skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like trying to drive through Germany in an electric car and having multiple standards/vendors for the chargers each with their own app, no cash, no maestro or credit card option. Especially funny when in an area with poor mobile reception (basically rendering the charger somewhat useless).

Having these competing non-standards is a pita for customers as well as for adoption. I would think that it would be the same for jwo.
APNIC, but you gotta be in the region and you can only get two /24s.
Quaternions: A Practical Guide
The best evidence for the Mozart effect is the effect of W.A. Mozart's music on the music written by W.A. Mozart.

Compare, say, W.A. Mozart's Symphony no. 25 in G minor, to W.A. Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor. It cannot be denied that W.A. Mozart-- having heard fourteen other W.A. Mozart symphonies in the interim-- was able to produce a second G minor symphony with greater acuity in both horizontal and vertical musico-spatial puzzle-solving.

Even within the 1st movement of W.A. Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor, the Mozart effect may be heard. For example, in the development section W.A. Mozart alters a single pitch in main theme that creates horizontal musico-spatial variety while also speeding up the rate at which sonic verticalities change. Such a clever thematic variation would have been statistically unlikely if W.A. Mozart hadn't already been listening to the 1st theme of the 1st movement of Symphony no. 40 in G minor by W.A. Mozart.

W.A. Mozart's output is filled with examples like these.

In conclusion, the data is in: listening to W.A. Mozart will temporarily[1] boost your W.A. Mozart.

1: Up to 1791, that is. :(
The early internet had a lot of novelty trends. The one that sticks out to me is "e-mail chains". I remember logging on to the net in 1995 at the age of ~7 years old (only 6 years after its establishment).

The answer is no -- the internet wasn't rife with scams. The dotcom bubble, however, was RIFE with garbage companies that formed and dissolved in months.

Bitcoin has been around for 14 years now. If we map blockchain progress to the internet itself, or even 3d graphics (which materialized at roughly the same time as the internet with Jurassic Park coming out in 1992 and DOOM in 1993), then we are basically in the year 2003.

By 2003, we basically had all the big players we have today - Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, but they were much smaller. EBay and Yahoo were considered in the same league at that time. Cloud computing and centralization of the infrastructure of the internet was not yet a thing.

The problem with blockchain and VCs is that there is this cargo cult attached to it. The idea is that a bunch of libertarian nerds in their 20s made it big on the internet, so the 2022 version of that must hold true with blockchain. This is a bit silly. If we step back, blockchain is mostly an improvement on ACH bank transfers and a few other things. The rest of that space is just pure Ponzinomics.
People don't need to decide if the "disadvantage" of being unknowingly poisoned until fertility is impaired is "worth it". Anyone who feels that they are too fertile can have themselves sterilized without the harm to the environment caused by these chemicals and anybody who hasn't made that choice for themselves should never have to worry about being poisoned either. That means nobody should get to decide it's worth it for them to keep using the chemicals if that means everyone else gets poisoned against their will. There's really no big moral dilemma here.
Because it's more trendy to make things over complicated and fragile
Bringing a car to a halt without regen uses only friction brakes. Bringing it to a halt with regen uses some regen and some friction. Both cars always have friction loss from rolling friction and drag.

What's not to understand about such a simple comparison?
yeah, maybe you're right. it does, however, seem to share something with basic science: it's an endeavor with no immediate or obvious value, yet expands the frontiers of knowledge and know-how for the species as a whole.
Real-Time In-Camera VFX for Next-Gen Filmmaking [video]
Complex numbers "are" (i.e. are isomorphic to, and can be conveniently thought of as) ratios of vectors in the Euclidean plane. http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf

Any kind of physics involving >1 dimensional Euclidean space inherently involves complex numbers.
The term “Mozart effect” can mean different things but one of the most objective and repeated findings is the effect at reducing seizure interictal (means between seizures) epileptiform activity which is incredibly interesting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95922-7
That also means his blog won't be indexed and won't be found in search results
Humanity has "aims"? Seems like a significant amount of folks have galloping apathy.
To be clear:

The city dump, even if you bring your own car, will charge a minimum of $33. They don’t offer curbside pickup themselves.

The movers/haulers charge $50 for a sectional, and there isn’t a separate line item for the dump fee. I consider this to generally be a decent price, since then I don’t have to pay for a car.
Beyond All Reason: open-source RTS game built on top of the Spring RTS Engine
I'm 90% sure Amazon paid SNL to make this ad (SNL does paid brand integration in various skits, see Tom Scott's video on product placement for other examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w). It's a spoof commercial where the product advertised isn't what's being made fun of. The set is unusually authentic to actual Amazon Go stores, down to the "just walk out" logo signage, and the loud and clear message of the ad is that you should stop worrying and trust Amazon. They're lampshading people's distrust of automation, especially in a liberal context of racial equity, and demonstrating that actually Keenan was really silly for thinking a computer would be racist.
Isn’t the “should” there what communism tries to enforce?
> And since when do lasers arc in space??

Webb would like a word...
That is true. I was not there and im of a completely different world.
Well, to be honest i ended up agreeing atleast partly too.
For context im from europe, and a small country arrayed against a historically and currently aggressive and strong neighbor, aaand i was conscript officer in charge of a few hundred men total.
Believe me that im not that detached from this question, however my concience about bombing civilians is also quite conflicted but heavily leaning towards the Geneva Conventions.

In conclusion; no, i dont agree that it was be "perfectly ethical" or even simply ethical, but rather a neccesity born of the lack of efficacy in the firebombing campaing. And yes, a top-down hierarchical militant society like imperial japan of the time would not have surrendered without significant show of power, of imminent destruction, demonstrated.
Im personally more convinced that Hirohito only issued the decree to surrender unconditionally due to the fear of imminent destruction of the capital, since a military society would always expect an attack on the command structure.
Good thing there won’t be any “politics” involved in the colonization of mars then right?
> Probably no matter what happens, unless the cobalt bombs go off, a few million people will survive, here and there.

Arguably that’d at least be a “human society extinction” event.

I find cities of less than about 5 million people uninteresting in terms of having enough of the entertainment and eating out options I enjoy.

A planet with a few million people scattered here and there would be incapable of much more than early industrial revolution technology I suspect. I can imagine people building steam engines, but making transistors is beyond that capability of pretty much everyone I know. Perhaps a few million people would get by scavenging electronics left behind by the 5 billion dead, but they’re not going to be running semiconductor fabs and buying new cpu or ram chips. And they’re not going to be mining rare elements and smelting alloys like modern metallurgy.

I’m not sure what small and distantly distributed bands/villages of humans trying to find habitable places with productively farmable land would look like, but it doesn’t sound fun to me…

I’m old, and _maybe_ I could justify my existence in post climate apocalypse society by being “that guy” who gets other people to carefully remove the wiring harness and everything plugged into it from every abandoned car they come across, and re purposing engine management and entertainment system components into useful computing devices and electrical gadgets, or perhaps by building carburettors and magneto ignition systems to make efi vehicles run on home grown biofuel. But I’d say I’m
Rob ably way more likely be killed (and eaten?) as an old person with no useful contribution to the clan.
His repo is here: https://github.com/dmagliola/regex_game_of_life
> (replaced by systemd-dhcpd)

Not everybody uses systemd. There are still a few distros that deliberately don't use it or at least offer their users a choice. I personally have two Linux systems on which precisely nothing has been replaced by any part of systemd.
> You can turn a satellite by spinning up a flywheel and then reabsorbing the angular momentum when you reach the desired orientation.

Wouldn't 2 of those allow for 2 different centers of rotation. If so, we can just walk though space.

:-)
I found Gentoo much easier if you knew you were going to stray from the beaten path (e.g, custom kernel, weird library choices, etc).

It's been surprisingly stable for me considering everything I throw at it, and much of what I learned has helped diagnose issues with other distros.
Or download with this utility, which was made specifically to download the Arch wiki:

https://github.com/lahwaacz/arch-wiki-docs
Rasmussen on Covid-19: ‘This origins discussion is the worst thing about Twitter
Bad Code Smells : A Comprehensive Online Catalog
Horizon Linux
> You saw Taika Waititi savaging his effects team in the clip at the beginning of this story

Waititi's comments are blown out of all proportion in this article (and also on Twitter). He points at a CGI character and says "does that look real?" but then similarly points at human characters and says "does he look real?".

It seemed like the monitor they used using in the Vanity Fair video had its brightness set too high, making the scene look more fake than it did in cinemas.
It rarely actually happens I think, but it does happen. Zillow and that other home flipping company lost billions in total.
No one is responsible for representing any of their background but you work with a diverse group of people because different people bring different ideas to the table

You cannot do focus groups for issues you don’t even know about. Race isn’t the only factor here — someone who grew up on a farm is going to have different things to say than someone that grew up in the city.
Interesting because she posts details of the gene backtracking and modelling which goes to why the Wuhan Market is the origin point we can find. And, because she's not one of the "worked there, tainted" set of scientists.
> 60 percent of respondents state that long wait times to check out are a major concern while shopping in a store.

There is an easy fix: hire people to ensure that wait time is minimal by opening as much checkout isles as possible. But in the economists wet dream the automated, humanless solution wins by being cheaper.

> The report also revealed that 80 percent of retail executive respondents believe that smart checkout is one of the most important solutions to invest in over the next five years.

Absolutely, because you have no need to pay additional squishy meat sacks when people/shoppers can do the work themselves with self checkout. Externalise the cost onto the customer.
It might gross 2 billion if it was done better.
Edward Snowden.

Isn’t it that a great achievement can only be followed by mundane life management?
A radio monitoring, recording, queing, and transmission service for emergency communications.
> It's telling that the principal use case of in loco parentis is schools - maybe it's time for that to end universally as it ended in higher education.

You're not really proposing anything in its stead, though, as far as workable systems of schooling.

Schools owe it to their charges to make it a safe place for students to be and learn: after all, they're legally compelled to be there and most parents do not have other options. I believe understanding the totality of circumstances facing kids, including things that didn't happen at school, to the best of their ability, is necessary to make this work.

I suspect you might have some views that the student should "tough it out" or "solve the problem themselves". Adolescents do not have workable ways to deal with pseudo-anonymous abuse crossing over into environments they can't escape. Even adults would suffer badly under these pressures. Yes, the legal system is an option but it's not very accessible to students and not well-suited to address these kinds of problems.

I'm a teacher at a small idyllic private school. (view don't represent employer's). We have the benefit of a mostly supportive parental community and selective admissions. Today's era for youth is a less violent and more understanding one than when I grew up. Even so, the pressures and abuses from 24/7 engagement with peers through social media are huge. It's not surprising the outcomes overall in our society are trending bad.
> That connection isn’t really obvious.

In what way is it not obvious? Here is something we need to express a lot, and our "general purpose languages" can't express it. I am not sure how it can get any more obvious than that.

The use of the word "express" is important here. Of course we can implement everything and anything once our language is Turing complete. But if that's the criterion, why do we have high level languages? After all, we surely can implement everything by punching machine code into our hex editors. Or maybe get super-fancy and add an assembler.

But we cannot express non-procedural concepts and systems, and we cannot abstract our way out of this problem the way we otherwise often can because it is the abstraction mechanism itself that is procedural.

> What about when I’m plumbing stuff between APIs and databases?

Exactly! That was precisely the use case where this became obvious to me, because in Wunderlist, for example, our iOS/macOS GUI clients were on the order of 140KLOC, and a large percentage was just plumbing, shuffling data between APIs, the persistence and the GUI.

So what do you actually do when you create this plumbing? You write procedures, functions or methods to accomplish the plumbing. To either or both (a) set up the plumbing and (b) mediate the plumbing. So you can implement the plumbing by writing all these procedures, but you can't actually express the idea of plumbing, because it isn't itself procedural. As Andrew Black puts it: "The program's text is a meta-description of the program behavior, and it is not always easy to infer the behavior from the meta-description." (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.48...)

And the fact that (a) you can always kinda sorta get away with implementing what you need using procedures and (b) we have gotten so incredibly used to this that we don't see the indirection as a problem is exactly why I call this "The Gentle Tyranny of Call/Return".

And the mismatch and indirection have a very real and significant cost. For example, WL had a significant chunk of code that translated the REST API of the backend into a "nice" set of methods. With callbacks. Which had to duplicated every time we introduced an abstraction. Huge mess, huge amount of code, and I've seen the same in every comparable system I've encountered since.

With in-process REST, all that code goes out the window. It's not needed. Now you can make implement in-process REST using current languages, and we did. But it goes against the grain of what the language wants you to do.

> you’re using very sweeping, imprecise language to describe your critique.

Nah, the language is actually very precise, if apparently unfamiliar. That is something I obviously have to deal with, so thanks for the heads-up on that.

From a software-architectural POV it is blindingly obvious. For example here is a taxonomy of software architectural connectors:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3864292_Towards_a_t...

Call/return is in a tiny little corner. That is what our "general purpose" languages provide linguistic support for. Everything else we can build, but not express.
Just a few days before the event I saw this stellar documentary about the state of Lebanon. Provides great context: https://youtu.be/RZuKyIYMSEw
LA? Palm Springs and the surrounding low-desert communities is more like it, and they're already well aware of this future.
> Some actors have digital fixes to their hair, among many of their other physical features, written into their contracts.

TIL
It's technically not a "bug" in Rust or C++, it's undefined behaviour, which is much worse than a bug! (and it's never correct behaviour)
It’s nowhere near a solved problem, there’s a large number of camera moves you can’t do with that tech, and it doesn’t help you if you have any sort of virtual or CG augmented character or prop in the shot (because you’d still have to do the compositing).

If you want to talk about The Mandalorian, IMDB credits over 380 compositors on that series. In-camera effects are fantastic, but they’re not reducing the visual effects burden.
I had cancer and a stroke; whenever I see either in a movie I get a panic attack right there (I take maybe 1 Xanax a year and it is always during a movie or series when something like that happens) (especially strokes as that was like taking acid and having a bad trip).
> been shown to be constitutional in appellate courts.

So has civil asset forfeiture but that doesn't actually make it constitutional.

When a agent of the government wants to search mine or the property of my child, I'm going to make them get a warrant every time. I have nothing to hide, but it's not worth the risk of something being misunderstood or misinterpreted and ending up with consequences from this fishing expedition. They can "particularly describe the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" along with their probable cause on the outset or not search at all. Terrorism isn't a sufficient reason to throw out the constitution, it's laughable to suggest name calling is.

My kid isn't old enough yet but stuff like this, monitoring software on laptop used for school (but purchased by parents) pushes me towards homeschooling.
> it’s all culminated in abusive studios, disconnected directors and fuck it someone else will fix my mess mentality.

> And the disrespect for VFX workers, my god, they should come join an ops team they’d get more respect.

> I guess it’s kinda to be expected when you’re just perpetually milking cash cow IP to death (hardly the innovation it once was)

I can’t help but smile reading this.

Replace “studios” with “organization at big tech company”.

Replace “vfx workers” with “software development engineers”

Replace “cash cow IP” with “legacy systems that still bring in $$$”, although yeah there’s IP there too from a while ago.

Sorry, I don’t mean to take this completely on a tangent, but I can’t help but think there are similarities here.
1: Up to 1791, that is. :(

Yeah, he had a damn hide expiring that early. :(
> The author's system includes the weights and their tracks, but not the arm connecting them.

But the arm is a part of the system. Are they not accounting for the centripetal force through the arm?

(EDIT: Answering my own question, the preprint does include the text:

> Notably, the robot’s ability to move
does not violate the usual rule against movement without
forces in three-dimensional space because the full three-
dimensional dynamics in fact include normal forces on
the robot supplied by the boom arm that confines it to
the sphere.

So the authors are (of course!) aware of this in 3D space. Their experimental setup is functionally no different from the swivel chair example.)

> In order for you to demonstrate their phenomenon, your chair would have to change position (translate) from where it started, not just rotate in-place.

No, by the same logic above, why can I not simply keep my upper arms stiff and declare them not part of the system? My lower arms and the weights are then "translating" through "space".
Chairman Dempsey on Car Hacking (2014)
>How can the world get better if no one is steering?

Did it get better when somebody was steering? hitler was a strong and popular leader. Democracy is about people being self-governmed, not about having a strong leader

Individualism is the ultimate goal of this Enlightenment era that we are still part of. The goal was to take away the power from the monarch and the collective, and empower the individual, and our civilization is succeeding at it, but our politics do not adapt. There is a reason why social democracy is unpopular in europe now: younger generations realized it was an unsustainable ponzi scheme. Our future is individualist, but our politics is hopelessly centered on the worship of The Leader
120F is not lethal when the humidity is low, you're in the shade, and you have water. I lived in Tempe for six years, and it was regularly 115F+ in the summer, hit 118F a handful of times when I was there, and that's not counting the extra heat if you're standing in a parking lot. I used to bicycle four miles to work when it was 115F, and walked a couple times.

If you look at the Wikipedia climate tables for Slab City and Tempe, they're basically identical.

You're correct that it's lethal if you're unprepared, but so are plenty of other places and temperatures at both ends of the spectrum. I wouldn't want to sleep without AC in that kind of heat. But humans have survived temperatures like that for all of history.
Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD
TRM Labs tracking your crypto transactions
If you make them ignore everything happening outside school between students that have to work together at school, nothing good will come of it, either.
It’s not like consumers don’t benefit from these chemicals

Sure I could buy all metal products but I still don’t because I still like plastic and I’m well aware that it’s destroying the world, but plastic enables my current lifestyle and I currently enjoy my current lifestyle

…As well as billions of other people.

It’s not an issue of “companies being bad.” It’s because we all love our current way of life and no one really wants to stop the companies because most of us still want the products
Anything with a sample size of one is essentially meaningless. Until you successfully clone W.A. Mozart and make some of them write symphonies practicing Mozart and some practicing other composers, we can just as comfortably say it was chance that led to the improvement in W.A. Mozart's works.
Related:

GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27866965 - July 2021 (180 comments)

In California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891036 - Jan 2021 (46 comments)

Salton Sea Notes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California Travel Journals (1961) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240296 - Sept 2015 (3 comments)
Yes. It has a minimal firmware that runs on the printer, and then all the logic and complex stuff runs on the computer.

If the two are unplugged, the print stops immediately.
It ends up being terrible for people doing the work temporarily until they get promoted. Correlation between actually doing the work and career progression is pretty strong until you get into middle management/sr IC levels.