skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually implemented this at the time because it looked so cool. Unfortunately it doesn't work nearly so well in real life as it does on a video.

I don't exactly recall why but I think it's just that there are so many cues that you're looking at a screen that your brain won't accept that it's really a 3D scene.

It's a bit like those painted or chalked perspective illusions. They look great in a photo or video. Not so much in real life.

(I don't think it's because of stereoscopy because I am stereoblind.)
> eg: until recently, I would have just curiously nodded along to the phrase "It's ok to be _____" but learned that it's actually a dark dog whistle thanks to Scott Adams.

It was a troll campaign created on 4chan to trick leftists into reflexively saying "it's not okay to be ____". Anything darker ascribed to it came later, from people who didn't understand the purpose.
> But these ain't the go-go days no more.

Pretty much sums up the current tech business environment.
> Why not? @arp242

Because it's harmful to society as a whole. Many things that are overtly harmful to society, we have enacted laws against. This is no different.

Licensing vs. Ownership.

Licensing is predatory behavior aimed at deceiving, manipulating, and fleecing the populace. It's easily proven with math and economic studies already done and published.

Why are you in favor of an overtly predatory policy, @arp242?
But that's the same with Excel: massive usage for throwaway projects with loose or non-existing requirements or performance bounds that end-up in production. Python is widely used, but not for substantial programming in large projects - say, projects over 100 kloc. Python hit the "quick and dirty" sweet spot of programming.
Yes, I’m referring to the many very active discussions that occurred after Elon made “censorship of conservatives” on Twitter his pet issue which ultimately led to the Musk/Twitter circus. It coincidently became the pet issue of many around here at the exact same time. At the time it was supposedly about the importance of protecting the principles of free speech.

It’s become evident since then that it was really about protecting their preferred speech. Some of us suspected as much at the time.
> For example you may have deer keeping the population of grass in check and wolves keeping the population of deer in check in such a way that no population ever gets out of control.

Both populations can get completely out of control in a wildly chaotic dance with some pretty standard conditions. You might enjoy reading up on the logistic map [0]. True equilibrium is quite rare in nature, usually situations are chaotic.

People like to pretend the world is stable but the evidence really only says 'predictably chaotic'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
I think they're referring to the query language itself not being json or yaml
Yes, pretty much this. Not knowing their inner workings, it still sounds revolutionary to me. With enough data and interfaces to operate on real world objects, the possibilities could be almost infinite. That would imply/require a big society change behind the corner, since the number of jobs that could be performed by AI in the near future can be a lot higher than what normally happens over time with technological advancements.
Yes? The publisher's intent changed when they decided to publish both copies. If they are unwilling to revert the change they pushed out, the op's claim of it being a money grab might be accurate.
> If the "Pro Apples" party voted to ban apples, would that be the metric by which we defined Pro Apples?

Yes. This already happens: There are people, religions, and political parties who claim to be, and are reported on as, "pro life", yet consistently take the position that life is secondary to their religious beliefs.
From the perspective of someone left-leaning, it’s an illiberal faction of the left that has very specific beliefs about race, gender, and sexuality that not everyone agrees on, and an extreme but unsubstantiated set of explanations for them and how to resolve them. They’re very good at baiting and switching too, using language that we agree to be good and can get behind, but don’t mean what we think it means. Because of this sophistry, it’s easy for them to denounce their opponents as morally bad people for rejecting their views, when their views weren’t the good things we thought it meant in the first place. This moving of goal posts is precisely what you’re doing right now.

Someone who explains the same thing better than I do: https://helenpluckrose.substack.com/p/defining-woke-and-woke...
Growing up in an arid climate, I always thought lakes were small bodies of water. The largest lake I had ever seen personally was barely a few KMs wide.

Still boggles my mind to think that there are lakes bigger than entire countries.
It would be helpful to teach people without so much being done by mkDerivation or other builders. While they provide value, they sometimes block learning. I like start with super simple example, if possible.
This is starting to happen to me with bad AI art. Subtle things that I didn’t notice for month now look glaringly out of place.
Nabla Bio (YC S20) is hiring AI guided antibody design scientist
> Its ridiculous notion to normalize each course to the same amount of time/week - some subjects are simply more difficult.

Those courses should have higher credits.
I would argue that jdbc API is far more dangerous than string interpolation :)

But I wholeheartedly support the idea of JEP. Scala got several good UX benefits based on the string interpolation (sql and logging).
Twitter’s mobile site, for instance, is looking pretty good.

That surprised me as I wondered just how much JS capabilities the browser has; then I realised that article was written in 2013, when Twitter was still relatively sane and not the bloated SPA it is today (yet the actual content being displayed is not much different from 10 years ago.)
Unsigned int considered harmful for Java (2014)
I like how the phrase shift the guilt to the reader if he does not understand.
The YouTuber Tom Scott did a video shot in the style of a music video that was really interesting, and one of the things that surprised me was how little of the video was shot using the "right" frame right - for example, they shot dancers at a slightly slower frame rate then speed the footage up to make them look more in sync, or slowed other shots down to make them feel more dreamy. But only fairly subtly, so that you don't necessarily notice it if you're not looking for it.

There's definitely something fascinating about playing with playback speeds.
Good point. In the early days of web there was some VRML or something like that. I tried it out but in the end it fizzled fast, maybe because it just takes too much code to represent virtual reality.

But so how in particular do you think AI could create the metaverse?
If the motivation was ideology, why release non-censored versions?
I remain to be convinced and program daily in Java for a long time.

It seems just as difficult to remember/useless as lambda expressions that look fine as vanity one-line expressions and then get difficult to write for most programmers.

We don't really need vanity innovation in the Java world. I would have asked for priority on the FX replacement to Swing, or support for running on ESP32 IoT devices as replacement to the Arduino platform.

Instead we get some weird looking syntax for what is basically a non-problem.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because it's now also used to deflect and ignore the research, like the experience of one person is more important than anything else.
That's me. I identify as someone with an artist personality who works in software (right now). Just my mind is wired differently to all those engineers. Always has been. I'm like: more intuitive, more feeling, more flexible...less in need of concrete distinctions, less prone to be literal, less inclined to believe that I have all the answers and believe anything beyond what I know cannot exist. And many more...it's tough hanging out with all you engineers sometimes. I don't like stereotypes, but this one I have of the typical eng is born of much experience. I don't want it to be this way! Maybe it's not as tough for me as it is for you to hang out with artist types like me...
life imitating art in this case would not be a good thing is the meaning.

in scifi the megacorp is typically a villain, so having a real life megacorp being a villain is not something i'm looking forward to, and yet the OP was equating Amazon as a scifi like megacorp. are you really unable to make the connection of why i'm asking why the comparison could be more ominous than good?
> Should we lobby to limit the rights of an estate edit posthumously?

No, except perhaps that they should not be permitted to sell versions that are modified if they claim to be the original work by the original author; if they do not claim such a thing, then it should be permitted. (However, the original version should still be made available too. If it was not copyright then anyone could do so if they want to do.)

However, they should not remotely change ebooks automatically in this way. This is independent of whether or not they are allowed to make modified versions (which should be allowed).

> Should a blurb indicating the edit be required on the cover of the book?

Yes. There are a few ways to do such a thing; one way would be to write "abridged" like another comment in this thread suggests. But it should be marked so it is clear that it is different from the original work.
I really like Notion and use it for many scenario. However, I'd be very careful of not having your own format and/of the content that you should be able to walk out without much pain.

I have heard of some people who have moved bag and baggage to Notion to even replace the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. I'd be extra careful of being so tied to something you can't switch easily or walk out to another platform/tool.

Please do keep in mind how Evernote went from a plan of a 100-year note-taking to "what went wrong with that company".
Thanks! I didn't know about wrapProgram, that sounds exactly like what I need.
Oh, I am sorry. You are right. It's not intended as a smear word at all. Thanks for your explanation.
Single 32" works best for me, too. All other things equal, I'd consider curved an advantage, but it doesn't matter that much for 16:9 or 16:10. If you decide to go UltraWide instead though, I very strongly recommend getting a curved display. I couldn't make 34" UW work for me though -- if I use two things side by side, I need to keep my head sideways, and if I center something, there's not enough space on the sides for more stuff.

As for software, what I end up using the most is Unity, Unreal, and Visual Studio. I just wanna say I absolutely hate all 3 of them.
I don't want to rely on a 3rd party service, and I think the change would make HN better.

I'd also like to be able to follow users that I think are interesting, to be able to see their posts/comments. But that would be a much bigger change, and is closer to a Twitter-style design. I wouldn't want this to be the default view, but it would be really interesting as a link on the top left.
Rectangle and other similar apps can provide simple snapping (drag to right edge: snap to right half, drag to NE corner, snap to top right quad, etc).

The only time I use workspaces is for things that benefit from huge windows: an editor with tons of files, 3d modeling, etc.
Presumably because they are all investors in Notion.
500 years in the future, spaceship technology will be tested by playing DOOM through it's AI.
People mentioning it tends to repeat, but so does every single argument on Twitter. It's because there is no possible way for them to come to consensus. Debate to convince, not to learn.
Your translation of an out-of-copyright work gets a brand new copyright. Most bibles are copyrighted.
If anyone here is a telegram user, here's a Hacker News alerts bot I'm developing for such kind of notifications: https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot (reply alerts is still in To Do stage)
Yeah, that's what I was asking. If any of our technology history can be attributed to external physical natural phenomena that hadn't existed before then, or something along those lines. Mostly because it's incredibly humbling to think of how all our technology today could have existed thousands of years ago if the right social conditions were in place along the way.

It's also interesting to think of what "pause points" we're stuck in now. Technology we know we could have but just aren't driving on right now. I guess one arguably obvious one recently was rocket technology.
Magnification works fine for me. Just hit ctrl and +.
It's not true true equilibrium, it oscillates around an equilibrium. You can call it an equilibrium zone.

Within this zone you can get chaotic changes, but what you don't usually get is complete destruction and extinction as you do when you get an invasive species.

It's impossible actually for things to be incredibly chaotic in the sense that they always overload. If this occured all the time you'd never form a sustainable ecosystem. Life would've died out quickly.

Essentially Your chaos equation doesn't account for natural selection. This is the factor that holds things in equilibrium.

So what you see is sort of a bunch of systems in an evolutionary arms race where each side is in a very stable equilibrium stalemate despite the fact that both sides are continuously evolving counter measures and new strategies.
That's true if we decide it's a good idea to continue to deliver millions of packages of small plastic goods every day. A big part of that is probably also due to the USA's massively isolating suburb design and poorly layed out roads.
That's what "moderates" have said about everything conservatives have sought to pass. That it's purely red meat for the base. And then when it does, they just shrug their shoulders.
It is the very definition of a milliwatt.
To mitigate backlash.
Did it do head tracking?

It always seemed gimmicky to me, but I’ve heard that the Mario brothers 3D worked a lot better with the depth element than in any of the remakes (I did it enjoy it just fine on my switch)
I would prefer to keep standard time, and base the time zone on mean solar noon. However, even keeping permanent daylight saving time would still be better than switching like we have now, as long as it is one way or other way.
My typical workflow usually looks like the following:

1) Make spec file
# Gather sources and generate source rpm
2) spectool -gS <specfile>
3) rpkg srpm --outdir .
# The following depends on what I'm trying to do
4a) mock --rebuild -r <chroot> <srpm>
4b) copr build [chroot params] <project> <srpm>

I use fedpkg primarily for dealing with existing packages rather than making my own, where I use rpkg/mock/copr directly.
It's a bit more than six courses a year at community colleges and teaching-oriented 4-year colleges (though you're still right that adjuncts are much cheaper). In California, most full-time faculty at community colleges have a 15 credit per semester teaching obligation, which works out to ten 3-credit courses a year. Some do get credit in lieu of a course for taking on other responsibilities (dept chair, director of a program, etc.), but that's the baseline workload. Even the Cal State system, which is made up of 4-year schools, has a baseline teaching load of eight classes a year ("4/4").
Nitpick: is that really computing 20M digits correctly? Reading the code gives me the impression that this does all float computations in 20 million digits (or 20 million-ish? If BigFloat internally is binary, it might use a bit more), but I would expect that you need to compute using a few more digits to avoid rounding errors in the last digits.

Edit: also, reading https://stackoverflow.com/a/67919533, it seems you can do

BigFloat(π, precision=20000000)

How does that perform?
When I first flew to the USA from UK we took off from London then were almost immediately over water, for about 6 hours, then (I had a window seat) we we finally over land!

Then we went over water again for about an hour and I was confused. The Atlantic was behind us?

Turns out we flew over the great lakes, which took an hour at circa 500 mph.

Mind blown.

Then I went to Chicago and they have a beach. With an ocean. Looks exactly like a normal beach. Except it's a lake! Fresh water beach blew my tiny mind again.

The largest lake I'd seen before that was in the lake district (imaginatively named) in England. They were big, to me. But they were not horizon to horizon like Lake Michigan was.
If you have two raspi, 4GB and 8Gb models, you can use tmux, btop to check your memory and cpu levels.
Reid Hoffman departs OpenAI to avoid conflict with investments using OpenAI tech
It is a great philosophical question, though. Speed is derived from the distance traveled per unit of time, but does speed itself have a time dimension?

...perhaps if it changes over time, but that's acceleration and so on.
One of the cooler takes of Bitcoin or "crypto" is that you can use native tokens to pay for visiting websites. A browser plugin combined with a lightning wallet for instance could enable a website to request a payment of any amount of Satoshis to view the site, or it will redirect you to a 402 error page. This generates a way of monetizing content without the need for ads or tracking.
Nigel Tufnel must have placed the order
Your mileage may vary, but I went from liking simple languages like Java, to very expressive, complex ones (Scala, Haskell, Rust) back to Java.

I mean, I like all those languages (and many more), but the thing is, most programs really don’t need all that many language features — an okayish type system, OOP for encapsulating private vs public state, and preferring immutable public APIs have served me well in almost every problem thrown at me.

I would much rather take a “boring” language with an absolutely huge ecosystem and just get my work done. Especially that after going high-level/managed, there is no feature that would give any significant productivity boost (as per Brooks).
>viewing a slow-motion ad increases feelings of immersion, which in turn lead consumers to expect greater hedonic value from the featured product and thus view it as more luxurious.

Not limited to ads. Number of products deliberately slow down some functions/aspects objectively worsening functionality, but the effect increases perceived value.

- Tape Decks used to open tape drawers veeery slowly, the slower the "better".

- adding mass to objects even when their main purpose depends on users moving them.
U.S. Govt Blacklists Chinese Tech Firms Loongson and Inspur
Personally I don't mind seeing only the LaTeX code and looking at the pdf once in a while after compiling. But a second screen to keep open and accessible background papers or notes would be very convenient
"For me, the action is the juice. I'm in."

-Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto in Heat, 1995
SCO the "cool UNIX vendor" was not the company that sued. In 2001, the cool UNIX vendor was struggling and sold its UNIX business to Caldera. Caldera renamed itself "the SCO Group" and filed the lawsuit. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation
Cut off for days, running low on food, ‘people are panicking’ in mountain areas
what percentage of weights could be thrown out post-training

At least 60% according to this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774
Medical VR [1] is a great example of that.

[1] https://www.medicalvr.eu/
Are they your "friends" if they refuse to use a common app? I have Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal installed, so my REAL friends ( some of them on iPhones) can reach me on the app they prefer.
Citizens? Who needs citizens once a society of a few selected humans can have millions robots do all the dirty work?
But then you need something like Nano instead of Bitcoin, which has 0 fees. Ideal for such micro transactions.
I've never understood the logic of a stable coin in general, why not just hold cash.

However, I'm suggesting that with the potential dramas around Tether, as any peg is equal to any other, why not hold a stablecoin that does not have Tether's bad reputation?
Moving to WhatsApp is hardly an upgrade. Having to trust the encryption out of Meta and be required to share your address book/contacts and metadata with them is not the future we should want for the next generation. It's not a "rest of the world thing either"; I'm out here in SEA and the only folks to ask me for a WhatsApp (don't have) were Europeans.
Tell me you don't understand the distinction between U235 and U238 without telling me you don't understand the distinction between U235 and U238
It’s curious that this post came a group in Shopify called the “Spatial Commerce Team”. I’ve often wondered why online shopping hasn’t evolved beyond galleries of thumbnail images. Today’s graphics should be able to simulate the immersive experience of browsing through a physical store—walking past shelves and riffling through merchandise.
Slightly unrelated, but I only buy ISO keyboards and have my native tongue layout (Hungarian) and English easily switched. The former absolutely sucked for any programming work, so I think we just sort of have to accept that programming is done with an en-us layout, the same way that (hopefully) all identifiers/comments are also in English.
Copyrights should expire at creator's death IMO.
Maybe it's the opposite. "Social" spaces will become so flooded with worthless AI posts trying to grab people's attention for advertising purposes that real websites created by real people will flourish once again. That's what I want to believe.
You and koolba are seriously overestimating the number of children (and adults...) who are willing to read a book voluntarily. Teaching people to get books off of libgen is never going to be high impact, because very few people want any books.
> Is a man with a fantastic vision he is unable to instantiate, an artist?

I haven't seen the film but this is the defining part of the "artist" title for me. It's not that he wasn't able to instantiate his vision, but he made an attempt and that attempt had an impact on others. That is the art, and it's all performance. The instantiation doesn't matter so much as a message with receivers. If the receivers of whatever happened with his Dune weren't there, then I guess I would still call it something like a "lost" art. Still art, but unrecognized as such. And I'm not sure that would have mattered to the artist anyway.
As a disclaimer, this is all wild speculation.

India would be pushed to choose sides if a larger conflict emerged. I don't see the larger conflict starting over the Himalayan border. Rather the larger conflict could cause this long running dispute to erupt.

Water rights are just one part of the issue. I expect that a larger conflict would emerge if the CCP became more active with Russia militarily. Also expecting the Taiwan issue to flare up first. Perhaps this might be buoyed by domestic issues in China, where the party seeks to boost nationalist sentiment by focusing on external enemies.

Global trade and currency wars are a more pressing issue. An Iranian conflict might be one answer to the Saudis accommodating the CCP. Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the straits of Hormuz. This in turn would cause the Iranian/Saudi rivalry to further erupt. Provoking a conflict there would fit the pattern of creating an contiguous block of anti-western powers.

With a clear set of enemies defined, the military industrialists and banking cartels have their work cut out for them. Treasuries owned by the CCP can be reneged upon. Unlimited spending is once again rationalized. The victors would be able to impose their currency system upon the world. Unsustainable debt would be reorganized.

>“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”

https://fee.org/resources/if-goods-dont-cross-borders/
I forgot about that with tape decks. It’s been 27 years probably and as soon as you say it I feel it again. It was so luxurious and tactile. Like a spaceship version of that physical aspect people love of vinyl