skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love archive.is but I generally use it to view edited/deleted articles, save controversial articles, etc.

I use google cache for quick viewings due to no captcha, it's simple to prefix the url, and it has a text only mode.
Safari on mac already supports push notifications, but unlike on chrome/firefox you need a push server certificate (similar to how push notifications work for ios apps)[1] to actually push messages. That obviously requires the $100/year of a developer subscription. It's not a huge deal if you're running a business, but if you're just a hobbyist trying to push notifications to your own devices without a third party app, that sucks.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...
And currently a NUC is cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.
Astral codex nine shall we call henceforth.
He lost one life.
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1533327207795335168

Please update accordingly.
Nobody is sure, but if you allow me to guess ...

Perhaps DNA and RNA are inevitable, or at least they are the easiest solution for they problem they solve. I guess even the same sugars and some nucleotides. The only variation on Earth is that some parts of the DNA are methylated, but it can be added and removed. There are some weird bases in the RNA for very special task, but my guess is that they will use the same main bases. I'd not be surprised if alien has DNA and RNA that is chemically identical to us (but in other order).

Even proteins are probably inevitable. Here there is more wiggling room. We use 20 amino acids, but there are like 5 more weird amino acids that are mostly modifications of usual amino acids and are made after the protein is formed. For example collagen uses a lot of proline that is a normal amino acid, and also hidroxyproline that is a modification of proline made during the creation of collagen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen#Synthesis I guess that the list of amino acids used by aliens will be slightly different. Perhaps between 15 and 25 instead of the 20 we use. Perhaps also some replacements. But perhaps the list has some special property we have not discovered yet. I don't expect a smoking gun here to determine if aliens are unrelated to us.

The most interesting part is the translation from DNA/mRNA to proteins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code It's a translation from the 64 combinations of 3 bases of DNA/RNA to amino acids. It's almost blocked, so there are 16 blocks with 4 options in each one. But some blocks have small changes. We know like 20 versions of the small changes. The 20 versions are very similar, they are not very different. So it's possible to make changes in this translation table. The most interesting part are the 16 blocks. As far as we know the elections it arbitrary, like a frozen random initial election that was inherited by all of living things on Earth.

So the first thing to check in an alien life is if they translate in the 16 blocks the same amino acid that we translate. I'd be very surprised if this is the case. My guess is that it's almost random, and any election is fine, and each independent alien life will have a very different initial random election.
Easy. You put a tax on guns or require registration. Make it a felony to not pay the tax.

Then you get to trace the chain of custody of the shooters guns and start arresting the people supplying arms to psychotics.
Really? Would you like to see the Uvalde killer still alive so he could face justice?
A mass marketplace is based on trust. Amazon is cannibalising that trust. It will cannibalise its mass marketplace.

If the dollar store is selling product labeled as premium-quality which is not in fact, or is claiming certifications not actually granted, or contaminated products ... then that store has a problem.

At least when going to a B&M store, it's possible to examine goods and packaging and reject obviously damaged or returned merchandise. Amazon doesn't offer that protection except through a far more tedious return mechanism.

Caveat emptor is NOT in fact governing law and principle, but rather implied warranty is, within the US and most Western countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty
You get a comparable performance at 15W with M2 to Intel at 55W.

Intel is not significantly faster, just more power hungry. That’s the mean difference in day to day usage.
This month Prolog is ranked #21 on TIOBE, ahead of Rust (#28) and TypeScript (#43). This probably demonstrates the irrelevance of TIOBE more than it illustrates the relevance of Prolog.

I think people who don't need to use Prolog think of Prolog in a very idealized way, kind of how they think of other "principled" languages like Lisp or Rust. Many years ago, I took a course at Johns Hopkins called Computational Models of Cognition. It was taught partly in SWI-Prolog. We used Prolog as a simple DSL to write little logical programs. It was different, and fun, and kind of confusing.

But as soon as you want to take Prolog beyond elementary classroom use, you will find that it is a language like many others, and needs to expose a world of little QOL details that go beyond the elegant simplicity of term unification, like argument mode modifiers and continuations and such.
If the DSV crew ever wants some recreational challenges, I would happily create some and even give them some rough coordinates to work from.
I don't agree. The specific techniques we used (a variant of the transformer architecture behind most large language models) means, among other things, that you can ask the model questions, and get answers about what the model "knows" in return. So, if you train a model on thousands of scientific papers that contain information about drug effects on biomarkers, side effects, and the like, the model will learn, e.g., that drug A is typically used to treat cancer of type beta, and that it is frequently associated with lowering of biomarker X. It can then answer questions such as "what drugs are useful for lowering biomarker X in patients?" It can further answer a question "what mechanisms could be associated with this effect?"

Of course, it can only answer with mechanisms that are identified in the literature it analyzed - it's not a PhD biochemist / M.D. able to infer or speculate on mechanism from first biochemical and medical principles. But there is no way to interpret what it can do, in my mind, other than to say that the model has learned drug biochemistry at some significant level, and can represent that learning to a user.

In the case of what Deep Mind has done with protein folding, I don't know how you interpret its capabilities other than to say their model has learned much of the fundamental body of rules and facts that govern how amino acid sequences role up into proteins. There is a very real sense in which it embodies a theory of protein folding, much as say, Maxwell's equations and a knowledge of calculus embodies a theory of electromagnetism. That it cannot as yet articulate the rules of that theory is clearly a profound limitation, but it's a limitation of conveyance, not of utility.
I've used more Geometry & Trig working on my Model Train Set than I have as a professional software engineer. Figuring out table spacing, track radius, overhang from trains, is basic stuff.

I needed to buy a bunch of precisely cut curved wood for a 2nd level (laser cut wood! So Awesome!), and had to actually re-learn the basics of trig in order to provide the details to have everything made.
> always had an script or executable that gets the environment up to date with the new version.

Which means you’re writing deployment tools already. Going from there to an abstraction that provides the primitives you use in those scripts is a natural step.

> There were plenty of tools to manage that loop too if you didn't want to keep the information on a simple text file.

Indeed. But again, this shows how deployment tools evolve naturally from “git pull” to something more complex. It’s not complexity for the sake of it.

> Well, that's a "don't".

If only managing computers was as easy as telling people what not to do.
Can confirm over here that iOS 15.5 (just recently updated a few days ago) doesn't open the WebM file in Safari. It just offers to download it.
There is a very big design space for "Stream" APIs.

Microsoft's LINQ for instance can compile a stream operation into a SQL statement and JooQ does the same. That system offers query optimization and efficient joins that depend on the query system having complete visibility into the queries. indexes built ahead of time, etc.

Another extreme is a system like

https://www.reactive-streams.org/

that are especially good for apply a filter and map and other operations to a stream of real time events, e.g. instead of having a pull operation such as a for-loop over an Iterable, items go into the system from a stream.

I've worked on systems that use the later kind of streaming to run batch jobs and you can get great performance (780% speedup with 8 cpus) on crazy heterogenous workloads. You do have to be careful though to shut the system down or flush it out or otherwise you get wrong answers. Frequently those frameworks don't shut themselves down properly unless you implement clean shutdown yourself.

The point is that operators like "filter" and "map" and the rest are so powerful because they are portable between the minimal pidove up to a Hadoop cluster.

Every implementation though has details, makes different decisions, has different limitations. For instance the way group by is done in Python and Java are completely different. A "Tuple" doesn't make as much sense in Java as it does in Python because it's no fun to "get(7)" and get just an Object.
A lot of programs have great F-key support. Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop/etc. in particular made full use of them with the default shortcuts.
Is it only me who’d like a 15 inch air?

I’ve got a 16 MacBook Pro and it’s great and all - but soooo thick. Like as thick as my old, old, MacBook Pro from 2012. I was expecting it to be more like a 2015 MacBook Pro when I bought it.

I’d much prefer some of that sweet apple silicon power, in a nice thin 15 inch size please.
Maybe a more digestible resource: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cubans-split-over-mor...

My quick read seems to me that these are things that exist in most developed Western societies today: same sex marriage, equal sharing of domestic responsibilities, prenuptial agreements, assisted pregnancy. There's probably more to it - but probably the more significant news is these concepts are taking root in Cuba?
come on now... damage your ear from a laptop fan? can't even damage your ear from the crap speakers laptops come with let alone a fan...
You can pay someone to host a Matrix server too.
Handwavy assumptions about potential environmental disasters. Good job.

Scaling nuclear power up by factor of 10 to 100 means scaling transport of nuclear waste up by the same factor at least. Including all the risks associated with it. People are not going to take these vague assurances after so much has gone wrong in the past.
Chrome also allows you to say no to Attestation requests.

The only place I've seen a 'legitimate' use for requesting an attestation cert is to ensure that only specialized FIPS hardware is allowed to be registered when that is a business obligation.
See, this reads like an absolute dystopia to me, like a late-stage capitalist endgame. With the WEF being a bunch of hypercapitalists, it ain't too surprising that they'd pitch it as utopia instead.
Or Baghdad which maybe was the largest city in the world at the time it was sacked.
And they didn't ask any environmentalists how they feel about it.
That makes sense to me. I find that calculus requires quite a lot of additional knowledge to make it applicable, whereas it's often relatively straightforward to rephrase a problem in terms of linear algebra or discrete mathematics.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just entirely about competition with the app store

At a previous WWDC they talked about service workers and how they have the potential to significantly impact the performance and battery life of devices if abused.

And so a lot of effort has been made trying to isolate and optimise them.
hmm while I do believe that your laptop is pretty loud, I seriusly doubt that it could damage your hearing. Ear damage occurs over 90-100 decibels, this is akin to leaning close to a loud vacuum and magnitudes greater than any laptop.
Got it, I thought they were saying it was a limitation of the chip not the specific laptop they had. Thanks for the clarification!
Yeah definitely. Rule of law is important
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It was also notable for being a miniature but combined SEGA CD and SEGA Genesis.

IIRC it did not officially support the 32X, but it did work?
My take is its unlikely with social, societal and historical needs in a full education.

With hard science yes. And by that I exclude social as a non valid field.

Difficult to get right, should education be to train or to enrich? It's a difficult balance.
In our economic system, economic growth happens through population growth.

You cannot keep the actual rate of consumerism if population decline and corporations live in a fantasy world of unlimited growth, so they cannot keep growing if less and less people consume.
Why not? If it’s a site by site authorization, it can help replace many apps.
I enjoyed playing Stellaris on my MacBook M1 pro on a transcontinental flight last night. 4x games work well for passing the time!
Eh, no, the pre-stall buffeting in small aviation is more like driving on small rubble, or like touching some of that vibrating paint marking the side of a highway, maybe a bit stronger than that. Some aircraft do not buffet at all when approaching critical angle of attack, which is actually worse for safety - you're deprived of a useful signal. And regardless of whether they buffet or not the standard stall warning in big aviation consists of shaking/vibrating the stick/yoke (called a "stick-shaker"). Every professional pilot is intimately familiar with that kind of feedback from their training on smaller aircraft and will instinctively push on their controls mostly without thinking. Unless they actually want to stall the plane, for example for aerobatics.
I’d like a job where I used more math - can you share your job & industry?
More specifically, we could mine it and refine it, but Russian titanium metallurgy was far superior.
Yes, via Gitpod. See https://ghuntley.com/anywhere for tips and recommendations for apps / keyboard configuration because the magic keyboard doesn’t have an esc key. Happy to answer any questions folks may have. Ask away!
Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools
I've been noticing less and less being available on SciHub, unfortunately.
If N is a 32-bit machine integer, then O(N^2) is actually O(1)
US Regulators Investigating Binance’s BNB Token: Report
DriverKit on iPad
I definitely agree that there are reliable tests here (your suggested IPC count is "good enough" for these purposes), but the majority of benchmarking between these two machines wouldn't yield much of a comparison at all. I don't think it's unreasonable to annotate that comparing these chips directly is fools errand, especially since Apple has demonstrated that themselves with their own M1 benchmarking/graph fiascos.
I've yet to see similar censorship in the EU when the propaganda comes from its allies, like the US. Nobody in the EU tried to keep me away from the lies the United States used to invade Iraq back in 2003.

So, no, you can say this is different, but it's not. It's just that the Ukraine war goes against the interests of the EU, while other wars (with more civilian casualties) do not and they say nothing about propaganda.
Agreed. I'd likely have a studio today if the GPU port worked, but unless it comes out RSN I'd likely wait for the M2 based studio to come out. The chip has other magic inside as well. I'm hoping Linux continues to implement support for the MatMul instruction (not just vector multiplies), 16 trillion op neural engine, various encode/decode video accelerators, etc. I've heard vague references to compressed swap to help make the most of limited ram (m1 limit was 16GB).
I'm grateful for the correction. Thanks!
The new Air is significantly smaller in volume, though.
It's so cool to have this split. QUIC is so capable, such a neat set of ideas for a transport. That HTTP can express itself in terms of another spec is one of the most compelling, longest-hardest won & best victories for "abstraction" that computing has seen. That we'll be able to iterate on HTTP in new ways, by having a common semantic base, keeps the future open & iterable. Huge wins.

Obligatory link to Mark Nottingham's "A New Definition of HTTP3"[1], which talks about the split of HTTP into a semantic definition in RFC9110[2] & the creation of HTTP2/RFC9113 and HTTP3 (over QUIC, this document).

[1] https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/06/06/http-core https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31647149 (3 points, 26m ago, 0 comments)

[2] "HTTP Semantics" https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110

[3] "HTTP2" https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9113
Nobody's yet written the book of the history of Multics, right? Seems like a major gap in the record.
I'm also not defending Putin, but simply as a matter of killing people, Ukraine has the power to prevent that by not fighting, even if it comes at the cost of losing their existence as a country separate from Russia. That could certainly be a bad thing in other ways, but you expressed concern for people killed in the war, not grander moral rights and wrongs.
Most open source tools I've seen that implement FIDO use a shared Attestation cert[0].

[0]: https://github.com/github/SoftU2F/blob/master/SelfSignedCert...
Totally agree. It’s just other CPUs don’t come close to the M1/M2. That’s what really makes the new MacBooks unique. It’s going to be like that for quite some time I think.
We already have a geologic repository. It's called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and has been receiving military waste for 23 years. All that needs to be done is for Congress to authorize it for civilian waste as well.
I am one of the exceptions that uses higher level mathematics on a regular basis at work. I agree with his theory that teaching everyone calculus, or preparing to take it, is not necessary for most.

The problem I have is that he is looking at averages. In my experience, there are five tiers: counting, arithmetic, algebra, calculus, and higher math. The USA is simultaneously sending more people to the top two and bottom two, with the bottom two going from a small few to a real population segment. I don't even know if the worst public schools teach anything anymore or if they are just pseudo-prisons to capture taxes.

I won't even go into the woeful state of logical and statistical knowledge. I don't know why those aren't core requirements for graduating high school.
Sadly; though, they announced not to expect a miniature Saturn or Dreamcast anytime soon; which - the Saturn being my all-time favourite console - couldn’t be much more of a disappointment.
In French, a 3 min presentation of the project :
https://static.sstic.org/rumps2022/SSTIC_2022-06-02_P10_RUMP...
If robots could help with this problem, software already would have.

Robots work for a specific company, not society as a whole. Like software, they concentrate private wealth in the small number of elite who own them and actually make the social/Ponzi problem worse.
Yeah my 15” xps was pretty bad too. Coworker and I both had this issue where one key press would result in the same letter being typed twice. Coworker sent his machine back several times but never got that fixed. I just used an external keyboard most of the time. Besides that, my machine’s battery ultimately puffed up and made the trackpad impossible to click.
You mentioned Safari, and Safari exists on two platforms. It works on macOS.
Wow, this is exactly the sort of anti-intellectualist drivel that makes me lose faith in humanity.

And oh, the irony of dismissing the case for mathematics as a thinking aid as “self-serving nonsense” for which the author has “a very low opinion”!

Perhaps if the author had a better attitude towards education and was capable of appreciating the value of mathematics (or more generally, science) in everyday life (to say nothing about the importance of this in democracies), then he would not hold this infantile opinion.

Sorry, not sorry.

Edit: the point is not whether you “use it” when you’re out and about doing your groceries. If you’re judging the value of maths and science by this measure, you’re missing the point, and you’re at such a low level of insight that your perspective is useful to nobody. Rule of thumb: don’t listen to anti-intellectualists.
If you can fly a drone in to “stop a mass shooter”, why not just take other actions?

Sit and wait for someone to go get the drone and deploy it?

The use case here seems weirdly specific.
Shining Force CD is worth playing as well.
Wow! Thanks for the correction! But I think my plan would work in the USA better than it would in Australia. Australia, like the UK, isn't very religious, so shaving off "no religious criticism" from protected speech wouldn't fly there. But it definitely will in the USA.
A lot of the comments here are saying that Clubhouse is a lot of noise and very little signal. I largely agree that's what did it in, but I think I joined right before it hit that growth inflection point, and I was able to find something of a community until everyone kind of gave up.

One night I had a discussion with a guy who had protested at Tiananmen Square in 1989, then went back to his university the day before the tanks rolled in. Later, he emigrated to the US.

I met and befriended another guy who lived in Austin and was giving updates about the then-current Texas freeze. He was loosely connected to some of the folks behind NumPy/Anaconda, and so I got to spend several nights hanging out with them, which was pretty interesting.

The biggest problem was always search/reputation (judging from my re-opening of the app for the first time in months, this is still the biggest problem). It was always gamed by "influencer" types, whose number one skill was glomming onto the New Hotness/Current Thing. Usually when opening the app, I'd need to scroll through one or two screen lengths of junk (e.g. "chat w/ [retired pro athlete] NFTs!!!", "be your own record label!!!") to find a topic that seemed remotely interesting.

Filtering was (is?) hot garbage until I was following around 50 active users. The product people never realized that the truly influential people who were interesting were not on Clubhouse 16 hours a day, but would be on for an hour or two; the rest of the time, they were honing their craft at something outside of influencer culture.

The other major problem was notification fatigue. I went through a phase of intense work on a side project, and didn't have time for Clubhouse very often. The app had some bug where it wouldn't respect my relatively spartan notification preferences, and was pinging me all the time, so I just disabled them altogether. A couple months later, I realized I had not been in there for a while, and when I logged in, few of the people I had connected with were still active (this was around a year ago).

Ultimately, I think Clubhouse was an idea that in its current implementation could only exist during the pandemic. That being said, at times it felt like YouTube did back in '06 or Twitter in 2010: you could connect with anyone and learn about nearly any topic with a bit of dedication. Unlike a lot of the social networking experiences these days, it truly felt like there was a chance to meet someone who in the regular course of life you'd never get to meet.