skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key data not getting a lot of/(any?) airtime in the mainstream:

And worst of all, all-cause non-Covid mortality is running well above normal in country after country.

And the whole paragraph:

Something is wrong. The promises that the health authorities have made over the last 12 months about the vaccines are not coming true. Despite near-complete levels of adult vaccination in Europe, many countries are seeing skyrocketing Covid cases and deaths. And worst of all, all-cause non-Covid mortality is running well above normal in country after country.
A tradition for desktop software (mostly 3rd party) was to develop for "future hardware" from the moment you're developing, as Moore's law was a good rule of thumb to predict the future.

But for reasons RAM and CPU performance have kept stagnated without a lot of changes for around 10 years (until recently with Ryzen 5000, Intel 12th, and Apple M1).

Still I find funny you could buy a 16GB RAM Macbook 13" in 2012 as the top model... and today 16GB is still it's the max capacity of the line. To give a point of reference the 2002 Powerbook the Max RAM capacity was 1GB.
What is the point of arxiv other than a file host but where people forcibly constrain themselves to the bureacratic process of creating a UN*X braindamaged tex / PDF with whatever academic publishing conventions? Someone in here even has posted makefile. For analogy to the problem I am alluding to, imagine needing a makefile to write an ASCII text document. Skimming through these comments, it seems like arxiv supports some kind of search or other metadata traversal. All this stuff could be done without a centralized server. No I am not advocating for your half working p2p network, cryptocoin, or startup.
I’m reading through the fantastic game AI pro books (available online for free at gameaipro.com) and I work as a devops engineer for my day job, writing programs specific to how our business utilizes public cloud and k8s.

I am looking for opportunities to apply techniques from this game ai domain to my work domain. I suspect there are plenty of opportunities to arbitrage knowledge from other fields and am happy that I’m putting my own mind to that type of work.

To be clear; game dev is a hobby, work is work.
You're looking for concrete proof of something that happens in people's minds, but you go about it by evidence of how well they transpose that into other things (like drawing). I think brain scans could be that proof, but I suspect your disbelief may not be satisfied.
The article actually says latex is not a good fit for the web, but the philosophy behind it is what they think should be adopted
> Software developers thinking that 16GB is a small amount of RAM […]

It is… for development. Which is what software developers do and what they often buy hardware for.

Whether it's too little for the apps that they develop to run on users' machines is a separate question.
Is OLED really great for computer use? I would imagine all of the static UI would make burn-in an issue
Maybe your time…
The best resources I have found for breath technique is two books: Breath by James Nestor and The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown.

Breath is a much better book and very interesting, but is a bit less actionable in terms of real guidance it offers on what to do and practice.

The Oxygen Advantage is a much worse book with lots of hand waving and less evidence to back up all of the authors claims. The instructions on what to practice are much better and more actionable than the Breath book though.
I believe, but opinions vary wildly, that doing experiments with variations of naturally occurring virii (to try to head off a future threat) is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Helium has a pretty clever proof of geographical coverage system based on RF propagation.
The RAM is annoying but its a tradeoff for having it integrated into and shared by the CPU/GPU. macOS hasn't supported RAID boot for some years, but internally buying a larger storage configuration does get you more physical flash chips and increased bandwidth.

And Apple has Rosetta 2 translation which is extremely good and many applications beat Intel performance even when running translated. Having an Intel core would have defeated the cost and performance benefits of M1 and would make the cooling, power supply, etc. more expensive and larger.
> When Wadsted was asked whether it was worth the time and money, she replied with “Absolutely!”

> “Even though it was the American film companies that paid for my work, that work benefited all the authors and copyright holders. This is a very important but often forgotten aspect,” Wadsted told M3.

It really didn't benefit film companies tho, it exposed TPB to probably 100's of millions of people who didn't know about it previously. I wouldn't be surprised if more people know how to pirate content as a result.
I'm pretty sure Bruce Lee would agree that the one kick needs to be employed in many contexts and situations for that to hold.

I don't think the concept was as well known. There was less chance for robotic/fragile implementation of things in the past.
The problem with pessimism is that it is usually wrong, always counterproductive, and almost never gets held accountable for either. History is chock full of wrong pessimists. Smarter ones than you or I, even -- but still wrong. Hopefully you will be another.

Imagine an alternate history where Britain never let colonists go to the Americas on the assumption that either Britain would collapse before the colonies became self-sustaining or the colonies would become belligerent and conquer Britain. Now extrapolate out what the actual alternate-history would have likely been, and whether those concerns would have been wise or foolish.
Interestingly, the Model 3 actually has a pretty good reputation for reliability. Somehow it's the more expensive models that tend to do worse.
I don't know about Web4 and LaTex specifically but Web5 tech will surely be reverting to communication with mouth sprayed color pigments sketching images on cave rocks.

I believe this is just an elaborate complaint: The author simply expresses the disgust that many feel of how the utopic promise of the internet and digital technology more general (as captured, say, in the early TED sessions) has translated into a dystopia that does not seem able to find a bottom.

Maybe the promise was fake to start with, maybe mixing a pliable and ultimately "social" technology with a broken economic/political system could never have produced healthy offspring.

In any case, we are in a sort of purgatory, waiting for some miracle to absolve people and make them feel good again about their trade.
Just wait until Apple decides to "protect" its users from piracy by running a Content ID system client side. Then even if you can download a pirated file, your OS won't play it. If you're lucky, it will just delete the file, rather than informing the police.
I agree. But isn't part of the design conceit that the storage is fast enough that swapping isn't as painful as it would otherwise be?
We would still worry because of their ability to spread to people more at risk
Could that be where “3V3” style notation came from? In electronics, 3V3 means 3.3V, not 3/3V or 3x3V or 3.003V, and likewise 1R5 means 1.5 Ohm. It’s handy but took me a while to get used to.
Sure. But old Ben Graham also said that in the long-run the market is a weighing machine. Note above I said "long term". If Tesla stays long term at current prices or above, I've completely misunderstood several things in a pretty fundamental way. As an example - gold has stayed at prices which don't make much sense to me for a very long time. So my mental model for that market is "it's crazy town, stay away". That's not a very useful model. I hope I don't arrive at the same place on what is a pretty simple company - they sell cars.
Temperature isn’t the best indicator of bikeability.

That photo, to me, looks like a cloudless sky, so chances are it’s dry, little or no wind, and low humidity.

Even at -17C, that’s easy to dress for and way better than what you get around freezing with wind and rain, when the cloud cover prevents temperatures from dropping very deep (e.g. your typical British/Belgian/Dutch autumn weather)

Even that is quite doable, though, at shortish distances (say less than 5km), certainly with some wind cover, as there typically is in cities.
People get what they vote for
The main point the author is making is that PoS doesn’t require spending of any scarce resource on a per block level so the accuracy of the distributed clock is not to be trusted. I don't think they misunderstand their argument. You’re just not replying to it.
I dunno man, are you sure about this kind of supply side thinking? I'm much more inclined to assume demand side causality here. Which is to say: software has become "fat barges of bloat" because the /consumers/ (not producers) of said software are okay with it.
I bought a first gen remarkable used at the beginning of the year, with the expectations that

- I would read more

- I could use it for organizing work notes

For reading, almost none of my reading actually happens on remarkable. It's usually easier to just use my ultralight laptop (macbook air) instead of setting up a buggy sync to the remarkable, and having backlit screens is better than e-ink unless you have the perfect reading chair/nightstand light setup, which I don't.

For writing, I do get a lot of use out of it. I used to write a lot of paper notes and draw on scrap / computer paper, and then would gradually lose them and not be able to find things when I need them. Part of this is my own disorganization, but I also travel a lot so it sucks to have the notes in another place, and scanning requires intentional effort that seems like overkill for notes, that is until you remember them and want to look them up later.

The most useful remarkable feature, by far, though, is where you can stream your screen to a computer. Then i can write drawings and diagrams like on a whiteboard, but over Zoom for a remote team.

The problem is this feature is super duper buggy. It's currently broken for me. They "improved it" in the software but it's broken without a subscription, except I seem to have the subscription??? If anyone from remarkable is reading this, please fix that one feature, (used to be called LiveView), and then I will keep your product and write a good review.

Yes, a laptop with a pen or tablet would also serve the same purpose, I know. If I had an iPad, I would probably use it instead.
I agree that if the vaccine was killing people, we'd be seeing mass death. Currently we are experiencing +15% all-cause mortality, where 2020 was around 0%.

The reason we are testing 200k/day is because you don't have many options for moving around without a valid test or vaccine. Ie. school, shopping, work etc requires it.
This just proves the parent commenter right. 'Software developers often have to run...' - yes! That is the problem! People shouldn't have to run all of that, but they do. If people thought about what they really needed rather than just buying more hardware, the world would be a better place.

(Also, I doubt you need hundreds of chrome tabs + heavy IDEs, a couple of tabs + <insert lightweight editor of choice> works just fine)
I would be fine if I could somehow generate an index for print. CSS kind of supports it, but that is only implemented by a few proprietary tools (yay web "standards").
Well the article title is clickbait, the author wants the web to move to plaintext, but doesn’t actually seem to suggest moving away from plain html and css.

(Still a bit silly though since the author does mention latex as an alternative too).
Took me a minute, ha!
> but you can’t flex your payments.

Interesting point, sounds like an unserved need that maybe could be a business opportunity for somebody.

Another thing you can’t flex is repairs, which tend to be more frequent for ICE cars.

> I would argue that if you had two car seats the third row would be completely in accessible.

I think you meant to say “I would imagine.”

And as is frequently the case with people underestimating Tesla, you would imagine wrong.

You can put not just two, but THREE car seats in the second row and still access the third row. The second row seats move forward easily and temporarily to enable this.
Should we be tracking our vo2 or rather just get in the best shape you can and assume vo2 is good?
the disconnect here is that the web browser isn't a document viewer (but the author here wants it to be just that). and yeah, html is a _document markup language_, but the problem is that it's not what we _actually want_ - we want cross-platform, sandboxed applications with instantaneous delivery. practically no one really cares about "hypertext" - that's not where the majority of value for most people lies.
Has OP ever actually read Dune? The prescience Navigators use to navigate foldspace has nothing to do with asteroids in regular outer space. (That space is pretty empty has been obvious for approximately 2000+ years, no need for any modern science.)
There are no guarantees of course, but I am fond of saying “it’s called space for a reason.” There is so damn much of it. Go find one of those “solar system to scale” models.

Anyone with interstellar capability could definitely go somewhere else. That doesn’t guarantee they won’t be assholes but it means it’s unlikely that future spacefaring intelligences will be pushed into an aggressive position by scarcity of land or resources. They will at least have the option of just going elsewhere.

Personally I think large scale space conflict for rational reasons is unlikely both because of how costly it could be (any spacefaring being has ludicrously overpowered WMDs) and the optionality. So if it does happen I would predict it occurring for irrational reasons. That happens of course.
That's about my workout frequency, and I'm basically sore all the time. I am constantly working on increasing weights though, I'm sure if I just did "maintenance" workouts it would be different.

Edit: clarify "sore" not "in pain" there is a difference.
Practically speaking, it is not a good advice to just treat log(n) as if it is constant. While it's true that log(n) is always small in practice, the conclusion should not be to ignore it, but rather to notice the constant factor. And in practice, usually data structures with O(log n) complexity also have a bigger hidden constant. For example, std::unordered_map is much faster in practice than std::map. Of course, this is not strictly correct, it's just a heuristics. Quicksort with its O(log n) [Edit: O(n log n)] complexity is a counter-example to this.
there’s not a ‘crap-ton’ of (active) covid floating around in the air, super-especially not outside. the virus is relatively fragile and falls apart rapidly due to a variety of natural and man-made forces. moreover, outside, there is a shit-ton of air for the virus to dissipate into far away from any and all people. active virus can only really concentrate to threshold infectious levels when in face-to-face conversation due to continuous exposure of active virus (before it falls apart due to external forces).

with that said, yes, getting a lot of under-threshold exposure can build immunity without getting sick (i.e., asymptomatic infection). this is a mechanism that’s often used by our bodies to develop novel disease resistance, but has been suppressed for public discussion for largely mediopolitical reasons.
Or they just prefer easy and fast ways for developing apps (looking Electron et al.) Which bloats the memory. Goes unnoticed since they have high memory themselves.

Literally Teams is one of them. Well, it is dropping Electron in the future.
Yeah, I have no idea where the author found that. I have one on my desk right now (but no ruler unfortunately), and it stands somewhere between A4 and A5.

Edit: according to A4/5 standards and Remarkable promotional content, it should be very close to A4.5.
See https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23311.pdf

Under III.A.3, it appears presently legal to use tools such as this:

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

as long as you are using it for a purpose listed in the exemption.
Sure, ironic flat earthers bear some resemblance to past cultural touch points like SubGenius, and some people take them too seriously.

That isn't the strangeness I'm talking about. Or rather, it's only a part of it: Awareness of it by rank and file average young people is new and has an impact on their worldview and whether or not the world around them makes any sense. But you're cherry picking things like that which are not part of the strangeness that I mean:

I'm not sure you can look at lockdowns, quarantines, fundamental shifts in how we talk about socializing, a generation of students losing 1-2 years of normal academic and social development, mass shortages of basic items, the emergence of countless strange digital currencies based on mixtures of ideology, economics, and memes, politicians using the rhetoric of murder against their colleagues... How much more should I go on?

I don't think you can look at all of that and reasonably say "things are not stranger now"

Even if all of that had been going on previously (it has not) then greater awareness alone would still be enough provocation to push people into seeking the escapism of "RS".

Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other on the point that I'm making?
> How to fix it?

The problem is simple: client/server model

The solution then is to migrate towards an alternative.
No, the difference is that social media has been very successfully weaponised, by the nation-state/mafia syndicates which communism gave birth to. So successfully, in fact, that it has made traditional warfare practically obsolete.

The social networks of today are to the world what the "Pravda" newspaper was to the Eastern Bloc in the 20th century. A weapon of mass subversion. (Oh the magnitude of trolling and shade in the name of that newspaper... Nothing in the past 100 years has surpassed that!)
Not the parent poster, but have done this all my live. In The Netherlands people generally stop biking for sport in the winter, yet continue biking to work, which shows that your observation that it looses its fun is largely shared. It’s just that the benefits keep outweighing the drawbacks: it’s cheap, fast (at least in congested cities), sustainable, and good for your health.

Then again, it’s much easier to keep doing something when everybody else is doing it, so if you’re in an area where cyclists are a minority I imagine it’s more of a challenge to convince yourself. The advantages do still apply so I’m sending virtual encouragement!
If readers didn't care about anything besides comfort then they'd just download the DRM free epubs from z-library for free, which is even less hassle then dealing with amazon kindle.

I still own a Kindle and buy books through it, but it's just false that this is the least hassle option.
But when conflict is resolved by energy expenditure, it involves even less suffering.
I thought they were Norwegian.
The Pandemic did slow down the stock market…there were huge drops when we still didn’t know much about COVID-19. Once we realized that it wasn’t nearly as bad as and we’d be able to create a vaccine, it corrected again (as should be expected).
I think you underestimate the fact that most of the people we are talking about are more accustomed to "magical thinking". Any stats education that didn't align with their core beliefs would be dismissed as wrong. Even if you could proof out everything and they had the core intellectual horsepower to understand there is a level of belief in belief that underlies their worldview that you can't overcome.
The new air’s right around the corner, so hopefully some of those concerns will be addressed. I’m excited that Apple can now release yearly refreshes without hesitation. No more vendor roadmaps to rely upon. This should mean faster iteration and refinement for what customers want.
More and more countries make smart decisions. Today Switzerland voted YES for covid certificates[1]. The Netherlands will effectively do the same in 1 week - it won't be enough to get tested to enter a museum, cinema, or restaurant, you will have to be vaccinated or recovered[2]. Hopefully at some point unvaccinated won't be able to go outside!

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/tensions-swiss...

[2] - https://nltimes.nl/2021/11/12/netherlands-will-start-2g-coro...
And in hardware, the shift is free, so it's literally just a 12+16 adder.
You might want to look at Barbara Liskov’s work on object oriented programming. It refined a lot of those concepts, and looks closer to modern OOP than Kay’s sender model.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/03/acm-gives-turing-awa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)
Update the title to include the date?
Most game logic has the luxury of being re-run every frame. That makes it a lot simpler than having to register events and callbacks and keep track of them or cancel them if something changes.

Sometimes I use that style in server code and it’s simpler and not too expensive if you’re not at huge scale. Worth trying.
> this is more of a mismatch between Dockerfile functionality and what you want to do. Dockerfiles are not designed to execute general-purpose programs, so there is an assumption in the design of Dockerfiles that you know (more or less) which files you want to COPY ahead of time.

I don't follow that. In a Dockerfile, I want to install software, and software is usually distributed in packages like .deb. Why can I `RUN apt-get install libabc` and have a clean, automatic install of libabc, but not do the same with a libabc.deb file on my host filesystem?

> It sounds like you want a mechanism for COPYing all filesystem changes resulting from a RUN instruction without having to know what those changes are ahead of time.

That's one way of doing it, but it's more complex than the obvious solution:

> I don't follow the part about mounting a host dir in the build (how it would help)

It simply lets me give the build container access to libabc.deb, so I can `RUN apt-get install /mnt/host_folder/libabc.deb`, which will install libabc without putting `libabc.deb` itself in an image layer.

It would have been trivial to add this, but the Docker devs rejected it because "multi-stage builds can do this" (wrong), and it would lead to "non-reproducible builds" (because downloading packages from the network is somehow more reproducible?).

They finally added it as a non-standard option, which means a build process that relies on it won't work with a Docker install that uses the default config. It's the devs making it needlessly hard to use Docker for a perfectly valid use case.

If you're wondering why I want to install that locally-built software via a .deb, it's because we want to distribute it to all our systems, and we want to have only one packaging method to maintain.
Is there any state-of-the-art OCR system on linux, which works reliably without too much fiddling?
So are they going to have this person or persons man the pit indefinitely? I see they have some automated measures like the propane cannon but at some point shouldn’t they just put a net on top of the whole pit to keep birds off it?
I’ll just add Danish: et hundrede og femoghalvfjerds (one hundred five and four scores where the fourth score is a half)

Sincerely, a Dane :)