skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can create almost anything using computer programming. This is not true with any other artistic tool.

I think I suffered from this same fallacy >20 years ago... I would say it's a "mathematician's view of art", i.e. that generality is better.

I was really into music and audio, and I remember talking to another computer person about how it would be cool to make our own DAW (digital audio workstation), and then presumably make some kind of musical masterpiece because we could create anything!

Aside from the fact that this is a ridiculously large project that was never finished, generality isn't better if you care about good art. Constraints breed creativity, etc.

Spending time around successful artists will cure you of this notion. e.g. I worked with technical artists in video games -- they are using a computer, but they think VERY differently than programmers and mathematicians. I also knew some pretty successful musicians.

Summary: plenty of art is created with computers, but without programming. Teaching programming to artists is probably a good idea in some circumstances, but not obviously better than teaching photography or even say public speaking. That doesn't mean programming is invalid, but it's one tool and it's not especially likely to lead to good artistic results. The balance may change in the future but I suspect it will always be somewhat true, probably just because of the way brains work (both the creator's and audience's)
Ugh, why are people so eager to guarantee rentseekers get rewarded forever?
I don't understand this. Does half-life even say anything else about the probability distribution?
aren't you assuming specific distribution here?
The information is supposedly de-identified. That means it's not a HIPAA violation. You can look at the HIPAA de-identification standard right over here (https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...).
I really like the hylation shaders as they seem to emulate the CRT effect pretty well, sorta makes whites glow.

I'm constantly switching back and forth between real hardware and consoles with an ossc (upscaler device). No doubt CRTs look better for these games.

However if you are stuck with LCD, N64 and playstation games look better on an emulator rather than through a hardware upscaler.
>Well, infrastructure is certainly one big difference, but it's not _the_ difference. The Netherlands is quite flat

Ground in the Netherlands is flat, but bike paths also go over bridges. And what the Netherlands also has is the North Sea, with its winds, which turn cycling on nicely-paved flat terrain into rather serious physical exercise. Sometimes I wish I wasn't that cheap and got pedal-assist as an option.
I would expect it to be faster than that. Much like last year the talks are pre-recorded, and most were available within days of the conference ending (on Sunday).

Keep an eye out on https://video.fosdem.org/ and in the mean time there's plenty of great talks from previous years to catch up on.
As Ukrainian, I can answer the question.
So, ultra-rich are super powerful, they own tv channels, media, bankroll political parties. Most political parties are aligned with their donors.
Foreign policy is dictated by US, more or less.
Zelenskiy is interesting, because he actively tries to undermine some of the existing financial groups and consolidate the power.
There are presidential elections every 5 years and the same for parliament. It is very volatile, political parties have very fast churn, current parliament is something like 80% newcomers, literally.
None of the current markets are sustainable
German navy chief did not say anything with regard to factual state at Ukrainian borders.

Ukrainian government is not denying Russia buildup on their borders. They just say that Russia does not have enough troops for a full scale invasion. So, Russia is preparing, but is not yet ready for a full-scale invasion.

But USA is indeed going too far in rhetoric if Ukraine is toning them down.

Personally, I think there is 55% chance Russia is bluffing and intimidates Ukraine to dissuade them from thinking about taking back Donbas and Crimea. 45% chance that by end of March there will be land corridor from Russia to Crimea.
Great. This solution makes sense and satisfies all parties. Wonder why this wasn’t offered in the first place.
I will note though that in the actual lambda calculus there is no "+", "2" or "1" - it's functions all the way.

1 is typically defined in the Church encoding as \f -> \x -> f x. Addition is \m -> \n -> \f -> \x -> m f (n f x). Finding the Church encoding of 2 is left as an exceecise.

We can then use beta reduction to compute 1 + 1 by replacing m and n with 1:

1 = \f -> \x -> f x
(\m -> \n -> \f -> \x -> m f (n f x)) 1 1 =>beta
\f -> \x -> 1 f (1 f x)

\f -> \x -> 1 f x = (\f -> \x -> f x) f x =>beta
1 f x = f x

\f -> \x -> 1 f (1 f x) <=> \f -> \x -> 1 f (f x)

(\f -> \x -> f x) f (f x) =>beta
\f -> \x -> f f x - the Church encoding of 2.

This is how computation using beta reduction only looks like.
I'm very confused as to how you think the government is involved with this issue. Is Neil Young a government official? Or is it empirically false to claim that Joe Rogan is actively peddling false information that is directly impacting people by way of, ya know, dying?

I think this is a simple example of the people with wallets using said wallets to indicate what they will and won't tolerate.
Looking at https://socialcredit.triviumchina.com/wp-content/uploads/201... , pg 11 with a table of information collected on individuals.

These categories are collected by a US credit score:

* BASIC IDENTITY INFORMATION

* FINANCIAL INFORMATION

These categories are collected by a US background check:

* EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

* LEGAL HISTORY

* REGULATORY AND LEGAL VIOLATIONS

These categories are unique to the Social Credit Score system:

* POLITICAL DATA

* CIVIC BEHAVIOR

* OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT RECORDS

So, about 2/3rds of the data is very similar to the data that employers gather about their employees, and 1/3rd is the overbearing Chinese state. To me, the political stuff seems to make the economic usefulness of the score weaker -- does being a member of the CPC really reduce your default risk on your credit card?

Looking at the list of infractions that reduce points, it seems that China is trying to systematize punishment for social problems by restricting access to credit. I went into this comment thinking that the US credit score system and the SCS system were similar, but I leave thinking that the Chinese one is the same as the US one, with a bolt on authoritarian layer.
I'm on Oxygen OS 10.3.8 (based on Android 10) and I got the mediocre "share to app" menu. I chose Gmail to see the text, and it was just the URL. I'll blame about 50% on this share menu, since it doesn't even include "clipboard" (which is weird, I've had that in the past on Android, but maybe OxygenOS removed it for some inane reason), but I'd still prefer the "copy to clipboard" default behavior that Wordle/Dordle/Nerdle have.
I will never believe someone when they say info is "de-identified", because even if it is, it is shockingly easy to pinpoint 1 person out of millions based on a very small number of unique factors.
There is a bit of a difference between needing Cloudflare and selling your show to Spotify, though. The Overton Window is a lot wider for Cloudflare.
Best feature of Deezer by FAR:

That unlimited lenght "Flow" playlist. It's like personalized radio, but you can skip songs.

I'm so sad that Spotify didn't implement such a feature yet.
I'm not speaking for ARIN but their CEO John Curran told me ARIN has never revoked address resources for any reason other than non-payment or fraud. As long as your original application for the resources was made in good faith and you continued to pay the registration fees, they would not take them away even if you are not using them anymore. This seems logical for functional IPv4 markets where the non-use/non-need is explicit in any resource being offered for sale. The registered organization does still need to be "in business" (registered in good standing with the state corporation commission or equivalent). If the entity is dissolved then the resources automatically revert back to ARIN and it may be difficult or impossible to sell to a third party.

It is important to keep ARIN updated with any organization name changes, reorganization, or M&A actions as they happen. Going back 10+ years to update those changes, especially if there are several, can be extremely difficult. In large companies the network folks that manage ARIN resources are often not even be aware of those changes until they interact with ARIN again. That has bitten me several times in my career.

In the old days before IPv4 runout they could and would refuse to issue additional IP blocks if you did not show sufficient utilization of your most recent allocation. It was also not unusual for them to reduce the allocation size requested based on how fast you had utilized your most recent block.
Thor looks great! I'd be surprised if something similar didn't exist for most languages, but with many of them living in obscurity because discovery is so hard without a well-established name for that class of tool. Some googling for "CLI framework" led me to oclif ("Thor for js"?) and to https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2020/06/12/comparing-cli-b... , but that can't be everything.

PS: https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks also lists some for go and rust, getting there! (though most probably not half as complete as Thor, self-documentation should definitely be a first-class citizen!)
That is a interesting list. I noticed that there are both liberal and conservative people who were removed from his podcast. I wonder why they did that?

I think this may not be political. They may just want to tighten up the catalog, polish the brand they purchased, and have just the very best material?
First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)
I wonder if you could re-assemble the broken (due to decayed bonds) strands to the most likely sequence, given DNA sequence statistics similar to n-gram language models for human language (= languages with an alphabet of more than 4 letters).
That’s $50/seat/month if you have 10 seats and marginal seats are $21/month. Feels fine if lots of people will use it. Perhaps they are trying to avoid doing support for tiny customers.
> I don’t think it’s anywhere near $950 unless I’m mathing wrong.

I don’t know how you’re mathing but the AAA yearly TCO study mostly agrees with @kibwen.

https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-YDC...
Yeah, the advice shouldn't be "avoid angles", but "avoid discontinuities".
Nim - https://nim-lang.org/

Lets you mix and match other libraries with their native ABI as it compiles to C, C++, ObjC and JS + has excellent FFI.
This is why distributions are moving towards Wayland and container-izing most applications; this allows each application to be in its own sandbox with no capability of interacting with other applications without the user/system's explicit consent.
Lucky Europeans!
Your 15 years number is for 0.1%
The article discusses bike infrastructure in the context of cities. Population density of U.S. cities is comparable to those in the Netherlands. Some are much more dense, some are less. I'm unsure what point you're trying to make.
Looks like it was released just a few hours back. After reading the post[1] it seems that this is intentional.

Anyways, I guess we could open a feature request.

[1]: https://ohsayan.github.io/2022/02/jotsy-a-self-hosted-notes-...
The reason is imho mainly due to how institutions evolve (slowly). Computing and the arts is currently experiencing a primal boom, which you can see in a number of departments, festivals and prizes dedicated to that are popping up everywhere. It won't take long before most places offer this kind of pathway. Also, for various reasons, I feel like having a CS background and coming to the arts has been an easier route than the other way around, which might have had consequences on which departments started offering this kind of training, and how computational arts have been received in the broader arts community.

A few examples:

https://www.media.mit.edu/

http://dma.ucla.edu/

https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp

https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-computational-arts/

https://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute

https://sfpc.io/

https://cadaf.art/

https://www.lumenprize.com/

I am personally interested in the writing/literature side of all this, and indeed haven't yet come across a department of creative writing that would have a focus on computation (SFPC might be the only place that at least nominally places poetry at the core of their endeavours, even if the activities of students and teachers, so far as I know, are really exploring all art forms).
I think the real issue isn't that people are calling for censorship. They're calling for Spotify to not pay people to produce political propaganda.

Now, we get the worst of both worlds, where Spotify funds the production of harmful propaganda (by their own published standards), and also starts censoring independently produced content.
I admire aphyr's ability to dive into a new and complex distributed systems technology and understand it enough to evaluate it for correctness. I hope the Radix developers have ears to listen, the comment in the report "RDX Works informed Jepsen that the blockchain/DLT community had developed idiosyncratic definitions of safety and liveness" is not encouraging.
"if you're big and controversial, you essentially need DDoS protection, meaning you're dependent on the goodwill of a few big corporations."

How is this any different than in the analogue world? If you want to rage against "the system" in a local bar or in your living room with a few of your friends, nobody is going to bother you. If you have a large following, you are likely to face counter-speech or even moral suasion by others who don't like what they are hearing.
How is 'we will hurt you with bad publicity' not part of the free market in action?
I think part of the matter is that people who can program have much better alternative career options. Making money from art is much harder than working for an established company.

Video games and animations are essentially computer art, but their wild appeal has paradoxically made them mundane. Kind of like AI; any AI that goes mainstream will become just software.

Finally, creating non-abstract art with programming is extremely difficult, and people don’t like abstract art much. Even when they do, a big part of the appeal is contextual, not coming from the standalone work.
Great interview, you earned yourself a new listener!
> The difference is when the US’ “brexit” moment happened the northern states decided the southern states didn’t have the right to leave and enforced their opinion at the cost of 1 million lives (out of a population of about 32M at the time).

An interesting analogy, but it downplays two key differences. Firstly, the confederate states opened fire on union troops, whereas Britain did not start a shooting war when it left the EU. Secondly, there is no provision in the constitution of the United States for a state to leave the union, unlike in the EU.

As a final point, I would note that the United States of America by that point had a history of using military force to expand (in line with Thomas Jefferson's "empire of liberty" doctrine), including two attempted invasions of Canada, the Mexican-American War, as well as successful wars (and massacres) against the Native peoples. So if you do take the position that the confederacy had the right to secede from the United States, it is hardly a surprise that the USA then took the opportunity to use military force to annex a smaller neighboring nation with a weaker military, limited infrastructure, and insufficient foreign support to defend itself.
You seem to be missing or intentionally ignoring some additional facts:

* his addiction was caused by the increase in his prescribed dosage (so he could cope with his wife's cancer diagnosis and treatment - which was initially considered terminal by her doctors)
* he had to look for alternative treatments after his wife's cancer treatment has started working and he tried to cut back on his dosage, unsuccessfully (he tried to go practically cold turkey by his own admission, which made it worse, you can criticize him for not handling it properly)
* to my knowledge, he's still doing the all meat diet to this day, along with his daughter (since it keeps her symptom free after years of severe autoimmune disease)
Nobody has put an armed conflict with Russia on the table, with the idea of sending US troops into Ukraine explicitly ruled out. The only responses being discussed are economic sanctions, which would slow a post-COVID recovery and would not distract from the domestic economy, and arming and training Ukrainian insurgents from bordering NATO countries. Your conspiracy theory just doesn't make sense in this context.
New report on future of Microsoft AR strategy now that HoloLens 3 is 'canceled'
As others have said, it has improved a lot. I started cycling in Boston/Cambridge in 1997 and they've put a ton of work into infra since then. However I now live in a northerly suburb and the inattentive drivers combine with a near-total lack of bicycle infra to terrifying effect. I still go for long rides on the weekends in nice weather, but I don't let my oldest kid bike the 1.5 miles to middle school. Too dangerous.
They should focus on making cities more walkable, and less on making them bikeable.
> at their core, digital assets are (practically) infinitely available

Have you ever considered that a blockchain essentially reverses this concept?

Have you given any thought as to why this is valuable?
Right. He invited people who abuse their credentials to spread vaccine misinformation. And when he invites actual experts, Rogan refuses to acknowledge counterarguments - the discussion devolves into "X, look it up" and when they look the up the stats, he just says "I don't know about that".

His podcast went from "(self-proclaimed) stupid man talks with people and gets them to explain stuff" to "(self-proclaimed) stupid man talks with people and gets them to explain stuff EXCEPT when it's about COVID he's suddenly 'done the research', usually invited 'guest experts' are anti-vaxxers AND when he invites real experts, he argues with them on irrelevant technicalities".
Nonetheless, "atomic radioactive decay exists and DNA is made of atoms" is not the reason DNA has its half-life, as your post claimed.
It was his choice to sign that deal though.
The Washington Street between Chinatown and city hall: https://goo.gl/maps/J2ZmkdXu1MPPSYm39

Agreed that there's a ton of spotty areas that make me wary to bike around, especially in your neck of the woods. I'm willing to go far out of my way to stick to the places with good bike lane coverage. If only there were any way at all to get to the airport...
They got me with this a year ago, and I can't wait to cancel my subscription at the end of this month and hopefully never have to be a customer again :)
It's simple, portable, and you can just execute EXEs from it.

Cygwin has a more complex setup and not great compatibility with windows executables, IIRC.
This is Putin fighting against the inevitable, like a spoiled child. Ukraine wants to join Europe in some fashion. They want to be able to travel where they wish, to make good salaries from US or European companies, to be free to choose. Many in their 30s are all good English speakers. They would like to join the rest of the world. They are no longer really in the Russian 'sphere of influence', whatever that means anymore. And they are some of the smartest and best educated people in the world, so why shouldn't they? Putin is fighting a losing, regressive fight against the future. If he chooses to invade, there will be hell to pay, and the rest of the world should be willing to help a free people defend themselves.
They already do have their own lists. The request has more to do with getting legal cover.
Show HN: Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop
duralava is a neural network which can simulate a lava lamp in an infinite loop.

It uses a recurrent GAN that learns the physical behavior of the lava lamp.

A noteworthy aspect is that can generate an arbitrarily long video of a (virtual) lava lamp, without diverging even after thousands of frames.
Or it makes it obvious the person is just learning the syntax and wrote themselves a reminder of what that weird ++ symbol means?
... it won't power on even when plugged in, and apparently replacing the battery is my only recourse. This feels like it should be a solved problem, some kind of tiny spare / buffer to prevent a drained battery from effectively bricking the device.
I stand corrected, many major airlines have stopped serving alcohol, but not all of them. I took 3 round trip American flights last year and that had been my observation:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/american-airlines-no-alco...
Parts of it do, and they don't see nearly the cycling mode-share as places in the Netherlands with equivalent density. The difference is infrastructure.
Even in a -80C freezer with dehydrated and frozen cells they don't recommend over 5 years.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-long-can-fresh-frozen-...
> Forcing doesn't need to be a gun in the head of the CEO.

Wait, that’s exactly what needs to be happening in order to call it “forcing.” If there is a (difficult) choice, it’s not force.
half lives (specifically, the "decay" of any individual thing is stochastic but the aggregate of many molecules models exponential decay (in radioactivity. I have no idea what happens in a complex mash of DNA)
> Likewise if the free market is used as a way to reduce the availability of content, I can be against that while still supporting it as a guiding concept.

Are you against the concept of intellectual property as a whole?
i guess you're trying to be snarky here, but, the density of the US as a whole has nothing to do with supporting urban cycling infrastructure. nobody here is talking about facilitating long-haul inter-urban bike routes.
I get that folks are jaded over the Iraq WMD things. I get it. The US itself is not above disinformation at times.

But to imply that Russia isn't willing, able, or actively running disinformation ops, and in fact it's the US State Dept that's lying and running the false flag...like, what!?

Russia:

- we have no intentions of putting missiles in Cuba

- we're not rolling tanks into Afghanistan

- dunno how that polonium got into that spy's tea

- idk, that spy just happened to die from a nerve toxin that's only produced in one russian chemical weapons facility.

I'm hardly read up on world politics but anyone paying attention to basic history knows that this is what Russia does. They constantly gaslight the rest of the world with a thin veil of plausible deniability, while leaving obvious "calling cards" as a message of deterrence to anyone that can read between the lines.
If 15Khz/consumer CRTs are more your thing, I've written a shader for RetroArch to get things looking proper on those types of displays:

https://github.com/blitzcode/crt-240p-scale-shader/

For what it's worth I'm still using this pretty much daily a year after I wrote it. Experiencing your favorite 'content' on different displays, speakers, formats etc. is like a cheat to get excited about the same-old again.
At this point we can say: Maybe Spotify deleted them.
> If these programs want to spy on each other's memory contents, they already can.

No, they cannot. As an unprivileged process, you cannot access other processes' memory, with major distributions' default settings, even if the two processes share the same UID. The only way to achieve that would be to modify some execution path (e.g. .bashrc) to launch an evil wrapper which runs the target process in a way that allows reading its memory.