skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd run across a demonstration of this somewhat recently. I believe it was a video explaining transitions between free-flowing and locked particles, though I don't recall specifically where, and was unable to find it looking for a few minutes just now.

That said: yes, vacuum-sealing good such as beans or coffee grounds provides a surprisingly solid chunk. Releasing the vacuum instantly changes the properties of the mass.
Please excuse my ignorance but are there new patents coming in every year or is it more like mp3 where we had a patent but eventually it expired? My question is like will we have e ink in about twenty years?
> as it the nineties called and wanted their 20 GB HDD back

I think that was the early 2000s. The nineties were the era of the CD-ROM storing huge games that did not fit on your HDD.
This is a goofy response. Belief isn’t a religious word. I could write an entire treatise on Bitcoin in my comment, but no one would read it, and besides that, the audience of my comment are people already convinced of its value.
While Microsoft may well not have understood it (as a corporate entity, or indeed key decision makers at the firm) it was a done deal long before 1995.

I date it to late 1991/ early 1992 when JIPS stops being a pilot service.

Background, by 1990 there are two popular global networking technologies, the Internet Protocol suite of Unix adjacent technologies born in the US, and the X.25 suite of technologies popular in Europe and standardised by the ITU (ie mostly the world's phone companies). In the UK, naturally influenced by both as an English-speaking country right on the coast of Europe, in 1990 they have JANET, the Joint Academic NETwork, providing X.25 service to various universities across the country, much as the early Internet joins US universities.

In 1991 JANET announces JIPS, the JANET IP Service, as an experimental "pilot" project. Universities can choose to have this American protocol to try out as well as their existing X.25 service. JANET tries very hard to sell TCP/IP as merely an interesting experiment that you could use where X.25 doesn't have a good way to achieve something. Campuses rapidly ignore that, installing a Unix with a TCP/IP stack is something the enthusiastic Unix nerds in your Computer Science or Electronics departments will seize on, and despite an insistence that they should not use the Internet's email, because X.25 has email, too bad they're going to start doing SMTP. By the end of the year this "pilot" project is driving JANET adoption, it's no longer experimental, new "customers" see X.25 as an afterthought, their Unix nerds want IP and they want it ASAP -- JANET begins transitioning to just an IP network, the X.25 services will eventually be terminated.

That's game over, on a level playing field, X.25 v TCP/IP is a win for TCP/IP and the third Network will be the Internet. X.25 goes in the scrap pile with mechanical television and Boustrophedon. Things that might have taken over the world, and if they had we might think them normal - but in the end they did not.
Thanks for figuring this out. The problem was that the vqgan repository was being cloned to the wrong directory. The updated colab should work now
For me Angular's use of rxjs is a killer feature. Our back end code relies heavily on streaming computations, and rxjs provides a great front end complement to that.

Powerful tools often put people off because they appear complex. Often that complexity is at least partly an illusion - once you've learned the abstractions, much of what seemed to be complexity can actually be very simple.
Orcs and other beings in LotR are evil because Morgoth infused the world with his essence and his ill will. At the end of the First Age, he was a shadow of his former self and was easily defeated by the other Valar. But since he basically turned Arda into his Ring, truly eliminating him would probably meant remaking Arda from scratch. Therefore, he was just cast out into the Void, and the Valar retreated to the few parts that were still intact. Of course, that's the official mythology, and the truth might be rather different.

There is no inherent stigma against industry in itself in LotR. Many peoples (Noldor, Numenoreans, Dwarfes) engaged in industry, but it tends to further greed and hunger for power, which makes individuals and whole societies easier to manipulate and play off against each other.
The final sentence suggests there really were Denisovans running around in southeast Asia, way back when. But did they get as far as New Guinea / Australia?

It's a bit hard to imagine a mechanism by which presence of Neanderthals and Denisovans could have so effectively stalled development of the trappings of civilization. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen. We like to think of ourselves as totally badass, but they could have been moreso. Maybe it was unsafe to settle down and build a village where they might swoop in and burn you out. And, our own ancestors could have been doing the same to them. It happened that "we" won.

Another problem is that Neanderthals and Denisovans are not known to have been in Africa. But there could have been any number of other, unknown badass H. species in Africa, besides. Or, maybe, why develop civilization "when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world"? [0]

[0] https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-worst-mist...
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Yes. Thanks.

I actually woke up this morning with this exact concern about my comment. Brains are funny.
Title should be "Wait a Sec", not "Wait a SEC". It's a second, not the Securities and Exchange Commission. Especially in a post about finance and economics, this is an important distinction that can lead to misleasing titles and make the difference between a click and a non-click.
I'm always baffled to see how even the simple copying of a title seems to be non-trivial on HN...
This could have been an interesting table discussion but that person really wants to make themselves look better than their imagined theoretical opponents. It's off-putting and I'd avoid them if such a discussion happened around me.
But it doesnt go up during the 5-10 years of construction time when roads are blocked and jackhammers are operating. People today want to sell/flip thier house long before any newly-started improvement will be complete.
Agreed. Contra is my go to when I think of this experience. Just dropped into a war zone and you start shooting. No explanation necessary.
Old people are often lonely for this reason. They spend all their life with one partner and they pass away or separate and they realise they have no friends or group to socialise with.

People are difficult to get to know but they say if you get to know someone who is good and not a bad person you immediately love them.

As a passing stranger reading your dilemma I also reject working until you die as a lifestyle choice. Everyone has the same 24 hours available to them. You don't have to accept the status quo if you don't want to. But you need to accept some risks. People have higher standards for others than for themselves. So getting to know people people put up walls of standards that they themselves don't abide.

Happy to talk tech spiritual stuff with you if you want someone to talk to.
Fucked up I implies incompetence, this is an incompetent leadership yes, but also one happy to attack all the institutions of government and democracy, courts included.
Look how much easier it is to install & run, people are interested in and up-voting the result, not how much work was (or wasn't) required to achieve it.
The book in English can be downloaded from this page: https://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html
When flying I often lock my suitcase with a zip (the plastic strip you buckle up on its own, works one way). I got red and green zips because they are less common.

I do this to detect obvious attempts at opening the suitcase (to have a look what is inside, or to plant nuclear weapons for me to transport them).

When the suitcase is on the reception belt, I inspect the zips and if they are broken (or missing) i immediately go to the police/customs agents for them to inspect my suitcase because I see it was tempered with.

It happened twice that the zips were missing. There was no problem for the agents to inspect my luggage. Nothing was found or missing, the zips were probably broken during transport (or someone had a look inside but did not find anything interesting.
I guess we will have text-to-image startups in the next batch of YC.
True, but it could still be treated as a crime within the city and punished accordingly. This was the premise of DC vs. Heller which overturned a DC law that banned handguns in the district.
The tests select for people that will put themselves through hell just to work for you. They don't measure anything else. See any of the many stories of gifted, senior, often well known devs who did not 'pass' because they refused to degrade themselves by spending months studying to pass an arbitrary process.

The notion that you figure out "if the person applying is actually really smart" is a 'just so story'.
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It still seems to require JAX somewhere to work.

On my desktop, running the example

> python image_from_text.py --text='alien life' --seed=7

results in

> RuntimeError: This version of jaxlib was built using AVX instructions, which your CPU and/or operating system do not support. You may be able work around this issue by building jaxlib from source.

Unfortunately, following the instructions to build JAXlib from source (https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer.html#building...) result in several 404 not found errors, which later cause the build to stop when it tries to do something with the non-existent files.

Unfortunately, it looks like I won't be running this today.
I will actually apologize for being patronizing. I was annoyed by your tone, and after careful consideration, I hit enter on a post that I knew would annoy you back. I shouldn't have.

Hard and controversial opinions with no cushion are fun in person with a friend. That's not what this place is. We need more nuance in our discussions, not less. It's not as fun, but it is more constructive, and it helps us see other people's points of view instead of making it into a contest.

I will say, I have no idea how old you are, and you have no idea how old I am. But whether I am 15 or 50, my words speak for themselves, as do yours.
Pointless discussing if you can’t agree on any of the basic factual points.
Those are good points.
I know xanax/benzodiazepines/anything that messes with GABA is very dangerous long term because withdrawals can kill you.

I would not go as far as saying drugs should be free for all, because I have a sample size of one(myself) and for instance when dealing with nicotine -- I know 99% of the cases report that quitting nicotine is very hard, for me it was hard, but not that hard.

My point would be more along the lines of "a person should be allowed to experience any drugs under medical supervision as part of therapy" -- and my supposition being in a lot of cases there can be long term effects for short term drugs just because the patient knows there's a button in his head, whereas before he thought there was none and the way he feels is completely outside his control.

I know for a fact not all drugs are like that -- surely quitting antidepressants results in returning depression or quitting my stimulants results in me getting my ADHD back.
But even if my impulsivity would be back for quitting ADHD stimulants, the fact that I took the stimulants for a year and was able to drive my daughter to kindergarden without turning into an emotional mess, reinforced circuitry in my brain that helps me drive without being medicated.

Also my panick attacks completely stopped just because I had a Xanax in my wallet and I had the peace of mind that I could end a pannic attack if one arose.

Anyway, I had some success with Buspar for anxiety.

And finding the right psychiatrist to prescribe you the right medication is a process in itself; the same with psychotherapy, and meaningful change in your life.

And my main point would be that a lot of people have never experienced being in control of their mental health problems and just showing them even a temporary fix could be very good for them, under the right circumstances. Under the wrong circumstances it could lead to addiction.
My problem is it seems like there is near zero odds of them going under anytime soon. With so much money, why not expand their mission? Surely it doesn't cost 1 million to write a textbook, does it? Google tells me it costs $130k.

Couldn't they do dozens a year, and probably get even more donations?

Why don't they try to replace Facebook? Hire pro creators for Wikimedia? Start their own newspaper? A scientific journal?

Where is the money all going? Everyone likes them and trusts them, for now, and they clearly want to do more than just Wikipedia, why don't they really make wikibooks and wikiversity happen?
Oh thanks, I shall look for this now!

Edit: Here, cheers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=6m50s&v=qTgL8_1GDI0
My first impression is that a weird shrink-wrapped pack of colored rice'n'beans is gonna trigger any customs agent.
There is no diagnosis in the group that doesn't have dementia, there is no "after flu vaccine" in people who dont get the flu vaccine.

Its called selection bias.

The root cause of the measurement issue is that people are less likely to get the flu vaccine if they have dementia.
People who had the flu vaccine are already much less likely to suffer cognitive decline even if the flu vaccine was a placebo.

This sort of stuff is why double blind RCTs exist and have millions spent on them.

Also why all the dementia treatments to date failed to work, because these issues are so often ignored.

Also perversely - mental assessments are typically carried out on people who doctors "dont" think have dementia (to rule it out as a cause of symptoms)

Consider this "back of the envelope" calculation.
10% of the population will develop dementia.
having early dementia symptoms makes you 50% less likely to get the flu vaccine.
70% of people get the flu vaccine.

If you randomly selected 200 who didnt get the vaccine and 200 who did from this group, you would expect to see only 13 of the 200 develop dementia when vaccinated, but 53/200 in the unvaccinated group.
I didn't realize it was preemptive from the early ages.
When the cure for type 2 diabetes is free, this becomes especially stupid.
Cryptocurrency that doesn't require internet access to transfer money, kind of offline crypto that can be used like cash. Probably impossible to make.
> not Firefox, which is quite resistant to modifying keyboard shortcuts by design

Do you have a Mozilla reference for this design principle? I've always wondered about this difficulty, but thought it was just an accident.
Trains are effective for moving people between cities, or around cities, but will rarely serve destinations out in the countryside. For that, you need a car.
A lot of people say that they never encounter leetcode-like problems in real life and therefore they are silly.

Am I an outlier? I feel like I actually encounter these kinds of things fairly often, or at least the insights that they represent. (Eg: this week I'm implementing a simple path-finder to deal with a sliiightly overgrown state machine from a vendor. )

So - at least because of that - I tend to think of leetcode problems as more or less a slightly harder and more practical fizzbuzz. Complaints about leetcode do tend to mirror complaints you read about fizzbuzz.

Am I being strange here? Perhaps not. I figure there's at least two or three ways to pass a leet-code-like test: Either you just happen to have just done a bunch of marginally interesting programming somewhere in your past (which is probably what the test was designed for?), OR you did a study in college that ideally allows you to avoid the worst parts of the school of hard knocks (also ~fine), OR you explicitly practice for the test.

I suspect Goodharts law might be at work here: In some cases the measure has become the target.
The inevitable Arthur C Clarke paraphrase: "Any sufficiently advanced conversation is indistinguishable from gibberish."
it is actually market saturation. In the UK we have:

Now TV, Britbox, Channel 4 player, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney plus, AppleTV+

Each of those offer a subscription service for a chunk of content. Channel 4 actually offers a free version that is Ad supported, but you can pay more to have no Ads.

We then have BBC, ITV, Channel 5, UKTV Play - all of which show content they broadcast. Mostly free, the BBC is has no Ads.

We then have the boutique streaming services like Paramount and that appear in other streaming services (like Amazon) and want a further fee.

It is impossible to pay 9.99 for everything. It is impossible to subscribe to enough of them to cover everything you would like to watch. I seriously just looks for a DVD on Amazon Marketplace these days if I can't find a legal stream on the ones I subscribe to - and usually get it for <£5 and keep it "forever".
I really don't mean to be tricky about it. I mean really small things; like getting a t-shirt in the same normal fabric and adding a breast pocket [0]. Or if the person only uses neutral colors, would they wear something like [1] if they found it on their wardrobe?

[0] https://www.harmontblaine.com/US/all-the-good-things/t-shirt...

[1] https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Elf-Green-and-Black-on-W...
It makes more sense when you read it as "people values".

They don't want the blue collar or lesser crowd moving in.
It was... proprietary. The common "walled garden".

Everybody thought they could make a walled garden people would like better than the open internet. IBM had SNA, DEC had DECnet, Compuserve, WELL, ... None lamented.
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The Dodgy State of Stream Processing Delivery Guarantees
https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/issues/1#issuecomment-11...
While any company is trying to do R&D and sell product, there tends to be new patents each year. That means there never a nice 20 year boundary when it becomes safe to build on top of the tech, because you'll always have the threat of a lawsuit that you are violating one of the newer patents in your implementation. And the costs of such litigation deters investors, even if you would have a good chance of winning.
Hey everyone, this is a video I put together summarising a decades worth of stream processing delivery guarantee misconceptions and bugs that I've seen frequently.

I'm not trying to scare anyone away from stream processing, in fact a lot of the issues outlined also apply to automated batch processing systems as well. Personally, I think that being realistic and pragmatic about failure conditions makes these systems less intimidating.
Harry Potter is distinctly about protecting the "sanctity" of institutions, at the expense of individuality. Umbridge may be the personification of bureaucracy in our minds, but in JKR's, she's a threat to the image of British boarding schools being elite, character-building places for children. Note that, as a disciplinarian, she's functionally
equivalent to Snape. That was not Umbridge's "sin". Her sin was teaching to the test, removing the academic rigor of Hogwarts, presumably leaving it on par with lesser schools.

We might even look at her clothing and, in our minds, it looks very conservative. But in the wizard world, we never see anyone wearing such outlandishly colorful clothing. What looks like a makeup MLM saleswoman's outfit to us is a radical expression of individual style in the HP world.

In Harry Potter, individuality comes at a price. The more you express individualistic thought, living outside of the norms of society, the more impoverished you need to be to remain "good". Look at the Weasleys. Look at the Lovegoods. Those that attempt to be successful and individuals are default evil.

HP is so incredibly conservative, it's surprising everyone was surprised by JKR's politics.
Ok, there's obviously a subtle ulterior motive here, but take a guess at how fast/slow can a YouTube channel dedicated mostly to SpaceX stuff grow? I've launched the premiere episode today, not caring much on whether I will see success or not, but just to vent a passion. I have all of 4 subscribers and (surprisingly!) 37 views!

I'm not really asking for scientific proof, but just for the fun of it, let's come back to this post in a few months and see how accurate your guesses were. Either the channel's still around because something kept it going, or it's not because I've run out of energy and things to say (more likely!).
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> “they all, as far as I can tell, struggle with hiring senior talent, yet are unable to let go of these hazing processes”

The weird thing is that it’s been this way for decades, but the enormous product-market fit of the FAANGs’ core products have masked this.

I read a new book about Android development, mostly built around interviews of the original team. Several times it was mentioned that after the Google acquisition, Android was unable to hire the people they needed — experienced Be/Palm/Danger devs from their network — because they were unable or unwilling to pass the Google interview bar. High-level exceptions had to be made to bring in these people Google absolutely needed to build the new OS.

That suggests that other teams inside Google (and other companies imitating their interview process) have been in a similar quandary, but without the C-level exception to hire the experienced people they wanted. And I think that explains some of the product struggles these companies have had. Android is clearly the exception as a long-term success.
They have content deals, and when they expire they have to renegotiate. The problem is, there are so many territories and so many little competitors now, someone will likely outbid them and the service will then lose that content.
In the UK, Lovefilm has been shut down, but CinemaParadiso.co.uk is a great rental service I found.
Plot twist, people stop relying on news’ blogs’ meanings and create a system of decision making that is another level and actually works for them and not for the most sound speech talkers. You learn to swim by getting wet.
and I always roll my eyes when knowledgeable people pretend that Meltdown/Spectre/etc are a grave concern for consumer machines.

I roll my eyes even further back when knowledgeable people pretend to not understand that the endgame for TPM/Pluton/etc is DRM, censorship and privacy violations.