skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd/ironic fact: people didn't believe the Earth was flat back then. That's a modern confusion. They believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. Wikipedia has a whole article dedicated to this common belief:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

"The earliest clear documentation of the idea of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks (5th century BC). The belief was widespread in the Greek world when Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC. This knowledge spread with Greek influence such that during the Early Middle Ages (~600–1000 AD), most European and Middle Eastern scholars espoused Earth's sphericity.[3] Belief in a flat Earth among educated Europeans was almost nonexistent from the Late Middle Ages onward ... Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution"

I asked ChatGPT the same question and it prevaricated:

"There is evidence that some people in medieval times believed the Earth was flat, while others believed it was round. The idea that the Earth is round, or more accurately, an oblate spheroid, has been around since ancient times. The ancient Greeks, for example, knew that the Earth was a sphere. However, the idea that the Earth is flat also has a long history and can be traced back to ancient civilizations as well. During the Middle Ages, the idea that the Earth was round was not widely accepted, and there was significant debate about the shape of the Earth. Some people continued to believe in the idea that the Earth was flat, while others argued for a round Earth. It is important to note that the medieval period was a time of great intellectual and scientific change, and ideas about the shape of the Earth and other scientific concepts were still being developed and debated."

But from what I know, it's wrong, at least as far as we know the historical record (of course there may have been peasants who believed otherwise but their views weren't recorded). The fact that the Earth is a sphere is obvious to anyone who watched a ship sail over the horizon, which is an experience people had from ancient times.
It seems too early to call it definitely good or definitely bad. Feels like it should eventually be one or the other, though.
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> It looks just as sharp, and has more presence

on an lg oled display i instantly notice when something is 1080p vs 4k.

i suggest watching an old movie in 4k. for example die hard in 4k is absolutely incredible compared with the DVD release.
> They reverse engineered the language and named it differently because they had no rights over JavaScript at the time

The story I heard was that it was the Java trademark that was a bigger problem for Microsft naming it JavaScript. But that's somewhat irrelevant as you're right about the more important point about how JScript was reverse engineered from JavaScript.

> Even MS is not evil all the time

There was a lot of differences Microsoft introduced in JScript and as you said, Netscape submitted Javascript to ECMA for standardisation only a year later yet MS still pushed ahead with IE-specific language features to lock people into IE.

This was a common stunt Microsoft pulled back in those days. Microsoft even had a term for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
After seeing and writing my fair share of production C++, I have the impression that dealing with its complex semantics will inevitably absorb most of the brainpower of the engineers working on the codebase.

New code has to be carefully considered and examined for its potential invisible side effects, abstractions have to be expertly designated, you rely on a whole playbook of idioms for solving everyday tasks.

To me, Rust looks like a simpler language. If someone already understands the intricacies of C++, there isn't anything they wouldn't be able to grasp there (including the borrow checker, which C++ programmers have to run in their heads every time they make a change).

It's funny how technology develops. We sometimes get stuck in local minimums and it takes an enormous effort of thousands of people to move the needle a bit from there.

I wonder what's going to be the next thing after Rust. Considering how much time these things tend to stick around, I might be dead by then.
Java is the only language I have seen reliably developed from multiple OSs as a team. Even JS fails at this, as plenty of its packages are wrappers over native tools, which more often than not fail to run/run the same way on different OSs. Java on the other hand is basically 100% pure, dependencies/tooling doing FFI is very rare
It's an interesting question. Solving extremely difficult math problems, e.g. the Riemann hypothesis or P vs NP, would be very impressive. Or coming up with algorithms given many examples of desired results. There should be many benefits to having a much better short-term memory and instant access to the accumulated human knowledge. We've already seen AI do surprising things through just pattern recognition, such as predicting a patient's race from medical images when human experts cannot do it. AI might be able to understand an extremely complex system, such as the world economy, and tell us what to change to make it work better.

It might not be what you asked for but in practice "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" rule will come into play even with just quantitative advances. And we might get practical quantum computers at some point...
Do not forget that every OS update needs to go through your carrier before arriving to you, and they might not care to do the vetting work, barring you from getting the updates.

On the other hand, an iPhone is usable for 9-10 years with updates and EOL support. You'll change your battery once in mid-life if you look after your device well.
I enjoyed this very much, thank you

Here’s a snippet for anyone interested

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
Why is American chocolate so disgusting? You don’t want to know
I’m a skinny / athletic person. The reason is a doctor told my parents not to feed me any sugar until age 2-3, as fat cells are created up to that age. After that, they only change in size.

I don’t know if that’s a scientifically proven thing, but indeed i simply can not gain weight, whatever i eat. As if i had zero fat cells.

The only downside is that I’m often cold, which is of course far easier to manage. I’m not a water person though, as its nontrivial to “dress up” for swimming.

It’s a miracle, please spread it. The next generation could avoid the fatness problem alltogether.
> have 9 pregnant women deliver a baby in one month

Well, I have the feeling that they waited 8 months with no babies, and giving up just a month before they get 9.
C is cross platform for a hello world. Anything more complicated and you are deep in OS-specific system calls/libs.
I think that people are taking the (rather implicit) message in the article a bit too literally, and overlook the fact that it also takes interest to continue making music. There's simply no way to overcome the initial technical hurdles: they are quite big, although simpler for piano and guitar than for e.g. violin, and simpler for blues than for classical.

IMO, it's good to push your technical skills, but it's pointless if there's no internal reward. I happened to like classical music as a child, so I was frustrated when my first music school focussed on very simple arrangements of middle-of-the-road music. Switching to someone who taught (simple) Bach was much more rewarding, validating even. My parents did let me play whatever I felt like, though. I played my exercises, but also played popular music by ear (mainly for them, BTW).

So talent is one factor, which can be partially overcome by technical exercises, but interest in the music itself is what kept me playing.
The real problem is that we spend hundreds of billions advertising food.

If we spent 10% of what we spent on food advertising on large, well funded cohort studies, we'd be far better off as a species.

Humanity's greatest crime is how little science we fund.
> 4K feed (which is not that common or costs a lot more)

from my experience 4K and 1080p costs the same. not only that, but i haven't really seen popular youtube uploads or movie streams in 1080p for a good chunk of years now.
Any reinforcement learning system meets your first definition. RL systems don’t typically use separate practice sessions, though you could create one that did. But the need for deliberate practice maybe be just a biological brain thing. Instead, RL systems usually have a parameter for how much to explore new options vs. taking what seems to be the best. This lets them learn continuously as they go.
I think the use of the word 'eat' is a bit non-specific. Macrophages cannot survive on a diet of virus. They can absolutely 'eat' it in the sense of taking it from outside the cell, breaking it down into constituent components inside the cell, and then putting it back outside the cell as waste, but they can't use viruses as a food source.
I write low latency Java for a living (usual finance type stuff). Our fund has started to use some Rust but I've not yet delved. I'm still trying to resolve whether it will be worth my time to do so. I'm one of those unusual people who really enjoys Java programming for the most part because it both allows you to be very productive but also offers enough sophistication to achieve really high performance.
Lime Kiln
It's time to stop with the god damn ChatGPT spam in HN comments! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k0SmqbBIpQ
I had a tour around this cathedral a few months ago which was really interesting. The cathedral is built very similar to a castle. There are window slits for archers to defend, murder holes at the doors and also two big quarters for soldiers. I think the guide said at one point two hundred soldiers lived there (along with the clergy) in medieval times.
Its already happening. People here are just not in the industry.
Of course its not replacing everyone but its replacing certain subset of that work. The way forward its gonna be about specialized datasets like midjourney that stole all work from artstation and now does tedious commercial art really well (and gets better all the time).

Artists will be forced to use these tools.
Whats more they are also gonna be always in competition with them. This will bring their wages way down and over time they’ll loose any agency they had. From valued professionals that spent decades honing their skills to being run of the mill AI photobashers.

Not great if this is future of knowledge work professions.
As a kid from a poor family, Sound Blasters were too pricey and I ended up with something called AdLib in early 90s. Used to just beeps and screeches till then, suddenly hearing X-Wing music (not much speech, that was weakness of it) playing actual music from loudspeakers was shocking.
> The reason is a doctor told my parents not to feed me any sugar until age 2-3

What I take from this is that the actual reason is, "I had parents that were concerned enough with my nutrition to not feed me much sugar as a child, and those healthy eating habits probably didn't stop after age 2-3. I now cannot gain weight, even if I eat what I perceive as a lot of food (because I grew up eating healthy food and portion sizes)."

I was one of those "I can't gain weight/put on muscle" people for a long time. I eventually tried eating literally double what I would normally eat, and as expected, I started gaining weight.
Yes, the problem is to replicate hundred of millions years of acquisition of heuristics that allows cognition on «natural» environment. Those heuristics defines all bricks our cognition is based upon, think of basics things like objects permanence, we just cannot reason without such ability.

To me, as long as no AI manage to replicate those bricks, at least some of them, it won't be able to interact with us in ways that helps us efficiently with the outer, real, world.
WFH and ft remote was always a thing. It was not invented for COVID.

So of course some WFH positions will still exist but based on my alerts for different roles the number of full time WFH jobs have dropped off the cliff back down to what I would consider precovid levels
Step 0: have crows actually dwell near you :(
He didn't pay for that Picasso. He paid for a receipt stating he owns that Picasso signed by crazy uncle Eddie.

When you buy an e-book you don't pay for "proof of ownership" like with an NFT. When you buy an e-book you get an actual file containing the data of the book. With this file you can read the book. With "proof of ownership" you can do exactly nothing.
Good to see mainstream accessibility work on high-quality text to speech.

On iOS/macOS, VoiceDream has offered flexible apps with voices in multiple languages and accents since 2012, e.g. for reading PDFs, web, non-DRM ePub books and scanned text, https://www.voicedream.com/about/.
Certainly it's one of the largest issues in society today.

We simply don't have much of an idea how the human hormone system works, or how it reacts to all the chemicals present in the "Standard American Diet."
This is how LastPass started the efficient downward spiral, no? This isn't shocking, but also is.

Is it wise to simply keep private repositories away from GitHub at this point? It seems the best way to avoid being drawn in with the rest as a target.

Internal bad actors? So location wouldn't matter?
To some degree, I'm probably at least curious about what SEOs are selling. If it's art, it probably popular and I'll want to know what it is, and if it's tech, people with money for SEO are often also the ones with money for innovation.

I don't usually buy stuff in ads(Actually, I rarely buy anything nonessential without thinking for a week about it), but Google's results usually are interesting, if a bit creepy and echo chambery.

I don't just use Google to learn things and accept the first results, but I do use it as a starting point.
Can you give an example of routing based on verbs?
I was quite overweight for 20 years, now I'm just a bit thicc on my way to a lean muscular physique. It feels good. The biggest factor was getting away from the wrong people and habits. I'm not a fan of artificial intervention because I believe I should be able to get my body in line. It takes time for your body to adjust to the absolute shit you did to it for decades. I always said in my head "this is payback for what I did to me for 20 years, how can I expect to just turn on a dime." There is a good chance I will be the sexiest 40 something for miles around (I live in the middle of nowhere, but still!) The best feeling is looking great in clothes. Finding well fitting stuff is now fun.

You can do it. If I can do it.

Be warned that people who know you from the other physique will mock you for taking care of yourself. Be glad they are mocking you, it means you did something right. I felt such a sting the first time, it was traumatizing. "Shouldn't you be happy for me?" Turns out the answer is "no".
Forgive me for hijacking your comment and planting a reference to one of my favorite Hieronymus Bosch websites (warning: contains music): https://archief.ntr.nl/tuinderlusten/en.html#

Imagine this website being made for a Stable Diffusion generated image...
> in the US and other free countries the state serves the people's interests, and the corporation is a group of people with common interest.

Does it? I'd argue that in a lot of free, western countries the state does serve the people, but more so the ruling class and those in power. Which can happen to align with the peoples interests, but often does not, in my opinion. Lobbying, advertising and the available funds for campaigns tips the scale heavily to one side. And those in power in the west are? Exactly, the rich people from the private sector.

Citizen's United seems okay, but you can't tell me that what this tries to prevent happens constantly behind closed doors. Of course that doesn't make it less important.
Democratizing Index Tracking: Meta-Learning GNNs for Sparse Portfolio Selection
Have you ever wanted to invest in a US ETF or mutual fund, but found that many of the actively managed index trackers were expensive or out of reach due to regulations? I have recently developed a solution to this problem that allows small investors to create their sparse stock portfolios for tracking an index by proposing a novel population-based large-scale non-convex optimization method via a Deep Generative Model that learns to sample good portfolios.

I've compared this approach to the state-of-the-art evolutionary strategy (Fast CMA-ES) and found that it is more efficient at finding optimal index-tracking portfolios. The PyTorch implementations of both methods and the dataset are available on my Github repository for reproducibility and further improvement. Check out the repository to learn more about this new meta-learning approach for evolutionary optimization, or run your small index fund at home!
you and me both. there's nothing wrong with doing, you just have to do different things. put the screens down and go outside as Mother used to say. i found feeling physically exhausted rather than mentally is pretty refreshing.
do jobs around the house, buy some wood and build something in the garden or whatever. just reduce on the computer related pass times and don't do any uni work, that's a sure fire way to get burnt out which isn't great considering you've barely entered working life.
The emojis distract from the earth porn so much that it almost feels like a commentary on phones and their distraction.

Not sure if it's on purpose but it's definitely an interesting piece of art.
I’d add drift detection on everything IAM / SCP / Org to this list too.

A session token with only a few minutes validity can be enough for someone to make their access permanent.
Most of YC Cofounder matching is full of those same grifters, that have 0 tech know how and expect you to do everything
Thanks for elaborating - but to reinforce GP's point, usability and ergonomics is a huge problem on the modern web. Personally, I'm heavily positively biased to simple and old-school UIs because, despite all the things they got wrong (like the ones you mention), they hail from an era where people cared about ergonomics, or at least weren't purposefully trying to make it bad. Simple, "brutalist" design is thus a signal for me that the site is much more likely to not be actively user-hostile.

Modern UI/UX zeitgeist is driven in large part by the web and mobile, which are driven by the "attention economy". The defining aspect of attention economy is that it makes money on friction. The longer it takes you to accomplish your goals, the more opportunities there is to display you ads, or upsell you something, or tire you out and make you more susceptible to be funneled to where the vendor wants you to be. The major design guidelines and UI frameworks are written and provided by advertising companies, and are focused on controlling the interaction, not empowering users. In this environment, ergonomics and good experience - meaning a tool that helps users achieve what they want as fast as possible, and gets out of the way otherwise - is actively discouraged.
This is presumably why American corporations typically live in such fear of individuals with a good case and modest resources.

I know this isn't your idea @bdowling, and it's actually interesting to hear the reason, but I couldn't resist /s posting.
In the case of Joe Rogan, Kylie Cosmetics and the Gartman Letter, an individual is the product. To me, it does not make sense to include these in the list.
Girlfriend...or get stoned
So are toilets? What’s the insight here?
Crashing a browser process with CSS is certainly up there in WTF moments. I've had to debug one such situation in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265708

The call chain from the renderer can be surprisingly deep.
All right; I've done some more looking.

Shifting the digits is exactly equivalent to biasing the number; in this case, changing the interpretation of the graphical symbols "0", "1" and "2" to be the numeric values -1, 0, and 1 just means we subtract trinary 111 = decimal 13 from our three-digit value. So we could represent the value -4 as "0--" (in "shifted trinary") or we could represent it as "100" (in biased trinary, since 9-13 = -4) and those representations are glyph-to-glyph isomorphic. Since the representable range of three digits of ordinary trinary is 0-26, the representable range using three of these shifted digits is -13 to +13.

Using this -/0/+ representation, it is easy to state a weighing schedule in which the absolute value of the three trinary digits you get as output from the scale represent equals the label (1-12) of the misweighted ball.[1]

But it appears to be impossible for the representation to be positive whenever the ball is heavy and negative whenever the ball is light.

Let's assume that we record a - when the scale tips right and a + when the scale tips left.

The problem is that every time we do a weighing, there will be at least one ball on each side of the scale. (Or else the weighing would generate zero information.) So without loss of generality, there is a ball L on the left of the weighing which gives us our most significant digit, and a different ball R on the right of the same weighing.

Since we record a - when the scale tips right, our most significant digit will be -, and therefore our overall result will be negative, whenever ball R is heavy. This conflicts with your stated goal of having the result be positive whenever any ball is heavy.

This will make it difficult to design an algorithm to diagnose the ball that doesn't involve any branches - we can "branchlessly" (to the extent taking an absolute value doesn't branch) determine which ball is misweighted, but we need a branch (or a lookup table) to determine whether it's light or heavy.

[1] This will do the job:

6 8 10 11 vs 5 7 9 12
3 5 7 11 vs 2 4 6 12
1 2 5 10 vs 4 7 8 11

Record 0 when the scale balances, and otherwise plus or minus 1. The magnitude of the result will always equal the value of the misweighted ball, but the meaning of the sign is different for balls 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 12 (which have their first appearance on the right) than it is for balls 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, and 11 (which have their first appearance on the left).
I have to agree with this. An also, Rails.

There are some API methods very poorly documented and all you can do is try to get lucky for a 2007-2009 comment in it.
Maybe most kids don't really have a chance of learning what they really want, if all their major life choices are made for them.

"If he didn't play the first 6years, he won't be able to enjoy "jamming" with friends"

Have you ever learned something with passion vs were forced to?

When kids want to learn something, they are really, really fast at it, meaning he could have started learning at that moment. And you can do simple jamming, without a proper musical education.
Diagrams – draw cloud system architecture in Python code
> a hotbed of technological innovation

Sounds like the type of technological innovation we could use less of nowadays.
Linux disk images
We can dream but I fear its getting worse. IMO organizations like the WEF are spreading neo feudalism via globalism, empowering the corporations at the expense of the everyday individual and the environment.