skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on a call just yesterday about how we should consider moving from one solution to another simply because the new one 'uses graphql which is so much easier and so much more powerful'
I used to play Half Life 2 online, and I developed a knack for sniping, even when people hopped, I was accused of cheating. I wasn't that good otherwise, so I can believe your proposal. People have a hard time believing there are tallented people out there, or that they might be playing against one such person.
Kyrie Irving - flat-earther, anti-vaxxer. To some people both are ridiculous positions. Conspiracy thoerists tend to groupp together and tend to pick up additional beliefs
Captured CO2 can be fed through the Fischer-Tropsch process together with hydrogen and built up into hydrocarbons to make jet fuel.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90682603/this-startup-is-using-s...

With similar methods you could make plastic out of captured co2.
I've tried to argue with someone who thinks she's more open-minded and she uses critical thinking more because she didn't believe what MSM said and she just knew (probably from all the random blogs she read) that MSM is being controlled by the Rotschilds. But probably there's a lot of confirmation bias there https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/ . She also believed Bill Gates was doing something with the devil. When she said "Do your own research, but use DuckDuckGo not Google" I had to laugh. I told her "But you do know DDG uses results from Bing, which is from... Microsoft?" (not that BillG has anything to do with MS nowadays) but of course her mind just ironed away this cognitive dissonance.

I think I'm pretty sane, but how do I know I'm believing the truth? I can read 2 papers about Covid and dismiss one as baloney (like the ones written by that pro-HCQ French doctor) and take the other one as "probably legit", but how do we lay-people even tell the difference other than "It starts out with the premise I prefer". I guess there's comfort in statistics, e.g. the number of people vaccinated so far and the very few reports of side-effects, and the high correlation between high-vaccine areas and low incidence rates and vice versa. Or the statistics that if Biden's win was fraud there would've been quite a lot of fraud needed, and the chances of keeping all of that quiet and well-coordinated was very small...
> If you put a Linux machine in front of, say, a 15 year old, they immediately figure it out.

Until they need to do anything off the beaten track, which can be something as simple as changing the mouse speed (I'm not making this up) and you google it and it's telling you to run terminal commands and update your Xorg.conf file.
> Men generally do not care about the income of their wife,

Right up until it becomes greater than theirs.
Conspiracy theories have always existed and the jury is out whether they are more prevalent now than in the past. See https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/the-enduring-...

But I see social media as a place where people feel permitted to share conspiracy theories. If you engage with social media a lot it seems half the world is crazy. If you only engage with people in real life people are seemingly as sensible as ever, because social conventions force them to mostly keep a lid on things.
After ‘Grand Theft Auto III,’ Open-World Games Were Never (and Always) the Same
That is a great video.
"If you go down the "most people" path, all the ports go away."

Exactly.
Tim Sweeney response to being asked if Unreal Engine will support WebGPU
The switch to linux is much easier than expected. Try it?e.g. Regolith is great
I'm also enjoying lsd, to the point where I've aliased ls to it. The file icons are fun.
I would consider it commodity hardware because it's what's been available now and for 4 years: it's widely-available, at a wide price range, and basically what's available generally. You can't not buy a PC that doesn't match these specs.

I guess the difference is that I consider "commodity hardware" to be what's widely available off-the-shelf, not what's currently in use across everyone.

But either way this is just Windows 11 compatibility, Windows 10 is still maintained and getting feature updates, e.g.: 21H2 should be offered to incompatible hardware soon. I also bet 11's minimum requirements will be lowered in the future to at least 2016. (Having owned a 2012 i5 before this one I would not recommend sticking with it forever and ever, 2018's Spectre+Meltdown mitigations made it much worse)
> it seems pretty obvious to me that "strawberry poptarts" means "strawberry _flavored_ poptarts".

The frequency with which things without significant amounts of X but with some X-based or simulating flavor are labelled “X-flavored Y” rather than “X Y” suggests that it is not at all obvious or standard usage that the latter means the same as the former.

OTOH, mandatory food labelling laws are spotty on where they concretely prohibit the latter labelling.

On the gripping hand, the effect od the aggregate of those laws is important in shaping the context in which the package at issue is read.
Another good way to see the limit definition is by solving the discrete case of that diff. equation (y' = y, y(0)=1).

Replace dy/dx with ∆y/∆x, so

∆y = y(x+∆x) - y(x)

Once you solve that (use some induction and numerical methods), see what happens when ∆x appraches to 0 and x=1.

For example try with ∆x=1 and then generalize that case to ∆x=n.
"First flight computer that could tiake off and land"

Soviet Buran could do that in the 80's

"Starship is designed for mars"

Original starship design was 5x larger and could take meaningfull payload to Mars. It had to be scaled down so that it use the ancient Saturn 5 launchpad and other infrastructure and be more affordable. Current starship is in the same weightlifting category as saturn 5.

"First engines to use Methane"

So what? If it was first one to use Uranium, that would be a revolution. This is just burning a different propellant. Its an incremental step. It is not a 60 -year milestone. Its like saying 'i upgrading home boiler from coal to oil' - so what? You are still stuck will low energy fossil fuels
Exactly why Google pushes this.
What about when windows decides to update the sound driver underneath you and you stop having sound until the next restart?

Because it happened to me on windows, but never did anything like that happen on linux, where if it works once, it will continue to work.
My wife is a professional trumpet player. In the Utah Symphony the vast majority of members have a musical spouse. It is not uncommon for spouses to be in the same orchestra (nepotism anyone? fyi these positions are always filled via audition). What probably skews this data is that while musicians overwhelmingly marry other musicians, this doesn't mean that one or both don't move on to other careers to pay the bills. Also, I'm not a musical spouse.
MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino
Linux is a pleasure to use with the terminal and your favorite UI. GCC, Neovim or whatever you use are easily usable. And yes - it is always compiling faster.

But I would say, honestly twice as fast ;)

In real world scenarios Windows will be probably even slower, to to installed secondary and tertiary Antivirus and bloatware on top and unmaintained drivers. While on Linux you better choose your hardware wisely before buying, than it will run smooth. Intel and AMD are always fine.
Some interesting & fruitful replies in here. There is definitely some nuance that deserves to be unpacked. Yes, a well-oiled team with competent leadership and an effective culture can do more than an individual alone.

However the premise of their statement is that it used to be more feasible for one person to "do it all", whereas now things have transitioned towards a more team-oriented environment.

I observe this trend patently in reverse.
Perhaps at this very moment in time there is another reason, but lack of upload bandwidth is a structural reason, a necessary but not sufficient parameter. Without that, we cannot move forward.

It is possible for me to envision a past or future where 90%+ percent of people have fiber to the home and we would have developed hardware and software to be able to route around the major cloud providers, including peer to peer software and hardware that works like appliances.

We started with computers that only people invested a lot of time into understanding could use, and now we have iPads and iPhones that people generally cannot break and are much simpler and can be swapped out. I do not see why that type of future would not be possible if everyone had significant upload capacity at home (and having ipv6 and not being stuck behind CGNAT).
I’ll hire the crazy yet brilliant people any day of the week. It’s a leadership challenge and the work output is worth the time investment.
Congratulations on your new launch, interesting modular approach!

As a seed investor who is a bit cautious in investing in EdTech, I am wondering if you get any requests from universities to plug into their established LMS (hooking into their login api for example)? And if they don't request that, do you get lots of issues related to user privacy and handling student data (going through compliance,...)?

Only asking because we have previously identified these as one of the two highest risks in selling LMS software to universities.

Also am curious to know what is your rough revenue share breakdown between academia and corporate? I a am guessing it is very skewed towards corporate, as we have previously identified another risk with EdTech is that it is very difficult to charge universities much (schools are even exponentially more difficult).
Wikipedia averages 598 new articles per day et 2 edits per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
Twitter is literally built on a lie. Their founding story is a a complete lie and disgrace. I am sure Twitter and Google lie just as much.
I can think of things that use SD cards. Just not very relevant things. Like if you read the card from your wild life camera once per month, you can easily attach a card reader.
You might like this extension for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rustnote...

I just got it to a usable state today, does what you're asking which is run rust code without a main function. Just open a .md file and you're good to go. Also saves the outputs to markdown so you can upload to blog sites. I've only tried it on Linux btw might not work on other platforms.
And yet git bash still needs ansicon to have ANSI escape sequences handled correctly.
Exactly. I hate the fact that products get cheaper every year and businesses have to compete for me as a customer.

Damn you MBAs!!! <shakes fist at air>
It depends. In areas where home prices have risen or are relatively high, home improvement activities increase the home value and so that is generally reserved for sales preparation periods. Consumption is delayed until it is untaxed.

Otherwise, I am not sure how taxing land will increase consumption, unless you're saying people will make land productive in order to offset tax liability? In some cases maybe, but certainly not on low-density residential plots.
Yes, this is more accurate. 10 years ago most of the stuff was JSPs / JSFs and other UI+Backends that were fused by it's platform.
CDC adds mental illness to high-risk Covid list
Says... Netsuite...
> Facebook lied in Congressional hearings

who exactly lied? and why aren't they charged if it's the case?
> But why is it under today's society that conspiracies are getting pushed so hard?

I think that at least part of it is from foreign disinformation campaigns. I can't prove it, so maybe this is just my own conspiracy theory ;-)

(As a semi-serious theory, it wouldn't surprise me if Q was in fact a Russian disinformation campaign.)
You can buy a card reader for 5$.
Credit where credit is due. Let this be a trend.
Tesla’s Full Self Driving Beta Is Nowhere Near Ready for Public Road Use
This is something not so many people take into account regarding cryptocurrencies. The real "total number" of any cryptocurrency is the total number of decimals they contain. There are currently a total of
2,100,000,000,000,000 Satoshis. A satoshi is $0.00059 USD. A Satoshi could cost $0.01 (1 cent) and it could still be paired with the US economy. If 99% of Satoshis became unavailable, we would still have 21,000,000,000,000 of Satoshis in circulation.
Yeah, I was really confused by this, since I very clearly recall seeing ads on fresh Windows computers, along with guides etc on how to disable them.

I know back when I used Windows I had an entire routine to disable all the annoying stuff, so I suspect they disabled all the annoying stuff and totally forgot.

I really don't get the need to "defend" Windows, however. It's an OS being sold by a large, for-profit company, that has pros and cons like any other OS. No need to fight MS's fights for them... and given it's 75% desktop marketshare (and like ~95% for gaming), I think they are doing pretty dang well by themselves.
I'm not seeing the analogy. The lithium market is surprisingly small for the same reasons that plastics are...?

I concede the point that small individual parts of the overall waste economy are prominent problems... but where's the way back to lithium.

Lithium is cheap enough that Elon could buy all of it with just his bitcoin. He's a guy with a use for lithium. Why not solve all possible scarcity concerns with the jingle of a purse. More realistishly... Unless there's something I'm missing, I can't see how a lithium price spike could affect the price of an electric car noticeably.

That doesn't scream scarcity.
I told myself exactly what you just said. That this thinking was effectively the "sunken cost fallacy".

In the end it was about prioritising my personal satisfaction and 'happiness' over what a more conservative mind would think 'I should do' (one aspect of which was the financial sense). I am not super rich nor super successful at my choice of profession now (partly because I'm 10 years older than everyone else in my position right now, which can be an issue in itself), but I largely enjoy what I do despite the stressors and pressure that my particular position puts me in, and I'm trying to use my richer experience to 'catch up' career-wise as quickly as I can, so to speak.

I's not a black and white decision of course, and I'd be lying if I said I have zero doubts. There are still moments where I think "what if I hadn't left". Would I have been happier staying miserable but with lots of money to choose my preferred form of misery? :p
Is it better to be 'poor' (by comparison) due to cost of the 10-year career lag in the new field, but in a more fulfilling profession? In general, 9 times out of 10 when I think about it I'm happy it was the right decision and not one that I regret. But there's still that 1 in 10 which nags you, especially when you get together with your old colleagues who are driving ferraris and talking about how delicious that £1,000 champagne bottle was last week while skiing in the Alps. (I actually despise that lifestyle, but for some reason it still stings when it's rubbed right in your face...)

As for how I made the decision to leave, for me the big moment was when I realised I was bound to rebel sooner or later, because my psychology, sense of satisfaction, social life, and quality of life were all crap. This gives the sunken cost fallacy new context: your options are not just "not leave" vs "leave now". This in itself is the fallacy of the false dichotomy! Other options also included "endure another 10 years before giving up", "endure another 20 years", "endure another 30", and so on.

So the question got reframed into "leave now and waste 10 years of medicine? Or leave in 10 years' time and waste 20 years of medicine?". Similarly, "If I leave now, do I still have a sporting chance of achieving something meaningful in the new field before I have to retire? How does this change if I delay this start by another 10 years instead?"

It was easy to make the decision to leave right away after that. :)
They probably want data of site visitors - who looks at what, visits which link, edits what etc. That's not contained in the pure content.

If someone shops around for some product, then visits a Wikipedia article related to it and then buys something, you can maybe infer which qualities of the article or what information made them choose. That again, you could try and sell to advertisers as a service.
The PHP to C++ compiler hasn't been used for something on the order of 10 years.

At least as of two years ago, pretty much entire web-facing portion of Facebook was written in Hack (which descends from PHP, but has what feels like every syntax feature you could stuff into an Algol-like language). Hack is run on HHVM, which is a bytecode VM that can JIT compile to machine code.
Seems like an odd speculation. Can you provide any evidence for that?
RE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28980707

Race is really a distraction. As someone pointed out, the real meat is rich vs poor. Imagine if on the last census, everyone in America identified as some other race. This would immediately squash the debate. But then we'll get something else. Perhaps democrates vs republicans will be the new headline .... "Many republican students lied about their affiliation to improve changes of admission". Maybe it is just me but all of this stuff just reeks "tribalism". It's all the same conflict but using different words.
The necessary ingredient for news and a story is conflict and tension, and I think a conspiracy theory brings conflict to something where there might not be one, and that's what makes it interesting, compelling, but often wrong.

What makes mainstream news so unwatchable is that it's not the events themselves that are fake, but the conflict and tension contrived to make them into a story itself is an artifact of ideology, and that's what makes the news seem fake.

That talking head tone of, "well, this is out of the ordinary!" with a wink at the audience is the expression of an ordinary that few people seriously have. What they mean is, "well, well, this is counter to the official narrative, let's find out if these people are freaks and barbarians!" It's not reporting, it's carnival barking.

Ideology (the logic of an idea) creates narrative tension against real events where there may be none. If you already have a sense of persecution and believe there is a cabal of people who are working to undermine you, applying the logic of that idea to incoming events produces conspiracy theories. Some are more accurate than others. The logic of the idea that police, corporate executives, doctors, politicians and billionaires want to kill you because you are the representative of a group will cause you to hypothesize and test whether an encounter with them could be an attempt on your life. Similarly, if you believe a category of people has conspired to subordinate you, you're likely going to interpret interactions with them through that lens.

In this sense, conspiracy theories are rationality driven askew by being anchored to iterating the logic of an existing belief. Technically, a competing ideology that gets in the way of reconciling our experiences with truth. Merely being against conspiracy theories doesn't make anyone any smarter or likely to be in posession of truth. It's like saying being "against-bad" is sufficient to make you "good."
You can't really cheat in Chess. I mean you can con-man move 2 pieces, but its very very easy to detect with spectators (and impossible online)...

Vs team card games... where you have 2 players working together that aren't allowed to talk.

The only way to "fix" this is allow full communication between partners. Allow them to text during the game. Or any kind of signal. You need to level the playing field.

The honor system is fine for a fun game with friends, but not fine in anything "competitive".
DuckDB developer here, compression is still a work in progress and is being incrementally implemented and added to the system. For now the storage is still mostly uncompressed, but expect this to improve in the coming months.
No coldtea, it is about the betrayal against us elitists when one first takes the podium to declare the highest importance of the highest values, and flares around the Warning to those who have not yet chosen the path of Elevation, and has us all floating in hope, then starts pissing around the room and belches that "what else could you expect from population X anyway" before leaving - us all now unsure how to proceed. :) Can we be consistent? Please also see my edit to the other comment (the "wife"), to which you kindly replied and it was delightful to read it, so please do it more often without encouragement to have the Jekill check the Hyde.
Good.

So much of the recent progress in natural language understanding in commercial products like Siri and Alexa is due to the richness and structure in Wikipedia and wiki data. Big tech should be paying for this stuff…
Words change, and when society uses certain words changes. In a vacuum the phrase "conspiracy theory" would apply to a theory about the existence of a conspiracy. Now it means "fictitious myth that crazy/irrational people believe in". That's fine. Words develop new connotations over time. No one is saying you can't theorize about the existence of actual conspiracies, ala Snowden and government surveillance, it's just that the terminology has changed. And in my opinion, it changed because of so many nutjobs that believe in patently crazy theories. I don't think normal people object to the theorizing about the existence of conspiracies, like the origins and intentions behind the Iraq invasion. But they do object to lizard people and flat earth and Hilary Clinton drinking the blood of babies. But as in many other things, extremists can ruin things for the average people.
I think they should use wider dictionary to check if the word really doen't exist.

I'm sure bibliophilia exists and means something else.
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/SnsB
Somewhat.

In the Twitter world, there's a concept called getting "Ratioed", which is when your comments exceed the number of retweets / likes.

The idea is (at least on Twitter), "better" posts are roughly the ones that have more eyeballs but fewer reactions. "Getting Ratioed" is a bad thing. You want your tweets to get many eyeballs but not a lot of back-and-forth discussion (as back-and-forth discussion is often a proxy for toxicity)

In contrast: Facebook is clearly of the opinion that "better" posts are the ones where people feel like making a comment on. Surprise surprise, Facebook is beginning to look like the more toxic social network.
I highly recommend revisiting the definitions for normative versus positive economic statements.

A sin-tax is a subset of pigovian taxes where the social norm for optimal consumption is zero. This is squarely in the realm of economics, your protests aside.

As I stated in the prior comment that I believe you perhaps only skimmed, how the society came to that conclusion that the optimal consumption is zero is beyond economics. If you would like to discuss belief formation and other psychology/sociology discussions, I'm happy to engage but I'm sorry to say it's only an area of interest.
I would also like to see term limits while we are at it.
Am I understanding it correctly that this is not using anything analogous to a lens? How does this not need a lens when optical cameras need them?
All fringe hobbyist activities, not "pro" stuff (except perhaps photo drones).

I don't think that many people are photographers, overall. Most people who buy "Pros" probably work in an office and their company buys the computers for them.
That means just in order to capture a single year worth of CO2 output will cost us 5 Trillion USD (5.000.000.000.000), which is around 6 % of the worlds' GDP.

That seems easily worth it, and ignores the possibility of lower costs in the future, this working in tandem with efforts to decrease emissions, etc.
The php-to-c++ compiler was replaced many years ago with a JIT called HHVM.