skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broadly speaking, modern developers don’t have to deal with resource limitations (neither computing nor financial) so they instead devote that extra energy on completely unnecessary orchestration systems and build toolchains to feel like they’re doing something complex and challenging.
This. I would love to have a minimal host machine setup while having all those elaborate dev dependencies and command line tools I downloaded from somewhere run inside their own isolated container (or at least within one single container for my entire $SOFTWARE_PROJECT).

Basically, I'm trying to imagine a world where every Bash script needs to come with headers specifiying binary dependencies and file paths (and env vars) it wants to access. Upon invoking said script, it gets executed within a light-weight container, the binary dependencies then get installed on-the-fly and the file paths get mounted into the container (after I've confirmed that the script may access them).
Years ago I tried tesseract and similar tools to do this but switched to using ABBYY FineReader because the OCR accuracy was way higher and into "usable". Can anyone offer a recent comparison?
This. Version pinning is just piling on the risk, and when a CVE is announced on the no-longer-supported version you’ve been pinned to for way too long then it’ll be a reactive emergency.
> Barring severe and rare developmental issues, everyone can understand and manipulate written symbols.

Yes, but it doesn’t mean the symbols can’t evolve. Like Feynman Diagrams—they made the concepts way more accessible.
This one is my favourite. I would call this kind of programming both art and beauty.
> But when people has to pay the real costs of credit cards then basically nobody wants one.

I believe there is an opportunity cost for not using a credit card in US: you don't build your credit history. This might leave you disadvantaged in the future because... the finance industry (as an extension, the society) is structured in a way that you must have a good credit history.
I think it's actually the opposite. Git's model is really really simple and pushes all the complexity onto the tooling and the user.
And people say Linux doesn't have any programs :P
I got it. Vaccinated double Moderna. My whole family and entire friend group got it at the same time. I didn’t go to the hospital but I was damn sick. But none of my friends went to the hospital and many were not vaccinated. All in all, there was no difference between those of us who were vaccinated and those who were not. Take that anecdote for exactly what it is.
To add to dantheman’s point, a lot of merchants are more than willing to spend 3~5% in fees if it means making a register line 10~15% faster, or reduces the cash stock they need to keep at hand and manage thorough the day.

Privileging cash as a customer isn’t universally better for the merchant.
Right. The official estimate by the CDC is that 1 in 40 vaccine injuries is reported.

None of the 3 I personally know were (suppose that's just anecdotal also). The one received the second dose 3 days before a major stroke, and massive blood clots. I'm sure it was tOtAlLy UnReLaTeD.
I identify heavily with this but also the inverse —- always update everything (all the time). I don’t run arch anymore but one thing I did enjoy as a daily driver was that I was constantly updating my software. The pain is in the middle where you update things once every year or two (or when forced) and there’s hundreds or thousands of new changes that break your stuff.
Science is inconsistent with astrology: the former is the systematic study of phenomena using reproducible and logical methods, and the later is basically sophistry with no practical value (or hypothetical mechanism) sold to people who either don't know better, or simply choose to believe.
For a rube like me who views assembly coders as masters of occult incantations, this is incredibly impressive
It seems like this is their plan, but they will be forced to do it all locally. They are deleting all their face templates so that people can't accuse them of doing it remotely.
From https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs:

> Every day, we generate millions of hyper-personalized horoscopes using rules-based natural language generation that combines state-of-the-art AI models like GPT-3 with the insights of staff poets. Co–Star is the first synthetic text to be called wildly beautiful, brutally honest, or comparable to therapy.

So their horoscopes are largely auto-generated, and aren't even written by humans with knowledge of astrology? This seems like something you would only do if you knew astrology was a scam, and therefore that no real expertise was needed to engage in it. Makes you wonder...
SourceSafeHub...
the overwhelming evidence is that internal thought is playing some function for us, you know, planning, agonizing,...

:-D

and the earlier part:

other prof: well, you're thinking about what you're going to say to the other person.
chomsky: well, the other person could have died (and you might _still_ be thinking about it/them -- i.e. you're not going to be communicating with them while you're both alive, at least).
Was going to ask whether this proportion of the number of divisors of these prime tweens, to the number of other divisors of other composites, might yield a known constant, or even converge on 2.718.. or a related function of it asymtotically as the n increased.
As I understand it, olivine is not the same as asbestos and does not cause mesothelioma. Does the carbon capture reaction cause it to become dangerous?
The Zen of Saito
You got me on taxes. I totally left that out.

My whole post is the exception you mention in your third paragraph. Your first paragraph is what happens when you have generics, and they start treating the drug more like a sandwich that a treatment. (No bioequivalence tests, safety concerns, etc)
Mostly because it takes a lot of patience and dedication to get to a productive level. It's a bit like vim - steep learning curve, but fantastic to use once you know what you're doing.
It's plenty specific. I give you X: float, you return after X seconds.
I don't know for op, but I assume cash means debit, where the fees are very low.

Tangentially, I was happy to be able to use debit to buy a new car. Had to phone my credit union to tell them to raise the limit on the day of the transaction, but it saved me having to go to the bank during their working hours to get a certified cheque.
Sadly competing with coal and natural gas on cost is relevant. I think we should close those plants as soon as possible even if it means replacing them with a more expensive option, but sometimes it's hard to get political traction on things that cost more. Solar and wind tends to be cheaper than fossil fuels, anyways, though that might not be true if you have to factor in batteries. (Whether that's an issue is geography-dependent: I'm in Oregon, and we get a lot of our power from hydroelectric, which means we can use bodies of water essentially as capacitors to buffer out the irregularities in wind and solar. The East coast doesn't really have that option.)

I don't mean to be hostile, I'm just saying that as far as I understand it, nuclear is expensive which means that people who are looking to get the most power for the least cost probably are going to go with wind and solar. If we can somehow make nuclear cost competitive then that's great but I don't know what's needed for that to happen and in the mean time I think the sensible thing is to treat nuclear as something that might work, but we aren't counting on it.
Munster, Indiana is one of the perfect Chicago suburbs. It's the first exit across the border. Top rated schools, it's the food court of the region. Comcast internet seems to hold up ok. The taxes are reasonable, and the local politicians aren't too radical.

(For some strange reason though, a lot of people have been driving cars into buildings here)

If you want to go further away from Chicago, Crown Point, Chesterton, Valparaiso might be good choices. The further east you go, through, the more likely you are to suffer lake effect snows in the winter.

Most towns in the area have lake Michigan water, which isn't subject to depletion. Chicago is also in one of the sweet spots for stability during climate change.
I actually loved Windows Phone. I got one because it was the cheapest possible option after my "real" phone broke, and I was surprised at how polished it was. It was such an interesting, opinionated take on a phone interface; I wish it had had a chance to succeed.
The source code for Doom is available, and much has been written about how it works.[1] Go look.

[1] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_source_code
As did I. I went imperative languages -> Haskell (wtf) -> Clojure (wtf) -> Erlang (love it) -> Clojure (love it) -> Elixir (love it).

My two favorite languages these days are Clojure and Elixir. Currently mostly Clojure because my main side project is more amenable to Clojure's methods of concurrency than Elixir.
This Docker app looks useful, thank you.
a) we are in a small enough time frame that the latest doesn't mean it is more accurate

b) in the real world, we had our biggest outbreak after vaccines were mainstream
The biggest thing is lower resolution. 640x480 at 256 colors was a high-color, high-resolution mode at the time.

Small bitmaps, with indexed palettes and run-length-encoding to further shrink them.

Caches were tiny, memory was slower, hard disks massively slower, and if you had to hit a CD to load data, forget about it. So packing data was important, and organizing data for cache locality, and writing algorithms to take advantage of instruction pipelining and avoid branches.

Fabian Sanglard has a great blog that goes into the nitty gritty of a lot of these techniques as used in different games.

https://fabiensanglard.net/
This is probably an unsatisfying answer, but simply put, a lot of systems these days are just bloated. I'm not only talking about the OS/programs running (though it often contributes), but rather the creature comforts developers have taken on over the years in the name of productivity. In fairness, the scale of recent games wouldn't be quite so possible without our superfluous tooling, but it definitely comes at a cost. A great example is Minecraft, which was originally written in Java but later ported to C++ for more consistent performance. Java's extensive library support, object-orientation and quick-and-dirty graphics access made it a great tool for prototyping, but when it came to delivering a high-performance product it often fell short. There are many such anecdotes in the gamedev community, so choosing the right tool for the job is hugely important.

Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld are both interesting topics on their own though, and while I'm dreadfully underfamiliar with their codebases I do love the games to death. I'd guess that if you profiled them, the heaviest slowdown would be accessing/manipulating memory with hundreds of values across thousands of instances. Both games are extremely heavy-handed in their approach to simulation, so it wouldn't surprise me if that constituted the bulk of their usage. Dwarf Fortress itself is an interesting case study though, because it's world generation can take hours. As more years pass, it takes longer to generate, which is probably a testament to how many interconnected pieces it's weaving.
>I'm not sure why Americans say that credit cards with 3% fees would be better than this system

I don't know if you're trying to characterize my remarks above, but if so, this is inapposite.

I claimed the fees were a shell game, which implies having them isn't significantly better or worse.

If they weren't hidden, it would be clearer how much interest was being paid, but people who pay a low rate would probably still want to borrow.

I do feel like there is more fraud protection with credit cards as they currently exist, which is not to say that is specifically tied to a detail like fees not being regulated.

It seems all around logical and reasonable to me to want to pay a few basis points more in fees in exchange for fraud being someone else's problem. It's not just a fee for service, but also aligning incentives.

If your bank can take the position that fraud is (virtually) impossible, that's not just inconvenient when you happen to be an unlucky victim, but it minimizes their motivation to prevent anything that contributes to it.
There was no frameworks or high level languages to add a bunch of bloat, maybe?
Innovative chip resolves quantum headache
Probably because the people will name-drop that particular brand. It's up to the doctor to responsibly prescribe it, whom probably heard of the drug because of other forms of marketing or flat out kickbacks
There are definitely startups with enough cash to spend time polishing their their CI systems, but I suspect the pressure in the game industry means this doesn't happen. That said, I have zero experience in the game industry.
Specific laws are required in courts. So which law?
Yes in retrospect this was definitely a missed opportunity to not put Rickover's org in charge of civillian reactors. But then the problwm outside US would persist. However trust is now lost, will be very difficult ro regain
I love this video: https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM

As part of a Kickerstarter campaign, Morphcat Games made this video explaining how they eked out a really incredible game with only 40 Kb (a lot like Super Mario Bros 2). I definitely recommend checking this out as they go over interesting compression methods and more general thought processes.
New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 40K lbs per year
why is electing in quotes?
For Doom, I’ve heard this book is highly recommended:

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Interesting. Last detailed report is from Sept 07. Vax rate ~90%, 2-3k new cases, ~90% in vaxed population. The vaccine seemingly had no effect on infections?! Nothing like 6.8x likelihood.

So on one hand we have detailed data from UK and Singapore with breakdown by age/date/vax status and limited VE agains infection, on the other hand opaque charts (US...) with only aggregate numbers, showing 6-10x odds in favor of vax. The lack of detailed epi USA data conspicuously continues.

I did sanity check one UK aggregate chart touted in a sibling thread claiming, absolute numbers, unvax infections >> vax infections in UK. There were egregious Simpson's issues, all age groups >18yo had (significantly) more vax infections than unvax infections. The <18yo case load was a huge outlier, dominating the aggregate numbers. Fireable offense for a data analyst.

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-loc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29126217
You don't need to prove statistical properties in deep learning models, but if that was something important, that's something you'd be able to do for any classifier that has positive predictive ability.

If a classifier is good, then there is an underlying association in the data. With astrology, there's no association in the data, unless you do something weird like constrain the size of your sample, systematically exclude people, or are measuring a different effect.

It's really totally absurd to use the methods of science on astrology. Just think about it, you have some data, and there's an effect you'd like to figure out. For whatever is going on in your sample, your explanation is "because the position of X on the day you were born?". It's a huge violation of occam's razor, and skips every plausible explanation for the most impossible.

No one that seriously does "data science" could approach a question, and come up with astrological answers, unless it was purely an exercise in B.S., with the express goal of creating content for people interested in astrology to consume. "Data scientists" spend years honing and refining their skills asking and answering questions, it's just incongruent with that set of skills and methodology.
Never did I say anything about culture and quality of life. Don’t make an argument from a false claim. I said nature is highly evolved, but human culture is young and untested, with little evidence for optimism, climate talks one example
This is nice. You should promote it more!
Of all the places in the world, I certainly did not expect Bangi to show up on this list!

How does Bangi compare to living in, say, KL or PJ?
All of them. Having some drugs laying around and handing them out as medication is wildly irresponsible
Content free article. I literally could not remember what (if any) point was made by the time I reached the end.
I commend your ability to think outside the box, bringing up pregnancy and addiction as answers to the asked question.

So I’ll ask a third time, hoping that perhaps finally I can get you to the original asker’s intention:

Can you name any drug that when taken for only a short period of time, like this Covid drug surely would be, and is non addictive like this Covid drug surely is not, is harmful in the long term to the person who took it (assuming they are not pregnant as all of the people who would be allowed to take it would not be)?
It depends on your bank and your credit and your relationship with the the bank. They basically have to loan you the money to send so it’s a question of what their credit risk is.
Yeah so the dev machine shit specs is something we fight SO HARD against in my bank. There s not many thing we can fight, but our 10 core SMT xeon with 128G of RAM for everyone in the team was a fight worth fighting. Yes, it took 2 years of them putting us on a new VM cloud systems after another before they gave up, us spamming them every say "intellij freezes", "I cant build in less than 10 minutes and the traders are getting nervous we spend our time daydreaming while it compiles" and other such trolls making the budget monkeys sweat.

Other than that, there s probably a way for you to propose a change, ive worked on the same nightmare you describe and, well, I was lucky enough I guess I could make enough changes to both stack it was possible to get either a light java subset running just the frontend to test, or make the js independent for testing, yes with a yarn soup lol, which is how I learned it in the first place I guess.
Sprite stacking 3D engine sounds cool. But tbh I was not able to get any feel of what you are talking about from the single static image on your website. Maybe a video would be helpful?
Thanks for the advice. If you don't mind me saying, you seem to be a very nice son. I can feel the loving bond you must have had with your mom. Above and beyond most I've seen on HN. I prayed for you, and I hope you are blessed with children who are just as kind to you.

This may be a little intrusive, so I apologize in advance. I'm curious to know if religion, for you, plays a role in being kind to your parents? As a Muslim, my religion strongly encourages us to be extra kind to our parents.
Whatever I read about Linus seems to imply that he is far smarter than me but git is a great tool for his personal purposes.

This is an 18wheeler that can haul anything but for "basic" dev doing simple administrative apps, a bicycle VCS is more than enough. A lot of dev I've met don't even understand the deep ramifications of multiples branches with any VCS so understanding the complexity of git is way above what we require of them.

Git has a lot of benefits but I'm not quite sure that it's really a good thing that it is slowly becoming the de facto standard.

Wait and see...
If anything, the modern progressive crowd that GP is referencing are far more likely to find the reflexive qualifiers themselves problematic.
When these software were rewritten, at that time developer are consider intelligent enough to understand Physics, mathematics etc..Now a days a Online Degree make Developers. The So called next generation of programming hide some low level optimization and developer often do not by pass them. They were written for Business application, but they use in game application. unlimited resources, operating system efficiency lost (as they suffer from same problem, as well as more security code is added to them that somewhere bottelneck it) are some other stuff that has effect on efficiency.
Don’t worry I’m sure Brexit will bring colonialism back
I think what's missing is the context. When you're a service oriented architecture you can afford these changes. If you're a monolithic block then it gets a lot harder.

Personally, I like smaller, well defined changes and CI/CD.
Which I see as a problem, as world powers are very distinct, seemingly have a hard time when they don't ingrain capitalism to a large degree (China) and one is definitely required to have a robust alternative to capitalism
I wonder how many years ahead a game using optimization tricks would look compared to a game without that focus.
Your ISP doesn't cover the storage cost or outbound bandwidth of YouTube's servers. How is YouTube supposed to pay for that without ads or subscriptions?
I am using scantools:

https://kebekus.gitlab.io/scantools/image2pdf/

Also worth a look, works great and also supports PDF/A and jbig for a nice compression of b/w scans
Dyson Sphere Program is maybe more interesting Unity game that can do impressive visuals Qnd scale with what is available.
Serious consideration : Much of the discussion is conditional on remote being the norm in the future, no? What if very few companies support remote 3-5 years from now?
Google is oversimplifying. The lawson criterion is defined to be the point where heat production by the plasma equals heat loss. For tokamaks (and other magnetic confinement fusion reactors where the confinement time is very long) reaching the lawson criterion is basically all you need to do to achieve ignition - once the plasma is being heated by fusion reactions faster than it is losing heat, it will very rapidly reach the point where it ignites with no further external input.

For short duration fusion (ICF, Magnetized target, Helion, etc) you can exceed the lawson criterion and thus produce gain, but the plasma may still not be long enough lived for the fusion to actually induce more fusion (which is the actual ignition point).
> Using long sequences of poorly-labeled, nested arrow function returns is great fun until you have the task of deciphering someone else's.

Something like that would be considered bad Haskell code, yes. Haskell is designed from the ground up to support the functional paradigm. When people try to use functional style in languages that were designed with primarily procedural style in mind, the result is often ugly and difficult to follow. You just don't have the same issue in a language that's designed from the beginning as a functional language.

Something that people tend to miss is that you can write code that very much looks like a lot of procedural code in haskell:

let
x = 1
y = x + 5
z = 10 + y + z
in x + y + z

You can have bindings, just like you might use variables in a (eg) python function. The only difference is that the bindings are immutable. That turns out to not be as restrictive as you might expect - a lot of good python code only assigns to a given variable once.

I think it's a fair criticism to say that Haskell code can become opaque when it relies on more advanced language features and esoteric GHC extensions. The solution to this is to be disciplined and selective as a team about choosing which features you believe are worth their complexity/onboarding cost, and sticking to those choices.

Conversely, I find Haskell code that doesn't use those extra features to be much easier to understand than equivalent code in other languages, due to the extra guarantees I have about the code. For instance, I know that variables won't be mutated out from under me, things can't be null where they shouldn't be, and there are plenty of other assorted guarantees that come from having access to an expressive type system.
Apple doesn't ban P2P networking as a whole, just file sharing clients that are clearly meant for facilitating piracy.

If Joost was still around I highly doubt Apple would block it from the App Store.