skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for an interesting read (and the lecture video link in the comments!).

Never met a Latin teacher who could hold a conversation, although one said he had been to a convention where they dressed up in Roman gear and greeted each other in Latin "SALVETE".

I was studying Latin for 4.5 years in secondary education, my summary is it isn't as useful and as logical a language as many claim: there are plenty of tables to memorize, many exceptions to remember, and then advanced texts leave important words implicit (e.g. main verbs).
As someone passionate about language and languages, I was initially excited, but quickly disappointed and bored by Latin grammar books and textbooks that taught it. The typically historic texts are mostly war-related (Caesar, De bello gallico).

In contrast, Spanish grammar is lean, beautiful and simple. The exceptions are fewer, and somehow one doesn't even need to study much to pick up the essentials for daily communication, one tends to pick it up intuitively (after four years of Latin, I still couldn't "Vamos a la playa" in Latin, but I could say "Vamono" in Spanish after two years - "let's go!", emulating the slang of the Canary Islands where the -s ending is often dropped, to sound more native-like).

Ironically, of course, Spanish is a Romance language and therefore derived from Latin. In linguistics, there is an observation that over time, languages simplify and drop cases, conjugations and endings indicating other grammatical systems generally. For instance, English once had a "dual" in addition to singular and plural, which was only used for things with cardinality two (e.g. two apples, a pair of shoes), but this was eventually shed [1,2].

It is important to know more than one language well enough to have conversations and read books, as this totally broadens one's perspective. This is because categorial divisions are done differently in each language and the world is organized differently - along different grammatical dimensions - and the leads to an increased ability to take alternative viewpoints. Learning a second language opens your mind and makes accessible another vast body of books you can read and people you can communicate with. It's vital that this is taught you people in schools, and it's importal to do that well, as later people have insufficient time and focus, and older humans learn much more slowly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327510106_The_Loss_...
The most interesting thing I have heard from Sinclair is the studies on mice that eating once a day was what extended lifespan the most. Everything else was not that important diet wise.

It sounds like to me the method is eat once a day and get in the best physical condition possible from working out. Beyond that, I am just not going to stress about it. Surely, not going to take any reverse risk with HGH or experimental drugs.
It's really limited, though. Sometimes that is nice, but if you want a bit more of a comfortable environment, the GBA is wonderful. It's got a decently fast processor and enough RAM to not have to worry too much about it, and it's got some really interesting hardware that is easy to use but also allows lots of interesting trickery.
On Arch, installing new kernel releases takes like maybe a minute including download time and reloading the kernel modules. At least on my 1 Gbps internet. And I'm not locked out of my own system while it does so. It baffles me how Windows could possibly be so slow.
And if a reactor blows up (happens roughly ever 35 years) there are huge additional costs. Last time we were extremely lucky that we hadn't to evaluate Tokiyo.
If something like this would happen in Central Europe it would be extremely costly for the whole world.

But something like this could happen trice right?!
I wish any of the projects would implement a feature to download parts of a video. Currently that's not possible

Request is
open since 2013 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622
> Yet snd still it’s rural America that’s subsidized by those “filthy cities” where all of the economic activity is taking place.

If you don't think rural America would trade those subsidies in the blink of an eye for the dissolution of those cities into their own separate union or something, you really don't know rural America.

> But why should the minority get to dictate policies if the majority?

Because a few pinprick-sized geographical locations overflowing with millions of people who think that's how everyone should live / does live (it's not) shouldn't get to dictate the policies of the entire rest of the country that is living in relative peace and comfort away from such overpopulated, crime-ridden areas with extremely high costs of living and an overall terrible QoL. Look at any US-wide election map, by county; see how few areas are truly blue. The homogeneous state of southern California should not get to decide how the rest of us live/suffer.

The founders knew what they were doing.
+1 for dramatiq over celery, dramatiq was much easier to understand and extend, even if it's not as "complete". It handled most anything I threw at it for an internal task runner system with some custom scheduling logic. I'd give it a flask out of 10 compared to celery being a Django.
It's not a US company. Google is Irish.

Sure, it's a technicality, but Irish law still applies
This is exciting! Can it now be a plug-in for Prettier?
All true.

I cannot cite a source here, but it is generally believed that the actual effective GPU utilization in AI training clusters which are "100% utilized" is actually quite poor - 23%-26% - due to data movement, non-essential serial execution, and and scheduling issues. So at least for now there is low-hanging fruit to improve the performance of the capital expenses.

Long term, though, DL clusters are basically CAPEX and energy limited.

IMHO, for now, return on the investment is not really a limiting factor, but it will become one once the shine is off the field.
Thanks for the phrase that describes exactly what I was imagining.

Looking that up led to an interesting and concerning article on the economic impact of the transition to BEVs: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/25/the-osborne-effect-on-t...
Glad to find someone else unimpressed by Alyx. I cannot work out why people are so impressed with it. It's just a super impressive sandboxed VR demo really. The whole world is highly constrained - you can't go anywhere they don't want you to, you can only pick up and manipulate a subset of objects they have modeled properly and there all these arbitrary restrictions that just frustrate you from creatively solving any of the challenges. Ends up a totally linear storyline that's more like watching a movie than a real open world VR game (like Skyrim, for example).
It can't be clean, safe, smart (what does that mean?), or cheap because each installation must be handmade and completely custom and bespoke.

Much like for better or worse we could never have had "car culture" if every car ever made had to be custom designed and hand-built.

Also note that we could never produce tens of millions of custom designed cars per year because there are not that many human car designers alive; likewise we simply cannot built 10,000 more nuclear reactors because we do not have that many living nuclear engineers such that we can afford to custom design 10,000 totally bespoke reactors.

Also note that it took a century or so, but mass produced cars allow massive simulation for safety resulting in mass produced cars being VASTLY safer and less polluting than ancient 120 year old handmade cars.

The argument in the linked article essentially boils down to a list of huge advantages that would come from mass production and mass investment in nuclear energy that cannot be permitted to happen because simple linear extrapolation of handmade production shows it would be "impossible" to reach those levels because there are no advantages from mass production. In summary, the authors can't make their minds up, do the economic gains from mass production exist or not exist?

Now in practice, screwed up planet earth in 2022 might not be able to pull off mass production of nuclear power any more than we can currently pull off an interstellar space ship or similar technological daydreams. That's a serious argument against nuclear power, but the authors chose to be wishy washy instead and claim both sides of the argument that mass production either is awesome or doesn't exist, both at the same time.
I can give him a little benefit of the doubt, but if he said those specific words and it wasn't a misquote then it was an extremely poor choice of words. Those words, in that order, are so fundamentally wrong that I cannot imagine them being correct even in additional surrounding context unless the next few words that were cutoff were "...as measured by [insert preferred methodology for effect size]" that would still be poor phrasing, implying that significance led to effect size.
> Black prefers [i.e. converts] double quotes (" and """) over single quotes (' and ''').

Can someone explain this to me? Why would you ever prefer " over ' in a language where both can be used equally?
How We Ended Up with the Pregnant Man Emoji
To me "a diverse candidate" sounds like a complete oxymoron.

"You must be different, like everyone else!"
Any technological solution at this point is going to face an impossible political situation.

We have plenty of technological solutions already, and look at the mess we have. Sure, none of them is perfect, but none ever will be, either.
In the article:

> knocking out undersea cables

Most undersea cables being optic fiber, I don’t really see why a solar flare would knock them out. Or maybe they are active components like repeaters? But how are they powered up?
You can’t solve a lack of executive function/decision making capacity (which is what we’re referring to) by making more work/queuing up bullshit work. It will result in everyone just ignoring anything that smells like coming from such a system.

Since (almost) no one wants to admit they don’t have enough decision making capacity or can’t prioritize using it for whatever you’re asking (at least now a days it seems, since someone will post them saying they don’t care on social media and they’ll get fired), you will often see defacto rate limiting or pushback in other ways.

Common ways you’ll see in real life:

- only responding to the one item they want to respond to.

- ever increasing delays in responses or ‘missed emails’ (when you try again they’ll respond)

- half responses which don’t actually address the problem or answer your question (but are easy to generate).

- redirection to another - hard to reach - authority even if not appropriate (as they aren’t spending the time to figure out what your actual question is)

- straw manning your question/request as something else they already have an answer to and then answering that.

- adding your question/request to a backlog they aren’t responsible for and then ignoring it forever since it’s now ‘on the list’

- making up increasingly more complicated paperwork/procedure hoops with increasingly less pleasant user experiences

And many more. For non-decision making backlogs/overloads, there are also the

- ‘decades long queue’ method of shedding load like the old eastern bloc (and some healthcare systems)

- ‘you need a permit’ (but there is no actual perform form)

-‘we only work during (impossible hours here)’ etc.

It all boils down to they can’t care enough to get you want you want, so you either have to make them care (which will be met with generally well earned hostility), or find a way to get them to care (which may be impossible). In many countries, getting someone to care requires a bribe.
> … is there a GameBoy dev zeitgeist …

It’s not just you.

- Retro development is “in”, a ton of the kids from the 1990s and 2000s are seasoned programmers with some free time now, or enthusiastic hobbyists.

- The tools have gotten a lot better. RGBDS, GB Studio, emulators with debugging capabilities, etc.

- Game Boy development in particular is an excellent entry point. The system design is simply excellent, and it feels like you’re working with a highly polished “2.0” of something. C works well enough on Game Boy, and assembly is approachable. You’re not writing code for multiple different architectures at the same time.

- Game Boy hardware is still reasonably priced.
>These guys are politicians first, scientists second - you don’t ascend to the head of their respective agencies without toeing the line, and being savvy to the political climate.

See also: Fauci, Anthony
Uniformity, presumably
I prefer them too. Makes it easy to notice than single ones. It's just a personal preference, there's no big logic behind it.
I still use an older machine to test the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler, as current Windows will no longer run DOS executables.

So this is pretty annoying. But as far as I can tell, FreeDOS does too much, it creates a dos environment in a separate window. What I'd like is:

dosbox app arguments...

where dosbox emulates DOS just enough to run console apps. This would enable me to test the compiler conventionally.

So, what's needed is an 8086 emulator and a minimal DOS emulator. Is there a way to use FreeDOS like that?
> When I read the headline I imagined they had implemented back propagation in a physical system

They touch on that by observing you could train a second physical neural network to compute the gradients for the first. So it could all be physical.

> Improvements to PAT could extend the utility of PNNs. For example, PAT’s backward pass could be replaced by a neural network that directly estimates parameter updates for the physical system. Implementing this ‘teacher’ neural network with a PNN would allow subsequent training to be performed without digital assistance.

So you need to use in silico training a at first, but can get rid of it in deployment.
Your paranoia is justified. If NoScript didn't exist I don't know how anyone could browse the web with any confidence.
Tech is the problem of climate change. Tech powers economic growth, which has a price in joules, that incurs a debt in carbon.

And not only that, the solution to the problem is already known. Have fewer babies and reduce the population over time, travel less, produce goods closer to where they are needed, eat more produce and less meat, and increase prices for goods and services that require more energy and produce more carbon emissions.

Those are not technical solutions, they're political and economic.
Please don't post like this, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. I realize it's an emotional, activating topic, but we ban accounts that go after other users this way.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This bridging spreadsheet is phenomenal. Unrelated to dev, but for using crypto and defi, patching together the right series of bridges to get from A to B as efficiently/cheaply/securely can be complicated. I had sort of internally constructed this spreadsheet in my head after hours of googling and asking around in discords, but the actual spreadsheet is an amazing resource
"I really recommend reading military material and not trying to glean things from games or fiction. The latter lean heavily on rule of cool versus rule of not dying and killing the other guy more effectively. "

Very true, but there are still some games, that are more realistic, than others, so you can learn real tactics from them. And I enjoy them more, than the "cool" games, despite having no intentions of ever being close to a real battlefield.

- Operation Flashpoint, a shooter (later Arma) is an example, that is also actually used by some real armies as a training simulation (but in a modified version).

- Close combat series, is a tactical strategy game, where you command small units in WW2. (which can run out of ammunition, or simply run away or surrender, if they are under too much pressure)

- Total War series, for big old school battles, with Units in tight formations against each other.

And about realism and coolness and war: I actually think, all those glorifying Call of Duties etc. for example are really dangerous for the minds of the teens playing it, as they show mainly the glorious side. There are no civilians for example. You can just blow up allmost anything and the game rewards you for it. (mostly)

In those games, I never had a moment, like I had with Operation Flashpoint. In one add on, you fought as the red army against resistance. So people in civilian clothing, but some with guns that want to kill you. And this is what matters, since one bullet can kill you - so you shoot at them. At anything that moves. But after the battle you see, oh. Most of them were really harmless civilians. And you shot them, because you were scared, that they shoot you. There was no glory in that. But it left a deep impression with me and I started to understand, what collateral damage really means. And how it is impossible to avoid them in an urban war setting, like in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Because "don't" is easier to read than 'don\'t'
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Indeed.. I don't much care for solutions like the i3 rex. That's why I propose hauling around the charger only when needed.

Its not so much stopping every 2-4 hours that's the problem. If it was a 3-5 minute stop, it would be fine, but its a 20-40 minute stop (assuming no contention for chargers). I've taken many 900+ mile (each direction) road trips in my car. Charging generally ads about 25% to the overall elapsed time. The chargers (at least in the I95 corridor in the USA) are often not equipped with 24hr restrooms.
You are speaking categorically when that is not the case.

If a DAO token is a security, it does need to be registered: it either needs to be registered or have available an exemption from registration.

There are DAOs that try to fit within an exemption from registration. See the LAO, and it's offshoots, like Red DAO, Flamingo DAO, etc., which sell LLC interests to a limited number of accredited investors.

[0] https://medium.com/openlawofficial/the-lao-a-for-profit-limi...
[1] https://www.flamingodao.xyz/
So two escrow companies and I each have 2-of-3 keys.

At this point what is the blockchain providing that normal title records don't?
Game Boy and Game Boy Advance are definitely both at the top of my list.
Oh, good god. I did not think it was necessary to state that qualifier, as it should be obvious to just about anyone.
And yet one that billions of people participate in. You are either a genius of epic proportions or just wrong in your thinking here. As long as people in coordinated groups get more done than individuals, I believe you are wrong.
What about them? They're mostly low carbs
Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
It's been a while since I have felt that Google's results have deteriorated. It takes a lot of tricks to find what I am looking for. Today an interesting case occurred that frustrated me a lot and is worth telling HN.

First, I was looking for a song and searched for: "here were the dreams are born" (I know I mistyped). One of the first results I found was this interesting story (Google results https://imgur.com/a/gUq4XVZ):

https://mechahuggermr.tripod.com/id66.html

I took the following sentence from this story and used it in the readme of an internal project:

"David, we have been expecting you - this is what you have been searching for - this place, David, is where dreams are born"

Some people wanted to know where this quote came from and could not find it on Google.

I also tested and cannot enter any combination of parameters into Google to find this page. I tried quotation marks, literal search and no hyphen. Nothing, it is impossible to find it.

Does anyone know what is going on here? Can someone do a magic call and find this page on Google?

Has Google's AI/BERT Enhanced Search reached a point where indexed pages can not be found?

All results were tested with a Brazilian connection and replicated in a Private Session on an US VPN.
Politics aside, this makes no sense to me. I live in a very red state, my employer is in a very blue state. I’m far from unique in that arrangement.
I hate this argument. Ok, so they think they should be paid for that, fine. So, what if I want to do all that myself then? Oh, no? They won’t let me?

It’s not compensation for services rendered, it’s a toll or tax on their platform, regardless of their services offered.
> What exactly do you mean?

Probably, "free content".
> There are DAOs that try to fit within an exemption from registration. See the LAO, and it's offshoots, like Red DAO, Flamingo DAO, etc., which sell LLC interests to a limited number of accredited investors.

Ok, but that's just an LLC with extra steps no? If you're only accepting accredited investors then you're required to validate that they are accredited meaning that you have to pierce the veil of anonymity. It imposes legal control over the transfer of these tokens which means there's no reason whatsoever for them to be decentralized, permissionless and on the blockchain?

Accredited investors were always welcome to buy whatever toxic garbage they wanted.
You can totally do that! See the section on Format Selection[0].

From my reading of it, doing this would work for what you want:

-f 'bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]'

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection
Unless you ski naked its not doing much .
Those comments are both shallow dismissals so I would wager that it is _your_ comment which is no different. You have offered zero evidence of a successful DAO, merely defined what a DAO is, and appealed to the authority of a bunch of people who are likely to profit directly from the cryptocurrency bubble.

On the other hand, ConstitutionDAO - the most noteworthy example to date, was a complete failure and hasn't even been able to handle refunds.

> that is something that will change.

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
A couple of possible reasons:

* Double quotes are more visible, especially for triple quotes.

* It makes it easier to have text without having to manually escape apostrophes.
It would need some blurring and low res pixelation to be convincing. Also, double images could be implemented to emulate signal reflections on obstacles.
The moment you start talking about C compilers you've stopped talking about most software running today on Linux systems. The vast majority of packages are delivered as apt/rpm/apk etc installers, which are overwhelmingly binary or interpreted code. If you're delivering an apt package, you will want to assume (or ensure through declared dependencies) some things about the target system, such as bash or Python.

And you'll find numerous bash-only scripts online, either as examples, helpers, stack overflow answers, and many others. Comparatively few bother to support POSIX sh - though that trend is somewhat reversing with the rise of containers and Alpine Linux and BusyBox with them, plus Apple's moves against bash.

Just like you will find no tutorials telling you to edit a file with ed, even though that is the standard text editor.

Finally, if you think it's in any way common to write software to support any POSIX-compatible system, or even any Linux system, you live in a much nicer corner of the world than I do.