skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The measure of a successful software project is how long it takes an arbitrary programmer who has intermediate proficiency with the language and a reasonable understanding of the business domain to understand and become a productive contributor to the codebase.
To attract lurker.

If you're lucky it elicites even some self-referential Statler and Waldorf comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf
Some of my worst purchases were those where I cared a lot about how good of a deal I was getting.

The more you focus on the deal, the less you focus on whether or not you really want what you're buying.
I was going to comment something similar but not quite as negative.

I don't think the singularity is "impossible" now, but I do think we're moving much more slowly toward it than if capital were allocated more efficiently, and if we were not significantly distracted by political issues that are taking up far more of our energy than they should.

Technology is still advancing, so we're still inching ahead, and that means that whenever we take our foot off the breaks (by focusing less on politics, or improving capital allocation) we'll get to dramatic progress faster, but unfortunately it is slowed down enough that we might not reach dramatic progress similar to the "singularity" in my lifetime.
What about no?
In my experience, it's the query time. Maybe it should be faster, but practically, with all the tech debt that goes into these things, it's not. I've actually experimented with different sizes for a social media app (meaning it queries total reacts, shares, etc) and 15 was close to optimal.

Latency is not an issue, and neither is displaying complex information. You can pull and display 400 dummy items no problem.

Loading time for the first "page" is extra valuable - you'd want that in 200 ms or so ideally. So one trick is load 3 items, then 30 or so.

Also you have to look at actual cost. Perhaps loading an extra 15 queries on the home screen costs $0.0004, but when you have 1m daily active home page uses, that's an extra $400 per day. In unoptimized pieces of code, the cost could well be 20x higher.

If you have a very high average user value like Jira, that's fine. But for say, a free manga site or something like imdb, you want to shave off costs wherever possible.
I think that's exactly his point.
Fair enough, thank you. I like to keep things grounded in reality, theoretical considerations are fine for after the fact analysis but in a fluid situation decisions need to be made. They'll never be perfect but not deciding is abdication and that isn't really an option.

Where I live the health care system has been weakened to the point that we can't really deal with such levels of calamity in a responsible manner any more, the result of years of neo-liberal cost cutting and attempts to create a market situation around health care. The end result is a terribly fragile mix of high density populations, extreme mobility and very little cushion to absorb mistakes. It remains to be seen if either one of the three scenarios you sketched will work for us in the longer term, so far it's not looking all that good but it also could have been far worse.
Yes, but in my experience if your issue is operator overloading then you have bigger issues to worry about.
also the early web had some hype with claiming ownership of web domains.
aka Tether bailout
I know it's not kosher here to accuse others of shilling, but you are acting like it doesn't happen. It absolutely does, all the time.

Less on HN than other social media, maybe, but this place is far from immune.
Or you could use something like keepass? Its open and free and intects with browsers just fine. Unsure of brave support though
I did read Iron John - came here to repeat OP's comment.
You really need to look up what "logic fallacy" means. Any invalid logical inference is a fallacy. An appeal to authority is not a valid logical inference because an authority's claim is not necessarily true; the definition of a valid inference rule is if it's result is necessarily true if it's antecedents are true. Therefore an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy, by definition.
It's creative and original. I like the style and would love to see these buildings in person. And if it kicks off a movement in the city, all the better for it. There's too much cookie cutter construction in the world. This colorful style seems like it would be right at home next to St. Basil's cathedral.
How to Understand the GUI API of macOS?
How could one go about probing the internals of macOS to learn about the API driving it's GUI? It would be useful while providing GUI handling capabilities using a language not supported by Apple.
If we are talking about AI singularity then to achieve a superintelligence, it should at first achieve human-level intelligence (and just to be very specific, it should achieve human-level intelligence for a wide variety of unstructured situations).

I think two tell-tale things will be:
- AI passing Turing test
- AI started to improve itself (after passing Turing test)
I've actually studied a lot about logical fallacies, and so I can tell you with certainty that appeal to authority is, indeed, a logical fallacy.

Source: Myself, an authority

Joking aside, you are just misrepresenting what the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy is. An "appeal to authority" is when one argues that "X is correct because <insert some expert> said it was". In really, X is either correct or incorrect, regardless of what any authority has said about it.

So yes, appeal to authority is absolutely a logical fallacy. Changing the definition of those words and then arguing that your definition isn't a fallacy is called a fallacy of equivocation. And yes, a fallacy of equivocation is also a logical fallacy.
> I don't usually use VPN for privacy, since these days you have HTTPS that protects the communication, but they are super useful if you want to use a network that is not yours without issues.

https doesn’t protect against URL snooping, so privacy is only as good as the request.

Not that VPN is a real solution, but I find the GP/source’s thought process on this as sloppy.
Yeah, no, being logged everywhere you go is not "small".
> Sometimes it is used as the adjective form of EU member state.

Sometimes people make mistakes, sometimes outright errors. Sometimes people use language to push ideas they like, such as "the EU is Europe" and thus not being a part of the EU is somehow an offence against nature. I'm not sure why these mistakes, errors, and mendacities should go unchallenged and uncorrected.

Every use of "Europe" in that article could be replaced with "EU" and it would be the better for it.
Watch GUI events
People often conveniently claim they had "no choice" so they can absolve themselves of responsibility for their actions.

> How much of a choice is it to be attracted to a given individual?

Don't confuse ones' choices with ones' desires. You have free will, you can indulge in the bad predilections, or not. Your choice.

Nobody said making the better choice is easy.

If I had my druthers, I'd eat nothing but donuts and ice cream all day. But I choose otherwise.
I don’t think you read the piece.
Non issue, if you are vaccinated and not old you will not die to 3dp.

If you're not vaccinated and not old you will not die to 1-2dp.

It's finished, done, boring now.
GetElementById vs. QuerySelector
I bet this is why Elon invested in bitcoin - target demographic. He knows how to market to the next generation: millenials and Gen Z who felt left out - a bet they will buy Teslas
not the OP but want to thank you for the advice. i’ve been dragging my feet unable to make/stick to a list of my wants/desires/5-year ideations, I think I’ll try make a list with your framing of problem solving instead.
"South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and Pfizer (PFE.N) to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because it now has too much stock, health ministry officials said, as vaccine hesitancy slows an inoculation campaign."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-...

If rest of the world don't want it, I'll take it (and did).
I have a tin of sardines that's been kept in the fridge for quite a while (2 months I think) Is it now unsafe?
I'm aware of those concerns. Of course there are more reasons why I decided to buy than what I said and there are risks in doing so. Inflation and low interest rates were important in my decision though.
Ok. Just Socialist would have done. Is $35,000-40,000 not a living wage? I know everyone wants to pretend that everyone should be wealthy, but that seems like a pretty fine wage to me.
A seizure is not the same thing at all. Nobody can choose to have a seizure, or choose not to have one.
Any reading material (physical/online) which might help me?
Ok. I am sorry they treated you that way. It must take a lot to take a 50% paycut.
This example seems to be a great demo of why people do not like working with PHP. PHP makes the shit method the massively simpler way and the good method much harder. Now you open yourself up to risks like what happens if we accidentally let some user input change the file opened as well as the content written.

While with rails, to do basically anything, you already have a full db ready and incrementing a counter using the ORM is even easier than opening a text file. So people avoid PHP because it most likely involves dealing with absolute crap code written with no understanding.
Uber Shuts Down in Belgium
Note that there's a followup to that article, 3 years later: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/more-about-that-strange-pentium...

IMHO the comments are the most interesting part of these articles. They read like biologists trying to figure out what "species" this odd specimen is.
Indeed, but the price difference is pretty huge for seemingly barely noticeable improvement in brightness, useful for HDR but it can be twice as expensive.
So you're poor and live miles away from everything.

I don't see why we should optimize life around this but meh. You do you, I guess.

I already quit so w/e.
>25. That evolution happened to settle on this trick of “love” to serve the interests of evolution rather than, like, causing us to feel like we’re being burned alive every time we don’t find mates or feed our kids or whatever

I liked the article but this strikes me as strange because this is clearly not the same for everyone. Depending on who you ask there's a sizeable population of people who, because of environment and genetics, cannot focus on the "love" parts of relationships and are predisposed to focus on fears of abandonment etc to stay in relationships without lots of help and drugs.

Be happy you got a decent dice roll if you regularly feel positive about your relationships, triply so if this "positive affect" guides the majority your life decisions!
Emacs is older than X11.
Canada's fighter procurement saga is a fascinating tale of arbitrary and spiteful requirement definition. The initial pledge not to purchase the F-35 was basically a signalling of anti-Americanism, and a way to differentiate the Liberals from their Conservative predecessors, by saying the F-35 was 'the wrong airplane'. Then the Liberals got mad at Boeing over their dispute from Bombardier, so the F-18E/F were 'wrong' too.

As far as I can tell, nobody has actually defined what they want to see or get out of a Canadian fighter, and there isn't a broad vision for the Canadian armed forces either.
* face palm * yes ofc I am surrounded by bored apes but never would have connected it to being a patron of the arts, hah!
They’re ones who’ve seen that it’s probably their one shot at generational wealth, so they’ve all bought their lottery tickets.
TFA explains the trick somewhat oddly, to make the math angle more obvious. Here's a (random) video of someone doing it a more usual presentation of the effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xau8Ng4aQ6Y

Not the world's greatest magic trick or anything, but I don't think it's as transparently obvious to figure out as several commenters are suggesting.
Hindsight is 20/20.

Nuanced toolbox for the real world > absolutist myopia.

Whenever someone claims years of experience, they've given up on mastery.

Native produces better, faster apps than introducing abstraction layers. Electron and Atom are resource hogs that force you into wasting resources. Appcelerator, Phone Gap, Gtk+, and Qt are for when you don't have the time or money to make something quality.

Saying NFS isn't used anymore is ridiculous. Modern NFS 4.2 with pNFS features is badass.
A great tactic to shut down strangers who you disagree at the bar or whatever: demand evidence for obvious claims. This actually has been verified, look into studies relating to how children react to toys whose apparent target audience is the opposite gender. And also look into the widely accepted phenomenon that men and women in developed countries tend to gravitate more towards occupations traditionally associated with their own genders, even when presented with other opportunities.
I took a low-five-figure paycut when I joined the United States Digital Service[1], but that's pretty expected. It's not the sort of job you do for money.

It was incredibly worth it in terms of personal fulfillment, sense of purpose, and life-changing perspective. Economically, though, certainly not.

[1]: https://usds.gov
Learning curves bring payoffs. It's most important that an expert can quickly make changes that are obviously correct, concise, and performant to the other experts.

Quickly onboarding novices is only helpful for throwaway work or teams with retention problems. Their work inherently needs more scrutiny until they become experts.
It amuses me when I run apt-get as root, it reminds me that this has super cow powers.
That's cool, I had COVID and like 99.95% of people my age and BMI had a completely mild case, and I don't have a head of state hysterically laughing as she explains to me how I can get my basic freedoms back by taking shots manufactured by private for-profit concerns.

Will be very interesting to see where the death rate comparison goes when NZ opens up. If it ever does.
A heartless and uninformed perspective that is all too common among people born into privilege (you may not have been but in my experience, most people who believe this were).

The majority of addicts are people who have experienced trauma. Often this is childhood trauma, specifically sexual, emotional or physical abuse. Of course it may also have occurred in adulthood. Veterans are one common example but there are millions of other causes.

Shit happens man. You can be an armchair judge but it’s all too easy to go off the rails in this world. Be compassionate! Instead of “you made some bad choices” maybe try thinking, “there but for the grace of god go I”.
> Agueda in central Portugal, some 75 km (47 miles) south of Porto
It's true that function overloading is often overused. operator overloading, too <cough>iostreams</cough>
Wasn't that always the case?
This is why I have nightmares about undergrad engineering. Professors and TAs lose perspective when they teach the same material repeatedly and think they need to make things interesting. No, your job is to communicate abstract ideas clearly, which is apparently an extremely rare skill.
"...protection against hospitalization and death persisted at a robust level for 6 months after the second dose" (from the above linked article)

This is the important part in my opinion and I've heard it explained thus: the level of antibodies circulating in the body goes down after six months, so you may be susceptible to infection. However, the immune system creates something called "memory cells" which live in the lymphatic system and will activate a robust immune response if they come into contact with the antigen again.
If you are writing toy programs in your mom's basement sure but every real world clojure project I have work with had to use Java libraries.

When I said 'not writing Java' I was obviously talking about the JVM.
The idea that development in golang is slow is funny.
Your post is 10 years too late because we are talking about php today. PHP was elegant in different ways 10 years ago.
A higher price allows the use of particular materials, precision engineering, and slim custom components.

Some is a huge R&D spend, the bill of materials, and assembly techniques.
You think I'm taking about BS gag orders or NDA agreements....

When we're talking CIA, you can't get your way out of it with a better lawyer of by paying a fine. It's a decade of jail waiting for you if you don't bend over and give them exactly what they want. You have no constitutional rights when it comes to national security. they are legally allowed to kill US citizens without having to get court approval if they think they are a threat to the nation.
Well we both know there are only two types of languages, those that no one uses and those that people waste their time bitching about online. Glad to see TS is in the second category or else my day job would be useless :)

That ad-homonyms do a good job of convincing me this isn’t a thread worth continuing. I wish you well in finding a powerful, complete, and consistent type system. I’m sure you’ll succeed if you try hard enough.
Kinda scared, I didn't know a lot of those old things, since I'm kinda young and I wasn't into computers.
Maybe having Eco Health Alliance there isn't a good thing
It’s a mixed bag, but plenty of options are theoretically viable. However, it’s much easier to pull off a scam than build a practical fusion device.

Still looking around you can find many seemingly reasonable designs. Using fusion bombs to heat up rock and then extracting energy is completely buildable today, but not currently economically viable. The history of inertial confinement fusion had more to do with validating models of fusion bombs than a realistic energy source, but things have ramped up enough that it’s starting to seem more possible though still unlikely to work any time soon. Outside of that things get odd. Simply firing a fusion bullet scales really well, but runs into serious issues designing the gun. A coil gun in high vacuum might in theory work, but trying to actually build one is another story

Piston fusion is quite similar to inertial confinement in theory. Of course it’s a long shot that’s closer to snake oil than a practical design, but high risk reward long shots aren’t scams as long as the team is upfront about what’s going on. Sometimes physics just doesn’t work the way you think it would. Sonoluminescence is one of my go to examples that seems stranger than fiction.

PS: A liquid vortex is actually one method for building a blanket for steady state magnetic fusion setup. It solves several real problems, but is mostly about economic viability not achieving break even.
"BNT162b2-induced protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection appeared to wane rapidly following its peak after the second dose, but protection against hospitalization and death persisted at a robust level for 6 months after the second dose. (Funded by Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar and others.)"

Just to be clear. The protection from severe sickness, which is what is promised for the vaccines, did persist.
Modeling Seashells (1992) [pdf]
Terms of Service are universally wishlists of things a legal department may wish to enforce if they are so inclined. In this case, they are not so inclined.
Yep that's what was suspected at the time which is why these experts were saying it's probably more like a seasonal flu than a serious pandemic of other sorts, don't wear a mask, keep traveling, etc. And they were wrong (well, to some extent -- it's still probably around a 1% mortality rate so still arguably closer to a seasonal flu going by Fauci's same reasoning).

Clearly bullying here of a person for pretty much repeating what many experts like Fauci and politicians like Pelosi were saying at the time is way out of line. Hopefully you can agree on that.
A vision of the CAF would require a well defined goal for the CAF. There are only two, really - defending the Canadian Arctic for which we don't need a new fighter and which opposes us to Russia (and US that contests our claims), or being a token for the US to gain legitimacy on its adventures. There's really nothing else.

A rejection of the F-35 is a rejection of the second vision and it's not anti-americanism, it's a lack of pro-americanism.

Hilariously enough the airplane that's best suited to the first mission would have to be able to sink Russian icebreakers from a long range at great speed, and would probably be the Tu-22M and it's assorted supersonic cruise missiles. Sadly no nation will sell you weapons that can only be used against itself.

Outside of these two missions all we need is a jet to do basic airspace defence, interceptions, and that can carry some kind of antiship missile. Basically any jet will do the job, there's not much point buying the F-35 for that with all that entails.
This makes my eyes bleed.
Pentagon will track unexplained airborne objects through new intelligence group
https://archive.ph/3Ht8b
Ok, going to say you reminded me and I agree now. I was thinking solely of WP core, but if you are to include all of the official plugins and Woocommerce, then yeah I can see the issue.
Honestly stunned. Thanks for sharing.
Mediatek was also strongly tied to ADUPS FOTA.

This is not an ARM environment designed for high security.

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/wednesday/us-17-Johnson-...
Happy National Day Of Mourning, everyone!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/national-day-of-mourning-r...
If you're lonely I can't be any more emphatic when I recommend real life groups.

Tech meet ups, gym classes, insert interest here groups and anything else you can think of.

Online connections just don't fully satisfy the human need for connecting.
In the US I was seeing things labeled as "Black Friday" in the middle of the summer.
But it's not and it has been documented. Apple paid for the 3nm process years before TSMC had the fab ready. I'll bet that the moment a new process is available that Apple will invest in it as well.
I think a contributing factor is Apple’s decisions to solder everything directly on the motherboard. No sockets, no plugs, they cut out a lot of volume at the cost of flexibility.
I think the problem here is people in the West see things in the following way:

Chinese system inherently evil.

Western system inherently good.

When a bad thing happens in the West; we condemn it but don't see it as the overall system being evil.
When a bad thing happens in China; we condemn it and see it as further evidence of the fundamental evil of the system.

I think the Chinese basically have faith in their Government in spite of its short comings.
Yeah, I think you're right.

There's something about real analysis that makes me uncomfortable. I've been struggling for years to put my finger on it. Whatever it is, topology doesn't have it.

I had mistakenly decided that it was an overappreciation of continuity, but I think it must be something else.
"Goal" kinda invokes intentionality, which can't exist at the size viruses are. (Of course it's an open question whether it exists at all but let's leave that aside.)

Viruses don't have goals. If a virus successfully makes more virus, then there is more of the virus. For viruses that don't do that, there are less of them. That's all there is to it.

It so happens that making more virus often requires resources that were previously in use by other organisms. But that's incidental, not by design.

You only see viruses that are good at making more virus because the other ones died out.
This article is about the F-18 Super Hornet, which Boeing manufactures. However I think it's interesting to note that the F-18 and F-15 were both designed by McDonnell Douglas. The last time Boeing designed a successful fighter jet on their own was never.
I'm sure it happens in the abstract. They're definitely not a shill though.

As far as we've seen China has no shill operation outside of its borders outside of bots and some vote manipulation by Chinese companies for profit.
Excuse my intrigue.
Is this topic biased to language design or experience using php?