skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this is incorrect.

High speed trains and planes both have a higher top speed than cars. Does that mean trains and planes are by default a faster way to get around for all trips?

No, of course not. How infrastructure is built around them matters just as much. Obviously there are trips in which they are indeed faster than cars, but plenty too where they’re impractical, or slower.

Cars have a higher top speed than bikes, sure, but they also demand far more space. Given equal space between cars and bikes, bikes will often end up fastest for trips under a mile or two — simply because drivers are more likely to get stuck in traffic. Especially since it’s easy to have walk bike cut-throughs.

Which, I know, you’ll object to as unfair, but it’s unfair in the sense that walking and biking being banned on the freeway is unfair: it’s actually just what’s suited to the transportation mode. A walk/bike cut through is a cheap, easy thing to slot in, much more so than the car equivalent.

Car speed relies on being given far more total space and money than other modes. Remove those advantages, and car utility would sink, while the utility of walking and biking would rise dramatically. Especially if zoning was loosened to allow — not force the way things are forced to the car’s advantage now, but simply allowed — higher density and mixed use areas.

Or consider an indoor mall vs a strip mall. One uses cars more heavily, one uses walking. Which one is more efficient to visit and browse stores?

The thing about car dominant spaces is that they force things to spread out, which reduces efficiency. That efficiency reduction is then ‘solved’ with the same thing that caused it: with cars. Which works out okay for cars, but everything else works horribly in that context, which is why US cities usually have extreme car dominance, with other options being hilariously ineffective. And some people cheer on this lack of choices, even as their waistlines expand and government budgets explode.
But game characters still walk as if they have a broken hip implant.
For context:

> DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0 is a way to make half of the people in an irc channel disconnect. This originated when a virus used the phrase to start the key logger it came with. If you had Norton internet security, it would terminate the connection. Some older routers also crash when receiving a malformed DCC request, which DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0 is.

That's pretty wild, it was caused by hypervigilant security software apparently
Schlock Mercenary is a sci-fi webcomic with a fun thread about sapient dinosaurs fleeing Earth pre-impact.

There's no good way to read just those strips, but it starts here:

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-07-25
Next step. Make sure EU Government paid contractors release source code per LGPL https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/2462
"In 1996, five economists, known as the Boskin Commission, were tasked with saving the government $1 trillion. They observed that if the CPI were lowered by 1.1 percent, then a $1 trillion could indeed be saved over the coming decade. So what did they do? They proposed a way to alter the formula that would lower the CPI by exactly that amount!

This raises a question: Is economics being used as science or as after-the-fact justification, much like economic statistics were manipulated in the Soviet Union? More importantly, is anyone paying attention? Are we willing to give government agents a free hand to keep changing this all-important formula whenever it suits their political needs, simply because they think we won’t get the math?"

This was written by Edward Frenkel, a math professor at UC Berkeley who was born in the USSR in 1968 and so, we can assume, had some familiarity with statistical games played by regimes trying to hold onto power.

I invite you consider that you might extend too much faith toward federal institutions that have presided over a ceaseless rise in inequality and erosion of rights in recent decades.

https://slate.com/technology/2013/02/should-algebra-be-in-cu...
FWIW I'm currently in my late twenties / early thirties and I also think the tech of 10-15 years ago was optimal.

Hypothesis 1: The 90s-00s really were the peak and it's not just a generational effect

Hypothesis 2: The nostalgia I currently feel is bad enough but oh god it's just going to get worse isn't it?
IONOS has a $2/mo (or is it $2.50) option, so that's getting close to $10/yr. But that's not very capable.
We’re more likely to find a talking unicorn with a phd than a politician in office who wants to lower spending,
Here's a short article that gave me some insight into the matter:

https://nautil.us/blog/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-mode...

"Place your phone face-up on a flat surface, for example. Spin it 90 degrees to the left, and then flip it away from you. Note which way the camera points.

Returning to the original position, flip it away from you first and then turn it to the left second. See how the camera points to the right instead?

This initially alarming property, known as non-commutativity, turns out to be a feature the quaternions share with reality
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> Am i the only one who views the above statement as something alarming, not something to be admired?

(I worked on Firefox for just under 9 years)

I agree, it is alarming. Alas, it is the current state of things.

(The following is not directed at you KronisLV, but rather at the community at large.)

As a (now former) open source browser developer, one of the most frustrating aspects of the job was discussing complaints from people who don't work directly with the web front-end.

Many have wishful thinking that because they believe that a browser should just be a document viewer, that therefore it is just a document viewer, and problems that emerge with browsers is due to developer incompetence.

It is more or less impossible to engage constructively with those people when the reality is that modern browsers are ridiculously complex.
> If you've a house worth 200k and its value goes up 5%, then a year later you are 5% wealthier.

If inflation is also 5%, your profit is 0%.
1. I get it ;)

2. Wouldn’t then noticing repetitive use of concepts and sound bites a good Litmus test for propaganda?

If 2. is correct then what are we going to do about the massive incessant brainwashing of our own population with divisive, dehumanizing. And extremely dangerous propaganda?
> stereotype of white dude who likes to play computer games in their spare time

That was me until I was about 31. Then I had a daughter and had even less time or energy to play games. Now I'm 40 and suffering from health anxiety, and have found gaming as a good way to cope... Specifically Skyrim :)

Also my daughter is into Minecraft.
> We're infinitely more likely to lose the capability to make a modern CPU than lose the capability to know how to code in C.

I agree with this. I want to add that I think if the knowledge of modern CPUs is somehow lost, it won't be catastrophic, merely crippling, since there are literally tens of thousands of CS students every year learning how to build a CPU from electronic circuits.

We will revert to slow and bulky CPUs, be able to run C on them, and in due time rediscover and reëngineer miniaturisation, superscalar multithreading, etc.
It certainly beats the majority of other countries in this aspect

We wouldn't be talking about Assange having legal recourse had he got in the wrong way of a lot of other places.

The buck stops somewhere, no system is perfect and special cases are special cases. As again per the last paragraph in my initial response.
Yes, and what those intentional misinformers have learned is that once you plant an idea in most people's heads, that's now their locus. No one wants to be "wrong" and everyone wants to be "smart", where smart is defined as always being "right". So being wrong is seen as being stupid. And this is a concept that is being pushed.

That's the problem. We need to push back on the concept that being wrong is a bad thing.

Once we allow ourselves to be wrong, misinformation finds less purchase. Because you're allowed to change your mind.

Don't be concerned with getting it right the first time, be wrong so fast no one notices.
Then there are projects like Colosseum which took only 7-8 years to build. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
or Parthenon that took 9 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon
We don't know what sorts of other free (volunteer-led) or paid services would replace these, if they went away.

For maps in particular, it seems to me providing high-quality mapping and traffic data should be a government service, with any competition being mainly over interfaces or add-ons to that. The basics of it seem like infrastructure—and also something the government should have already, in one form or another—and not something it's helpful to have lots of companies competing to achieve, or smaller companies being locked out of doing something cool with it because they don't have the resources to generate all that themselves and can't afford to license it.
That's not at all crazy. Spending 600 euros or dollars monthly on food for a single person is actually quite reasonable—as another commenter pointed out, it's about 20 euros per day for all three meals.

In my experience, "moderately expensive" restaurants (I don't actually go to what I'd term "very expensive" restaurants) come in at $40-50 per plate. That means that just for dinner, if they were going to very expensive restaurants every day they'd be paying roughly twice what they quoted.
Chip fabrication.
I would accept "agreed", but see the 2000 election: quite possibly it was wrongly determined, but the Democrats agreed to concede and largely haven't mentioned it since. Whereas you can already see Republicans "pre-declaring" that an election that hasn't happened yet will be fraudulent if they don't win.
The bottom line is the getting fired is, almost always, bad news. Sure delivery matters but if he was announcing a raise, no one would have questioned the manner. So unless he had some major financial aid for the laid off...
Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
Lotus was not really killed by Microsoft but by IBM...
Wouldn’t that be a good thing?
> I still believe it is due to the large money printing by the Fed, a total of around 10 trillion disbursed for various programs. W

If the Fed's policy was responsible, then we'd see a divergence between inflation rates in European countries and the US. We don't though. European inflation rates (across the board) closely track what's happening in the US.

What we do see is a similar demand reallocation in both portions of the world. Demand has shifted from services to goods, and that increased demand drives inflation.
Turbo Vision libraries for DOS where an absolute delight. And I clearly remember a Turbo Pascal demo with a breakout game clone that was a lesson on object oriented development.
Apple Car Project Loses Three Key Engineers
This is a tech demo. They aren't getting A-list writers or voice actors to spend their time on it.
> Each plane is perpendicular to one axis. This is a coincidence that only happens in three dimensions

This part is confusing to me; in any number of dimensions, your orthonormal basis vectors (coordinate vectors) will by definition have tangent vector spaces (planes). There's nothing special about 3 in this regard, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Yep, they brutally tried to trade community goodwill for enterpris-ey contracts and quickly lost both.
This suggests to me if you don't get at least a 6.8% raise as an employee per year, you should start looking for another job. That isn't really a raise mind you. It should be added to whatever % raise they give you IMO.
Fallacious Reasoning About Reality Leads to Bad Theories
But it’s not an option when investors buy up and chase away people who want to be where they are the way they are. It’s a race to the bottom for the most density. It isn’t people building what they want for themselves but investors incrementally getting people accustomed to less and less for increasing amounts of money.

If you zoned more places to be walkable and lowered rent for the kinds of places people wanted to walk to you wouldn’t have to cram people into a few desirable places.
The pile of rust that use to be a tractor, sure, that's not worth much. The pile of rust that use to be a city though... surely that's more concentrated than the rust mixed with rock (or clay) that we originally extracted it from?
It is interesting to note that energy costs are up in significant double digits, except for electricity. This may have environmental (and climate) benefits.
In order to monk, you need a sponsor. Religious monks may have a sponsor in their religious organization (although their commercial activities may make them self-sufficient or often self-sufficient). As an atheist monk, you'd need to find someone or group to sponsor you, or do it yourself. If you're raising chickens and growing vegetables, you may qualify your property to be taxed as a farm, which typically is a much reduced rate than a property with just a home. If you monk out in the countryside, the property is likely to be inexpensive to start with.

There's some amount of commercial utility to chickens (and their eggs) and vegetables, so you might be able to make your sponsorship go farther.
Criminal conspiracy in the US is defined in Title 18, U.S.C. § 371:

"If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."

The elements of the crime of conspiracy are:

1. Two or more people

2. Intentionality

3. An agreement

4. An underlying crime

5. An overt act

The discussion you post seems to point to all 5 being met, although additional evidence would be needed to prove it. Obviously there are two people here discussing "cracking" something. Assange agrees to the overt step of taking the data and forwarding it to his team, ostensibly with the intention that this team would do the cracking.

When asked for an update, Assange states "no luck so far". Do we take that to mean they are currently working on it and have not succeeded? Or is Assange saying that there's no luck, but he hasn't really done anything with the data? It really doesn't matter according to the statute, which defines the overt act as any act done to further the conspiracy. So it doesn't matter if there was no other access to any machine or if there is no evidence cracking was attempted. If Assange took that data and sent it to anyone else, then he's part of the conspiracy.

Actually, according to the statute, it doesn't even matter if he took an overt action. If he agreed with Manning to implement the crime, and Manning on her own did the cracking, then Assange would still be part of the conspiracy due to the first 4 elements.
No this isn't whataboutism.

My point is simply that "scientific consensus" has lost some of its brand value.

Further, I'm not an "expert" so even if I did challenge the data or argument, I would be dismissed for being unqualified.
You caring is irrelevant. Even if all you want to do is persuade the other person you're listening, it's there.
Ubisoft Delists NFT Announcement Video
I see what you are saying.. As a counterpoint, to me, an oriented plane in 3d very much remembers a rotation though! The graphical convention of a plane with a circle arrow is great because it makes it very clear.

To see what a plane does to a vector, you take the product: of course you start with basis vectors and then later show that everything composes linearly.

The very important thing here is that the geometric product should Not be taught as the sum of scalar and cross product. Geometric product is defined by rules on the basis vectors and by linearity!

Now, I admit that when you see that making actual rotations is not as straighforward as one would expect, it’s confusing, and a bit disappointing. But, I think one can believe that bivectors are about rotation somehow, and then go further to the more complex exponential thing.

Idk maybe it’s just personal preferences, i studied quite a bit of math at college, but i never studied quaternions, and now I’m just very glad I didn’t, since this is much better to me!
good question! I have no idea how I came across it, nor how one would do so reliably.
> This is the opposite of what is happening.

This is exactly what is happening. The motivations may be partly^ different, but the result is one of the wealth inequality gap growing.

^I'm not sure how it could be incidental, given the obvious consequences.
This is why I love my Tacoma. Here's the 3-minute tutorial on replacing the headlight bulbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbZc8shIvQ

Then again, everything else about it is dated, especially the engine.
We used jbuilder and it was a great product, simpler to use than eclipse but it's hard to compete with free and good enough
I mean, they even had their own CORBA broker!
A person who wrote this is so stupid. "People live in poverty not because of who they are, but because of where they are.". No exactly because of who they are. Because the majority of people in poor countries lazy, not skillful etc. One another person, i guess with only academic education, that thinks that economy is the horn of plenty, and not collective effort and hard work, blood, and sweat of millions of people.
P.S. Yes he is.
Still Delphi was better.

- DSL for UI (Forms)
- fast native compiler that produced self sufficient binaries
- great component library and many open source libraries
- Object Pascal was extended to fit perfectly the needs of UI programming
It doesn’t have to be indoctrination. Logic is a mathematical concept, and can be thought in the classes, along with common logical fallacies.
Whatever happened to our benevolent anonymous hacker groups that were supposed to be so organic and decentralized they could never be ended?
>> they can get something "real" into prod much more quickly with almost no risk to the org

What are the most common risks to an org (originating from its code) and how do types get you down to almost no risk?

When i think of common risks, most of them don't even originate inside the process's address space so the type checker is completely disconnected from the risks (e.g. hey - you misunderstood what we wanted here...). For the risks that do originate directly from the code, it's stuff like hey - your solution is quadratic time, sure your code compiles and your tests all pass but i'm telling you this won't work under prod data volumes.

I'm trying to steelman your argument and the best case i can come up with is an IO monad.
I used to use Base16 for years, and even wrote the Hexchat conversion script for Base16. It just... I dunno, it isn't exactly what I want. I want a centralized system that produces everything from a single repo, not 9000 repos that all do something slightly different.
What happened to Lotus is really just sad. Selling out to IBM, who sucked every dime out, then tossing off the desiccated husk to HCL to keep it on life support and crank out an enterprise security patch from time to time.
No, everyone makes the drug dealer joke, but the presumption/stereotype of someone carrying around 3+ iPhones of recent generation (~$1k each) and dressed well is usually not "street criminal", in my personal experience.
This is a project I've been working on to create decentralized, peer to peer, "serverless" websites using several technologies including webtorrent, dmt (mutable torrent BEP-46), and handshake decentralized domains.

You can create either an immutable (uneditable) torrent site, or you can create a ed25519 keypair and create a mutable (updatable) torrent site.

This is great for blogging, whistle blowing, and other things. It also scales well since torrent technology is great although it had previous been pigeonholed to other use cases.

Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts! I don't take any credit for this since I just weaved the great technologies others already made together!
>* using "owners equivalent rent" rather than house prices: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

makes sense, considering that most people own their homes, aren't exposed to the housing market, and aren't buying houses every month.

>* factoring in technology as deflationary. yea, your phone is 20% more expensive, but it has twice the computation power, so it's actually a deflationary component

Why do you have to get the flagship phone? Why not get a low end phone today, that has about the same capabilities/speed as the phone you had 5 years ago?
The first sentence in the first slice opens as follows:
"I have always found it important to actually understand the things I am using."

I think there is a certain 'magic' in not understanding certain concepts fully. It's probably why I like maths and heavily dislike physics and chemistry. I do not want to make sense of this world. I want to see "the volume of a sphere is 4/3PIr^3" and in some sense see it as an incantation that one would make when casting magic in an RPG. Once you take some calculus, it is a pretty easy formula to derive (integrate?), but there is an allure, an invitation to do some really interesting math just for itself. It fires up our inner curiosity, if you want.

So anyways, I am neither addressing the title's question nor would I really mind if quaternions were replaced in game engines, but I thought it was important to voice the opinion that sometimes it's ok to not understand something.
Ah, yes. The tried-and-true method of "just selling the hype" with an open source library that everyone can use for free.
> calling him a journalist is a mighty stretch even before he started, let's call it his "full-stack collaboration" with the Russians

How is he not a journalist? What's your definition? Is the garbage that CNN, MSNBC and Fox News spews out journalism? Is Chris Cuomo a journalist?

Where is you evidence of Russian collaboration? Or did you hear that from a "journalist"? It seems you have no clue what journalism is.
Obviously use the pc if you have it. My point is entirely for the case of having neither. It is patently untrue you can get a full pc capable of running ps5 quality games in the price range of a ps5
ultimately I hope we evolve to a system where each person's vote is weighted differently, based on factors of merit.

we'd never grab 10 people at random and let them vote and have these rando's majority choice be what surgical procedure to perform on a loved one. and yet we're doing that with democracy in the US at least. and enemies are exploiting it, increasingly.

I for one have concluded the stakes are too high to let that kind of madness continue.
I believe someone else (Manning) broke in. Assange was the conduit for the information.

You may now look at the disparity in treatment.