skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't this always the case? There were once huge "phone-books" containing all phone numbers in an area mapped to people's names. This is not much different from giving out emails
And Carmack is known for making multi-hour extemporaneous keynote speeches that somehow remain interesting the whole way through. Should be a good one.
The exceptions are quite notable, such as Greta Thunberg who sailed across the Atlantic to attend the UN Climate Action Summit.

Sure it was a stunt, but it was a good one.
I think maybe we have a difference in what accessible means. I'm talking accessible as in, 'I can literally access this', not as in 'I can understand what this means'.

I use a screen reader, and unless the pdf is explicitly created as an accessible pdf, it is just garbled up nonsense.
> only achievable by introducing a National ID card

That's about to be required for elections, and it's already a requirement for resident non-citizens[0].

The system might be a little more complicated for people just visiting the UK on a holiday/business trip, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had to enrol their devices as part of the "pre-screening" process that will tie into the new facial recognition database.[1]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence-permits

[1] https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/07/21/uk-...
I would say probably A. Computers complement humans well, they are good at the things we suck at, and bad at the things we're good at. Lots of progress in computers nowadays is made by hanging problem-specific accelerators off the side of conventional CPUs, so either we can be "creativity accelerators" hanging off the computers, or they can be "computational accelerators" hanging off us.

It should also improve human-to-human communication speed. The whole trick of humans is that we can put our heads together and work as a super-brain. As a side-effect, the normal-humans have distill their work-product into 'ideas' that fit into the heads of other normal humans. It seems unlikely that we'll ever genetically engineer the whole human race, so continuing to produce normal-human-compatible ideas seems like a big win.

If we have genetically engineered super-humans going around, they might have some ideas that are just too big to fit in our normal brains. Breaking compatibility like that seems risky, don't want people out there whose word we just fundamentally have to take on some things.
Yes, you are correct. If you consume only distilled water, you will get sick.

No, this is not proven. To prove this, we must demonstrate that a person who only drinks distilled water would get sick sooner than the same person who only drinks tap water - in exactly the same conditions.

Clearly this experiment would be very hard to perform. But if someone did perform it, I'd love to hear about it.
If the proof is that size, I'd leave it out of my thesis proper, and just provide a link to it as a stable artifact.
Also, even if you do want to have some kind of binary-ized transport with a strict type-checked schema and compilers for multiple languages -- ultimately a noble goal, I think -- there are much better options available, design and technology wise. Cap'n Proto is wonderful with a very strong foundational design and good implementation, it's major drawback being a relatively sparse set of working languages, and a lack of tooling. But then again the quality of 3rd party Protocol Buffers libraries has always been a complete gamble (test it until you break it, fork it and patch it to make due), and as you note the tools aren't all there for gRPC either.

So in general I completely agree. If you are exposing a Web API to consumers -- just keep doing RPC, with HTTP APIs, with normal HTTP verbs and JSON bodies or whatever. Even GraphQL, despite having a lot of pitfalls, and being "hip and fancy", still just works normally with cURL/JSON at the end of the day because it still works on these principles. And that matters a lot for consumers of Web APIs where some of your users might literally be bash scripts.
It doesn't follow that knowing the big O complexity of a problem would imply knowing an 'algorithm to solve it' too. There are many known problems that do not have known solutions.
The same dealership as bought my friend's truck above is offering me over $4k for my 2007 Prius with 208k miles on it.

Sure, I expect I could get that private-party. But on trade-in??
The goal should be to reduce the amount of sharp edges, not increase them even further.
Plot twist: they’ll eventually sunset both at the same time.
Carmack is awesome. Rarely does an interview anymore but when he does he really delivers and gives us friggin 5 hours. Look forward to it.
P.S. - my personal site (on Postcard) is https://www.philipithomas.com
The spreadsheet UI is the one interface design that will not disappear in millions of years. Hard to imagine any UI that’ll last longer. This is the very pinnacle
Are we listening to the same person?

I find Lex Fridman to be wooden, robotic, non-sequitur, not smooth or charismatic, and (I admit, shallowly) not a pleasing speaking voice to listen to, and not that articulate actually. The main reason he gets famous guests is that he has a reputation for getting famous guests. He's like a Kardashian.

I actively have to tune him out and suppress my wish that someone, anyone else were asking the questions.

But it is what it is. We don't have voting rights on who random walks their way to being famous in this world.
I don’t agree, based on at least my personal experience. My wife and I (40s) don’t engage in even a fraction of the acts I see commonly in porn. My bf (mid-20s) and I, on the other hand regularly do. He sees these acts as normal and expected. She definitely does not, and neither do I. Anecdotes aren’t data, to be sure, but my bf’s friend group has a similarly completely different view of what is “normal” with respect to sexual activity, and the same is true for others of similar age I’ve been involved with. I’m convinced porn definitely shapes the view of normal.
Do you have any recommended materials for gaining skill in organizational theory?
>Is branding so critical that Duo can't be used?

Actually, if they keep both apps for a while, Duo is the better name.
What is the license you are using?

If your intention is not to allow this, you could switch to AGPL.
Well, Ronaldo could hit a soccer ball after lights are cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoScYO2osb0
Posted 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32307185
This would have been interesting but does not appear to be something Carmack would get into.
I recently found an article about Ancient Roman jokes. My favourite went something like this. Apparently, "logic jokes" are ancient as well.

> A man asked a friend to buy two 15-year old slaves for him next time he visits the market. After a few days, the friend returns and says: "I couldn't find any 15-year old slaves at the market, so I bought you one 30-year old slave."
One thing I don't like about Lex is that he doesn't really challenge his guests (which is one of the reasons why he can bring many well known names, as they know they can mostly give their talking points).

That's not a ding against him, as he has very wide range of guests, so he lacks expertise to challenge them, but something to keep in mind.
This still happens. The toys are from Target and are <$30 in my circles and we usually try to make them legos or something that can be used again and not just thrown away, but there is rarely more thought goes into them than that.

The gift bags are still a part of the song and dance, but I've seen some shift there, too - one party we were invited to, the family gave plants & seeds as the party favor.
How is the Share feature meant to work? It seems to be failing within Android Firefox Nightly (nothing gets copied and for a split second the positioned letters blink away then return)
> Unless you believe there's some sinister cabal out there conspiring to hurt 18-25 years with porn, you'll just have to accept what's out there is what people pay to see.

I don’t think porn companies are necessarily trying to harm people in the same way I don’t think social media companies, casinos, drug dealers, etc. are necessarily trying to harm people. They are trying to make money, and they don’t care too much if they cause harm in doing so.
what do you use now? caviar is still alright in my neighborhood but I'm looking for the next thing...
Why the hell are they punting erotica to a different store. God I hate this major corporation puritan bs.
I am so incredibly excited about this. Buf is an amazing tool that every proto developer should know

Great work Buf team
From the authors original post, it looks like you're right in saying that was not one of his goals.

This article says:

> Thus we can reasonably say that the code does contain an implementation of a very limited and basic form of LaTeX.

Which is what I'm primarily debating. I feel like a basic LaTeX implementation would at least attempt mathematical typesetting, but that could be debated :)
Is it Excel that never dies, or is it the concept of spreadsheets in general?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation
I won't claim to be an expert on that but I think that was kind of the goal in the sense of having companies like Nest or Waymo be more independent, but given how little difference it's seemed to make I've generally assumed it was either some kind of accounting dodge or simply that they were too timid to break up Google itself. One of the reasons for that is no doubt that shareholders would ask why they're funding so many marginal ventures if those were broken out separately.
I think a payment processor has some – but not much – responsibility for the transactions they enable.

But you're right in that if a thing is illegal, it should be targeted directly and not by making private companies responsible for defining and enforcing "law".
If a joke is so dumb you feel like you should set up a new greenbean account to post it, why not improve HN by not making the joke at all?
Really? That's fascinating, if anything I usually think he's not rigid enough and too easily goes along with guest claims (the Oliver Stone episode stands out for not pushing back).

Do you have a favorite podcaster/interviewer?
I have seen this before, but I think the problem is the code, not the paradigm. If you bend your mind a little and think of stateless functions as a chain of (OOP) method calls, function arguments as class instances and namespaces those functions as classes themselves, then there is little reason to think that it should be impossible to trace, given equal familiarity with the tooling.
Cap'nProto
Is so much better.
Really a lot are, but Cap'nProto is main by the original protobuff dev so his description of why he made it is relevant.
I use protobuff everday at work and honestly the generated code is incredibly awful conpared to pretty much any alternative. We're way to bought in to switch now though sadly.
> Doesn't a similar DoS risk (from allowing users to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory) also apply to the heap?

DoS Risk? No one cares too much about that - the problem with VLAs is stack smashing, which then allows aribtrary user-supplied code to be executed.

You cannot do that with malloc() and friends.
I think the answer is that we love private companies in the business of law enforcement, because private companies are allowed to do things we pretty consistently tell the government not to do. The government will even blackmail or extort private companies into doing law enforcement, if they can find the leverage.
> ever invented

That would be visicalc then.
True. From our research and speaking with customers, many tech companies have learning / professional development budgets in the range of $500-$5000. Often they're trust-based, and self-directed, so engineers are free to spend them on whatever they feel helps them most with their growth.
Old farmhand wisdom:

“One boy is worth half a man. Two is worth nothing.”

Heard that one after wasting 10 minutes chatting instead of loading the truck.
This is not the first attempt to run gRPC from web. It is still a bad idea since it does not play nice with common web infra. I don’t understand what one even tries to accomplish with this.
I 100% believe that's the case, but I'm curious about the details.

I think integration with a specific product is ok with branding and a link to their website. Like you'd have FitBit, Nike+, or whatever under a fitness tab in settings.

But it sounds closer to the banner ads on the bottom of the screen like a lot of free android apps do.

How do they display the ads?
I side with her, as I would if this had happened to her in the US, but the OP has a point. It could've happened to her in the US, especially because she is black. Not all people that defend her are hypocrites, but a large portion needs to look in the mirror. The ACLU says: "Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana"

https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers
But no, it’s even worse! They are renaming Duo to Meet, even though Duo has 10x more installs than (classic) Meet.
That's literally the rest of my comment.
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation

Note that both male and female ejaculation may be faked in a porn movie.
There is a lot of literature on this topic, but nearly all of it is in the "restricted" section of the library: it's the section with book shelves for alchemy, occultism, buddhism and so on. Western literature is very shallow in this regard.

There a few interesting thoughts about consciousness that I've found in those books. One is that the boundary between consciousness and "real matter" is imaginary: consciousness exists only because of change in that matter, when the change stops - so does consciousness, consciousness creates reality for itself, and the two are in fact just two sides of the coin. In other words, static consciousness isnt a thing, and hence the need for "reality".

Human consciousness is a sum of many consciousnesses that exist at wildly different levels of reality. There are primitive cellular consciousnesses, and those sometimes influence our mental consciousness. Our neural cerebrospinal system has an advanced consciousness capable of independent existence: it manages all the activity of internal organs, and only loosly interacts with our higher mental consciousness. That cerebrospinal system is even self-conscious in a primitive way: it can observe its own internal changes and distinguish them from impulses from the outside. There's emotional and mental consciousness that mainly lives in the brain and is somewhat aware of the dark sea of lower consciousness below it.

Most people are conscious in dreams, as they can perceive in that state. However they cant make (yet) distinction between inner processes (self) and external effects (others), so to them it appears as if everything is happening inside their mind, i.e. they are not self-conscious. That's consciousness of a toddler. Some are more advanced, they start seeing the me-others difference and can form memories from dreams.
For those who do not know Lex, just to nuance this, I think it is interesting when dealing with technical subjects (like recently with Demis Hassabis). Outside of technical subjects, it is a bit of a mixed bag, from interesting (like Roger Reaves) to appalling (like entertaining Oliver Stone's bullshit conspiracy theories).

This one is likely to be a technical one and certainly something I am keen to listen.
I know what you mean but he has improved over time. His main fault is talking too much sometimes, I'd rather hear the guest. While some of his questions are lame, he usually makes up for it with some well researched and interesting questions. Not every question can be a winner in a five hour interview.
The difference being mainly that these clubs, bars and magazines are all analog and, prior to the wide availability of porn on the internet, were not something the vast majority of people were exposed to. Kinks have existed since sex started. But that doesn’t mean they were (or are) “normal”. “Normal” isn’t meant to be derogatory as I use it: it’s just shorthand for what the 1-sigma group in the distribution considers “typical”
There are so many technologies Microsoft has tried to go all in on over the years...Internet Explorer, Edge, and .Net to name a few.

Why they've never gone all in on the idea of Excel as a fundamental part of the operating system on top of which more sophisticated apps operate baffles me.
The main problem is that Lex is a terrible host.

I tried multiple times to give a fair shake, but Lex seems to never to any research on the guest, almost never has anything interesting to go back and forth on with guests, and seems mostly there to have a wall for guests to talk to, but somehow is less interesting than the wall.

There is no exchange of ideas, its just the guest being able to say whatever they want without any pushback.

I have no idea why interesting guests get called onto this show, other than just having a place to talk to a lot of listeners
How to go to therapy without talking about your feelings
A personal website can still be as simple as dumping a single HTML file into your hosting provider's folder. Despite everything being built up in more complex ways, that hasn't changed since the beginning of the internet. In fact the lack of web style has seen a little bit of a resurgence.
Female ejaculation. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on if it is it's own fluid or just spontaneous urination.
> On one hand, if a business generating almost $500M in revenue per year[1] is doing something illegal, it shouldn't be allowed to operate. Simple as that. If it is allowed to operate, then it should have access to the same payment methods as any other business

I suspect if all businesses were held to this standard perfectly, there would be no businesses operating that generated $500M in revenue per year. Every business at that scale is doing something illegal somewhere. Not saying I agree with the state of things, but it seems businesses have decided occasional penalties for getting caught things illegal in jurisdictions that are capable of compelling them to pay the fine, are part of doing business.
Nice, I think he did one with him in the past, that was also good
In comparison to building 5 or more times as many nuclear reactors, vastly more of whatever fuel creating facility you want etc it’s a clear win.
> they advertise one price but actually have tons of mandated fees

Isn't that illegal? They are advertising for non-existent product.
> We don't have a good way to handle equations.

LaTeX?
How is Signal secure? It’s proprietary and they need your phone number.
> Synthesizing h2 from methane is also done by electrolysis

Most hydrogen is currently synthesized from steam reforming of methane [1], not electrolysis.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-na...
Thanks for your feedback here! While we don't offer lifetime plans currently, our quarterly and annual plans are one-time.
> For me, not releasing my game ASAP is not an option. I'm living off of my savings. That's why I prefer other full time devs because survival mode is very different than safe mode.

I think you have the right mindset here, so you will probably be successful in actually shipping. Kudos to you. Looking for another person with that mindset for your group, I think, is the right one.

I'm not a game developer by the way, but I am doing the solo indie dev thing, as of a few months ago. I think a lot of people who are dabbling in game dev or indie dev, like the idea of one day doing something with it, but what they really enjoy is the craftsmanship of building an engine, setting up their tooling, creating a process, etc. In my opinion, that's fun, but it doesn't really get you closer to shipping code and seeing what the market likes or dislikes. No disrespect to anyone who likes that aspect, but I think it's way different from actually needing to ship a product.

So yeah, if you ended up including tinkerers in your group, I can see how that would change the nature of the conversations.
Sure Bruno, I'll email you now.
They are not perfect homophones. There is a slight i (IPA j) in "mute".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mute

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot
Khronos GlTF 2.0 Released as an ISO/IEC International Standard
The OG P2P network...
Same. One of the big things I don't think their management appreciated was how Reader's users skewed towards people who influenced others — journalists, libraries, the family “tech expert”, etc. — and how forcing them out of something which worked into something which simply wasn't ready to launch ensured that, unlike almost every previous Google launch, the coverage was predominantly negative. They'd had flops before (e.g. Buzz) but since nobody was forced to stop using something they liked to use the flop those didn't damage the brand anywhere near as much.
That scale doesn't really work for small startups
Yeah. C'est la vie. Glad for his contributions over the years to open source.
At around 17:30 John talks about Go in a way that convinces me that he understands the grugbrain mentality. He's definitely a pragmatic person who sees the value of simplicity in language design, particular when programming at scale.
> It's a landmark and incredible language, but it's chock full of potholes and foot-shotguns (footguns that blow off your entire leg).

There are very few footguns in C, compared to (say) C++ (or Python).

I can guarantee you that no employed C developer is putting IOCCC type code into shipping products. Pick any language you like, and turn up the code golfing to 11, and you'll be equally horrified.
I can't surface them at all for non-programming sites. Occasionally automotive, but it's still mostly AI generated made for adsense junk. I can use site: filters on sites I know about, but I can't find anything on a page I don't know that way. Your filter bubble may be different.

I mostly use Yandex now. It's not great.
I remember trimmed NURBS from back in the 80's, when the holy grail for 3D systems vendors was landing car companies as clients. It was not easy.

Later, at Square on the "Final Fantasy" movie, we were having trouble modeling our character models using NURBS due to continuity issues when more than four patches met at a corner. I resolved the issue by implementing a subdivision surface plugin for Maya. Overnight the workflow switched to polygons.

Would be great to have NURBS and other parametric representations as plugins in the system.

One of the most exciting things about this project will be seeing what gets developed on top of the system.
> I have no idea why interesting guests get called onto this show, other than just having a place to talk to a lot of listeners

That's how you get guests.
I'll ask and see.

I just renewed my CPR/First Aid they took a photo and added it to my profile with the expiration date. And it was my name and the date literally scribbled on cardstock.

It might be pedant but even a simple PDF with name, date, and subject taken would probably satisfy HR. They are rigidly loose like that.
I don't care about video, but the article notes that hangouts is being shutdown soon. I'm interested to know what they are doing with fi and the sms gateway.

Personally, I switched to rcs chat (which disabled hangouts), but I would like to get back an rcs web gateway interface. And no, "device pairing" in messages is not the same. If google actually pulls that off I'd be impressed, but I'm not holding my breathe.
My understanding is that the majority of the time it happens in porn, it's actually urination (but legally they might not be able to say that either)