skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like drawing. I started a few years back mushing paints around to express my emotions, moved on to basic faces in pen over a couple of years, and now I'm doing pencil portraits.

Part of what I enjoy about it is that you're expressing what's coming to you, rather than trying to achieve a goal. It worked well to build up slowly through different levels of complexity, and it was fun to watch how things developed. I didn't have any aspiration to be able to draw like I can now when I first started.
They have plans. Now that they've locked Google and Facebook out of all that app tracking data, they can make a killing off it.
Project Management Is a Graph Problem
> It is telling that no real alternatives have emerged during the 40+ years of TeX's existence.

But what does it tell you that such an ugliness remains and the way to fix it is relatively unknown? It surely can't be a pro-TeX tell!
Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot.

I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.
Oh fun, you created a new/throwaway account just to throw me some off the top of your head, paternalistic bullshit.

So here's the thing "dude". I am a 30 year old "dude" with an IQ of 130 who never even finished high school due to severe, chronic mental illness, this particular dude tried to kill himself at 19 to where he was in clinically dead for one minute then in a coma then and developed a mild then severe then synthetic weed addiction almost immediately after release from long term mental hospitalisation. I've been through every nook and cranny of the mental health system you can imagine. Closed ward, open ward, inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, even assisted living with around the clock psych nurse staff present. I've tried almost every class of psych drugs out there except the ones I refuse to try because they're more dangerous than most of the illegal drugs I've tried(phenelzine, neuroleptics). Pretty much the only illegal drug I haven't tried is heroin because I watched that destroy my brother's life.

And yet in spite of all of the above, I was able to pull myself up by the bootstraps, saving up my allowance to buy a copy of k&r, learning C when I was 15, and eventually even being able to work as a coder. The only place I ever felt at home was in front of a keyboard or a chess board. The longest job I held down was 1 year, cofounding a since defunct custom electronics company designing, prototyping and building bespoke automation and at a hefty premium. But then I got worse again and it cratered.

So, you still want to educate me on the "danger of the marijuanaz?" I can almost guarantee I know more about it than you unless you literally have an advanced degree in psychopharmacology.

You're gonna educate me on rationalisation? I was rationalising before you were born.

Why the throwaway though, are you really so cowardly that someone at your precious FAANG job might think you inhaled? It's so ridiculous that you think that might a real problem that I'm half tempted to dox you just to tell your boss.
>But if we order by performance/memory efficiency

Right there is the disagreement. Like many (most?) people, all of my data munging is in small/medium data where 10 million+ rows is rare. A multiple of pandas performance will not be noticed for the majority of my operations.

Transitioning to a new api on performance alone is not enough to sway me. After all, I write in Python ;). If I were concerned about better throughput, my first alternative would be Dask - it should give better local performance, but could theoretically scale to enormous data without any code changes.
Experience suggests that people are all too willing to unthinkingly follow instructions just because "the computer said so".

https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...
Sort of, but the problem with ISPs is "who owns the infrastructure?" because it doesn't matter how much you want ISP competition if the actual cables are owned by an ISP rather than an independent infrastructure company that ISPs are only allowed to contract to lay new cable without any say in who gets to use it.

(The US absolutely adores vertical integration. A company can own the land, the infrastructure, the access to that infrastructure, the services that run on that infrastructure AND strip your rights to the court by forcing you into accepting binding arbitration instead, and the US will point and it with starry eyes and proclaim it a shining example of success)
It might have originated as a hack, but now it's a font in its own right. Why not use it?

It's quite common to see \mathbb{R} used for the actual set of reals, while \mathbf{R} means a totally ordered field (i.e., an abstract object behaving somewhat like \mathbb{R}). The distinction is deliberate and the notation is good.
One of the concerns I have, and I believe Steve shared, is the dilution of their offerings. I'm frankly having a hard time navigating their iPad and Mac offerings. It isn't clear where each of their products sit, and it's certainly going to be very confusing to non-enthusiasts who have the grit to swim thru it all. Similarly, someone explain the 13in Macbook Pro? Why is it still here and getting updates? It seems to me that they are just making all possible combinations of their products, and Steve hated that.
Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on your POV), there's a constant variable that limits all output, and that is peoples time. Instead what we'll see is the collapse of the pillars of culture (much like the collapse of the music industry, when the supply 10xed and delivery time fell to 0). Everyone will be king of a small anthill.

For a more pertinent current example, all you need to do is compare the mobile games industry to the computer games industry. The cost to make a mobile game is very low, and tons of games are released every day. The cost to make a successful mobile game is still very high, because all the money that is saved on development costs are spent in marketing instead.

Also, the video market collapsed in the 80s precisely because of low quality/oversupply games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

So perhaps, it is the marketers that have a bright future from all of this.
> You followed the path of C++.

To some extent yes, I know about cfront.

This is just another iteration on that old idea.
> we’ve come to assume that what we get from a Google or Wikipedia article must be true

This is getting old fast. Google [search] does not produce articles, nor does it produce answers, exactly. It's partly to blame for the confusion, certainly, but still: Google Search returns search results, and in some cases, snippets of text taken from the pages in the search results.

Google Search does not produce "articles", or "answers", or any kind of speech, or linguistic construction. What appears on the Google SERP has not been authored by Google. And that's true of course of all search engines.

ChatGPT is different. While what it says is the result of a compilation of words found on the web, it speaks in its own name, in the first person, and at least pretends to produce original discourse.

And when it makes stuff up and produces imaginary science papers as reference, or non-existing functions in code, it is behaving dangerously.
The article captures what is evident for many language model users. But it's good that it's captured. I have two more thoughts.

One is that many people have plausible but not true knowledge of things. They often share it online. As I have become more and more specialized in my tech niche, I've started noticing that online advice and discussions of that niche involve only cocktail party-level knowledge, which is wrong in many cases.

The other thought is that our memories also work in an approximate way. So "plausible, but not necessarily true" aligns with our thinking. Flooding the internet with convincing but not wrong "facts" could be very toxic to our minds, given how comfortable they are with that type of information.
Check LoseIt or Litesum, much more polished app than MFP. Lots in the US seem to rate Cronometer but in the UK its database is terrible.
You're right, but in the grand scheme of things whataboutism is irrelevant. As per some analysis in a paper of this on android & iOS (the name of which i don't recall, but can search for it), the main difference between the collection is not that big: Google collects more quantity whereas Apple collects every kind of data, but not as frequently.

People talked as if Apple did not and would not ever do such things, which was obviously false. Both companies profit by the fact that we keep pointing fingers in this sadistic duopoly and not look at the actual issue of privacy. I wished people showed more interest when in was more "fashionable" to talk of such issues, but back when snowden/assange/smaller individuals did it, the discussion always ended up with ad homiminems and irrelevant points directed to the messenger. The only difference between back then & now are the perpetrators: it used to be the governments, nowadays is companies (and governments colluding with them, which is arguably worse as corporations cannot be as easily held accountable).
I picked up some Alan Watts in one of the ways the article describes: as samples spliced into music. I found it fascinating, and listened to some of his lectures, and while it was fascinating with some occasional revelations, in the end he seemed like just another hippie.
Stating the obvious is sometimes useful to get someone to take notice. Let’s hope.
That's probably because fine-tuning is not the right approach for this use-case. A better approach might look more like this: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
My general test case is to use YouTube as a music player in the background. On a laptop, this will always work without any issue. On any mobile-ish browser, it won’t.
Read in the morning? Read during lunch?
I guess it really depends on what your program is doing. In my system, everything I do is linked to how I use my memory and its layout (so much that I don’t use malloc/free, just my own arena allocator), so I wouldn’t be able to avoid thinking about things like this in C++ either.

I can see how if you have allocation-heavy code that making them more convenient to use correctly would be nice, but for me “allocation-heavy” is an anti pattern anyway.
Yeah, I wouldn't try to hold back the ocean, I mean more like a floating island the size of Texas or so. But really fractal/crinkly, so there's lots and lots of coastline on the "interior" of the island. The outer edge would buffer storms and high seas.

I have no actual idea if this is possible or not. (IANAEngineer or anything like that, just a weirdo on the Internet.)

You start with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's a lot of carbon floating on hydrogen and oxygen and salt. You collect the salt, melt it, use that to oxidize the GPGP trash. (Molten Salt Oxidation[1]). Plastic is converted to synthesis gas ("a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide"[2]). Exothermic reaction.

Now you need a way to convert the syngas to struts and glue. (I have some ideas on that but they're even nuttier... In any event, syngas is pretty useful stuff.)

Use the struts and glue to make large structures out of "octet" truss (space-filling tessellation of octahedrons and tetrahedrons) and just float on top of the water. Imagine an upside-down Frisbee shape with walls roughly 100m tall and a diameter of two or three kilometers. That would be a small prototype.

Really the main motive would be to perform a kind of stunt just to get people to realize that we can build very large structures now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_oxidation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas
"The last known occurrence of Homo erectus is 117,000–108,000 years ago in Ngandong, Java."

Denisovans' rotary drilling predates known H. sap. rotary tech by tens of millennia.
Audiobooks help a bit, at least for non-technical stuff.
https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/indie-g...

Link in my profile to my blog, where I talk a bit more about it.
Aristos also covered floor with rushes and other scented herbs. Serfdom generally didn’t exist in the West unless you are using the term over broadly.
No, I think there's a difference.

Again, I liken this to a poison pill which suggests the die has already been cast - the decision was made not now, in response to a warrant but in 2006.

If we do something - like remove the canary - that model starts to fall apart.

Doing something is interesting and provocative and actionable, etc.

But if we do nothing it fits the poison pill model very well.
I don't underestimate the effort, I claim that it's not strictly necessary to have more than a couple people working on it for a minimum viable product, and less for a beta.
Ethanol tolerance builds quickly and is still in effect within a few days. Just having someone binge drink twice in 72 hours is typically enough to reduce hangover symptoms.

I don't produce enough acetylaldehyde dehydrogenase, so when I was young, I had to drink more frequently than others leading up to a party to keep up with their regular drinking pace, and typically suffering worse from the aftereffects.

I didn't understand why at the time, and as soon as I did and the significant increase in risk of cancer and liver damage, I quit drinking.
No, it’s never been particularly useful.

Do you believe a popular pyramid scheme has demonstrated utility? If a pyramid scheme made people a lot of money in the past does that suggest it has long term value?
Yes. I've also met former alcoholics, and people who quit for a while then started drinking again. Twelve weeks of therapy leading to eight months of sobriety for 25% of people does not seem surprising.
It will cause more damage to their brand than $8.5M ... Apple has been positioning themselves as "privacy focused" for years. They're obviously still better than Google in this respect, but it will hurt them more than $8.5M.
As others pointed out, web, out of CH.
Datagrams as an FR invention.
Fiber optics, CN

I purposely did not mention the "inventors" of these 3 random tidbits because, guess what? It's not that much important because invention is an iterative process and nationalism should not have any part in it. Don't be glad <country> invented <thing> because they usually didn't, and it was a collective progress made on top of something else.

However, the life of Tim Berners Lee is very interesting, the maths of Pouzin are cool and Kao got a Nobel Prize in physics...
Bitcoin doesn't raise exponentially. It slows down over time. Each swing cycle is shallower than previous one.

It's more like putting a match to a gunpowder and theorizing that at some point some equilibrium will be reached at greater volume than currently observed.
Sometimes you need to both type and listen to other people talking, so talking over them would be pretty rude. Also typing with text to speech in a public place would really rob you of privacy.

Honestly for me steno is about ergonomics. It seems like steno should be harder than normal typing but you’re making so many fewer strokes that it takes a ton of strain off of your hands. Typing faster is a happy side effect.
> Why do you believe that Tether is investing in riskier assets than treasuries and equivalents?

That's easy. I can assume US treasuries will be here in 3 month, or a year or 10 years, and almost everyone will agree with me.

Almost no one would agree with close to 100% certainty that Tether will be here in 10 years or a year or even 3 months.
Chuck E Cheese is still using 3.5” floppies for its animatronic shows
Buy a small, popular book on a topic that interests you. A physical one. Dedicate ten minutes to it before bed. If you are like most people you will fall asleep but at least read a few paragraphs before you do. And it is better than blue light from your phone.

Some nights I cant fall asleep quick so I finish books that way.
I looked hard at Unity but ultimately couldn’t get myself past the learning curve and went with MonoGame instead, this allowed me to prototype my game idea in a mere 8-12 hours of coding without any clunky interface getting in the way.

I am not sure if I made the right choice or not but the engine I’m working on is indeed very satisfying to build though I am aware I could have had a playable game by now instead of still be implementing hand cranked shader animations and trying to architect a custom rendering stack… but I figure if it’s not one thing it’s another!

Plus if you do succeed don’t you end up owing Unity a bunch of money?
"However, because the vast majority of COVID-19 cases do not require hospitalization, many more cases of long COVID have arisen from these milder cases despite their lower risk."
I disagree. All the details matter. The book is an epic story closer to a Tolstoy novel than a mere biography. It’s about a city and a man’s impact on the city. It’s about all of the people whose lives he benefited and whose lives he ruined. Without that sense of scale, the ending doesn’t work. You don’t have time to build sympathy for Moses and to slowly lose that sympathy. And to finally finish with that conflicted love, hate, pity, and awe that I left the book with.
Kindred by Octavia Butler.

I've been making my way through all of her other works for the past few years. I've read the Xenogenesis trilogy two or three times. Her works speak to me about the human condition in ways very few authors have been able to.

Kindred is her last remaining work I know of that that I have not read. I've been purposefully saving it for last and it feels like now is the time.
The problem with shorting cryptocurrency is that you are assuming that market is fair, when this is absolutely not the case - the market is heavily manipulated.
> Is there any merit to the pages you're trying to create?

No, but maybe they can be monetised for a few extra dollars in ad revenue.

(Do I sound cynical? Yes, I'm tired of the recycled garbage that fills so much of today's web.)
You mean "C with classes" ?
> The fact that people describing themselves as progressive are fighting to forbid blasphemy has got to be the worst “freedom is slavery” newspeak in the last decade.

Thankfully this isn't happening, so crisis averted I guess.
TeX is not unreadable. It's hard to automatically parse, but it is easy to read by a human, unless the authors have been piling hacks and too-smart-by-half constructs. The latter case happens every once in a while but is generally pretty rare.
A real binge involves days of drinking, not just government 'studies' of 10 units or whatever, where a few extremes are measured up against 'normal' people, that feel a bitt groggy the day after a few.

Hence the UK Police breathalising every accident - especially those in the mornings: a ' hangover'just means 'still drunk'.

"Sad to see", it may be, but there are serious binge-drinkers (who may not necessarily be alcoholic) to whom "Not binging in the first place", wasn't the original intention and also don't regard it as binging if it doesn't last 24+hrs.
Ok, I rtfa...

>With iPhones running iOS 14.6 and below, Apple’s Personalized Advertising privacy setting was turned on by default, leaving users to seek out the control on their own if they wanted to protect their information.

>The newer versions of the iPhone operating system corrected the problem, presenting users with a prompt before the advertising data was collected.

So they fixed it without government pressure or not?
So no one is arguing that a “vertical monopoly” corners the market. In that case, what are they monopolizing?

> When Apple bought Authentec, they increased their market power and reduced the market power of competitors.

The existence proof is that there were fingerprint authentication methods before and after the acquisition. Who exactly did they hurt?

> As an independent company, Authentec could sell to Apple AND Apple's competitors. Apple obviously won't sell components to their competitors. They were incentivized to purchase Authentect to restrict competition.

Well if that was the purpose - to prevent competitors from having fingerprint sensors - they did a horrible job.
Sure but the author put less than $250 into this scheme and is not viewing it as an investment.
Fair enough. You focus on where you think is important and I’ll focus on where I choose to. In my case the United States is 100% of my world.
That's why I said "flavor". It's not exactly inheritance obviously, but provides some of the same functionality. There are many ways to skin an OO cat.

Traits describe the methods implemented, and you can override with specific implementations or inherit the default, from a level up.
- Self-Determination Theory (SDT) by Deci and Ryan - finish (and probably re-read). It's a major theory in psychology on human motivation, and it's one of the worldview-shifting reads for me. It's as nerdy and scientific as you can get to the motivation research, and it applies virtually every sphere of human interaction - work, parenting, sports, relationships, education etc.

- The Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design - CLA is the the best sports coaching (and also quite nerdy) philosophy I've found so far. Unlike SDT it's mostly concerned about motor skill acquisition science.

- Collection of books on figure skating starting from 1880 - aside from purely historical value, they have incredible knowledge on how to perform figures (that's where name "figure skating" came from) - the art almost extinct nowadays. It's a foundation of this sport, but as international federation removed them from competitions, nobody learns or teaches it anymore, so we literally loosing the roots of the most important skill in figure skating (US and Canada are doing better than everyone else, you can still learn and pass tests in figures, but that's quite unique cases).
There's lots of new quality content being created all the time. That said, it's reasonable to ask whether there's a need for another music database, another movie database, etc.
Actually we may need a lot more "art directors" than we have today, especially if they are to direct AI. At least temporarily, until they get AIed as well.
Chataigne. Artist-Friendly Modular Machine for Art and Technology
Brain can create new states, so by induction it is not a fsm
Isn't #derive a syntactical sugar for a bare impl?
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1045u8t/my... someone made this pixel art model and selling it for $65. If you see the shared samples it really is worth the money. You can make really good pixel art using this.

SD is open source, the paid stuff is going to be the paid models like this I think.
I guess it all depends on traffic quota, i.e. count of queries allow per sec.
> Exactly. They failed, so they get more budget. Happens with nearly all government projects

No it doesn't. Programs are cut or cancelled outright all the time. The important question is not whether they're failing or succeeding but whether they're believed to be necessary. Projects that are necessary get more funding if they are failing, like schools. Well duh.

Projects that are succeeding and have budget left get trimmed. Again, duh.

Projects that are unnecessary or no longer necessary get cut regardless of budget.

That's just good governance. The same pattern happens in the economy.
It seems that every ShowHN that features an Elixir project is well-polished, has a sensical API, and has friendly, solid documentation. Is this a function of the nature of the language, the community, or a mix of both?
It's impossible if they do that they cut time for other more crucial things in the long term like meditation and exercising. You only get a limited amount of time in the day.

Becoming a super nerd is unnatural.