skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The best way to understand their approach is by considering something else ordered yet non-repeating: "quasicrystals." A typical crystal has a regular, repeating structure, like the hexagons in a honeycomb. A quasicrystal still has order, but its patterns never repeat. (Penrose tiling is one example of this.) Even more mind-boggling is that quasicrystals are crystals from higher dimensions projected, or squished down, into lower dimensions. Those higher dimensions can even be beyond physical space's three dimensions: A 2D Penrose tiling, for instance, is a projected slice of a 5-D lattice.

For the qubits, Dumitrescu, Vasseur and Potter proposed in 2018 the creation of a quasicrystal in time rather than space. Whereas a periodic laser pulse would alternate (A, B, A, B, A, B, etc.), the researchers created a quasi-periodic laser-pulse regimen based on the Fibonacci sequence. In such a sequence, each part of the sequence is the sum of the two previous parts (A, AB, ABA, ABAAB, ABAABABA, etc.). This arrangement, just like a quasicrystal, is ordered without repeating. And, akin to a quasicrystal, it's a 2D pattern squashed into a single dimension. That dimensional flattening theoretically results in two time symmetries instead of just one: The system essentially gets a bonus symmetry from a nonexistent extra time dimension."
It is depressing that deliveroo drivers as well as wine shops were considered "essential" during lockdowns while maintenance of nuclear plants wasn't.
My understanding is that this can go to a federal court pretty quickly who can then rule on this and block it, and it can be appellead up to the Supreme court, but for the time being it will be stopped, then I am assuming the Supreme Court will defer to whatever the appellate court decided because it is so open and shut.
Jetbrains succeeds because of their products, not their advertising. Mostly, I suppose. It was the mayan end of the world sale in 2012 that lowered the price point enough for me to make my first purchase from them.

They're probably the only tool that I pay money for, and I'm generally happy to do so, because I get a ton of value from it.

My only complaint is in a polyglot environment it can be painful to have multiple jetbrains ides running in the same project root.

A number of years ago they shipped all of the different products as plugins to intellij. unfortunately at some point that stopped. I wish they resolve it, because it's slowly driving me to vscode.
Warsaw’s Jewish doctors documented effects of Nazi starvation policies
The Terraforming Mars card game is as good as we’d hoped it would be
Thank you, can you elaborate a bit? Insider trading involves trading of a company's securities, correct? Because crypto isn't a security in the SEC's eyes, this doesn't apply?

How are they getting them on wire fraud charges? The texts back and forth describing the scheme?
> Russia, China, North Korea, Iran,

and which of these countries have successfully controlled their own citizens? If you successfully control your citizens you don't end up in economic shambles, you simply manipulate lay-people to act in accordance with the most educated economists.

Were talking about countries that can't even prevent terrorist attacks from incredibly low-tech enemies like ISIS, but we're worried that they're capable of understanding the human condition well enough to control entire foreign populations?

I mean the proposed threat is something of sci-fi levels of fantastic and just doesn't warrant reasonable concern. Modern science can't even cure depression, much less brainwash people. Sure you can negligibly alter behavior with ads and propaganda, but you can't use that to affect peoples self-interest.

Maybe someone will spend 20% more on some inconsequential consumer item, but if someones family or friends come into question, all bets are off.

Sure you might see fantastical representations of things like the Hitlers youth, but look at the reality. It didn't take hold, compulsory attendance was frequently ignored and discontent and boredom set in quickly. Now if you read the newspaper in the west, you'd think they turned those children into little hitler robots, but nothing could be further from the truth.

So at best, you can amass loads of power and authority and destroy your own country and spend all your political capital attempting to do so, but the threat of someone like hitler implementing hitlers youth or something on foreign soil is just detached from reality.
This is weird, because I thought that Chrome (at least semi-recently, perhaps not in the earliest days) was infamous for hogging RAM.

I use Firefox and can't say that I've thought much about browser resource usage, which probably means it's not catastrophically bad, at the very least.

Why not try it out and see if it's better for you now?
US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)
I read through this a few times. As far as I can tell you get some special pieces that get little side quests during the game. And if you achieve the side quest and win the game you get a bit of a bonus.

These pieces don’t actually have any mechanics properties. It’s just normal chess and you still have to win. Given how important every move in chess is… this seems like a really stupid idea. I mean on top of being a pay to earn web3 game, this one is really stupid. Plying chess games where both parties are making these nonsense choices… I can’t imagine this working at all.

I think you can redeem your points for money. So I guess you need to find that weird equilibrium of winning while also doing your weird gimmicks each time.

Ugh

Edit: to clarify, the gap between the best move you can identify and one that achieves your goals is likely going to be immense. And what’s weird about this thing is some goals will be easily achievable from a strong winning position while some will not. So the inevitable meta will almost certainly be getting a gimmick that benefits from winning, then trying to get into a winning position, then achieving your gimmick before your opponent resigns? If you have a gimmick that requires you to play poorly upfront… you’ll lose…
As far as I know they were not developed or tested for anything beyond acute <6 month use
> all applications should be doing I/O in a giant pool of state

I'm somewhat infamous as one of the last people to have given up on distributed filesystems, but even I have always believed the "giant pool of state" approach is a better model for applications. Storage should be designed for applications, not the other way around. Hide the tiers and locality and layouts behind an abstraction layer as much as possible, let 90% of the code "think" in objects or rows or arrays or whatever makes sense for it. Yes, the abstraction will leak. You'll have to deal with it when performance tuning, and probably add some other user-visible concept of consistency/durability points, but all of that should be minimized. In addition to lessening the cognitive load for most programmers, having such a layer makes it easier to adapt to new technologies in a rapidly changing landscape.

> The idea of this was called SSI before, but it can actually become reality

This is where we diverge a bit. SSI vs. explicit distribution is really orthogonal to storage models and abstractions. Most SSI attempts failed because the coordination/coherency cost even for compute/memory stuff was too high. Also the semantics around things like signals, file descriptors, process termination and so on were always a mess. POSIX contains too many things that only really work in a single system, barely a shared-memory multiprocessor let alone a more loosely coupled type of system, but that goes well beyond the storage parts. (Yes, young 'uns, there's more to POSIX than the filesystem part.) Tanenbaum's and Deutsch's critiques of RPC mostly apply to any kind of SSI, especially with respect to handling partial failure. While abstracting away the storage part makes sense, I don't think abstracting away a system's distributed nature is a good idea (or even possible) for most domains.
Recently there was a house vote on a guaranteed right to contraceptives.

One party unanimously voted in favor of it.

The other party voted 96% against it.

I'll leave which party is which as an exercise to the reader.
Wait a minute.

Under Javascript, The behavior induced by this pattern is EXACTLY equivalent to that of CACHING the result directly and a BLOCKING call. The pattern is completely pointless if you view it from that angle. Might as well use blocking calls and a regular cache rather then async calls and cached promises.

So then the benefit of this pattern is essentially it's a way for you to turn your async functions into cached non-async functions.

Is this general intuition correct?

--edit: It's not correct. Different async functions will still be in parallel. It's only all blocking and serial under the multiple calls to the SAME function.
I'd throw in a suggestion of: dancing.

You'd be surprised how many introverted people do social dancing. And the bar is usually very low. So, not being a long time dancer, musically gifted, etc, is seldom a problem.
Well that sounds like the dream!

I haven’t used CodeLLDB, but if it’s GDB access and display is as good as what I get with STM32CubeIDE (Eclipse + CDT) then it really sounds like it’s getting there.
I jumped through a lot of hoops to earn a free t-shirt that says "Everything will be 200 OK". I had to sign up for a couple cloud services and set up some kind of automation, essentially demo-ing the product to myself to get the shirt. It was smart on their part.
That's the piece I don't understand. I get that they're a scrappy startup, but surely they could have spread the work among more people so that no one had to work 24/7?
you can keep your puritan personal take on this, and live by it all you want. All the rest of us ask is that you don't try and impose your restrictive personal beliefs on
us, directly or via appartus of the state. That shouldnt be controversial.
I wonder if that's particular to Asia, because I've noticed McDonalds is the same as the US in Latin America (gringo safe space), aside from a couple extra menu items
The golden standard is talk therapy and working through internalized trauma and beliefs instilled by external forces that lead to bad outcomes for the individual. But that needs a well trained professional and costs around 200 bucks an hour and is not available to a big swath of the population. I have never taken anti-depressants, but the people I know that do are still not quite functional in their lives and it looks to me like they find it hard to cope with the nature of life. This is not to say that anti-depressants do not have temporary uses in specific situations.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that a person with a chemically shut down libido can live a fulfilled life, then again a fulfilled life is defined differently across cultures (the pursuit of happiness is a US invention as far as I understand).
The performance increase is eaten by scene complexity.

This is and has been the norm since the advent if CGI in blockbuster movies, in the 1970's.

For every order of magnitude that hardware gets faster (and/or software gets 'better', i.e. using better parallelization etc.), image complexity in your average shot increases by an order of magnitude.

So yes, what artists are doing is more complex but relatively so. I.e. it doesn't invalidate anything I and others wrote about the case in point – the Moana asset, how such assets are built and what part of a VFX pipeline reasonably ingests them.
I agree with this broadly but I actually disagree with this point for this specific poster. “These people” is a phrase referring distinctly to the national right to life organization, whose goal is in fact to make abortion illegal nationwide. In this case, that organization is about as monolithic an enemy of pro choice people as possible.

(Edited to add: there is a separate frustration of the poster of people claiming that diverting reproductive justice to state determination is reasonable. The poster is saying they are frustrated with that statement because it ignore the above fact. I also don’t think this is painting anyone with a broad brush… it is painting specific people’s specific argument as being myopic.)
maybe that was part of their marketing the article to you.
Eve is also notoriously difficult to "start from scratch". I'm sure someone like him could still maintain secret contacts that could help him out, but even then it's an insanely difficult, if not nearly impossible, effort to get even remotely close to where his old character would have been. And that's just in terms of stats and resources. Relationships are a whole different story, and a critical part of success in Eve.

It's not like WoW where the delta between someone that started the game in 2005 and someone who started in 2020 isn't that far apart.

Someone who started Eve in 2005 would be like a member of the Rothschild dynasty while someone who started in 2020 would be at best, some low level corporate middle manager.
The funny thing is "woke" has the same connotation as "redpilled." The idea being you see the world the way it really is while everyone else is oblivious.
To listen to conservatives, we spent most of the 20th century creating violation after violation of the constitution. If they're correct, then to me that means that the constitution hasn't worked in about a century.
This is good. Very good.

As far as expanding customer use I think having really good and actually helpful docs are critical. The services that I use that have great docs get used a lot more and integrate with apps much deeper than services with okay or shitty docs that feel half assed.
The "Chemical Imbalance" hypothesis is extremely simplistic and seems very appealing to believe amongst the HN crowd. Unfortunately the evidence for it has been sorely lacking and within the past couple of decades more psychologists have been advocating for a wholistic understanding of mental illness. That is it has causes which are complex. It is a mix of childhood experiences, relationships, maladapted development and many other individual circumstances.

Read more here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-we-...
What you'd expect, and what I think we see, is that over time the new features are less "must have" and so fewer programmers will chase the latest version.

There's quite a gap between "Now arrays implement IntoIterator" (about a year ago, you can e.g. write for loops over an array) and "Termination is now stable" (May 2022, you can have custom exit code handling in your program)

I'm sure a few people were excited about Termination, but practically everybody uses IntoIterator and arrays. So of course they would want that feature.

As a Linux user I remember manually compiling 1.3.x back when odd numbered micro meant "Unstable" because 1.2 didn't have features I really cared about. Today I just run whatever kernel the OS installed. Are there important new Linux features in linux-next? Probably, maybe I will read about them in LWN and look forward to them, I'm definitely not going to bother compiling it by hand for any new feature I can imagine.
It doesn't discredit medication as an option, which is a really open ended statement, but it does redefine the role medication plays. It moves medication from a necessary status to a non-necessary status. Where it's role is to provide a mental break for the patient so they can make other necessary changes more easily. The medication could probably be fully replaced with a wellness retreat, but the medication is a lot more feasible for most people.
Scheme, slowly and surely.
Bills in general aren't laws, they are proposals for laws. [0]

[0]https://www.govinfo.gov/help/bills
I love reading old medicine books, they include stuff like wine pairings for medications
But opposing abortion and not caring about the consequences for women and families IS appalling.
A bill is a proposed law, by definition. You're assuming bad faith where there isn't any.
That is not a good headline for what the article is about.

> terrorist states like Russia

The word terrorist has become meaningless. It's dead. You can stop kicking it.
> Laws are allowed until the Supreme Court rules on them

No, they aren't. Unconstitutional laws are unconstitutional ab initio, and lower courts can and do refuse to enforce laws on that basis, and the Supreme Court may never even get to rule on them since appeal to the Supreme Court is not by right; the farthest that cases in the federal system get by right is the Court of Appeals.
What is wrong with nuclear plants in every region?
How long did it take for Wellbutrin to work for you.
I was on it for 2 months, it didn`t help, so I stopped.
Obviously satire.
Honestly, that is not too uncommon. For top level algorithm choice analysis, "rounding" O(log(n)) to O(1), and O(n*log(n)) to O(n), is often pretty reasonable for algorithm comparison, even though it is strictly incorrect.

It is not uncommon for a simple O(n*log(n)) algorithm to beat out a more complex O(n) algorithm for realistic data sizes. If you "round" them to both O(n), then picking the simpler algorithm because the obvious choice, and can easily turn out to have better perf.
> devs don’t want it to read like an ad

I hate advertising. I especially hate stealth ads that are written to resemble a legitimate article, blog post, etc.

Don't insult what little intelligence I possess.

> devs want the ad to be relevant

I have never, ever seen a relevant ad. Not once in almost fifty years on this godforsaken planet.
There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for.

Anything that comes from the primary source is an automatic nope, I'll only take positive accounts from third-party sources. Unfortunately, not even that is enough, so I've become wary of HN comments praising any particular product.

What's even more unfortunate is that you have to apply the same skepticism to open source "products" these days as it has become common even for open source projects to exaggerate the project's capabilities and be dishonest about its limitations.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
Great story, thanks. I wouldn't say that role-playing a pirate in a game where players willingly submit to the risks of low-sec space is not nice. You were providing an important service that made the game feel exciting and interesting!
Misko Hevery on Why Qwik Will Improve JavaScript Frameworks
But it's not in spite of Bezos being a control freak. It's a good quality in a founder.
The strategy is one of intimidation.
I would argue that software maintenance would also benefit from metrics. Heck, even development would. Unfortunately, maintenance is hardly ever done at all and sensible metrics for development are really hard to come up with.
I think it can be better summarised as "Anglo-French rationalism versus post-Kantian German idealism". The first view asserts that we can accumulate knowledge by reason alone, whereas the second view asserts that our mind constructs representations of the real-world objects by ideas alone. It's an intellectual lineage that has given birth to most political ideologies and grand narratives.
How much of an influence does constitutional law really have on the government? There is a minor-moderate crisis in US politics at the moment about whether the constitution protects abortion based on a tortured reading of the text, so it doesn't seem like the physical documents are an important factor. I respect all the positions in that debate, but if that is a serious point of contention then there is a real question as to why a constitutional scholar would have any advantage at all in Congress. For anyone.

Not saying they'd necessarily be bad, but a good cross section of community members would be better than a good cross section of the legal fraternity.
> Not just 'not work', but 'actively repel'.

Exactly. If I see something like that I'll often add a custom ad-block rule so it never shows again.
I don't think the argument is "they don't work", moreso that they only work because the person thinks it will work and gets a placebo effect - not that the drug actually works to fix a chemical issue in the brain.

Here's a couple things I found from searching "strength of placebo vs ssri":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555852/table/ch4.tab29...

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/18515...

The last one has a nice summary:

> Antidepressant medications represent the best established treatment for major depressive disorder, but there is little evidence that they have a specific pharmacological effect relative to pill placebo for patients with less severe depression.

Basically "they're the best tool we have but we don't have evidence that it actually has an effect". I remember a while ago I had a teacher that said "we laugh about rain dances today, but at the time there was a lot of evidence - you dance and you don't stop until it rains or you die, it's almost a 100% success rate". I feel like we see something similar here - we think what we're doing is helping but we don't have any causal evidence to support that. The evidence seems to suggest you could tell someone they're getting an SSRI, not give them any, and get the same outcome - suggesting the SSRI has little to no effect and what's actually causing the issue is something else, and could maybe be better addressed some other way.

There's another famous story about "the anti-depressant cow" which seems very relevant here

> https://antidepressantcow.org/2020/02/the-story-of-the-antid...

The TLDR is that a doctor tried to sell antidepressant meds in Cambodia and they basically told him "we don't need those - if someone is upset we get together as a community and make it better instead of trying to tell them it's their own problem to deal with"
It's not clear that they did. Many other things were going on at the same time, and it's entirely possible that they would have been achieved without protests on TV.

It's also possible that you couldn't have had that much work being done behind the scenes without somebody getting enthused enough to organize a protest. In other words, the protest didn't cause anything, but was a result of the same cause that it was a movement that people cared about.

The difference is that people hold protests literally every day in DC, and practically all of them are forgotten the next day, even if they manage to attract a news cycle. The protests that are remembered are the ones that are part of an overwhelming movement going on elsewhere -- real grass-roots organizing, lawmakers hearing from constituents, lobbying, etc.
The amendment that was ratified in 1992 was proposed in the 1700s.

The amendment prior to that was from 1971, over fifty years ago. We're rapidly approaching the point where we can say the constitution hasn't been updated with new ideas in generations.

The world today is wildly different from the world of the 1970s, and yet we've made no changes to the constitution. We used to update it every decade (at least). Something has changed, culturally, that makes it harder to change.
The effects are already devastating. From the point of view of a women unable to access medical services due to these laws it is literally a matter of life and death right now.

So you can worry or you can act.
> “At least you can say that in Pratchett’s books, the bloody elves never sang!”

Terry Pratchett I think is one of my favourite writers to read. The absurdity of his fantasy settings is just the right level of entertaining for me. Everything flows so smoothly that I sometimes get the subtle jokes only on my second read-through.
There exists jobs that would be better paid than the $70k and be more fun than the soul crushing very high income terrible job.