skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Einstein.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/

A fave. Several others of similar spirit:

Occam's Razor: "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Ashby's "Requisite variety" (I'm not aware of a concise or elegant formulation) is another.

"This law (of which Shannon's theorem 10 relating to the suppression of noise is a special case) says that if a certain quantity of disturbance is prevented by a regulator from reaching some essential variables, then that regulator must be capable of exerting at least that quantity of selection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

It's been adapted as well to a "law of requisite complexity", which effectively states that only complexity can manage complexity, or alternatively, that the complexity of a control system should correspond to the controlled system. See "Complexity and Organization–Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety" by Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey.

There's also the phenomenon of vestigal functions in biology, e.g., sightless insects, fish, and animals found in cave environments, and even of eukaryotic organisms in which mitochondria once existed (a near-universal characteristic of eukaryotic life), but have since disappeared. (Their earlier presence can be inferred by relic genetic traces.) These are cases in which a previously evolved capability no longer provides a fitness advantage, and revert, typically through a process of genetic drift.

In at least some cases, the mechanism for this appears to be that not having the capability actually affords a fitness benefit. The optical system in animals consumes a substantial fraction of neurological power, and in food-scarce environments in which sight conveys no advantage, the lack of a functioning visual system reduces overall caloric requirements. That is, there is a metabolic energy constraint on fitness and complexity. I'm not aware of a named principle that captures this.

And I've suggested a possible heuristic for distinguishing between rare, false (misinnterpreted), and faked (intentionally misleading) phenomena that seems somewhat related, though it's based on perception thresholds:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/874e7c10d09c0139a7e5002590d8e...
I'm curious what you'd do if they took the work you did and didn't pay you, or only paid you half. Would you be mad? Would you sue? After all, you don't have an agreement.
How do you build a wiki as a static site?
Less Netflix, more chill?
What does IC mean to you?
I’d probably vomit if I see another “web3” or “decentralization”
I lost about $3k doing algo crypto trading (all of that to fees - without fees I made money! aha) but learned a ton about different programming concepts and had a lot of fun.
There's a lack of shadows at the very base of the white columns, which looks very much like the occlusion rays (used when doing NEE to determine whether the surface point is occluded or not for the light being sampled) have too large a ray epsilon or offset being applied...

i.e. the very base of the white columns is pure white, as a disconnect from the rest of the columns.
Huh? What legal right would you like to have with an NFT that you do not have?
This reminds me of a small experiment I did with a friend, where we asked different people to independently write the HTML and CSS for a website (without communicating), and then put the HTML and CSS files together to see how well they worked. https://kach.github.io/generative-adversarial-web-developmen...
It is mind blowing that people thought it reduces transmission more than a little bit. If you read studies about intramuscular vaccines, it is clear they do not prevent spread of aerosol viruses. Nasally administered vaccines do, much more so. If you want to prevent spread of an aerosol virus with a vaccine, use nasal application. It costs a bit more and is harder to ship, but works.
Destin ( from SmarterEveryDay ) father also worked on a part of the telescope...
in this video:

"How Does The James Webb Space Telescope Work?"
https://youtu.be/4P8fKd0IVOs

Destin does an interview with the original senior project scientist Dr. John Mather.
Again: scoring events != awardable points.

There is no bound on points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663864
The latter. The problem with this line of thinking is that race is a genetic term. Crime investigators can determine race from a blood droplet. NHS has a monthly begging campaign for "black blood" donations.

And the biggest thing is that race corresponds to generic ancestry with 99.86% accuracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
Sure, but that doesn't apply here. If my manager is happy with my work, by definition, expectations are being met, which means I'm entitled to be paid in full. Time and effort don't factor into the equation. The phrase in the offer letter works both ways: "hours... required to perform your job duties" can be more or less than 40.
I launched a successful Kickstarter a few years ago. Getting press coverage is critical, but it's difficult to get press to cover something that isn't yet available. To overcome this catch-22, you can (1) have a product that is somehow attached to a current trend in the news, or (2) have enough progress that you can convince journalists that it's not vaporware.

It also helps to have an existing network that would be interested, for example from a related product.

There are companies that you can pay to do marketing. I didn't use one of those, since it seems like many of them probably suck out all the profit from any Kickstarter that actually succeeds. But I imagine some of them could be good partners, depending on what you're making.
Absolutely absurd, and shows how politicized by the state, and its official ideology, science has become.

It reminds me of this example of life immitating satire:

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/142161970031280947...
The apology of Socrates by Plato
That only applies to the government, not to individual companies.

Freedom of Speech does nothing for you outside of the government...
So this touches on two ugly corners of Java:

1. No object value types; and

2. Boxing and primitives.

On (1), all objects in Java are references, being a pointer to a pointer effectively. This indirection has a cost but has been incredibly useful historically because it enables moving allocation around the address space because none of the references change. They're effectively just pointers to a lookup table and it's the lookup table that changes.

As for the example of packing an array of Points into a contiguous block of memory to avoid the dereferencing, I'll be curious to see what the proposal is here. Now, for example, if you have a collection of Points (x,y), you can put in a 3DPoint (x,y,z) that extends Point. You can't do that if you've flattened storage, not without some overhead at least.

For years it's been the dream in Java to have true value Object types. You can do this in C++, which also allows you to allocate onto the stack. My position is that the complexity cost of this is massive. Copy constructors, move constructors, assignment operators, implicit constructors, implicit casts, etc. I mean you can have class A with instance a1 on the stack and a2 on the heap and pass &a1 and &a2 to a A* parameter and the callee has absolutely no idea of the lifetime of those or where they're allocated.

But still, it would be nice to pass around an SHA1 hash as a 20 byte value instead of a reference to an object that contains a reference to an array that contains 20 byte elements.

As for (2), this was a deliberate design choice in Java 5 (1.5) when generics were added. The decision was made, for better or for ill, to retain backwards compatibility through type erasure such that a List<T> is a List. This decreased the pain of upgrading and legacy code but created this ugly corner of primitive types.

C# 2.0 came along later and decided to go the other way such an IList<T> is not an IList (IIRC the types; I'm not a C# guy).

There are pros and cons.

The fact that certain values are guaranteed to satisfy reference equality is kind of weird and (IMHO) confusing ie new Integer(127).equals(new Integer(127)) is true but new Integer(128).equals(new Integer(128)) isn't necessarily true. I guarantee you a lot of people don't know that.
Individual contributor. Again, sorry for the confusion.
Hey, thanks. I appreciate the idea...putting them together is an interesting process involving both design and math :-)
I’m reading his Outer Dark for the second time. That epic, almost Biblical style of his early books is unsurpassed.
I live in the US and there are some places here where it’s now decriminalized.

As to shamen part, I do recommend reading the book. There’s a lot on “set and setting” which goes into this.
The problem with PDF's has always been the layman can't create them without some expensive Adobe program.
A decade ago we have this niche vBulletin forum where members would self-publish news article regarding the hobby. vBulletin BBCode is pretty limited, but then the admin started to add more and more styling support via custom BBCode.

At one point we were able to create "interactive" content entirely in our heavily customized BBCode without a single line of JS, and this #target is one of the more used tricks.
Definitely Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
I think you've just described an EPUB?
This is the most cogent explanation I've read so far. An NFT token basically serves as a counterfit-proof declaration that artifact X is worth $N, at least to one buyer. It's sort of like Patreon for rich people, with the proviso that there will only be one patron at a time.
caffeine is a drug. i saw your response regarding the illegality of it being the major deterrent. if it weren't, would you change your viewpoint?
I've wondered how much of a conflict of interest when buying public stock of competitor would have more impact than a side-gig.
I think a wrinkle often got lost in the discussion is that the outcome of the learning is less affected by the playback speed but the effort and attention you devote to the learning process. Speedify for the purpose of speedifying may result in a net negative efficiency, but can be used to enable other learning methods, e.g., the "play at 2x so as to study twice" method in the study.

When I was studying for the bar exam, we had handouts and lecture videos in which the lecturer basically read the content out of the handouts ad verbatim. Therefore, technically I won't get anything more by playing the lecture than just reading the handouts. But the handouts are too dry and dull for me to keep focussed in a session, so I played the video at 2x in parallel with my reading. AFAICT the "dual input" did make me learn and remember better. But had I just zoom through the video without the additional efforts of reading, I don't think the result would have been as good.
Sick for a week like flu. Still under the weather for second week. Lost taste/smell which both returned. Had 8 relatives with similar experiences and 1 was bedridden for 2 weeks. Ages: 20 to 45.
Appreciate the recommendation, this has been on my wish list forever! Finally pulled the trigger and bought it after your comment.
My niece had it and reports things don't taste as well now. I've been extremely careful about Covid-19 from the start. I often wondered if I was over-reacting, then I watched "City of Gold" about Los Angeles food critic Johnathan Gold and realized why I was so paranoid: I heard reports early on that people lost their sense of taste and smell. Losing 2 of your 5 senses is a big deal, more so for me because I'm a foodie and my life would be worse if I couldn't enjoy a good meal.
Why are you on HN instead of sharing your bad opinions with your friends in person? You have zero reason to be online, conversations existed before the internet, you know...
People are willing to pay more, in my view, because the competitive spirit has been eaten out of the market. I spent a bunch of 2012-2019 loosely tracking semiconductor acquisitions & there's like 8 decent-sized companies left. Everyone else has been gobbled up.

You know why there's a chip shortage? Because only 2 companies still make diodes. Because only 3 companies still make pmics.Because everyone "for some reason" all use STM microcontollers.

We used to talk about efficiencies of scale. To me, today, I keep asking myself exactly your question:

> Why are people willing to pay more?

And I keep finding the answer is: no one else knows how to supply or tries to supply anymore. There is no competition anymore. Getting started competing to produce/supply real goods/materials is too hard now. Getting good making goods/materials gets you bought now.

People pay more because they have to, because there's no competitive supply, because companies can- as various replies to the topic suggest- charge whatever they want & don't need an excuse anymore. Why is that? There's no supply side competition. It's no longer about efficiencies of scale. Now we scale so we can make sure we have no competition. So we can serve the market well enough to prevent competition, then leverage our position.
And the text immediately underneath the the header is “Natalie is a work-in-progress Ruby implementation, compiled to C++”.
Been doing this for over half a decade off of a template I boosted 8 years ago and have been modifying since.

Has made tens of millions in revenue.

Just assumed every developer or template seller in south asia was using this - or their clients. Probably more common than you think.
The medieval origins of the legal profession: canonists, civilians, and courts by Brundage

The origins of reasonable doubt: theological roots of the criminal trial by Whitman
550 isn't that far from 3178 to be fair.
I don't suppose any people who died from it are going to respond here. I know a few who died and some who recovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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The GP comment is an app for macOS. Do you know of any good, reputable blockers for iOS?
> Tech sufferers greatly from a "God Complex" syndrome, and it's exactly what will prevent it from getting better.

I saw an excellent critique of Roblox the other day, which covered many aspects of their business and different kinds of abuse which are happening in and around their game.

The most bizarre part was that they sent some questions to the company - and the company responded by saying they “clearly weren’t being objective” and essentially gaslighting the people making the video.

I think the people in charge of Roblox seriously don’t see themselves as holding any sort of responsibility to the broader society that pays their bills. It’s like someone watched The Corporation and thought - “oh companies can get away with sociopathic behaviour? I want in!”. Doing harm to the world in the name of your bottom line doesn’t make you clever. It makes you the villain.

(Video in question: https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY )
Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate it. Apology accepted!

BTW, it does appear that, despite you being technically an employee, you're doing piecework like a contractor would. Piecework work is, indeed, paid for the piece, not the hours. If that is the agreement with your employer, then there is nothing dishonorable about it, and I withdraw my criticism.
Yeah, I think he'd agree, it was pretty idiotic for him to but a Tesla in hindsight.
Google Analytics was a pain to use.

At Appsmith, we use Plausible, which is laughably simple (and open source too).
I haven't had a lot of time for reading this year, but one I got most of the way through that was the most beneficial to me was Delivered From Distraction. There was a "Hey, do you guys experience this?" post I saw on HN several months ago, and it echoed my experiences so much it almost felt as if I had written it. So many people suggested getting an ADHD evaluation and gave all sorts of resources (books, videos, etc) and Delivered From Distraction was one that came up again and again. It was a great book because I saw SO much of myself and my struggles over the years reflected in its pages, and thanks to the post, discussion, the book, and so many of the other resources, I was able to get an evaluation a couple of weeks ago and will have the results in the next couple of months.

Ah, found the post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593462

If you read any of that and think it feels really familiar, I can't suggest Delivered From Distraction enough.
A site is a website is the thing behind a domain name. Many were, and are, a single file. Its the rest of ya'll that are overcomplicating things and somehow perverted that to thinking its necessary. How many layers of meta are we right now for this article to be interesting?
My biggest fear is an antivaxxer taking up an ER bed someone else might need for a real issue.

IMO antivaxxers should be denied admission to a full ER for COVID-related morbidities if they have not taken the vaccine. If they would like to make the bodily choice of not getting the vaccine, they can also make the bodily choice of not getting emergency treatment.

At some point a line has to be drawn. When resources are low, care should be prioritized amongst those that will make the most of it, or rather - those that won't spit in its face.
I tend to think this is true. I also tend to think that enough people trade based on technical trends that it should be possible to make money by predicting their behavior.

But it may not be possible for mere mortals to do this — perhaps all the profit is sucked up by HFTs with supercomputers.
I know what it is, I don't understand the hype around it. Now I know more!
You get the right to say I own this image, jpeg , your ownership is listed on a block chain, it s ridiculous since anyone can copy the image and download it since I can get a cd music disc and copy it and rip it there's no record of who buys music cds in a store
It makes no sense to me in that it's just a line of code on a block chain
But then digital games earn far more than people buying games on physical discs epic is earning billions selling emotes dance skins etc in fortnite
If I buy a weapon skin in call of duty vanguard what use will it be to me in 4 years time when my console no longer works and I no longer play call of duty I can't display it or use it or sell it to anyone and its of no use outside the Xbox live network
In theory if you buy a nft you could sell it to someone in a few years like people pay 1000s for an old game company's will probably set up a platform if you buy an image from ubisoft for example of some icon weapon etc you can sell it to anyone whether they play that game or not
Yes it's good for digital artists
but it's really bad for the environment as it takes megawatts of energy to make nfts and keep the blockchain updated equivalent to say burning or using barrels if oil

But we are in a surreal world or a digital gold rush,
If you say we are on the block chain selling nfts digital currency blah blah etc you, ll get
interest from investors your stock might go up . news headlines on tech websites
The potential return could be great and how much does it cost to make digital images put em on a private block chain etc not much
A nft is simply an image jpeg etc with a digital record signature recorded on a block chain digital database that can be inspected is tamper proof as it's verified on many different computers,
The mystery is why pay 1000s of dollars for a nft
If you want to support an artist use patreon or pay a subscription or send them money or buy their merch

You could buy weapon skins emotes costumes 5 years ago in games without the need to use blockkchain
Your items are linked to your steam psn or Xbox live username
Gaming company's already have databases of all the games and items you buy online
>Hence, before trading in the stock market (or in any other market which is a zero sum game, e.g. used cars, NFT)

None of these are zero sum games. Especially stock market.
Stock market is not a zero sum game at all.
https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/72945/is-the-stock...
Ha, that's awesome! Hope they go down a treat!
In other words, it corresponds 100% with genetic ancestry, it’s just asking people to self identify their race that’s problematic.
Have you tried synching? It is what I currently use and I would be grateful if you can share your insight on how they compare.
Thank you for the talk link!
Omicron is much less likely to hospitalize people, it never reached a concerning level in South Africa and cases are falling fast. I could see wanting covid patients to pay for it themselves, but denying them entry is ridiculously cruel.
So you are using a single HTML file with no JS at all to deliver a multi-page site? Just to be clear.
I’m not an expert either, but I can able to notice where a conversation holds up “Japanese corporate governance” as some noteworthy model :)
I assumed since it's the same-ish principle. I find it fun how people will strive to work so hard to "ruin" a game, but it is definitely impressive to see how they go about to learn the solve. That should be a Show HN in and of itself.
I’ll go with Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr.
point is, what does it matter how complex the programmatic effort is, cognitively? judge the ability to be high during the tasks by its' earning potential :)
It exists and that's one of the points I was trying to make.
> Crime investigators can determine race from a blood droplet.

Such as determining that a person who is ~75% "white" and ~25% "black" is in fact, "black"?

If "race" is a "genetic term" it is certainly not only a "genetic term".
Read the documentation for creating one, it might answer some questions. https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/erc721
I think this is actually a satire of NFT satire. It doesn't actually solve the problem of double spends, and alludes to that fact. It also draws a lot of attention to how complicated the "simpler" system it proposes is.

Unfortunately, HN is fully living out Poe's law on this one.
Liftoff by Eric Berger. SpaceX early days from more of the perspective of the employees. Really entertaining, well written and learned a lot about rocketry. Highly recommend
Nah, my grandma had a life, as I fully intend to when I'm her age.
That has to be the funniest serious video

The absurdity of our modern high tech lives in 2min

It’s not anyone's fault, it’s an emergent property.
Also, i wonder who actually go to the google home page to search these days, instead of directly typing into the address bar?
right? everyone is fawning over this basic html as if its this amazing trick, the foreshadowing was the people pointing out how progressive web apps aren't necessary for most use cases, but now I really see I can't trust anybody's opinion here because this is normie levels of perception at this point.
Dream.In.Code Shutting Down
I read Sapiens by Yuval Harari this year. It was long and fascinating, incredibly well researched, and easy enough for "light reading" that I had time for between writing research papers. A couple things that stuck with me were stories of giant land mammals that used to exist, many more than I realized, alongside humans. Wherever humans colonized, the large mammals were killed off soon after. This happened in Australia, China, and Europe, and long before the days of colonization. Another was the idea that humans have been cultivated by wheat, rather than the other way around, based on the observation that our relationship with wheat is more beneficial for the plant than for ourselves.