skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need AI to learn to simplify problems because no human (at least not me) solves these problems as stated but works on limited inputs and mostly via brute-force. Then you see some generalisation and you have your solution.

Are they already doing that? If not expect 2x improvement easily.

Also it would be great if algos were aware where in embedding space their solution is and then try to jump between "approaches".
A second try loading each site in new tabs seemed to work, but this time each gave a different ID. One starting 3fa2, the other f918

Reloading each tab then gave two different numbers, 7eb6 and 6f83

Subsequent reloads did not change again.

Loading the sites in to two more tabs, gave yet a different pair of numbers (1934 and 1667), reloads of those tabs yeilded another pair (b308 and 3df8)
People get mad because its a concept they have faith in, have been indoctrinated to believe, and they also depend on it to keep political chaos at bay. You can't just pull the ideological rug out from under them, for they will fall--into the abyss. We aren't dealing with pure concepts here, but ideas that have life attached to them. Some ideas are preserved simply to preserve the life bound to them.

I'm afraid this is all a moot point because democracy has already disappeared in the U.S.. We're a democracy in name only. Hopefully we don't go the way of the DINOsaurs.
https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/ is a good resource to get started with OSC. They have a nice list of implementations you can check out : https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/page-list.html#impleme...

It might also be interesting to check out : https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/. OSC was developed at CNMAT (http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/publications/...) to facilitating musical networking.
I like the look of this. I'll have to pick one up and try it. My only concern reading the description is that it could get a bit preachy ("We’ve taken off the rose-coloured goggles to lay bare Big Tech’s lack of ethics, proposing a more sustainable and humane way forward."). I'm not against this but trying to keep things light.
Typescripts has an insanely complicated type system (at least for the low level of type safety you get), is dog slow to compile and has cryptic error messages.

With PHP you can have your cake and eat it too. Have the productivity of a dynamic language, no compile step and a really smooth gradual typing experience with great tooling and linting.

I really can't think of anything other that familiarity why one would prefer JS/TS for server side stuff. Maybe async story but PHP 8 got fibers now so it might be catching up soon as well.
A more interesting comparison would be to put the core themes of the 1990s (Castle, Pirates, Space, Town) against the modern popular themes (Ninjago, Creator, Star Wars, City). The old sets had less specialised parts and less colour variety, which allowed kids to combine sets from the same theme easily. The buildings (castles, fortresses, harbours) almost always had a big baseplate (flat or 3D). Minifigs were themed and textured, but weren't cartoonish with facial expressions.

Nowadays, most of the sets are some imaginary vehicles with Creator-style builds. You can probably build a new vehicle out of the same set, but combining different sets from the same theme is much less enjoyable. The few sets with buildings rarely have baseplates and feel very airy and unharmonic.
> Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC

This is completely untrue and the fact that people think being able to connect a mouse and keyboard make it a PC is appaling.

The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that.
I was quite happy with the x230, but the x270 just couldn't take it. The keyboard key press would click but not type, unless you press harder
> Same can be said (and to me is verrrry true) fro JavaScript.
Not if you use JS like Scheme: https://www.crockford.com/little.html

In fact JS is much more pleasant to write than PHP, the main reason to move way from PHP after using it for over 10 years.
> Too bad only one side of the analogy gets banned.

Right wingers encourage and carry out violence against people, based on traits like race, otherness, etc. Left wingers mostly focus on property, fascists ("Antifa") and sometimes the police. Both kinds of violence are wrong to various degrees, but I can kinda understand that someone who formulates a threat of vandalism against corporate symbols will get banned less likely than someone who formulates violent threats against minorities or specific persons.

These two things are not the same, it is the difference between someone keying your mercedes and someone assaulting you in the street. One thing is shitty, but survivable, the other isn't.

This characterisation is not based on my feelings or the claims of either side, but backed by publications like the annual report on the protection of the constitution as it is made by the German Verfassungsschutz – an organization which can hardly be described as left leaning: https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/publikationen/DE...
I only found the summary in english, the full (German) version has more fine grained statistics which support my characterisation.
I would rather see it as a way to easily demonstrate why GPDR is not simply about cookies and their management. It concerns any method of creating an identifier which would allow for tracking.
Ironically, while this is a very data-driven piece of research, the fact that it chimes with how most people (especially within the HN crowd) 'feel' will make it more persuasive!

I hope that some of this trend is due to the acceptance thresholds lowering slightly, allowing for publication of incomplete research, on which others can build, rather than requiring a complete conclusion. Of course, one may draw conclusions about funding causing people to wrap up research prematurely.
I've spent countless hours weighting the pros and cons of many models back in 2018, and ended up buying the Jabra Evolve 75 for myself. I've been so happy with it that I bought it for my significant other, who enjoys it as much as I do.

Sound quality is good over USB and more than OK over BT; it's fairly comfortable; BT range is good; ANC is good (I use it in noisy open offices and public transportation); I've never run out of battery during my work day, despite using it sometimes for hours; there's a sturdy transport case that allows me to take it with me everywhere (and I move a lot). I'm using it mostly over BT with Linux, Windows and Android and it's very easy to pair.

That's an expensive item, but I've been using it pretty much every day for almost 4 years now and it's showing no signs of wear, so I'd say that for me at least it's worth it.

I must stress out that this is a very good work / gaming headset, but while it's very decent for music listening over USB, I wouldn't recommend it for a primarily audiophile usage (especially not over BT). Also I wouldn't recommend it for sports.

There have been new models since 2018, so I'm not sure if this is still the best value in 2022. On paper, the Jabra Evolve 2 85 looks great, but I haven't tested it myself. I'd definitely welcome an upgrade over the Evolve 75 with better sound quality over BT — it's really not that it's bad, but the difference with USB is very noticeable. It could also be more comfortable while wearing glasses, but I've yet to see a model that is.
>In this case it is about accepting the idea that we do not know the absolute truth and inviting others to challenge our beliefs.

Empirically, does it seem we're in more open times where we're more "inviting others to challenge our beliefs"?
Yes, this made me realize I'd like to have at least some decent EU option that lets me have a feed, friends, and messaging in groups. I'd like it to be centralized for ease of user adoption. Just something simple for friends and family to connect that was under EU laws. It doesn't feel right to have my data cross legislative boundaries like this. At least the EU as a whole is becoming reasonably coherent in terms of privacy laws.

This regardless of what happens with Facebook. I'm personally pretty sure nothing will come of it especially now that their stock is tanking and 25% down. Compounding this loss of investor trust with also leaving EU due to regulatory pressure will start to seriously disrupt their business and further erode trust in that their business model is healthy enough to stay relevant for ad sales in the future.
I agree that some legitimate use cases will survive, but I think the ratio is _much_ worse than 90/10.
So Your Child Has Cancer
Nice.

Is the strict_types dance necessary for this?

I really hope that if PHP introduces an import system, it does not combine it with stricter type handling.
A lot of their claims sound very scary but I don't really know what to make of this as an average user. Is there an explanation to what this stuff means for me? What security vulnerabilities does this allow for on Intel CPUs? Are they worth worrying about? On a scale of "minor bug" to "every single intel chip is easily able to run arbitrary code and is vulnerable on a hardware level" how bad is this exactly?
> Nothing changes for the user when they switch to it.

You must perform regular maintenance on btrfs or it will quite simply break. This is a huge departure from for example ext4, which is (to the end user at least) hassle free.
Certainly.

One mistake was that PHP was chosen, when it really was unfit for the task at hand. Another one was that CMSes like WP or Drupal were shoehorned into projects that were really unfit for them. etc. But also being unable to upgrade underlying PHP versions due to breaking changes, or just p*ss-poor, bug-ridden PEAR packages. As well as the language design prohibiting proper TDD, isolation, etc.

I explicitly said that PHP was but one of the causes. But the language-design and the community certainly did play a significant role. I explicitly never said that you cannot achieve properly designed and maintainable software with PHP. I know you can, because I've also encountered many of those.
Moscow's Central Circle was neglected for many decades based on the same scepticism, but it turned out great - a lot of passenger traffic on what used to be a freight circle line running through the industrialized "gray belt".
My first dev job about 15 years ago I took over this in-house developed intranet. Some queries took quite long (30 to 60 seconds), and according to "the last guy" there wasn't any way to speed it up. At the time I didn't know anything about SQL (literally never used it before), but I figured there really had to be some way to do this faster. I just read some basic documentation, rewrote a few queries, and now I got the exact same results in 1 to 2 seconds. A few months later after I learned a bit more about SQL and optimized it further (just by adding an index IIRC) and now it was fast enough to appear instantaneous.

I'm still far from an SQL expert, and certainly wasn't 15 years ago, but you can get a lot of win by just spending as little as one or two days learning about SQL. It really surprises me how some people don't.

Then again, for a very long time I thought awk was basically useless to learn, until I did last year after which I kicked myself for not learning it sooner as I had spent a ridiculous amount of time cooking up inferior solutions for ~20 years, and spending just an hour or two learning awk would have been a great ROI *shrug*.

I guess the moral of the story is that you can never be quite sure if something is useful or useless until you actually learn it.
Russia, China Spying on Dutch Companies via LinkedIn
The GP comment was highlighting that 作戦 includes the character for "war".

Now, in the case of "crusades", the word has very negative connotation in Arab/Muslims countries. So, when George Bush said the war on terror was a "crusade", the vast majority of political commentators in the Arab world took this literally as religious war between the Christian and Islamic civilizations.
How do you build web applications these days?
Worry not. If real programming (where there's no easily available tests) is automated then everything else probably is as well.
Nobody here is suggesting handing out literal megaphones, the analogy is not very apt in the first place. I was responding to the primary argument made in that comment, which is that speech performed by people with larger followings should be subject to more scrutiny and control, which basically amounts to no free speech.
I'm not sure I would take their work at face-value. These studies of word frequencies over time are often too atomized in their failure to consider the relationships between words at all.

And of course, such a change in speech patterns doesn't have to actually speak to a decline in rationality but to a stronger focus on the author of a claim. The rational process of thinking might be as prevalent nowadays, it's just differently worded.
For a reality check compared to the echo chamber, statcounter has the iPad usage share at 55% (and stable over time):

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/tablet/worldw...

Analysts put the iPad market share at 34% in 2021 (modest growth):

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS48826122

(I don't know who buys or uses Android tablets these days; they were always miserable devices, and I got off that train somewhere around 2015. But it does appear that they're sold in greater numbers than iPads, and actually used a decent amount rather than just thrown into the bin.)
> Lego has become more gender stratified

In this day and age, I would be surprised if the Lego Friends line, which was created with girls in mind, were marketed explicitly to girls. My guess is that the girls stratify themselves by what type of toys they are attracted to. There's evidence that the preference is biological:

Male monkeys prefer boys' toys
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pr...
Ted talks seemed like a form of Hero worship. Everyone loves a Hero and to stand up and yap on about something for an hour like you are changing the world you'll get someone to rally behind you, even if you are Elizabeth Holmes.

Hopefully they are gone for good.
Webapps are much better sandboxed, but harder to keep offline.

Native apps can be easily denied internet access, but the sandboxing is not as strong.

For this reason, I prefer webapps when the application needs to operate online to work, and native apps when they don't.
Of course. Always check if something changed about the company itself.

And when trading derivatives, even dips caused by the market (rather than fundamentals), can lose you lots of real money. Because even if it will eventually recover, it might dip deeper and longer than you can afford. I lost a ton of money on Tesla that way. (I would have been rich now if I'd been able to keep that.)
If I don't trust AXA I don't make any contract with them.

If nobody trust AXA they will go out of business.

I don't understand that logic.

Why do I need more trust?

Why should I care about the inner workings?
At the end I want the money on my bank account

Everybody should have there own data center? Even my 80 year old grandma?
In what strange world do you live in?

It sounds to me like your living in a trustless world were everybody has access to a datacenter and fast internet...

Your trust issues are the problem here and smart contracts are not solving them
Same, I've been getting on really well with mine after upgrading from an X201T last year.

I do think this is going to be my last ThinkPad though, user-replicable RAM has been jettisoned on all subsequent X series machines, and the loss of the SD card reader is another kick in the teeth.

The new keyboard layout is garbage too, I miss the 7 row keyboard a lot. At the very least, I just wish I had my page back/forward keys back.
Nim vs Rust Benchmarks
PHP versions don’t follow semver.

And yes, it’s ok. Semver not a silver bullet.
Me too. And I've seen CRMs built in WP, eCommerce, an auction marketplace, financial dashboard, and so on. But, indeed, processing financial transactions through WordPress is amongst the most scary things I ever saw in computing.
This was such a frustrating issue and was glad when it was finally fixed. My next bug bear is screen sharing on Wayland. I use a massive monitor and wlroots/sway (I have no idea where the functionality should lie) doesn’t really offer a nice way to share either a specific window or screen range.

Chrome has a nice feature where you can share Chrome itself or a specific tab which somewhat mitigates this problem for me so it would be great if Firefox had the same ability. Ultimately it would be great if I could just share anything but the progress on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols/-/issue... is not quite there yet. I just wish I knew how the stack worked so I could potentially judge what the effort would be but I feel like it would he a massive rabbit hole which I just can’t afford.
Funny considering Linus Torvalds believes that C is the best since sliced bread.

https://www.google.com/search?q=c+the+right+way
>Nuclear has already shot its wad on that one.

Given that it still ends up the best from a cost perspective (solar doesn't come close) if extended marginally i wouldn't say so.

There is one core difference. Those extensions, investments and even proper use need political will given the size and scope of such projects. Those politicianse are subject to stupidity and lobbying. Hell the US bans fuel rod recycling at the behest of oil and gas companies to give one such example.
It was almonds for him.
a DH0 or an DH1 ad hominem by a cerebrally challenged [1]?
Probably TL;DR [2].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i still do not like the entire concept of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. it's no more decentralised than the internet and the idea of unrestricted currency is bad. we have banking regulations for a reason.
What exactly are the valid use cases that are not already better served with centralized systems?
46ppl/km/day on a 38km line do not fit on a single minibus.
I agree but I also worry about a certain "Stockhold Syndrome" with large codebases. Sometimes it's the fresh pair of eyes that can see exactly how bad some things are. Once you've learned to understand something you tend to have a rosier view of it.

And sometimes the harder it was to understand something, the more invested you become in it and the more you want to defend it.
I've been working on a P50 since 2016; It is holding up.

Flaws:

- There is cosmetic degradation

- The laptop is gradually losing hassle-free hardware support from the latest popular Linux distributions. (Trackpoint crashes randomly in Ubuntu; Sleep/power management has never worked properly).

- I had to replace the keyboard after 3 years (the keys mechanically wore out and became loose). I had difficulty finding new replacement keyboards recently (although this is more an indictment of the UK's trade situation).

- The buttons on the main touchpad are slowly failing; Near as I can tell it isn't possible to replace these without replacing the entire "top case". I use an external mouse to slow the decline.
this is not my experience, btrfs has been just as stable as ext4 and zfs for me. maybe i've just been lucky?
Are your surfing without protection? Scrolling to the bottom for me works perfectly. I tried disabling uBlock, then I got the behaviour you mentioned.

I always have uBlock on to disable scripts and fonts. Quite a lot of sites work perfectly well that way and I enable the minimum scripts and fonts for those that don't.
Wonderfully crazy. Does it only work on Windows?
I recently bought an E14, and it still does have an ethernet port. I've been happy with it, although I'm not too fussy about the keyboard compared to the old ones.

>Keeping something as it is may not seem such a significant achievement. Still, under marketers' pressure backed by various polls and data (I imagine), Lenovo kept the signature part of the ThinkPad line. And I celebrated this decision of theirs with every model they released over these years.

I am also very glad they kept the trackpoint, although I never use it, because I love having physical mouse buttons, and especially a middle mouse button for opening new tabs, which I use constantly (despite more and more fancy SPAs thinking that opening things in a new tab is not a necessary functionality for a website to have). I hate tap-to-click and drag and drop operations are also just a million times nicer with physical buttons
You're also assuming that Shakespeare had only one teacher. His environment was simply set up in a way to tap his inherent aptitude. The notion that having inherent aptitude implies that it will manifest itself to the world regardless of the quality of one's environment is at best toxic and at worse insulting.

To quote Stephen Jay: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

For example, I grew up in a broken family, living with a stepmother who did her best to trip me until my father gets convinced that I should live with my mother instead. As a result, when my father was away, I received no help in my homework. Her kids did. In this scenario, the "nature over nurture" debater will argue that if I was meant to be good in math then I would be able to push through on my own without external assistance when needed. But when I didn't, my lack of understanding snowballed, my confidence got hit and I ended up being a gang member who avoids school to waste time in the arcade, smoke and pinball.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that what I'm saying is that I would have been the next Einstein or that I'm ultra-talented and I blame my stepmother for not having a math phd. But maybe I would have been good enough not to repeat the same school year twice. Maybe having access to someone explaining to me how important mathematics are to programming would stimulate my interest more and would motivate me to try and get good at them instead of dodging my responsibilities.

I dedicate my life in 2 things: Combat ageism and expose to programming as many people as possible. They don't have to want to become developers but, maybe they'll find it interesting enough to change their life or their workflows. Because I am not just a person, I'm also part of someone else's environment.
He is claiming to be what he is not. He is intellectually dishonest about his experience. This are things I can judge without being a medical professional.
I've never said that possessing a degree or title is needed to discuss a topic. And it wouldn't be in the case of Dr. Malone, if he wasn't claiming to be what he is not.
+1 on the ratio comment, i am yet to see a legitimate use for nfts, not just a something to speculate on
At least for me it would hang the app trying to retrieve the clipboard value that was set by Firefox. It would continue to hang until I either a) copied data from another app, or b) reloaded sway.
As someone who is pro-crypto and has been working in the space for 5-6 years, I have never felt so embarrassed and disillusioned as the past few months. I wish the market had stayed quiet and NFTs had never entered the mainstream. Now it's 99.9% scams and ponzi schemes. It's even worse than the ICO bubble and the whole thing will come crashing down again soon. You'd think people learn, but the get rich quick pitches are just too attractive to the average American who doesn't understand technology or finance.
Oemer – End-to-end Optical Music Recognition based on deep learning
Bach has gotten tons of schooling. He got born in family of musicians and was taught by them. When his parents died, he lived with brother that continued to teach him.

And when he was 15, he went to prestigious school.

Also, classical music in general involves a lot of theory. It is not just about "make nice sounding tune by intuition".