skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Do they care?"

I guarantee you that they will.

They might not think so now, but when in a couple or so of decades they suddenly remember a cherished videogame from their youth (maybe associated with the joy of discovering videogames, maybe with a memory of a friend who's passed away, maybe just because of doing videogame archaeology) and they cannot play it at all because of DRM or unsupported hardware (and the impossibility of porting it without breaking some law), then they will care.
Detecting long-period comets through machine learning
> At one point, someone got so frustrated that they threw their laptop on the floor. Happy to answer any questions about it!

Did the laptop throwing make you think you'd gone too far?
Thanks for your insight. I think I've always enjoyed programming until I didn't. So pushing through work even when I'm highly unmotivated has been pretty tough and definitely a new skillset to learn!
and, unfortunately, it's zero-HTML and requires modern JS to function. :(
In this case CLI could detect unsupported features and display a warning for developer, so extension could be made more compatible with Safari during development.
If the war has shifted to open/closed data, does it mean the battle for free software was won? Saying we lost is a bit early. I do see lots of projects aiming for open data. That battle has not been decided yet, it's a long game.
Interestingly 'three meals a day' comes from an American advertising campaign. The book 'Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal' goes into it all[0]

It's kind of crazy that such fundamental parts of our society are shaped by advertising and after a couple of generations we all just accept it because it's 'always been like that'.

[0]https://b-ok.cc/book/2226584/5b1aad
I recently tried to find an archive of popular chain emails from the 90s... They're gone. Most of the popular data from that era just wasn't collated by anybody. The data hasn't survived 20 years.

How little will exist in 100 years? Let alone 2000?
One of the things that i find strange and sometimes annoys me about HN is that every idea needs to be a startup... Why? Your idea could also become a collective or a non-profit the very least...
Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’
No, not knowing that is a fundamental misunderstandings of either locks or scope. Depending on the role and job level that may be table stakes.
They bought the cliqz team and their work / tech when that died, so I'd assume they're using what those people had been building.
Much thanks to my then undiscovered ADHD I spent my university years switching between ”categories” (it’s not exactly the same as majors/minors here in Denmark because everything on a bachelors was tailored for you up front), 7 times before I ended up with Computer Science (which was where I started). Two of those years was spent studying History, and the primary subject through everything was that sources matter. Because history is exactly as described here, influenced by its writer and the context in which it was written. Which is why history as far as academia is concerned tends to be much more “peer-decided” than anything. With good and bad side effects. But basically a lot of history is a group of experts spending their careers discussing whether or not a set of pottery inscriptions can mean that Denmark went on a crusade or not. But that is academia, and though my brief period there I got the impression that it took its sources very serious.

I’d like to say that maybe I got this article wrong, but isn’t what this article talks about more political science than history? The fall or the Roman Empire is a part of history, but how it’s used in political discourse has nothing to do with history, until decades from now anyway. People with an agenda has always used texts and history to further it, but isn’t it those people who are far more in control of what becomes history than the people who wrote the works?
I’m pretty sure we don’t know that. A 400lb person will probably be healthier a year from now if they eat 1500 calories of MacDonald’s a day vs. 4000 cals of “home-cooked plant-based foods”.
Now what does that say about the geriatrics that seem to be running all major world powers right now?
You’d need to port it. But Dexed already runs on a lot of things, including the Teensy (see links elsewhere in the comments).
Aside; I tried Windows 11 on a VM recently and I see MS removed the Move option from the right-click context menu for apps in the bar, that used to allow one to hit an arrow key (and move the window around with the arrow keys) once then simply move the mouse to move the window, so I had to full screen the VM to rearrange windows within it.
Yes pretty much, loneliness is a silent killer. Its so 'silent' that you won't even notice that you are declining but interestingly others will notice.
The initial idea was to focus on cmd line tools... I added pandas for comparison, as it is one of the most used libs to work with datasets. I will either remove Pandas from the equation or add Polars. By the way, I run some benchmarks and polars seems a bit faster than spyql for the aggregation challenge, but does not scale (loads everything into memory)
As a sidenote, I looked at Circle and wondered a bit where the line is drawn between "bare metal" and "mini OS" :) After all it's a big package with drivers and filesystems and stuff.. I guess at some point you could just run normal Linux and disable preemption and you're at the same level.
On iOS there are issues with shader compilation that cause stuttering. A fix is being worked on for quite some time now.

The hype around performance is (I think) because it uses lower level rendering stack and a AOT compiler, but the comparision is being made mainly to JavaScript and web stack tech.

It could be fast as rendering speed depends mainly on how quickly can you rasterize and compose the graphic to the canvas. It uses Skia as the graphics backend, but Skia, while being very feature rich, is not the fastest. Dart is also not the fastest language around, but it has a lot of headroom for optimization. I'm also a bit skeptical about the performance impact of the immutable widgets tree, but maybe it doesn't have such a big performance impact as I imagine.

Overall, Flutter has potential to be quite fast. But currently, due to various issues, it's often not. I do love it though, due to how flexible is the rendering and due to the fact there is no markup language. It's really a joy to work with.
You’re right but I’m not sure it’s going to last. Also in SA having spent a year out of the country. The condition of the cars is worrying. I think many of the drivers initially bought/financed new cars and now that they’re out of service plan they don’t prioritize maintaining them at the same level.
Contrachrome
Physical fatigue is in the brain as much as in the body
I'm pretty convinced that they all get their daily dose of amphetamines or some kind of smart drugs from their physicians.

I mean, Erdos did it and he was productive until his 70's.
Yeah the edit distance of the names on that list tells you they're out to fuck the public. They're as different as they can possibly be, obviously on purpose. They want people to have no idea what the chemical is, not be able to look it up freely, and then...I'm divining right now...like tell them they got rid of it and put it back in again under a different name pretending it's not the same shit? Yeah so I read the article a bit, and it's a poison, makes perfect sense. So this allows like employee-prostitutes of the chemical company pretend they don't know what the customer is talking about, play dumb, total plausible deniability. Normally they would have to pretend to mishear you, over and over, and then flat out lie in an absolute black-is-white capacity that can be proven in court with no margin of error, in fact.

The closest second place to how guilty-mindedly deceptive those names are are the endless different names for terrorist organizations according to the CIA world factbook. Distant second place, though. Like there's no real comparison, I bet if I heard someone talk about Al Qaeda as "the Sunni-only real Muslim club" I'd just know. They don't have focus groups and psychologists testing what is the most deceptive synonym possible. Let's hope terrorists don't get any ideas from the chemical industry, knock on wood.

With these names in fact the guy can't rely on words, or thought, or documents, like he can only find out by getting poisoned by it first. The only sense he can detect it with is touch.

He's a human canary.
Or people renting out their own vehicles through Uber
FWIW, many Unity games are not protected/obfuscated at all. I can look at the full source code of my current favorite game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
I agree. I haven't been near this code base at all, but after a quick glance at the docs that do exist, I can't see anything about concurrency design.

If thinking about safe concurrent writes is wrong, then I don't want to be writing code for you...
My sinus acts up when perfume is sprayed, leading to a headache. Our office bathroom also has this automatic air refreshner dispenser. On another note I wonder how much people's acne is caused by the cleansing agent they are using to prevent it.
Where is that documented? I couldn't find any docs on concurrent writes.
Thank you @nkurz for taking the time to consider the alternative perspective.

I've kind of "read the room" here and its clear my perspective is not welcome (or at least "not understood" if I'm being generous on interpretation).

So I'll refrain from commenting more except on one point you raised:

> Should one avoid learning to cook because it's (currently) cheaper to pay someone for food?

Actually DIY cooking is generally cheaper than paying for it, assuming we are talking about healthy, balanced meals and not just counting anything as "food".

There are numerous things you can buy that can keep you sustained in various forms for anything up to a week whilst not incurring any additional expenditure (or at least minimal). For example you could buy a chicken, you could roast that chicken and enjoy a meal, you could then cut up the carcass and make a good few litres of stock, from that stock you could then make (at least) soup, a risotto and if you bought a decent sized chicken there is of course the possibility of some sort of cold salad out of the left-over meat. So that's (at least) four meals out of one chicken.

The labour element with cooking - at least on simple meals - does not (generally) amount to much. For example, with the chicken example above, the actual time preparing/cooking is minimal, for the bulk of the elapsed time you can walk away and do something more productive whilst the chicken does its thing in the oven or in the stock pot.

Meanwhile in a restaurant you'll pay through the nose for the same food (it's an old rule of thumb that restaurants work on 300% margin), you'll have to pay 10% service charge, and you'll (probably) get less food that is (probably) less healthy.

Take-aways are equally expensive because they are priced for convenience, and again the same (potential) questions about quantity and health.

Where I would draw a line is DIY farming. Whilst I admit that I am not familiar with the economics, I suspect for most people it would work out cheaper to buy your raw ingredients than to grow/farm them yourself.
The `w` command is more of a `what` instead of `who`.
Interpretable Neural Net?
I've made an interpretable linear layer that is placed after the convolution layers of a neural network. I call it summarisation, as it succinctly represents the data observations with a linear set of components. For image datasets, the components are signals summarised as image filters.

Essentially, 1 linear and interpretable layer that replaces activation functions, dropout, and multiple layers of linear weights commonly found in many neural networks that occurs after convolution.

GitHub
https://github.com/AskExplain/Interpretable-Neural-Net
Have you tried getting a command-line program to build and run on an M1 Mac lately?

Yeah, it works most of the time. But when it doesn’t, e.g. due to some post-build script that massages the binary after signing it, it brings you a world of pain.
Have you played Cities: skylines? I feel like it’s hard to even compare it to SC at this stage. It’s a wonderful game.
> Free speech doesn't mean you have the right to hijack others' resources to your own ends, even in the most expansive interpretations.

Upon more thinking, I feel like maybe this was close enough to a first principles argument.

The reason I think in this case we have a right to some of these resources is due to the fact they are in essence exploiting the people's resource. We have to speak somewhere online, if you want us to congregate in your public square, we should be entitled to some regulations, in return, you get to advertise to us, charge fees for upgrades or boosting or whatever else you want to do.

Ideally in a free market we would be able to find a competitor and congregate there instead but since this isn't a free market and tragedy of the commons is a thing were stuck with twitter being a monopoly on public political discourse.
If the hiring process is set to punish honesty, then maybe by being honest you avoid working at places with such a process and consequently with the people who passed it?

Note that I'm not saying that FAANGs are like that (I have no opinion on that).
You could always add the cooling yourself

https://youtu.be/X1u-9YqrIJc
Similarly I’ve heard our fear of the sun can be traced back to a L’Oreal campaign in the 80s
So, to be clear, you "know many friends and family who got banned" but when asked for specific examples, dodged providing any.
This is only measuring mental speed, not:

- Common sense

- Life experience

- Intelligence

- Ability to listen to others

- Curiosity

- Empathy
I suppose there might be backward regions out there that can afford neither computers nor electricity adequate to teach computer science students anything they can't do with a pencil and paper, but they certainly are few and far between in the United States.

In general, it seems you are making an argument about semantics that doesn't describe the world as it is but rather either the way you want it to be, or the way you want it to be described. Either where all those poisonous influences were purged from CS programs or where "actual" CS programs were rare to non-existent.

You can certainly have a preference that the term be used like that, but that is far from reality on the ground.
No need to ask for forgiveness.

Just disclose you're promoting something you created.
Melda: A General Purpose Delta State JSON CRDT [pdf]
I can only imagine of one possibility and that is the software calculating the speeds incorrectly.
Why it's harder to earn more than your parents (2021)
"Free" in Free Software doesn't mean 0$ cost.
Although it has been difficult to ascertain exactly the relative weights of stress, anxiety, frustration, and so on due to the past two years, I think a large part of my current cognitive difficulties are stemming from social isolation. Do not recommend. It turns out that even extremely introverted people do very badly when isolated which I suppose is kind of an involuntary (for whatever reason) situation.

I am young, so I hopefully have not caused any permanent issues with my time of isolation - I shudder to think what it would do to me if I were 60 and facing the physical decline of old age.
Veganism is also a relatively new trend, the concept apparently didn’t exist until the 60s. I’m sure Beyond Meat etc would love for this to be “common sense” though
Abstract

Response speeds in simple decision-making tasks begin to decline from early and middle adulthood.

However, response times are not pure measures of mental speed but instead represent the sum of multiple processes.

Here we apply a Bayesian diffusion model to extract interpretable cognitive components from raw response time data. We apply our model to cross-sectional data from 1.2 million participants to examine age differences in cognitive parameters.

To efficiently parse this large dataset, we apply a Bayesian inference method for efficient parameter estimation using specialized neural networks.

Our results indicate that response time slowing begins as early as age 20, but this slowing was attributable to increases in decision caution and to slower non-decisional processes, rather than to differences in mental speed.

Slowing of mental speed was observed only after approximately age 60.

Our research thus challenges widespread beliefs about the relationship between age and mental speed.
10 people is fewer than you could get on a bus. You didn’t make the point you thought you did.
Nope, while Nintendo definitely abused copyright law doesn't mean Atari/Tengen is in the clear. They specifically requested the lockout code fron the US Copyright Office under the pretense that they'll be suing Nintendo.
> Over here in the bay area some Japanese markets have "golden yolk" brand eggs that have deep orange colored yolks. I don't know if they're more nutritious / taste better but the texture is different. When frying these and regular store bought eggs in the same pan, they hold their shape better. The store bought eggs spreads out more and the egg white tears more easily.

Your issues sound more like age than quality; I worked on small hobby farms with 10 hens and large scale farms with 1000s of laying hens and altered their feed to try and change the yolk colour. It's what you'd expect, actually, the more bugs and less processed food they ate (especially grass) the more gamey the eggs tasted. The more bread we fed them, with butters and additives, the lighter the yolks got.

We gave them kitchen scraps, and they visited the compost heaps for bugs and let them roam the gardens as a form of pest control; during the spring/summer they were learning to hunt down field mice and grasshoppers and the yolks got blood red as a result of this increase in protein. The egg shells were determined by breed, and quite consistently the same color as their ear areas [0].

Store bough eggs could be weeks old before they arrive to your kitchen, and even longer since most won't eat them right away, too.

In short, chicken breeds and their respective diets will be the main determinant of egg color and yolk respectively.

They are also pretty mean when in large groups to other hens, the term 'pecking order' is real in nature and more-so with hens who will bully an often feebler hen in order to establish dominance within the pack. Having a rooster sort of calms them down, but not in terms of hierarchy as they are hard-wired to asset dominance within their group. These things really do behave like little raptors, which is why I ate like a dozen eggs a day when I farmed. They ware also cannibals who will eat their own eggs for no apparent reason--they were all well fed and had plenty of other options for food.

0: https://vjppoultry.com/2018/03/25/egg-color-and-colored-earl...
True, but the energy consumption is key: Raspberry 4 draws 1/3 of a C64 at 1000x perf, at 2Gflops/W not even the M1 (at 2.5Gflops/w) chip is hurting that stat with 5nm vs. 28nm for the Raspberry.

Tools are peaking and linux with TWM from the 1987 is winning! ;)

For more depth on my reasoning: http://move.rupy.se/file/park_engine.html
Looks like a quality comment to me.

But some will reduce it to:

vote(-isProblematic(wokePerceptualHash(“separate art from artist”)));
> Why ?

Becouse it uses GNOME stuff ? GTK true abbrev don't mean anything for decades now.

Also Gimp is UNIVERSALLY hated by teens/kids who are forced to learn it in schools. Just finding anything in menu is so not intuitive (not like in Adobe/Corel) that is it plainly stupid. And that is not some high hanging fruit.
Somewhat ironically close to my present diet: one fatty meal a day, c. 6pm of c. 1,300 cals -- and a snack c. 9pm of c. 200 cals.

I switched to this because my usual post-winter diet wasn't effective, and this is.
Looks neat, will have to give it a try. Just a heads up, the third paragraph misspells "mostly."
This looks interesting. Is there a way to read docs in English? I can Google translate it I guess
Tho, those unreasonable men also fairly often cause quite a lot of damage to their own causes and to world in general.

Also, I think that looking at history, claim that all progress was due to unreasonable men is false.
The biggest positive effect of frequent smaller meals is steady blood sugar, which will have a very obvious impact on your mood and concentration. It also gives the body a more steady supply of nutrients, which is going to be better for any slow running activity of recovery.

The downside I guess is that you always have some proportion of your body's energy working on digestion, which could lower peak performance. And obviously that it takes more time.
I generally agree with you, but I strongly disagree that "politician" is in the same class as any random person. I find it rather bizarre that anyone would find more stringent requirements of politicians to be "insane" incredibly strange considering the power they hold over the average citizen. I see things as being quite the contrary, frankly, and regaining the ability to speak freely is as simple as resigning. Politicians (and the wealthy) are not a protected class and there's no need to treat them as such considering the power dynamic.
None of those are source available with affordable commercial license.

Minecraft is owned by Microsoft and has issues (does not run on ARM well and the Java/Bedrock are incompatible)

Roblox is extortion and ugly.

VR Chat is only VR.

Neither scales.

I'm trying my best, here is the status from 2 years back: http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449

Now I'm building the voxel world.
I read a lot of history, a lot of old books, and travel a lot, and I think that makes me more resistant to the frequent claim that “such and such is a recent invention of (oppressive, capitalistic) contemporary society.” Throughout the world that I have observed first- and second-hand, morning and evening and in-between meals have always been pretty common.
An abstraction has to offer value or solve a problem over the technology it's abstracting. Docker solves a myriad of problems that VMs and LXC have, and k8s solves a pile of problems that docker has. Blockchain's primary advantages are features that _every_ use case I've read does not want, and enterprise blockchains (from what I've seen at least) avoids those use cases by removing the features that differentiate blockchains from a normal DB.

> I must admit that this right here was bait, because one of the storage backends used in enterprise blockchains is indeed Cassandra.

That's really interesting. So is one party responsible for hosting maintaining and running that cassandra data store?
Is YOLO’d when careless and impulsive behavior results in tragic and unforeseen circumstances?
This would be a violation of freedom of association, which is why it's not a thing.
He’s not doing that to engines in this case, though. The quote in the article is complimentary of UE5. And whenever he complained about bloated tools he put his money where his mouth was, depite people claiming it was impossible, or that it would take several man-years.

If anything, you are the one “shitting on other peoples work” here by claiming he’s “spending a billion years”, or saying he’s not capable of judging something in his area of expertise. He’s one of the most knowledgeable experts in this field, make no mistake.
> "vast majority"

More like everyone who do anything serious with pictures.
Yes, it matters. It's very frustrating and disorienting to be sitting there, attempting to write code while your editor misbehaves.
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