skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 1960s, Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita discovered that people can be trained to "see" images represented by electrical impulses on the tongue. I wonder if there is an overlap between these two ideas. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12459883
What does winmerge have on kdiff3 and meld?
> company responsible for polarization, breeding hate, and damaging democracy

Oh please.
The banality of evil, indeed.
Arrow keys and page-down don’t work either :/

There’s a set of accessibility options; maybe they could add some alternative navigation methods.
Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Errors
> Rather than giving some finger in the air estimate, you need to explain that until the precise requirements are known, solution devised, and backlog estimated, you can't give a precise estimate

You make a lot of good points but I disagree with this one. I understand the need for business to know how much a project will cost, but I don't think there is any other way than finger in the air. Or rather looking at a project of similar scope and going from there.

The core of agile, for businesses, in my opinion is to deliver business value in the shortest amount of time. Changing requirements are not a bug but a feature of Agile. But you can't estimate for the unknown.

Let's say you are building an app for a bank that allows customers to leave comments on merchants as an option, three menus down. Turns out your customers love that feature and the bank decides to promote that feature.

This business agility is at the core of digital transformation and it should not be discussed away as not being part of the original requirements. Rather it should be embraced.

But you can't estimate the unknown. And I have in my life never seen a project that didn't have wild changes in requirements along the way.

So in my opinion you may as well throw out a number based on experience. Deep estimation based on Excel sheets and task completion times are not gonna improve on the result.
Livestream preferred for me, twitch/yt. no skype here.
Oof — sorry for the late response but I'm seeing this too now. Pushed a fix, should be up soon. Tnx for reporting!
This is false. 100% UT in a dynamically typed language like JS is no assurance of anything really. You need to cover all the observable behavior in any case (no matter the type of language) to get any kind of assurance. UT cannot deliver this.
Very interesting article that makes a valid point about the outcome of studies presumably covering the same ground but that fail to line up. This is trivially easy to notice in medical journal articles, for example, reports of drug trials are often contradictory. (A notorious example: studies of SSRI antidepressants.) How could this be? In simple terms, the sets of subjects weren't congruent. For one thing, given the intrinsic difficulty of measuring "depression" and subtle differences in sex, age, and distribution of symptoms among cohorts of depressed individuals it's hardly a surprise to find out response to a treatment could vary significantly.

I fully agree with the author's ideas about interactivity and context of events. But these are infinitely variable and it often takes a lot of effort to work out what are the salient elements that shape the data we're collecting.

There's a point to be made about "premature abstraction" that's parallel to the oft-cited evil of "premature optimization". It might even be the very same thing.
Stunning.

My question is whether more compute and more data will be sufficient for the AI to create its own art styles. Everything we see here are within the stylistic paradigms created by previous humans.
The first Unix system I could ever get my hand on by downloading or buying disks was Linux.

I think this is the reason for the early relative popularity of Linux compared to BSD. We have to remember that in the early 90ies, most people did not have internet at home or at least not broadband internet. I got my first Linux CD-ROM in 1993 and started using Linux in 1994, because a lot of computer magazines came with Slackware Linux. It was also relatively easy to get Linux distributions cheaply on CD-ROMs, e.g. through the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource. I only discovered FreeBSD probably through some Linux documentation and for me the only way to get it was to buy a relatively expensive FreeBSD CD set from Walnut Creek (remember, no broadband internet). When I finally got a FreeBSD set in 1996, I was amazed by its consistency, documentation, and quality. But by then, Linux already had all the attention.

Why magazines shipped Linux? I don't know. Maybe some were afraid to ship BSD because of the AT&T lawsuit. But I think Linux was also the better story: 'a student hacker somewhere in Finland writes a kernel and takes over the world/is going to break down the Microsoft empire'.
Interesting, I did not know until watching this video that lawnmowers posed such a high risk to aviation.

(16m00s into the video, discussing how ground activity near the localizer antenna can cause the signal to wiggle on approach.)
Is anyone else frightened to see equity explicitly spelled out as a goal of a US government office? Equity implicitly requires enforcement of equal outcomes. I do not think the federal government is capable or benevolent enough to carry out that enforcement
Fastmail does SUCH a great job managing multiple addresses and domains. My favorite feature is the auto-BCC so that when I'm sending from a joint e-mail address I share with my wife, she always gets a copy.
Why would you judge someone purely for their individual actions and not for the action of the group they are actively contributing and thereby enabling?

If you are, let’s say the boat mechanic of someone making a business of dumping toxic chemicals in the sea, then you are clearly doing evil.

Similarly, if you are doing “harm reduction” at Facebook, you are still enabling them to exist, thereby enabling them to get away with doing more harm overall.
I blog from time to time, a few articles a year, and I don't care how many visitors I have.

When I am curious about something, I read as much materials as I can, and I use the blog as a tool to document my findings and put my thoughts in order. It's rather a last test for me to see if I can make sense, and an opportunity to practice my English.

3 of my articles so far went to this front-page and it was a nice feeling of appreciation. But that's not the point of blogging, internet points don't matter.
I wouldn’t necessarily argue that the cloud is cheaper as a rule, but I would say that this comparison misrepresents how you’re supposed to use cloud computing and what its strengths are.

That 64 core server is probably sitting nearly idle most of the time. You don’t just spin up big systems on AWS and leave them idle. The whole point of cloud computing is the on-demand scalability.

You can basically spend nothing until a request comes in, and most hobby projects are low traffic.

For example, I found a project that runs plex media server encoding jobs as Kubernetes pods: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex

When you’re not encoding anything, you’re not running much compute.

I think I’ve heard of game servers that wait for players to attempt to connect before starting the instance. If all you’re doing is playing a multiplayer game with friends that instance is going to be off 20+ hours a day.

Still, I haven’t done any napkin math on what applications represent cost savings.
There are different degrees of flexibility. Perhaps some people are utterly inflexible, but I wouldn't much want to know them! As for this specific case, it's not like you're going to be breaking legs for the mob. A person might believe that Facebook or Amazon are a net negative for the world, but that doesn't mean that everything they do is bad or that one's individual contribution can't be good, or at least neutral.
Overhead of calling into JS from Wasm is very low; DOM calls are no problem since the DOM call itself is much slower than the overhead of switching from Wasm to JS. See e.g. this article from ~4 years ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a...

There are even some libraries that try to mimic React directly from Rust, such as https://yew.rs/ (though in my experience they can be a bit harder to use than Zaplib, since they require you to learn about traits, closures, etc, and tend to also run into borrow checker issues more often -- all of those are things we try to avoid having to learn in Zaplib!)
33.3% of my income or income of some family member who signs the lease and might not have any income he or she decided to show to the IRS?

> You're objecting to exactly what I was talking about, entropy. In this case you're using the synonym "noise."

I live in a neighborhood without section 8 now and, surprise, there is no entropy!

>So you built your own house from scratch, no help from builder

I am sorry, it might be some popular point on reddit but I need more context, what are you talking about? I bought my house and the land. Are you, by chance, saying that you are sincerely confused by my usage of the verb "to provide" and believe that I used it in a general way, only indicating that the society somehow made the housing available, and not given wholly or partially free?
Yeah, Wasm is quite fast these days, and there is still more room to grow!
No, user abuse is free. Some company have paid user-abuse packages, but it's free here!
I'd be interested in all observations that make "non-classical" thinking of physics necessary. I have no deep enough knowledge to distinguish quantum physics and particle physics. So for example what is the experiment that makes us think that particles have something called spin? And what experiment makes us think that the spin can only have distinct values? And so forth.

Anyway, the books you proposed look interesting, thanks.
This very interesting! Pointing to a reliable source would be most welcome.

The overwhelming majority of things that happened are not widely known. That is necessarily how reality is.
It's proportional to the aperture diameter and inversely proportional to the wavelength. That's why they needed telescopes that spanned the globe for that image of a black hole. More photons does get you shorter exposure times (and therefore better temporal resolution, fair enough).

JWST by the way is able to resolve at this theoretical limit, which is just wild.
The vast majority of cars are not scrapped because mechanical failures in their ICE engines. Typically, materials in parts (rubber, gaskets, hoses, electric switches, interior, body/chassi rust) degrade to the point of stopping peripherals from working, creaking/rattling/vibrations, and the user experience starts to feel like junk. Replacing these parts then costs more than the value of the car.
The title had me assuming this article would be about using a yaw string.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_string

Flappy, highly sensitive and a few inches long, it gives you an intuitive feeling of airflow without having to look down at your instrumentation.
"we request priority to land" vs. "we request emergency landing" is what led to the Colombian airlines disaster.
They’re not preventing the future so much as they are not buying into the hype. That speech from Thiel was totally unprofessional and ill-suited to man of his station. If he’s so confident about crypto, he doesn’t need to insult successful people to achieve his aims. I’ll take the classiness of a Warren Buffet over that meanness any day.
Fox, CNN, MSNBC -yes.
FPV it is, you won't surprised after you see how hard pilots train themselves nowadays: https://youtu.be/J__ByoYlhVs
Your comment is fascinating especially since I've been thinking about digital transformation and what it means for businesses a lot, lately.

I would like to make one point that I would highly recommend in respect to a lot of people unhappy with Agile methodologies.

I suggest picking a method, let's say Scrum and really implementing it as recommended. Get a coach if necessary. Try to experience it first before making changes. I think for example the self organizing team has to be experienced rather than read.

Only once you have done it, by the book, start making changes and improve the process.

Don't fall into the trap of reading about Scrum, thinking well I don't need retrospectives they are dumb and do your roll your own thing.

Understand what Agile is, rather than follow some cargo cult interpretation.

This will lead to dark agile, or agile in name only, where you do waterfall but with daily standups.

Which I think explains a lot of the unhappiness people experience with Scrum.
Too high. A small handful of CEOs have started making >100M in annual comp recently[1], but outside of the very highest paid CEOs, even top executives don't make that kind of money. (Although they certainly might see a capital gain in excess of that amount on their stock and options when the share price goes up.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-highest-paid-ceos/
A rebuttal:

Ron Insana: Peter Thiel’s ‘sociopaths’ know something he doesn’t

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/ron-insana-peter-thiels-soci...
Margrethe Vestager disabled iPhone microphone for Twitter for privacy
> but rather to confuse and disorient them, ultimately creating apathy and/or division

That was used to devastating effect with the Pandemic.
People still give a damn about other people but blogs are out of favour and instead have been replaced with Hacker News and Reddit and other such social communities.

Blogs are centred on just one person while communities are centred around an interests which partly explains the rise of Reddit, etc.. and the fall of Blogger. Also, in terms of web browsing experience, it's much better to read different Hacker News or Reddit posts then to visit a different blog sites and then have to orient oneself to the navigation and UI elements each time; the voting mechanism also makes finding good stuff easier than just by reading a blog.

What is the definition of a Blog? Is it just a place to host articles? If so, then even Github can be used. Is a Blog just centred on a person's ideas? Then Twitter is a blog or has replaced blogs.

TLDR: Blogging is still alive, but just has taken different forms.

Now as for the Why, why not? People like to express, discover and exchange ideas.
> One fun thing: Vestager was a bit delayed logging onto the Twitter Spaces interview — her iPhone's microphone had been disabled for Twitter by her privacy settings
GitHub Text of government takedown notices as received
Virtual identity was exactly what you are asking for

https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id

Unfortunately it seems to have been abandonded
Could you elaborate on your conclusion.
The entire post is about prep but you said next time you won't spend so much time prepping and use standard questions.

What were those questions?
Love all the various explanation - if it was me, it would probably be a case of:

- Prepare the post the day before and release it in the morning

- I don't have time the day before, wake up in a frenzy and write something

- Wake up later and later until it's ok to receive something at 2pm
apparently the twitter replies of the tech priesthood is where we are meant to request miracles of the AI
How can someone who is in "completely poverty" be trading NFTs? You made up the whole thing, didn't you?
If it's same as senpai/kouhai system I'm familiar with, it only works in an organization, and either you'll carry your batch number/generation ID/year joined in that org, or you're out of the system as an age-free subject matter expert.
I mean, it requires heart imaging, which you're not going to be getting without access to some very expensive equipment (assuming you just randomly wanted to look at this rather than getting images back from your doctor).
Any kid who grew up on a farm knew this.

It’s a recent societal invention to think this is all something to be hidden until the 365th day of the 17th year of life.
I delete everything on exit anyway.
Hah, I had the exact same list when I went back to work in 2020. Ended up choosing Google again precisely because they were public (Coinbase and Roblox had not IPO'd at the time), and then the stock of the latter two 10x'd after the IPO.
The .gov tld is administered by the US department of Homeland security. That a site is on .gov doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't been compromised or something but it does seem a pretty reasonable guarantee that it's at least nominally affiliated with the US government.
Debian booting RaspberryPi 2 on open firmware [video]
P Value from Pearson (R) Calculator
I don’t do it because I think most of the time it’s more about signaling political affiliation than actually solving a problem.

It also tends to then extend to things like pretending there are no sex differences and that everything is socially constructed (which I think is nonsense). I used to think this was a strawman, but the Lia Thomas story shows it isn’t imo: https://overcast.fm/+vpWbPtN0o

This is obviously a third rail internet topic and people can do what they like, but I won’t put pronouns in my bio and I won’t submit to pressure to do so in order to pass some sort of political morality test.
The greed of the beancounters killed 343 people.
Modal File Manager Updated
A new update to the Modal File Manager: https://github.com/raguay/ModalFileManager/releases/tag/V1.0...
> My semi-cynical view would be that cosmetics companies don’t have any specific incentive to accelerate the natural march of research as long as they stay on the forefront of it and have top of the line products

I looked at the Linkedin information for a few cosmetic companies and found that most of the employees work in marketing and channels, followed by business administration, and followed by a handful of cosmetician. My guess is that either research and development are outsourced or they are primarily marketing companies, which means there might not be any research to begin with.
>The crossover I never knew I wanted but am glad to see

You can also use IRC and XMPP in Thunderbird.
>propaganda has become one of the top threats to US national security, to democracy everywhere, and therefore to humanity

US national security -whatever that means; will be just fine.

Liberal democracy and the value of free speech -not so much.

Food for thought:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitt-romney-american-democracy-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/barack-oba...

https://www.ft.com/content/47144c85-519a-4e25-9035-c5f8977cf...
Arrow keys work for me. But it's still strange because when you keep it pressed often nothing happens for a time and then abruptly you move too quickly.
Probably, interpolating betweem styles or extrapolating to unseen styles doesn't seem too far fetched.

However an art style also needs context: human appreciation of aesthetic values, human recognition of a style wrt prior movements... without an "ecosystem of artists and viewers" it might not be so useful.

Nevertheless... As a tool for artists to explore new avenues of expression this could be a fantastic tool, i think.
Yeah, BSD was still doing its funky "slice" subpartitioning scheme instead of using MBR partitions directly (and for the next two decades as well). Linux has always just used MBR/EBR partitions (prior to GPT).
They might have had a lower voice in a later version? I think it was lower in this clip: https://youtu.be/PA0x60xhusQ

Chat “stickers” aren’t quite as clever as they used to be - there’s a certain 90s whimsy missing from today’s apps and websites: https://youtu.be/pbturFbi-vc
The thing is it's not rewarding in the future, knowing you do hard work for a small being that you love was the reward for me.
I think a lot of users dropped it after brantly.eth was an ass.
Oh grief, I've tried getting into her channel a few times because the content and analysis is fantastic, but the 'effervescent' delivery style is excruciating.
Ok so this is what an affirm transaction looks like. You go to bobsite it says you can have a widget by paying now or if you click this radio button and select affirm there will be a only slightly different flow where you without leaving bobs site you agree to pay for it over time with the same payment card you have on file with bobsite for regular purchases. Click Complete purchase done.

Your money flows from you -> affirm -> merchant in a singular transaction that is actuated by several automatically scheduled payments at the appointed dates.

No transaction flowed between you -> merchant to charge back. Given that actually litigating a dispute in multiple states would be thousands of dollars your only actual options are let them keep all your money even if they are in effect defrauding you OR issue a chargeback to the party that collected your money and let THEM handle retrieving any money transferred from them to the merchant who ultimately didn't fulfill their duty.

You will note that due to the high cost of retrieving your money the merchant has absolutely no reason not to just keep your money and ignore your phone calls. They after all already have the money they were going to make off you. It cannot afford to not pick up the phone for Affirm because it intends to via its continuing relationship to continue making money.

Fundamentally every transaction you undertake is intermediated usually through a multitude of levels whoever actually takes your money be it affirm or walmart has no right to be paid if the goods aren't delivered and acquires in addition to your money the obligation of making the customer whole first and then seeking redress up the food chain.

This is only untrue when there are two distinct different not directly related transactions. Get a generic credit card and use it to buy a TV for example. It would make little sense for chase to expect to be paid $500,000 for a house it turned out the seller had no right to sell or $50,000 for a car that was never delivered due to mischance. In both cases even though you had agreed to borrow that money the transaction would be unwound and not merely by you. This unwinding in case of a failure by merchant to deliver product financed is an expected part of such an interaction in part because such transactions almost always concern a great deal of money.

A situation whereby a singular purchase actuated by a button click is treated as 2 distinct transactions with virtually no recourse for any sort of misbehavior violates decades of consumer expectations and the ground rules under which we all presently do business. It is surprising and harmful.
I haven't seen anything about how many GPUs or RAM this thing takes to run - I've been impressed with the volume of material thats been published so far but what's the chance this scales in a way that's profitable?

In any case it seems AI is fulfilling its promise of centralizing the economy, since there will be single digit number of renderfarms generating the creative content of the internet, everyone's money flowing upward to Saint Elon
How is it positive? On average you're losing 2.75 units of value.
Maybe it refers to his quote at the end of the article:

> When [Le Corbusier] was told about the garden gnomes of Pessac, he replied, “You know, life is always right; it is the architect who is wrong.”
One thing that is unusual about the star relative to our regular experience is how little “metals” it contains (in astrophysics metals are any elements heavier than helium).

Metals heavier than iron are only created in supernovae, lighter metals still only get created in stars. Either way, if it was created a few 1e8 years after Big Bang, there weren’t many of those going around.

Now, most of our models for stellar evolution are calibrated to stars we see, which have plenty of metals in them. Whereas this one doesn’t so our models could be off.
Interestingly, the F-22 appears to handle stuff like engine failures for you[1].

Perhaps it's inertia of regulations and training. Radically automating airplanes involves training loads of people.
There's also certification, which is different for military aircraft than for civilian aircraft.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n068fel-W9I
I'm reasonably sure that's not how lying works.