skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very fair summary of your country :) At least you have a process which you can influence for change. Other countries, like my own, seem to be becoming a free for all everyday!
Previous discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31589839 (102 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31597015 (10 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31594973 (7 comments)
Reading this Twitter thread made me wonder if the future of Clubhouse is in the business sector.

My company has monthly "all hands" meetings where the C-levels dog and pony about what's coming up. Using Zoom for this was OK when everyone was working across two time zones. But in the COVID era we're spread out across many more.

If Clubhouse could come up with a super-easy and super-attractive way for businesses to time-shift this content, it could find paying subscribers. Something along the lines of "Listen (Watch?) the leaders at 10:00amET, or the replays at 10:00amPT, or 9:00amGMT." Recorded, but with the appointment urgency of live.

I know that many tools like Zoom or Teams have the ability to record the video for people to consume later, but from what I've heard from the people in the HR department, it's either complicated, or time-consuming, or both. And for people who are more audio-focused, many times that's a better way to go.
Difficult question, but there's an analogous question for 'carbon-based' life - are there non-carbon based life? The answer is likely "no", simply because the number of molecules based on carbon is many orders of magnitude larger than for the next largest (sulfur).

Similarly for DNA: there are other polymers that have some of the same properties, but not to the same extent. Specifically, the ability to store information is so great in DNA. Most polymers are either regular like (-CH2-)n or random (eg lignin) while DNA (and RNA) are 'structured random', for lack of a better term.

Add to this the ability to 'unzip' double-stranded DNA into two copyable halves, its great stability, and ability to be coiled up. Like water - which is another example of something with an abundance of useful features - it's very hard to see any rival molecule that could do as many things.

Of course, you could just argue that we have not discovered or invented such a molecule yet. People have tried to make alternate compounds, and there are - as one of the other repliers pointed out - many variations in biology such as alternate nucleobases, or things like double-stranded RNA viruses, etc.

More generally, you could of course imagine distributing the properties of DNA across multiple molecules or molecular systems. That suffers from Occam's razor a little, but cannot be ruled out, I suppose.
So you'd be living in stoves if wildfires hit you like they're gonna hit here over the next fifty years
Also greed. For more and more people, "enough" is never enough. This is reflected in the increasing sense of FOMO in some circles and appeals to greed like the "have fun staying poor" meme in crypto.

It's telling that conservative groups that rail against the sins of lust, gluttony, sloth, and envy usually leave out pride, greed, and wrath.
Oh dear god I can't afford an Elder Scrolls lore rabbit hole today

Fortunately this thread will just be bike shedding about the definition of metaphysics so [close tab]
Is there a description of the cycle that failed products or innovations go through? For successful ones, there's,

First, they laugh at you,

Then, they tell you it's not in the orthodoxy,

Then they tell you they knew it all along.

As trite and simplistic as that is, I find it to be a reliable prediction; I think what it really reflects is an instinct to resist change, to unconsciously follow the status quo. By the last stage, the innovation becomes the status quo and it's sincere in one way: the people who 'knew it all along' truly followed the status quo all along.

What is the cycle for failed innovations? An end stage is schadenfreude. In fact, the end stage is exactly the same: They 'knew' all along that it would fail, it just has some schadenfreude added.

All the stages may be the same. If someone predicts every challenging innovation will fail, they'll usually be right! And regardless, they are sticking with the status quo throughout.
Are you in FPGA/finance or FPGA/defense?
But why should a Brussels bureaucrat decide what's propaganda and what's not, in the first place? I can still receive plenty of state propaganda from other states, so yes, it's a matter of our politicians applying censorship based on their convictions.
But that's an artifact of the groups of people that self-select onto that platform, not a property of the platform or its incentives itself. If it became as popular as other platforms it would attract people with similar goals as are on other platforms. The technology isn't intentionally designed to reward them, but they will still find rewards and pursue them if it is their best option.
> I wonder if it's fair to consider it constraint-based programming rather than just logic programming

Prolog III is considered the origin of constraint logic programming: http://www.prolog-heritage.org/en/ph30.html
Mass account takeover in the Yunmai smarts cale API
my uneducated take is maybe other civilizations existed on earth or other planets but then self-destructed or got destroyed by a asteroid just like the dinos.
if human life on earth is a nano second in a day of the planet's life.
surely these things can come and go without leaving any traces. poof just varnish into thin air.
This is a great comment and should be read carefully by anyone reading the comment section on how to learn more. Very well explained!!
Not a Place of Honor (2016)
TCO is complicated though. If you start including other scenarios like when there is something wrong with your Tesla - you could be waiting 3+ months for the parts for your car to be fixed and it might not be useable during that time. This isn’t the same for most others.
I love that you are using WebAssembly!

For the rest of the thread, Wasm allows the rlc chess engine to limit the amount of instructions executed or memory allocated while supporting lots of different languages, so no language has preferential treatment. The strong sandboxing of Wasm allows anyone to run anyone elses code without worrying about an adversarial attack, either accidental or on purpose.
That's exactly what their value prop was. Normies get a chance to feel like they're friends with famous people.

It's social status signalling as a service.
I like that OTA is still even a thing but I cannot help but think that this is going to fail - who the hell is even using OTA let alone tech saavy enough to be UPGRADING their boxes for 4k?

I'm still using one of the last Plasma TV's ever made (bought it used for cheap) which does have a built in tuner but is obviously 1080P only. At my last apartment I was line of site and only a few miles from where everything is transmitted from so I had great reception. Now it is the opposite and I would need to run a cable up the side of my apartment building to get an antenna working.

Is ATSC 3 really not backwards compatible? It seems like it would be crazy to upgrade to a system that then will not work on all older TV's considering that most new TV's sold these days do not have a tuner built in at all!
I assume the performance improvements come from having JIT memory enabled? If so this needs to be done by starting the app in 'Debug' mode from XCode which loads a specific entitlement.
Any idea how does that work in practice? Seems to me like an unresolvable problem, granted I haven't given it much thought.

If users are identifyable, cross-platform self-promotion is inevitable, it's kind of human nature. If users are anon, content is not curatable and quality is unlikely.

I think Twitter Spaces is pretty decent FWIW. Communities already exist around certain topics, there's plenty of subcultures on Twitter. And the platform is already reputation-centric, you can make of it what you will by following appropriate people. So if a reputable person organizes (and curates speakers in) a Space for a given topic, it can make for decent conversations to tune it. Seems kind of as good as anon voice-chatrooms can get.
I think there's a precedence for it too. I believe George Dantzig's doctoral advisor offered to accept the solutions to a homework set as a thesis since it solved major open statistical problems.
"along for the ride" as 100 engineer's work simultaneously attempt to keep him alive.
I disagree. Yes, results need to be validated, but that doesn't mean ML is not making discoveries. Even for basic classification tasks, discoveries are still being made. For instance, ML can reliably detect the race of a person from an x-ray. There is clearly some anatomical difference that we're not aware of that's detectable in an x-ray. Most of human inference, in general, is "connecting the dots" between related phenomena. ML is a great tool for doing this kind of correlative work at scale.
I think that platform is called "the rest of the human experience outside of the Internet".

Invite some friends over, hang out at a park, go to a bar, throw a party, attend church, join a club, play a sport.
I think we've all seen what happens when we extrapolate.
This would be a great point if Musk hadn't waved due diligence. He knew this was a risk before he made the offer and now he's just posturing.
I was a software dev mgr for a multi data center hosting company, then became the technical cofounder for a startup. Mid 40's in the USA in a great climate (won't freeze).

Failed lives are hard to identify root causes. I didn't adapt to society. We only have control over ourselves, ultimately (despite the notion at malicious evil corps like Google that automated behavior control is possible).

Hey, note for Susan Wojcicki. You are an irresponsible sociopath. I've thoroughly vocalized my grievances about your firm's data abuse practices, which fell on (your) deaf ears.

If Google agrees to open up 100% of their dossier they secretly maintain on me, I'll stick around. Otherwise, I plan on committing suicide this week.
I got the feeling they recut a lot of the first act in post. A lot of effort was put into the darkstar both in production and in marketing and it was turned into a throwaway
You can actually overflow the signed integers they used for stats and end up with negative intelligence doing that.

Don't ask me how I know.
Value Chains: Balancing Faucet and Drain Game Economies
WWDC 2022 Keynote Live Blog
Well that is extremely disappointing.

Sinclair as a media company is also shady as fuck so I am not surprised they are the ones going in on this.

Maybe this will create a black market for ATSC 3 boxes that have been hacked to remove / block all tracking features - sounds like a fun project for someone here :-D
I know of one franchisee that actually did walk away from a pizza franchise to their own when the franchise changed their sauce.

He’s still doing well but it wasn’t a dominos kinda thing.
Down voted by TikTok fan I suppose
Goldbach's conjecture is possibly the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics. When people refer to prime number conjecture, this is the most obvious one everyone's thoughts will go to.
>Turns out that more communication is essentially the only way to mitigate ineffective communication.

No, it's not. This is the equivalent of saying "if your writing sucks, just use more words". Anyone reading an overly terse, jumbled mess can tell you that's not the silver bullet. Somehow, that is the solution we go for whenever management is involved, until they figure out "oh crap maybe boggling our ICs with bureaucracy is in fact a bad idea". Layering on more communication is not a net positive by default, not even in a world where time isn't a factor.

Heck, we both know most people have neither the mental capacity nor the note-taking diligence to keep up with this all. The system is already showing signs of oversaturation with how many go "what did we discuss again last meeting?"

>But "if you are bad at X, just do X better" is meaningless advice

Several others have already given examples. If you don't have information, stop making 30m-2h meetings when everyone already knows the answer is "we have to do more research", followed by actions such as "make a few quick prototypes and test with the client" or "have the front-facing people ask more questions". Use audio, visual, video media to communicate what becomes terse in words. Use less words and less meetings overall, where possible.

Start thinking about what truly adds value and what is a horrible proxy with near-zero evidence behind it. The default attitude is "never delete until evidence proves otherwise". Anyone looking at Brook's Law can understand how this goes wrong.

I shouldn't even have to explain this. I'm a consumer of the culture, not a producer. The fact ICs have to tell management types how to do their job better is ridiculous: that's management's job to begin with, optimizing communicational processes. I don't expect clients to tell me more than "the product is slow" either, even if I'll take any bit of information they can provide me.
You're quite right, and the answer to the original question is "Because the US mainstream media are, knowingly or not, part of the US national security establishment's propaganda wing." But apparently, domestic propaganda is something only $BAD_COUNTRY engages in.
Weird, we didn't get into complexity theory until CS 350. Before that we mostly focused on logic, data structures, and languages (with a bit of computing thrown in). This was at Portland State in the late 2000s though.
Yeah, that is the part I'm referring to. Agreed, that if he read the fine print that he would be litigating this much differently, or at least in his public statements. From the change in strategy, it appears his lawyers are now just trying to claim that Twitter isn't providing some information... although, I'm not sure that they are required to verify any claims regarding bots based on their public filings.
I was recently working on a project and bumped into this. It's not currently but here are the relevant Github links if you want to learn more (it doesn't look like there's much movement recently):

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/1427

https://github.com/tinygo-org/drivers/pull/320
That's what I immediately thought of as well; for some reason the people telling SR-71 stories seem to be great story tellers, and despite having read the Speed Check Story probably a dozen times by now, it's hard to resist when it pops up again.
Short answer: yes :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
Nope, it isn't shallow but it is not the only reason for the societal upheaval of the last decade (nor did I state it was). Have you actually looked at what happens when critical theory-derived practice (or 'praxis' as it is usually called in the terminology around CT) is put in place in a field? Given that the intent is to deconstruct existing structures in preparation for 'a better future' it should no come as any surprise that that is just what it does. Polarised corporate media, 'Big Tech' with its poisonous algorithm-driven 'social' products and vacuous entertainment all play a role but the main difference between these and the CT-derived mayhem I described is that the latter is ideologically driven where the former are just in it for the money. If the media thought they could make more money by going full John Wayne and grandma and apple pie they would. Not so for those who are ideologically driven, here the destabilisation and deconstruction are actually the intended results.
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In addition to what vr000m said above, I'll just add that when you make HLS chunks smaller, you're reducing the leverage you get from HLS's core design decisions. I tried to cover some of this in the post.

One way to think about this intuitively is that HLS and WebRTC are opposite ends of one important trade-offs axis.

HLS is about delivering media streams in a way that scales as cost-effectively as possible.

WebRTC is about delivering media frames at the lowest possible latency.

These are very different goals, and given current infrastructure and standards it's not possible to have your cake and eat it too, here. That may change in the future as low-latency video becomes more and more important. QUIC, for example, is a new approaches to building out a full stack that works around some of the fundamental tradeoffs that exist today.

The result is that pushing HLS segments down to 200ms is not at all a clear win. We'll see what happens as HLS implementations improve. And I should say that my brain has been warped by working on UDP/RTP stuff for a long time. But my bet is that using 200ms HLS segments is, for most real-world users, going to make HLS worse in every way than WebRTC would be, for the same use cases. (That's definitely true today with the early implementations of LLHLS.)
Other commenters already stated that, but it's because achieving increasing profits ultimately relies on an increasing population to work and consume.

This is why, for example, people are always encouraged to have children. It's marketing to coerce people to reel more people (in that case, unborn people) into the scheme.

What's the difference between that and any other MLM?
> Only superior military technology can credibly deter war — but our defense companies are losing the ability to build it.

Tactics win wars, technology can help, but the best it can be is a force multiplier. If you have no force, or foundation for that force, then we all know what multiplication by zero equals.

> Today, there is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle and better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense owns.

This is just patently untrue. My MRAP had an insane camera in it where we could pop a pole up and see for miles around us. This same camera was used on a blimp that would fly around OPs, LPs, and PBs that would do all kinds of image and metadata analysis. I remember seeing a post on this forum discussing that very blimp.
It is a little more nuanced. Twitter is claiming than fewer than 5% of the monthly active users they report are spam bot, not that fewer than 5% or those on the platform. If they “don’t count” them but also don’t ban them, that would leave room for bit theories to be “true”
Have you ever wondered if the difference you're allegedly seeing is not just a (very obvious when looked at from the outside) propaganda?
By that logic my oven, or gas stove, is ferociously dangerous—especially if I stick my head in it while it’s turned on.
I get creative, but comprehensibility eludes me. To some https://www.cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/huang.pdf may be obvious in its statements and steps and I guess that, aside from having the necessary background in this area, they fundamentally differ from me in how they 'see' this. They the underlying meaning, to me it's a jungle.

Take the statement of the problem

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ok, so you can't C&P from that PDF :) by hand then: "Any set H of 2^(n-1) + 1 vertices of the n-cube contains a vertex with at least sqrt(n) neighbors in H"

Nothing in that makes intuitive sense to me except vertices will have neighbouring vertices. It's not even dimension limited and I can just about manage 4 dimensions at a push.

Next, a bunch of recursively defined 2x2 matrices with no apparent link to anything. I'm lost twice now. Yet to a Knuth or a Von Neumann, it just makes sense. This stuff makes me feel like a different species.

Just a reflection on things. Professional mathematicians in-chimings welcome.
> In decades past, the West’s greatest scientific minds dedicated their careers to national security. John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and Kelly Johnson worked on cutting-edge science and engineering in the national interest....

> How did it come to this? Starting in the 1960s and building steadily in the decades that followed, our defense industry and government leaders became more interested in process than progress.

I also understand that "starting in the 1960s" a lot of scientists moved to totally disassociate themselves from the military and military applications for ideological reasons. I recall reading some article saying something along the lines of "engineers have tried heroically to fill the gap, but there's only so much they can do." I recall another where some scientist was seriously conflicted about doing radar work on a space probe, because his work could be repurposed for military applications.

I think there's only so much that calls to action like this one can accomplish, so long as that cultural trend continues.

Also, I understand that cultural trend is mainly an American/European thing, and not present in other countries (e.g. China).
I do not think that PDF is worth taking space in my personal knowledge base. Thanks for sharing.
Everything about the bots is a side show to the merger. Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.

As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.

FWIW I have shares in Twitter and would prefer them to remain a publicly traded company.
Bible or any written text has meaning. Let's say we take the most ungenerous position and consider it as willful psychological manipulation of masses. Does that deprive it of 'meaning', 'agency'?

"Logical fact".

I missed this bit in your argument. Presumably, you assert that the mind's modalities consist of a 'rational' state of consciousness and a dream state mode where the content matter is "random". It is true that the mind, unfettered by the necessity to navigate in real-time a physical reality, is no longer constrained by either physics or causality. This then results in content matter that can seem random (as narratives) but to deprive them of meaning does not follow.

I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place as required.
Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper, only in one
place did a correction later seem necessary.

— Mendeleev, as quoted by Inostrantzev

As the saying goes, YMMV. /g
Within latest 5 year I have been using Libre Office, I also got found Office 2003 disk last year to set it to honnor place in the working room.
USS Zumwalt, which has since been called a 'failed ship concept'
Elon Musk Says Twitter’s Lack of Info on Bots Breaches Merger Deal
I had the same impression the last time I had to look at them.

Basic payment processing feature are still well documented, but once you get into their Connect or subscription stuff, it gets a little messy.
The list of prerequisites is much longer. Right amount of radiation, rotating molten metallic core (that probably came from collision with another planet!), jupiter-like vacuum cleaner to not have massive asteroid impacts too often - but sometimes they may help, like for us. Stable, boring star.

The list is probably much longer, ie chemistry part mixed with geology, astronomy and other topics.
Motion JPEG was once the bain of my existence - the very first DSLR's to get video recorded in mjpeg (it was an afterthought tacked on - they had no idea it would revolutionise an industry). Many of the free decoders were quite crap and did not do a good job when you were trying to squeeze every last bit of detail out of a 720P mjpeg stream - there was one significantly better one which I am forgetting the name of now. It was paid but I got a hold of it eventually somehow (as a broke college student) through a friend or class. One plus of it however from what I remember is that the format would play on even the crappiest hardware performance wise