skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything with musical guests also suffers from this issue. There is no legal and complete copy of SNL that you can buy, no matter what you are willing to pay. A great deal of MTV's content isn't able to be sold, and MTV was probably the most important television station from a cultural perspective during it's heyday.
Pulling this point to the TL;DR top:

A Deepness in the Sky (1999) is a prequel set 20k years earlier than A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
It's a good idea to target your product to the sensibilities of your consumer.

American Millenials and Gen Z are having less sex than the generations before them.

They've also grown up with frequent mass school shootings and the "tactical", "everyday carry", amateur-soldier, military worship culture that really got rolling after 9/11.

No wonder sex scenes squick them out -- it's a world that's distant, unfamiliar, and uncomfortable for them.

Violence, though? Pile it on. Now you're speaking their language.
yes so cool!
Quantum Computers, if and when they work in practice, will break some algorithms, halve the 'bit-security' (e.g. 256 -> 128bit) of some algorithms, and leave the other quantum-safe ones untouched.

So encryption will still work in a quantum world. We 'just' have to update the algorithms we use.

See also:
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/rou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
no. not at all. this whole discussion is really about marketing terms. there is absolutely no reason why one can't apply relational operators to graphs.

its just that sql doesn't normally support cyclic evaluation. that's really only the only fundamental difference in a 'graph database'

that said, recursion is really handy and SQL is a really crap environment for doing anything but the most basic of evaluations.
But then you don't want the software from the distro to be statically linked, but the software from other places. In which case it doesn't matter that much what does the distro do.
I would completely concede that R has better libraries. However, getting stuff like online prediction into production is a real pain when the models are developed in R. And R is single threaded. There is no way to hide that detail.
This is very cool for what it is, but the strict use of ASCII feels very 1990s. Even most modern terminals will render Unicode characters, and so sticking strictly with ASCII limits the usability of the tool.

As an example, on my portfolio website, I have a "photo" of myself rendered with Unicode characters [0]. I used this website [1] but lots of other options exist.

[0]: https://daniel-livingston.com/about/

[1]: https://ascii-generator.site
Apple’s AirPods Pro and Max do the same thing, but they don’t have any settings you can tinker with. They’re for measuring fit and seal.
Where is this limitation documented?
Strong possibility - I'm sure there's a way to create a system as an extension of the current one to mitigate this issue though.
I haven’t tried the Nura but I’m a bit skeptical because a microphone is another digital “thing” that can be good or bad in measure the sound, and I don’t think the quality of a micro microphone is superb. So I prefer to rely on my ears but surely for “not trained” ear is not a bad thing to understand how really a (headphone) tip works compared to the bigger or smaller.
That is a bold claim and no supporting evidence. This forum can be so valuable and yet so maddening.

Please do share your experiences that support your opinion.

Gun.js can seem ‘magical’ but then again the 100 lines of code (iirc it’s less) are there for all to see.

I’ve found the time invested to learn about gun (the sync protocol) and RAD (storage abstraction layer) quite worth it. The addition of SEA (security encryption authorization) wrapping around gun enables a lot of implementation options which some find frustrating as they’d rather not have to think about topology before building ‘an app’. Could that be a reason for your comment?

Would love to hear why you think it’s snake oil.
Hey, this is really cool. I've always wondered how this stuff works beneath the abstraction of high-level languages. Thanks for sharing!
U.S. concerned with China's rising military activity near Taiwan
We are living in more revolutionary times. The thing is, when you are inside the "evolution", you don't really notice it. If you are 30-50, just try to remember the old days (taxi-phone, early days of the Internet, no digital paperwork, libraries, etc...) and you'll notice a world of change.
> they don't show

But they do! (And I agree with the general sentiment.)
I don't think that was the point of the article. The point of the article was that they are against sex on camera unless there is a good reason for it. The article tried to explain it with feminism, which could be a cause.
That headline is really misleading. That "threatening" tweet (Thursday) was followed by an apology two hours later.

"I'm trying to do anything I can to help the community get some of its COMP back, and this was a bone-headed tweet / approach. That's on me," said Leshner. "Luckily, the community is much bigger, and smarter, than just me. I appreciate your ridicule and support...."

https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/1443759189722116097

Since then he's been engaging with the community, thanking users who are returning their money. In an interview with CoinDesk, he pointed out that "I'm personally hopeful users will return funds to the community. It's not my property, it's not their property, it's the community's property...."

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/01/compound-founder-sa...
Try writing e.g. a TLS proxy in Java and then in Go, and get back to us.

For byte arrays, sockets, encodings, cryptography, etc. the stdlib in unparalleled.
Fixed, had the repo as private. Thanks for letting me know!
Vinge fans (myself included) were expecting another high-concept space opera, and weren't that interested in social commentary (however relevant that has turned out to be to present day society).

It has been a while, maybe I'll give it a re-read at some point.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211003121747/https://www.nytim...
Every time I read about it I'm baffled we are not doing the same for humans with gene editing.
> I see no reason why it should not be

I'm arguing the opposite. Your assertion is that a smart contract will be treated as a binding contract. Provide case law and statute that that is the case. Your belief at the moment is hope that a smart contract will be interpreted favorably by the judiciary. If you can't provide such citations, backing your assertions, it seems disingenuous to attempt to twist contract law to fit crypto reality ("taking the money and running is legal"), and even worse to advise people who have received ill gotten gains through unjust enrichment to keep them.

As always, the question is not only, "what does the contract say?" but also "how will the judge interpret the claim?" I've provided citations throughout this thread for my claims relying on existing case law.
It's hard to fully capture the context here in a headline, but the report isn't just talking about the noises. They conclude that the prevalent theory of some kind of directed energy weapon is "highly unlikely", although they don't claim to fully rule it out or definitively identify another cause. The fact that the Biden administration is commissioning another report doesn't indicate much about whether their conclusion is right; there's all sorts of reasons to commission a report.
Many Dutch people might curse with horrible diseases and inflictions (kanker - cancer, kolere - cholera, tyfus -typhoid), but religious Dutch people tend to frown upon ‘godverdomme’ - ‘goddamn’. Back when I was young one would often hear this curse word in Hollywood movies. My father, if he heard this word, would want us to change channels. However my father wouldn’t have been bothered hearing ‘hell’.

‘Godverdomme’ (goddamn) can be more appropriately translated into ‘god damn me’. It’s obvious why this might be offensive to a Christian.

I guess from the US Christian point of view maybe there’s some sort of similar association when people say ‘hell’ …
To suggest that films must feature graphic violence is like saying that comedy can't be funny unless it involves swearing.
That's a clever idea - thank you!

Agree with your take too. In fact, part of the reason I elected for anonymity & account-free comments was to lower that barrier.
This looks like it might use Figlet, but I didn't see a mention of that on the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet
Indeed. In my experience, the bad feeling gets even worse when noticing something wrong in something you are not specialised at all.

However to your point, Michael Crichton describes the rather sad "Gell-Mann amnesia effect": One tends to still trust the other pages of the magazine.
> Either way, "considered harmful" is a tired and unoriginal cliché. Using it twice in one title is just stonkingly uncreative.

> I agree with most of the article but the title sucks!

You are correct. I don't claim to be creative, especially with post titles. To be honest, I'm surprised this post got as much traction as it did.

> Also I'm not sure how you wrote so much about using LLVM IR as a portable executable format without mentioning WebAssembly or PNaCl once!

Because, in my opinion, they will not solve the problem.

WebAssembly is too constrained.

PNaCl uses LLVM, which would need to be redesigned to do all that I want.
This is one of several books I read in the 90s that I still think about and love so much. Startide Rising and Downbelow Station are the other ones that immediately springs to mind.

This book (and Startide Rising) are very much in the space opera camp. There's really no basis in physics for the zones in this book but I really love the ideas. I love the Tines. I also love the idea of the arms race that was unwittingly started on this world.

If you like the theme of sudden technological advance, I highly recommend CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series. They're sets of trilogies and I think it's up to ~15 books now? This series is set in the same world as Downbelow Station (tangentially). The central premise is that FTL jumping is possible but difficult. In this series, a group of would-be colonists awake from jump sleep to find they have no idea where they've jumped to. They can't get any star bearings and they end up ultimately settling on a world that has an alien species on it that technologically is around the 19th century. It's not a fast-paced series but I love the thoughtfulness and introspection of it.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I watched a video by a guy who built a cabin in Michigan, talking about how to buy land for like $5K an acre.

I just googled and this seems like a real thing, i.e. hundreds of properties for very cheap:

https://www.landandfarm.com/search/michigan-land-between-500...

Also I had a friend who did this near the California/Nevada border. Super cheap land if you don't care about electricity and plumbing!

Michigan and California are both extremely populated states -- but MOST of them by land area is very sparsely populated.

I'm sure someone here knows more, but I think it's obvious if you just drive 30, 60, or 120 minutes outside any city in the US. There is a lot of land. All of it is probably owned, but the owners are probably not doing anything with it, and would sell it for a fair price, which is low.

Hell there is even land in San Francisco if you've ever biked between San Francisco and South San Francisco. Again, it's owned, but it's not doing very much.

Humans like to crowd together in very few places, particularly near water. Here's a more relevant picture: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-mapping-the-worlds-large...

Judging by this picture, the US, Europe, and Russia are barely populated at all :)
Ancedotal evidence on why an Ohio Hospitals ER is overwhelmed
My cousin works in an er in one of 2 hospitals in an Ohio city with just under 100k people. There has been a trend where arresting officers are taking people to the hospital to essentially sober up often without charging them , instead of taking them to jail.

An Er doctor who used to be a police officer has no idea why they aren't charging them and sending them to jail instead. It ends up taking a lot of time and resources that both the jail and hospital are equiped to handle. The county jail has much less costs associated with sobering up the intoxicated (alcohol, meth, heroin, etc) then the hospital. Hospitals are constantly losing nurses to traveling Jon's making up to 9k a week, as a result they are forced to pay 100 plus per hour of over time. It's a massive supply constraint during a pandemic on the vector that cant spare any thing atm (healthcare) .

This is leading to up to 18 hour wait times for the people actually sick before they can go back to see someone.

Possible explanations I can think of
I guess Tarski's definition of truth is relative to some interpretation, but the usual unqualified version of his definition is implicitly relative to the standard model of natural numbers. (Edit: or maybe it is me who is using the notion of Tarski's definition of truth incorrectly.)
What about formats that don't exist yet? What about giving you the ability to supply your own encoder/decoder for some niche format you're using?
I'll be tweaking that shortly! Just released that feature last night before I went to bed haha
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” - Ecclesiastes 1:2

Perhaps spending money to influence thought would have been better spent on true charity.
>Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content.

Can we even call it TV anymore? It's all streamed to our laptops our tablets
> selecting students based on dimensions such as intelligence, character, capability for leadership

Yes, and who gets to define what "intelligence" means and how it is measured? By what criteria are character and capability for leadership determined, and why?

But most importantly, are these criteria really the best ones to use to determine academic success, or are they arbitrary and contingent ideas imposed by those who look at their own station, determine that it is best, and decide, post hoc ergo propter hoc, that their own attributes are what lead to their station?

> we should adopt the definition that proponents themselves use

But the proponents of meritocracy have defined it to mean just what they like. They have conveniently defined it such that they themselves are meritorious. In any case, the term of "meritocracy" is not a positive one. The word was coined in the 1958 book The Rise of the Meritocracy. The author, sociologist Michael Dunlop Young, was writing about a dystopia, one where intelligence and merit have replaced social class as the central tenet of society, and as a result society is stratified between a merited power-holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less merited. Young was criticizing a society so ordered, not advocating for it. See "Down with meritocracy", by Michael Young, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
You are making a distinction without making a difference in the argument. "it's not an ideology, it's an analytical framework", sounds more like a bad marketing campaign than a compelling argument.

> The word we should both be using is Communist and yes Malcom X was a communist. "In 1950, the FBI opened a file on Malcolm after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist."

You are taking things out of context. At the time anti-communism was used and abused to suppress all sort of inconvenient political movements. Saying "then yeah I'm a communist" in defiance didn't make you one.

Also:

https://www.marxist.com/malcolm-x-forty-years-after.htm

> Malcolm X was always a man who was rethinking and recreating himself, but there is no concrete documentation that he was on the verge of becoming a Marxist, or even a socialist.

https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist...

> Despite the opinion of some so-called Marxist groups in the US and abroad, Malcolm X was not a socialist, and he never claimed to be.

https://socialistresurgence.org/2020/02/21/malcolm-x-black-n...

> His evolution was incomplete—or rather, incompleted. He was not, or was not yet, as Breitman is careful to point out, a Marxist.
That very much depends on the terminal settings and the merchant agreement with the acquirer…
I don't right now - but now that you mentioned it, I'll definitely create one. Will ping you here once it's ready.
Smart people are the one's who know their circle of competence.

https://fs.blog/2013/12/circle-of-competence/
I'm a Linux fan and user for many many years now. I could never go back to Windows

With Desktop Linux (or BSD), I feel you either

a) Settle and go down the route of a tile-manager (i3/xmonad/...N). It's definitely worth it !

OR

b) Use KDE/GNOME while silently swearing and hoping the
next release will be better.

* As an outside option there is also XFCE (old reliable)

Always glad to see new movement and innovation in the DE space. This(HelloSystem) looks very good ! Well done to everyone involved.
You're right that the booms annoyed everyone; but the end result is that all supersonic aircraft have been banned, even those that would make less noise than a regular passenger plane.

Boom claims that they can reduce the sonic boom considerably; If the project is sucessful, I believe the ban for overland supersonic flights would change to be based on noise level, rather than aircraft speed.
Same as any scientific endeavour, studying a particular phenomenon, which in the case of economics is the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
Have you tried bose earphones? They are the most comfortable I've tried so far. Admittedly, I haven't tried many.

They look similar to the ones you linked, they stay very well in my ears thanks to the hook thingy.

https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Acoustic-Cancelling...
This was the book that, as they say these days, "awoke" me many moons ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
Vinge invented the idea (and name) of the singularity.
Which part _did_ I understand and what part did I not, according to you?
Genuinely smart people are the ones who ask lots of questions when talking about an unfamiliar topic.
> Tylenol doesn't seem to work for fever

What? Not sure what alternate universe we're talking about, but paracetamol definitely works on fever in this one.
The only way I’ve ever been able to get my brain to turn off quickly is by using some kind of light fiction- either a book or audiobook. Its like imagining characters in another world somehow refreshes the part of my brain that would otherwise be obsessing about something I said or need to do the next day.
Grothendieck was the best in class at abstract mathematical reasoning and some regard him as the best mathematician in the 20th century. The Heron Formula or “prime” example doesn’t negate that
True Names was really really hard to find for a long time.
If it's from the US then it was shot on a Kodak nitrate film, they can verify the stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_st...
What's funny about this is people thinking it wouldn't be rigged in the first place for some (fantastic) reason. Economy is the new religion.
This is a bad take because if that dollar does not transact, you do not get inflation but you get a lowered velocity.

However a lowered velocity rises r - g. This exacerbates wealth inequality.
> Bugs happen all the time, heck, even giant thefts due to bugs happen all the time. Everyone usually just keeps right on doing whatever they were doing.

What a great advertisement this is for crypto.
Here is what I learned after 2008: yes the market goes down, but the powers that be will do everything they can to make those numbers go back up again. They will spend any amount of money to make that happen, and it will be their first priority in the face of any disaster. 2020 confirmed that a thousand fold.
I would love to see economics reparameterized in terms of it being a social network, with nodes and links, and then trying to measure how much the network is clustered or more un-clustered, the power relations between central and peripheral nodes (rulers and workers), and how that affects total network efficiency and how that affects inequality. And how resources flow between nodes and how when network connections break (people lose jobs or other business relationships) it can cascade through the network, and how the clusteredness affects how much and how fast it cascades. That is probably where the business cycle comes from imho. It just seems like nobody is looking at the problem from the right perspective.

Then once you have a model with realistic qualitative behaviors- once you can identify the important variables like clusteredness and inequality, identify constraints and artificial forcings like government programs, then you can try to measure those variables in the real world and you might be able to make some near term projections that have actual predictive power. You could also make some predictions of how new government programs will impact things you care about like total productivity, how precarious or robust each individual's situation might be (do people have second chances or do they collapse into homelessness after one bad decision or accident), what the baseline economic outcome is (do we have people starving), etc.

Right now I really don't feel like the state of the field of economics is advanced to the point where anybody is able to apply economics to problems we care about in any kind of rigorous way. After the fact you can always find some economist that will say "I predicted this" but you can also find 99 others who didn't predict it. And the people who get put in charge of the federal reserve are always one of the other 99. In fact I get the distinct impression that nobody in a position of power actually cares whether economics produces reliable intelligence. After the year 2000 bubble, after the financial collapse, nobody in a position of authority at that moment should have ever held a government job again. But yet here we are. (Same thing goes with the people who said that the Iraq war would pay for itself and that Afghanistan would be quick and easy- why do those people still have jobs?? But that's a tangent.) We are so used to catastrophic incompetence that we can't imagine any other situation.
“Yes” cards were a threat but they had two problems - they could only work with static data authentication (which has hopefully been phased out by now) and the terminal itself would contain 1-in-n goes online regardless checks, plus limits for offline transactions.

An oversight in the EMV specs certainly, but not a showstopper.

IIRC I made one of these with an ICC Solutions programmable card about 20 years ago (in the context of building an EMV system at the time)

I love the story there though :)
R isn't the best for production predictions for sure (it can work though). But it's not hard to translate well-designed R processing pipelines and models into other languages if you must. The problem is that R programmers often don't know how to write good code in any language.

Same issue as Excel, really. Easy to use, so you get a lot of users with very thin engineering skills.

The solution is for production engineers to understand just enough R to set standards for data scientist code that enable reliable translation of the models to the production language. As with JS, you can complain about the yucky parts, or you can accept that it's the best tool for some jobs and make an effort to work around the yucky parts, or use the tools of those who are doing that (e.g. tidyverse and Wickham).

If you want data scientists to produce production-ready results, you have to hold them to the standards of production engineering.