skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feynman talks about exactly this in his book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman":

"Then I got an idea. I challenged them: "I bet there isn't a single theorem that you can tell me - what the assumptions are and what the theorem is in terms I can understand - where I can't tell you right away whether it's true or false."

It often went like this: They would explain to me, "You've got an orange, OK? Now you cut the orange into a finite number of pieces, put it back together, and it's as big as the sun. True or false?"

"No holes."

"Impossible!

"Ha! Everybody gather around! It's So-and-so's theorem of immeasurable measure!"

Just when they think they've got me, I remind them, "But you said an orange! You can't cut the orange peel any thinner than the atoms."

"But we have the condition of continuity: We can keep on cutting!"

"No, you said an orange, so I assumed that you meant a real orange."

So I always won. If I guessed it right, great. If I guessed it wrong, there was always something I could find in their simplification that they left out.
People on HN do not influence anything significant
have a look at sideberry
I’m not saying it’s a good joke though, or even should be defended.
they are going with the flow. I bet QuantumOps generalists will be a thing too.
https://theconversation.com/languages-dont-all-have-the-same...

And various versions of the article

https://npg.si.edu/object/posts_d6c837d227c59da175620b8eaa18...

https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc5635863

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/40/10785/tab-article-info

The essence of it is "how consistent are our names for colors?" Given an image if I point to this image and ask you the color for the N4 spot - what do you say?

https://images.theconversation.com/files/186280/original/fil...

I'm going to say "Blue". How many other people (who speak English natively) answer it the same?

Aside: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ is also rather interesting in that domain.
Amazon already has customers. If their other products are to go by, they'll just give you an account if you have an Amazon account. Probably combined with free games if you have a prime account and you can imagine that it won't take much to compete, at least not for a company like Amazon.
I really think ANC or at least extremely good noise isolating headphones should be the norm. I'm positive that all the cheap earbuds and on-ear headphones out there have done massive damage to peoples hearing. You don't need to push the volume nearly as high if you don't have your music competing with outside audio.
So you'll pay for your house, food, and other living requirements with what then?

Every time someone tries to make a case for paying people not enough to survive they just seem to forget that externalities exist...
Also a Thiel Fellow.
Not what I'm seeing on Facebook myself.. I'm seeing all types of humanity's viewpoints.

Whistleblower is on a crusade for fame, notoriety and champion for her opinions & biases which we all have. I'm glad Facebook is ignoring her.
Yes, thank you for pointing out what has been the fucking obvious to everybody outside of Dang's Den of Dangerous Dummies.

Your associates are easily duped marks. Facebooks pattern of incompetent negligence dates back to the first days of the company, and had never changed. Talk is cheap, lying to yourself is easy.

But when a company has spent 15 years showing us how little they care about people, at a systemic level, people should have caught on by now. Your associates have been too blinded by ego and money. It's pathetic and morally unforgivable.

As is Dang's moderation of this site. You're a bad human, Dang, and you associate with some of the worst.
We might then agree that "the protection of rights is subjective and temporal". I think the basic argument still holds: such topics should be debated :)
Ampere’s Support for Open-Source Firmware [pdf]
> An unregulated private company asking you for official government documentation and your real name is definitely tracking you in my opinion.

This is nothing unusual? It’s extremely common for a private company to request identify verification
You can go to Saint-Denis visit the royal basilica. You'll see who live there.
The calorie counts would beg to differ
Dear god that’s terrifying.
I've always used Sandisk cards with A1/A2 rating (high iops) since they exist and I've yet to run into a single problem with them. Cards without that rating otoh ...
My understanding is that while the normal distribution is friendly to simple manipulation, a lot of distributions aren't. Not being a statistician I couldn't tell you why or which.
I have two principles:

If possible do not split responsibilty between teams. Give responsibilities (e.g. security) as a hole without splitting.

Think about what discussion you want to have in the leadership meetings, then decide who needs to sit at the table.
You think it’s going to be easier to start a new party vs one that’s had growing support for over a decade and aligns with many of his values?
Epistemological conflation is par for HN.
So does Microsoft, but Xbox has been in decline since after Xbox 360
Yes! I write SQL this way. I grant the comma thing is more a matter of taste, but aligning clauses vertically and maximizing rivers is super useful to me and it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard. This is an extreme example, but I like to keep join clauses vertically aligned as well:

select a
, b
, count(*) as count
from table
join table2 on table.key1 = table2.key1
and table.key2 = table2.key2
and DATEADD('day', 1, table.key3) = table2.key3
where cond1
and cond2
group by a, b
order by count desc

For me this lets me read the SQL query almost like a picture at first glance, identifying blocks of rivers as semantically connected groups of statements. Some SQL formatters out there love to put join clauses at the same indentation level as the join itself, drives me nuts.
That’s a big negative. Most of the anchors sold at the store fail with heavy loads. The best drywall anchor I’ve found is the cobra.
Any comment on the claimed basis for the leak?

Had any particular game, caster or community member made waves above and beyond recently?
Magisk developer explains reasoning behind sunsetting
> GANs for photorealistic-but-legal child porn

Not to mention that this still isn't legal, at least in the USA.

That said, the top line above the table of contents does say that many of these are supposed to be satirical.

> Startup Ideas: Proposals for new technologies, businesses, startups, *satirical* or serious.

I suspect a lot of people may be getting caught up on items that are genuinely supposed to be satire. Whether its good satire or not, reasonable minds can disagree. But I find it unlikely that three you picked out weren't intended as satire. However, I'd also be surprised if a few unreasonable people didn't seriously consider building a business around these.
I hate you and and the awful layout you have just introduced me to... Also, that is how I will be formatting all my SQL from now on.
The Archaeology Channel
IIRC, 青 in Japanese also can refer to either blue or green, though they also have a dedicated word for green (緑) and that is the one that usually gets used... this can catch people unawares when translating though.
Amazon would have no problem releasing a 'Fire' console and they have their own distribution and store...
Thank you for making Lunar. I installed it right away and it's great.
There are a few outliers in this data. Some streamers with smaller viewer bases are making more because of exclusivity deals, so I imagine there will be a little bit of drama.
> Vapor - an unreleased competitor to Steam

Until Steam has a couple major screw ups, potential competitors better have tons of capital to keep throwing at their platform-in-waiting! Amazon does have the $$$, but they also have hungry shareholders that won't wait like they used to. Gamers by-in-large quite like the platform Gabe has built.
A major part of American politics is that the non-wealthy can participate.

This means we need to pay people like campaign workers enough to live so they don't need to be independently wealthy.

This doesn't extend to every person. There are volunteers who just seek donations and such.
internal tools to bring back the backbone relied on DNS which relied on the backbone being up

So are you referring to same DNS servers sitting outside the backbone at the various PoPs? I'd imagine some internal DNS servers which stays in the backbone at use here, unless of course the FB engineers themselves were disconnected from those internal DNS servers.
You want a mea culpa for a reference somebody made of two “not totally unconnected things?”
Are you serious?
Another lovely naming story:

When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed by Apple's Legal Department who objected that the new sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement [with Beatles' record label Apple Records]. Jim Reekes, the creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass the Legal Department's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"). Careful to submit it in written form rather than spoken form to avoid pronunciation, he told the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Do regular blood tests on a randomized sample of married couples and measure the stress levels.

Once you've found the couple with the lowest overall levels, book them on a touring circuit so audiences can ask them how many silly dances they invented. Since the couple doesn't know whether that's a source of their happiness or not, it won't really get us any closer to an answer. But at least the couple's resulting stress from the tour and impending marital problems will teach the audience about the limits of their method of inquiry.
I believe so, and this is why the AGPL was created:

> The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

> The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
In fact the Asahi team has said Apple has done a lot of engineering work making sure M1 can and does support third party OSes. They're not directly contributing to or assisting those projects, but the characterisation that they are actively obstructing them seems false, according to those projects themselves.
That's so passe.

QuantumAI on the other hand will revolutionize the world as we know it.
I worked on something similar a while ago. I was defeated by UX more than the mathematics.
You’re welcome to talk to them if you run across them, somehow. I tend to be overly honest, and pretty much the opposite of self marketing.

The only reason I replied here was because I felt it important that folks know where Carmack might be coming from.

The only legal trouble I’ve ever been in, the other side filed to settle and dismiss (which I was ok with, despite having a strong claim for civil damages into the 6 figures on them), because once I pulled my records for the court it was clear they had committed at least one crime of felony perjury - hard to prove, but what I had certainly seemed to
show they had met the bar - and likely 4-5 other identifiable crimes while doing this including potentially criminal conspiracy - for which evidence would
be visible in discovery.

Never had a complaint at work filed against me, never even been questioned by the police or detained except for some speeding tickets a decade ago.

I have had to file criminal complaints against a few people over the years when they persisted in clearly criminal acts despite being confronted about it. I wish I hadn’t needed to, but I made sure to provide a comprehensive set of evidence to the investigators, and they all were seen through.

Also, with projects, I’ve always worked my ass off to make sure we’re persuing solid projects that aren’t pie in the sky BS, and if something isn’t working out, people are able to land well in other teams. I’ve never had to lay people off or fire someone because something blew up, even when it wasn’t my doing. I have been on the receiving end of it happening, which is part of why I care so much to not do that to others I suppose.

It has really not been easy to do so, but I put in the work, because it matters to me.
One of the great ways of avoiding bugs is to make invalid states unrepresentable. An easy win is to use sum types for the various different flavours of a valid input parameter. The verbosity of having to manually create classes, wrap/unwrap rather than defining at-hoc in-place, and pattern matching leaves it in still the not modern camp, among other things.
I take ZMA with 5-HTP to take the edge off the dreams.
> linguistic studies that show blue to be the last color named in virtually all languages

In Irish, the term "fear dubh" refers to the devil literally "black man" which presumably long preceded Irish language interaction with non-whites. To refer to a black (coloured) man in modern Irish the term "fear gorm" is used. The word 'gorm' in other contexts means blue. This would match your comment.

As an aside, the term "fear bán" is literally "white man" and I leave it to the curious to guess or research it's meaning.
Perseverance rover on Mars spotted from space in striking new satellite image
Yes, but were those other login attempts using the actual password that was correct when my account was active? I'm probably just being paranoid... of course FB deleted my account and all its details.
This is... just plain wrong.

Example: sleep. Insomnia has a history which predates Shakespeare.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/266971

In fact sleep patterns used to be different. It was normal to wake up for an hour or two in the middle of the night. But people went to sleep much earlier - typically around 7-8pm, woke up for an hour or two about four hours later, and went back to sleep again.

In spite of this insomnia was a known problem.

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/01/how-did-people-sleep-in...

So clearly going back to this pattern won't necessarily make everyone sleep better. And so "modernity" is not the issue, and the problem does not have a simple solution.

Likewise weight loss. Telling overweight people to eat less is like telling an alcoholic to drink less, or a depressed person to cheer up. It's pointless, silly, and naive and it won't work.

The real issue with weight loss is a combination of motivation and psychological reprogramming, with some addictive elements, plus education about nutrition. Also peer pressure. And access to healthy vs unhealthy foods.

There may also be underlying medical issues related to metabolism. (And - ironically - sleep patterns also make a difference.)

Again, it's not a simple problem.

This is not to say that tech non-solutions are better. But the idea that you can reduce issues that millions struggle with daily to a simple motivational sentence isn't any more realistic.

Or helpful.
@aazaa posted a great reply simplifying it. It's the top comment now.
Monte Carlo simulations are invaluable when it comes to creating tissue line odds. For one of my horse racing projects, I can come up with a range of how an individual horse is likely to perform-- which isn't much use unless compared against the others in the race with a frequency component (e.g., this horse will likely be the best only 10% of the time-- but the pools are offering 15-1 odds, so it is +EV). On modest hardware, I can run thousands of race simulations and somewhat effectively determine the likelihood of a given horse winning.
Demand Driving Supply at SharpestMinds
If we talk about organizational structure, the one real question is whether you can just look at the structure and figure out a organisations success just based on that.

My feeling is that this could be a good way to filter out highly dysfunctional organizations. However I don't think you can find successful ones that easily, let alone come up with an magical organizational structure that automatically leads to success.

That might be because there are a lot of tiny details that might shape a organization much more than the pure structure of departments and roles. Let's say organization A and organization B have the same structure and do the same thing in the same field, but organization A has a good HR department which manages to attract good people and have them work for decades at the company, while organization B has a bad HR department, hires incompetent, fraudulent and downright nasty people, who don't stay on the job for long – wouldn't this make such a huge difference that differences stemming from the pure structure of the organization would be drowned out?

Of course you could now think about how a organizational structure could prevent this from happening, and maybe with the right structure and people checking each others decisions the likelyhood of such a bad outcome could be mitigated – but never fully.
There's been a few open standards. The problem isn't that standards exist, it's that walled gardens are generally more profitable.

In fact Google Talk, Facebook Messenger and Skype were all either based upon, or supported XMPP...and now don't. Slack used to support IRC and not doesn't. There's a term often credited to Microsoft that also applies here: embrace, extend, extinguish.
I’ve had mixed results with command strips. A couple lightweight art pieces have stayed up just fine for 2.5 years now. Some slightly larger ones didn’t make it more than a year. I think the issue was not pressing the strip on the wall for long enough.

Ultimately, I think I’m done with command strips. They can work, but with hollow drywall and 1kg paintings it’s easier to use a single nail and picture hanger.
Yes. Yes they would. Don't make snap judgments about fields you lack competence in.
What it's like to win the prize to ensure you will be remembered forever.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/science/where...
what a hellish thing to do. just awful for cities.

more cities need to ban illuminated & especially illuminated mobile advertising. it's a visual blight.
But it's impossible to tell if that shame is because the photo is fake or real because people have a range of natural reactions to something like that.
To be clear, despite the slightly snarky tone, I don’t mean to condescend to chemists! Quite the opposite, this is borne out of disappointment when I listen to a whole chem presentation and fail to grasp even one simple idea. I’m a physicist, btw, and could easily fill a presentation with inscrutable equations but what would be the point of that? Instead I make sure that everyone (even a scientifically literate layperson) can stay on board at least the first third of the presentation.
You can now try the newly updated Brave browser on Ubuntu
More aerobic exercise, less anerobic exercise, more meditation, etc.
An important distinction indeed. Intellectual Property theft will get you in much bigger trouble with the Feds than just stealing something does.
This might be a controversial take but candidates for the Libertarian party should be libertarians. If Yang wanted to run under an existing third party then the Green Party would make more sense.
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I don't understand how telegram is less immoral than Facebook.
> straight-up disinfo (I tend to look at their profiles for context) gets deleted quickly.

That makes me extremely nervous. One can imagine a perverse mod who simply deletes comments based on which political subs they post in.
Note that the generated instructions - even if they are never run as in [1] - still consume cache and might hinder further optimizations. Which is why `noexcept` is becoming more popular. And because there is no GC, code must be written to be exception-safe in all conditions which is often forgotten.

1: https://godbolt.org/z/bKfG14P64 - the difference between `e()` and `n()` is that one is marked `noexcept`. Both `f()` and `g()` run directly to `ret` (return) in the normal case.
Chemical anchors is how all industrial machinery is mounted these days.
Yes, exactly: Tesla found this out the hard way.
There’s a whole nasty class of bugs introduced by bad merge resolution.

Mark was a senior front end Dev who was bad at complex logic. He sat near me and I took pity on him, helped him out to help us out.

Steve was smarter and more experienced but had attention to detail problems and did not understand git. He should have been one of my lieutenants but I could not trust him and often had to help him do branch surgery.

Steve did not like this arrangement but it couldn’t be helped. He got cranky about it and went after Mark. I can’t prove he was coming at me sideways, but it was curious.

One day Steve claims Mark broke our shit. Here’s this line with his name on it. It even looked like a Markism. But the thing was, I reviewed that code. I remember being happy Mark got it right on the first try. This was not the code I merged but git says it is. Da fuq?

So I start bisecting and looking at branches and sure enough, Steve screwed a three way merge, again, and blame treated the change as if Mark wrote it.

Thanks, you stupid git.
I can't have a family. But you get to:

- double the murders because you are upset

- burn down the world because you are upset

- run away from marxists and "Arab students" without firing a shot

- shoot every known drug up your veins

- open the border to feed your political machine

- rape everyone

- stick a needle up your crotch

- fail spectacularly at solved problems, things like cars and rocket ships and media, wasting much and bailing yourself out, all just to tell the world what a great person you are

So you want to lower the number of people in the world. Ever considered following your own advice?
That's interesting. Is there a paper I can read? Quite interested in this stuff. Cheers
Great story. Thanks for sharing and love your positivity.
> so what am I losing?

The fact that they can use this number to correlate against contact lists collected from other people.

Now I don't think Twitch itself is doing this, but they may provide this information to marketing platforms such as Facebook which will use this data for ad targeting (and they definitely have a lot of people's contacts and can infer social graphs very well as a result).
If you want to make more money, why don't you go work for the Mcdonal's then?

Oh no. I don't like to work for the Mcdonal's! I hate the job! I want to work for the campaign and it must pay me the same! It's a win-win for me!
So in theory, FAANG could make billions of a random person's GPL'd code and they'd never know.
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