skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was probably in Psychedelic Information Theory where I read the closest to the missing middle you are looking for. The visual system, being the most complex, is the most fragile and thus any perturbation is likely to manifest as neat geometry first. Most commonly this takes the shape of one of the form constants, which is pretty easy to explain as those patterns are directly encoded in the first few layers just after the optical nerve. So you randomly poke any neuron there, you'll get those shapes. Even waking up tired can cause it (hypnogognia). The next layer of distortion up has to do with the main loop structure (hypothalmus loop? its been a while my memory sucks). These sorts of distortions you might miscategorize as the first kind since they are still most often just "vfx magic eye filter". But they aren't so simple and in fact are distortions of a higher order of pattern recognition. I'm talking about effects such as a moving object appearing to be multiple places as though a strobe light is flickering. Or looking for a dot and suddenly seeing dots amplify everywhere in your view. By that point coherent speech is a bit hard to manage and focus is usually not forthcoming for any multi-step task. From there its pretty much a continuum on up to the point where understanding the difference between in your head or not also becomes a noisy signal. But that usually doesn't happen on acid. I get what you're after, I think a continuum of effect is a more apt concept.

Without eating per se, would you consider testing an assortment of tastes such as salt, sugar, whatever spices you have etc?
It's clear college needs a reboot but there is also something pretty suspect about programs that just cram down the latest technology 'skills' that are likely to be soon obsolete. Changing the incentives so colleges are primarily paid from a fixed % of the first n years of salary from their graduates might be a good start rather than unbounded amounts from the government. Some level of public and employer matching probably also makes sense but if your graduates aren't earning than nether should the schools. Public money should pay for expanding the bandwidth of the school, not just adding administrators. Research and teaching probably need to be glass steagall'd. Tax-advantaged mega endowments need to be reigned in.
>If you look at a family of 4’s spending in 1990 vs today some stuff has gotten cheaper but to have an equal lifestyle you also need to buy the stuff that’s dramatically more expensive. A cheap Disneyland vacation isn’t cheap any more. Granted people’s actual purchasing reflects the new reality so Netflix substitutes for that movie tickets they can’t afford, but that isn’t an equivalent good.

Ironically the hedonic adjustments that you decry so much about is supposed to adjust for this. Also, while you can bring up examples of stuff getting lower in quality, you fail to bring up instances where quality improved (eg. google maps on your phone vs paper maps). Without actual hard numbers quantifying either side arguing over this just turns into a handwaving war.
> "just have to adapt"

If I had "just a billion dollars", I'd be so happy /s.

Seriously though, do you have any tangible proposal of how to adapt? Because otherwise we are looking at a terrible situation where kinless elders are dying off lonely in poorly maintained facilities due to a lack of funding and a lack of caregivers.
No one does this or cares. They care about delivery and keeping ROI high and costs down, not demanding platforms.

I wouldn't draw any assumption that higher quality software is portable. I've seen monocultural genius (Keysight Genesys) and cross platform garbage (libreoffice) for example.
I feel very sad reading this. You are absolutely correct that I view HN as watercooler where I make hyperbolic statements, but incorrect when you say that that I did not take you seriously. I was frustrated because I felt like you were latching on to a figure of speech just to be argumentative instead of trying to understand what I meant (I was not trying to say that neural networks are literally new, I was trying to say that we have no proof that the parameter to flop ratio is even close to optimal because architectures are still changing a lot).

You are right that neural networks are not in their infancy. Best wishes.
The Deceptive World of Ghost Kitchens
I think his point is to embarrass the prior owners to generate drama and showcase some changes he wants.
Now try get private insurance for a nuclear power plant.

The alternative is not burning things, it is renewables. Stop creating a strawman to argue against.
I wonder if the corporate backing behind Docker has anything to do with Nix being adopted less. There’s a lot of overlap between Nix and Docker, and Docker had major corporate guns behind it from early on. Reproducibility as you mentioned, is easily achieved with Docker, and there is no need to learn the Nix ecosystem.

Personally, I want to learn Nix, but Ive never forced myself to do it because it’s so much easier to make a Docker image do what I want. Nix is the pinnacle of a reproducible environment that doesn’t randomly break, but Docker is 80% of the way there and much easier.

It’s like comparing trucks (Docker) with planes (Nix) for logistics. I can pay out the wazoo for a plane to get my package there over night, or I can pay a small fraction to wait a few days.
"Conservatives have waged a targeted attack on US education by shifting the federal and state tax burden to students."

What? Do you mean college used to be paid for by taxes and now students have to pay for it and that's why college is so expensive? If not what exactly does that mean?

A link to a collection of ideological ramblings and one sided opinions isn't really "evidence" in any meaningful sense of the word. I could no doubt find a similar collection of faith based screeds that cherry pick facts in support of the conclusion that "Liberals have caused all this!" but it wouldn't be worth all that much.

We really need to move back into rational inquiry instead of ideological holy wars to solve the problems we collectively face in my opinion. And not just with education either.
Not needing to have Autotools installed is certainly a feature and not a design flaw, it is the entire purpose of the project and as i wrote near the end it is the reason i personally prefer using it compared to other projects.

Also note that you can still regenerate configure scripts if you have Autotools installed, so it isn't like what you describe cannot be done with how Autotools are right now. According to a comment in the discussions i linked to, Debian already regenerates the configure scripts as part of their building process.

The difference is that unlike other tools, you don't need to do that - for example i can easily download the source of some program with an outdated configure script on my main Linux PC, regenerate the script with my PC's version of Autotools and then copy the resulting package to another machine running -say- NetBSD that doesn't have Autotools (or any of its dependencies) installed and be able to build it there.
I'm actually interested in what these results of practical significance would be. Practical, as in actually useful for technology or such.

I'm also not sure what you mean with "finitist framework". As I said, analysis existed before set theory, it doesn't require any special framework. In fact, the system of natural numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers can be axiomatized just with second-order logic. Without set theory, let alone a transfinite set theory like ZFC. And normal mathematicians wouldn't even use a formal logic here, they would just write down those axioms in plain English.
We're drowning in monopoly.

The problem with subscriptions is that they are for catalogues. In order for a subscription to have value, its catalogue must be diverse.

But what does that get us? A small number of services each with their own relatively diverse catalogue.

In other words: an oligopoly of media empires.
The end of Office Space did. Not that the ending was too serious a take, but I think there was at least a little sincerity to the idea that physical labor might be more enjoyable than a desk job for some people.
Good times... trying to message my mom "911" she still took hours to call back even though my emergency was that I wanted her to bring home McDonalds :P
In Buffalo
wtf is froth zone? it can't even handle the traffic. just link to twitter

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570
this was a really cool read. Written really well too but is there more ?

Maybe it's just me but the end seemed too abtupt.. i want more!
I can say the same for those in humanities and the opposite for those in CS, anecdotally. The thing about CS is it has a clearly defined path that kids can prepare for. Expectations and conventions are known ahead of time and can be studied and learned (leetcode, code review, requirements gathering, sprint planning, etc.) A history major has no idea what conventions they will need to be ready for in the work force.

General communication and writing skills aren't unique to the humanities.
Because you would not have any growable vector/list structure otherwise.

The real problem is that Go merrily lets you have copy-and-append operation on a slice (good), subviews of a slice so that you can share subsets of the data without copying it (good), at the same time (very bad: any operation on either will lead to confusion).

In most languages, subslicing gives you something of another type that can't be modified (or at least not accidentally). But in Go, if I call a function `do_smth_with_slice([]byte xs)`, there is no way for me to know whether this function expects `xs` to be mutable or not.

I'm sure that e.g. a C++ function taking an std::view can do some forbidden magic to still modify the underlying data, but at least the original intent is made clear by the argument type.
> I had a class that really critically analyzed native American cultures. Today the class would be considered racist, it would have to a priori be an admiration of those cultures, rather than a critical analysis.

It's amazing that now we're getting hit from both directions in this regard. The left would like minorities treated with kid gloves, and now the right wants to muzzle schools that would say anything critical of white people or positive about minorities.

I don't know how we got to this place, but damn, it sucks. The 90s seem so quaint by comparison. I'm already looking back and thinking that 80s/90s were a really special era. After a bunch of crazy shit, and before the next wave. Not perfect, there were some incidents, but it just pales in comparison to what happens every year now.
Next doesn’t need a server, you can export to a fully static package. The dynamic server-side features obviously won’t apply, but it otherwise works great.
macOS now has 30% market share in the US Internet
An HN user's image gallery of extraordinary AI-generated fantasy art
"We specialize in converting things from impossible to late."
The CEO at a company I worked for a few years ago suddenly one day discovered open source. He decided that we were now going to be a software company and "the nerds will do the work for free!" Not even paraphrasing there, that's what he said at a companywide town hall meeting. He thought he was brilliant for discovering open source and that he was the first to think of exploiting it for commercial gain.

Bankruptcy reorganization took longer than expected but he's still CEO, so I guess it didn't impact him very much but lots of people lost their jobs and everyone who owned stock was wiped out, which included a good chunk of the employees.
Yes and every time a GPT post comes up inevitably somebody points out the amazingly unique argument that open AI is in no way open. No sh##, and it's as tired now as it was when it was first pointed out.

It's about as interesting as the armchair philosophy 101 HN comment that humans are also nothing more than statistical token prediction machines.
It’s forgiveness, but it will still cost federal money, correct? https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125272287/student-loan-forgi...
Having met a lot of people I think the license gives some kind officialdom and status which they are otherwise lacking and desire. This is an attribute demanded by a large number of people with defective personalities.

Granted a chunk of people go in for the technical interest (I did ultimately) but the other folk rub off on a lot of them and it normalises into the amorphous bubble of defective personalities.
There are various levels of 'suck' along a spectrum, but many of the trades you listed are no picnic, especially when you're low man on the totem pole. HVAC work involves hauling heavy equipment that has sharp edges and spending good chunks of time in hot attics or dank crawlspaces. Most carpenters aren't boutique craftsman of expensive furniture; they are straddling joists holding a heavy nail gun above their head for hours. Plumbing...well, I think you can imagine the unpleasant jobs there.

It's easy to only look at the top level workers: owners that have young guys to boss around and/or tradesman that have built enough reputation/savings to decline jobs they don't want.

None of this is to say the skilled trades can't be a great career. The work is usually honest, rewarding, and a good mix of mental and physical. Most tradesman are able to work on their own house/car or they have buddies that will help for cheap (and reciprocity). I'm sure many would trade places with the upper tier paid software engineers in a heartbeat, however.
At least you had to unpack the source archive and install the dependencies yourself, which gave one time to appreciate just how much you depended on and how trusting you were. Nowadays the bad code can be in any one of your 300 auto-downloaded public unsigned dependencies. It feels light, easy and fun but it's actually powerful dark magic to summon the work of thousands of individuals into your pet project.
Seize the means of cheese puff production!
So, speaking for the "other side" ... I'm a small software developer ($200k/year or so), and for us having subscriptions (i.e. monthly payments; no activation/license implications) smooths out our revenue so that we do not get caught up in "oh god revenue is down, we need to do a release!" mentality.

I think this benefits our users; it certainly benefits development, which can instead be led by more natural processes.
The part of their plan about "being remembered for years to come" seems to work.

I wonder if this is more of an Europe / USA / Australia / South America thing, or do people in say China / Japan / Korea / Africa / India learn about this too.
> I agree but no one calls this C++ anymore especially since C++14/17

I do. Who's to say if you use C++, thou shalt always use: smart pointers, move semantics, OOP, templates, and more. Also, you're discounting a very large and very real industry of people writing code for embedded hardware that doesn't necessarily have the luxurious memory resources modern devices have.

Why could I ever possibly want to use C++ if I don't want to use smart pointers and OOP and all that other stuff? Well, generic type safety is very nice. Templates don't exist in C. Constexpr and references are also quite nice. They allow me to annotate my code to make my intentions clearer. Operator overloading is also insanely helpful at times. Matrix/vector math is so much nicer to write/read using mathematical operators instead of function calls everywhere. This also isn't possible in C.

Anyways, don't go making claims that if somebody doesn't use a language exactly the same way you do, then they're using it wrong. Especially when it's a language as massively overengineered as C++. There are plenty of reasons to prefer a subset of C++ to C, and plenty of valid reasons to prefer to use C instead of dealing with the complexities of C++.
That's fine if you're a student and can consistently do textbook problems. What happens when you enter the workforce where you very likely will not use most of the mathematics and get married and have kids? You don't have time to solve those problems.

I had lost all hope till I started using spaced repetition to relearn what I'd forgotten. Is it as good as doing textbook problems? No. But it's better than not doing anything. With spaced repetition I can have gaps of months at a time and can still get back to the material without having to start all over.
It's a pusher-prop, You can see the way the blades are pitched (facing) for forward propulsion. Even the best planes don't fly backwards.
D does this "the right way", which is to say free of side-effects.

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/compile-time-function-ev...

https://wiki.dlang.org/Compile-time_vs._compile-time

You're supposed to be able to trust the compiler, you can't trust people. (https://forum.dlang.org/post/po2734$20mq$1@digitalmars.com)
Fun times. Anyone here remember Altos?
The bug is so simplistic (yet also damaging) that you can't really do it high info. Google Markup doesn't truncate the file properly before writing new data to it (due to a mixture of bad coding and a bad Android API change in Android 10).

All the tool seems to do is just read out whatever comes after the end of the PNG and then supply the missing data to construct an image that can be rendered.
Probably was not fully understood before the layoff too.
Hi!

So, it's been a while, but I'll try to add clarification from the best of my memory.

So, in this sequence, I think it is the case that K2-SO was only rendered from behind.

IIRC, the reasons for not using it on more shots, and specifically the front shots in the sequence were two-fold, Primarily, we only had one TD/Lighting Artist trained in our pipeline using Unreal, which was still a little clunky to fit into our pipeline, so we were time limited. Now, K2-SO was not rendered from the front in a close-up due to problems with complexities with his eyes. (Some details from Naty later in the talk) Specifically, K2's eyes require fully lit transparencies with the full lighting model, at-least at the time Unreal only supports their full lighting feature set in their deferred renderer, and their forward renderer, used for transparencies was a vastly simplified lighting model which isn't able to fully capture the effect of K2's eyes. We were building a capable Forward renderer inside of Unreal internally, but this was not finished in time for Rogue One.

As an aside, we had a parallel internal renderer we were building for use on Rogue One, that even at the time had advantages, but Unreal was chosen for what I saw as political reasons.

I do not know of more recent examples, but I'm not involved in this project anymore, I know they used Unreal for Season 1 of the Mandalorian, but moved to their internal real-time renderer for Season 2. The internal renderer has a few advantages, not having to deal with the complexity of merging significant changes with Epic's engine for example with the forward renderer was one major advantage, but my understanding is that the major win, is just being able to build a renderer that integrates much better in their existing pipeline. Unreal's renderer is pretty strongly integrated into the rest of their engine, and the engine itself is very opinionated regarding how content is managed. And as you can imagine, ILM has their own opinions going back to about 30+ years of history.

I agree with your dispute of the broad characterization, but thought the counter-example would be illustrative.

BTW, I'm starting a new project investigating real-time rendering for film, and always interested to new perspectives, hit me up if you want to chat real-time rendering sometime.
> While nuclear power is commonly perceived as unduly dangerous

That isn't the issue, which is solely economics. Don't waste your time advocating and persuading. Bring the power of your nuclear engineering Ph.D. to bear towards making nuclear power profitable. There is nothing else is stopping nuclear power other than the economics. It's a deal-breaker. But make it profitable, and there is nothing on this Earth that could stop the proliferation of nuclear power plants. They'd literally be everywhere.
Tweak New Twitters users everywhere (who do not see recommendations, ever): yawn.
4.0 would mean that you got a letter grade of "A" in every class. In the US, that usually means you got a final grade of 95% or higher in every class.
Yes...we have these huge installations called Datacenters, that consume 1% of the global electricity and are behind all these internet services people like to boast so much about. Even this website is being hosted in a huge datacenter somewhere. Not on a distributed p2p network, even though those technologies have been around for a long time.

Pretty much everything serious people do online is offloaded to one of these places. You probably don't store your emails or messages on your PC. You store them on the cloud. You also likely don't maintain a movie collection anymore, you use Netflix or Youtube.

Your digital devices are mostly useless without an internet connection and strongly depends on an ecosystem of centralized data services stored and processed in datacenters. An old estimate put the energy consumption of an Iphone as comparable to a fridge once you took the data services into perspective. [1]

Even the actual connectivity infrastructure behind the internet is very centralized. We have a handful of optical fiber cables at the bottom of the seven seas connecting large routing centers that makes the internet tick.

[1] https://science.time.com/2013/08/14/power-drain-the-digital-...
You forgot 4. Party sex camp.
Yes if only the author had read the following article that discusses how the concept of multiverse goes back thousands of years in human literature.

https://yalereview.org/article/de-leon-everything-everywhere
I think your criticism is a bit outdated itself :-P, Autotools hasn't been supporting pre-C89 compilers for a long time now. C89 is the minimum requirement, the reason that the pre-C89 code was there was most likely because pretty much all compilers so far accepted K&R style and thus it still worked, so nobody bothered to update it. This code has now been replaced, the bigger issue with that is that there hasn't been a new release with the fixes (some distros do have the patches applied though - but sadly not mine, though i guess i can just download them myself).

Also as i replied to the other comment, you can still regenerate the configure script if you have Autotools installed, however the benefit of Autotools is that you don't have to have Autotools installed to build a project (you can always generate those scripts on another computer).
> In 222 years no former U.S. President has committed any crimes.

If it is so, then why did Gerald Ford grant a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon for any crimes that he might have committed against the United States as president? [1]

It seems to imply that at least someone thought Nixon might have committed some crime.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
Today's Republicans were never going to vote for anyone that will allow the EPA to do anything anyway.
If you check the hashtag #hustlegpt there are a few different people trying this. I imagine to some extent how the execution is handled matters
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I think some of that stigma is warranted because of the tooling and ecosystem around C#. The documentation contains frequent references to azure. Microsoft continues to place features into visual studio while making VS code actively bad. Many libraries are not free open source and you have to deal with weird licensing. Other ecosystems are definitely better.