skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up poor, mom claimed $19k annual income the year before my first year of college. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it on my FAFSA. I literally couldn’t figure out a budget that could have worked (I tried) and yet we always had food, we never once lacked for a necessity, never once discussed not being able to pay utilities. She just handled it.

Of course it was worth it. It would have been worth it even if I hadn’t succeeded. Work hard, do good work, plan well, build wealth, cultivate relationships. Eliminate unnecessary expenses and waste. All these things are worth doing in themselves.

Also I wasn’t self made. I had white privilege (I distinctly recall two times I was cut slack for youthful hi-jinx where a black person would have gone to jail). I had people who mentored me and supported me. I had people who cut me slack when I needed it and believed in me. If anything my success is due to the strength of my family and friends. So remember to cultivate long-term relationships. Above all demonstrate trustworthiness.

The entrepreneurial route is the best way to build and hold wealth. Because it allows you to become part of the owner class. It’s unfair but if you’re going to live in an unfair system you owe it to yourself to join the class most favored.

Some people choose not to pursue wealth. I know people who consciously chose to teach or otherwise nurture children, knowing they forego wealth by doing so. Some people choose to become artists, or another creative pursuits. Some people choose journalism knowing there’s not a lot of money in it. Keep that in mind if you join the owners class. You’re not special, you’re not better. They simply choose not to do what you did. Many times as a deliberate rejection.
PyLance and the remote extensions are developed by Microsoft. They intentionally do not work with the open source editor.
/api/retirement/run/ likes to give me a 500 error.
> Those claiming that "the science is settled" are trying to manipulate the public.

This line of reasoning is also popular among flat earthers, perpetual motion machine builders and climate change deniers.
Whenever I hear air taxi, I think about water bottles and airport security.

I don't want some rich dude flying over my house just because he/she can afford to take a airtaxi from the airport to city center while everyone else uses car or train.

For other use cases they can do what they want. Australian outback perhaps.

But airspace pollution and a potential small airplane crashing down in a city? No way.
There’s been research that shows teens have something like a shifted biological clock.

Even before the era of late night multiplayer games and browsing the Facespace and instatoks, teens were staying up, partying or prowling the streets. It’s been a stereotype since the dawn of time that teens go out late at night and are up to no good.
My friend Chris spends a lot more time in their restaurant and is at least as pedantic about this sort of thing as I am, also he knows the people who own it fairly well, so I'm confident he's mentioned it.

However while the restaurant's manager might care, as I understand it her husband is the hard core chef who ensured it's a success, why should he give a shit? Presumably the errors are just in the text for stupid barbarians like me - many of them don't even order from his real menu anyway. His taste is what matters, nobody comes to the restaurant because of the typography or web site design, they come to eat his food.
Crazy. So it doesn't reliably sleep. That's super lame.
> Everyone knows how many letters in the alphabet

I would expect everyone to know that they is more than one alphabet and that they each don't have the same number of letter ...
Hard to believe after all these years EndMyopia is not only being promoted on HN, but is consistently one of the most upvoted things on the subject. I figured the pros here would slice and dice and find issues with the research and recommendations and explain in depth why it’s snake oil (if it is), but it’s been a fairly forgiving topic.
I wouldn’t want a computer like that.

I owned 4 laptops, got my first one in 2008. For all of them I have upgraded RAM and disks immediately after the purchase. For some of them upgraded SSDs after couple years of use: both speed and cost per GB are quickly improving over time for them.

A soldered SSD is especially bad because broken laptop = lost data. I never broke a laptop but I think that was just my luck. When it will happen, I want to be able to recover data from the computer.

About the 3.5mm audio jack, bluetooth audio is not good enough for music, it simply doesn’t have the bandwidth. Uncompressed 16 bit / 48 kHz stereo exceeds 1.5 mbit/second, while Bluetooth audio has throughput of 300-400 kbit/second and uses some lossy codecs on the air.
One of the reason I tend to favor Plan 9 is that it's blazing fast compared to DietPi/Raspian-like distros. It does away with most of the rounded corners, alpha, soft-looking fonts - but after a little while, I barely notice they're gone.

I haven't found that the C build systems necessarily make this faster or more pleasant, they often get in my way and make it hard to replicate my environment across devices.

It's that same idea that you just said, that "any language will do", that sent me down the path toward virtual machines, if the language doesn't matter, I might as well pick something that appeals to my aesthetics and maps well with what I'm trying to do.

If Orca was written in Lua for a framework like Love2d, for example, then I wouldn't have to recompile love2d itself, it would be more akin to how uxn works. That's usually why people use scripting languages, I think?

ASAN is an address sanitizer, if you do any c development on arm devices, you'll get pretty familiar to its countless ways of breaking in fun ways.
I thought the complaint was that the browser was figuring it out directly and then exposing it, such as via the browser's location API, not that the website was figuring it out using non-location network mechanisms provided by the browser.

(FWIW, a website that is given media recording privileges can definitely do that, though, using WebRTC. If you don't have that privilege then you can still use the WebRTC API but it doesn't return alternative candidates. But I also don't think that is what they meant.)
Fortunately, misreading a menu won’t drive you into a tree. A friend of mine told me that he can’t use his un-named supposedly intelligent car on the side roads near his home because it reads the house numbers and thinks they’re speed limits. It’s okay going up the long hill to his place when the numbers go down, but going down hill the last number before a down hill sharp curve is house number 65!!! The many joys of our modern AS (as in AI, but not so much) world.
Tell me: If you go to bed at 11pm and wake up at 7am every day, and then change time zones, do you magically go to bed at the new 11pm and wake up at the new 7am?

No, of course not.

Because the times you get tired and wake up have nothing to do with an arbitrary number on the wall.
That’s brilliant. I’m going to use this for all my product development work moving forward. Thanks for that!
Nice, but very wrong. This describes the case of a plane suddenly appearing in mid-air and starting to make noise, something, planes rarely do (maybe in the Bermuda triangle). It's like thunder after lightning, or seeing a ball fly before hearing it being kicked when you're far away.

The aircraft, however, is flying for a long time, certainly it was flying and making noise much earlier than when it is passing the observer. As long as it flies subsonically, i.e. sound outpaces the aircraft - which is the case for every single commercial plane - the sound may be able to reach you much much earlier than the plane: As an example, take an aircraft flying with 100 m/s directly towards you. With every second flying, the sound will gain another 200 m distance relative to the aircraft (speed of sound ~300 m/s).

If you're 100km away, the aircraft will reach you after 1000s, the sound has reached you after 333s, i.e. ahead of the aircraft. If you're 200km away, the aircraft will reach you after 2000s and the sound has reached you after 667s.

So, how come it sounds like the sound of the plane is behind the plane? It's got to do with sound attenuation in the atmosphere and your hearing threshold.

So, it's not at all like in the article.

Somewhat minor nitpicks:

- The aircraft is drawn to essentially fly with Mach 1, i.e. at the speed of sound, as the position of the plane relative to the wave does not linearly increase with time. Essentially all airplanes you see are flying subsonically (unless you're in the military).

- "If the plane was moving very slowly, it wouldn’t outpace its sound by much." That's completely wrong. "very slow" aircraft are much slower than their sound, and all commercial aircraft still are slower than their sound, all of them are outpaced by their sound rather than the other way around.

[Edit: typos & math]
I can make my own library, or modify the library given above, or write a wrapper - I have more choice than "use this concrete syntax rule for that kind of things".

Moreover, values with effects are first class values, I can pass them, extend them, combine them, in some rare cases inspect them, abstractly interpret them, and last, but not least, evaluate them. Most often than not, this is not the case when they are language feature.
That is standard for vertical speed everywhere
nircmd has this functionality (haven't tried it myself so no guarantees)

https://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setprimarydisplay.html

It also has a bunch of other useful features like changing the default audio device (something I use every day) and opening the CD tray ;)

Anyway, it's the best tool I've used for scripting stuff on windows. No GUI, just a bunch of useful or less useful command line utilities.
No, I don't mean that. That's when you purposefully set your routing table to split some traffic to different paths. The premise here is that even if all of your traffic is supposedly going over a VPN, an app can often opt out of that and do whatever it wants.
They're so ugly they become beautiful.
Yeah, good ol’ Doug and Dave, tirelessly creating all those circles all those years.

What’s funny to me is how we completely miss the point: how is this a prank? How are these circles "fake"?

The circles themselves are real, and amazing art and fascinating as an experiment , whatever it is. Yet somehow soon as someone supposedly "debunks" circles as being man made, somehow the circles stop being interesting?

If anything i think circles highlight that big flaw in human thinking. The6 highlight just how desperate we are for normality.
There are a bunch of sophisticated ways to obfuscate it, but it basically boils down to:

<script>
setInterval(function() {
try {
let before = new Date().getTime();

// This will pause the program execution if debugging is enabled.
// If debugging isn't enabled this statement is a no-op.
debugger;

let after = new Date().getTime();

// Detect if the program was paused or not.
if (after - before > 0.01) {
// > 10ms difference? The program was (most likely) paused by the debugger.
document.body.innerHTML = "<h1>Debugging started</h1>";
}
} catch(e) {}
}, 1000);
</script>

There are some other ways to detect it by implementing various prototype methods and continually logging the object to the console. The methods are only invoked if the dev console is opened.
But note that when your wealth goes up because others have driven up the price of TSLA shares you are not taxed on that wealth gain. You are only taxed on the money you get when you sell the shares. If the price of TSLA shares goes to 2x and then later back to 1x before you sell the shares, and then you sell them, you have no gain and no tax.

It is generally considered to not be a good idea in tax theory to tax things that don't involve either money or things that are very easily converted to money, unless perhaps the tax is relatively small. For purposes of this discussion "money" means whatever the government will accept as a tax payment.

That's partly because you ideally want taxes that are meant just to raise revenue (as opposed to for example so-called "sin" taxes) to not cause much change in the activity or thing being taxed.
I'm confused as well. Idk why the author is comparing RGB32 to YUV.
I was in the boondocks last week and had a striking example of a jet climbing up to its ceiling around 2 or 3 miles away. I tried to figure out the answer to this in my head and didn't get anywhere - was hoping a kind geek would come up with something.
This is actually very true. Any such query that is specific gets normalised into something uselessly general.
My kids haven’t yet wondered how the Kindles they hide under their pillows have never run out of charge.
I interviewed ACM's CEO recently on this topic, which has been shared previously: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-...

Quick note: They are planning on opening the whole archive in a few years but it is still a work in progress. The plan is for 2025 for the whole archive to be opened. They released the first 50 years now in part because it timed well to the 75th anniversary.

Finally, the org's 75th anniversary livestream took place on Friday, more info about it is here: https://www.acm.org/75-celebration-event
It shows how over-inflated coverage can transform a triumph into a disappointment.
Apple Watch kind of plays that part.

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/add-music-apd483798d11...
I would not wish Matlab GUI programming on my worst enemy.
I disagree with your assertion that documentation for Python is typically much better. Take a randomly chosen function I regularly use: "pwelch"

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...

https://www.mathworks.com/help/signal/ref/pwelch.html

Maybe my bias is showing, but I find the Matlab documentation to be superior. However, that is nothing compared the quality of the IDE which is critical when doing scientific compute. When I was re-evaluating our simulation environment at work, we looked at PyCharm. The plotting capabilities alone made it easy to stick with Matlab, even at the orders of magnitude higher cost.

N.B. This is my experience in an Optical Communications R&D environment.
Isn't that only correct if the plain is heading towards you?

The article states that the sound of the plane is not were you hear it. At least this is true
Rewrite their own DNA is a little misleading, because the actual DNA codons don't normally change.

But cells can affect gene expression throught multiple mechanisms, so that part of the DNA gets activated or de-activated.

You can use those mechanisms to react to the environment in various ways. For instance when you see chemical signals A and B, start making protein C. Or, when you see some signal, make the neuron more sensitive at the synapse (add receptors).

You can see it as storing state in a sort of memory, but that's pushing the computer analogy to its limits. Cells are pretty unlike chips :)
As you say, there are straightforward examples of supervised learning as well. "This is a cup. This is another cup." What's different from the machine vision case is you don't need to stick the kid in a Skinner box and show them 100,000 examples of cups in different shapes, sizes, orientation, lighting, etc. They'll generalize (sometimes incorrectly) a lot faster than that.
Not really a plane so much as a expense, semi-hovering, large drone, inefficient consumer of electricity.

An efficient vehicle would have significant aerodynamic properties like a glider. Instead, it's mostly pushing itself up rather than using an airfoil.

Also, in terms of climate change, widespread use of anything similar would be devastating for the environment as it's an inherently extremely uneconomical mode of transportation.

If we wanted better transportation for less energy, it look like a train.
> structured mental concepts

What you are referring to is an internal representation of the compositional nature of the input; the NN will holds a structure of patterns that represent the idea.

But the "structured mental concepts" in question are entities interesting for their logical manipulation upon reflection. Whether some NN definition (configuration) is apt for the latter should be seen in view to the latter.
I disagree. I can see myself using this more often than virtual desktops, and don’t think I’m alone in that. Virtual desktops are too invisible for me.

It will depend on how much I can tone down the size of those non-active stages, though.
Wow, that's a fresh book. I'm not deep enough into this to order paperback to hear the full story, but since you disagree with the article can you provide your explanation and how you see it?

If you think it was made by aliens, then how do you think it happens (e.g. the force needs to be not too high), why would nothing be recorded, why only on planted fields and not elsewhere?

Just to be clear, I don't think any of them were made by aliens, but my questions are sincere, I hope you have some coherent structure built upon different axioms and would love to explore it.
definition of slick
> ABSTRACT:
Bitcoin introduced a cryptographic peer-to-peer version of money that allows online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Many recent studies evaluated and criticised Bitcoin’s energy consumption through its Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism without evaluating its efficiency compared to classical electronic payment system.
Based on physics, information science and economics, we compute and compare the
energy consumption and define what is the energy efficiency of both the current
monetary payment system and Bitcoin cryptopayment system. We demonstrate that
Bitcoin consumes 56 times less energy than the classical system, and that even at the single transaction level, a PoW transaction proves to be 1 to 5 times more energy efficient. When Bitcoin Lightning layer is compared to Instant Payment scheme, Bitcoin gains exponentially in scalability and efficiency, proving to be up to a million times more energy efficient per transaction than Instant Payments.

What stood out to me is that the estimated energy consumption of ATMs was increased by a factor over 5x to account for the need to equip them with 24/7 air conditioning. I've never seen an air-conditioned ATM here in the Netherlands...
The focus on learning is misguided. Human brains don’t have to use the same mechanism for learning as they do for reasoning. Perhaps they do, but I don’t believe we have enough evidence either way.

The useful part of AI is the inference/output. If we achieve human-level performance AI inference then we have an incredibly powerful tool that can revolutionise society. The learning algorithm, be it gradient descent, evolutionary mechanisms or something entirely new, doesn’t matter. Whatever gets the job done.
I've accidentally dropped mine a few times, and my German shepherd has walked on it once or twice. Thankfully, and perhaps by the grace of the patron saint of clumsy fools, it still appears to be in near mint condition.
I just used it to make spongebob squarepants say bad things.
I think it's correlation, not causation. Those who are generally curious and enjoy learning about tech are more likely to go out of their way to try and use GNU/Linux. Using GNU/Linux to browse social media, send some emails, and shop on Amazon isn't going to give anyone new found tech knowledge.

If we look at mobile where Android is basically Linux for the masses, getting an Android phone doesn't make someone more interested in tech. Most Android users I know just got the phone that was cheap or the person at the phone store pointed them to. They hardly know how to use it.
> the actual DNA codons don't normally change.

Unless you are bacteria! I will see myself out.
When I was teaching, I'd get into school for about 7:15am (so wake up at about 5am), so I could make sure I was prepared for my lessons that day. My first class was never before 9am, and school ended at 3:30pm.

I just couldn't have coped classes starting that early.
I'm assuming you mean on devices without a GPS.

There are services that wardrive around mapping locations of WiFi access points. Your laptop periodically will phone home with your nearby Wi-Fi MAC addresses (BSSIDs) to ask where they were detected.

Here's one such service: https://www.skyhook.com/wifi-location-solutions
I don't know which CYA laws say why you can't tell the consumer why they were rejected or not have a review process.
This. I've been reading 2005-2008 papers, again - as I was doing these back in school for current issues. It's exciting how some things never change. More fear and gloom nowadays though.

But it's quite the ride, the worst would be a documentary like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrKdWcxS8c but this is a complete 180 from todays situation. We just don't have construction - and well, Lehigh Acres, FLorida has always been known to be a consilidated house of cards.

But much of FLorida has been too, that's how Miami got founded, a bit and even Orlando which is a "bunch" of swamp land. So it's interesting, how lately I've been traveling and land/house are valued so differently in the west coast, e.g. California and entire pacific coast.

Florida is pray to the alure of vacation homes of NorthEasters, while North Westers go to Arizona or New Mexico, another exciting migration pattern. Cash out, buy new place, live a life of excess and then, die?
One of the key points here is that in many regards, these crop circles required no effort at all. One hour there was a blank field, and the next hour there was an enormous, sophisticated, astronomically and symbolically correct imprint.

The book I posted above goes into great detail on how to distinguish between the two kinds.
dig -6 aaaa ip @dns.toys
doesn't work.
That's why it's fun to think about, I realise they're not naturally compatible
Chances are the restaurant doesn't want to mislead people looking at their website. After all, that will just lead to disappointment and lost revenue.
> There are clinical means for evaluating a parent for manipulation & personality disorders

The fact that its clinical doesn't make it rigorous. Psychological disorders in general are not even defined in a rigorous way, and even the expensive diagnostic methods are qualitative and not rigorous.
If anyone is curious, the previous submission of this was popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654118
It's not hard. They should just upload the ones they used to build the image they distribute. If they don't they are just not worth buying anything from. I wish more developers would care. Are you a known license violator? No responsible disclosure for you, no "workaround in our app to make it work better on your device, fix your shit yourself", etc., etc.
> A soldered SSD is especially bad because broken laptop = lost data. I never broke a laptop but I think that was just my luck. When it will happen, I want to be able to recover data from the computer.

Please reconsider your backup strategy if this is the case. If your data is valuable at all you should be able to drop your laptop in a shredder at any moment and not lose anything. 3.2.1. 3 copies, 2 types of media, 1 offsite.
The aliens made it the same way the pranksters did, by walking around with a piece of wood underfoot. If you recall the basic principles of extraterrestrial contact with pre-warp civilizations, it is against the prime directive to reveal yourself or imply that your advanced technology is possible. In this legal context, the prank crop circles were a loophole - that allowed aliens to land and write messages that we will all have a good laugh about once you are admitted to the local group federation.
Except that wasn’t a cookies acceptance window…