skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in the Canadian bush and have been up close with deer, elk, moose, bobcats and bears. Of all those the moose are easily the most impressive and depending on the season can be quite dangerous, bears are obviously not the best to come across either. All of that multiplied by 10 if they have young. But I've never seen a big cat the size of a mountain lion in the wild and even though they may be shy I'm not sure if the lizard part of my brain would be sufficiently convinced of that.
> But you probably don't.

What does this statement add, beyond conveying that you don't personally care what the OP wants?
I've always liked this sort of interpretation. because it suggests that the entire universe might actually be a static object; and time itself a complete illusion.

Imagine a hyper-being that has a few more dimensions, looking down on us as we look down on Tao's treefolk. We might optimistically imagine that they see our little moment of conscious perception moving backwards and forwards in time like a motivated fish. We perceive it as one way though, because when our little window of perception moves backwards it enters a state where it cannot remember the future, and when it moves forward it enters a state where it has no reference of lingering unevenly at different past times.

Seems unlikely, but so does everything else.
“Deeper digging reliability shows that cases where epigenetic marks seem to have been inherited transgenerationally actually turn out to be conditional on the existence of a conventional DNA mutation being passed on within the family…” yet he doesn’t provide an example.
I can't tell if this is satire or genuine
This is known as ABCD: https://action-group.co.uk/the-art-of-bridging-how-to-use-th...
The Tweet very clearly violated the rule.

> The user avoided posting the link so that he would be compliant with the rules as the CEO initially interpreted them

Where did Elon interpret the rule as being that users can advertise prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms as long as they don't provide a hyperlink?

> Your expectation is for the user to avoid posting any content that runs against Twitter's financial interest, even if that content is compliant with the rules.

Why are you talking about my expectations? What I am doing here is pointing out that PG clearly violated Twitter's rules. My claim is a descriptive claim, not a normative one.
Those are talking about what used to be called Lamarckism, a claim which (especially now that we can sequence, etc.) ought to be relatively easy to test in models. (nurture being an obvious confounding pathway here)

Neither of those articles support the original rather strong claim, however.
Back when Modula-2 came out, that wasn't as much an issue as it is today, where BCPL family style is just seen as "normal".

Pascal being seen as normal, and Modula-2 not having that much an unique selling point beyond that. Sure, modules are great, but several Pascals already had C-like separate compilation and then Units came around (UCSD?) and established themselves. I think co-routines were the other big difference, and most people didn't really know what to do with that. Still don't.

I mean, it's not like nobody tried. There was a time where you both had Modula-2 implementations available and units weren't done. Borland had a Modula compiler and only introduced Units with TP 4.

On big machines, Ada stole a lot of the thunder. Somwhere I've got a "Software Engineering in Modula-2 and Ada"from that age to cover all your bases.

And then C++ went big, and here we are…

Note that I'm very happy that this is now so universally available and will definitely write a few things in Modula-2 next year.
For folks that would like something like this live during video conferencing, check out krisp.ai.
Naively it seems like you could optimise this at least for the second and subsequent switches: you could detect if the cable corresponding to the input you've previously switched to has been reconnected since last switch. If it hasn't, then you could re-use the previous EDID values for the device.

You'd obviously want this to be optional for special cases, but would that work, if implemented in a monitor or KVM?

It's not so much the delay that's annoying, but the renegotiation with something which is so obviously the same device.
But that's solely because media has always been a drug (clickbaits, cognitive tricks, etc.) serving as a power tool. The ones you mentioned, including HN belong one way or another to a "Democratic" party. And all these billionaires, well, they chose their side (as all billionaires do when it comes to power and politics) and we have what we have (i.e. "democratic" media not discussing "republican-leaning" billionaires' jets).
What's your point? That it gets people to click on links? I'm not disputing that. I'm merely stating that doesn't translate into anything useful. I don't think many will sign up to Twitter over this and clicks alone don't make Twitter money (ads do, but HN users are more likely to have them blocked or at least not click on them) so this is just adding load to their systems for nothing in return.
Spent more time writing these pointless comments
Gabe Newell (co-founder of Valve) said it best:

> One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue ... The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

~10 years ago Netflix was superior. With the shifting catalog and the pricing tiers for high-quality streaming, the value proposition is not as clear today.
This may not work for everyone, but I’m quite happy again with dvds so I can watch what I want when I like.
Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access
What day will Jared be starting?
>That's called supply and demand.

What do you think causes the demand for BTC?

I'll give you a hint: FOMO. Which is perpetuated by existing Bitcoin holders. Basically like MLM.
I don’t have a reasonable answer. Though I think some element of universal compassion would be nice to embed in our economy.

Though, I don’t imagine that can ever be governed into place, given that socialism and communism ultimately end in totalitarianism.

It’ll likely take many generations and many revolutions, but I do hope someday we figure out how to stop excusing our selfishness and naturally give until everyone else has what they need.

We could create utopia today if we could successfully fight the urges of our monkey brains.

But in the near-term, I think the best we can do is survive and chip away at the notion that just because we can take more, we don’t have to.
Nvidia ends Gamestream on all Shield devices. Suggests switching to Steam Link
He stills owns it so he is still responsible for it.
Likewise, a huge percent of the conversation on Twitter right now is about the present and future of Twitter, so I guess that doesn't qualify as real community engagement either.
Crypto is a terrible environment. I know a couple of people that scored really big at the obvious expense of others, and one guy that is now circling the drain after being super high for a while. It's great to see you managed to escape the lure.
>> This news shows that practical fusion is now only an engineering problem, not a fundamental physics one - like it still is for Tokamaks and Stellarotors.

Hahaha! That is the funniest BS I've heard about it yet! Fusion has always been "only an engineering problem" since the first H-bomb and this approach might actually be the farthest from useful even with is.
What about those of us who have found work via Twitter?

> advertisement honeytraps of outrage

You are describing an experience that is utterly unfamiliar to me.
Calling it "range anxiety" suggests some unwarranted psychological condition that can be fixed with education and thus will go away, as opposed to people's natural desire to not be on a short leash.

They don't want to skip work because they wake up in the morning and when they walk into their garage they see that they forgot to plug their car in last night on the way home from the show. And damn, they need to drop their daughter off for her music lesson (and of course pick her up) - they were planning on getting some shopping done during that time, and it's right after work.

In other words, people are juggling all sorts of stuff in their heads as they run around doing errands already, and want things to be as stateless as possible. Now gas in the tank isn't stateless, but it takes 5 minutes to fill up, so it's effectively stateless, in that you can squeeze 5 minutes any time you want and there are gas stations everywhere. It doesn't require planning. It's not something you have to think about before you agree to give someone a ride -- you can always just get gas on the way. So you don't need to keep in the back of your head what your car battery situation is when someone asks you to go pick up something or take them somewhere. That's the issue, and short of changing family relationships, it's not going to go away anytime soon.

That said, there's certainly a market for fun cars with shorter range -- they used to be called "Weekend cars" -- cars you drive just for fun, but not your daily driver. That would be appropriate for shorter range cars.
That makes sense but I think it's still ergonomically incomparable to having ctrl right next to my thumb. At least for me who use it so very frequently.
I can tell you that regular people took the announcements as a sign that nuclear fusion as a real useful thing is imminent, and couldn't be convinced otherwise!

But then if your announcements are completely rational you don't get as much funding. A lot of us nerds on HN don't like it when people do propaganda, but I assume we also like to win, right?
Using the Same Cluster for Different Environments of Data in Elasticsearch
I wrote an article to share my experiences. And I wrote another one as next article. You can find it in :

https://kulekci.medium.com/using-the-same-cluster-for-differ...
> fastest one is eating Chicken McNuggets

Usain Bolt did so on a special occasion, he explained he just didn't know where to eat

It's pretty obvious his average meal is not "fast" food, he would never have reached this level else
The scary thing is how many people see him as a role model.
The FAQ does not explain what scroll is or does near the top of the document. It seems to produce HTML only.
As I understand it - correct me if I'm wrong - one of the consequences of the December 5 experiment is that the engineering uncertainty was brought into the realm of "this now fits the progress of engineering, so we expect to be able to engineer the thing given sufficient capital and time", rather than the previous "we have no idea if we'll ever be able to engineer this thing".
This will save Christmas.
I wish youtube could have such an option, along with sound normalization and perhaps compression. So many videos, lectures and chats have bad sound and it really becomes an issue for people who dont have the best hearing.

Also would be great if used in Zoom recordings of podcasts
Doesn't this split incur some horrible scaling artefacts? Does it work well even
for text?

I have a similar function on my LCD monitor and its basically useless, it seems it throws away 50% of the pixels or something.
Tesla is the market leader in electric vehicles. Tesla sells more EVs in the US than all the other manufacturers combined.

https://electrek.co/2022/10/18/us-electric-vehicle-sales-by-...

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/13/fully-electric-vehicles...
Well, yes. Considering this is a NEW development, listing a bunch of things that aren't new doesn't exactly answer the question, does it? That leaves your argument consisting of...OnlyFans?
Lisp didn’t add any value to my life
I'm pretty sure though; many people wear or use religious symbolism without being religious themselves or aware of it being a religious symbol. (not just physical items like jewelry, think behaviours or sayings as well).
Shhh bot – A free telegram bot for Speech to Text on a PI 4 with Whisper.cpp
I have a pet hate, it's voice notes in WhatsApp or Telegram.
Quite often the voice notes remain unheard for hours, due to the call to action (the notification) not letting me see what I need to react to, or if I'm in meetings and cannot listen for a period of time.

There are paid for services which can transcode speech to text but none free I could find. With the release of Whisper this has become something I thought could be solved with some minimal coding.

While Whisper relies on GPU's, Whisper.cpp does not and can run on a CPU with 1Gb ram (about 500mb for the model) enter the Pi 4.

I wrote a telegram bot in Python using python-telegram-bot which calls whisper.cpp to transcode speech to text. Here's my bot which is open to all, but you could start your own, with a Pi 4 and an always up connection, you can leave it running for when you need it.

Due to the constraints on the Pi 4, it only runs the English model and may result in errors for other languages.

Check my bot out here
https://web.telegram.org/k/#@shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh_bot
Check out Whipser here
https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

Check out Whipser.cpp here
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
I can’t believe it’s 2022, we getting closer to fusion power, but we still need JS for something like this. Crazy!

Hopefully the spirit of future christmas shows the w3c how to do this :)
I think HDMI EDID Emulator can be useful. For instance, https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B095JXDM84/ref=ppx_yo_...

In my (very poor) understanding, it 'caches' the information about monitor capabilities. I used it to prevent my laptop from rearranging windows when my monitor goes to energy saving mode.
Aha Moments (2006)
I believe much of the love for Modula-2 comes not from the language, but the development environment from ex-Borland Jensen & Partners, TopSpeed Modula-2. It was even better than the Turbo suite from Borland.
Now for the compare:
Organic wheat vs Conventional wheat.. and if you have organic wheat that is "clean" you know the field was adjunct to conventional wheat. Its ugly, but in some aspects conventional is more healthy then organic wheat.

My brothers master-professor loved to point that out during field inspections and sampling.
Thanks just ordered one!
The ability to land shit from orbit at a moving target looks somewhat more menacing from that perspective ;) Fortunately private jets move a lot faster than barges. Think of it as a POC.
Monorepos makes the dev experience simpler, at the expense of more complex CI

I was resistant at first, but have found it to be a worthwhile trade-off
Are they going to make battery armor to save weight?
Why is this not on a corporate blog? It makes no sense to me post this sort of stuff on GitHub. Are they that broke they can't afford to host a static site on s3?

Edit: Nevermind, I see why. So people star their GitHub repo. People go there and oh that sounds interesting. Give a GitHub star. Then they use that as social proof which they do in the post. Smart idea.
To really understand the golden age of streaming TV, you have to know about the Netflix/Starz deal [1]

In ~2008 Netflix delivered DVDs by post, and the only people getting their video online were pirates and anime fans. So when Netflix approached Starz to license streaming rights nobody else wanted them, and Netflix got a great price for loads of content like recent Hollywood movies. Allowing them to offer a huge catalogue to US viewers for $10/month.

By 2012, when the contract came up for renegotiation, Hollywood had worked out that streaming rights were big business - and they figured their output was worth way more than $10/month. There were $100/month cable packages that got you less than you got from a $10/month netflix membership, that's a lot of money left on the table - so of course the deal didn't get renewed.

And Netflix has never been the same since.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2012/02/29/technology/netflix_starz/in...
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and wanted to say that I completely agree with your statement.
I picked these metrics because I find them very useful to explain the differences between the rendering options. I did not mean to say that every website needs to optimize for all of them.
Nvidia has a similar thing called RTX audio, but its even more impressive and runs live on recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWUHkCgslNE
I think IntelliJ is getting worse, but at least you have a perpetual fallback license, which I might use at one point, as they are augmenting my code so much with everything, that if I open some source files in a plain text editor, they look completely different. I find this extremely annoying, because I don't want the IDE to change my view of the code so much that it starts interfering with it.

Spotify is more of a content provider, but even there, a few year ago I found it to be one of the best software out there and their Spotify connect was just magic. Not hey seem to be everywhere: soundbars, watches, the apps are a bloated mess that I need to restart Spotify desktop in order to update the like of a song that I liked on my phone. But this is the natural lifecycle of software products, something starts off as a great product coming to replace some sort of legacy monster, only to end up becoming the monster that they replaced.
Elon Musk voted out of Twitter in his own poll
I remember the sound of just keeping the "Channel Up" button on the remote of my parent's 90ies TV pressed. It was like 10 channels a second, just gliding through syllables. "Br-Da-Wi-Pl-Ka-Ts-Mm-Di-Tu-S-Za-Ol-".
Interesting; I had been planning to use wrist weights as analogue low pass filters, if my time comes.

However: if we can do this surely one of the mainstream browsers could figure out how to "not process a click if there has just been a relayout within the last N milliseconds"?
The problem is that with the way multi-process browsing works there is a long-lived parent process, which is only shut down when you fully close the browser, and there are a number of potentially shorter-lived child process that handle the actual browsing and rendering of web content.

So at any point the browser needs to be able to potentially launch a new child process if you open a new tab, or even just browse to a different website on a different domain (origin) – which thanks to site isolation nowadays requires a separate process, too, unless perhaps a page from the same origin is already open in a different tab.

If thanks to an ignorant update service the browser's binaries have been swapped out from underneath it, that now means that you've got an "old" parent process suddenly talking to a "new" child process, which isn't an officially supported configuration.

If you're lucky, there were no breaking changes within the browser and things might work anyway, but there are no guarantees that things always turn out that way, since the API between parent and child processes is a purely internal one and browser developers feel free to rejigger it any time they need to.

While in principle you could try to develop the browser in such a way that a certain amount of forwards/backwards compatibility is preserved between an older parent process talking to an updated child process, I presume that doing so would also significantly complicate development on anything that touches the parent/child process interface, and you could equally claim that it's Linux's package manager behaviour regarding updates (just swap out the files underneath a running process) that's broken.
Twitter Users Vote for Elon Musk to Quit as CEO
Vox populi , vox dei
That's true, but it operates at a different level than parent is talking about. Romans and Huns were both human, so they both had a capacity for violence. Performance improves with practice, however. Parent contends that the inherent (inter-species) violence of pastoral life functioned as practice for the Huns' violent conflict with Rome.

That isn't totally convincing, given that Rome at that time had dominated pastoral cultures for hundreds of years. It's possible that Rome had become more vulnerable, and the Huns just had good timing.
But no one is argueing we should be allowed to just do whatever and waltz all over people's wishes, of course there are limits, and of course we should take people's beliefs and traditions in to account. I don't think there is any serious researcher left who feels any different, even though there might be disagreement on where the limits are exactly.

And that's really what this is about: what is reasonable? If a group doesn't want to learn about past acts of violence and prohibits anyone else from studying it, is that reasonable? Are the victims of said violence also not entitled to this research?

Italian Churches may close their doors, as is their right, but Italian churches aren't preventing entire areas of research from happening. Churches did in the past, and still try today at times, and people generally aren't too positive about that. Even most hard-core young-earth creationists don't really make any effort to stop research from happening: instead they do their own "research" in an attempt to refute the genuine research.

I would say that a large part of why Western culture has slowly becoming more liberal and empathic over the centuries is the study of history, and understanding what happened, and more importantly why.

I would strongly encourage everyone to object to anything they don't like, either as an individual or as a group, but I think it's foolish to simply shrug and accept any objection without any examination on how reasonable it is. "I don't want you to take a picture of me" is reasonable. "I don't want you to take a picture of anyone of my ethnic group" is not.
They literally said it would take decades for this to become "useful", I don't think they made it seem closer than it is at all
Meaningless anecdata, but as a child and teenager I absolutely loved milk (I was drinking 1 liter of it a day in my teen years). I grew to be 190 cm (around 6 ft 3 inches), whereas both of my parents are around 1 foot shorter.
Absolutely! And it doesn't help that each framework has 2-3 ways to be spelled: Is it nest, Nest, or NestJS vs Next or NestJS?
In fact, one of the reasons Wesley got such a bad rep back in the day was because fans considered him to be a genderswapped Mary Sue, introduced to appeal to the younger audience. Ten years later, people would probably have considered him to be a highly-competent Jar Jar Binks.

That caused the character to be abused on-screen, first as a cheap vehicle for audience representation, later as your favorite whipping boy when it became clear he didn't appeal as much as originally intended. And eventually, he was written out of the show.

I'm glad Wheaton still managed to get out of there not completely jaded.
I like the author’s cautious and careful explanation of the context. And so greater my disappointment with a phrase like this:

“These models can understand and extract relevant concepts and relationships from unstructured text…”

Models “understand”? Is the author being cheeky? Why so careful, and then drop such a blatant anthropomorphism? Sheesh.

Writing is hard.
The update process broke a few times for me in Arch. Only been using it for a couple of years.
Didn't Wesley have at least the story line where they accidentally killed another student with a risky and banned manoeuvre? He didn't came up with the idea, but still he failed to stand up to the guy who had and became an accomplice.
It's sad to see that when this topic comes up, there's so little interest in addressing the causes of these problems rather than simply treating the symptoms. It's especially concerning that people who otherwise present themselves as liberal and libertarian are in favor of such authoritarian policies in this area, especially when all evidence suggests that that simply makes the problem worse. It seems like there's no space for welfare, healthcare and social work, just violence.