skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, it definitely shouldn't be accessible to others.
Who would be able to productively use 200 open browser tabs? Seems like a strange argument to waste even more resources on a more and more ruined planet.
Actually it's an Australian accent.
Re: The author's opinions on the VR club using that space.

I got the impression from reading it that he honestly didn't care if the VR club lived or died - he event pointed out in the story that "I had managed to hear about the VR club's impending dissolution from some gossip around the computer science labs as well as other staff at the Center and I...didn't care about any of this"

Additionally, he absolutely jumped at the opportunity to join the research project that would've used the space in order to get an internship and only ended up saving the VR club by accidentally mentioning something to a professor who had different impressions of how the research was supposed to work.
I also noticed this was a thing that bothered them:

> Along the way to the site, a forgettable visitor’s center greeted me with animations and music evoking primitiveness. Such art is a window into our modern shared subconscious rather than into the culture of a people who erected buildings 11,500 years ago.

I discovered it’s more
of a political website, not one typically about archeology, and it made more sense in that context. They seem to have a chip on their shoulder about the perception of older cultures. Which also explains the opening about Turkey’s development.

That said it’s a good read and later on has some interesting history on the development of archeology.
On Regional Trains need to go into the special bicycle compartment, also on S-Bahn.

On Subways, Buses, and Trams you might not be allowed to take a bicycle at all depending on the city’s regulations.

Regardless of that, you will always need to buy a special bicycle ticket.

In fact same goes for dogs. So this 9€ ticket will be really useless for dog owners since they need to pay normal ticket prices for every fare for the dog.
The paint they use on the streets has equivalent or better traction than the asphalt. That's why there hasn't been a huge increase in cyclists falling over when the bike lanes get totally filled in with paint (e.g. the first one here: https://www.losgatosca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/20028/Green-b...)
A lot of non Christians know about Jesus. There are millions of illiterate and uneducated people who don't know about Einstein but are aware of Jesus. So I'd wager on Jesus.
As I get older I see more and more of “reducing gov’t waste” as a means to funnel money into private individuals’ pockets. See also for-profit prisons, charter schools, bussing, medical care, etc etc.
The trick is to close the loop and remove every letter that the spell checker can correct.
>> Like, I've met homeless people in Colombia with better self-esteem than well-off Americans.

That's interesting, can you expand on those Colombian people and why they have such high self-esteem ?
They're not adding new crosswalks, they're painting ones that already exist.
Maybe they could play with their parents, at home? Is that too bizarre to consider these days?
I think this all falls under "playing traffic engineer"
More importantly he’s either not tracking weight/inventory size, or he’s not punishing players for burning time. You shouldn’t be capable of looting every possible item, because you’ll inevitably get attacked by more enemies, and you’d run out of space to hold it (and running in and out of the dungeon every ten items should be strictly punished, probably by limiting rations or torches found — and again, tracking time)

So even if you’re being meticulous, it’s just not a viable strategy — you have to focus on the more expensive items.

The key is not that it enables a simple XP system, it’s that it breaks the “kill everything in sight” gameplay loop, and allows you to toss overly-hard enemies at the players (because you’ll get the same reward by finding a workaround). TFA just replaced kill everything with loot everything by failing to follow through more thoroughly. Combat, and leveling, is no longer a necessity — it just opens up more options.

Resource management is fundamental to ADnD’s gameplay — it’s not an inconvenience you can skip. Without it all sorts of bad behaviors are enabled, and often optimal.
My understanding from reading this is that the author possibly introduced some tension into the research group by letting it slip to the VR-oriented professor that he didn't see anything VR related in the proposal, and it is likely this professor then went to the other professor (the one who pitched the proposal) and asked why it wasn't there.

It feels like because of this, maybe the two professors were unsure if they could trust the student any more and just basically froze them out (hence the awkward interactions)

Edit: Alternatively the resulting issues from the one professor's project not being within the proposal caused it to stall out or have to be re-pitched, which in the academic world could likely cause a delay or cause issues with the funding, and that would also result in the professors not being overly thrilled with that student.
I don’t know if anyone wants to dive into NLP as much as they just want to solve their problem at hand.

You are right that lack of fundamental knowledge is problematic, especially that tools can allow you to make a greater quantity of solutions and therefore also a greater quantity of mistakes.

However, at least the problem is still being solved.

For example, a few months ago I wanted to organize my media collection by tagging files with artist names. I had a list of artist names but it wasn’t comprehensive so I wired together a bunch of python NLP libraries together to automatically pull out proper nouns from filenames, recognize English names, then annotate the files.

I know almost nothing about parts of speech or anything else, so I made mistakes. About 10% of the results were errors in the first run, but after tuning it was down to about 1% which was good enough to run over the entire media library.

If not for the tools, I would have never been able to finish that chore in a single day. To me, it was worth it despite my amateur mistakes.

I view the library just like any other tool: a screw driver, a hammer, a wrench. I’m not a plumber or a carpenter, or an NLP researcher but I still want to use tools to fix my leaky faucets, remount my leaning cabinet doors, and organize my media collections as weekend projects.
Your analogy doesn't make sense for a multitude of reasons. Terra is the blockchain that Luna and UST ran on, not the stablecoin on the ecosystem.

More importantly, DAI is overcollateralized using ETH and other coins. UST was algorithmically pegged to the USD with an implicit backing by Luna. DAI still technically has a depeg risk (e.g. if ETH has a flash crash of > 50% that it doesn't recover from) but the risks are much lower. It's _probably_ safe in the long term although my stablecoin of choice is USDC.
The far left stays home because the democrats don't represent their views.

On the other hand, the far right thinks anyone left of Trump is a socialist and will vote Republican just to try to keep away socialism.
I know it exists and it is used here everywhere. But those from the article are just using some latex paint, creating road hazards in their self righteous cause.
> Mastodon, by contrast, seems to acquire a new major group of new adopters every year or two, that I've noticed.

Could you give an example?
QBasic Nibbles in Go
I am pretty sure that OP is looking for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative - so a tech startup that is owned by its employees, a worker cooperative.
As far as I know, nested loop semi joins using EXISTS aren't always capable of using indexes.

Like in the case of a GIN indexed array intersection.
I don't think companionship can be commodified, and I think any attempt to do so would be the equivalent of an opiate. While there may be specific contexts where it could have utility, I think it's far healthier to encourage those who lack the inclination or willingness to join communities to do so. That's why I mentioned leadership. I think we have a responsibility to give lots of opportunities and encouragement for those lacking the initiative or will to socialize, and should try to diminish a lot of the status barriers and animosities preventing such socialization.

We've had many decades of psychological and behavioral science now. Instead of using it to get people to click buttons for hours and talk to a screen, maybe we could figure out how to use it to encourage healthier behavior.
Quite an expensive machine to only generate 35W. Consider how much cheaper and more reliable 35W of solar would be (even including an overnight battery).
I'm Ruby and I ran the sample code:

I ran `puts "@aq`b`,Ctg".split("").map(&:succ)*''`

Which outputs `Abraca-Duh` and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Does that fact that I'm Ruby and I've come here to ask that really highlights how much I'm channeling Amy Wong doesn't it?

I've got it now. .succ returns the successor to str. But why on earth would one ever run "@".succ to get 'A'? Seems like a useless function, but I expect I'll just it one day. Good to know.
Relationships sound good afar, until you realize you have to deal with a lot of politics, jealousy, competition, manipulation, envy, hypocrisy, greed, duplicity, lust, and various other human vice.

Sure, this is the transactional perspective, but good luck finding a non-transactional one.
We do have a choice about Ukraine, just as we had a choice about Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. We are making the wrong choice now, just as we made the wrong choices before. Although we kill lots of people, many of them innocent rather than "bad", we never actually "avoid" worse situations. In cases like Libya our intervention has worsened human life by every measure. In other cases we might have delayed inevitable events somewhat (e.g. Vietnam couldn't go to war with China until it finished beating us). The "specific action" in every case is spending public funds, which is the purpose of the USA military, intelligence services, diplomatic corps, and news media, and has been since the Korean War. Insofar as they affect security at all, our military efforts usually reduce it.
It's not competitive with a power source containing fossil fuels. And there's no feasible way to run a grid composed of wind and solar without fossil fuels. Ignoring the fact that wind and solar generation is really wind, solar, and fossil fuels, to offset the intermittency is naive.

In areas without hydroelectric and geothermal potential, nuclear is the most competitive carbon-free and non+intermittent option. Because it's the only option. That's why for all your insistence that nuclear is uncompetitive, it produces more electricity than wind and solar combined.i
Haha, even less effective than I expected but enjoyed the read nonetheless.

I think if you have the luxury of assuming every token is a dictionary word, you can do much better by simply encoding each word as its index in the dictionary. Using the pidgeonhole principle, you can probably prove that this is at least as good as the autocorrect approach no matter how sophisticated the autocorrect is.
Wait, how is an ultrasound more invasive than a mammogram, an X-ray based technique?
They do sort out dead batteries [1]. But pretty much every case you've listed is not exactly dead, but more like a philosophical disagreement.

For example some modules are not what they seem to be; graphlib doesn't purport to be a general graph library and statistics doesn't mean to replace scipy. They are just groups for otherwise independent bits of code, named so that similar future code can be grouped together. In some cases you have a waaaaaay too high threshold for "unused" modules, for example [1] kept getopt because it mirrors a popular C library.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
Agreed. My other issue - why just one? A kid can't learn to play two different games?
yes, that is one of the interesting aspects of pike (and also LPC). in difference to java which requires class boilerplate in each file, pike just takes the file name as the class name and the functions and variables inside as the class definition.

as a beginner i learned to use inheritance simply for composition, and i didn't even realize that this was supposed to be object oriented programming. it only hit me a few years later when i realized how roxen handled requests and managed modules. i literally woke up one morning and "got" object oriented programming.

btw: generally i remember calling the source class, and the compiled objects program
Not OP but here are a couple reasons:

* It doesn’t scale well to huge organisations.

* It’s not standardised “repeatable” in the sense that you cant generate datasets from this that let you correlate interviews with subsequent outcomes and improve hiring metrics company wide

* It requires expertise in pair programming, which most companies don’t have

Basically, OP’s hiring process is an excellent example of “doing things that don’t scale” to gain an asymmetric advantage as a small organisation.

They don’t need to derive metrics, they can invest the time, they have a team who are skilled at pair programming - so they can have this hiring process and other people can’t.
Link-Time Optimization (LTO) Overview (GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals)
Oops, I did indeed mix up deprecated with removed.
One could emulate those 8 bit CPU's and get good performance too.

The bonus being able to continue using well tuned, mature routines.

An emulation done once, would bring the whole works onto a new CPU.
I believe fishermen in the North Sea occasionally drag up artifacts from the sea bed that was the former Doggerland.
Electron is never modest. It's an incredible resource hog. Memory has become too cheap, people should think instead of just waste resources. The next generations will need to use an abacus again if this stupidity goes on.
Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
This approach is interesting, and it a natural extension of any language. You do have to careful of side effects (and cost). I had a lot of trouble trying to make this approach work, and invented a language to satisfy my particular requirements ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ).

I'm having tons of fun, but im enjoying reading the history of eigr as I feel a kinship in this space.
If anyone ever needs an example of how crypto is doing harm to the world: "Due to crypto mining, GPUs were in severe shortage and very over-priced on eBay"

The over-valuation of crypto is a two-fold negative impact on society: a massive brain-drain sucking talented engineers who would otherwise be solving real problems, and the opportunity cost of GPUs burning electricity to run unintentional ponzi schemes instead of training deep learning models.
It's unclear why empty strings or lists should be considered false yet it's somehow evil for empty sets to be considered false.

The purpose of type checking is to help people write correct programs.

It's unclear that requiring "if {string}.isempty() ..." does that better than "if {string} ..." in a strongly-typed language.
I wonder how this is related to Elon Musk's recent damage control on his impeding sexual misconduct scandal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/uu1h8g/whats_...
Lossless should be possible, except for unknown words that are less than the maximum number of corrections away from a dictionary word. Compression rate will be low, though. It can be pre-computed for known words: replace each word by its compressed version. And that is a very old, and more flexible idea.
The full OS is what blows the power budget.
if a book is enough to threaten a regime...
Mind blowing stuff.
I try to humble myself there. While 32GB seems ridiculous for 2005, I've absolutely enjoyed having 64GB in 2022. Yes, apps have gotten more bloated. Yes there are many wasteful framework-built heavy apps. In many cases they are doing much more than in 2005.

I wonder if anyone is tracking the average amount of memory somewhere from 1980-forward. I'd take that value * 2 for a developer.
The only healthy use for AI I see is in determining likely long term compatibility and helping people find each other, but that's potentially dangerous/could backfire or lead to severe abuses of power.

I love VR/think it's a much better alternative to socializing than text based async communication or video chat, but I don't think it's a good substitute for real world relationships.
Depending on the site, the situation can be quite different. The curves are specific for a certain type of tree in a certain region. Very long unbroken curves are still quite rare. The "better" ones go back about 5,000 yrs. The longest one is the Hohenheimer Jahrringkalender, based on oak and pine trees from Southern and Eastern Germany. It goes back about 12,500 yrs (researchers work to extent it to 14,400 yrs before now).[1] To my knowledge, this is the only curve that goes back to the Gobekli Tepe area, but it is from a different region and therefore not helpful here.

[1] Project Web-site (in German): https://botanik.uni-hohenheim.de/dendro_hoh-jahrringkalender
> Non-boolean expressions in a boolean context is asking for a runtime error.

And yet, it doesn't, in strongly-typed languages that define which values are "false" and "true" for types such as strings, sets, dictionaries, and yes, even numbers.
PFAS chemicals do not last forever [i.e. PFAS can be destroyed]
Hi Sergio,

Yeah! I hate that for all the UI stuff needs to be done in NPM. I'm looking for the day where I can develop the UI without NPM at all. Recent htmx, alpinejs TailwindCSS try to solve that.

Off-topic question: Since you sold GML what is the next step in your plate?
No. I believe the most recent high-profile case merely established that state civil forfeitures were subject to the 8th Amendment prohibition on excessive fines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana

It's unlikely it would ever be declared unconstitutional. More likely (but still not very) courts will eat around the edges, minimizing the ability of law enforcement to use asset forfeitures as a substitute for proper criminal prosecution. (Note that in the Timbs case he was simultaneously criminally prosecuted, and (IIRC) it was undisputed his vehicle was used in the commission of a crime. Depending on how you look at it, this context could bode well or bode poorly for future judicial reform.) Much more likely still is legislatures passing laws to reign in law enforcement use of civil forfeiture. Still a very long way to go, though.
If Russophobia is a widespread phenomenon then it started way before 2022.
> Nothing you said was factually wrong, but the last sentence makes it sound like "bored bums" were the reason it was abandoned.

No, that was just your fantasy reading words I never said.

I said people were riding out of boredom, not homeless people sleeping on the bus.

It doesn’t matter anyway who was riding. The point is simply that people were riding the bus without actually needing to.
Good point. The untold second part of the story is that it would bring accountability by reporting that not only the deliverable is now 30 days overdue, but that they ignored 30 reminders.

We use Slack at work as well, and personally I don't like it. But do you have a link on how to set it up or similar?
I just had to check the dates. I remember the exact moment I realized everyone had a secret super computer in their gaming rig that no one was really putting to work. It was a year before your prometheus example.

I saw this video, while I was in college playing around with XNA, python and pygame. https://youtu.be/ACHJ2rGyP10?t=30

It's pretty mundane now, but at the time I was gobsmacked. Watching that performance and comparing it to the measely entity counts I could run realtime in C# or my python pandemic simulator I was writing made me FANATICLY BELIEVE that for many problems I had been taught to use the wrong tool. Shader programs had been misadvertized and their true power obfuscated under a veil of painting pretty pictures etc etc.

I became something of a GPU evangelist in that moment, and for years when someone would say such and such problem was computationally intractable on current hardware, I'd go into a whole schpeel, pull out some previous "impossible" things it allowed and usually they would run away, even though I would call for them to come back.

Despite that, HLSL/GLSL became my behind the counter deep stock black magic for solving all sorts of problems, plenty of which that had no pretty pictures show up on screen. If I could encode your problem as a series of textures smaller than 4096x4096 (this is most problems), I could make your function with minutes of execution time finish 60 times a second.

It allowed for some clutch performance improvements in a stuffy .net application that looked to my coworkers like space magic. Because it was space magic. To this day I have unused fingers when I count all the times I've multithread on the cpu. What a half measure! What a loathsome simulacrum of the massive power of the GPU! Why debase yourself? Oh it's running on a pizzabox somewhere that doesn't have a GPU, I suppose that's a reason.

These days GPU compute is a more standard tool for people, with more direct ways to use it. I'm not mad that it's no longer a secret weapon. It's cool to see what things people are doing with it, like this! This is incredible! I selfishly wish nvidia permissively licensed their future tech like this so we could get to the next phase faster. Oh well.

I agree with you strongly and believe that we haven't even scratched the surface.

Thanks for making me remember all that.

I still try to figure out weird/hard things made easy/possible by GPUs. Within the year I've coerced a gpu to do millions of string operations inside a fragment shader. That was weird and I think it made the GTX1080 uncomfortable, but it did it a few hundred times a second.

Admittedly it's a lot more pretty picture drawing these days. I still try to reach a little and put the massive power we have to work whenever I can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/updci7/i_made_this...
Why would anybody use a laptop keyboard and no mouse for serious development work? It's always an ergonomic nightmare.

Of course when travelling light you might choose to leave extra stuff at home. But how many of us need to travel light to a new location before starting their daily work?
I have a personal Asana account, but it's not used company-wide.

Can I remind people outside Asana just by using their email?
The NHS is massive bureaucracy. What it does or doesn’t do is peering inside the belly of a Byzantine whale.

The article is a misnomer calling him an ‘amateur’. Its a click bait title. He’s shown himself to a world leading researcher in the application of AI to cancer screening.

Plenty of managers in the NHS can’t even do simple math.
You left out the best part: (formerly $50).

There's even an FAQ entry that sounds like borderline satire: "How were you able to bring the price down from $50 to $20?"
> That's market manipulation and it's a financial crime, so it should be criticized and investigated.

not all market manipulation is a financial crime. Soros breaking the Bank of England is a form of manipulation, but not illegal.

Just like how Melvin capital (the hedge fund in the GME shorting saga) failing due to wallstreetbets people pumping GME stock and causing a short squeeze - that's manipulation, but not a financial crime.