skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> give up much more quickly when a solution does not come easily to them

Anecdotally, kids often also give up easily when faced with trivial setbacks. I think your speculative generalization is far too broad. I’d be interested to see some concrete research, but my impression is that there is very wide variability, and I’m not sure how meaningful the statistical averages are.

The people I know who are best at diving into a new never-seen thing and experimenting systematically to figure out quickly and accurately how it works are all adults. They easily run circles around kids at this: the kids get tired, get distracted, get confused and give up, get stuck into an obviously sub-optimal pattern but don’t try to fix it, etc. (The kind of adults who have decades of practice at trying / learning new things. Many relevant metacognitive skills have broad applicability across disciplines.)

One big advantage kids have is that their basic needs are met by someone else, and they generally don’t have lots of other worries and responsibilities. This allows them to focus on something they are interested in far longer and deeper than most people who aren’t doing that thing professionally.

The best for learning (for either an adult or a child) is a combination of personal interest + pleasant no-pressure environment + face-to-face guidance from a trusted expert tutor/coach, who can probe weak points, notice and correct mistakes and misconceptions, suggest methods of practice, ....

> pride/hubris

What you call pride/hubris, I call shame and fear of embarrassment. People really don’t want other people (or themselves) to see them as failures.

> when someone in an inferior social positions knows a thing

This kind of social situation is completely different than the “self-directed intrinsically-motivated reward” situation you were talking about before.

It’s hardly surprising that someone who is supposed to be an expert doesn’t want to be shown up by their subordinate or their junior colleague. It makes them look incompetent and is a direct threat to their social position and livelihood.
> There is still ...

You're probably right. Although seeing it in context, those news coming from Australia suggest a very slippery slope where "There is still ..." might not be true sometime soon. On the one hand it could be negativity bias, on the other hand there's also the fear Australia is being used as an experiment and the rest of the Five Eyes will follow suit.
Beautiful!

In terms of fractal art I can also recommend:

http://frameofmind.be/

https://www.protobacillus.com/

http://www.steckles.com/buddha/
What they should do is, anyone who's unfairly being paid too much should have that amount deducted from their pay and diverted to community programs, or actually paying off some taxes.
It lacks VFX features compared to TouchDesigner, also not open source so those two things keep me away from it.
I second this. A car pulled out in front of me once - I went over the handlebars, landed on my hip and my head whiplashed onto the tarmac. If I hadn't had my helmet on it's very likely that I would have fractured my skull, including all of the attendant risks of serious brain injury.
And it’s such an incredibly good example of why anti-steering rules should be illegal. Apple basically refuses to let apps even tell the user that such alternate licenses are available!

I hate anti-steering so much that I hope any future legislation against it also enforces retroactive refunds for a significant period of time. Whatever money they have made is basically entirely due to pulling wool over users’ eyes, and they need to be losing millions from this as a punishment.
This just shows that Zeus is the one true god! /s
Slightly related question:

Does anyone know what to do when finding a Wikipedia page that's just an ad in disguise?

I've found a few and Wikipedia has a lot of pages about vandalism/verifiability which often recommends just changing the parts that don't fit or placing a warning on the user's page but what if the whole page is about a made up term that exists to link to the authors blog/company?

I can't outright delete a whole page right? I'm also pretty new to contributing Wikipedia and even though they specifically recommend just trying and learning when some action wasn't appropriate I'd still feel more comfortable if I could contact someone with a bit more experience/reputation to discuss such an instance.
The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
Doesn't a wide aspect ratio let you put two code listings next to each other?
Show HN: Dynamic Resume Generator
Of course that spec will also have to specify the format are supported just like WebSQL had to specify the SQL flavor used ... Oh wait, that was the excuse not to make WebSQL a standard... img or audio or video never specs never needed to specify which format these tags should support, but it was a problem with WebSQL? I'd rather have WebSQL than a <model> tag...

Also, let's continue with the hypocrisy. If indexedDB is good enough so people "just have to implement a RDBMS on top of it", so is WebGL which had poor support on Safari until very recently...
I assumed they're talking about Tesla's A100 cluster, which is huge - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/06/22/tesla-av-training-s...

Tesla's compute-to-researcher ratio is definitely rare
Are stickers the new Emojis? Every app seem to have a slightly different implementation and they don't really interoperate well.

Can this tool be used for WhatsApp stickers? And how different are Slack and Discord Stickers?

I wonder if we'll see some standardization in the future akin to the addition of emojis to Unicode.
I had a sore throat, so I made an "In A World" reading of this web page.
Thanks for these names! I will have to look into them.

Rebirth is a tricky one for me because it just seems too fantastical, but then many things about our world and our selves remain inexplicable, if not outright fantastical themselves.

Rebirth also might not be a true continuation of our individual consciousness, but a repackaging of sorts.

I try to square these ideas with the physical world we inhabit, where our consciousness is very much affected by the environment and the state of our bodies and minds. It seems hard to believe in a soul (or anything ineffable that is a part of us lasting beyond death) in the traditional sense, when we are so malleable and our experiences so subjective. A tweak to my brain chemistry can drastically alter my behavior etc.

So if I still want to think about rebirth, I feel I must conclude that whatever can survive death must be quite a bit more abstract than the consciousness I am familiar with.
OpEx is much easier to get vs CapX.
That's why so many things are subscription now. (also Sarbaines Oxley pushed vendors into subscription models)
This is a terrible idea, and that's not what model means, not even in computer science jargon. Apple needs to fucking calm down.
I wake up every day hating I'm alive and can only sleep with alcohol. Apparently, I'm far from the only one being denied proper mental healthcare. I'm not talking therapy, just medicaiton. So close, yet out of reach. So yeah.
I would disagree. The Russian interference in the 2016 United States election has been described as the most effective hack of all time.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49791/russian-dnc-ema...

Further, the successful use of cyberwarfare by Russia, is considered the leading example of its kind.

And I haven't even mentioned Brexit, or hundreds of other campaigns to weaken western democracies.

It's pretty clear that Russia leads in this regard.

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were worthless failures, and resulted in the loss of trillions of US dollars that could have gone to building American infrastructure, funding universal healthcare and education, and improving the lives of average citizens.

These invasions fundamentally weakened the US at home and abroad. They did not serve the interests of "empire" at all.

We seem to be talking about different things.
I don't think that's Confucius. Doesn't sound like him, can't find any source mentioned online. It appears in a lot of places online, like fake quotes do, but no reputable places, and never with a source.
High resolution is particularly useful for people who work on text all day - so hackers.

I don't know if you're confusing it with high dynamic range? This isn't about colour.
Oh hey that’s great - will use nitter in the future!
People say this, but I've never really been vexed by the apps they provide until relatively recently. I'd like the interface to be speedier, for example.

The biggest gripe that I've understood from other people is around classical metadata, which I agree iTunes and Apple Music have done a bad job with, just like most every other service that doesn't focus on classical. I'm not a big consumer of classical, so it doesn't bother me very much, but I can see how it would be a BIG deal for people who listen to exclusively or mostly classical recordings.

OTOH, I'm encouraged that there exist niche services that focus on the classical market. I hadn't heard of this one, but in one of my periodic attempts to Listen To More Classical I had a subscription to Idagio for a while, and found it generally pretty great.
The big thing for me is the question of the future: they say they currently won't be predatory about it[1] and I have no reason to doubt that the people saying that are being completely honest, but we don't know who will be working there in the future or where the next acquisition/merger will take them.

Without a contract, it's hard to disagree with the policy types who are going to ask what protects the organization if that happens. Once you go down this path even a little, the barriers to entry at large organizations go up since you have to look at it from the perspective of both the upfront cost and possible future cost / off-ramps.

1. https://twitter.com/scottcjohnston/status/143272649295845376...
You get used to it. Only have tried it once doesn't seem like giving it a fair go - if you spent the whole ride concentrating on the helmet I'm sure it felt annoying, but if you wear it for every ride for a month you'd likely forget it was there. It may also have been the wrong size, and there's a wide variety of weights / styles out there to choose from. It took me a while to find one that I actually felt comfortable in.
I'm in the same boat. The UE dev workflow is the first issue, but there's also the surrounding ecosystem for me like the Epic launcher, Substance, Bridge, Mixer and Affinity that I don't want to have to replace and also don't have time to fiddle with if they don't work 100%.

My experience moving away from the happy path by doing UE dev on a Mac a few years ago was so painful I have a hard time believing the linux experience is going to be a net win. Unless you're using the same tools as Epic, shit just seems to break a lot.
No, he makes a point for leaving Germany for higher pay. As a talented individual, one needs not rely on unions to fight for some mediocre salary everyone gets, one can negotiate it on their own and get a salary worth the skills.

Talents leaving the country is an actual problem (for Germany, not the software engineers), no wonder there’s a term for the shortage: The famous Fachkräftemangel.
Maybe they mean zero to one after the book?

Or maybe they mean the opposite, when there was a single competitor that then became a commoditized market? Docker might be a good example for this one
The other side on Hacker News will say 'be open and honest', but fail to indemnify the person at hand against potential losses. Talk is cheap, unless you're the one who has to pay for the consequences.
Well honestly they should just have links to all apps but that would require the search engine to not also suck (different discussion).

It’s just surprising to me that Apple didn’t take such a basic step to do this, when it seems it would so clearly increase the value of the platform. It is why it is difficult to believe anything they say about how much they “love” the Mac...every single action they take to “help” the Mac platform is just baffling.
If a beginners point of view is useful, let me tell you I'm using Ear Trainer on iOS and was using Complete Ear Training on Android, I've only been doing it for like six or eight months with a break in-between. I went from nothing to being able to recognize m2, M2, m3, M3, P4 and P5 upwards and I'm working on m3/M3 downwards and harmonically now, usually with 85%/90% accuracy. I can also tell major from minor 7th chords apart with like 70% accuracy and tell the major and minor scale and their pentatonics apart upwards and downwards with above 80%. All this with different root notes, same root note is way easier.

If you are interested in transcribing I would recommend a teacher. My girlfriend can arrange live on piano and has insanely good absolute pitch and she helped me on moments of extreme confusion and frustration that I wouldn't have gotten out of on my own. Also I have a tuner app on iOS that plays a reference pitch and also tells you what interval you sang, it's called TonalEnergy Tuner. I didn't need to sing until I got into learning downwards intervals, and I think I would never would be able to learn those without being able to sing do re mi in tune. Singing for some reason really helps you "imagine" and remember tunes.

On the same amount of time I am now very seldom but sometimes able to transcribe very simple synth lead melodies to my synthesizer, as I was also learning basic sound design in parallel to this.

One year ago I didn't even know you could learn absolute pitch as an adult, I'm 37. I'm completely mind blown by the fact I learnt what I learnt so far and sometimes I just don't believe it happened and am scared it will just like completely go away or something because it's like a very alien thing for me to be able to do. I don't even know what my objective is but it's probably being able to musicalize things in my mind and being able to jam with friends.
It is a data point; the article goes on to say that it is too early to know if the difference in antibody levels is medically important.

Both vaccines make high levels of antibodies, and even low levels of antibodies can be effective.
It's much easier to see the intangibles. For instance, I'm a fairly senior team member who's a core subject matter expert for a few major things our team owns. A huge chunk of my day involves people asking me questions about them.

In person, it's trivial to see everyone coming up to my desk, hear me jumping into team discussions, and so on. Remote, it's on me to let management know that's what my time is being spent on, and if I'm lying it's significantly harder to verify.
Completely broke our service
ECR pulls were broken, ingresses didn't respond properly. Surprised not much noise was raised (Mainly based on eu-west-1)
> Even at 1080p, I have to go into accessibility settings to enlarge text.

1080p is about the resolution of the screen, not the size of anything rendered on the screen.
I dunno, I see it coming from all sides. Even the normal people in my life have become very political, and it doesn't matter which angle they're starting from.

I see my original comment didn't get any love. I was just making a snarky remark about how Twitter probably uses algorithms to make sure your feed and mind are outrageous in their own specific-to-us ways.
It's not all about impersonal efficiency for many people.
Remote Code Execution on Confluence Servers (CVE-2021-26084)
I'm working in an organization where we have one laptop from work, and another laptop to do work on. Because the one sized fits all IT policy doesn't work for our org, but it's forced on us because of the IP security needs of another parallel org.

We went from an organization moving towards BYOD, to, now the exact opposite.
Style calculations are typically done before rendering, but as far as I know, there's nothing in the spec that dictates you needing to do anything specific other than comply with the output outlined.
>> At domestic levels, its more difficult

Not sure if this is correct. Once power cost is reduced, the cost of investing equipment dominates still further. Industrial processes are designed to operate 24/7 and when they don't, they are uneconomic.

Domestic power consumption is never 24/7 on any major device and there is some discretion over scheduling. Even fridge/freezer has some flexibility
Christianity wasn't granted legal protection until ~300AD. Prior to that, you could say that it was a strict belief that Christianity was verboten and its members subject to persecution (lions, crosses, etc). It would be another half-century before the empire started to codify what "Christianity" was in a "strict" sense (Nicaean creed, right?).

The time period of Secundio's tomb is around AD 60 or so. As the article at pompeiisites.org says, "During the Roman period at Pompeii, funeral rites usually involved cremation, while only small children were buried." This burial of a 60 year old man stands out for a few reasons, but one of which is that it even exists at all given that it's contrary to custom of the pre-Christian age.
Thanks for the at-length reply.

I should make it clearer - I'm looking to run that's data-intenive, structurally MIMD but with some SIMD aspects. I'm trying to figure out the most cost-effective chip with which to do this.

The other question is whether chips like Esperanto's product have effective primitive for reduce operations and how much general memory through-put they have compared to a GPU.
Without general theories, the only reasonable question is "Faster for What"?

What are generalizable theories of 'fast'? Fewer bits moving less with fewer instructions, and using the most suitable, specialized hardware available.

Even once you have a reasonably well-defined goal, if it's complex enough you may start hitting subsidiary questions, like numerical precision and stability.
>"I have a theory that if more people watched court proceedings (daily misdemeanor, not just OJ/Floyd cutups), political opinions might shift toward humanizing both the accused and the victims."

There has been a lot of work on this, showing that people's reactions to newspaper stories about court cases are polarized, but similar people on juries generally find common ground. I don't have any citations handy, but I'm sure they're easy to find.
It's oh so terrible isn't it? I feel like this is one of those flexible majority things that Nassim Taleb talks about [1]. The vast majority of people don't care one way or the other. There is a small minority who wants the numeric keypad and an even smaller minority that despises the numeric keypad and will never buy a laptop that includes one. For me, it's always been yet another selling point for the Macbook.

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I made the distinction between dogma and policy because I don’t think the two are very strongly connected. I think there are localised outliers like California and Texas, where the ideological differences are more effectively implemented in policy and legislation. But generally speaking, I don’t think you get a substantially different government when one party is elected over the other. The dogma however is substantially different. It’s just that speaking differently doesn’t necessarily translate to acting differently.

I think the reason I’m downvoted (and that my comments would generally meet disapproval in most contexts) is due to the nature of tribalist politics. A political tribalist believes that we are good and they are bad. If our policies fail it’s because of reasons other than our policies being bad, if their policies fail it’s because they were intentionally designed to cause harm. They are the ones behaving tribalistically, while we are open minded and accepting.

A core element of the tribalistic psychology is that you and your team aren’t the ones perpetuating it. Tribalism is bad, and they are the source of it. It is an archetypal example of the fundamental attribution error, and a tribalistic conservative is just as likely to downvote you for suggesting that as a tribalistic liberal is.
"I will sacrifice literally anything to save an unknown number of lives"
Linux seems pretty powerful and successful though, and it's built on "everything is a file" as a foundation.
It looks like the Department of Defense is considering such reactors again [1], and the author of this article is very much against it. So much so that he published this exact same article at least 3 times before [2], [3], [4].

[1] https://www.defensenews.com/smr/energy-and-environment/2021/...

[2] https://theconversation.com/the-us-army-tried-portable-nucle...

[3] https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/07/project-pele-the-military-...

[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-is-trying-to-bui...
stickers are the half-way point between images and emoji, as in, bigger emoji, usually sent without a message.

Some platforms upgrade emoji to stickers when used solo (telegram for example)

there isn't anything majorly special about them on any platform AFAIK
That is quite possibly the case, and we should never cease to be vigilant. But that said, we were worried about the same slippery slope 20 years ago, and at least in my country it is less worrisome now than then.

It seems to me that Australia is lagging behind more than being an experiment, considering they're still talking about encryption laws etc. But perhaps the US is as well?
> One could control important "outer" functions of the whole operating system from within Hypercard using its own conception of the world, which I would say counts as special integration.

Ok - this sounds interesting, but what does it do that can’t be done by VB?

> The UI even looked quite similar to the rest of the system, making it "real".

This is an important quality, but absolutely one shared by VB and database builders.

> There was a kind of seamlessness there, and it came before things like PowerPoint etc.

Yes, that it was early and beloved is not in dispute. My point is that it’s not special beyond that, and nothing has been lost.

> Also it was more than just presentations.

Ok, but that straw-man’s the other tools I mentioned. I mentioned a bunch of things that go far beyond HyperCard in their programmability.

> Non-"programmer" Mac users were building all sorts of things, from zines to point-of-sale systems for their local businesses.

Zines are augmented presentations. Point of sale systems require programming, and are the canonical example of what database builders are used for today.

> At one point in the early 1990s Apple estimated that there were 4 million authors creating their own stacks.

Ok, but what point are you making with that.

Probably hundreds of millions of people have created a PowerPoint, but how many of them have programmed a behavior using the embedded basic?

It’s quite obvious that only a tiny fraction of those 4 million people did anything more than simple presentations.

> I definitely agree that today -- with the current systems we have and the environment that the companies who make them operate -- the problem is extra hard. My recurring thought on the matter is that we need to toss aside things like backward compatibility and software portability (ie, recreate a computing system from the ground up) in order to have what we are talking about.

I’m not sure about that because I can’t see what advantage that has over just building a VM that can leverage existing platform work, but I am open to being convinced.

However, what is not clear, and which nobody articulates, is how such a tabula-rasa would be different and not just dead end again.

> At the end of the day we are still in the world of C and Unix and I don't think we're going to find what we are looking for so long as that remains the case.

This isn’t clear to me. Given that the entire platform HyperCard ran on can be trivially emulated in a browser in JavaScript, C and Unix aren’t standing in the way of building something better.

Nobody being able to say what it would even look like is the real problem.