skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cgboost courses are in English (with German accent) and very good.

Blender Launchpad is the paid beginner's course, the Apple basket course is free and also really good. Don't watch it on YouTube (as I did), but on the cgboost web site where it has been updated (at least with text comments) to newer Blender versions.

See also https://www.thomas-huehn.de/2020/11/ein-start-in-blender-3d/
Someone tried this on me, so I reported it, and a couple days later got a "yep, that was harassment, we're acting on it". Pleasant suprise.
Yeah, bad for business. I wonder though if that stance is helpful to the general population. They are used to power. That can come in two forms at least, standing up to dictators or hoping to make shady deals with them. (Or hoping to containing the dictators somehow.)
I was thinking of looking at patterns instead of hashes and then do a closer comparison if the pattern matches
StackOverflow and "forums in the good old days" are 1- way smaller than any of Twitter/FB/etc and 2- are mostly centered on one subject: it’s quite easy to remove abuse on SO because it’s about coding and anything else should be removed. On the other hand, Twitter/FB/etc have hundreds of millions of users posting all sorts of things. Moderation is a hard problem because it doesn’t scale.

There are ~21M questions on StackOverflow, which is equivalent to the number of tweets posted every a single hour and the number of items shared on Facebook every 8 minutes.
As a smug continental European the next thing I predict regarding UK is that they exit NATO and form a government in exile in Spain.
According to the article:

> The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days after dying in 1827.

Sounds like the UK has had an undead PM.
That has to be a record for least effective Prime Minister ever.
Comes in, makes stupid decisions, gets forced to reverse stupid decisions, quits.
Reminds me of an old joke.

Back in the 60s, a Soviet diplomat ran into an American diplomat on the sidelines of some conference.

"I want to congratulate you Americans", says the Soviet diplomat, "your propaganda is amazing, it's much better than ours".

"What do you mean?", replies the American. "We don't have propaganda?"

"See what I mean!"
Yea all the time. My idea was to reduce data traffic that the user maybe a priori not be interested in anyway.

Me as a user I usually prefer more options and customizability.
The short explanation is that, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tiny blips of bombs. The super fires in a full out war will be something else completely.
There are so many independent dimensions of badness going on here that it’s hard to compare and determine who was worse.
Very refreshing to see someone actually providing a link for further reading. This raises the level of discourse on HN.

His argument as I understand it, is that the MZ twins have a different environment in ways such as being treated as more similar by their parents. This means that high similarity in one respect (such as appearance or temperament) can contaminate the natural experiment by making people assume they are more similar in another respect (such as intelligence or learning style) and treating them the same where that second trait is relevant, thus making the second trait more highly correlated than they would be by genes alone (e.g. you assume they're equally intelligent and thus give them the same education).

This has some merit but is quite far from a knock-down argument.

My previous talks with a professor studying genetics in Oxford has given me the impression that heritability is settled science and theres a huge volume of papers in the area, so I'm not going to change my mind based on an anonymous comment and a paper by a non-academic with an axe to grind without first going back and consulting with her.

Given your statements here I am quite confused as to how you can have a degree in physics while dismissing science where you can't make interventions... did you study astronomy at all in your degree?

I'm also confused as to how you state that genes do not cause intelligence, do you think a mouse is less intelligent than a human due to its lack of soul or something?

[1] https://geneillusions.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/twin_2002_...
On top of all the economics stuff, the final choice for Tory Leader is voted on by the Conservative party membership, who tend to be more right-wing than the soft righ, Davos-man Tory MPs.

The Tory MPs resent this.
What's your response to a country that invades you and threatens nuclear strikes?
Yesterday she said: "I'm not a quitter. I'm a fighter."

Hahaha.
> His code is already used in thousands of repos without proper attribution. Isn't that worse?

True. And those are license violations as well. But we aren't discussing those.

We are discussing an online service created by a large corporation that automatically hands millions of developers code directly in their IDE's which was entirely stripped from its license. There's no informing of consent or terms of use whatsoever.

> If you want to steal his code you can just copypaste it

When you copy the code from his GitHub repo, a reference to the applicable license is directly mentioned in the files you're copying from.

"stealing" in that regard would mean: willfully ignoring the license and its terms. You can't deny you weren't informed about the existence of the license. It's an integral part of the code.

As opposed to o-pilot which presents you code, giving you the impression that you can just plug it into your own projects, without informing you about any applicable terms of use e.g. attribution.

Put differently, if you're a professional and you copy/paste entire files from some random GitHub repo that doesn't contain any licensing or copyright information, well, you're creating a legal liability for yourself, your employer and anyone using that code through your work.

> No need for a convoluted prompt baiting Copilot into reproducing it.

In an utopian world, everyone would just be able to freely use whatever code is available on the Internet without having to ask for anyone's consent. We don't live in such a world. The reality is one where intellectual property rights and court cases are a thing.
There's literally a source IN the article.
There wasn't 3 separate leaders after Brown though. He lost a GE to a coalition that he wasn't prepared to form.
Yeah, that would make Tailscale a non-starter for me.
> Well the OP is about using a watch to find North.

False, or at the very least this description is incomplete. OP concerns using a watch and, critically, the position of the Sun to determine cardinal directions. If the Sun can't be located, the exercise is pointless.

> As I understand, a sextant can be used with a nautical chart, a compass and an accurate time keeper to find position,

A sextant is used to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. If the sky is overcast, a sextant is useless. Earth's skies are cloudy, and at any time 67% of the Earth's surface is typically covered by clouds, and this is especially true over the oceans where less than 10% is entirely clear of clouds.[1] But in the case of having a sextant, nautical chart and a time keeper, under overcast skys, the sunstone can replace the compass and permit the function of the sextant, and one would still be able to find position under overcast skies that would be impossible without the sunstone and with a compass.

> as long as a horizon can be found

This is not a given as weather rarely cooperates. Fog is a common occurrence on the ocean, and it will conceal the horizon.

> and you have an idea of your latitude.

I'm pretty sure those 4 items are all that is necessary to determine latitude.

> While a cool viking discovery, they aren’t really practically useful.

As explained above, on the ocean, cloud cover ordinarily obstructs the position of the Sun. So a sunstone is practical under common conditions on the ocean of skies obscured by cloud cover.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/85843/cloudy-earth
Not all the tax cuts announced were bad or badly received.

Especially, I think that the cancellation of the rise in corporation tax was very welcome and in fact economists now say that the rise to 25% will make the recession deeper and longer (unsurprisingly, frankly).

The issue was that the other cuts, especially abolishing 45p income tax rate but frankly also the decrease of the basic rate, were not discussed, not funded (which is what spooked the markets since we already borrowed and spent like crazy during Covid), and frankly everyone agrees that they were useless. Of course abolishing the 45p rate now was also extremely bad symbolically (though in fairness it only exists since 2010-2012).

I think the plan has shifted from "pro-growth, nevermind inflation" to "a good recession will solve inflation". And a 'good recession' along with higher interest rates, the incoming budget spending cuts, and maybe tax increases is also going to be quite painful for the people.
>release their software open source instead of licensing

What do you mean? Open source is not just source available.
Actually writing the license wasn't the bad part, it was that Cargo more-or-less-silently pulled in a couple dozen different projects, which means a couple dozen different projects that a responsible software distributor "should" be vetting.

(I did use some tool like you mention, but my recollection is they were pretty crummy. IIRC they just did a dumb full dependency graph, so included stuff required only for platforms that I wasn't deploying for; also I think the output format was ludicrously verbose so I had to manually trim it down. This was a couple years ago, perhaps the tools have improved since then.)
This lady was for turning.

Unfortunately, if you want to shake things up and introduce even moderately radical policies, you better have the stamina and political will and skill to push them through and keep at it.

Britain's first female prime minister had that. The third one didn't...
Solid 1.6 – Castle in the Sky
Anything that increases the health outcomes of humans in the long-run would be broadly beneficial and could stem from research that's initially targeted at understanding the role genetics plays in intelligence. That could be breakthroughs in early childhood (or lifelong) nutritional support, eradication of diseases, creating lower susceptibility to some forms of cancer or heart disease, improvements in pedagogy, improvements in general intelligence, lower susceptibility to cognitive decline.

Research is not laboring to progressively color in a pre-defined picture, where you can just tell research scientists "don't color in the naughty bits".
I think that prpl was also implying that workers at Walmart and other deli or meat departments in other stores aren't unionizing.
Maybe this is more what you're looking for? https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces

Seems to be public traces the public are submitting willingly. What's missing is a service to integrate that data into the map view/routing, unless this is exactly what Traff integrates as well, unsure.
I've been using uBlock Origin on the Nightly build for a while and it has been an absolute godsend. I only wish it were easier to try out new add-ons without having to mess around with the collections.
Well, arm and mips exist, are are no less capable than x86. And most apps don't really care which ISA they use. So that point is false.

Now, what is that about alternate OS systems which can still do everything that Linux can, including handling network or service outages?

(*well, there are BSDs, but I don't think thats what you had in mind)
> Europe is in the midst of an energy crisis the likes they have never seen. And a fair part of the issue is they have spent the last decade divesting from oil and gas without lining up any viable alternatives.

Then stopp blocking the viable alternatives. New oil andgas while banning new solar is the height of insanity
Appreciate the counsel my friend!
It's a shame the talk is over! (I posted this yesterday before the talk). It was an excellent talk by Renato about new research approaches to Hard Real Time in OSes.

The recording will appear on this channel/playlist, but at time of writing is not uploaded yet: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVuc-VIfmlz0gky_yKhIu...
so Uk about to have the 2nd unelected PM in as many months.

lets hope the next one can get your house prices pumping again.
Quantum computing as we know it requires extreme isolation from the environment, usually in the form of vacuum, RF shielding, and extremely low temperatures. I'm skeptical of a wet warm mass achieving it.

There are many aspects of nature that we have a good grasp on and evolution has failed to exploit, either at all or at non-insect scales. For example nuclear fission and fusion, neutrino detection, radioactivity, radio communication, superconductivity, and even some low-tech ones like chemical explosives, high speed projectiles, metalworking, cooking, lighter-than-air flight...
Some just because of the news, but Tories still on power and still have no clue of what they are doing. It will need a bit more stability and a better plan to fully recover.
You could say I consider myself a "Protecting Veteran".
Anyone else noticing the fairly common circularish structures in the top left of the image? It's like an uncanny number of stars are placed in circular arrangements.
Is this due to some gravitational lensing effects around some of the objects in that area (some of which are visible)?
Anecdotally I don't know a single person with solid life habits (exercise, meditation, social interaction, belief and practice with God, engagement with nature) that are on anti-depressants. I kicked the habit myself some years ago and haven't looked back.

In comparison, everyone I know on antidepressants are massively deficient in certain areas and refuse to work on them.
Huh, doesn't seem like a popular job. Isn't this pretty much the end for the conservatives in Britain? Died due to internal bickering? Doesn't seem to be a smart political move by them, perhaps even fatal?
Charges and arrests involving export violation schemes to aid Russian military
I find it stunning that Russia doesn't have the ability to make internally a thing that goes for US$5000 used on Ebay. Skill and care is required to make them, apparently their education system collapsed a generation ago.

[Edit/PS] This serves as a cautionary tale against neglecting Industrial Arts Education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jig_grinder
"as we all know correlation is not causation"

What is causation?
Probably because popular ad-ons are too good at blocking revenue channels for well connected decision makers
if you’re talented why would you ever go into politics or work as a civil servant?
we tried that in the 30s. didn't work very well
If your business outreach succeeding requires you to first convince people that they should stop using some platform that is important to them, you might as well give up on your original business because you're probably going to spend all your time on that effort.
It's not surprising though, who would really want to go into politics, in a country where no matter what you do, you'll have almost half the populace hating you? Anyone who has the skills to do well in politics could do well in business and lead a better, more private, more rewarded life. And I think that's exactly what happens.
As your sibling post pointed out I think our adhd was a benefit in preindustrial times, or at least in preagricultural times.

And a desk job with a fun coding project to do (fun coding usually doesn't pay as well) was fine for years. Hyperfocus was nothing but upside except for having to do taxes or do he occasional tedious task.

But when you get too good at your domain, and you have 10 unrelated coding projects, even if they are all fun, adhd is no longer your friend. #include wife and kids and doctors appointments and birthday parties and ...
Adderall helps now. I need to turn off my hyper adaptation quite often now.

By will alone I set my mind in motion, but I need amphetamines to slow it. It is like we were born as mentat and instead need drugs for everything except that.
Because (1) add-ons are known to have performance and compatibility issues (e.g. breaking websites - I recall hearing that the vast majority of website breakage reports for FF were just due to addons) on desktop, (2) these problems would almost certainly be worse on mobile, (3) even though it'll be the addon's fault that'll still result in a bad reputation for Firefox, and (4) Mozilla cares more about the reputation of Firefox than user freedom.

I think that #4 is bad, but I believe it to be true, with moderate certainty. I believe 1-3 to be true with high certainty.
But most people don't pull 100s of random libraries, just the few most popular and needed. The strawman where people download tens of libraries just not to write oneliners mostly does not exist, besides javascript land.
Yep, I was an actor replacement specialist at Rhythm & Hues for several years.
I agree, but luckily I’m also not affected, I live on Desktop, so uBo is all I really need for my little mobile browsing ;)
I know, this information is coming from a private conversation with an expert who has done an analysis on this and says it's actually both plausible and much cheaper to do than shipping hydrogen.
It would be a mistake to think those people "dumb", IMO. Worst of the worst, possible/probable, but even the bubbliest of ding-dongs in pop culture did not get to their positions by being "dumb". The narrative is designed for deception to garner their objective: sales, votes, distraction, etc...
I’m aware of this point, but I don’t believe that our traditional system is based on a personal desire to make someone suffer. You see those in power as all-knowing all-controlling evil beings. I see them as the best at flimsily balancing on a shitty system that is built-in/inherent to humans. Only non-human rule can change it, imo, similar to how chess, go and starcraft bots can change how the game is played. Maybe your prediction is correct, but chances that we can master business “ourselves” to optimize it for human comfort and dignity are basically zero.
Somehow, I think he would have been worse!
It's an extension of "if you can't, teach" I think. Perhaps there's a second verse to it, like with "Jack of all trades, often better than master of none".

If you can't, teach, and if you can't do that, go into politics.
I don't think there's a 'will' about it... the people who grew up with social media at every age already have a mental health crisis that society wasn't prepared for.
It's the same in many other countries. They just ain't that big and language barrier prevents from looking deeper into BS that is going on there.

Overall the issue is that this career route does not pay well. E.g. in my country a mid-level developer earns as much as parliament member. Specialised constructions workers can make as much too. Why the hell would you pursue career in politics if you can easily make as cushy living with much less stress? You must be either narcissist or... not that bright to make a living in other ways.
Looks like a good start - and lots of polish, refinement still possible.

Have you been regularly getting feedback from new people you've introduced to it to make little adjustments to the text/copy, and other elements?

P.S. I think it'd be a good idea to put your "Why" paragraph from this post right under your "Organize Your Musical Ideas" header; you could put the text in a left or right column, and then put a smaller demo video (that people will likely maximize on their own) in the opposite corner - so both the text and video demo are in the "Hero" / top part of the page where scrolling isn't necessary to see either.
> It would be neat to have an image-based runtime like Commmon Lisp or Pharo (SmallTalk) while the language is statically typed in a rich system like Lean that can generate optimal native machine code and GPU shaders, etc. A fast, interactive theorem prover is also a must. If I’m gonna have my cake and eat it too might as well go all in.

What is stopping you from working on this?
Funnily enough, in the U.K. you’ll hear the inverse refrain!
Yes, like NextDNS / ControlD / AdGuard etc. Just a way to generate funds for the development of the app, so it will likely be way cheaper (think 5x) than existing providers.

But we exist as an anti-censorship and anti-surveillance solution, so expect us to build more than just a content-blocking DNS.
2/3 tax cuts she suggested were actually supported by labour previously.

I think the mistake is more a massive communications and timing issue. She really should have announced these cuts in a staggered way, with better communication for the markets.

It would have been fine.

But she really screwed up on getting the political communication right.
>By blocking intelligence research in the US, the US is basically ceding the ground to those competing countries on ideological grounds.

Just in the 20th century USSR similarity banned Genetics and Cybernetics. While keeping ideological purity it had to sacrifice agriculture developments and, later, computers. The Genetics alternative, funnily enough, had been Lysenkoism, which is also something we can observe in the US nowadays.
There you go. But took the opportunity to buy the pound after it crashed at one of it lowest levels and made a killing out of it, rather than screaming here over a lettuce.

Everyone saw that resignation coming after the rejection of their tax cuts by the markets.
> (according to software design 'best practices')

that's because these best practices aren't geared towards producing something good - it's geared towards making something easy to understand for someone else, and easy to maintain when requirements change.

It is also designed for the lowest common denominator programmers - so that many can work on the same code base, over a long period of time.

For games, none of these goals matter at all.
Having read Brave New World again as an adult, I found it to be quite related to this theme.

Related: https://lithub.com/aldous-huxley-foresaw-americas-pill-poppi...
You aren’t working against it by letting the biggest companies in the world be exempt from the laws, you are just turning copyright into a moat for those companies.
I have been contributing to this software for a while. But the community seem stagnant. Am I overseeing something? Is there another open source software doing the same thing already?
> At this point, we can just randomly pick a citizen to be President or PM. We might have better chances that way

I have a wild idea. What if we try to select people based on their respective expertise in an area, rather than based on just popularity? If they have a science/knowledge background, even better.

Since it's based on skill and governance, we can call it something like "tekhne kratos", taking inspiration from the Greeks because why not.
Arrows – a small experimental puzzle game design
> Of course, if what the other person is saying is not worth your time, then there's no reason to be a good listener.

Sometimes you listen just as a gesture, though. To show respect and appreciation. Or you could listen so that you can ensure that the OTHER person will listen to you after.

It all depends on the context.
There's a difference between the running mate - the defacto deputy taking over in a foreseeable move and the nth choice person taking over after the two previous incumbents have been forced out.