skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still work-in-progress though, and people who are developing games right now shouldn't gamble on it. I would rather want to stick with something that has been for at least 5 years and has successfully shipped multiple games, so that's why I'm using Vulkan even with all its problems. (Maybe I should have used DX11 though, if I was seeking for even more stability.)
Vim does not do this "out of the box".
The US also kidnapped people in Europe to send them to torture camps in the middel east. The US military was also caught buying location data from muslim prayer apps, we can guess how that data was used.
Yeah, sadly the used car market is suffering as well!
Read more: https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a40690607/averag...
Seriously: why use Django for a REST-like service? I inherited an application that (probably) evolved from form-based to REST with a JS frontend, and I fail to see the point. There's a model, a serializer, handlers to implement relations, and multiple views per data type. It's so much overhead, and everything has to be kept in sync.
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FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Sussman
Same here. It seems to be working just fine and I always get relevant videos every time I open it. shrugs
I've got "Time spent playing: 17 days" on Lichess. Over a few years, so not too bad. But I feel it's worth it. It's not like it's all-consuming. Just a few games a day to relax.

Same when I played World of Warcraft in HS. Had probably multiples of that total playtime. I got "nothing to show" for all that time. But it was time well spent I feel. I had fun, and it's where I would hang and chat with friends during the evenings etc., so no regrets.
It's really easy to test whether or not it works - see how well the model predicts on out-of-training sample data. That wouldn't work with astrology.

There's no such thing as "physical properties of the system" other than measurable quantities that can be used to make predictions, which is what this does. There's no reason to be sure that temperature, for example, is a "real" physical property of a system rather than just one of many variables that would help us model it and understand it.

Do you think it's pseudoscientific because there's no theory-ladenness in the predictions?
you're missing something. the job of an ad company isn't too sell products, it's to sell ad spots.
This is insanely cool. Does anyone have invites so I can try it out myself?
Or that you expect a downturn that will last more than 10 years. Check out how the 10 year T note has been performing against the 2 year. Markets are not optimistic about the long term.
Out of interest, how would such a system derive material properties from a still 3d scene?

We know the leaves of a house plant will bow in the wind, because you have observed it in the wild, as a child several times. Even given non-still image training material, the nn would have to learn all of the physical properties of all the things from scratch, like a human.

To train a physics model like this to derive the properties of material from the world is going to be bound to hilarious failures.
A mountain with smoke hanging over it, is obviously a house plant.
Yes, it only takes one scroll through your "Liked" videos and noticing how many are gone to become an archivist. The Youtube folder on my media drive is quite large.
That's beautiful, he's basically meditating on code at this point i guess
look at atm cards. thaeres like 4 major players globally, controlling everything. I'm not talking about big tech building crypto wallets, I'm talking about them building features similar to what blockchains can do- fake DAOs, fake NFTs etc. the point I'm trying to make is that the end result of all these features doesn't inherently need a blockchain if a major player wants to build them
A Third Nuclear Age Is Upon Us
Just pay them more.

That's it.

The return on investment for a PhD student in Computer Science to society must be absolutely ridiculous.
> to again "point at the sun" (perhaps surprising to some NOT a full "360 degree" rotation

It's actually more than a 360 degree rotation because the earth rotates in the same sense that it revolves. So the sidereal day (1 earth rotation in physics sense) is ~ 23h 56m, and the 24 hour period is over-rotation to bring the sun back into same position, and that's more than 360 degrees of rotation.
Connect a Ruby on Rails App with React in a Monolith
I think for me it was more a journey of understanding the necessity of the function and not the person. As in, I would question the need for management or marketing.

As I matured and, in some cases, tried to perform those tasks myself, I had a respect for the function. The people may still suck but at least now I understand how good execution of that function is necessary for the organization as a whole.
From the title I thought you were talking about video quality. I've noticed the quality of videos is abysmal lately. Anything close to noise in a scene (like a waterfall, confetti etc.) is unwatchable. I don't get why they push the higher resolutions like 4K and 8K when upping the bitrate of 1080p would probably have a better impact. Marketing, I suppose.
I went to one too, and saw a talk about synchronising data between microservices and was astounded at how much work it was and the fact they had a whole team just to build tooling to debug issues on this specific company.

Basically they store 100x more data than they need because of data duplication between microservices. The company didn't even have that much customers (<1000), data or even enough users (a handful per company), but duplication was still generating several terabytes.

It's amazing how much complexity people are able to cram into simple system.

(Interestingly enough there's another recent comment on another article here talking about this exact issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320660 )
Because you can't resurrect people who died hundreds of years ago but you can potentially stop a genocide that's ongoing.
What on earth are you referring to? I assume it’s some sort of implicit joke but I don’t get it :)

Edit: Ahh, it’s the Dropbox comment of HN fame. Never mind.
> No postdocs should still be learning basic skills. The (ostensible) purpose of a postdoc is a final step to prepare very talented PhDs for a faculty position. People who are faculty material should have mastered all relevant skills during their PhD.

That attitude is very bureaucratic.

Computational research is always interdisciplinary. Administrators organize universities into departments according to the needs of undergraduate curricula, but those administrative boundaries have little to do with the skills needed in research. The skills you learn during PhD are probably enough for your PhD research, but then you may need new skills when you start a new project as a postdoc. And again when you start a new project as a junior faculty member.

Postdoc is also the career stage where many people switch fields. For example, a background in X or even computational X is often insufficient for some research topics in computational X. You need to hire people who got their PhDs in CS, mathematics, or statistics, and then those people must learn X before they can contribute. And once they start contributing, they may have to learn software engineering to turn the methods they have developed into useful tools.
Oooh good timing. Born in 81, this came out when I was 18-ish, I'm 41 now.

I got married, got divorced, did a bunch of things, some worked out, some didn't, but I know myself, I'm healthy and I'm thankful for what I have.
My bad. I didn't realize it was my fault. Let me go help that mega-conglomerate ad company make their product bearable.
TL;DR The Unhook browser extentions makes YouTube usable.

Searching for something on YouTube does not work as expected at all.
At some point they started deleting older videos with not that many views, and I remember at one time that I tried to access a video through a bookmark because it would not appear in the search results, that I was asked to state if this video should be removed or kept.

It didn't get deleted thankfully, however I could not find it easily again via the search results because of all the crap recommendations.

What I have found that makes the search work again is the Unhook extension [1,2]. By applying a few tweaks, YouTube has become usable again, as it removes most of the unrelated recommendations.

As mentioned in other comments, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are a requirement if one values their time. There are more efficient ways to support creators instead of watching random annoying ads and sponsor segments.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...
Green Parties generally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party

You can tell they are effective as they get regularly attacked by people here who seem to have a visceral hatred of them and very weird justifications for why (they're under the thrall of the fossil fuel companies apparently)

Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally, whether more representational democracy in existing democracies that have broken systens (US or UK) or spreading it further. People generally want action for climate change, the people who don't need to spend a lot of money and tell a lot of lies to hold this back. The more democracy the more they'll need to spend.

Electoral Reform Society

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/what-are-...

George Soros's Open Society Foundation

https://voxeurop.eu/en/how-george-soros-was-transformed-from...

HN types might be more attracted to the business or analytical sides though. Carbon Tracker or Bloomberg New Energy Finance which proceed from the premise that climate change is inefficient and there's market based opportunities there to be exploited.

https://carbontracker.org/

https://about.bnef.com/contact/

Within big orgs like Google and Microsoft they have similar teams I believe, looking for the cheapest and most synergistic ways for them to save money and help the climate at the same time.
Even under the e-Privacy directive cookies strictly required for a website's technical functionality are permissible. Session cookies and such don't need banner.

However, including third party services or analytics and tracking can quickly prompt a cookie banner because those are not strictly necessary for a website to function.
> JavaScript even its inventor said it's time to move on.

I hadn't seen that quote, do you have a link?
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A tangential quibble: Terrorism, not domestic terrorism. The perpetrator was foreign.
Maybe it’s all a matter of perspective? I’ve seen the ‘split things everywhere’ thing go wrong a lot more times than the ‘one big database’ thing. So I prefer the latter, but I imagine that may be different for other people.

Ultimately I think it’s mostly up to the quality of the team, not the technical choice.
COVID and lockdowns literally gave the majority of people social anxiety. They won’t give their WFH up easily.
You asked about bots and spam but I want to talk about the content degradation.
YT has been heavily commercialised and lots of people are trying to make a living out of it. Most videos are about keeping viewers for as much time possible watching your content. As a result what would have been a 2-minute video becomes a 20-minute video with introductions, discussions about the weather and silly sales/crowd manipulation tricks. Content is key and I really don't have the time for such a time waster: I'm always skipping to the point or completely ignoring absurdly long videos.
Patterns and Practices for efficiently handling C# async/await cancel processing
good question, maybe you give the money continuously (every month or so) and commit to stop giving it if the local government tries to take too big a cut – then their incentive to start taking a cut would be limited
Totally agree but I think it's only part of it, other problems probably take par in this:

- spammers are getting better and Google is less able and willing to moderate
- the use of AI without much design around it. It's speculation since who knows how their algorithm works, but from what I've read and the general mindset in ML these days, it's very possible that they just use a recommendation AI with a single target (I've heard watch time, but again, who knows) with little to not design around it. This just does not work, especially if the AI is good at his job. It's a similar problem to decision makers blindly following KPIs, knowing if you did well and choosing criterias can be as hard as taking the decision itself, and an AI can't do that, you can't avoid designing your product.
It wouldn't matter even if we had them, we've destroyed 40% of the earths topsoil and the rest will be gone within the lifetime of people alive today. It takes thousands of years to regenerate topsoil.

https://www.unccd.int/news-stories/press-releases/chronic-la...
Next step would be to get Dall-E to generate web designs based on a few preferences. “Give name a Scandinavian web design that looks like IKEA’s web site but with blue and black as the primary colours.”
Loading a resource submits your IP address to the server. If you query a server from company A you surely consent to it, if the website adds queries to company B's server it sends your PII to company B without your consent. Its especially bad when company B is Google, who operate on selling that data.
Goods and Bads about Go
Most people that talk about how portable Khronos APIs are, versus the proprietary alternatives, never really used them in anger across multiple systems and graphics cards.

You end up with several code paths, where you have an architecture similar to multiple APIs middleware, but actually it is only using OpenGL, or Vulkan, and jungling among all possible cases.

At least now they got why proprietary APIs use profiles.
Hey, maybe in the future you'll inherit your parents' recommendations. If you're lucky and your parents and grandparents made good choices, you'll have a pleasant experience that makes it easy to make good choices, and if they didn't, your digital life will be terrible from the start. We'll talk about recommendation mobility as the easy of adapting to a user, regardless of their ancestors.
>Nestle Pure Life?

According to google "Nestlé Pure Life is a brand of bottled water". What's so morally bankrupt about selling bottled water?
(If I remember rightly) the culling capabilities of mesh shaders are absolutely staggering - and the performance gains are in no way vendor restricted.
> For years, he reportedly used several tactics to acquire the T-Mobile employee credentials needed to unlock phones, including phishing, social engineering, and even getting the carrier’s IT department to reset higher-ups’ passwords, giving him access.

This man is a hero
I wrote 100ns, and meant an analog repeater. Full digital regeneration is probably in the 1-10μs range.
You can go to your history and remove videos. While I harbor no delusion that YouTube as a whole forgets that you've watched it as a result, I can vouch for the fact it does seem to mean the recommendation algorithm won't see it anymore.

I'm not immune to the occasional "cute pet" video, but the problem is the attraction basin of that is in the algorithm is so strong that if you show the slightest inclination towards it with so much as a single video view, it will instantly turn half your feed into "cute pet" videos. (There are many other such attraction basins.) Removing the view from your history fixes that problem.

It is still possible to keep the brow-level of your YouTube feed above "low". I've successfully been recommended some math videos in the past few days from channels I've not already heard of (might as well signal boost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxW42R47bc , a nice crunchy analysis of a solution to a math problem covered on Numberphile that was unsolved at the time but surprisingly has a reasonably accessible solution). But it takes deliberate maintenance.
The (original) headline says "nonprofit", but this isn't mentioned in the text, which does say "take the plunge to form an LLC in November/December".

Is it actually a nonprofit? Or... what does that mean, in this case? Curious to hear more about the business structure with regard to this if anyone knows.
Seems like a culture problem and not a talent problem. Us developing world folks do not easily say "no" because we grew up in a top-down, authority-driven place.

Americans are pretty uppity when it comes to taking orders if you compare to others.

There is also a difference in interviewing. Only in America do you have to proactively market and sell yourself. Most other cultures are more timid and humble.
Agreed and I think it's easier to compare tech to the movie industry. Just look at all the crappy movies they produce with IMDB ratings below 5 out of 10, that is movies that nobody's going to even watch; then there are the shitty blockbusters with expensive marketing and greatly simplified stories optimized for mindless blockbuster movie goers; then there are rare gems, true works of art that get recognized at festivals at best but usually not by the masses. The state of the movie industry is overall pathetic, and I see parallels with the tech here.
I think that is more of a symptom of leading edge technologies. Old school platforms the churn rate for employees is much lower.
Also useful history on the column and misattribution.

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/mary-schmich-is...
But the electoral college ultimately derives its members from people who are voted on by the general electorate.

The electoral college is an abstraction so that the states in the United States are able to have a check and balance on federal power. Having a direct democracy of 300 million people would be a bad idea, a lot of political philosophy has been written on why.

If you build on a library that builds on library using AGPL license, you are still bound by the AGPL license, no matter how abstracted. If your country ultimately derives for the people, you are democratic. It is just that the USA is technically a democratic Republic, and intentionally so.
Uncensored: https://open.spotify.com/track/4f7i5mGkpmjORhoN77kSch?si=0f3...
The concern is not that. Yes increase price if demand is high and supply is low.

However, they play those games where they advertise one price but actually have tons of mandated fees when you show up to purchase. So it makes shopping around very hard, you can’t compare between 2 dealerships as even calling them won’t give you that info. It’s predatory and anti consumer.
This isn't a problem, people have to pay their bills somehow. You can either watch ads or pay for Premium and not watch ads.
> Sure, if you can represent what the user wants to do as a "command" like that, that doesn't rely on a particular state of the world, then you're fine. Note that this is also exactly the case that an eventually consistent event-sourcing style system will handle fine.

Yes, but the event-sourcing system (or similar variants, such as CRDTs) is much more complex. It's true that it buys you some things (like the ability to roll back to specific versions), but you have to ask yourself whether you really need that for a specific piece of data.

(And even if you use event sourcing, if you have many events, you probably won't want to replay all of them, so you'll maybe want to store the result in a database, in which case you can choose a relational one.)

> If two people try to edit the same wiki page at the same time, either one of them loses their data, or you implement some kind of "userspace" reconciliation logic - but database transactions can't help you with that.

Yes, but

a) that's simply not a problem in all situations. People will generally not update their user profile concurrently with other users, for example. So it only applies to situations where data is truly shared across multiple users, and it doesn't make sense to build a complex system only for these use cases,

b) the problem of users overwriting other users' data is inherent to the problem domain; you will, in the end, have to decide which version is the most recent regardless of which technology you use. The one thing that evens etc. buy you is a version history (which btw can also be implemented with a RDBMS), but if you want to expose that in the UI so the user can go back, you have to do additional work anyway - it doesn't come for free.

c) Meanwhile, the RDBMS will at least guarantee that the data is always in a consistent state. Users overwriting other users' data is unfortunate, but corrupted data is worse.

d) You can solve the "concurrent modification" issue in a variety of ways, depending on the frequency of the problem, without having to implement a complex event-sourced system. For example, a lock mechanism is fairly easy to implement and useful in many cases. You could also, for example, hash the contents of what the user is seeing and reject the change if there is a mismatch with the current state (I've never tried it, but it should work in theory).

I don't wish to claim that a relational database solves all transactionality (and consistency) problems, but they certainly solve some of them - so throwing them out because of that is a bit like "tests don't find all bugs, so we don't write them anymore".
You could be using something like Ogre3D, then you have your Apple like solution.
always give the dev the benefit of the doubt and assume they were working under difficult circumstance with jackass stakeholders/pm's.
Chrome 104 is coming today with Bluetooth API hated by Apple and Mozilla
I believe that the "one big server" is intended for an application rather than trying to run 500 applications.

Does your application run on a single server? If yes. Don't use a distributed system for it's architecture or design. Simply buy bigger hardware when necessary. Because the top end of servers are insanely big and fast.

It does not mean, IMHO, throw everything on a single system without suitable organization, oversight, isolation, and recovery plans.
choose better categories. the stuff i watch continues to improve.
We are at ~$100 a barrel just like in 2014. How much was gas in 2014? How were oil companies profits in 2014? Do you see a problem here?
I can't actually find what mock terrorist attack these were and what effects there were.

Sure in theory enough radio active materials exists that if you somehow blew it up and vaporized the whole spend fuel pool it would require a significant exclusion zone. To put such amount of explosives into that pool to vaporize the spent fuel roads would require an absurd amount of explosives.

And the exclusion zone for these things is way to big anyway, many people live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and they are not actually negatively impacted.

But of course if you assume terrorist of unlimited capabilities there lots of technologies that are not viable and we use them anyway.
The cynical would assume firms financials the hyper-efficient public markets would mock prefer to swindle uneducated private investors.
Stretching and light calisthenics when I wake up. No need to be fancy or intense, just touch your toes, butterfly, cross arm stretch, along with a set of pushups and squats. It also helps to pay attention to your posture, and adjust chairs/monitors to prevent slouching (maybe visit the optomotrist or increase font if you're leaning a lot).
Not sure this works. For example, how do you implement search? I'm not looking forward to having to download the entire search index catalog of a web store in order to find out whether they have something.
ikr? just because a few got bored doesn't mean it's what everyone else if feeling. if anything, i'm addicted more than ever and i hate it. my productivity has exponentially gotten worse in the last 10 years of using youtube.