skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy does not work for me, it seems like an strawman. Who are those people who think that wheels are the only form of transportation? I am pretty sure that both sliding and floating were invented before the wheel.

The main Lee Smolin's argument fails the same way: he asks, "is there really only kind of computer" like this is something people never asked before.. but this has question has been asked (and answered) many times. There are many ways to clarify that question, and answers to that are in basic CS courses. For example:

"Is there a different kind of computer hardware, not the same kind as my Windows PC made in 2003" -> Yes, the computational world is wide, and many computing device do not use sequential C-like programming. For example, there (were) analog computers, FPGA, special purpose accelerators. There are even super parallel ones like Green Arrays, which is kinda-sorta similar to what is described in the original article.

"Is there a different data model, other than bits" -> Yes, analog computers were a thing and had no bits. And some algorithms, like machine learning or fuzzy logic, emulate fuzzy values with bits.

"Is there a different kind of computation, different than Turing model" -> Yes, there are uncomputable problems, a halting problem is most famous of them.

Overall, I don't see this as profound, I see it as boring. There may be a genuine, interesting question out there, but this is not what Smolin / Lanier are asking.
Did you read the article? It's probably the most honest version of "one line of bash" given how prolific ffmpeg is, and the fact that, beyond one line of shell commands, I was able to listen to the streamed audio in my browser.

What more do you want? It works, quite literally, as advertised.
probably different than the author from the article, the Mathematician wasn't interested in generating clicks.
Doesn't seem hard.

Let's make it fairer and attractive.

We can start with $1m.
Yes. All data, all computer files, are fundamentally just numbers. Really big numbers. You can even figure out how big they are.

decimal_digits = ceil(bits * log10(2))

A 10 KiB picture is a 24,661 digit number. A 2 GiB video file is a 5,171,655,946 digit number.

It might take hard work and a ton of money to discover that number, but once it's known it can be trivially copied. Copyright is about creating artificial scarcity for numbers. That's how insane it is.
Let him learn like so many kids from the 70s and 80s. By typing in programs from a book. Now in multiple languages..
https://blog.codinghorror.com/updating-the-single-most-influ...
Life at 800mHz

800 MILLI Hertz (0.8 Hz)! Now that is slow. <grin>

Actually 800 MHz is slow by today's standards, but it's a lot faster than the 4 MHz Z80 that my first computer used.
GNOME has a foundation[0] that is responsible handling their funding as well as setting goals/standards for their desktop. As a matter of fact, they're the most well-funded desktop environment in the entire Linux desktop landscape. I think criticism is fair, especially when it pertains to removing features and working against the community using funding that is, in large part, raised by said community.

[0] https://foundation.gnome.org/
T cell immunity should permanently reduce the severity of subsequent infections holding viral load constant. Variants would have to somehow keep getting worse to do the same amount of harm.
The first is two years old the second one is a rehash of a two year old issube Since this is about when gnome switched to gitlab they might be further history.

They have a history of finite resources and inability to resolve issues in a timely fashion. They ought to set goals and raise money. People really need to commit their money if they want nice things.
> This is one (of many) reasons I always buy NIOSH N95’s.

I doubt that a NIOSH marking is harder to counterfeit than the rest of the mask.

Also, I'm very surprised at that claim that the straps are expensive. They are just elastic strips as far as I can tell. I've never had any issues with hair snags. Main issue I've had is that they break off of the mask at the weld point. I end up glueing them back on with hot glue.
> Make your phone's screen black and white.

Just did this, thank you!

> Use an extension to block Twitter, reddit, YouTube and HN. Learn to be bored again like when you were young.

For those thinking about this, it's pretty easy to add custom url's to uBlocks lists, I've done it on mobile for most sites like this.

...Still struggling with HN though :/
Scratch -> Logo -> Python is a good way to go...
There isn't in the wild nonconformant data you also need to live with out there for most of them. The combination is unholy.
I have to wonder why on this day on HN, people suddenly want to spread this narrative. Perhaps success or failure depends partly on perception, whether you believe you will succeed.
A movie made using MSX2 computers: The Flying Luna Clipper
The major brands of masks are 3M, Kimtech / Kimberly Clark, Moldex... among many many others.

USA has plenty of masks at the $1/mask price point with full N95 rating. There are also a ton of small companies / startups who started manufacturing N95 masks seeing the opportunity for the pandemic.

The main benefit of N95 is a strap that wraps all the way around the head (N95 American standard is higher quality and costs a bit more because of this strap). KN94 or whatever the Korean standard is has only ear-loops, so your ears get quite tired from all the stress over time.
> I doubt that a NIOSH marking is harder to counterfeit than the rest of the mask.

Unless you're some kind of hacker who can add their product to this list: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...

It seems pretty hard to counterfeit.
Study Explains Why Pluto (and Some Moons) Are Planets After All [video]
The larger question is why the government hasn't regulated them to stop doing that, because Amazon will sell what people are buying:

1) If anything, the company leadership has demonstrated their amorality when it comes to exchanging dollars for things people want

2) The company leadership doesn't feel the need to be particularly hand-holdy to a public that is still running them dry on Ivermectin as fast as it comes in.

... but there's nothing really stopping the government from saying "If you're going to sell medical supplies you must be regulated as a medical supplier" other than lack of will.
People around you just don't want to risk sharing the same room with someone who demonstrates lack of consideration for everyone's health, that's all. "Showing the papers" is the best available proxy filter for that, clearly far from perfect. It's quite similar to smoking, you are allowed to smoke 10 packs a day if you feel like it, but you are not allowed to fuck up other peoples' lungs while you do it. Do smokers have guns to their heads because of that?
It's also a way of trivializing a real thing with real, serious impact, by omitting the 'real' aspect.
How they handle multiple monitors is a choice and the memory leaking is a design decision as is the lack of addon api and a system where any crashing addon takes out the whole session.

Bugs are inevitable but bad design is not.
I need every ego boost I can get these days, friend. Either way, I was intending to tell a story directly relevant to the OP about how there were very large databases even back then. Interestingly, the same size databases are probably run on much less hardware today.
I am not a mathematician or cryptographer, but here's my understanding (please, please correct me if I'm wrong)

Modern cryptography relies on the hardness of integer factorization. Things you want to hide are intractable to calculate on even the most powerful machines due to the underlying math not being workable in polynomial time (or similar low degree time). Age of the universe hard to brute force with our machines and known algorithms.

It has to do with the complex structure of the problem in our intuitive dimension. We haven't thought of any possible way to speed it up classically, and it's not apparent if there are such techniques.

The Riemann Hypothesis conjectures that there is a way to know the distribution of primes in a higher dimensional imaginary math. That the unintuitive and difficult system that gives us primes in real number space is somehow contained in a larger imaginary space, with some kind of regular structure, and that they are immediately accessible and calculable once you know the trick.

If the hypothesis is true, it's quite possible that NP hard problems are the same. That in some unintuitive higher dimension math we can solve the hardest problems in polynomial time.

NP-hard problems are also proven to be equivalent complexity, and if you figure out one then the rest are also solvable. If we figure out the trick behind it all (if such a thing exists), we might break everything. Or maybe we'll prove that there is no such free lunch.

I'm one of the ones hoping for computing to be easy. It would unlock so many possibilities. Fast math, in silico experiments, protein folding, etc. It unfortunately would also break all of the underpinnings of our industry, though. SSL, privacy, crypto, infosec, everything about the Internet...

Most people are betting that primes are hard, and it certainly does look that way.
If think about estimate as learning activity in the sense of Theory Building, then you won't really care about the estimate by itself (which is a nice by-product) but as a confirm that the task is clear and actionable. In that the real value I think.
Projet N95 is a legit organization. They were an official member of a project I volunteered for at the beginning of the pandemic: https://c19coalition.org/directory

Eric Ries (The Lean Startup, LTSE) was a co-founder of this coalition. Him and the other stakeholders of the coalition worked to make sure the coalition members were legit.
I'll say it again: The "Havana Syndrome" cases are workplace injuries caused by (as yet) unrecognised workplace activities. It's cheaper to maintain that the Syndrome is caused by 'adversaries' than to admit that there is any liability for Workers' Compensation claims.

Amazing that only US workers are affected while non-US workers in the same areas are not. Radiation weapons would affect both at the same time.
If you have a large beard, you’re basically unmasked. I think the CDC is right. If you’re bearded, it’s just hygiene theater. I’m not sure what can be done, mandating shaving would run against Jewish and Islamic beliefs, so any such mandate would probably be struck down quickly.
Figma is a C++ application compiled to webasm that paints to a blank canvas for the majority of it's usage. It's about as 'web' as the unity game engine compiling to web. In development they compile to a macOS app and use instruments to profile it.
I remember upgrading my Slackware boxes from a.out to ELF, back in 1996.
Rental period? I owned that game as a kid and NEVER beat the second level.
I’m sure some million dollar software jobs get given out to connected idiots, but I don’t think it’s most of them. When I’ve worked with those kinds of people (high level engineers at top companies), they tend to be very skilled.
That's not a counterpoint, the rest of your comment doesn't follow either. Check the most recent comment for suggestions on how to help out with changing the functionality: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233#note_1106706

If you've got some code to contribute to that, ping the developers on IRC. Adding more comments to that issue isn't helpful. These issues aren't suffering from a lack of comments, they're missing someone to step up and do the work. The original comment was that they were hostile to this, which isn't true.
Twitter automatically shortens URLs so what are you even going on about?
I have pretty much the same outlook as you have described, so it's notable that we disagree at least a bit on this point of memorization. I think this is my fault as I misunderstood the GP a bit in my reply. But I would suggest in some ways that practice is different to memorization in some interesting ways. Memorizing a manual on motorcycle riding wouldn't make you a good rider if you have never ridden a bike, and you can become a better rider without it, but it would prepare you for the topics involved and you would likely be far more effective at absorbing the learning from the practice having read the manual.

In other instances memorization is a foundational requirement, like language learning. Can't leanr a word if you don't know the alphabet, for example. In that sense practice only serves to reinforce the memorization it is the memory that is most important to being effective in that case.
When I moved into my new home about 18 months ago I decided to forego putting a television in my bedroom. Instead I throw a [wireless] earbud in and listen to a podcast or audio book set to a 30-minute sleep timer. I know this is not perfect, but is at least a step in the right direction as I very rarely am awake when the timer goes off. However, I don't feel that I retain much of the information. Do you feel like you retain most of what you have read before going to bed? Also, do you prefer print or ebooks?
Isn’t the discrepancy due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve ? (Aka Peano curves)
It's not just masks on Amazon: SSDs, flash cards have huge amounts of fakes which report the right size but have a fraction of the actually claimed memory on them.
On easy mode, what should the second word be? Third, fourth? How often can you get the word ENTIRELY by eliminating as many words as possible in this way?
Battery systems in EVs are not much different from what we have in our cell phones and laptops. We are not afraid of our phones bursting in flames while charging, yet the mainstream media wants us to be afraid of EVs.
I didn't understand the point about stored procedures. Why not have stored procedures? Yes, you treat it like code any changes to the stored procedure are scripted, stored in git and deployed with a data migration tool.

But store procedures give you a single place to call SQL. If there is a procedure that does a standard calculation used by 5 reports then put it in a function or a stored procedure and have every report call that procedure / function.
Just print the relevant markings on the fake mask?
(To expand on this a bit: the reason that GRH is so important is because of its ubiquitous applications in mathematics. Maybe you can think of these applications as different food items, whose recipes call for GRH. The problem is that GRH is a very hard ingredient to come by! (That is, if you want your result to be "unconditional," in the sense of not assuming anything unproven.)

In some of these cases, however, (such as the two mentioned in the comment above), substituting the Generalized Lindelof Hypothesis in place of GRH (remarkably) would give you a result just as good! (Think "I can't believe it's not GRH!")

Unfortunately, Lindelof is also presently out of reach in almost all contexts. Subconvexity estimates are partial progress towards Lindelof. If you substitute them in place of GRH in your recipes, you'll get something better than if you used the cheapest ingredient (the convexity bound), but not something quite as good as if you had used Lindelof or GRH.

Some of the most important results in analytic number theory are "I can't believe it's not GRH!" in their respective contexts. Here is one such example: For applications in sieve theory (e.g., the 2013 breakthrough work on bounded gaps in primes), the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem is a substitute for GRH that is just as good as GRH.)
I think it's more like a lot more detailed modeling involved during place&route, since we can no longer get away with simplifications.

There's definitely a lot more playing with clock domains too though. Run this bit at half clock, etc. But you still wouldn't want to have entirely async things within an execution unit, because bringing them back in sync costs a couple clock cycles on its own.

I do wonder how the tooling used in leading edge VLSI design rates on software quality. If the open FPGA tooling community has taught us something, it's that vendor tooling is hideously inefficient and just plain bad software. If VLSI design is on the same level (and it wouldn't be surprising if it is; in fact some FPGA tooling is done by the same companies and a similar codebase), then they might be leaving performance, design time, or both on the table just because the damn P&R and timing analysis take much longer to run than they would if the software weren't terrible. Of course I'm sure they just throw more machines at the problem for high stakes chip design, but...
OK, so we have to weigh up your __desire__ not to get sick (at all) with what is statistically likely to be a mild illness vs the very real (to my mind, and others) downsides of extended periods in lockdown.

Just because it was feasible (which I question TBH) to go without a single symptom for years, doesn't mean that is the norm or a desired state. A cold every now and then is quite normal at least here in Australia and not something I'm overly concerned about.

"Suddenly all of them got COVID...", they must be behaving differently from people I know or be in drastically different situations as I do know people who have contracted COVID, but it's far from the norm.
Except I get to make the risk assessment for myself not someone I've never met.
WGN radio host lists the 83 books she read in 2021
It would be way too easy to make indentation bugs that are currently caught by the interpreter.
The advisory suggests that there are knock-offs fraudulently marked with approved brand names, so you'd need to order direct from the manufacturer to be sure.
This is a little bit of an off-topic story, but still somewhat relevant. I was shopping on Amazon for LED light strips recently. I noticed that some of them said "no-waterproof" in the description, which I thought was weird. Like if they're not waterproof, just don't say anything. I searched for "waterproof", and of course they show up in the top results. Everyone looking for waterproof LED light strips will find these instead of ones that are actually waterproof. The search is just a dumb word search. (I have no idea if people want or buy waterproof LED light strips, or even if such a thing actually exists. Mine are going in a 3D printer which is ostensibly not damp.)

So, I opened up the OpenAI playground to see if GPT-3 could do better. I prompted: "Q: Is a product called "KXZM 24V LED Strip Light Natural White 600LEDs, 16.4ft Flexible SMD2835 High Brightness 4000-4500K No-Waterproof IP33 LED Tape Lights" waterproof? A:" and it answered "It's not. As you can see, this product is not waterproof. It says so in the product description." (GPT-3 is always a bit mean to me, but in this case, I obviously deserved it. What else could "no-waterproof" mean, ya idiot ;)

My conclusion is that GPT-3 could easily filter out products that don't actually match a search query, and prevent disreputable sellers from abusing naive keyword matching, making the shopping experience better for everyone. And, Amazon obviously has the talent and compute resources to build their own model like GPT-3. But they don't do it! They don't care if you buy the wrong thing or that the search results are irrelevant. As long as you click something and buy it, they make money.

I don't know how this works out long term, but I'm guessing that people don't notice they're not waterproof, and Chinese Factory A that did keyword optimization makes more money than Chinese Factory B that sprayed the LEDs with a conformal coating. (If the return rate gets too high, you just pick 8 more random all-caps letters and start a new company.)

Simple use of an API could solve this problem in seconds. Customers would be happier. We wouldn't be rewarding manipulation. It's easy. And yet, they don't. They just "select * from products where keywords like '%$1'".

My conclusion is that Amazon simply doesn't care. They're #1, and you can't get better than #1, right? If they kill a few people in a pandemic with counterfeit masks, who cares? #2 DREAMS they were killing people in a pandemic!
The turbopumps for the main engines were unlubricated? No fluid bearings?

What do today's reusable engines use?
The regulations might depend on your country/situation: https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html

(But 'no' is pretty good summary right now.)
I encourage you to reexamine your position and perspective on things. It's too much to unpacking one reply, however every one of your points suffers from a kind of perspective shift that skews your perspective on things.

Yes, the whole system is utterly convoluted, twisted, and perverted into dysfunction; but I also find it astonishing that you claim it's some kind of debt-bondage, right after clearly making the point that you can just go into a skilled trade or to a marketing bootcamp and that just alone the drive and work ethic of someone who has a job before 18 will set you up for success.

The real issue is that the upper class has colluded to corrupt the whole education system, largely for self-enrichment, which has also have an exorbitant impact on America's competitiveness by inefficient allocation of human resources into ever increasingly useless degrees. It is not a coincidence that all these changes have correlated the increase in communistic/socialistic type policies and mentalities.
Yeah I'm with you on this one. I think they keep these in code so that they can deploy over multiple databases. But I think this should be seen as a schema change. If you make a change to a view, materialized view or procedure you need to store that change in git and deploy it out to all instances via a migration tool.
I think talking about CDM vs. MOND vs. other options is fascinating. I doubt any of these is the last word and that mankind will reach a better understanding with time.

But the poster in question opened with a salvo just denigrating all the other options without any information in defense of his view. This shouldn't be lauded. It opens no interesting line of discourse.
I would consider that cheating. If you consider a history you might get all past (as well as future) words from the source code.

For example this Saturday's word will be panic.
A Visual Guide to Human Emotion (2021)
Hey OP mind your own business.
Has their order fulfillment been outrageously slow for you? I've bought from then twice (Jan 2021 and Dec 2021) and both times they didn't even ship my order for 2 weeks.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. -- Karl Marx
This does not quite work.

For today's word (abbey):

- input "arise" (match "a", wrong position "e")

- solver says there are 10 possible words, one of them is "apnea"

- input "apnea" (match "a", match "e") EDIT: fixed

- solver says there are 0 possible words (it assumes last "a" should appear yellow, but the wordle page has the last "a" as grey because there is only one "a" in the word)
They want to put advertisements in videos.

If you download the videos, they can’t inject ads into them, they don’t get ad revenue, earnings decline, shareholders sell their stock, value of the stock decreases, shareholders get even more upset, stock price decreases further, execs can’t take out loans against their stock because it’s not worth enough … the cycle continues.

I don’t really think it’s about control—it’s about increasing the value of the corps stock so employees and shareholders with stock can sell it or use it as collateral for loans to buy nice things.