skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s puzzling for some of us that someone might be so apologetic and deferential for speaking their mind in a text forum - this is what we’re all here for, free association; someone’s post reminds you of David Icke and projection of meaning, by all means tell us all about it.

edit: I’m not the person you’re replying to
The introduction in the paper explains the motivation for Ribbit:

The use case which has motivated our work is code mobility where an executable program can be embedded in a document, email, or website. In that use case the size of the program must be small to minimize the transmission or loading time or to satisfy space constraints, such as the size of a disk boot sector, the URL length limit and the UDP packet size. On the other hand, the space used while the program is executing is of secondary importance.

So the main target application is not microcontrollers, even if it can obviously be used for some microcontrollers (for example a 1-2$ ESP32-C3 has 400 KB of RAM).

One of the possible applications of Ribbit is to implement the RVM (Ribbit VM) in the Excel spreadsheet formula language (which will soon be turing-complete with the addition of the LAMBDA form) to be able to program spreadsheets in Scheme. The execution environment has lots and lots of RAM, but you want the .xls file itself (which contains the RVM) to be as small as possible so it can easily be sent in emails, etc.
I’m going to make this a separate reply because it’s important. “Schizoid” tendencies might just be a turn of phrase. If so, it’s insensitive but I can’t stop you.

If that’s not just a turn of phrase and you’re being serious, you can find a lot of good in medical science. If you need someone to go with you, I’m based in Canada but have a passport. My email is in my profile and anything you send stays between us unless you’re planning on harming yourself. Then seriously holmes, it’s on.
Not sure if it's just me but with Firefox mobile nightly, sometimes when scrolling it instead randomly zooms in a bit.
"explains why Facebook shows me wildly random ads for Viagra alternatives, yoga pants, conservative news, and better kitty litter than my current brand."

Scroll to the bottom of CNN - it's all rubbish ads. That's just the long tail of attention-scamming, it's not FB.
What exactly is wrong with Callable though? The argument and return types can be structural types. It doesn’t really make the function less powerful if you only constrain the input to have the exact interface you need, and nothing more.
It also notes a 21% CAGR from 2021-2024 for the TAM, so their growth ceiling may be higher than it looks initially.
Lwjgl – The Lightweight Java Game Library Version 3.3 Released
I think a more concise explanation is just that street design impacts speed choices.

https://beyondtheautomobile.com/2021/02/08/what-is-design-sp...
You realise this is mostly the case in the US?

In the EU
- previous infection and recovery gives you a COVID Pass
- some countries are doing a single shot after infection at most to count you as vaccinated (Spain I believe does this) which is consistent with the data we have

It’s mostly the US that has an insane vacine policy.
Stealth Camping in a Body Bag
People put $35 items on their credit cards all the time, and don't always pay off their balance monthly.
Very, very, very few people can do full-time sports. You never hear of companies changing their compensation because prospective employees are going into sports instead.
United States will place travel restrictions on S. Africa and 7 other countries
> I reckon the real problem is that the Chinese can now produce equivalent wares at remarkably lower prices (because hey, almost-slave labor is cheap)

It's also that they have no problem copying designs instead of innovating and creating their own. So the western companies pays for R&D and marketing and the Chinese CopyCat just tries to match the product as much as it can and flood online retailers.
I’ve thought this, too, and like you I don’t have a compelling explanation. It’s true that the middle class is dwindling, but even the poor today have more _stuff_ than the middle class used to. But it is, as you say, mostly crap.

I’m not sure what you mean by consumer min-maxing, but perhaps this — one thing I’ve thought is that the amount and variety of crap you own in this culture is more important than the quality. And not from a utility perspective, rather because our dominant entertainment reinforces it. It’s a given that you must own a dishwasher, so you get a cheap one — yet it’s literally worse than hand-washing dishes, and needs to be replaced every 5 years. You can’t own one good kitchen knife, you must get a wooden knife block like the chefs have, even if all seven knives are crap.

Many of the cheap tools you buy at Harbor Freight will literally break the first time you use them as intended. This is all told a shocking waste of human effort — every scrap of resource and moment of time spent creating this crap is wasted, burned forever. When often just making something 20% better will leave it “good enough.”
> Saṃsāra (संसार) is a Sanskrit/Pali word that means "world"

I am not a Buddhist, but is "the world" something to be "escaped"? I can't find a matching definition for it to imply escape.
Yes, I was working in the field, not as a hobby. The programming language and compiler research certainly preceded IBM's foray into publicizing "cloud quantum", but I think they had just come out with a primitive version of their Quantum Experience by the time we gave that talk. This was definitely before the public hype set full sail—but it was clearly beginning to simmer. Everything was really research-oriented then, but it's, as you observe, around the time companies began to open up a bit more. (This is completely ignoring DWave, a whole different story. This also ignores physics-academia, which on the other hand had all sorts of hype, all of which eventually bled into the public arena, from Majorana qubits to chemical simulation.)

As a personal aside, I miss those days when things were just so much quieter, heads-down, and collegial. It's difficult to describe how the research and commercial environment has changed for its participants over the last decade.
House of Gucci – The Power of the Dog – Hawkeye – Burning
I don’t even know what I’m _talking_ about!
The fact that nuclear power exists and no politician is talking about it makes me question the intentions and ethics of government. It seems like a lot of this just has to do with money. Huge losses would be made if we converted everything but if we did all of our warming issues would be fixed. We can store the radioactive waste temporarily until we can easily ship it to the moon and bury it. We will likely have that space tech very soon. IDK what the hell is going on bc this plan seems SO EASY and fixes EVERYTHING!!
Yeah but why bother? Why is this a big deal? Just having a funny/dumb pun to the name means you might as well avoid it tbh.
Games for IBM AS/400
Where have I heard this story before? Oh yeah, January 2020. Here we go again.
I've never heard of them EXCEPT for the fact that for months I saw their ads before every video I watched on Youtube. I kept wondering why I was seeing them because it's a product that I clearly have no use for.
I agree that if the population grows, than GDP should also grow to account for that person. But nothing about our economic system says that the population must grow. Regarding Japan, GDP per capita was basically flat from the late 80s to the early 2010s: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CN?end=2020...

Also, people don’t suggest that Papua New Guinea grow the economy for the sake of growth or the sake of the broader economic system. People think Papua New Guinea should grow because the quality of life of the population would be improved. This is not a convincing argument that our economic system is predicated on continuous growth.
Yes, kind of baffling name choice? I suspect they totally misunderstood the concept as a replenishing / refreshing cycle rather than the self-perpetuating nature of suffering.
That’s the original variant I am afraid.
Citation needed. With a quick search, it looks like the Sahara has been dry for about 5400 years, with a wet-dry cycle going on for millions of years caused by changes in the Earth's orbital axis.
Yeah, I remember now the pain of using bad orms. That feeling that you know what you want, but it’s going to load the data via configuration that you can’t bend into shape.

Sqlalchemy is not that kind of orm. If anything is running slow in production I can find it from the logs and then track it to the code quickly - then you can do any sort of query you want in its place. For me it’s never the orm loading stuff that’s slow, it’s always the more complicated queries we’ve done for reporting or whatever.
> disagree with the "taking a photo of me on the pavement" part. It's actually illegal in Sweden.

It is? Since how long; when was that law changed?
"Nu" means nude in Portuguese, French and Catalan, but that's the masculine form, whereas the noun variant is feminine, therefore "nu variant" would never be mistaken for "nude variant". But even if it could be misinterpreted, I don't think anybody would care.
Why did it not age well? Are there any new findings regarding Vietnam?
You could ask Cloudflare or Google and they would probably say that they should run it all.
Another case of a company “going public” but insiders retaining total control. I guess we’ll have to wait for the next market crash to get rid of these fake public companies.
Right. It's a fixed term loan. Not revolving credit. These 2 loans are mathematically equivalent:

$35 at 0% APR, $4 fees, 6 weeks fixed term

$35 at 123% APR, $0 fees, 6 weeks fixed term

You could argue the high APR loan is worse because interest will be compounding if you miss your payments. But I'm guessing the Zip loan also has late payment fees.
Good! Keep it up. Let things be, enough of this vaccine pass comrade BS.

We who are vaccinated should be at peace and trust this vaccine will reduce the likelihood of severe illness. Those who aren’t, I wish them the best, but that’s their choice.

Hopefully this will finally encourage smokers to quit and the obese to cut out a few sodas per day.
I didn't say it was the wrong approach. I'm actually exasperated by what the WHO and South Africa are saying. They're saying we're not supposed to exercise any precaution until they've waited two days to decide whether to impose a lockdown against a variant which has (with current knowledge) a high chance of evading previously acquired immunity. The variant is highly transmissible, and infections can grow rapidly in that period. This might lead to a reckoning for the WHO.

> Taking a risk-averse approach in a highly risky and uncertain situation isn't inconsistent with the WHO's recommendation to take a "risk-based and scientific approach."

South Africa interpreted the WHO's statements as being against imposing travel bans. The first sentence of your comment implies you agree that that's what they meant. It's either that, or the WHO's statements are meaningless verbiage.

This looks like the events of early 2020 repeating.
It was definitely very hype within academia long before that, even if you weren't hearing much about it in mainstream news yet.
Unless I orient the thin edge of my thumbnail so I’m presenting the smallest possible cross section towards the sun!
If you have a cable connection today, you can serve reliably just fine. Throughput isn’t the best and there are other minor issues, but it’s reliable enough for most people’s purposes.
Because if WHO like any other multi national agency is afraid to offend China.
Our business is virtual live music. We have tried everything - Jamulus, JamKazam, various plugins for Ableton, Protools, Logic, etc. Bottom line is speed of light = speed of light.

Good musicians can adapt to low-latency group playback, but it's difficult, and at that point, it isn't true realtime collaboration. The band/musicians are more focused on staying in time and fighting the latency versus really listening to each other and being a band.

One great tool for doing long-distance collaboration is Endlesss. (yes, three "s"s). Loop-based work that allows for real collaboration, and getting around the latency issue.
In buddhism, "the world" is material, personal, and full of suffering. It is something to let go.
Also in French.
Keep an eye out for the new system module for MNT Reform which will feature LS1028A SoC [0] and is supposed to be ready mid-2021[1]. It will allow 8 or 16gb of RAM. As it's open-source hardware you can watch the progress here: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-s...

[0] https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...

[1] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-11-27-reform-producti...

See also https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/post-campaign... and https://mastodon.social/@mntmn
It’s been good for a long time with an important caveat: Tesseract historically needed preprocessing if your scans were skewed or warped. Years back I talked with someone from Google who said that they’d focused their efforts on the preprocessor side deskewing and identifying structure like columns, but not extensively modifying Tesseract itself.
What a superb strawman museum you assembled here. Let's try and make sure we don't emit too much more greenhouse gases, or it might catch fire ;-)
Declaring the types manually ensures that you don’t change the interface by accident. If I start using an attribute of an argument that wasn’t required before, I’ll get an error from the linter that will prevent me from breaking user code.
You’re making a lot of assumptions.

First, you’re assuming that I came across David Icke by chance. I didn’t. Someone I love has schizophrenia and is currently homeless. David Icke was part of his path. Fuck David Icke.

Second, you’re assuming I have no compassion. What if someone reading this is sick?? I can be a dickbag or possibly set myself up as someone worth confiding in.

I’ll err on the side of being someone worth confiding in. Sorry bud but your opinion isn’t very important to me.
Considering the power of mainframes, I wonder why there are few games made.
Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra):

> Popularly, it is the cycle of death and rebirth.

Maybe it is because there is a "popular" definition that the casual observer wouldn't interpret as something to be escaped? Western audiences often borrow words and concepts from other cultures, that often have deep meaning behind them, and reduce them to some shallow commercial one-liner that their audiences can latch onto.

I guess I have a different question about a company picking such a name - is it appropriate ethically? It feels like they've co-opted a term that has a particular cultural and religious meaning, will probably mispronounce it in all their marketing, will popularize a shallow understanding of this term rather than the deeper source material (as has happened with terms like karma, yoga, and other such popularized terms of Hindu origin), and also place a trademark on something that has always existed as a free to use concept. I recognize that one of the founders is Indian, but it still doesn't sit well with me.
I've been leaning on my app's users to do what they need to do on their end to implement offline/local first use of the app and they just do not get it. For them the only issues they've had were connection issue on their end with their service providers so they don't feel this is an issue of concern.

But I read stuff like this, and in this case it's Krebs, so I have to expect these kinds of issues will pop up. The article mentions the FB outage and most everyone on my FB feed was freaking out over not being able to access it, and for the most part it's not a critical service. And when they came back online some of the conspiracies they were sharing about what/why it happened were way over the top.

From my perspective it feels like everything on the internet is just one missed tap on a keyboard from breaking.
wife of friend is UX designer at Wix about 4 years now I was surprised compared to friends in early stage cyber security often not getting as much.
I like to think "Futurama". Soon Omicron Persei 8 will subjugate the humans!
Maybe, some people prefer nirvana.
Perhaps so that generic QR code scanners can parse it and then know to forward it along to the appropriate app?
There is so much good advice in this thread!

- Friends and family and community. This is actually more important than all other advice in this thread (I never say that kind of thing, but it's true here). They will be there for you when you can't be there for yourself. The HN community is giving good advice, and a community that knows you personally will give you even better advice. Modernity is hard on friendships and community so it takes some work to get started and maintain.

- Exercise. In your 20s, someone who lifts is just bigger. In your 30s and 40s, someone who lifts is actually fitter, and it diverges from there.

- Music. I have just started learning piano. "Where has this been all my life?" The skill compounds, and it's a huge help.

- Therapy, probably. Whatever issues you have won't just go away, and it's wonderful to have inner freedom. Quality is completely dependent on the relationship with that particular therapist.

- Meditation, if you can avoid the mainstream stuff.
You know, there's something good to be said about lightweight netbooks like PineBook, even though it's currently out of stock: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

I actually got a vaguely similar x86 based netbook a few years back, a slightly older release of this: https://techbite.eu/en/laptopy/laptop-zin-3-14-1

It cost me about 210 euros (235-240 dollars) and a rough comparison would look like this:

- PineBook has a 1920x1080 display, the laptop i got comes in both 1366x768 and 1920x1080 variations
- PineBook has 6 ARM cores (4 x A53 and 2 x A72), it has 2 x86 cores (N4020)
- both have 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM
- PineBook has ARM Mali T860 MP4 GPU, it has Intel HD Graphics 600
- PineBook has 64GB of eMMC storage, it has 128GB of storage
- both support additional M.2 storage

In my eyes, the biggest benefits for both would be:

- small form factor (fits in a bag)
- light weight (carried mine primarily for not taking)
- low power usage (no more laptop batteries that run out in 2 hours)
- enough for common tasks (browsed web and worked on documents, did light development while taking a bus or on vacation)

However, the biggest drawbacks could be:

- inadequate CPU performance for most of the more "serious" tasks out there, e.g. number crunching
- inadequate GPU performance for certain tasks (e.g. high definition videos, though possibly a bigger problem with ARM as some commenters pointed out, or any sort of gaming with either)
- somewhat poorer thermals under load (probably more of a problem with x86 rather than ARM, though i could be wrong)
- limited I/O (vs 4 monitors connected to my PC right now)
- limited hardware/software support (in the case of the budget x86 notebook i still haven't managed to get the fingerprint scanner working in Linux, had to get and compile Wi-Fi drivers off of GitHub, in the case of ARM there will probably be challenges with porting some software or finding precompiled releases, or even just Docker containers)
- build quality (case flexing, overall durability, look and feel of the keyboard vs a full sized mechanical one for a PC)

In short, it's nice to see computing be made more affordable and accessible (both in regards to x86 and ARM) and many of the drawbacks aren't necessarily dealbreakers for many of the use cases out there. I would have loved to have something like this be one of my first computers, provided that i'd have the resources to figure out how to fix all of the common (probably software related) things that could break.
'and then he discovered loops' classic early apple interviewing story

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
2021 e-reader roundup: Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Paperwhite reviews
This is going to be super interesting in terms of regulation. For example how Second Life is set up to cash out. How many of these companies are actually compliant?
That APY is misleading in several ways. It implies that if you put $100 in it will be 7250x bigger in a year. But this assumes that the price won't change, i.e. you get one token for $100 now and in a year you can exchange 1 token for $100.

In reality this seems unlikely, given that Eurphoria($WAGMI) are giving out 0.81% per 8 hours 12% per 5 days, and doubling the amount of tokens in 30 days. So in 30 days I should be able to get $200 back out, and in 1 year I should be able to get out ~$725000. 2 years and I can take out over 3 billion. Yeah okay.

It's more complex than that with bonded DAI, etc, so there is some fractional reserve of capital (at the moment it looks like 10%).

The other thing with this and all these APY numbers (yield farming, incl) is that they imply that the numbers will stay the same. I.e. will hold for a whole year. In watching uniswap/sushiswap/etc this is not even remotely accurate. Those numbers (even 200%) are fleeting, they last for a day or a week. It's not stable and therefore those numbers are meaningless.

If you're small, even being a liquidity providers on a more stable pair which return ~20-30% (i.e. a possible number) don't stack up once you include Ethereum fees. It takes quite a bit of time to earn back all the fees you spent setting it up (unless you have lots of capital)

For comparison, OHM $100 now should be $4000 after one year or $300,000 after two years.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but what you are saying here is for the most part only correct for a very small subset of the population.

Your current weight is a functional aggregate of the surplus calories which consists of many factors that can't immediately be measured (yet). The "Calories in, Calories out" belief which is based on very sketchy evidence (i.e. try tracking down where that came from some time) breaks down for anyone suffering from chronic obesity.

Body Composition - (i.e. Body Fat percentage), is determined by exercise, diet, and overall health which may include factors like inflammation (allergies), liver function, vitamin levels, thyroid levels, whether they have been poisoned (lead, mercury) etc).

Most people have one or more of these issues and metabolism is dynamic. It can speed up or slow down based on gene expression which is often influenced in part by exercise but mostly food (diet).

The assumptions you make about exercising aren't necessarily true when you have a health factor and that may not be immediately determinable, or even diagnose-able in some cases. I've known quite a few people that were picture perfect health medically (according to tests) except for uncontrollable weight gain, and had to go through multiple strict elimination diets to identify the culprits.

Some people will simply gain weight regardless of the calorie count if they are sensitive to a type food (or additive like canola/soy oil). There are tons of additives in commercial food these day that aren't even necessarily listed.

As an example, commercial pork doesn't brown correctly when cooked compared to meat you spice and grind yourself and its not MSG. Pork you grind and cook yourself looks almost like the light brown of a breaded chicken steak, compare that with the dark browning you get from commercial pork breakfast sausage.

Body conditioning is important, but exercise plays a very small role compared to overall diet. I know people that have gone on 800-1000 calorie/day diets (medically supervised) for half a year and consistently maintained or even gained weight so the whole idea of calories in calories out is just ludicrous.
It looks like a honeypot. Give us your data.
Lightbulb that mimicks sunlight based on the sun position