skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wise answer. I know how you can get a meaningful life, even one that is not wasted.

You should become a man of God. He redeems even the most wretched of men for himself and prepares them for everlasting life with him,
but usually also uses them in this life somehow.

The redemption is based on the ancient law thereof. No man is able to redeem his brother from the power of sin and death,
as all mankind was sold under sin. Therefore God became our Redeemer when he was born as a man,
which is still celebrated every Christmas. Moreover he has already redeemed mankind by laying down his life,
which is still commemorated every passover. You just surrender to Jesus, and he takes care of the rest.

However a meaningful life won't be easy, but you might find that the alternatives aren't any better.
Multimodal models are fast becoming a reality – consequences be damned
The same thing is true about a bank account. Your balance is just information. Cash is just useless tokens.
That 'flameball' from the left looks like another fuse. YouTube has drop down to pick a slower playback speed.
Can an average human prove theorems?
Nice concept. I wrote a 10 line Javascript to convert HTML to aftertext for no reason.

https://jsfiddle.net/crazyontap/hcL1j2mq/
Fake paintings have value. I’d buy a fake painting at the right small price because it has value to me.

Value comes from people wanting something and as they say, a person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
And it's usable on 1024x786. I didn't by my big hires screen for that!
Actually I wasn’t concerned with the darkness, just total visibility.

My understanding is that the 3D rendering is meant to be a subset of what the car sees, and not a safety feature. If that’s the case, I saw it miss all kinds of cross traffic and other cars that should have been in it… and that was just on a short car ride plus the few times I’ve been in other Teslas.

> but also the 3D rendering will give you a much better idea of what's behind you than any mirror.

I don’t buy this. To me it’s a poor substitute to look down at a display rather than a quick glance out in my rear view mirror to learn the distance to the car behind and it’s acceleration curve, who is behind me, etc. I much rather rely on my human eyes to gather all the information I’m looking for than an abstracted subset by an inferior camera with latency, and then having to extrapolate distances.
> Even a Java based gui written using the Swing toolkit (which I believe is considered ancient tech that most have moved on from although I haven't built a gui in java in ages so don't take my word for it) would be an improvement on these electron apps just because it will prevent the cancer that is Javascript, node, npm and the entire JS ecosystem from invading the desktop.

I remember a very similar complaint being made about Eclipse, Java, and Swing as you make about Electron, JS, and Node as a cancer on the desktop.
Reminds me of a software engineer colleague who complained endlessly about city bus drivers making more money than they did.

"Well, go become a city bus driver then."

"Um, uh..."
The Death of John Berryman (1996)
You can posix_spawn there without tcsetpgrp races, that is pretty cool. Still leading the way!

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1044

https://developer.blackberry.com/native/reference/core/com.q...
Now swap the components and do the same for Aqua interface, with translucency and 3D :-) Jokes aside, incredible job.
Home insurers have three options, as I see it:

1) Pay for a super expensive termite remediation on someone’s property in hopes that it will guarantee that other customers’ properties won’t get termites

2) Raise premiums to account for termite infestation risk

3) Deny termite damage claims

There’s only one thing on that list I can’t imagine them doing
> No, that's the norm.

How is the norm for viruses to continue to become more lethal? That does not align with anything I've ever heard. That link doesn't even claim that, and that's a baseless "fact check" done by a mathematician acting as a false authority.
I'm not sure having humans in the pipeline ameliorates this issue as much as you think it does.

Take the existing legal system in the US – laws are interpreted by courts/judges/etc, who AFAICT generally choose to interpret laws by their letter rather than their spirit.

As an example, you can look at the recent Kyle Rittenhouse trial with regards to whether or not it was legal for Rittenhouse to be carrying his firearm. The way the law was written, it basically carved out an exception so that 17 year olds can open carry, even though that was unlikely to be the intent of the law's drafters. But of course the judge found Rittenhouse to be not in violation because that's how the law was written. Smart contracts don't seem much different, except you're removing the inefficiency of someone having to judge what the letter of the law is.
It only took our species a few hundred thousand years at most, while it's been hundreds of times longer than that since the dinosaurs went extinct.

At the same time, sharks never developed civilization, so who's to say?
Do you know anything similar for JavaScript? I am working on frontend only with react
If we point it at the horrendously bad scots wiki (some kid in the US decided he'd translate Wikipedia into what he thought was lowland scots/Doric.. it's a disaster) we might get entertainingly bad outcomes.
> why MS Edge and Google Chrome do not have native bookmark tagging

A similar feature is lacking in file explorer GUIs, so it's likely a different reason.

My guess (from anecdotal experience) is most people don't use bookmarks, and those that do don't see value in organizing them. It takes too much discipline from the user to tag documents each time they are added. So the userbase for bookmark tagging is miniscule.

So ultimately, since so few users value the feature, no one bothers implementing it.
Hi, I'm an accomplished 3d printer-- not an expert in 3d scanning, but did work with the stuff and one of the inventors of one of the first point-stitching algorithms.

First problems with 3d scanning are many. One, its just not very accurate. Two, it cannot capture complex geometries such as anything that is occluded. Three, size. You could need a different system for different scales of items to be scanned.

In almost every case the answer is probably photogrammetry. There's an open source project called "OpenScan" which will allow you to build your own turntable/camera system which can take regular photos so you can do a solve.

Before doing this however, I highly suggest you get the best camera you can borrow/beg/steal and go to town with Meshroom. It will cost you a few hours of time/compute power but is otherwise free. There are dozens of free and paid photogrammetry apps whose results vary. I like Meshroom personally.

The reason this technology is underdeveloped is that 3d modeling is cheap and efficient and relatively easy to learn. I was baffled by 3D modeling for most of my life, but once I committed to learning, it wasn't a big deal. The issue is, there are at least half a dozen different types of modeling and tooling, and visual effects are often entwined with all of this. If I may suggest, if you head down this route, use Fusion 360 or Solidworks for mechanical stuff (products, machines, etc.), and Blender or Z-Brush for flowing character things.

Unless your items are artistic in nature and need to be preserved exactly-- you're far better off simply modeling them. As weird as it sounds to say-- your models will be more accurate than the 3D scans. A pair of calipers and a micrometer are way more accurate than current sensors.

Even the most accurate 3D scanning I am aware of (at a prosumer level) will need its mesh edited to make sense. So you're already back to having to learn some form of 3d modeling anyways.

I do believe in 10 years everything will be different-- the big new iPhones have fairly interesting sensors in them but they're only really good for like room level scales. Not very good at small scale things. I imagine as the tech progresses we will see a "sensor-fusion" tech develop for the LIDAR stuff just like we have for the cameras-- IE that it works a multiple focal lengths with the input from those sensors being combined.

Also, if I am out of touch here I'd love to be wrong-- so don't hesitate to blow me up.
The 'digiObscura' digital camera features an 1-kilopixel image sensor (2019)
1. Get confortable using “grep” [1], or better, “ripgrep” [2], which is quite faster than the former. They are both available in Linux, macOS, and Windows via WSL.

2. If the project uses a version control system (Git, Mercurial, Subversion, etc.) then take a look at the most recent additions, modifications, and/or deletions in the version control log (git-log, or whatever you want to call it). Sometimes, the most relevant files in a project are the ones people modify the most… obviously, ignore files associated to third-party dependencies (vendor, node_modules, that kind of stuff).

3. Install a Language Server Protocol (LSP) server [3] with support for the programming language(s) that you are going to use. Configure your favourite code editor to take advantage of as many LSP features as possible, with enphasis on “Jump To Definition” and “Find References” [4].

Tell us what programming language(s) is the project written in to give you more suggestions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

[2] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[3] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...

[4] https://langserver.org/
I really loved OS 9.
My first mac dual booted OS 9 and Mac OS X. This was around 2004-2005 I think.
Bill Gates and Microsoft are surely grateful for you coming to their defense.
How A product Cover Marketing works And How you can use it on your product too
Today, I happen to buy a Haldiram Snacks (Haldiram Soya Sticks). They are one of India's biggest Snacks company competing with Lays & ITC Bingo. This was the product I bought https://ibb.co/R3JW5Js (image)

While eating, I curiously checked its cover. It was actually premium than a Lays package or an ITC Bingo Pack. Here are the things I noted, so you could use it on your product, whether, physical or SAAS.
The Packing matters..

1. The cover was premium like the image shown above.
That means, you only get 3-5 secs to make a first impression, so the cover should talk directly to your customers, aka, your UI design should be attractive than your competitors.

2. The pack was easy to open with just your hands, and can close it with an inbuilt zipper inside the pack.
(images: https://ibb.co/dm35m2D , https://ibb.co/wQH3StD )
The UI of your application should be easy to use & understandable for the customer, there should not be any confusion.

3. The product- Haldiram Soya Stick- is super cool and satisfies the customer looking for snacks.
Means, no matter what, if your product won't solve the customers problem, there is no use. So the product should be great. Make Something People Want!

4. Added a text, "Taste of Tradition" & "Indian Snacks" on its cover.
(Images: https://ibb.co/b71sdsf , https://ibb.co/jTH55JL )
Haldiram clearly knows, its going to compete with Pepsico Lays(which is a US company). And it also clearly knows its customers - the Indians. Indians are proud of their traditions & proud to say "We are Indians". So it added those text that resonates with its customers and beating their competition.

Add something to your product, that connects your users to their inner feelings, something they would be proud of.

5. They cross sell their other products on their cover itself, with a writing "You may also like"
(Image: https://ibb.co/q0VK6bw )
Cross sell your other services too for a higher payment cycle or to increase your minimum order value. And it should be clear for the customer, like, "You may also like" text on the Haldiram cover.

6. And at the bottom of their cover, there is a write up showing, "If you're reading this, its time to grab your next pack!" :D ( Image: https://ibb.co/b1qzwHQ )
There should be a clear call to action on your product. I have read somewhere that, you need to remind your customer to buy your product, unless they won't even care.

So do these to your physical or SaaS or any kind of products!
I'm going to implement this after eating the snacks :D
(Just few thoughts while eating)
> Might be too late. We've long lost the freedom to simply plant the seed of an apple bought from a supermarket.

I don't think it is too late. YouTube for example has many videos showing people growing their own food (including apples) and instructions on how to do it.

> Today there aren't as many hardware options as they used to be

True. Hardware constantly changes and sometimes what was available 10 years ago no longer is. However you still have the freedom to buy a PC without any OS installed and install Linux instead of Windows.
Well, you just moved the goalposts from "what prompts a visit", past "what gets your kids taken away", all the way to "what gets your kids taken away on a whim".

I agree that CPS is extraordinarily unlikely to take your kids away "on a whim". And yet, that doesn't mean that innocent folks have nothing to fear from a CPS visit.

The first article clearly shows that CPS will visit for any report at all, no matter how bogus or bizarre. There are controls in place to thwart repeated harassment, but for a first report, they will definitely investigate because they are legally obligated to do so.

And since the original issue was whether you might get a visit for putting your kid in a cardboard box, the answer is plainly "yes".

The follow-on question is whether that visit, investigating a stupid, bogus report, might get your kids taken away. That is going to depend on the judgment of the CPS investigator. And the second article illustrates that those judgements are not always going to be evenhanded.
It will be fascinating to see what we have in 50 years time. Or more.
Competing authorities seem like a feature not a bug. It allows for experimentation and evolution of governance models. International law works this way and is what allows people to “vote with their feet”. There is no actual requirement for a single source of truth.
Knowledge isn't knowledge without an explanation: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain...
I got into a very long debate with an openai person 4/5 years ago about this + adversarial learning + access to a quantum computer (think just straight up world class abacus) was close to the primitives required for more generalized AI. They didn't agree with me, but that's ok! :)
AFAIK Indian telecoms are using blockchain tech to maintain a distributed database of do-not-call numbers. Lag of up to 24 hours is ok and the relatively small number of parties is quite trustworthy. Basically they just use the bc for consensus and mirror it to a rdbms for read queries. That’s the only bc implementation I know that is both in production and is not speculation- or crime-fed.
I found the book (and many more) following the experience, and so Huxley's pitch was welcomed but 'not needed'. Agreed:respect and intention may indeed lead to very helpful insights.

That said: as always in life, if you can't trust the source, you may find yourself misled.
Brave opinions from a guy whose legacy at Twitter was buying the next big thing and then closing it down.
Vine, Periscope, Quill etc etc. Guy is a fucking idiot. Someone tell him to stay out of Africa. We don't want him.
Dinosaurs were the dominant species (including the sea), unlike sharks.
Waffle House Poet Laureate (2019)
1. If you need to share all the data and the data distribution methods across multiple legal entities — there's no one 'owner' of the data like a company. If you are doing a blockchain implementation for an internal project... why? Why are you not just using a regular database like Postgres or MongoDB or Oracle or ScyllaDB? But if you are going to be sharing all this data across 50-100 companies, and no one themselves wants to "own" the project and host it, and if everyone wants to be participating as a near equal partner in a solution? Okay. Maybe distributed ledger is warranted.

2. If you need to be able to add more entities who want to participate in the distributed ledger. Or, conversely, drop out entities that are no longer participating, but everyone else still wants to preserve the history of their transactions. If you do deploy to a centrally-owned databsase, if the managing entity ever wants, for any reason, they can pull the plug on the whole operation. A distributed ledger ensures you can add people at any time — no one can lock you out from joining. And also it ensures that if you ever want to leave, the data and the work continue.

3. If you need strongly-consistent views of data, and you don't care about transactional limits. Most distributed ledger technologies are greatly bottlenecked in terms of transactions per second. And I mean some are limited to less than 10 transactions per second. Others can scale to thousands of operations per second. But many centrally-managed and even distributed databases can operate at millions of operations per second. So blockchain is not going to do anything like "eventual consistency." It just won't. And because of that, you'll have these strong throughput (ops per second) limits.
The crazy thing is that you can get at least two windows in Zoom. It's my favorite feature and the reason I prefer it over any of its competitors. However, it's for some reason hidden and handicapped. You need to turn it on and even then it will only work when you have two screens. IMO it should be enabled by default and work even if you only have a single screen. I use it every day, but usually have both windows on my main screen. It's especially invaluable when someone screenshares and you want to see people's faces at the same time.
IMO, nothing. Regarding security/integrity of records, block chain is not better but with more complexity.
And for the so claimed decentralization, it is a catch 22: centralized organizations are there for reasons, and block chain resolved none of them. So now you can see a funny situation that so called decentralized transactions are through centralized exchanges. But if you do need exchanges, why not simply go for banks?
> 9/10 mammals agree "If it tastes good, i'm gonna try and eat it"

Mammal behavior as an entire class is not a valid guide for our own behavior. Rape, murder, lack of cleanliness, stealing, and a host of other behaviors that most humans find abhorrent are common to most mammals.

> If only the smallest spark of "consciousness" is required to have such moral implications then I have bad news about literally all food other than fruiting bodies

There is no evidence that plants posess higher cognition or feel pain. Even if they did feel some modicum of pain, it doesn't lead to the conclusion that it's ok to arbitrarily cause any being to suffer, especially those that obviously feel tremendous pain and actively avoid your advances.

> By default octopuses try and eat each other on sight

So we define our own ethics and interactions with each animal based on how they treat each other? This is too relative and fraught with peril. We would never suggest that it's ok to hump dogs without consent despite them doing it to each other all the time.

I would hope that we as humans don't use the animal kingdom in general as our moral and ethical guidance, and rather use our higher cognitive abilities to make choices that reduce and eliminate unnecessary suffering.
I don't see how that's a straw horse. It's even mentioned in the blog post as the "Enforcement problem".

Nobody can (or should) take NFTs for Real-Life goods seriously until this problem is solved for good.

I myself doubt it can be solved properly without a centralised authority which would contradict the whole "trustless" selling point. But I'd be glad to hear approaches how this and the Oracle problem could be solved in a trustless manner.
In 2^64 years, Earth will be inside of a larger body

How do you know that in the first place? Maybe with rationals science it “will not”, so there is “no problem” at all.
> So the honest recommendation is to accept it takes >1 month to get something done in an orderly fashion when it can take days?

No, the honest recommendation was based on the included explanation of why it can't take days.
I've seen some extreme builds way past 500hp too, but those tend to be more show car type builds.

You can actually quite reliably get 450-500hp out of a 2.3 redblock without even spending that much money, redblocks are notorious in tuning communities for this, almost like the 2JZ of Sweden
I'm familiar with the Realtek RTL vendor driver codebase. It's a combination of two classics: a Realtek-specific hardware abstraction layer across a large number of their products (which won't fly in the Linux kernel), and abominable code quality (ditto).
Just wait for the Dune Cinematic Universe
There were some denial of service issues that on Ethereum during the March 2020 crash that caused Maker DAO to have some Zero bid liquidations and the protocol had to mint and sell off some of Maker's token to keep all the issued DAI properly backed. This did not happen again in the crash in May, which was nearly as steep, but the protocols all kept functioning as expected.
Apple has certainly slimmed down what comes with an iPhone, but from the cheapest single port iPhone to the most expensive, they all can charge and play music at the same time without spending or acquiring anything else.
> The mundane of today is very insightful for tomorrow's historians.

Too add an example I know well.

I grew up on a small farm.

We have plenty of images of Christmas parties etc, but almost none showing actual work being done which is what I think my kids would appreciate the most.

Luckily YouTube for all its warts exist and I can look up the "motorized tea spoon", the U-9 Motostandard for them when I need to explain it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=motostandard+u9...

(We had the one with front-mounted wagon and a stick for steering. And yes we had another slightly larger tractor as well, the AEBI Transporter TP50: )
How sure are we these recent deployments are actually recent and not just photos of typical Russian military bases that move around a lot?

US has been trying to stop Nordstream for ages, lets just build a stronger Europe with Russian allies rather than enemies.
> Sure, it's mostly symbolic

Is it? The maternity box is worth a lot, and that the box itself doubles up as a crib (by design) seems like a huge convenience.
How are you supposed to write tests for code if you don't understand what it does/is supposed to do?
Do you have a source for this? I'm only seeing that the radar permanently stops working if you opt in to FSD, with no way to reactivate it. But this only happens if you enable FSD.
Re 2, good point.
I mean, Dinosaurs weren't a species.
>suddenly there is the great Jihad except we don’t really know why it’s happening, to whom, and who is winning

i think that is the essence of a Jihad, the followers are not allowed to question it.
What’s your argument?
Choosing from a couple of authority preselected candidates has little to do with democracy.
AI enjoys "low error rate". They have to, otherwise they would not exist.

AIs that don't lower the error rate are abandoned, AIs that score well are replicated and improved. It's evolution at work, but they have to enjoy (optimise for) lower error rates in order to even exist.
I don't think the terminology you're looking for is not stateful/stateless, it's single source of truth vs multiple.

The latter is an anti-pattern, and you can do either with ECS.

With ECS nothing prevents you from just having the "physical" game state as the single source of truth, and having the render function for the player inventories look at it.
To be entirely fair, neither is "shark" a single species...

But yes -- my point was that no shark species formed a civilization over that vast period, so it's hard to say whether any dinosaur species would have.
John Trudell on Becoming Human (2005) [video]