skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't though. The UN's models on the area say that world population will continue to grow (population has momentum) until the end of that century, at which point population growth will be very close to 0, with an estimated population of 10.5 billion people. So even in total numbers, we won't run out of people anytime soon.

Even when global populations begin to fall, we can still keep immigration up. There's nothing at all inconsistent with falling populations and immigration. Economically there might be a lot of pressure for people in places with falling populations to emigrate, because of the economic effects of sudden population drops.
There have been a lot of perspectives on time through human history.

The Mayans were very gifted astronomers, and built their temples such that the sun would shine exactly through a small portal at the top of the temple on the equinoxes. Christian basilicas and Jewish temples had similar timekeeping functions.

The Greek and Roman pagans saw time as turbulent and cyclical, subject to the caprice of the gods.

The pre-modern, Christian worldview saw time as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, but also as a vertically-structured fractal of cycles within cycles, and our orientation within was ascending upwards to an eternity outside time and space.

The Protestant fathers saw the linear progression of time forwards towards salvation as the true content of the gospel — that our orientation is forwards, towards the future.

Some Maori saw our orientation in time as backwards, that we walk with our back towards the impenetrable future, with the past visible in front of us.

None of these, however, saw time as an infinitely critiqueable, totally relative social construct with no given reality outside of humanly mutable, intersubjective power relations. This makes the author of the article, in my sincere opinion, the “whitest” of them all.
Such a program cannot exist. "Modelling" is just a catch all term. But in practice nobody learns "modelling". They just get deep in one field and learn how to model problems in that field. Those people are often not mathematicians, but engineers working on applied problems.

What you need to do is to get interested in something cool. Then contact research groups in that field and ask them if there is a place for you. You will no learn modelling. But you will be doing modelling of one very specific problem.
Being in school and being out of school ended up not being that different for me. I did a lot of practical stuff in school and have continued to read and study since leaving (30+ years ago).

I guess this spaced repetition process is something I implicitly do — when I kept paper notebooks I’d go back and read through each as I finished it. Now I have a monthly review of the month’s notes.

Also I try to use things I learn, which often sends me back to my notes or a book (I remember better what I read on paper). This obviously makes more sense with computing and chemistry; it doesn’t typically link up the same way with, say, history :-).

Also if I read a book that sticks in my mind, I go back to it and flip around for the parts I found interesting. That’s also a kind of spaced repetition. I’m in a book club with several nerd friends; I couldn’t tell you the dozen books we read last year but two of them I could expound upon at length.

And of course at my age it’s waaay easier to learn new things as I have so much context to anchor it to. As a student everything was new and almost sui generis so it didn’t “stick” as well. For example, reading Strang is quite different now compared to when I took his class 30 years ago.
At first I thought this would be about pencil and paper RPG games, but looking at the website it is an alternative to RPG Maker, that has characters with a vaguely papery look to them due to use sprites in a 3-Dish setting.

It is written in Qt and produces games that run in Electron. So reasonably multiplatform. It is free if you don't make money with it, it looks like.

It is nice to see a largish project like this that blends Qt and Electron.
To the surprise of no one who ever paid attention.
I must be misunderstanding your comment. You are saying that younger companies in the US are becoming more wealthy and innovating more or at the same level as a few entrench EU companies that have successfully stifled the EU market ensuring they never lose there market share or have a need to innovate to complete in a free market, is that correct?
I personally feel Watson was an extremely clever marketing boondoggle. If you think of it, machine learning, neural networks and AI were just making a return into the public mind around the time they announced Watson.

I think somebody thought if they "humanized" AI by making it seem like it was a character, it would make AI seem all that much more closer to the dream.

On the face of it, not a horrible idea, but applied to what was essentially a bunch of separate algorithms.. pretty misleading, but that's just an opinion.
I have found recently Facebook Marketplace has had a much larger selection compared to craigslist.
> Many of these kinds of attacks aren't possible when your hosted website is only HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Had you read the other comments, where I have replied to this misconception several times already, you would have seen that the setup I describe is just that: "your hosted website is only HTML, CSS, JavaScript".
Yeah like most businesses the owner his staff to help out. I’m curious what you think GPs actually make, because in the US it’s not astronomical. Watson went after the wrong problem— doctors don’t comprise huge amounts of healthcare spending. It’s a recurring issue, tech thinks they have a solution and in reality the devs don’t have a good grasp on the actual landscape they’re playing in.
I thought to myself: no way can this be true. The US generates $21tr a year[1]. How can medical be $2.1tr a year?

…turns out, it’s $2.7tr!!! [2]

[1]www.tradingeconomics.com
[2]https://www.statista.com/study/15826/health-care-and-social-...
Rollups are a way to compress the storage space required by a transaction. They store the compressed versions on chain, and there are cryptographic guarantees that everything is correct and that users can withdraw funds to regular on-chain accounts.

Shards expand the storage available, by making it so that individual nodes can store just a portion of the total stored data. Each shard gets the full security of the main chain.

The issue with refunds was that gas costs were high and many contributions were small, so that issue at least would be solved as scaling improves.
I'm so glad to read this, because I feel like all I see anywhere about Vue is that it's "better than react"... and having used both extensively, that is most definitely not the case.

Like I said elsewhere, React is a set of extremely simple, foundational building blocks that groups of extremely smart people have thought very long and hard about. Vue is, IMO, like someone's knee-jerk reaction to not understanding React and deciding they would build their own framework that does things in ways they think make sense.

The result is just more redundant complexity, worse tooling and a horrible, dead ecosystem with awful libraries or components that are barely even usable.
This isn't always safe to do. It can break duck typing, because not all falsy values are interchangeable in all situations. For example, consider how numpy methods often have an optional `out` parameter indicating where to write the output. So suppose you are writing a value producing method that takes an `out: Optional[List[int]] = None` to put the produced values into and you handle the `None` case with `out = out or []`. That's a bug! When the user tries to pass in a list to put things into, and that list happens to be empty, you will instead put outputs into a new list.

Anyways, my point is that I can write `if X is None: X = bla` and be confident it will be correct in almost all situations. For `X = X or Y` there are some nasty corner cases where the distinction between `[]` and `""` and `{}` is somehow important, or the distinction between `is` and `==` is important, or different falsy values have different annotations attached to them, or or or....
Healthcare IT is all garbage. It’s as if the people who invested in the space specifically did not want any of the inefficiencies to go away.
The only reason they should have spent $2.6m at auction is, if there was another bidder taking them that high.

Short of someone literally bidding against them with the foreknowledge of their maximum bid, it seems very unlikely that anyone else would have gone close to that number from the $35k expected price.

A more sane approach if they realised that someone was bidding the up would be to duck out of that auction and by any of the other copies of the book that exist, likely for faaar less than $2.6m
A lot of them still have an ICE powertrain unfortunately
Nothing to be afraid of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
They are in the audit business. Large companies have pockets where outsourced engineering teams have installed or forgotten to delete their outmoded software. They send in an audit team, and come up with a massive payment due. Then they negotiate with their “customers” to have them buy new software for approximately half the cost of audit payment. IBM gets new revenue (and new products to audit) and companies pat themselves on the back for averting disaster. And the new software never gets used.
>> as opposed to whenever we are hungry ... as opposed to whenever we are tired

>> Well then you are doing it wrong.

Yes, it is fun to be single and eat prepared foods. But some of us eat a particular time because that is when the food is ready, a decision made much earlier in the day and without consulting everyone who will be around the table. Some of us also have bosses in different time zones, or who at least don't care much for our preferred lunch break times.

And some of us have jobs where our shift times are not under our control. Or have kids. Or have an aircraft to fly to Seattle come morning. Being able to set one's work schedule, and therefore one's sleep times, isn't a health choice. It is a lifestyle privilege.
That line really is the kicker. I compulsively muttered “god damnit” when I heard it.
Out of order:

To your second point (people understand repetition): The difference is in the name, repetition is well-understood but spacing is the key distinction. Daily reviews of the entire deck? Useful, bordering on cramming, but no spacing. Weekly reviews? Still not spacing (in the SRS sense). Split a deck into new and easy cards, with easy reviewed less often? Pushing towards spacing, but probably still on a regular interval (to the extent any student can maintain a consistent study schedule).

Spaced repetition works by (as I said in another comment) roughly doubling the interval between studying the easy cards. Eventually you'll have delayed too long on some cards and forgotten them, they get restarted, if totally forgotten, or studied with a reduced interval if it was hard but not totally forgotten. The interest in optimality is, for me, uninteresting. When I used it by hand (with flashcards) I just wanted something better than studying a whole deck daily or forgetting large chunks of it by waiting too long. It worked, it wasn't "optimal" (Anki and others gets closer to that) but it was much better than previous efforts.

To your first point: I think I agree with you. The complaints about rote learning are grossly exaggerated in many cases. I know it happens, and often in early subjects like arithmetic (it's hard to get a 4- or 5-year-old student to understand 2 + 2, but you can certainly get them to correctly compute it). But it's not the typical treatment if your teachers are at least half-decent. Part of the issue is that rote learning has become a pejorative, equated with learning without understanding. The reality is that it's a tool. Drills reinforce the information so that you can recall and apply it later. SRS fits into this by being (at least for many, if not most cases) a more efficient approach. But even Dr. Wozniak doesn't encourage SRS en lieu of other approaches: http://super-memory.com/articles/20rules.htm. SRS is an alternative to heavier drills, but it's not a replacement on its own for developing understanding.
I wouldn't mind seeing a computer first before a GP. A lot of the time a GP will say something like "here try these tablets and come back in a week". The true worth of a GP is the follow-up appointments and understanding conditions over time.
They’re not the one “translating” (read: re-writing) a comment’s content.
I don't think so. Where are the "stupid and wrong by default" examples in Python that are fixed with heroic effort in Julia? Julia has a lot of features that make it attractive, but Python of course does as well. The one big example I can think of that Python has suffered from over the years is the GIL.
Oh so woke: “The Western separation of clock time from the rhythms of nature helped imperialists establish superiority over other cultures.”

Please: time is a necessary convention for virtually any complex society, and this drive or imposition to coordinate and predict events accurately goes back to any large culture, including most larger ancient civilizations; west, east, north, south.

Time control (aka, coordination of activity) has always bern critical in warfare, navigation, feasts, and fun social interactions.

What has changed is the precision and accuracy and near-synchrony that can now be achieved at a global scale.

The parent article adds much too much “Strum und Drang” about bad modern trends that divorce us from our pristine noble primitive and organic state. Right ;-)
I'm okay with this: humans likely make hilariously bad guesses about things that are obvious and easily accessible to machines, and therefore the reverse is also true.

Guessing "what are trousers" for king of Egypt isn't in itself an indicator the whole Watson system is flawed. Although you're right: it's an indicator the intelligence is non human-like.

Just like, from Watson's perspective, a human named John making hilariously bad guesses related to coin flips isn't in itself an indicator that John isn't intelligent either.

Just that there are some categories of knowledge or application of that knowledge that some systems are bad at handling.
I wrote a bit of a rant about Vue if you’re interested further up the threads
You can buy them off amazon.

Even if they are not allowed?
Good luck suing ibm..
Show HN: TypeScript Scenario-Based Web Application Fuzzing Framework
I'd say the blue checkmarks are a better example. They're a stamp of approval from the global corporate hegemony. You can even have yours taken away for expressing unapproved thought.
I was thinking this too, if a decorator could make this easier.

I'd also like whatever a solution is to work well with type annotations.

I'm surprised there isn't a pep to improve the situation. (Maybe there is and I haven't found it!)
There is a single contiguous memory allocation, which mirrors itself.

One thread produces elements and pushes them at the tail (e.g. I/O bytes, in batch), and one thread consumes as many elements as possible in batch from the other end (e.g. all bytes available, in batch).

The VA mirror is required to allow processing all elements in the deque as if they were adjacent in memory, instead of having to "chunk" them depending on how the deque currently wraps.

This is the library I am using, the array contains an explanation : https://github.com/gnzlbg/slice_deque
“English could win this contest handily if we chose carefully and use the occasional …”?
> One of the more enjoyable aspects of riding a bike is the direct connection you have between your legs and your motion.

Also, one of the least enjoyable aspects of cheap stationary exercise bikes is the need to push the pedals over the dead spots. On real bikes most of the power comes from pushing down and inertia helps with the rest of the pedal rotation. Spinning bikes have heavy flywheels to work around the problem but I wouldn't expect them to work on an actual bike.
You’ll laugh, but newspaper classifieds. They are usually pretty cheap, and the people into buying used crap are still looking at classifieds for estate sales, etc.

Because you pay to list, the fraud is mostly nonexistent. Conversions are really high, about 60% of our church bazaar’s online sales came through the local paper. But the type of products and audiences would probably vary greatly… mom swaps would probably not do well.

The other thing is consignment. There’s a little industry of kid consignment sales where you can basically sell great condition kid clothes for 60-80% of retail, and get decent prices for toys, etc. Similar events exist for other categories too.
It doesn't really work the same in Twitter (speaking as someone with a fake hexagonal PFP as a joke).
https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaoszone-297-the-rise-and-f...

and there you can watch it without tracking :-)
> Everyone expects that you need to repeat in order to learn.

The US English word “practice” is called “repetition” in a number of languages, including English outside the US.
Lightweight liveness checks for websites via CircleCI and Cypress
It can be smart and ensure longer battery life by not overcharging weaker parts of the pack. You never have perfectly even drain even if you use just 2-3 batteries. It can be just a gimmick to ensure you use proper TM cells instead of generic ones, in same vein phone chargers are split into manufacturer's and the rest, regardless of quality/power.

Vendor lock-in has been done successfully in the past and brands like Apple don't get hurt by it. So why should e-bikes be different.
Caching solves only the performance problem, which in my mind is the least compelling reason to go for static site.

If your wp-admin routes are still accessible to the public internet, then you are still at risk for broken plugins causing a hack. You have to both cache all static directories and firewall the actual server if you want to avoid being hacked by one of the thousands of scripts that scans every IP address for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities.
Why are tech elites trying to recreate the same artificial scarcity seen with luxury brands like Dior? Isn't this the exact opposite of a technology that is supposedly designed to serve the underbanked?
No. The hardware industry's relationship with the user owning their own devices is harmful.
The NYT article suggests that one person validated the list—however that one person is an avid word game player, and is in fact the developer’s partner, for whom the game was created—so said validator likely had a deep vocabulary of highly arcane words!
Well there's all sorts of different marketing terms.

Nissan seems to brand theirs as "e-power" to avoid geting them confused with their actual EV range, but possibly the lack of plug is the key difference there.
Have you ever actually used React? I ask because the only way I can think of you writing the things you did is if you lack understanding of, well, react fundamentals. I don't think you understand what React does, or why or how it works if you think that react's state management is just some redundant complexity that it added just for shits and giggles.
I saw that their content editor looks to have better support for code editing. I'm sold
Didn't know anything about it
Not quite, you're mixing up the Bitcoin software for running a node with a wallet - they're different things. Your steps are:

1. Sign up for an exchange.

2. Deposit cash (with card, bank account, whatever else the exchange supports).

3. Buy Bitcoin (or some other cryptocurrency).

4. Transfer the Bitcoin to whatever wallet you want (or don't transfer it, totally up to you).

Your link to https://bitcoin.org/en/download is for the software for running a full Bitcoin node - this isn't what you're looking for. Running a node is different from using Bitcoin and it's different from buying Bitcoin online. What you need to use instead is a wallet. Have a look at the getting-started resources on the official site (or on Coinbase if that's the exchange you're using).

The fact that you're on a Mac doesn't matter - wallets are widely available for any mobile or desktop OS. The fact that you're in the UK only matters as far as choosing an exchange that operates in the UK (but most of them are anyway).
If the goal is reduction, the target is total reduction, no? Going vegetarian and consuming eggs and cheese still makes use of these darned animals that keep polluting our atmosphere. The suggestion of vegan diet is implied in this context.

Personally I hope insect protein becomes more widespread, makes more sense to me nutritionally than completely avoiding animal nutrients for chemical vegetable pastes people want to promote as meat substitute these days.
Mediums descent from shining exemplar of good to questionably evil was sudden.
Ironically they see engineers as replaceable and view every member of leadership as a Jeff Bezos level unique business edge. I’m all honesty I have just always viewed managements role as a different skill set, one that has successfully thrived longer then the IT industry has even existed. Even while we as engineers tend to feel they are replaceable I think we don’t see the value in the work they do to ensure we get funding, resources, and leadership support.
The tech industry has always been bullish on "the future" so I don't think this is different today; what does feel different is it seems hype is now the end product vs. hype about the underlying advancement. This may be inevitable in the highly commercialized, mature space that the internet has become.
> this just seems like a completely uninteresting use of blockchain.

You don’t understand how blue checkmarks make their owners feel. To them they are changing the world one smarmy tweet at a time. Blue checkmarks validate everything they say since it is a privilege bestowed upon them by giant corporation Twitter themselves.

The new blue hex is just that, but in keeping with the times.
I've been getting good results on Craigslist, which can now search a radius of 250 miles and also 3rd party sites allow national searches. I was afraid that FB would gut it, but it now seems like FB actually just skimmed the less serious posters.

For industrial stuff, there seems to be multitudes of used equipment sites, but no dominant one, so it's just a big scavenger hunt. There's a few attempts at sites aggregating listings, but they're all lame, IMO.
As someone with no inside knowledge, it seemed to me that watson started as a technology (or maybe solution/set of solutions) and as time went on, it was pivoted to be a brand? Hard to tell for sure with how difficult it is to get IBM to answer questions about what they actually do...
I come away with the same. I switched my learning style from read and understand to code and understand. Here is how I typically learn something new now.

I go to stack overflow and look for poor questions in the new technology then I figure out how to answer them. This gives me an unending stream of micro-tasks to accomplish and introduces pain points in new tech.

Now, I read tech stuff only at the conceptual/architectural level. Stuff not typically asked by noobs.
Side note, the term “gas fee” is a nice example of how crypto projects pick needlessly obtuse vocabulary. It’s a transaction fee. There’s no “gas” involved. Why call it that?

Perhaps I’m jaded but my feeling is that using plain terms would reveal the emptiness of the space. A non technical person can see that a $200 “transaction fee” is a rip off.
Along these lines, my folks took a bath in 2008. They were using their stock holdings for cash flow. When the market tanked they had to sell more for the same cash flow. Historically, this made sense considering their class of holdings. 2008 was just a shot show.
What one fool can do, another can.
I've been using sendinblue, reliable and a very generous free tier. Smtp2go is good as well, with a bit of a lower free tier (9000 vs 1000 mails / month)