skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I'm not sure I see the link. Is SSSP relevant in programming FPGAs optimally?
Whenever I've used the local rental house, it's the massive ARRI tungstens that are being loaded in the production trucks.

Although I guess it's their size that makes them stand out, maybe the LEDs I just don't notice.
But apart from protein folding, alpha go, roads, sanitation and the aqueduct, what have deepmind ever done for us?
Introspective definitions are not that useful. That's why I prefer "not screwing up badly" as the key property of common sense. It can be applied to observed behavior, animal or human. It's about having some way to predict the likely results of actions before doing them, and using that information to help choose actions.
It's 88x31 GIFs all the way down.
Aren't Japanese police just as likely to target "the foreigner" in the neighborhood anyway? They're not going to shoot on sight the way an American cop would but their ability (and legal leeway) to extract confessions is infamous.
>> I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads.

If you could, they would be acknowledging that the ads were bad.
You tell the guy using a brick as hammer that it isn’t actually a good hammer, no matter how many other people are also using bricks as terrible hammers. Git is a brick.
Yet another reason to avoid Xfinity hardware.
You mean stanford. Getting a patent in no way means you were first.
I teach git professionally. I have a 3-day 12-hour course I give.

I'm amazed how many people who have used SVN or CVS just assume git works like that but with different commands. And, of course, they get very screwed up. (GitHub contributes to this problem, too, with their own set of commands like "forks" and "pull requests" that aren't really a part of git.)

One you understand the Merkle DAG that's at the heart of git, understanding the rest is simple. Yes the commands are named badly, but get past that and it's a great system.
Soon there won't be any DVDs or BluRays to buy and collect.
Well, most people who consume art are not professional artists. That was my main point. From the point of view of a lay person (such as I), it looks pretty good.
Posted this a few weeks ago, if you want to pomodoro with friends we have this (formerly pomochat): https://remoteyo.com
Not individual human intelligence as in capability, but certainly in terms of culture, the knowledge has grown exponentially since then. 30,000 years ago people weren't sitting around the campfire talking about deep learning models, quantum mechanics, or how long the ancestors of Native Americans lived in Beringia.
Thanks! This looks like just the thing I needed.
I guess wearing a tin foil hat might be useful too
The ability to communicate with Voyager is a function of the transmission and reception system. We have to send an incredibly focused transmission to Voyager for it to pick up our signal and listen with very sensitive instruments on a long temporal baseline to detect Voyager's signals.

The inverse square law tells you that the flux of a signal decreases at a square of the distance. A receiver 2 miles away from a transmitter will receive a signal at a quarter of the strength of a receiver only a mile away. Our broadband omnidirectional broadcasts don't actually reach very far out into the solar system let alone the galaxy. Only very powerful narrowband signals reach very far and those are very directional.
Let’s stop this meme before Elon starts saying he invented OpenAI. He donated money into the OpenAI charity. Jeff Bezos invested $250,000 in Google back in 1998 but he doesn’t try to claim to be a Google founder.
Capitalists also see work as servile and debasing. The reason they have employees is so they can be insulated from it.

It's easy to see that attitude leading to the Industrial Revolution.
It was painfully difficult to branch in subversion. And remember the agony of asking someone to check in a file so another developer can check it out?
Why are Microsoft investing so much in Open AI when they are a similar research powerhouse? I think Open AI must have something.
> The law was never enforceable in the first place

Contradicting your claim the restrictions were effective.
They were also recently exposed for publishing made up sob stories about Syrian refugees in Greece:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius

They have a clear political bias and if a story fits their narrative they'll throw journalistic standards overboard.
something... something... technology is not neutral.
ArcaOS – A Modern Version of IBM’s OS/2 (Overview and Demo) [video]
AFAIK all it takes to bypass Gmails spam filters is to resend the same scammy email that was Flagged but using a different email address. I get the same kind of scammy emails, flag them as spam, and then a couple days later, Gmail lets the same email in though it is coming from a different 123134r12345124@blahblah.com address.
With no responses to my questions after a couple of days, I guess the answer to all of them is "No".
If you're asking about specific examples, this book covers a lot of common patterns I've seen over the years; maybe a good starting point:

https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html
https://databaserefactoring.com/
All history has a political agenda. “Non-partisan” itself serves to further the legitimacy of Western academia, itself born in service to colonial and neo-colonial projects.

The work of Sylvia Wynter, Ngugi wa Thiong o, Edward Said, Walter Rodney among many others are probably good jumping off points.
I say they are extraordinary, because they are larger than regular page size as reported by sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE).

Also, i meant "extraordinary (huge pages)", not "(extraordinary huge) pages".
Polish Haitians ? (edit: for your curiosity only)
Uhh, what? Is this something people really believe?
From the recommendations document:

> The assigned IPv6 address incorporates media access control (MAC) address information from the network interface and may allow for host identification via interface ID, network interface card, or host vendor.

How long has it been since NSA has looked at generally-available OSs with IPv6 support? IPv6 "Privacy Addresses" are a thing that's on-by-default everywhere (and a damn thorn in my side). SLAAC has been using a identifier that's a combination of a randomly-generated ID and the subnet that the address is being generated for rather than the MAC address of the NIC for address generation for ages. (This is yet another thing that I revert back to the old behavior.)

They go on to recommend disabling SLAAC and using only DHCPv6. Does NSA know something exploitable about common DHCPv6 implementations that we don't? ;)

> ...a dual stack DNS implementation may need to support both A and AAAA
records.

It's weird to say "dual stack DNS implementation". DNS servers can store A and AAAA records, regardless of whether their host is doing "dual stack" addressing or not. (If yours cannot, then by golly, you fucked up when you wrote your DNS server.)
This is a good review, on the What is Politics channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJIHWk_M398&list=PLU4FEuj4v9...

But it isn't a summary, it goes into a lot of detailed critique. I think each video description links to a bibliography and transcript too.
> developed for games that didn't even have online play at all

This is the kicker. The novelty of having any online play is enough to satisfy most hardcore fans of a game that would otherwise be dead. Melee fans may rant and rave about Slippy, and rightfully so, but they still don't enjoy finding out their inputs were eaten because they got shined ten frames ago. And the fact is, rollback netcode really is dramatically better than delay-based netcode for making precise muscle-memory inputs, and for most fighting games the precision required for inputs is one of the largest contributors to the skill ceiling, so hardcore fans will be happy compared to the alternative. But let's not overlook the fundamental tradeoffs: with delay-based netcode, you will always be able to react to everything that you are intended to be able to react to; with rollback, you will not always be able to react to everything that you are intended to be able to react to. Even if it's a good tradeoff, it's an inferior experience to playing locally... which is fine, because the convenience of playing online is already a tradeoff that plenty of people are willing to make. But if you design your game from the ground up to improve the experience of online play by smoothing out the reaction curve, that will probably come at the expense of offline play in some capacity. Devs don't want to balance a game twice.
> anyone who has their salary reduced is going to reevaluate their position

And if they stay, their morale and motivation may drop 10-20%
I dunno—there's a lot that had to go right with the Earth for it to support not just life, but complex, high-energy life, which enables (expensive-in-energy-terms) intelligence. And it still came close to getting stuck in bad states that may have prevented that, at least a couple times. It's way more than just being the right size, the right distance from a not-too-dangerous star, and having water.

I'd be surprised if life isn't fairly common, but wouldn't be surprised if complex life is very rare.
Thanks for copying this over! I am guilty of quoting that famous speech too. Probably should stop doing that and read MLK’s works in more detail.
Another possible contributing factor: Spoilers.

Location shooting exposes production details to universal public view.
probably nobody in a non-classified situation has built such a thing recently. But if you put enough engineering into it, you could exceed those parameters today. Glass/glass manufacture, lens shaping, etc all improved tremendously. It would be obscenely expensive; every lens would be completely custom, you'd probably burn through hundreds of blanks before you had something worth using, and there are other, easier ways to achieve low-light imaging anyway.
Right, the argument for agriculture is that it's a basis for making city states and empires possible, whatever moral value one assigns to that.
Middle class politics would make you think that it was ideal to have an upper and lower class to complement it.
I haven't looked at the data, but I wonder who is "missing" from downtowns. If it's young families, drawing them back might be accomplished by improving school choice (and realizing/accepting that high income people generally don't want their kids going to school with low income people) and having more green space for kids to run around.
Part of the political cost of the social security acts that gave us modern social services in the 1960s were a few measures that basically destroyed the family unit in poor families. Basically you can’t get most benefits if there are two parents in a household.

That created an obvious incentive for male behavior in poor families. Once the unattached male hits bottom, there’s three options: mooch off of parents/baby mama and get in your feet, mooch and do nothing, get on disability, or go to jail.
Clerks and Cube are other movies where this happens.
The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem
Here is a crazy but real story. At one point in Canada I had a friend who worked under the table in one of the larger metropolitan areas. He was making just a tiny amount each month basically being a waiter at a local watering hole and always had a hard time making ends meet. So one day I started talking with him about why he didn't want to apply for welfare, or some other benefit etc -- remember this is Canada, which has a bunch of social safety nets.

His thinking was that he didn't have a birth certificate, had no idea where it was, and he was WORRIED that if he brought this to the government's attention he could be declared a "non-citizen" and might be...well..he didn't really know. He was very fearful of this.

Eventually he found a girlfriend who was a friend of mine and we convinced him to sort out the situation and everything worked out just fine (he was obviously NOT the first person in Canada with this situation). But imagine he had gone for all these years avoiding the government just because of this line of thinking. So there is something to your point here about the fear of bureaucracy and scrutinization.
> intercity... infrastructure (sensors, warning network, etc) and route specific learning...

You could also just build trains, like much of the rest of the world.
UBI is the recognition that what we pay in services to the poor is more than enough money for them to buy what they need on the open market. The problem is that money is locked up by the bureaucracy who pilfers most of it. Or at least that's what the argument is.

I also think this is country thing. Europe tends to have job markets where private jobs aren't much different than government ones. In the US the difference is stark. Government jobs are basically for life while private ones can fire you the next minute. For all it's drawbacks the ability to fire quickly has a marked effect on business efficiency. There's potentially a large efficiency gain by moving employment from government to private sector.

Or at least so the argument goes.
Show HN: France/Belgium interactive trip using Mapbox GL JS
Hey HN!

I'm a college student studying Computer/Data Science and I love creating interactive stories about my experiences! I've been interested in web development for years now and I recently created this project as a gift to commemorate my recent trip to France/Belgium with my girlfriend.

I was also able to identify and propose some solutions for a Mapbox GL JS bug while working on this project! It doesn't currently work on mobile devices, but I hope you find it as satisfying as I do on your computer.

Thanks!
- Matthew
Fair enough. Bad company performance is usually management's fault to adapt to market dynamic, lack of vision on the CEO's part. Yes, one could blame it on external factors such as a recession as well, but even Apple's CEO took a voluntary pay cut.
How do you verify that ChatGPT’s answer is accurate (it often enough isn’t), if not by googling?
It's indeed sad to see. Game networking techniques have been known for multiple decades and yet still haven't made their into any of the major publicly available engines (notably Unreal and Unity). What gives?

As a game dev of 10+ years myself, I have a few theories:

1. Multiplayer networking is the "secret sauce" that creates moats/barriers to entry for incumbent studios. Think Rocket League or Fortnite or StarCraft 2. The tech exists, it's functionally well understood, but hard to implement at a high level of quality. Why not keep it to yourself? There is more money in holding onto your game revenue monopoly than trying to sell the network tech.

2. Game genres differ greatly in their networking needs. Rollback is great for fighting games but that's about it. StarCraft uses delay based deterministic lockstep. FPS games use (typically) ad-hoc server authoritative state syncs with client side prediction. Other complex games use full determinism with rollback, sending only inputs over the wire. Some cheapo indie games using client authoritative models (open to cheating but easy to implement, arguably fine for coop games). There are even more variants and blended approaches but you get the picture: there is no one size fits all approach and many are mutually exclusive so it's harder to package into an engine as a comprehensive solution.

3. Networking a game properly involves very leaky abstractions. It is impossible to write gameplay code for a networked game without understanding the nuance of the network model. This makes it substantially harder to develop the game, and this hurts the major game engines' marketability, with both major players Unity and Unreal guilty of selling themselves as "look ma no code required" solutions. Similar to point 1, not worth the money to sell this.

I don't see a great way out of this unfortunately. The only good networking middleware I know of is Photon and they're not exactly an easy to use product either. Hopefully we see better open source tooling in the future.
Maybe, but that's an irrelevant metric. I'd still expect the absolute percentage chance of becoming a police victim to be much, much smaller.
Introduction to Dynamical Systems in the Social Sciences
You make top earners sound like entitled children who cannot reason around the big picture impact to their community.

Top earners at software companies should be heavily de-valued. Being so specialized as to be useless if that specialization ceased to be validated by economy policy of shoveling cheap money at tech companies to titillate the public is not so special. It’s intentional attempt at agency control.
I think for next few years that will be cost prohibitive for 95% of Americans.
Interpretations I've seen of ChatGPT type tools, and playing around with it, I would sum up as "reducing the marginal cost of creating BS to $0". Great for content farms, spam, disinfo/propaganda campaigns.

Stuff where it doesn't have to be correct, have a high hit rate, or even be edited. Just need to produce plausible enough sounding, human-like content.
There's a scene in the original movie that kind-of explains this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs-OvfG8tE

> "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels' hidden fortr-"

From what I remember from wikis the EU novels expanded on this as: Jedi/Sith/force-sensitives are rare enough that even at the height of the Jedi's power, most people believed them to be a myth, that the Jedi Order was more like a powerful religious group of regular people.
>Die Hard With a Vengeance, however, acknowledges this reality and comes up with some very creative scenarios for our protagonists to overcome

I hadn't thought about this before but you're correct and it even extends to the antagonist. As they are unravelling his plot, they come up with the question of "how do you drive that much gold through New York without anyone noticing?".

It's a very interesting perspective.
Is it true that AlphaGo killed the Go community ? I mean I'm sure there are still Go players, but has AlphaGo had a significant impact on the Go community?
Lootbox simulator? Of course: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-strange-satisfaction-of-loot-box...
What I find funny is looking at older TV shows that were clearly meant to be shown on old analog 4:3 CRT's but shot in film anyway. Now these shows show up in syndication and all that film got scanned as 16:8 HD. Some examples include Seinfeld, Friends, even Wizard of Oz. Many times it feels like you are watching a play instead of an immersive show. All the props look like props instead of something "real"
true, that is a good point. I should give it a try =)
The theory I had heard was that it was made bad on purpose to justify culling WB's animation studios.
I doubt they are truly exceeding them. At least not by a margin that could not be closed. If you actually read the article, it mentions that Deepmind has their own chatbot, but wants to have citation in place before releasing it. In my opinion, that is the safe thing to do.

Also my opinion, but I would argue that AlphaFold is much more impressive and significant for humanity than chatGPT. I also think that openAI could not reproduce AlphaFold with the same ease that Deepmind could reproduce chatGPT.
> Layoffs often do not cut costs

I guess you can put "often" in front of any statement and be not wrong. But obviously letting go expensive workers is going to reduce costs.

> Layoffs often do not increase stock prices

They've pretty reliably bumped stock prices this past year, and by quite a lot. Not that I think this is what a CEO should be optimizing for, since short term price action is not that important, but since he brought it up...

> Layoffs do not increase productivity

They definitely increase productivity if they're targeted at the lowest performers --- unless you somehow think all employees are the same, which sounds like an MBA type of opinion to have

> Companies sometimes lay off people that they have just recruited

That doesn't seem to be the case with the recent tech layoffs (to the extent that I have knowledge). The folks I have seen laid off were not ones hired since 2020, rather those that have been around longer and should have been let go earlier.

> Layoffs kill people

* There's a long chain of events that lead to a layoff

* There are many people who are laid off and don't kill themselves

So how can you say that a layoff was THE cause that killed a person, rather than, say, a series of poor choices by politicians and public-sector economists, or the medical community failing to diagnose a chemical imbalance, etc etc. Is there an A/B test that shows that when a company doesn't do any layoffs and instead goes bankrupt and everyone loses their job that everyone stays happy and healthy?

> how economic insecurity is bad for people

Make recessions illegal! Stocks only go up!

Literally nothing this professor says is convincing. Tech workers and all people should take steps to become financially literate, plan ahead for an unexpected termination, maintain a broadly diversified investment portfolio, and take responsibility for their own mental health.
> There's a really good general rule - if someone says it's not about the money, it's literally always about the money.

Horse shit. But independently from that: your rule of thumb, good or bad, does not justify editorializing the headline to literally opposite of what's linked.
Revisiting key debates in the study of nationalism
Not the same thing, but...

I really wanted to have a nice private wiki at home, but i loathed (and still loathe) editing markdown files to do that. I really liked the editing experience in Confluence.

I was about to buy the self-hosted license and accept the 4GB-minimum-requirement tax, but then I gave MediaWiki a try, and so far i've never looked back.

Getting into mediawiki is definitely a journey, and it has it quirks, but it's been a lovely experience so far. It looks very nice (I'm using the Timeless skin with some minor css tweaks) and editing is a joy (the VisualEditor extension is now bundled with MediaWiki).

Also, turns out there are some companies selling specialized MediaWiki consulting, and there also is a company that sells its own MediaWiki "distribution" with some additional enterprise features (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/BlueSpice/en).
Nicely done! What are all those trees on the right? https://ibb.co/kSG36JX Some sort of game map?
All "black" apples and red flesh apples are a little acidic. Arkansas black (is not really black) improves after storing it for some months. Not so good to eat directly from the tree.

There are apples to eat from the tree and apples to store for winter. Both groups are desirable to have.
So much commentary on the landscape of TV and film today reminds me of the Dogme 95 movement. Maybe those guys were on to something after all.
> In my opinion, NAT was an added layer on top of firewall rules because […]

… there were not enough IPv4 addresses to go around, and so you only got one, and if you had more than one system at home, too bad… until NAT got invented.

Back in the dial-up days, you had only one system connected to the Internet—the one that was connected to the modem—and it got the the IP address directly. It was only later with the always-on nature of cable and DSL ISPs that sharing a connection became a thing. IIRC, you used to connect your computer directly to the {cable, DSL} modem without an intervening router, sometimes using USB, as computers having built-in (Ethernet or Wifi) networking wasn't really a thing:

* https://support.dlink.ca/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DSL-2320B
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