skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This issue is one of the many defects in democracies: your power sometimes rests in the way somebody drew a border a long time ago.

You don't have legs?

Being hard to change is a feature.

Currently organisations that don't have strong and hard to change ties to the past are being destroyed.

AA still works because of an old set of rules. ACLU now works against what it stood for because it didn't have a hard set of rules.

Pre-internet perhaps being hard to change wasn't a feature, but post internet it certainly is.
I dunno, I don't have any numbers on hand, but it's pretty blatantly obvious that everyone gets sick in VR when they move around. I've never seen someone claim otherwise except this dude and a few random wackos on VR subreddits.

The closest I could come to any scientific data is third/fourth hand, so it's not really going to settle any arguments, but here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4woycf/what_are_the...
Just make them have to declare at buy/sell time. That will allow instant information transmittal through the market.
I'd recommend interested folks to listen to Musk on Joe Rogan's podcast. Musk gives detailed explanations on the challenges they face and how they solve them.
Another way to frame this topic: intelligence doesn't always lead to impact, and impact is what matters.

Example: I met a ton of trivia "nerds" through a friend a few years ago. They had all met at an Ivy League college, they were clearly "smart" in that they knew a lot of information and could follow a logical argument but somehow none of them were able to use their smarts for anything practical. They had jobs you didn't need to be that smart for, and their personal lives were sort of messy. I didn't really know what to make it them at the time, now I think they had the "smarts" but they didn't have the "drive" so their brains sort of did them no good.

Another example: Plenty of people are constantly frustrated that they are misunderstood. "I am so smart but I can't get anything done around here because everyone's an idiot." Some people go through their whole life believing this. Luckily I had a job that disabused me of this and taught me to communicate my ideas clearly and persuasively to others. But without that, without the ability to persuade people of your ideas, you might as well not have them.
Ask HN: Thermal Imaging Recommendations?
Looking for recommendations for thermal imaging hardware that's affordable. I know that's relative, but I'm open to a variety of suggestions.

I'd also love any links to tutorials about setting up lenses (ZnSl or other cheaper ones) with cheaper sensors.
Thanks for the IRC bot!
Atari Document Archive
The `redhat.ansible` VS Code extension version 0.5.0 is now live
Voice is too robotic to understand.
Other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10265013 [2015-09-23] (53 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731164 [2013-05-19] (125 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cobpl [2013-04-19] (87 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1co0s5 [2013-04-19] (67 comments)

All discussions: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/https%3A//adit.io/posts/2013-...

Discussions with similar title: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/Functors%2C%20Applicatives%2C...

Archive: https://archive.md/newest/https://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-f...
This is something I'm working on. It's a lifelong process, especially when you get into the mindset of thinking you're smart (a problem for most folks on HN, and not necessarily because they're wrong).

Nobody knows everything, and even if you're a hyper-conformist who always tows the line and parrots experts instead of evaluating ideas from first principles, you ought to find peace in the fact that 500 years from now (and perhaps even some in our lifetimes), people will look back at many of our most fundamental, passionate, and obviously true opinions with a mix of disdain, pity, and fascination.
I'm aware of all that and have been using Calibre for some time. That's not the solution I want to deal with. I would prefer to encourage authors and publishers to reduce friction for their potential readers and make their work available through less predatory means. Even though you and I may have the knowledge and ability to work through that friction, other people may not.
The "humor me" tier 2 or 3 tech support people are the best. By the time I've called in I've already done the usual stuff, that's why I called, at least they crack me up "what color is the light on the left side" or whatever, not just silence and clacking and background yelling of tier 1 while they "wait for me to power cycle".

Turns out I absolutely cannot do tier 3 support, but I can do 1 and 2 for friends and family and I'm the "whiz" or whatever. Tier three, for me, was basically me in a bad mood talking to me in a bad mood, in order to gatekeep the poor dev/DBA/NOC that had to actually fix things. No thx!
Amen.. The only reason I keep playing pancake games is because all my friends are there. It'll be awesome when they're all in VR someday
Days since SGX was hacked: 8

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06657
I certainly consider that exemplar child intelligent. I'm happy to consider my pet dogs intelligent - some more than others:). And they are all leagues ahead of any "artificial" systems we've got.

And sorry, I don't have a definition of intelligence - but that's exactly the point. However I would require any definition of intelligence to include flexibility, self-awareness, world-modelling, curiousity, and goal setting.

Flexibility is surely one of the things that distinguishes a chess machine (or chatbot, or image recognition) from a child or a dog - the latter recognise and adapt to new situations & environments. Self-awareness seems a requirement for own goal-setting. Curiousity and world-modelling go together, and world-modelling is presumably required for exploring own goal-setting (a random walk is not intelligence).

All these things are so many worlds distant from google lens, or Big Blue.
Hey Melony! We[0] do no-code website monitoring and extract data as well as directly integrate it with other no-code tools.

Maybe that’s what you’re looking for?

[0]: https://monitoro.co
Died at work or died out of work?
Microsoft removes hot reload from open source .NET, locks it to Visual Studio
Hah. I didn’t think about how this might be interpreted. By “address”, I meant “link to”. Hopefully that’s clearer.
Curious to see some data on these claims. Yes, glue is often made out of "chemicals" — but plastic also is. Is the total environmental cost of plastic lower than wood? Besides, you're not going to frame a house with plastic: it's steel and concrete, vs wood. AFAIK plastic doesn't enter the equation here.
Most US citizens are told and taught we live in a democracy, but our systems were designed as a republic.

Saying that it is the citizens fault for our politicians corruption is the same flavor as saying it is citizen’s faults for global warming because we use plastic and drive cars.
They are circulating in places beyond the borders, I assume. We let North Korea print their own$100 bills for years as a form of off the books aid, but once that stopped the underworld needed someone to provide the currency.

Remember the pallets of cash being sent to Iraq?
Yeah, I haven’t used this in vain, but I’m a little skeptical. If I change the wording in my blog post it might break these links as I understand them to work.
My point is that he stopped being a scientist the moment he stopped using scientific method, it just took a while for the rest of the world to realize that.
Hah, your depression is my manic.:) This objects and morphisms analogy (the ur-analogy, really) is just a fast path for analysis, but artifacts in-and-of analysis are definitely a thing, sample bias in methods, etc. Depression thinking to me is described by Sapolsky's "aggression turned inward," whereas if you wanted to change your own behaviour (like eating) into something goal oriented like weight loss, having a magic feather isn't a bad thing. Magic feather militancy is its own problem, but I think it's generally true that we're wired to believe whatever preserves the idea of self, and whether our beliefs are real or not has no bearing on our attachment to them.

That said, thinking about how to manage eating is alien to my personality, so the OMAD habit is a way to eat for pleasure while cultivating one less comorbidity.
> I'm sure Singapore has its issues, but sometimes I think it's funny how logically other countries seem to approach their problems.

Singaporean here. Some of us think that there's a fair bit of legalised "corruption" and cronyism in the public system. :)

(For the sake of avoiding any potential defamation suits that Singapore politicians are so famous for, this is entirely my opinion.)
Not that odd if you know the evolution of the language... and what it actually means for modern programmers.

The very first C compilers ran on a PDP-11 in just a few dozen kilobytes of memory. The entire emphasis was on minimalism, and that meant that things like type enforcement was left to the human.

One of the things the earliest language was missing was the "void" type. If you didn't give a return type to a function, it just defaulted to returning "int". Therefore it was totally normal to have a function fail to return anything.

Since there was no distinction between "function returning int" and "function returning nothing", there was nothing stopping your program from using the value returned... it just meant you got whatever happened to be in the right register.

What does it mean for us today? Basically nothing. "void" was added 30+ years ago when ANSI C appeared. The language couldn't just break the old behavior but in any rational environment you enable enough compiler warnings to avoid these ancient quirks entirely:

$ gcc -Wall -c a.c
a.c:1:1: warning: return type defaults to ‘int’ [-Wimplicit-int]
1 | foo() {}
| ^~~
a.c: In function ‘foo’:
a.c:1:8: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
1 | foo() {}
| ^
Yeah, I kept my old fanless G3 PowerBook long beyond it’s apparent sell-by date for live performance stuff, where a fan was a non-option.
Here's one example where a PAKE would be very helpful.

In Matrix E2EE chat, every user winds up with a ton of different E2EE sessions and thus a ton of different keys that they need to store. (This part of the protocol is unnecessarily complicated IMO, but it's too late to change it now.)

The key to making multi-device support work in practice has been to store an encrypted archive of all the keys for all your sessions, in encrypted form on the server. Where do you get the key for this encryption? It seems the only workable option is to derive it from a passphrase, since the user might choose to log in from a new device (or a new browser) at any moment. So the secret has to live only in the user's head.

But now each user has to remember two passwords: (1) their login password and (2) their encrypted key backup password. Do we really believe that they will pick two totally different, independent passwords??? And if they don't, then in what way are the E2EE keys protected from the server?

So it would be great if we could prevent the server ever learning the login password. For that reason, a few of us random volunteers have been looking at adding SRP or SCRAM or something to Matrix.
"a critical part of human intelligence is pattern recognition" almost certainly true. But a wheel is a critical part of a car, but a wheel is not a car.
This reads like this flip side of Paul Graham's essay, "Why Nerds are Unpopular" http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html Spoiler alert: he thinks it's because whereas most people try really hard to be popular, nerds focus on other things. Like understanding the root cause of an issue, even if it involves making yourself appear stupid.

I can't say it's news: I'm like that myself. It has it's downsides though. I focus so much on the real world, things like spending hours on personal grooming to impress others just don't happen. My wife thinks I'm a slob. I'm a very tidy & clean slob, but it's true.
Most of the time I'd rather have lower fan noise and a less hot chassis when I'm plugged in.
Reminds me of the time Google made their products perform worse in competing browsers to drive adoption of Chrome.
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2011)
KDE is making an attempt with Plasma Bigscreen:

https://plasma-bigscreen.org

It runs on the Raspberry Pi 4.
Except twitter is a choice made explicitly. It's like you are planning to make a lecture to your friends about an important subject, and of all possible venues you choose the noisiest, most packed pub, so your friends have to go there even though otherwise they wouldn't.
The ability to retweet, react, and respond to individual tweets within a thread is a feature, not a bug. It also forces the writer to value brevity and getting to the point, and valuing brevity means valuing the reader's time. You need to be able to fit a thought into 240 characters in any platform for simple readability, Twitter has just enforced that.

Obviously it's the responsibility of the retweeter to choose tweets to retweet that make sense in isolation, or provider context as a quote-tweet.

But the fact that Twitter allows people to interact with each component of a story or argument in isolation is a good thing. For example it makes a Gish Gallop visibly awkward.

Also, in general the web usability has gotten so bad that clicking strange links is ... a bit risky. Paywalls, autoplay videos, chumboxes... I'll stay here, thanks.
The linked Reagan proposal is remarkable:

"We believe most Americans would go from the long form or the short form to no form.

Comparing the distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know -- I've seen both."

Sadly the space shuttle suffered multiple disasters.

And we're still stuck with form 1040.
Oh, ok. If you want to design a language nowadays, knowing monads (and other abstractions) is absolutely necessary, even if just to reject them in an informed fashion.

If you want to use a language to program, knowing them will help you with approximately nothing, because most languages either have awful ergonomics for that kind of abstraction or bring them on much more limited ways that you are better learning how they specifically apply to the language than the general concept. If you learn the general concept, the specific cases will be easier, but unless you plan on learning several languages, it's not worth it.

Anyway, one large exception is if you plan on doing heavily abstract C# libraries. The C# support for monads is almost as general as Haskell.
Check out https://communitywiki.org/trunk/ and https://sizeof.cat/post/mastodon-accounts/.
I mean, it could be that someone is a bio hacker and has some knowledge on the subject here... or startups disrupting the space via tech.
Beyond being closed source, SingleStoreDB's License explicitly prohibits benchmarking:

https://www.singlestore.com/assets/contracts/singlestore-fre...

2. Restrictions. You acknowledge that the Software, and its structure, organization, and source code, constitute SingleStore’s and its suppliers’ valuable trade secrets, and the Software is subject to the following restrictions. Specifically, Customer shall not, and shall not
...
conduct any competitive analysis, publish or share with any third party any results any results of any technical evaluation or benchmark tests performed on the Software, or disclose Software features, errors or bugs to a third party without SingleStore’s prior written consent (“Benchmarking”); or
Ah, this is super interesting. Many thanks for the detailed response!
I like the formatting, FWIW.
Extend. So you can't use this feature on Jetbrains Rider or any other app other than Visual Studio.

This is typical Microsoft, so it's unsurprising. But they have a strange way of 'embracing' open source.
I'm well aware of how corporate liability laws work, thank you. Intuit advocating to indirectly damage the body politic to increase their profits is not negligence. It is also wrong. The divide, and the hole in the modern theory of the corporation, is obvious when one is not hiding the cards.

It is a moral failure and a failure of social distinction, not a legal one. I understand why that shorts your circuit. It exists nevertheless.
You are only talking about Spotify, Epic, Netflix and the like, but this makes a huge difference for services that are a tier below that. For any smaller company having trouble with growth/user conversion, a 30% cut to Google for the lifetime of the account is still way too steep, but at 15% you start to consider it.
As far as I remember, the button itself was supposed to let the computers run at their normal, faster, speed. Meaning the computer was supposed to be in Turbo mode, all the time.

You turned the Turbo mode off when you needed to run it slower, say for playing games.

So, technically the button did what it said, run faster in Turbo mode.
1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius of additional global warming:Does it make a difference?
Remote code execution flaw found in old version of WinRAR
I don't disagree with your description of right wingers saying that individual rights are foundational rather than democracy. I will point out that neoconservatives just spent $6T trying to export democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan rather than individual rights. Indeed, there is no second amendment in the Iraq constitution which we wrote.
He did say he's willing to look stupid.
To add to this, apple probably already tuned the chip so that any additional power wouldn't meaningfully improve performance. You're not trading 10% more power for 10% more performance, you're trading 50% more power for 5% more performance (numbers made up).
It’s impregnated with unicorn flatus nanoparticles, and safely applying those to microfiber without fire or explosion is expensive.
Yes, these are two great phrases and methods to vastly improve your communication skills! Many people seem to be OK with leaving a conversation with assumptions instead of assurances.
Willy Woo is that dude when it comes to on-chain bitcoin analysis [1].

[1]: https://willywoo.substack.com/

BTW, definition of “that dude” that’s serviceable for this context: that dude

The person that everyone is trying to be like or looking up to. He influences the crowd and girls love him.

http://that-dude.urbanup.com/1581909
Long story short: Eugen didn't know toot had another meaning in some places. Toot is the sound a mastodon makes.
I don't understand the complaint. Everything that everyone writes is intended to be prefixed with a big fat "this is what I think. You can disagree, my job is present to you with the facts as I see them"

I read this article and it was an interesting way to crystalize an idea I observed myself (I made a comment in this thread about my experience with smart but non-impactful people.) So I got value out of this post in that it names a concept for me.

So your concern is not that the author is wrong, not that the idea is bad, not that it will lead to a bad outcome - but simply that the author wrote about something they thought was important?
> 2.7x higher disk usage than TimescaleDB ...

A classic tenet of computer science is that you can trade speed for space and vice versa. A database index is an example of this concept.

While the article complains about "benchmarketing", its tone is rather dismissive of ClickHouse and parts such as this line caught my eye as unfair.
I don’t know how people can watch ads. We went cable-free a few years ago, so now it’s all Netflix or other pay-to-stream services. When I watch YouTube, as soon as an ad begins, I usually click away. Same for freemium content on Amazon Video. Can’t stand it.
> "never read past the intro"

This. Wadsworth constant applies to prose and Twitter makes long preambles too awkward to use and so they don't.
Raspberry Pi Tree
Havildar Tom Cruise? Indian cops’ craze for artificial intelligence in policing
OK, but this doesn’t do wonders as a counterargument that C is just a big pile of historical baggage.
We can’t figure out how to store a minimal quantity of radioactive waste in a purpose-built salt mine dozens of miles away from any small town. I have no faith that we can find places to store megatons of plastic waste.
Yup -- either the devs don't know what that means in English slang, or they have a very juvenile sense of humor.

Either way, that alone seems like it would present a pretty serious obstacle to anyone taking Mastodon remotely seriously.
You’ll pay one way or the other. If the government does all the calculations for you, they will either have to pay the person who calculates it by hand or pay the people who maintain the automated systems to calculate it for you. The government doesn’t have the greatest record of this efficiently spending tax dollars, so if the government charged you to calculate how you much you owe the government, you’ll probably end up paying more.
> from the fact that he OKs unsafe technology and brands it as "autopilot" to half-baked, rushed assembly processes that produces terrible quality in the Model 3s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_disasters

Engineers don't get to put themselves up on a pedestal and claim they never do wrong, are never subject to incompetence, negligence, or other personal pressure in their lives like money.
I'm signing up for that service with fake information.
But honestly I am nervous that somehow this (or the mutual HTTPA option described in the second half) could be twisted to serve the DMCA / DRM abusers crowd.

I have exactly the same thoughts on any security technology based around centralising control and authority. They should be regarded as nothing but tools for furthering the goals of corporate authoritarianism.
No epoxy, simple chemical treatment -- this could be very interesting.
USPS pilots a public banking program
Double Pendulum
Few realize this.
Or Poland or Ukraine?
I think you're right after doing some research. Getting Congress to police themselves is going to be a tough haul.
Thanks for the reference. But if you would allow me to be honest, I don't want to even read that page. I have tons of things to do, I want to just write. I am using Gitbook right now but I like Docusaurus more. I hope if someone would enhance the design a little bit, and give me the ability to add custom CSS if I really wanted to. And I am happy to pay for it a reasonable price.

I could actually just install it locally, do whatever I want, generate the static files, and add it to my project. But I will have to maintain the installation (for a language that I don't use), keep it updated, maybe fight with npm for sometime, and also being familiar with Docusaurus itself.

And I prefer a service focused on this problem, than using a general (even if easier) solution like Netlify.

At the end of the day, I think I will do what you said, because that service doesn't exist now :)
Except it is working and another commenter pulled a link from the same document that describes the next iteration of the exact same project.

https://www.c4isrnet.com/show-reporter/dodiis/2018/08/14/the...
I think there is an inevitable trade off between getting stuff done in a corrupt way, and not being corrupt but being unable to get stuff done.

And I would argue that historically you see this. Saudi Arabia modernized with a lot of corruption. The US modernized with a lot of corruption -- the period of American industrialization and modernization was called "The Gilded Age". Now there are huge bureaucratic processes, checks and balances, all sorts of oversight -- and it's extremely hard to get anything done.
"... what is the law around here exactly?"

They have guidelines posted. But in reality, as with real laws, there are things that are prosecuted that shouldn't be, and things that aren't prosecuted that should be.

For example, I have seen many insulting postings that don't get flagged, while many off-topic political posts go completely unchecked, and are largely group-think.
Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Court Rules