skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I got a girlfriend just because of that. My personal blog was kinda popular in those days. A girl once commented/emailed (forgot) something in the lines of -- You gotta be kidding, the counters is fake and scripted, right? It is increasing every second or so. You cannot have so many visitors!

Those were the times of the high hundred-thousands visits to my site if not millions each month.

I told her to meet me and look at the analytics. I show her the stuffs and she became my girlfriend. ;-)
I mean, are we using tech to mean just software? Because if you look at how fast cars technological evolve, they’ve been a tech company for over 100 years. How is this different?
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|Okay. Then why does it cost a fortune to get in the USA? Its just as simple as brewing wine is it? Well. I have my doubts.|

Genetically modifying yeast to produce insulin is a little more difficult than brewing wine. Seriously, what are you on about? They haven't harvested insulin from animals since 1998. That's the last you could get it. They started using it in 1978... all that was a 2 minute Google search.
/r/rift has similar issues (for the MMO, not the VR)
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As someone that lives on the coast, I am not witness to this. Im not trying to argue numbers ... i cant get passed the paywall to see if they (WSJ) have any ... but youre not going to buy a house in my town anytime soon. Youre not going to find a reasonable priced house within 35 miles of the coast from san diego to seatle. If you do I urge you to buy it.
Edit: Saw the archive site ... No one is 'fleeing' the coast. The apartments vacated by those buying somewhere else were immediately filled. Title should say 'coastal renters buying inland'
Yes and no. Yes they are more of the same size. Visually ants are little dots on the ground. Lobsters also have something that looks more like hands than ants do.
The fact that this is just dawning on modern society is evidence that up until just a few generations ago, people were mainly occupied with not starving to death. Indeed, some ridiculously huge number of people worries about that today as well. The fact that we're able to even contemplate not harming animals is a sign of our enormous privilege.
An issue would be spooky action at a distance. A ripple effect of a single assignment could cause a cascade of computations. What order do they happen in? How do you find them all?
A jury has found that was not the case with Rittenhouse; reading the Wikipedia page that details the incident will explain why [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting
Seems kinda ridiculous to classify some animals as sentient but not others. Particularly when you consider the Lobster vs the Octopus.
I think the coolest part about the Nook Color that made it an excellent tinkering device was the fact that if a bootable image was present on the micro SD card, it would always load the image over whatever was on the system's eMMC. The Nook Color was therefore essentially un-brickable as recovery was always possible via SD.
>The lead author of the paper, told the New York Times that this means a wholly psychogenic or psychosomatic cause is very unlikely

If that means a psychosomatic cause is very unlikely, why did they only feature that information in an interview with a newspaper rather than in the conclusion of their paper? Do neurologists train to know what damage psychosomatic illnesses can cause to the brain?

From my understanding, their paper basically just compared every possible metric from the "victims" with a sample group, and listed the significant differences. When you compare scores of different metrics, it becomes more likely some of then are significantly different.
If you bought a car where it costs you $10k to replace a catalytic converter, you have no business having anything to do with deciding anything in the legal system, period.
If you use Cloudflare for your DNS (which is free) they will allow cnames for the base domain, and when someone requests your domain Cloudflare will just query for the result of the cname themselves and return the IP as though you put in an A record. You can additionally choose to proxy your site behind Cloudflare's servers, but you don't have to.

And yes, it is frustrating for chrome to make this change, but it's also really uncommon and not very efficient to have your base domain go nowhere.
Jordan B. Peterson would support this.
The best was when they wanted you to throw a curved border around something in an age before floats or border radii. You could do it multiple different ways, but usually it just involved slicing up an image and throwing the image elements into a table which wrapped your content.
There’s also Pulsar to consider, in case you have not.

https://pulsar.apache.org/
Octopi is certainly questionable, but Octopedes isn't as obviously correct as we'd think.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270/what-is-the-...

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zx411e7VG/ (deleted from yt)
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For example, the comment from Paul Gambill, the CEO of Nori who is quoted extensively in the article. He wrote in to clarify that he does not agree with the title and that he does in fact think that afforestation is necessary.
LGBT suicide rates are significantly higher than those of heterosexual people:

> Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are at even greater risk for suicide attempts, especially before the age of 25. A study of youth in grades 7-12 found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide as their heterosexual peers. Some risk factors are linked to being gay or bisexual in a hostile environment and the effects that this has on mental health.

https://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/suicide-violence-prevention.ht...

While there are gay men who have successful long-term relationships, there are also many gay men who encounter substantial cultural and legal obstacles that interfere with their day-to-day lives and their ability to establish long-term relationships. Not every gay man gets to enjoy the same positive outcomes as the ones in your social circle.

The Bay Area (mentioned in your HN profile description) is a very LGBT-friendly location, and the people in your circle show the potential of gay men in a more accepting environment. Your opinion seems more reasonable in that context. But, LGBT people in the Bay Area are not representative of the LGBT population at large, many of whom face challenges specific to their sexual orientation that decrease their quality of life, with ramifications much greater than casual sex.
Intel Software Defined Silicon Driver for Linux
I suggest reading Billion Dollar Loser to see how WeWork abused its employees.
Like sulfur becoming an accepted spelling of sulphur from frequent misspelling? “Okay no one can get it right so just make it that too”.
Show HN: A Tiny and Platform-Agnostic True Random Number Generator for Any FPGA
The neoTRNG provides a tiny (less than 70 LUTs) true random number generator for any FPGA. No device-specifc macros, libraries or attributes are used at all.

The quality of the generated random numbers has been verified with the "dieharder" random number test suite.
There are many sets of published solutions: see https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Advent_of_Code.
Intel Software Defined Silicon: additional CPU features after license activation
That's a good point. I don't really remember bothering with directories on any of my 360kb 5.25" floppies in the 80s. When you can only fit 10 files on a disc a hierarchy is usually unwarranted. You hierarchy is those little plastic dividers in your floppy disc storage box.
I have a problem with those: when the Europeans came they brought with them disease. Other than Columbus's initial contact (which didn't last long as only hit islands), we are no longer dealing with the same situation. The population was greatly reduced and never recovered. This would of course make a lot of major changes to the culture, and for the most part they didn't leave a written record of what things were like before. Gift giving in a culture is something that we cannot learn from unwritten records. Even if there was a written record, in general people write down what they want to be seen as not what they were.

I'm not saying that they didn't give gifts. Lots of people like to give gifts. I'm saying that ownership probably was a bigger deal than we give them credit for - but we will never know.
I think he was interviewed in the same documentary about immigration as Pauline Hanson.

I could be wrong but I think that was as far as it went. I remember it making me pretty uncomfortable at the time but I don't think he actually supported her or One Nation.
Impenetrable bureaucracies are actually the central theme of two out of three of his full-length novels.

(Incidentally, at least in my opinion his three novels are his finest work, but they seem to attract much less popular attention than his short stories and novellas.)
You just have to partition the interior with vertical walls that extend up 6+ feet. The void behind can be used for storage just like with second story kneewalls.
Perhaps the pandemic has something to do with it. I assume many parts of Quantum computing research are hands-on, and the pandemic forced researchers to stay home.
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Your perspective is correct (looking at it per capita), but as I recall only one person was murdered in the capitol riot, and that person was shot by police. One police officer was beaten. It's not clear to me off-the-cuff that BLM was more or less violent than the capitol riot.
and in the a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active order generally too... or as I remembered them... love, hate.
This still works exactly the same on Win 10 if you set compatibility mode to "Win XP SP3".
>Also we had two years to expand our ICU’s. What happened?

You seem to think that governments are interested in actually spending money to stop the virus. They're not or they can't.
I don't think extraverts need any feeling of obligation to go to a party, that's just their version of curling up alone with a book.

In my experience, the most striking difference between extraverts and introverts is that extraverts enjoy the stimulation of being around people (whether it's a party, a small group, or one on one), potentially from the moment they get up to the moment they go to sleep. They might live with three housemates, meet someone for breakfast, have a phone call with a friend just to chat, and on and on, and they don't feel drained, they feel energized. It's as natural as being alone all day is for an introvert.
Not American, but I've really liked this one line I've heard.

"Property and freedom are the past and future of a human life"

People invest nontrivial amounts of their life into the acquisition of property. The theft of property is a theft of that proportion of their life. All you need is a sufficient punitive multiplier to said theft, or a sufficiently valuable item stolen, before lethal force becomes an option in said moral calculus.

Where I am, theft is punished severely, thus I see no need to take things into my own hands. The social contract is that the state handles such crime, and in response citizens forgo vigilantism. If repeated thefts of my property were met with no response, or a consistently ineffective response, you'd probably see a very different reaction from me.
Just focus what article says.
Yep, I'm concerned about this--though I'm no expert.
Blue(s) lobster
A good chunk of the money from SoftBank is coming from loans to SoftBank employees [0], who are just typical salarymen under extreme pressure by their employer. The house always wins.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/17/softbank-reportedly-plans-...
I never said I rushed to get the vaccine. I had been infected twice in the first few waves so I knew I was immune. I just got the vaccine because I knew it was safe and it would give me a boost against the oncoming future waves of infection since it was also clear that there would not be enough vaccine uptake for herd immunity and I wanted to hedge my bets and make sure I was immune to whatever variant the vaccine was designed for.
he had a brand of matches that competed with the popular "redheads" brand, the brand name was "dickheads"
Filler? I've seen foam inside/outside the concrete for insulation, but as a filler...as in replacing aggregate in the concrete?
We wanted flying cars. Instead we got… Boar Bot 2.0?
How do you feel about cinema?
Do you suppose we could pool enough money to start a community college? Or do you suppose it would be better to utilize existing public school infrastructure and make it better at addressing the educational needs of potential immigrants?
Imagine you had an employer with some empathy instead of the dystopian employment hellscape that seems to exist in the USA, and your entire justification falls down. When the response to "a thief damaged my car" is "that's shit, what can we do to help make sure you can get to work" instead of "well you're fired then", suddenly there's no real loss, and therefore no reason to be killing thieves.

I mean, if you want to go full 'Murica free market, if you lose your livelihood because your car is damaged, it's arguably your own fault for not having insurance. What if instead of a thief stealing a catalytic converter, it's a tree falling on your car? Do you shoot the tree?

The only time it's acceptable to use lethal force is to directly protect yourself (and in some circumstances others) from immediate unavoidable harm; and even then it should be a last resort after all other alternatives are exhausted.
That's why we try to deal with killings in a most humane way possible (basically a bullet to the head for larger animals, and cutting the neck for smaller ones).... not always, not everywhere, but we try, and we point the fingers at those who don't.

Animals on the other side really don't care:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olga-moskalyova_n_930464
My understanding was that one was originally the expected NSFW thing, then got taken over and turned into what it is now. I can't find an easy way to confirm or refute this at the moment, though, so this may be mistaken.
I love this quote. I can't tell you how many people get married, have 2 children (it's always 2!!!) and then pretty much immediately get divorced. They think that by saying "My ex", they're respected more in society ("Oh, someone married you? You must not be that bad.") They don't understand how expensive the divorce process is and how they would have been so much better off having those 2 kids with a sperm donor/surrogate. "The first one is "the test bed", the latter is a mess." Hope you don't mind if I use that quote.
What then is, in your opinion, most relevant?
Ask HN: Anyone have any idea John Carmack's dentiment on Meta?
I was just thinking about he said he was pulling back and going to focus on other projects? Maybe this was why.
Yep, especially since the animals are doing the same as we did in the past, even with humans:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olga-moskalyova_n_930464
Yes. Also 'xor rcx, rcx' -> 'xor ecx, ecx'.
Total production per worker-hour has been increasing since the 1800s I'd imagine. But it doesn't matter that much if it is increasing, what matters is whether it is increasing faster than the labor force shrinks. But a huge proportion of productivity increases are due to increased access to energy. So there are two headwinds: increasing energy scarcity and declining workforce size.

To some extent the productivity numbers for developed countries need to be discounted too because a lot of low value add work (mining, basic manufacturing, etc.) that is labor intensive takes place in poor countries where labor is cheap.
ditch the linkedin trash please
Same. I’ve been thinking a lot about what can/has to be done wrt moderation, ranking, filtering, identity and discovery for the Fediverse to actually become mainstream (making it the target of ads/spam/scam/psyops/propaganda/abuse that Twitter/Reddit/FB are today) while keeping both users and admins empowered and fulfilled.

Curation markets and DIDs are something that I think will be vital of scale is to be achieved.
> Octopi is not the correct plural.

Octopi is not the most common plural, true.

> Octopus is of greek origin, not latin.

Octopus entered English from scientific Latin. In which the Greek plural was not used. (Lots of words in English fron languages other than their language of origin and have irregular English forms from their immediate source rather than their remote origin.)

“Octopi” appears to be the earliest English plural of octopus.

> Thus, its greek plural is octopodes.

“Thus” is incorrect there, but, yes, that is its Greek plural.

> And thus, since we don't tend to use greek plurals in english

But we do. Just not, until comparatively recently and never dominantly, in the case of “octopodes”.

> the other proper plural is octopuses.

That is the most common English plural, and you don't really need a (false) historical narrative to support that it is “proper” except coming from a broken prescriptivist framework.

> Octopi is what's known as a hypercorrection

Since its the oldest attested English plural, its not a hypercorrection, just (arguably) dated. Though its probably the most common incorrect example of hypercorrection.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plura...
You don’t need a supercomputer.

You can actually hook algorithmic art from Houdini to GAN models and bake 3D art for later use.

Problem is that GAN models are still not good enough to produce human level realistic images.

It can generate trippy images but these are not very useful for commercial products.

We still need better models or a completely different approach for computer generated realistic art.
Which I think means the most likely explanation is that it’s a solved phenomenon, but the information just hasn’t been made public.

This seems like an "appeal to secrecy" fallacy. There's no obvious reason to keep such information secret (cue ten people speculating something random but no hypothetical here is clear here and the US government's incentive to show seems fairly high).

The simple explanation is that it is psychosomatic and the arguments against that are weaker than they seem (as has often been the case over the years).
> pushes and pops are essentially free despite containing both a memory access and arithmetic --- I believe they added a special "stack engine" to make this fast starting with the P6

There is a stack engine. But memory accesses and arithmetic are free even without it!
Octopuses or octopodes are regarded as the correct pluralizations, for those who remember the HQ trivia scandal of 2017.

All three pluralizations are wrong in some ways, but acceptable. [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plura...
I never said you did. But you are talking a lot about racism/xenophobia for something that has nothing to do with it.

You are actually reading out parts of Pauline Hanson's transcript, not the person we're discussing? So you're going even further into irrelevance? Huh?

Please don't flag this because you disagree with it...
I asked an octopus and he said he prefers "octopi".
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Which would not apply to either octopuses, crabs, or lobsters
So, I believe this is in part because of lax enforcement and the seeming ineffectiveness of the state with regard to property crime.

The endgoal is low crime, that's what most people want. If the more humane methods fail, people are going to happily go along with more brutal methods. If the state is sufficiently derelict of it's duty, then you'll see vigilantism.
Fun fact, if something is sold on amazon, the 3rd party seller cannot offer it for less. IE they have to sell the same price as amazon, even though amazon takes a 30% cut off the top anyway. Looking elsewhere benefits the real merchants.
Both of those essays are fantastic.

I find “This is water” to be especially poignant.
i read it as semantic satiation. all hes done is change the terms, but you still have snowflakes because some system somewhere is cofiguring your snosflakes.
so this article bending the original meaning of that person...
This was covered in MIT 6.042 in in a different and bit harder way by Tom Leighton as a general proof. The problem involved tiling the Stata courtyard with L-shaped tiles. You need a bit of mathematical induction to prove such results.
Many people in the US who admire the conservative aspects of Muslim religious law (as commonly perceived) also fear forced religious conversion or subjugation and believe that Muslims would like to apply their religious law in the US.
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you’re right that this sometimes works , but on this control panel the button doesn’t respond
Reminds me a bit of this: https://www.rogerdean.com/home-for-life/

I know that someone built one, somewhere, last century.

It involved, basically, a heavy-duty “chicken wire” frame, with sprayed-on concrete.
Please do! Less kids unhappy, hopefully (I am son of divorced parents. Divorce lasted 20 years...)
I'd argue that the shrinkage of working age populations is at most an indicator of decline rather than collapse, and given the rise of automation, there really isn't a good historical precedent to predict this from.
Human fetuses become sentient sometime between 8-30 weeks (depending on who you ask and how they define sentience).
> If I want to be terrified, I think what if we, instead of at the top of the food chain, were just second. It terrifies me to no end.

That’s a horrifying thought. Thanks :)
Only true if you are not playing esports games and trying to push maximum frame rate, such as for a 360hz display, or one of the upcoming 480hz ones.

Fwiw my simple reaction time is 220ms on a basic 60hz display vs 170ms on a top end 360hz, so being able to push those frames has a significant quality of life delta, even though I’m unable to hit 360hz in most games due to cpu bottlenecks on my system.
To make it simpler: consider the lobster. It's not a pest yet still isn't considered above being boiled alive for no reason other than "that's what paw deid".
Kinda prefer names for technical things like Fortran, COBOL, C++, Javascript, etc, instead of very common proper nouns. Kind of pollutes google results.
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Within the realm of what many people consider “bugs”, intelligence also exists. For example, jumping spiders have intelligence similar to mammals or birds. Research is ongoing with bees and they’re seeming similarly advanced, with some having the capacity to suffer depression.

In all likelihood, there exist insects with reasonably high levels intelligence that we’ve simply overlooked for centuries. Basically everyone today knows crows and octopuses are very intelligent animals, but that definitely was not a common sentiment when I was a kid. But nobody was really paying attention to animals then beyond “pest”, “edible”, “pet”, and “looks cool.”
> Interesting and unfashionable is where the real fun is ... Credit: Peter Thiel

This guy is dumping millions into funding fascist politicians, with the hopes of making fascism the next big thing and corrupting/subverting the US republic. Not sure that’s the best inspiration, though if it works out I’m sure he’ll profit.

Pretty much the opposite of picking the right thing vs. the comfortable [personally profitable] thing.
He went a lot further than that. In December 2016, he publicly announced that while he was not joining (or funding) her party, he supported many of her policies, and had accepted an (unpaid) role as one of her political advisers. See this TV interview with him at the time: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/dick-smith-back...
I do that when I wind up in some short-term gig at a really badly run company. I take note of whatever it is they do, and then do the opposite elsewhere.