. Just on salmon. LOL!!!! I eat salmon everday, cheaeper than chicken at this rate.
How do you manage to get it so often? I live in an area that is endemic to Lyme, but it's something that can easily be avoided (much easier than Covid). But I do see reckless behaviour all the time as well, so maybe it is not that surprising.
Who cares? Black lives matter funds were diverted left and right to wealthy people for example...
You convinced me to pull the trigger on an old one on ebay... My wife is not going to be happy when this arrives.

The SyncMaster will always have a special place in my heart though. Played many old DOS games on that from UFO: enemy unknown, to x-wing, tie fighter, and Ultima VIII. It went through many family PC upgrades and I inherited it. The 17" CRT started to get a bit more affordable in the era of the Pentium II, III and AMD K6-2/3 and I think it'll be a better pairing with the Voodoo 2 enabled system.
Moreover, plastic straws were in use before the 1980s, and only since the 80s has there been pressure to replace them with paper-based straws.
So true. I recently found out an old acquaintance is now using his phd to do facial recognition for facebook. OMFG, not for all the money in the world....

Conversely I had another friend who switched out of his phd when he discovered every red cent of funding was somehow coming from the race to build killer robots. Props to you Henrik, if you ever read this!
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Chinese media claims US will abandon Taiwan like Afghanistan
This is not HN material. Crap like this belongs to Reddit.
Or give away to the tenants and get rid of the headache.
> We found that ultraprocessed foods contain a substantially higher percent of calories from carbohydrates and added sugars, and higher levels of sodium, but also had less fiber and a lower percentage of calories from protein

Considering the vast majority of Americans get enough protein, I'm not sure why this specific observation is considered bad. Calories from carbohydrates (including sugar) aren't intrinsically worse than calories from protein. That's not to say most ultraprocessed foods are healthy, just that the observation doesn't imply they aren't.

For comparison, here's what the CDC has to say about added sugar[1]:

> Added sugars contribute calories to your diet, but no essential nutrients. Eating and drinking too many added sugars makes it difficult to achieve a healthy eating pattern without taking in too many calories.

The important thing is that ultraprocessed foods tend to have less micronutrients and encourage eating too many calories.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/sugar.html