skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

Which is a hard problem. Personally though, I do a quick skim of the news each morning just so that I know we haven't nuked each other to death or that a new pandemic-like world event hasn't happened. I enjoy Reuters, Associated Press, and a local news feed for my area. Sumi.news[0] is great too if you want to essentially scan & skim the whole Internet in one fell swoop.

[0] https://sumi.news/
What’s the monetization strategy?
I like your your solution, I think using `a[0:min(map(len,arrays))]` (ie with 0) is faster because it returns a slice and not a copy of the array.

I am glad you liked the trick!
Stars fail when the elements in their cores stop releasing net energy when fused. This crossover occurs at iron. Adding more mass will just make it's death more violent.

Also the sun contains 99% of the mass of the solar system. The remaining 1% includes Jupiter. I'm not sure how much effect we can have when only leveraging 1% of 1% of the solar systems mass.
It's right in the Post Office press release, explaining how they are cheaper.

And they are not gas guzzling. They get slightly better gas millage then the current vehicle with the A/C on. The entire freak out some people are having is over that.

With the A/C off they do way better than the current ones.

The Post Office has become so politicized it leaves people unable to do basic math.
FreePascal supports them, via variant records. A nice gain in developer-friendliness over C.
Ah, yeah, I’m only familiar with the industries I’ve worked in and never worked in edtech. That’s a pretty good example of any industry that gets sudden, unpredictable load.
Gear doesn't matter. Work on what you see, and you will be led to what you need to get it.
In Johnny Cash's defense, the song is a very standard 12 bar blues progression (I I IV I V), which Johnny and every other blues artist uses liberally.

He's obviously ripped off every other aspect of the song (lyrics, rhythm, feel). Everything but the key change.
When actual scientists speak out, they get downvoted by the delusional who refuse to accept reality. Thank you for speaking up, and keep at it please. We live in a clown world today that is hanging on to the last remaining strands of sanity.
The twitter links in a more tolerable way:

https://nitter.net/michaeldweiss/status/1508466165319938053

https://nitter.net/shaunwalker7/status/1508471898929258496

Also:

https://nitter.net/bellingcat/status/1508463513013997580
I don't think it's necessarily AAA games. I don't game much anymore, but the last five games I played are: Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of The Wild. None of them have the problems mentioned.

It seems like it's really easy to avoid microtransactions, etc.
The author was disappeared, his articles were literally murdered, and you are promoting a genocide of false equivocations. What a nuclear catastrophe! The false vacuum of our hypocritical society is decaying.
If you learn about biology and physiology of the human body and mind, you will realize that our senses are easily fooled by both external and internal forces. All of the so-called mystical forces are more easily explained by such factors.

Occam’s razor applies here. Human perception is incredible fallible and highly susceptible to self-subversion, and that is the simplest and most likely explanation of any magical or mystical phenomena.
Thank you for the LoFi tunes. I dig that stuff!
The physical process of GMO is extremely different from humans applying selection to crops. There is little to no transfer learning to be applied.
The SAT has been demonstrated to be effective at predicting success in university. We have almost no evidence about the computer industry's hiring practices. It is completely unscientific. Interviews operate on folklore, not statistics.
Actually I was surprised when I read: "Make something people want. [...] The idea is that if you build something truly awesome, you'll figure out a way to make money off of it." That sounds to me like he got it backwards. Instead of building something that people want, he built something that was truly awesome. And I think that's the problem. When all those people encouraged him, I think he misinterpreted their enthusiasm at his awesome idea for a "want".

Either way, I think for all the shortcomings and faults the VC and accelerator world has, this is a good example of a mistake that's much more easily avoided when following a proper development plan for your startup.
i came from a rural high school that didn't have any ap/ib courses. i wonder how much that affected my college applications.

i still got to go to the college of my choice (fire up chips!) but i have to wonder -- if i was able to boost my gpa using ap/ib courses, would i have received more scholarship opportunities/better offers from other schools?
Yeah, that's exactly what I was getting at. I've wasted way more money on bad movies than games.
It was made too expensive due to people who don't understand of it and are scared of it.
Yes, the reproducibility crisis affects just about all disciplines. When researchers are pressured to aim for impact and citations in their publications that doesn't leave room to reproduce other people's results. So as you say in the soft sciences we have that results are failing to reproduce, but in the hard sciences we have results that we don't know if they would reproduce or not, because no one has attempted it.
My biggest problem with MP games is that there is little room for casual gamers in these competitive games anymore. It stops being fun when you get dunked on repeatedly and it’s getting harder to find community servers where people are playing for fun and not to win and clip it for twitch/YouTube/tiktok.
It comes down to the inherent tradeoff of flexibility vs ease of use. Wix is easy to use because it does not offer much customizability. If you made it flexible enough to create any layout, theme, etc, you would probably end up with a GUI that is straight up harder to learn and still less flexible than code (remember Dreamweaver?)

For what it's worth, most musicians, small business owners, etc. I know are pretty happy with things like Wix and don't care much about technicalities like owning domains as long as they can choose what shows up in the URL. Those that have more custom needs usually just want to delegate to someone else.
Putin is a thug
Google loses heated bidet toilets for employees
I think Cart Life was the first game that hit me this way (shortly before Papers, Please). It really made me empathize with the desperate situations the characters were in, and in a way that felt more fully realized than in Papers, Please, though that's also a great game.
Part of the problem I see with standardized testing is that the stakes are so high. Some fraction of the people out there just get nervous or have a bad day. Nothing about these high pressure situations really reflects anything important in the real world.

I'm a law student now. In law school, your entire grade usually comes from one 3-4 hour essay exam. Much depends on luck, how well you slept the night before, and how frantically you can type. It's absurd. It's been that way for some 100 years.

I've always been able to play ball with standardized, timed exams, but I have had enough exposure to neuro-diversity that I can empathize with many. I just wish there was a way to de-stress these kinds of exams somehow. I don't know the solution, but I think it would answer of a lot of objections to them.
But test prep is marketed to people who are average or below average. Saying you can gain hundreds of points is clearly misleading/deceptive advertising.
We know we could extract uranium from seawater. The prototypes would scale. The reason we don’t do that is that there is no economic reason to do that: it would be more expensive than mining, so why bother? However, even at that higher cost, it would still be plenty cheap enough to use in our power plants.

You complain about people overblowing a minor concern with solar, but you do the same with uranium extraction.

Also, I take issue with your suggestion that we can do pumped storage at scale: we can’t. There are not a lot of suitable sites for that: we either lack enough altitude delta, or lack water, or would have to flood huge swaths of land, often already more productively used. I like hydro, and I like pumped storage, but unlike nuclear, you can’t do it just about anywhere.

US is actually particularly lucky when it comes to hydro: most other countries are too flat, too dry, or too short on wastelands. Even if we could pull it off, most can’t, and they need power too.
This is a common dismissal of these complaints, but I don't think it rings true. Having used the "linux equivalent" of many pieces of software, it's clear to me that the equivalents are a lot more work than the non-linux software.

The use case I always use as an example is spell-checking multiple languages in a document. MS Word handles this automatically, you don't have to tell it that you're mixing languages. However, OpenOffice requires you to go the the general config and enable each language app-wide (meaning the multiple languages are now being spell-checked across all documents, not just this one). It's not only a broken design paradigm, it's a lot more work to find the config panel to enable multiple languages.
> It is spelled grammar.

Maybe it's interesting to linguistics majors but the rest of us tend to ignore typos when the meaning is clear from the context.

> My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics.

And?

> I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.

The overwhelming majority of them don't and seem to do just fine.
people aren't perfectly rational individualistic economic agents. no one operates like this and expecting anyone to do so is psychotic and dehumanizing

this reads like a teenager, or ironically someone who never mentally moved past the point of being a teenager, who just read Atlas Shrugged for the first time
What google is trying to do here is equivalent to getting everyone to switch from IPv4 to IPv6. Yes, it's superior. Yes, there'd be massive benefits. Yes, it isn't likely that google will go super evil.

However, google isn't the only player in this. They need to get all their vendors to rewrite drivers for their new kernels. They'd also need everyone using android, for example, to get on board writing drivers.

Meanwhile, one of the largest players, samsung, is looking at making their own OS.

For an already fractured ecosystem, it just doesn't seem like it's something that can be successfully pulled off. Maybe if google/android was more like apple it'd be doable. But not where there are so many players that need to be brought in the mix.
I think at this point, if you're going to invest in a camera system, I would go mirrorless. Canon has announced they won't be developing any more EF lenses (For their DSLR based cameras). Mirrorless is the future, and between Sony, Fuji, Canon, and Nikon, I doubt you can really go wrong right now.

I prefer the Fuji system for their tack sharp lenses and fantastic build quality.
> Therefore, the winners demand the losers to admit that they are a failure: Not only that they have less money and fewer material possessions; they must bow down morally and admit that they’re useless and have failed. If you don’t admit it and simply quietly walk away from the competition, you’ll face a lot of criticism. It’s not allowed.

This passage was pretty hair-raising. I think the freedom to fail gracefully is something we take for granted in "the west".
It is done by some teams at Google, so definitely possible to do it decently enough to ship something.
OP did not say that you have to optimize for profit. However, they said that we have to optimize for something. In other words, there's opportunity cost to everything we do.
When using emscripten you get the full marshalling of objects.

Doing a network request from C++:

val xhr = val::global("XMLHttpRequest").new_();
xhr.call<void>("open", std::string("GET"), std::string("http://url"));

https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/val.h.html#val-h

Of course this can be thrown out of the JavaScript binding side so that it isn't there anymore, but the marshalling makes the API nice and so many emscripten users will use it, thus it's present, thus you have to trust the wasm library.

How complicated this is without emscripten i don't know, but even then I guess many people will need some marshalling for real life scenarios.
The election thing with the post office was never real. It was fictional drama created by the media because Trump.

The number of people who believe it's real is astounding.

As proof his policies are continuing exactly as they were before, no change now that the election is over. He's tying to reduce expenses, that's it.
YMMV on Sadhguru. Some people think it a cult like organization: https://www.quora.com/Is-Sadhguru-a-cult-leader

If you want some genuine, grassroots, woman led, action in this area, Vananda Shiva is very well respected: https://humansandnature.org/vandana-shiva/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
What's wrong with homebrew?
I think keeping that kind of stuff to the minimum would be important.

iptables is a good example -- it can scale rather poorly! Packets are run across the chains at length until a matching rule is found.

For most configurations this isn't a problem - the rules are filtered against quickly.

If density reaches the point to where you have thousands of forwards, it'll slow down a lot!

You'll want to look into optimizations (eg: ipsets), offloading to hardware, or simply going to host networking
Sure. So, 2 things.

1) The solution to that is to improve security measures. Not to remove the SAT entirely.

2) It is significantly harder to find someone who can score well on the SAT and is willing to take the test for you compared to gaming GPA, extra curriculars, etc.

I've heard of tons of instances of people hiring homework-help services, their dad paying $5k to get their extra-curricular club going, private tennis lessons, etc.

But I've never personally heard of someone paying someone else to take the SAT for them.

I'm sure it occasionally happens, but it's a lot harder to pull off compared to manipulating GPA, extracurriculars, college essay.
Maybe "more politically correct" or "easier to get away with" would be a better way to phrase what I meant.
Also it's hard to standardize something that is not boring.
> We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven.

Totally agree.

> We are NOT companies

Actually, we are humans. However, when it comes to our economic activity, we are also a company. Both things can be true at once.

> this is so one-sided, extreme, partial and damaging. What decades of neo liberal brainwashing has done to people.

Woah. Anything you specifically disagree with?

I put it in economic terms to address the article, but if you replace “company of one” with “life” and “returns” with “outcomes”, the message is largely the same..

Edit:

I think you disagreed so hard because you think I’m saying “you’re only an adult if you think everything is about money and personal gain.”

But what I was trying to say was “you’re an adult once you realise you’re it; you can fail; and it’s nobody else’s job to make sure you don’t” - which I didn’t think was such a controversial point..
ffs.

Humans have lived on the planet for 200000 years. This way of organizing people as a company interacting with the labor market with assets & investments & risk management...is at best a 100 years old. Its like a drop in the ocean of time.

That said, when I was taking courses in Finance as a young 20 something, I came up with this same exact analogy & took it to its logical end - I conceived a stock exchange called the Human Stock Exchange, where every human being was a human stock ticker, and if you liked the performance of your colleagues you would buy their human stock so their human stock price would go up. You could sell short the poorly performing colleagues on your team...its a pretty toxic concept, if you think through it.

Ofcourse, since its such a toxic idea, given the extremely virtuous nature of our benign species, this toxic idea must already exist & thrive. See for instance Will Smith's stock taking a beating after what happened yesterday - https://www.hsx.com/security/view/WSMIT
Dt – Build your entire project with one command
Not sure why you're telling me that. freedom2099 is the one conflating things. The article is about Rocket League, a game without loot boxes.
Wait, I can think of myself as a company selling my labor power on the labor market? Interesting thought experiment, let's see where it goes.

I sell this commodity on the market, to whom? Business owners, I guess. And this is a weird one: I actually have to sell this commodity on the market, if I want to eat and live and all. So does almost everyone else. But the buyers have other options, so I guess everyone on the sell side basically has to undercut each other til there's no more profit left on our side. What does it mean if I'm not profiting, I sell my labor at the cost of production? Best I can hope for is find an inefficiency and hope to eke out a little bit myself until I can afford to be a buyer? Maybe the whole thing doesn't quite work.

Yeah, I'd say internalizing the, uh, implications of this setup is pretty much a requirement for being a grown adult.
I agree with what he's probably attempting to say -- widespread requirement of vaccine passports is absurd, and functionally locks people out of society.
Regardless, his comment didn't just use it as an example. Without further interpretation, the entire body of his point was that what is happening now is similar to a fictional thing that happened in a fictional story.
Whether or not you agree with the point, it's so absurdly general that it has about the same meaning as, say, comparing Biden to Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I don't fear that.

I *know* that the money I've given to a gas company to cover periods of low wind and solar in the last twelve months has funded those rockets, and the emissions have turned fertile ground into desert, the latter being if anything more lethal.

That is a cold certainty.

And I came off a conference call on battery tech today. So let me say this: anyone who says batteries will replace that blood money is a liar.
A deal which stretches on for this long (6+ months) in limbo is almost never getting closed. If you are the party with greater interest (whether buyer or seller), you need to focus on getting a public commitment ASAP. Due diligence, audits and all other details can be worked on after that.
True, but the usefulness of calculus to a working developer in ML is pretty marginal. The difference between different ML algorithms for hill climbing or gradients, is orders of magnitude less than the effect of having the right training data, formatted the right way. Statistics or data science is far more applicable to nearly any field on real-world programming.

But, you know, like Latin in the 19th century was always still useful to one's education, calculus is still useful. It is also something a lot more people know how to teach, than know how to teach statistics (or other more useful topics). I think the latter is the primary reason it remains central to most engineering programs.
Well, we have a public blockchain here… so if he wants to provide his wallet address to substantiate the claims, that seems the most reasonable support to me.
Yes, blaze predates gyp, AFAIK. Blaze had been around for a long time before I ever arrived there in 2011. But exclusively for Google3 projects. Later I was on teams that used it for iOS dev, but not sure if that was always the case.
This. It’s a great example of the Monty Hall problem. Once you have a little bit of information, your odds of success usually go up dramatically.
Lost Ark was recently released into the US market by Amazon / Smilegate and is getting some negative feedback due to the casino-like elements to the game. Some people just don't want a slot machine simulator, but if you're the publisher who wants to extract maximum revenue from players, then Skinner boxes are apparently the way to go. The player can buy their way past randomness by either purchasing material that increases their chances of winning, or gives them more chances to play. So despite complaints I doubt that mechanic will go anywhere.
> despite spending thousands on Halo over the years

But how could you have spent thousands? Original Halos don’t have micro transactions.
>the concept of self-determination

The concept of opportunity cost.
Caffeine doesn't say that anywhere, though. Quite the opposite.
I desperately want Blazor to succeed, so that the entire Javascript-based environment can burn.

I would accept some kind of world where WASM bindings in browsers become usable as an alternative.
Just to make a very important distinction here:

Bacteria like TB do not need a significant time out of the udder to infect a human with TB.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a4.htm#:~:te....
It seems strange to me that the author's names aren't on the website anywhere except in a BibTeX citation and the open source license.
That dog was on a mission, what a good pup!
Hmm, my understanding was that when you dig into why nuclear is expensive, it can be roughly broken into two parts. One part is the intrinsic costs of building a functional power plant. The other part is making things safe, and that's where we've pushed our regulation far past "safe enough" (compared to other sources of power) and into the realm of absurdity, because we're looking at absolute safety and not relative safety. I found the post where I originally read about this (https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop) -- basically, nuclear power is required to be "as safe as possible", implying that if you have money left in your budget and you could have spent it on improving safety, you've failed, even if it's already far, far safer than any other thing humans build. Which, according to the author of the article, means that you can never try to build a more cost-efficient nuclear plant, you always have to blow all your money on safety, and that's why costs keep rising. I found it pretty convincing.

That said, it's likely we can't fix our regulation AND build new plants in time to fix climate change, so I agree with you there. I don't have any agenda about what tech we use to solve this problem -- I'm perfectly happy with solar, wind, or flower power if that's what it takes :)
The Ukraine example might be true for a non-european country, but as a European in these times I want to be informed. I want to help refugees and the victims of war (either by donating or giving shelter for some days). If I wouldn't know things from the news, I wouldn't know about these things.

Knowing in what direction world events might change is good to be at least mentally prepared when things turn worse.

It doesn't have to be checking the news 24/7 but checking it once a day for the important parts I think it's important. I would rather say people need to learn how to distance themselves from the news a bit to keep a healthy mental state with all the things happening right now.
Correct. We'll all be driving nuclear jet aircraft in 70 years as global uranium reserves deplete.
Coaching and studying improves SAT scores. People learn the type of questions they do poorly on and can study to improve. The SAT is a test you can study for.
But you don’t need to know cryptic sendmail.cf parameters, you can just use m4 macros which are totally not cryptic at all.