skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get into the weeds a little, I've used 'sapient' that way but I haven't found any good source saying that others do the same (except you! Terry? Is that you? ;) ). The leading dictionaries I've looked in talk about 'wisdom' and 'sagacity', not 'human-level intelligence and conciousness'. However, I haven't found a better word than 'sapient' for the latter meaning. So,

* Do you know a source that defines it 'our' way?

* Do you know another word to use for the latter meaning?
Formal Specification of Constant Product (x × y = k) Market Maker Model (2018) [pdf]
I'm a senior with 20 years experience from a first world country and my salary would more than double if I got what you currently get.
I'm a TS dev and only switched in the last month from decades of Eclipse to VS Code. "Peek call hierarchy" is my favorite feature. Granted it doesn't totally flatten an inheritance chain but it saves a ton of time versus going one by one through references.
My apologies. I hit that and the first screen I saw told me I needed an account for my watchlist and such. So I abandoned before I saw that I could search without an account.

Still I’d really like to have local storage as an option.
Annotated explanation of David Beazley's dataklasses
Wasn't coined by Vogels: https://newrelic.com/blog/nerd-life/devops-name
> Lots of tremendously valuable labor is done by people who don't pull down a wage.

Sure. I can believe that.

Is the unspoken claim here that it averages out to more than ~$60k/person?
Insides of hives and frames are not painted.
I hear this a lot and I used to find it persuasive but now I'm not so sure. Like it or not, 40 hours a week is a lot of time to do anything. It seems like wishful thinking to say we can just ignore the role of this tremendous amount of time in our subjective sense of well-being.
BMW has long had a contentious relationship with cup holders. They flat refused for a long time. I think the argument was, if you’re driving right, nothing is staying in the cup. But it’s hard to sell a car without cupholders. So someone told the engineers they had to. And they did, but they’d use a deliberately absurd design. Check out the cup holders on the 2000 M5. It is design that speaks and what it says is “you and I both know this is silly”
The wild hives that I see along the Appalachian trail would disagree of their demise.
How did you find contracts? And any advice for someone looking to get started without much of a network
It’s also an inconvenient idea. For instance, how can one be guilty of a crime if one had no choice in committing it? Why try at anything if you have no choice — everything that will happen was decided at the universe’s origin and is merely playing out. It’s nihilism to the extreme.

Then again, the quantum idea of true randomness isn’t much better — if human choice stems from a coin flip, can you really call it a conscious choice?

The scientific method and human free will rely on a possible fiction of choice that is neither 100% deterministic, nor 100% random.
The write up actually does reference a paper on particle filters :o
I get the point you're making - but honestly I have to raise the counter argument, which I think is equally valid. Take for example, the average lecture video. The information density is so low, that I'd imagine that a 60 minute video could be compressed into 10-12 minutes without any loss of information. It really depends on what you're listening to/watching.
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It's best to run it yourself. On NixOS it's a one-liner: "services.invidious.enable = true". Then it will be up at http://127.0.0.1:3000.

Blazing fast and zero annoyances.
Hi there!

Sorry if there is confusion; it was several years ago and I don't remember it word-for-word -- you're probably right about Chinese Taipei. The student was very, very gracious and anglicized a lot of things when translating. He even used an English name in addition to his normal name.

I imagine, for example, the hostess caught some nuance I missed, or followed up in Chinese to confirm his opinion on sovereignty. I was really just following tone and facial expression.

I could call and ask him if he remembers, but from my understanding, he unfortunately has to have difficult conversations like that quite a lot, and I don't know if this one would even stand out.
I use the same youtube plugin mentioned in the article, and watch many videos at 2.5x-3.0x speed, for the exact reason that you state. There is a lot of "filler" content that I either a) already know or b) is not relevant to what I'm trying to learn. I'm really just trying to get through that content quickly. When I get to some really dense portion though, I will turn the speed down to 1x to learn it.
For what is worth, that post was 9 days ago and has 1 comment.

HN allows for sensible use of reposting.
The problem is really that we spent 99.7% of our history extremely close to the surface of an extremely large sphere. Space is somewhat less lacking in, like, physical obstacles. I mean really, a priori, if there were loads and loads of intelligent species in our galaxy, wouldn't you expect to see them? Why bother positing a brand new set of technologies that just by chance happens to thread whatever needles are necessary to avoid detection, and just figure "oh, guess for some reason there are fewer technological civilizations than I expected"? Obviously we aren't alone in the universe, but it takes some real gymnastics to justify nearby neighbors.
C-RAM: An Advanced Automated Point-Defense Gatling Gun – IE
I used to install T1s back when they were the "fast" way to get online. The vast majority of installations used HDSL to modulate the T1 onto the local loops.

HDSL powered the remote card from the one in the central office, using (IIRC) 130VDC.

One time I was at a customer prem troubleshooting an installation. The customer's phone vendor was out there with me as we were hunting for the right cable pairs in the terminal. I was getting ready to call another tech back at the CO to put a tone generator on the line when the phone system vendor told me to just run my fingers across the terminals until I got a shock.

I thought he was joking. He wasn't. He looked at me like I was a weenie and went ahead and did it himself. Dragged his fingers down the line until I saw him twitch. "Binding posts 47 and 48, right there"

I had accidentally shocked myself probably dozens of times, but never as a troubleshooting technique!
Gladly.

Traditional roguelikes sometimes implement a spell or effect of 'confusion' that causes the symbols by which you read the game world to shuffle around randomly, thus obscuring the information of what is what. Then attempting to use an item you thought was an X turns out to be a Y instead. Many of them have items or spells with inherently uncertain outcomes, like wands of random effects.

The modern traditional roguelike Cogmind has a mechanism where a certain type of damage causes corruption to accumulate, causing your character to increasingly perform random actions instead of the actions you input, such as randomly triggering weapons to fire at random targets. Skilled players take this into account to avoid catastrophic accidents, for example by dropping all their weapons before talking to a friendly NPC.

The tactical/strategy game XCOM models the psychological stress of combat operations as a chance that a soldier will inadvertantly reject your order and do something else instead, in panic. Darkest Dungeon leans heavily on a similar mechanic, where accumulating stress or negative personality traits can cause your party members to act against your command, on their own volition, messing up your plans, necessitating the organization of actions around the least reliable elements.

Deck building card games in general present an inconsistent and unreliable set of options at any given moment, as your available actions are a randomly drawn set of cards. Despite your best efforts to include tools for dealing with situations, you can never rely on a particular tool being available when it's needed, leading to heavy planning around probabilities, redundancy, and flexible card combinations.

Since your understanding of the subject is "rolling a d20 to see how your attack goes", I would say my accusation is perfectly well placed. No need to get defensive about it. I've been researching games for decades. The problem is when you make factual statements like "a game which randomly misinterprets your inputs will not make you better at playing it" (paraphrased) as if you are an expert on the subject, when absolutely clearly to anyone who has studied games to any length can immediately see that your claim is false.

Let me know if you'd like more examples, these are the ones off the top of my head.
>that could model any protein

Sure.

>and any disease

Impossible. Modeling a drug's effect on mental illness would require... fully simulating a human brain. Modeling the effect of thalidomide on fetuses would require fully simulating fetal development. That's not happening any time soon.
Which addon are you using for youtube?
> What the fuck do you think has been happening, exactly? They’re standing around, looking at all these brilliant kids from Harlem and saying “oh God, if only we could let in these kids. We need to save them from the streets! But we can’t get past that dastardly SAT.”

Harvard wants to retain their elite ranking in US News/etc. They face a tradeoff between admitting a more racially diverse student body and admitting a student body with very high SATs. When they make tests optional they can admit more Black students without having to report their test scores.

> You think Harvard gives a single merciful fuck about poor Black teenagers?

They do to some extent. They also want to be able to showcase a racially-diverse student body.
> Java, JDK 1.1. was released in 97.

Things were very different 24 years ago, the language ecosystem was not as competitive as it is today. There are more people writing code today and a greater variety of use cases when it comes to web services. Python is even older than Java (1991). A language being developed today must pass a higher bar.

For example Rust has nowhere near the same level of adoption as Java did back then, but it is by no means a mediocre/overcomplicated language for systems programmers. Same with Go for web services and many others.

> It is like Scala, which introduced lots of concepts, but went overboard with them and made the language too complex to use.

What concepts are you referring to here? I'm not deeply familiar with Scala.
Look, I am that ops person sans the age. I desperately want to one of these mythical graybeards to show up for an interview but it just doesn't happen. I get "senior" UNIX sysadmins that can't write a basic Python script despite it being on their resumes [1], can't mock out a basic HA web architecture or a logging pipeline, and can't explain at all how Linux namespaces work.

We tried to hire someone senior for 8 months before giving up and just grabbing a junior dev that wanted to do infra stuff and trained him up. I have worked at shops with people like you describe but it seems they're all happily employed.

[1] Not whiteboard style, on their own time, on their own computer, not timed or watched. They can take a week for all we care.
Phase 3: Windows as the Global Infostructure Explorer (Innovate) ... Specialized tools like gopher, FTP and WWW become old hat ... existing Domain Name System is becomes quickly eclipsed by the Cairo directory service ... Windows becomes the global infostructure explorer ... The hottest content server on the Internet? Microsoft Marvel ...

I remember those days, and for a while it seemed that Microsoft was going to pull it off. Windows everywhere, other systems locked out by proprietary protocols.

Edit: sure, I was paranoid, but I think Microsoft really was out to kill (metaphorically) everybody who didn't fall into line.
> Every student could now study the same material, no matter where they lived. In tune with this post-industrial mindset, fuzzy and hard to quantify educational methods like apprenticeships and the singular teachings of local sages were overtaken by national benchmarks and one-size-fits-all curriculums.

It also meant every student got at least something resembling an education, even if the quality of local educators was sub-par.

Mass production of almost anything tends towards results that are a bit below what people hope for, but the results are uniform.

I want to know where the author of this post expects to find all these amazing teachers at for every single small town and village around the country.

Yes, I also had some absolutely incredible teachers out there. I also had lecturers so good that I was able to pay attention for the entire hour. But in general, sure, I'll buy that most of my classes had maybe 20 minutes of focus in them. But I'd also say the majority of teachers were aware of this and, up until college, didn't try to talk for more than 10 or 15 minutes at one go.
Note that with the hairsplitting bit i wasn't referring to the missing MinGW headers but to complaints about MinGW linking against msvcrt.dll when that DLL has been around since Windows 98.
Maybe there were multiple intelligent civilizations before humans, then the Great Filter Theory kicks in and they wipe themselves out with Global warming or whatever.

I have a pet theory (just a fantasy really) that Dolphins were once land mammals with an advanced civilization but then they too heated the planet up until all the ice melted and they had to adapt and evolve to be sea mammals.
Sounds like we should put an end to the systemic racism dragging down black and hispanic people.

The good news is, there’s zero cost in changing one’s mind to no longer be racist.
This is assumption from first principles

The Apple versions of foundation have to be compatible with the Foundation/CoreFoundation equivalents. They also have more than a decade of binary compat to maintain
Similar story. Ordered one for my wife. Also recommend watching him on YT (Numberphile).
The body never forgot how to regenerate, it just learned how to scar - to prevent infection - or at least that is what I heard a wake forest researcher say after helping grow back a finger with stem cells from the individual and powdered proteins from a decelled pig's bladder.

Edit: the individual was in his 50s
If you don't pick a framework, you will end up building one yourself.
This isn’t exactly what I was looking for - basically I wanted an HGrid with a bunch of items that would automatically wrap rather than overflow. (In the WPF world that I’m more accustomed to this would be called a “WrapPanel”).

I eventually found a package on GitHub called WrappingHStack that did exactly what I needed but this struck me as odd that something like this wasn’t out of the box functionality.
as a 2m / 6'5" person... you are so lucky

I wish I could zip through a set of programming koans on a flight like https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans without elbowing my seat neighbors to a pulp

if I could even get the table tray down. more often than not i eat with the food on my knees :(
Worked fine for me. Skytube app is the real find in this post (at least for me). Thank you!
This was absolutely the wrong company to try this with
NIO smart electric sedan ET5 with over 1000 km range unveiled
As somebody who has also lost a chunk of my finger to a mandolin (regrew including print) this thread has convinced me that mandolins are just not worth it.
You can use a merge type (on mobile so this may be wrong, but hopefully gets you on your way to where you’re going):

type Merge<T> = { [K in keyof T]: T[K] }

Typical usage is with intersection types like:

Merge<A & B>

Where the resulting type is not aliased, at least at the top level, and you just see the structure of both A and B. But it should also work for inheritance, interface extensions, and object type overloads.

I think as of either 4.4 or 4.5 you can also safely make it recursive.
I have to use x1.7-x2.0 speed on pluralsight courses, even though English is not my native language, and I’m learning completely new stuff.

Otherwise I’d almost fall asleep.

It’s better to occasionally rewind a couple of unclear sentences than wasting 2x the time.
Sounds like something Douglas Adams would write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acetylcholine_recept...

Dig in.
Ask HN: 2021–What were (your) predictions/expectations, what happened?
2021 is coming to an end. Let's look back at how good (or crappy) our predictions and expectations were considering the uncertainty during this pandemic. The expectations can be yours (e.g. "my 2021 resolutions").

To make the discussion more useful, I propose this format:

- My predictions: We recover from the pandemic even though life is not 100% back to normal.

- My expectations: 1. To launch a personal project (mobile app). 2. To write more.

- What happened: 1. I guess the recovery will happen in 2022 instead. 2. The app launched after much delay but was still half-baked. I blame it on using fancy new tech, also unclear direction. 3. I bought a house for investment. This life event sparked an idea for my app and hopefully will give more direction, still refining the idea. 4. I realized I'm not good at foreseeing the future esp. for my financial benefit.
Meh. I did several AWS courses on Udemy at 1.75x speed, and did pretty well on the exams

To me, that is reasonable evidence that video learning at speed works, at least in the short term

Also, I suffer ADHD. I'd say listening at speed forces me to pay closer attention
SPAM is widely enjoyed throughout Hawaii. SPAM musubi is great.
I feel like this article is missing a disclaimer that you should never, ever roll your own crypto and that this is purely an educational exercise.
Enhancer for Youtuber
Ilya Grigorik's Video Speed Controller?

https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
The last bit is a spicy summation of what we're all here for.
It's been my daily driver for a while now, and I have been meaning to replace it with standard Fedora.
I think the playback speed should be variable depending on the information density of the content. I will generally listen at 2x speed, but for something that is really information dense I will slow it way down, sometimes all the way to 1x.

Even sometimes when I am listening to something at higher speeds if they say something really interesting I will pause the content and just think about it for a few minutes.

I think this is only possible because "completing X books per year" is not part of my identity.
I'd argue that 95% of all learning, is learnt by doing.

Merely listening to something without properly interrogating your understanding of it.. you will end up with a bunch of shallow and untested knowledge. At best, a boffin.

It's imperative to build, discuss, interrogate, trial and fail.
Surely you're misunderstanding something here... How are birthday wishes from 60 different people wrapped in nostalgia creepy?
Razib is really courting controversy by observing that men find blondes and East asian women particularly attractive.
She really did!
Deduction Mechanics in Games
> It's not free either, it's paid for by the metadata

That's one of the things that could be argued in a court of law... That it was wrong for Facebook to collect data from someone on the false pretense that they would send a message they would not send. I wish the plaintiff who argues it the best of luck... Hell of an uphill battle. The notion data about a person has tangible value that belongs by default to the person and can therefore be exchanged is an open question (legally and morally). And there's still the issue of proof of harm. In fact, that's the biggest issue.

If a person thought they had communicated something via Facebook and Facebook falsely claimed it was sent when it was not, and that person could prove material harm as a result, they might have a civil case to rectify the specific harm. I struggle to imagine such a scenario, but I'll assume it could happen for the sake of argument. "Facebook silently black-holes your attempts to contact a celebrity" as an example, is not harm.
They might not, but is there any way you can live where you're free from the risk of terrible calamity? If you become close to another person, you don't know if they'll get hit by a car tomorrow and suddenly leave you grieving in a way you'd never be if you never met them in the first place.
Interestingly, the author mentions people lose focus after 10-18 minutes anyhow. So maybe speeding up things gets them more information during that initial focus time?

(Other than this silly note, I generally agree with a lot of the author’s sentiment)
One of the best MODs ever! It's on rotation at the player I made to listen to my MOD Archive favourites (https://christiancodes.github.io/mirthturtle-modplayer/) & I'm always happy to hear it.
A blast from the past.
You're a great son.

At home, I still use a W48 [0], I bought somewhere in the mid-90s on a flea market.
Just have to change the carbon capsule microphone every twenty years or so.
In doubt, one can change to a simple transistor circuit microphone.
My router has a phone jack that provides enough voltage to the bell.
Works like a charm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48_(telephone)
Your the bearer of false news. It’s literal filets of fish.
one-liners you copy and paste!

no seriously, when you properly alias something in your .bashrc, they only take effect in an interactive shell.

ie: an `alias ll='ls -halF' in your bashrc does not work if you do `bash -c 'll' nor `./fileThatContainsll`
> design a drug that was guaranteed to disrupt it

If that drug then also kills the patient, it's not much of a medicine.

Sure you can direct an algorithm to optimize for a metric (like curing a disease), but it will be completely ignorant to all other aspects of being (like not having harmful side-effects).
so if you want to track people/pet, are the word that spring to mind "GPS tracker" or "air tag"? What happens when you google "GPS tracker"? NOTHING shows up?

Before AirTag which was only a year ago, did bad actors just sit there thinking to themselves: "man I wish there was a technology to track people, I wish I knew what it's called"?
Now we have large numbers of vaccinated out there I really think we should see a lot less of "new infections" type stats, and a lot more of "in hospitals" type stats... in places with 90-95%+ vaccination rates THAT is the numbers that are important for things like opening up/locking down.

Then break that down to "in hospital and vaccinated with X or having had a previous infection and recovered or unvaccinated and having had no previous infection."

We're not seeing that here in Australia... its all just about the number of new infections. plus a bit of info about Delta/Omicron. it feels like fear mongering not information clarity.
It could be but realistically, is that going to be anywhere close to as moving from someone you've never met? And on their side too, they may appreciate the help, but you're not exactly going to replace their parents in their hearts. It's just a totally different level of engagement.