skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar argument was made earlier by William James Sidis in his 1920 book "The Animate and the Inanimate" (in which he also predicted black holes) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis#The_Animat...
Yes, but is a benevolent dictator the solution?
This is unfortunately the most common form of intellectual dishonesty in newspapers. I would be curious to know the actual stats of what % of visitors read the headline, the subheadline, first paragraph, and last paragraph. I would bet something like 100%, 60%, 30%, 5%. So the favorite way for journalists to lie is to bury deep in the article the facts that contradict or mitigate the headline, so the article technically has the facts somewhere, but the vast majority of readers will be misled nevertheless.
Well, if we are talking about a recently formed company who (1) doesn't do any offline advertisment and (2) only does fully tracked online ads, you can calculate ROAS fully right? (The only exception would be word of mouth sales)
Meanwhile, entire countries missing it today...
If using iPhone, iOS 15 extensions let’s you block those video ads. If using android, use Firefox browser with both an adblocker like uBlock and an addon to allow video playback in background along with another addon for auto skipping the “continue playing”
Popup. Both have made my life so much easier!
>That kind of proud ignorance is what grinds my gears.

I do get where you're coming from there, but I interpreted the Tweet very differently. He wasn't just asked "how does a binary tree work?", but asked to go through an extremely specific process manually, on a whiteboard.

And if I can just interject my one little quip (I come from a EEE background, stumbled into software engineering and then left after a couple of years to do my own thing), all of this knowledge of the academic aspects of CompSci doesn't seem to help people build code that is reliable and performant. We weren't taught it in EEE (we learned about programming and digital logic, but in a different, much more concrete way), and yet EEE-written code runs flawlessly on 8-bit micros in safety-critical systems for decades at a time without a single crash or missed timing constraint.
This is really interesting to hear because it correlates with what I’ve learnt about the mountain area I’ve grew up in, south of Poland. The end of 1800s came with sawmills and extensive deforestation by the then governing Austrian Habsburg dynasty. At the time completely cut down forests were seeded with pines. Fast forward ~150 years, there’s now continuos effort to recreate a former deciduous canopy, due to the pines beeing more susceptible to disease and weak. And its really marvelous to compare old photos of dark green swaths of land during autumn to the yellow gold brown palette of nowadays.
This is so wrong, I made an account to comment.

While you are right that the NFT is just an entry to the blockchain with a URI to the actual media file, the file is NOT stored on a centralized platform.

While it is possible to use a regular server to store the media file, it is certainly very bad practice and defeats the whole point of NFTs.

The media files are stored on IPFS, which is a decentralized peer-to-peer storage network. This ensures that the media file that a NFT represents, will always be available, since it is hosted by many people on the network.
Even for seemingly obvious things this article is wrong.

Maybe in 2009, when the market was playing ball, was it okay not to buy your own brand (eBay) as a keyword, as this is an audience that already want to go to your site. Now all your competitors are buying your brand and you'll end up in fourth or fifth position with your own audience if you don't buy it.

And while most will still scroll it through, you will end up losing a small but consistent share of clicks to competitors time to time. And if they manage to make their service slightly more sticky than yours, you'll end up losing small market shares over time.
Seconded. Throwing money at the problem will only make it sub par to what nature has to offer as solution. We need to reduce and let go the flawed ideas of controlling and clearly see that the unlimited growth and money creation accelerates the problems we gave mother Earth. Enjoy nature while you can.
Politicians always claim that what they want to do is a step right direction, are they correct?

I don’t know US politics, US law, economics, so I can’t possibly tell if this bill is actually good or bad for anything.
I think the key part of the parent post is "very much full of other non-climate proposals", not the 3.5 number.
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You don’t deserve to be downvoted for this comment.

I spent over a decade getting smacked upside the head by IE 6. Until Gates and Ballmer personally drop by with a cheque for ten years of wages, I will never give any Microsoft product the benefit of the doubt, and I question the sanity and integrity of anyone who does.

Decisions should have consequences, and MS deserves a fate worse than Yahoo.
That's what well informed looks like from the outside!
> Identity theft implies something was stolen from you. In fact, that something (your very identity) is unalienable—whatever you do, you are as you as you ever were. The contrary is an oxymoron.

This conflates a metaphysical concept ("identity" as "who one is") with a legal and financial concept ("identity" as "who is authorizing a loan").

The person falling victim to identity theft is still the same person ontologically, but quite a different person financially.
Trees are part of the solution. If we were to reforest the world you begin to encounter other issues like land for farming(although agroforestry helps with this), land for solar farms/nuclear, etc. It is annoyingly complex. I would argue rewilding the land is more important for restoring biodiversity and reconnecting humans with nature. The carbon sequestration it provides is just an added touch.

This short little web game: https://www.roadto10gigatons.com/ illustrates the benefits and tradeoffs of carbon removal solutions (from trees to direct air capture tech).
My company has liability insurance.

I'm indirectly liable, in that I can lose my job, however.

If I were a contractor, I would also buy liability insurance.
The human tendency to over-water plants
consciousness is anti-gravity, silent like a reflection with the wonder of a sudden rainbow.
> The problem is: a society can't create equal outcomes or equal opportunities by...

Society can't create equal outcomes, period. People don't want the same things in life. Some want to be of service to other people, some want to be rich so they can buy a yacht. You can't just give yachts to everyone and call that equality.

We do need safety net and equal opportunities

Personally I think the whole idea of equality is stupid because it just makes people compare their life to others instead of thinking about what they want in life. But again if we have to have equality then it's equal opportunities and more importantly, safety net.
Relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_mail#U.S._Military_...
It's a big exception; otherwise you are just assuming that the only way people can get to your product is through ads. But this is equivalent to assuming "incremental ROAS = ROAS". So you propose to solve the problem by ignoring it. ;-)

PS: Of course that works if the difference is indeed small enough in your case so that it CAN be ignored.
Yes, there are sustainable factors to economic growth, but that is not where the majority of it comes from, and we (the part of the world where some percentage of the population can invest into stock) have hit the point of too much growth a long time ago.

There is an entire non-profit dedicated to calculating the resource consumption of different countries, based on re-growable biological resources: https://www.footprintnetwork.org/

The entire western world is essentially consuming 2-10x as much per person as the planet can provide for that person. That consumption needs to come at the expense of somebody else, in a zero-sum game.

I'm not saying that technology has hit that hard limit per se, but many technologies are at points of diminishing returns where further advances are possible, but so expensive that they don't increase efficiency. E.g. Combustion engine
efficiency, Solar Panel efficiency (price is still
going down though luckily), moores law (at least in terms of clock speed, and per transistor costs die to node shrinking), crop growth rate.

The things you listed are great, but they have not been the driving factor behind growth.

Look around, does that look like a planet that got the way it is from boring sustainable
growth?

Even the Habor process, has resulted in massive nitrate polution, algea blooms, and reduced biodiversity.

You're not gonna get back from consuming 4x too much, from a few percent here and there.

What I'm saying is that our current notion of economic growth and the idea that with a one time investment, you get an asymptotically infinite and indefinite return on said investment, is unsustainable and explotiative. And that we need to apply different metrics to success, than blindly aiming at growth. E.g. biodiversity, individual free time, children above the poverty line.

A more sustainable model for example for retirement saving is a PAYGO system, like germany has.
Everybody receives their fair share from the resources available each year, and you don't need to worry about some burst bubble, or crash, wiping out your lives savings.
Meanwhile HackerNews contributes nothing but complaints about the Google Chrome monopoly.
I think OS level mitigations like ASLR (address space layout randomization) can help...

What causes (and avoids) it in drivers can be reproduced/bypassed elsewhere
I suspect if the US political system weren't so dysfunctional, there wouldn't be any need to roll it into a single mega bill. I don't think it's about caring or not caring. Indeed to suggest that it's evidence that people don't care about it, those are your own projections. I don't think they make sense at all.
How can that be the case, when they haven’t ever fully supported PWAs?
Indeed it was ExtJS 3. Nowadays I use angular and react (different employer). They’re not as comprehensive as ExtJS but they are also more flexible. Productivity has not really improved all that much however since 2007, which I find somewhat disappointing. The lack of visual builder tools also grates on me as someone who cut his programming teeth on visual basic.

It is clear to me that we are in a holding pattern for web components to become the norm and for component frameworks to become decoupled from application frameworks, so I have no idea what I will be using in 5 years.
Almost every language can do tail recursion (in most languages it will blow the stack though) but not every language does tail call optimization. This is a requirement for scheme but it is not for common lisp and many other lisps. So, I don't think this should be on the list.
A cycle of belt items never moving because each item is blocked by another item (whether moving or not), reminds me of a cycle of reference-counted objects never being freed because each object is referenced by another object.
Every time an iphone is released we have to see this? I don't want to repair my phone. It's got a two year warranty, and after two years if it breaks I'll buy another.
Reminder to employers – skimping on dev talent can cost you a quick $90M
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Signed auth requests. Using enrolled phones works well.
A common excuse for the same thing. Why wouldn’t this apply to prohibiting fast food or alcohol? The only reasons it’s not used for that is that we’ve had fast food and alcohol forever and nobody would buy the nanny state using that argument.
y u so mad?

> Literally counterproductive in the case of Azure, where turning on IPv6 anywhere will break unrelated IPv4 functionality!

not just on azure; smartphones seem to be the only environment were v6 is doing its job (lots of smartphones need lots of addresses. ipv6 has a lot of addresses, problem solved) and i guess it's because they are most user-centric client-device imaginable, the actual users don't care at all and most importantly; expect things to occasionally fail.
Holy shit this is some spin. The sentence takes up a bigger chunk of working memory, has multiple possible interpretations (of which only the worst interpretation correctly matches with the previous condensed statement), and no longer ends on a memorable or high impact phrase. every part of this statement has been mangled to grab less attention as a headline.
Do you mean he should witness and ignore the fact youtube had slowdown significantly for him and do nothing at all?
> with very high safety

Nope. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima will cost over $1 trillion to clean up, if ever. Can we send the bills to you?
> Exynos chips are always inferior to Qualcomm chips

That has been true for quite a while now, but it didn't use to be.
> Does it warrant responses like "Knock that bullshit off."

How about ‘let’s keep the discussion about Ruby’? Instead of poisoning another venue with woke drama.
Bank error in your favor
Should we replace already-immune, veteran nurses, doctors and pilots with inexperienced, vaccinated-but-not-immune substitute workers?

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/plague-poor...

> During lockdowns, essential and frontline workers bore the brunt of COVID-19 cases while affluent professionals stayed home, teleworked, and ordered delivery. These workers were once called “heroes.” Now the Zoom class labels the same workers “anti-vaxxers” if they prefer to rely on the natural immunity many of them have already acquired from previous infections.
thank you man.
It's a fallacy that one has to understand monads to be able to use them. I don't have to understand a car to be able to drive it. I have to know what the pedals do, what the steering wheel does, and practise to develop my intuition. Same with monads. I need to know what do notation does, what some basic operations do, and then I need practice to develop my intuition.
>You cannot do this with IPv4 either. Routing has to work. It works for both IPv4 and In But if you are saying, you add 2-3-4 layers of NAT, this is just crazy.

Is it? I'm behind two layers of nat and everything works fine.
Yes he's wrong: to be promoted you must be doing the next job already and the management must be terrified you leave.

You can love your job and hop out sometimes. But petulantly slacking off like OP says, is not going to make you happy.
> Native apps dont deal with the same issues around storage,

This is a synthetic problem on iOS, created by apple to push users away from webapps. It’s not only safari, apple has completely blocked any browser engines other than their own.

Yes, a lot of commenters justify this by saying they want the web to be documents, and everything else native apps, that every page doesn’t have to be an SPA.

For me it’s the opposite - I really don’t want to install another invasive app, just gimme a webapp. But sadly, apple crippled both storage and notifications enough to force developers AND users to use their appstore.

This is lock-in, against the interest of their users, for their marketshare. The exact same tactics that MS was crucified for.
That isn't a very good take. Global emissions are never going to zero. In fact, they've never even trended downward. Dissing initiatives with positive effects in favor of the dream that global emissions may just stop someday does not seem responsible.

It's putting all of one's eggs in one basket, and the basket can't even hold eggs.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
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in practice, what kind of proof are people building when building real world programs ?

Are people writing only top level assertion ( such as "this main function always terminate") and the checker points at all the gaps ?

Or does one has to write proofs for every single intermediate layer and functions ?

In wich case, do people then have access to prebuilt "proven functions" in a stdlib ? such as "NeverEmptyList" or "AlwaysGreaterThanXVariable" ?
I wonder why they ended up with a physical product and not just some softwear.
> It's also dynamically typed which disqualifies it for large collaborative projects.

That’s a quite absolute statement. At least Erlang/Elixir users would tend to disagree. “Dynamically typed” can still represent a huge variety of approaches, and doesn’t have to always look like writing vanilla JavaScript for example.
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This increase is from groundwater extraction which raises the salt levels and subsides the land. Plus other effects like dams changing flows.

It's been a issue since before the 70's.

It's a good example of how amazing the world is getting, the internet allows salt resistant plants be developed and deployed where they are needed and the results fed back. A lot of this is not new, just the networking bit and it makes a big difference.
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JSXGraph was part of the European Erasmus+ program ITEMS (https://itemspro.eu). Aim of that project (and related projects where JSXGraph is / was included) is to research on "digital learning" in STEM subjects. The technical focus was on including JSXGraph in moodle courses with the question types STACK and formulas. For this and for certain mathematical topics, JSXGraph has been adapted through out the project.

JSXGraph has been started as a seminar at the University of Bayreuth in 2007. The list of developers is given in the copyright section of the source code, e.g. https://github.com/jsxgraph/jsxgraph/blob/master/src/jxg.js. After the students have left the University, the core developer team is much smaller. Luckily, meanwhile the user community is increasingly providing improvements and bug fixes.
I have a feeling that Ernő Rubik (the creator of the Rubik's Cube) should be on that list, except that he didn't move to the US. He's 77 now.
That's a good question Ted.
Philosophically we don't _need_ anything of course :)

But fusion as a power source: abundant fuel source, cleanest (no emissions, minimal raw materials required, minimal waste to bury), safest (no proliferation risk, safest to install and operate, no need to climb towers), no intermittency problem.
patrons pay for art because they want the art to be made, owning it is a side effect (indeed much art is loaned right back out to galleries, the possession is not the point, the creation is)
Here's what I propose, to lessen the effect of populism: The elections are held in a tournament format. People are divided into randomised brackets. People then in that bracket decide who amongst them is most fit to be a leader.
This is then repeated recursively until enough politicians are selected.
Silicon Graphics used this as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
My peace lily is the most low maintenance, easy growing plant I have. When it's thirsty it visibly droops, give it a quick blast and a few hours later it's perked back up.

My rosemary on the other hand, I couldn't keep it alive no matter what I tried. Full sun, partial shade, inside, outside, letting the soil dry out, moderate watering, daily watering, I tried it all and none of it helped.
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> I think it is unfortunate that a benign email (even if it was poor judgment to send) went viral the way it did. But I fail to see how the university, or anyone, is legally culpable for private companies choosing not to retain his services.

If the e-mail was (as you stated) "benign" and what the student asked was (again, your own assessment) "completely absurd and ridiculous" then suspending someone (even with pay) pending investigation could easily be seen as an overreaction in court.

The professor also made a case that his employer had something to gain from this overreaction. And he is making the case he lost something due to this overreaction.
It is, unfortunately, a contribution to google security, not software security.
This looks super cool and polished for an engine made by one person. You should put an image of the IDE higher up the readme though, it’ll help people browsing evaluate it immediately more than a bullet list of features.

When I’m evaluating an engine I also like some kind of high level overview of how games are made in it. You have some of that mixed in with more how-to levels of detail. Pulling out that high level info into a short intro will help attract people when you’re ready for more eyes.

Looking forward to seeing this pop up again on HN!
This is the first time I have seen the word labor used in the context of US politics.
I don't even have a car, why should I subsizide someone elses? They should just not have a car, like me. If that doesn't work where they live, the move to somewhere where it works, and pay absurd rents, like I do.

I'm not strictly against the subsizidies, but they have sever social justice implications.
Not sure how firearms would help the average Venezuelan in this case. Maybe they could use them to steal food?
it's absolutely not bikeshedding.

anecdote: a few years ago there was a quiz at one of the ripe-conferences where participants were asked to pick the one invalid ipv6 address out of four. iirc the success rate was even below what would result from a random-pick
> Isn't that precisely what it means?

Maybe or maybe not. This is the nub of the debate. I would argue that answering "yes" to this is a partial endorsement of pan-psychism. If the ability to experience qualia is property of certain algorithms or types of information flow then it's a fundemental property of the universe.

Thought experiments about p-zombies and mind simulation are an interesting litmus test to separate different points of view on this.
I’m aware that consumption of microplastics is a huge problem. (Hey HN reader. Get rid of plastic from your life. Doing future you a favor.) But the sample size cited was just six babies from New York. Seems a bit too small for such a conclusive headline (maybe I missed another study the article cites)

I would like to see how the average amount of microplastics differs in babies by race/class/location. Had to buy a non plastic baby toy for a friend recently and that was by no means cheap compared to the alternatives in the same aisle.

I worry babies who grow up in low income and low resourced homes. Not only might suffer from under nutrition as they grow older, but the as yet not fully understood developmental effects of microplastics in the system of a developing child.
In fairness this is a feature of the American political system, the business of making laws does not have to be done this way. It’s just a sign of how dysfunctional the system is.
In the newer versions you can see the actual offset in the group details page :-)
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