skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends. If I'm hunting with a bow or a throwing stick, I'd bet stereopsis is pretty important. Do I need it? Maybe not, but I'll be more accurate with it.

If I'm running through the woods, trying to escape from a bear, stereopsis is pretty useful, because dodging trees while at a dead run is life or death.

I don't do either of those, but some of my ancestors probably did. But I play sports. I may be able to catch a ball with one eye. Getting myself to where the ball is going? I couldn't do that as well with only one eye.

So: Do I need stereopsis? No. Did the human race? Yes, it was a competitive advantage to have.
a few key differences come to mind:

* screen type vs paper

* size

* attention span reduction (even without notifications and so on, a phone automatically gets a negative amount of focus on a single thing)

* "lost cost" to start using

trying each of those specifically is possible - and will hint at much more.
> The LoTR troll was fine

Obviously this is subjective, but to me it was pretty bad at the time.

But disregard the troll: take a look at the scenes with the Fellowship running through Moria. They are horrid, laughably bad. They are a painful to watch, and were bad back then as well. They were worse than videogames at the time!
"Which unit-testing frameworks / tools do you regularly use?"
42% don't seem to write test for javascript.

Source: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/javascript/

I think this is okay with javascript.
This video was archived while the issue was occuring: https://archive.fo/IMxlI
i wonder how they even work? Like, do they just display a green css button instead of _actually_ doing a healthcheck?
To be honest, I don't love it. Wordle just 'works' better
so many broken links. was quite enticed reading about improves rooms/spaces. great that matrix is finally joining the internet at large & defining some urls for itself: a huge sign of maturity for me, that matters a lot.
Literally just posted a thread.. Doh! :(
It might not be a silver bullet to solve all of the US's healthcare issues but it could certainly fix a lot. If you combine all the US government's healthcare spending, it spends more per capita than any other country and it still isn't universal or free. I'm not sure people outside the US realize how bad and expensive healthcare can be in the US if you're not wealthy and/or well-insured.
FYI This idea is already included in the SoundPrint app
I received the email on Monday. I, too, was in the boat of having friends & family using it. It was a mistake to trust their promises, but this was from back in the day of "do no evil." They said free forever, now ask me for >$1000 a year.

The insane thing is that almost everyone affected by this is likely to be highly technical, and in positions in which they have a say in how corporate spend happens.

I migrated away this week. I had to explain to my friends and family about this bait-and-switch, and have them all using Google Takeout. C'est la vie. I had not self-hosted mail infrastructure since I was a teeanger, but here I am again. Thanks, I guess?
Well, its elastic modulus and yield strength are pretty important, actually. Being stiff and strong is pretty fundamental to a lot of its uses. It's stiffer and stronger than most other everyday materials and virtually all everyday plastic materials. Glass, quartz, alumina, zirconia, and porcelain are stiffer than steel, and glass can be stronger, but they're all brittle rather than plastic, which is pretty inconvenient and often makes them very weak in tension. Wood, most other fired clay, aluminum, brass, nearly all organic polymers, mica, cotton, dirt, etc., are much floppier and weaker than steel.

But there are a lot of metals that are somewhat stiffer and stronger than steel, like chromium, platinum, and tungsten, while still being somewhat plastic. The great advantage that steel has over them is that it's unbelievably cheap. It's even cheaper than brass, bronze, and lead!

Plasticity (ductility and malleability) is important for a couple of reasons. First, as I mentioned above, it greatly increases the fraction of the material's theoretical strength you can get in practice. Second, it allows you to form the material instead of cutting it to shape. That's the property you're using when you wrap a sandwich in aluminum foil or tie a gate shut with baling wire. You can't do that with porcelain foil or porcelain rod. Third, ductile failure happens gradually rather than suddenly, which is important in some cases.

The other really interesting thing about steel is that it's hardenable. This is very significant because cutting and forming hard things is hard. So it's routine to cut or form steel in its soft state to get more or less the shape you want, harden it, and then grind it and maybe lap it to the precise shape you want. Grinding and especially lapping can be very precise and cut very hard materials, but they're very slow processes.

Finally, steel can withstand much higher temperatures than organic materials, or even most other common metals.

These are, I think, the major reason why steel has so extensively displaced what Andrew Carnegie liked to call "inferior materials".
You don’t have to not notice it for the cgi to make the film worse.

You could certainly for example, film ‘once upon a time in the west’ in a green room and overlay the actors upon a western themed cgi environment, and have it look believably realistic.

But are the actors going to act as if they were under the burning sun as believably ? Will they avoid looking at the sun ? Will they tend to seek the shadows ? Will they sweat ? Probably not, and the feeling you’ll get from the film will be different, without you being able to know why
How is pattern matching ever inference when there is no reference to the underlying computational model of what the words mean in spacetime?

How is it helpful to see what word might come next when the word sequence is just based on statistics with no reference at all to meaning?
Just because you get bad ads doesn’t mean you’re not getting tracked well. In fact, it might mean you’re tracked really well and the only ads you’re getting served are those that are by one bidder. Everyone else decided you weren’t worth advertising to - so you get generic mass appeal ads that are very low cost to the company.

No different than getting spam snail mail that gets delivered to every house. Sure - you toss it in the recycling every week but someone will read it eventually and it’s basically nothing for the company to send out.
The two main properties that make steel interesting are 1) cost 2) toughness.

Toughness in a material science sense is the ability to absorb energy before failure. This has two major components, yield strength (energy to initiate deformation) and ductility (ability to deform without fracture).

The ductility of steel (and of many other metals) is what drive their use in structural applications, whereas many materials, i.e. ceramics, have higher yield strength but almost no ductility. Even though many glasses are "stronger than steel", if you drop a glass bowl and a steel bowl only one will shatter. If your I-beam shatters you are in trouble.

Steel is interesting in comparison to other metals because iron and carbon are abundant and the iron-carbon system has a lot of interesting features that can increase both strength and ductility.
A few years ago I would have wondered the same thing. After reading Basic Economic by Thomas Sowell I searched for more information to counter the book's claims on minimum wage. In the end I came to the conclusion that Sowell is right. Minimum wage is a net negative in society. Minimum wage is harmful to the low income groups the policy is supposed to help.

Example of job protection origins:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Bacon_Act_of_193...

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bl...

Australia protecting jobs from Chinese workers pg 17

British Columbia protecting jobs from "Asiatics" pg 68

South Africa protecting jobs from "colored" workers pg 74
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I’d argue that most is due to at-border quarantines, not within-country lockdowns.
Yup. I've been disrupted by GitHub today, and DockerHub the other day. Crude reminder that the cloud is some company's computer.
Was there perhaps a typo in this?

>-10 °C isn't unusual for Ottawa

The parent comment was measuring in Fahrenheit

>Current temps are -10 °F

Conversion for the metric people: -10 °F is -23 °C
Modern ui trends seem to suggest that the answer is "pretty much everyone involved in ux/ui design".
You ever notice how the "let me know when" part of this keeps changing? Let me know when computers can ... play Go/understand a sentence/compose music/write a program/ ...

But surely they'll never be able to do this new reference class you have just now come up with, right?
Looks like only the website is down. I just used the mobile app and it works fine.
I had the same experience on Ubuntu. Flatpak and snap crashes, yet installing via deb’s is rock solid.
Yes, returning a 500.
Aren't the first and second point in conflict?

Point 1 is basically "lockdowns are unnecessary because people will behave in a safe manner regardless".

Point 2 is basically "lockdowns are ineffective because they don't stop all forms of dangerous behavior".

If people are willing to continue some dangerous behavior as part of point 2, why do we think they would stop other dangerous behavior without the lockdown enforcing that decision?
We certainly do not know all primes lower than it. Our universe could not contain the answer of writing them all out.

I'm not sure the answer of the second part.
Because if Google has a change of heart, GCP is gone, like many of it's other services.
github.com is having issues across the site, the API including git operations (and CLI) still work. Status page is manually updated, and we're working to get it updated.

EDIT: it's updated now.

EDIT EDIT: github.com is back up and running, apologies for the disruption :(

Source: GitHub employee
> Oh, and a reasonably intelligent voter should be able to verify that the defenses are indeed as robust as claimed.

This is really important. The claim that the election has been hacked/stolen can be as damaging as the reality would be. So it needs to be clearly demonstrable that the election was not in fact hacked.
Probably requires manual updates. It seems like more and more places have moved to this paradigm now that status pages are tied to SLAs which are tied to money. One might call it the politicization of status pages.
Right as we were doing a big release, too :)
This isn't an especially compelling theory without some data to back it up. Not to mention some less nebulous criteria for good or bad films.
That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
The ONE THING you should do on a first date, based on psychology
Following a scandal revealing he's secretly a citizen of St. Kitts & Nevis. Can't make this up...
I'm not sure I'm correctly understanding your last paragraph. Are you saying that an entity is suing your friend, and an affiliate of that entity is offering them remediation services?
Intersting material.

More interesting to me is the Army being willing to sponsor research simultaneously with a Chinese institution...
When you're talking about a cheaper service.
There are also far less obvious examples of CGI not being noticeable. These days a filmmaker, especially a highly opinionated one like David Fincher with the necessary resources, can decide that they want something like an extra car parked on a street and add it in post with CGI. The audience never even considers the car wasn't there the day of filming.
I have three Dell Optiplex micro PCs with vPro running Proxmox. It's so nice having full remote access to them, makes life so much easier.
> Is this a joke? The voting method upon which democracy rests is kept secret from voters? That by itself should be grounds to drop machines and return to paper voting.

Yeah.

The first go-round on voting machines was in the late 90s, people expressed the same kind of wonder and awe at secret software. Outside experts (those not in thrall to ES&S and Sequoia Systems) wanted some kind of receipt or non-electronic way of recounting, there was outcry, Bush won in 2000, and we swept it all under the rug.

I'd put forth Colorado's paper ballots as a model. The ballots are hand-marked, and machine readable, but also human readable. If I understand the procedure correctly, "risk limiting audits" of each state wide election are made. I think they randomly select a number of ballots and hand tally. That tally has to be within a certain range of the tally of all ballots, otherwise it triggers a recount.

I'm sure there's room for improvement, but CO seems to be on the right track.
Incident is up now - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fz1bdbw24y81

> We are investigating reports of degraded performance for GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pull Requests.
Yep, down since ~10mins here in central europe.
But again, isn't this primarily a "western" phenomenon? That makes me think it isn't quite so clear cut

Side note: yes, I love love jazz in all its forms ^^
yes, either that or there’s a partnership where one presents a problem and the other sells a solution
Complex three-dimensional kidney tissue generated in the lab from the scratch
I believe he's referring to "luddites" -- a group of people who resisted technological innovation during the industrial revolution.
another great plus is its weldable
Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy
Coachella will sell lifetime festival passes as NFTs
The OS part I think implies a userspace compiled for 64 bit.
Interesting blog post, but I'm unconvinced.

First, there's no such thing as something you should "never" do, especially when it comes to code. Our problems are so abstract that few if any tools should be off-limits.

Second, the author leaves out any examples of where rewrites succeeded. Windows NT was effectively a rewrite and is the grandfather of every version of Windows that came after Windows ME. Game engines and websites are rewritten all the time to varying degrees of success. OBS was a full rewrite and they're killing it. Slack did a rewrite and, whether you like them or not, they've been very successful.

Some of what he says makes no sense IMO, like:

> [...] when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time.

Perhaps there's no reason to believe that you will certainly do a better job, but surely much of the time there are lessons to be learned even if the old team is entirely gone. When I'm brought on to new projects, I can pretty quickly tell what's dysfunctional, why that is, and what parts can at least benefit from serious cleanup.

He goes on:

> [...] you probably don’t even have the same programming team that worked on version one, so you don’t actually have “more experience”. You’re just going to make most of the old mistakes again, and introduce some new problems that weren’t in the original version.

What the author is doing here is making the same logical fallacy that he attempted to point out in the opposite position, except he's actually making it here. He's assuming that the team rewriting a hypothetical codebase are going to make most of the same old mistakes again. While that's definitely possible, is it really so certain? Can no one learn lessons from code regardless of whether they themselves wrote it?

A full rewrite was a bad idea for Netscape at a time where the market around the web was brand new and moving ridiculously fast. It's the circumstances that lead to the Netscape rewrite being a disaster. Not all software is subject to those issues, commercial or not, and not all software teams are the same.
They have updated it.
Yeah, I was more commenting on the people that cropped up around him on multiple places online. I don't have a commentary on the original analysis.
Vice started by anti-establishment punkish idea, as way to make noise and money.

It's a bald-faced hustle and always has been.
Yes, he's exhausting their quiver of easy/cheap and instead they'd be forced to waste zero days right up front.
Top 1% competitive programming level means that it can start solving research problems, problem difficulty and creativity needed for problems goes up exponentially for harder problems and programming contests have lead to research papers before. It would be cool if we got there in 5 years but I doubt it. But if we got there it would revolutionize so many things in society.
https://archive.is/QP2q2

http://web.archive.org/web/20220202184549/https://www.wired....
That's a funny way of saying "every page is returning 500"
I actually agree with you on that. I had another comment further down the thread where I said that software engineering can’t be fully automated by anything short of artificial general intelligence.

As humans we have a coherent world model that current AI systems are nowhere near close to having.

That coherent world model is a necessary precondition for both understanding a business goal and implementing a program to solve it.
AlphaCode can do the second part but not the first.

AlphaCode doesn’t have that world model and even if it did it still wouldn’t autonomously act on it, just follow orders from humans.

Competitive programming is going to be solved much earlier than programming in a business context will, because it’s completely independent of business requirements. It’s at most half as hard of a problem .
Why manually update vs automatically?
It's nice to see the data gathered even if there's no hypothesis at the end. It could be that a paper book is a better learning medium than a screen, but I suspect that smartphones are very, very needy devices, and subconsciously we expect a notification to pop up sooner or later and derail our train of thought. Smartphones are made for quick reads and instant satisfactions, not prolonged lecture.

Anecdata: I frequently read books on my smartphone, but I'll put it in airplane or focus mode to rest easy that there will be no interruptions in a while. I've tried to read on a tablet, but the smartphone pinging from the desktop across the room can be very distracting.
Flashbacks of MySpace...
Internally it evals your input, so it accepts inputs like 23//00 since everything after the // is a comment. You can also get it to create a regex like /0000/ but it doesn't do anything interesting with it.
AWS do the same thing. Pretty sure someone updates it manually.
I just refreshed a page from GH that I've had open since last night, and yup, 500. Of course I came to HN first before even visiting their own status page as HN always has an update faster than their official page.
Three months ago in the Copilot thread I was saying

> in 5 years will there be an AI that's better than 90% of unassisted working programmers at solving new leetcode-type coding interview questions posed in natural language?

and getting pooh-poohed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020401
(And writing that, I felt nervous that it might not be aggressive enough.)

There's this general bias in discussions of AI these days, that people forget that the advance they're pooh-poohing was dismissed in the same way as probably way off in the indefinite future, surprisingly recently.
Degraded Performance?

Their freaky homepage is borked: https://github.com/ yields a 500 error haha.
Oh yes good point! :facepalm:
Yes, it works quite well. Explicit 1gb huge pages also provides significant improvements for the right workloads. You pretty much have to start taking advantage of features like these to get anywhere near the theoretical maximum throughput in real world usage even on the higher core count desktop chips.
I do think the Dune film suffered from this problem. I didn't really believe the actors were actually in an environment like Arrakis.
There is no serious doubt that most infections produce durable cellular immunity, just as with all similar viruses. Of course patients will occasionally be reinfected, but symptoms are typically less severe. With any disease that has infected billions of people there will be occasional statistical outliers.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
You gonna sue them?
But it's easy to create AI conversation that will refine problem.
This looks very promising.

The problem is see is that without an account, it is impossible to submit links. However, unlike reddit or hn, one needs to submit links to get useful content. Thus I would assume that by the 1% rule [1], it is very difficult to retain visitors.

Could you offer options for those who don't want to make an account? Maybe you could create some ready-made selections to see good content? Or you could allow to post links in a hidden way to get the algorithm going and you and some moderators approve them later-on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
I have friends who have Teslas with FSD who want their money back. But I don't need personal involvement to be upset at people being cheated.
Good suggestions. There is indeed a bug on chrome when clicking on the file link vs drag and drop. Something about dispatchEvent("click") vs .click(). Will fix in a bit!
The chest burster scene holds up, up until the baby alien scurries off at the end. But there's a hilariously terrible effect later on where it cuts from a model of John Hurt's head to the real thing.

Edit: Ian Holm, not John Hurt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8jv1M6Y2g
In fairness, the bear poked him first...
Why would you put function pointers in structs? The function still needs to be handed the struct when called (no 'this'), and every time you instantiate the struct you need to set the function pointers to the correct thing again.

It gains you approximately nothing, as far as I can tell.
It's really tough (i.e. not just strong but ductile as well i.e. able to stretch more without fracturing like a brittle material would) and relatively cheap to manufacture (both because the industrial process is scalable, and because iron is incredibly abundant). When cost isn't an issue, you don't use normal low alloy steel - you use expensive alloying elements like chromium for corrosion-resistant stainless steel or more relevant to this comparison, nickel for maraging steel which is several times as strong as ordinary steel.
The original talk was on 2019 era hardware, for a 2019-era talk. Xeon and EPYC are both discussed, albeit somewhat dated now but still relevant IMO.

The newer talk is 2021 hardware. IMO, the newer talk seems to focus more on the specific details of kTLS and PCIe TLS... but there's still stuff in there about NUMA for sure.

But yeah, the 2021 talk definitely is on more recent hardware: 2021 Xeons and EPYCs.