skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The example was a pivot caused by a disruption.

The innovation was created by a disruption. Air travel disrupted ocean travel. It failed to kill it because some ocean liners pivoted and invented a whole new class of travel.

Disruption is central to this tale.
One thing Disney+ has started doing is filming making of documentaries along with the films, and releasing them shortly after the film.

For example the making of Frozen 2 doc came out just a week or two after the movie hit streaming. It's basically like Director's commentary turned up to 11. They've done it for a few films.

I'd love to see that happen more, but I suspect making a documentary is a lot more work than editing together a commentary track.
I wouldn't say that it cannot prove the existence of a discontinuous function. Rather it can prove that a point of discontinuity makes it not a function.
Paraphrased for HN: > “The difference between the hackers and all the other developers, is that the hackers find a path to a solution when they have the least at their disposal. You have to focus on what you can control. The most common mistake is to try to feel good, or try to work well. But this is not something you can control. My number one advice is don’t focus on yourself, but focus on the strategy to break down the tasks, knowing what you have today. Because when you focus on you and your problems, you don’t focus on the tasks. My second piece of advice work on your engagement and your attitude. The engagement comes from the way you speak to yourself. So find a way to talk to yourself in a way that helps you have the best possible engagement, which will help you also keep positive, and help you keep the focus on the task and not on yourself. The hackers, on a bad day, focus only on those two things, and forget all the rest that they have no control over.”

Dang mentions curiosity as a key virtue for HN. Curiosity helps with both of the two things above: wondering what comes next helps with digging in and breaking down tasks; wondering what comes next also helps with engaging with, and hence actually accomplishing, each subtask.
Did we read the same post? That was not at all my takeaway. The post was actually about "cameras have a range of effective identification, UFOs 'just so happen' to be always just outside this range even after it has expanded, the likeliest explanation for this coincidence is that they are not alien spaceships."
What's up all these GPT bot comments here on HN lately? Seems like a fairly new phenomenon.
Of course, just create an AI focused on asking for the impossible in a short time period.
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> I disagree with this. If scientists aren't reproducing the work of other scientists, then science cannot advance. Reproduction of results is one of the main mechanisms by which science separates reality from fantasy.

Are you or have you been a professional scientist?

Because while that's how it should work, it generally doesn't anymore as it's really, really difficult to get straight replications (which are desperately needed) published.
So what's the why?
You wouldn't even need that. They can just add an ultrasonic signal.
> Pure research for curiosities sake is the key factor in every notable advance that humans have done.

Yeah, Feynman got a Nobel Prize doing just that: https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html
I love Snobol (and its descendent spitbol.) While an engineer at a large, unnamed company named after a river in South America, I was somewhat amazed by how "No computing problem was untouched by regular expressions" including scanning html. After many hilarious inter-team failures, we finally got approval to speak with our peers. I pointed out that HTML can't "really" be parsed with regexes (yes, I know, there are subsets of HTML that regexes work perfectly well with, but in this instance we did not control the input). Thus got a lot of blank looks. Then I mentioned "context free" versus "regular" and more blank looks. Someone in the back made a quip about not expecting a CS101 lecture at work.

Over the next two days I did a Mini-Course for a few engineers about why you may not want to use RegExes for everything. Spitbol played a leading role and those engineers walked away enlightened.

They were, of course, fired because they started asking other engineers in the company to modify their outputs so they could be parsed reliably with regexes. But that's okay, they went on to successful careers at other companies who provided decent health care options.

So... at least for a small number of engineers in Seattle, SNOBOL resulted in them getting decent health insurance.

I call that a win.

Also... I know half the people reading this will say something like "of course you can parse HTML with RegExes! I do it all the time!" -- I suggest you're parsing a subset of (x)(ht)(ml) and your code can easily get flummoxed with valid HTML, just not in the format you were used to. If you can recover from regex failures or modify the input to the regex so you don't get failures, more power to you! I'm not gonna argue with someone producing working code. The person who maintains your code after you leave may curse your name, however. But by that time your uber stock will be worth something and you'll be driving your bitcoin lambo to the beach every day so what do you care?

Anyway, SO had A LOT of discussion about RegExes and HTML:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6751105/why-its-not-poss...

"Alas, poor SNOBOL! I knew him, HN: a language of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me over the pains of regular languages a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in industry it is!"
Previous Edge was a complete refactor of IE with a brand new js engine. Extremely lightweight and low power compared to Chrome. Their goal was to be 100% compatible with the modern web.

Google started breaking pages as soon as it detected it was running on Edge and not Chrome. Simply changing the user-agent string magically repaired the pages. So MS gave up and forked Chrome.
Hypothetical political journalist just lost both his Yubikeys when his office and home were both targeted. He still has an off-site backup of his passkey. How would you envision this working?
I think the worlds first commercial nuclear reactors had just started operating at the time of the accident. But they were separate and built later.
how Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world
Very interesting. So it could produce, with high confidence, common and real-world guesses found in it's dataset.

So in that case it's not guessing and not wrong; it's indeed producing something that is correct, but still false. Now we're really getting into the weeds here though.
All of us have it set to (4) to view all details.

But nope, it doesn't show any details in the mini view when inviting someone to an event.
I actually thought it was a very astute observation. Something could be very close and still be unknown, eg. a secret model of plane, or new weather phenomenon.

Reading between the lines, his point is that it's unlikely that ET only flys in people's LIZ.
> But I difficult for me to believe that secular historians have overwhelmingly less interest in the subject to the point where if there _were_ more representation, there would not be such a consensus

I'm not sure why you expect a non-trivial proportion of secular historians to take a hardline position on the nonexistence of a Jew called Jesus son of Joseph of Nazareth (I don't think you'll find much "consensus" about the historical accuracy of reports of miracles or virgin births or even donkey parades). The "consensus" comes from religious scholars being committed to their position, and secular scholars for the most part avoiding taking any particularly strong stance: even high school history lessons caution against arguing that figures must not have existed because they were referenced in mythology as well as against accepting that a legendary figure must have existed because he was referenced by a secular chronicler.

Ultimately study of the sources has proved all the supposed archaeological evidence of Jesus' existence were late medieval frauds, reached consensus that the early Church belief that the Gospel of Matthew was written by Jesus's disciple was false and it was actually written decades later by an anonymous Jew who'd read the Gospel of Mark and a couple of missing documents, and mostly reached consensus that Flavius Josephus' references to Jesus were edited (to be fair to Christian scholars, they've been enthusiastic participants in discrediting much of what was once considered evidence). When cross referencing the few things written in the Gospels that can be validated against contemporary records, they've found the Gospel authors appear to have got basic stuff like Herod dying before the census Joseph supposedly travelled to Bethlehem to participate in wrong (the term "historical Jesus" is really loaded when the mundane details attributed to him are as problematic as the miraculous stuff). But there's no such thing as records to prove the nonexistence of a Jew called Jesus son of Joseph of Nazareth and I'm not sure such a record ever could be a thing, so those whose faith relies of a priori belief that the late first century writings by cult leaders are particularly reliable evidence obtain "consensus" that he existed more or less by default.

> I'm more confused as to why you made this comparison right after poking holes in this argumentation

I would have thought my followup post would have made it reasonably clear. Any moderately successful cult will accumulate at least a handful of passing secular references to figures central to that cult after it has become popular. There is no reason to believe this confirms the existence of that figure. The figure doesn't become more likely to have existed if 2000 years pass; that's not how time works!
How is this different from what the parent poster said?

If banks cannot match their liabilities at any time that makes them insolvent (granted, some reasonable period might be useful. But we're talking days/a week, no more). The fact that they may be able to match those liabilities in the future does not matter.
That's actually kinda the point of both the book and Sokal's analysis of it. It sounds as though you haven't read the book, but feel confident in your rejection based on somebody else's analysis presented in meme form.

The book has a thesis on why you might feel so confident in the face of insufficient information. Sokal critiques some of the underlying epistemological questions of the insufficient information, how we come to accept or reject it.
Here are some

>Closed ecosystem

>Restricted platform

>Proprietary systems

>Walled Prison/Jail(this has negative bias, but may fit depending on the context)

>Curated platform

I'm sure you can get objective phrases from chatgpt too.
Work with other people. As opposed to looking at how people present themselves. I often see "experts" in things that have very superficial knowledge and qualifications.

Or people who claim to be proficient at, say Word or Excel because they've used them and they're generally easy to use. But if you go watch professional financial modeling people work with excel, you'll realize you don't know anything.
To which law are you referring?
I'm a Data Architect, and my main company responsibility involves our logging databases and the reporting that accompanies it (grows at multiple gigs/day). Our company may use other databases in other places of our product, but I personally only interact with BigQuery on a daily basis.
Focus on releasing what?
> Interestingly SteamOS is quite nice, but will it be something outside of gaming on a Steam Deck?

Considering their website[1] still says it's Debian derived but they switched to Arch some time ago, I doubt it's in their plans to do more than enable their own hardware.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos
And it is customizable as heck!

What surprised me the most was the really good usability of something like the KDE Plasma desktop, even in comparison to MacOS.
I’m surprised there haven’t been any comments about not even being able to upgrade. My computer doesn’t have a TPM, so I’m stuck on Windows 10. I’m not sure what I’m missing out on, other than the taskbar being smaller and centered.
This could be the dawn of a new day for the old-school editors. Not to start any wars here, but I could never get the hang of Vim, and that's hardly an unusual complaint. But now, free high-quality personalized "tuition" just became economically viable.
> You could say this about Google's proprietary authenticator app in the past

There's many implementations of OTP. I've never used google's and I've been fine.
Well, because they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#/media/Fi...

If you're asking "Why does anything emerge?", I don't think anyone really knows.
Not quite. The main problem with Vulkan is, as the blog post goes into, one of usability. Vulkan isn't designed for end developers to use, it's designed for middleware vendors to use. Vulkan is already being pushed by many major big tech companies include Google, Nvidia, AMD, etc... It's really only Apple that's a problem here.

WebGPU is basically a middleware for those that just want to use graphics, not all of unity, unreal, etc...
That's cool and I was explaining how these apps have proved valuable and prove valuable to me. It is a bit of a racket, but I learned a lot by using them and able to lock/unlock my credit instantly (easily) and the other points that I mentioned that I found valuable (worth the cost).

How many know they can rack up $10,000 in credit card debt and only pay $100 a month with a zero APR card? Im not sure many know this especially those in their 20s and maybe early 30s.

So whose your lender.. love to get a 2 percent interest rate on my next house. Moving into one soon and its much higher then that.
yes it's a know issue with the linux GPU driver for the intel integrated graphics, I think it was specific to the 12th gen or even just a subset of 12th gen but I'm not sure

11th gen doesn't have this issue, but is ...well... 11th gen if you know what I mean
This was their opportunity to drag people away from Chrome and Google search, I remember the craze of people making jokes about the death of google and how they are trying edge/Bing.

Then they shot themselves in the foot with ads.
Anyone remember "Signature Edition" PCs[1] that would ship without vendor crapware? I can't tell if this was Microsoft trying to make room for their own crapware or they just gave up on this idea and decided "if you can't beat them, join them".

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-windows-10-signatur...
She omitted it because it's not an API, it's a file format. Even if you want to be lax about what you call an API, svg was never a competitor in this space. She also left out canvas, directdraw, direct2d, gdi, etc, because they're just not relevant to any of this.
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Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark
> we have not come up with a replacement for them

yet.

I appreciate the assertion that we ought to solve that problem. Energy expended upon countering the positive reasons we get to do so could be better spent. No reason for you (or anyone) to expect $randomInternetStranger (i.e. me) to care but I do. I have come to believe the problem is a creativity supply problem, alongside insufficient transition supports, and incentive design problems with many beneficial human labors. I believe that we constrain our growth and prosperity due to this lack of vision and this is why I endeavor to do better, extend ladders, and so on.
I wonder why no social media platform uses seed phrases as usernames. It would be much easier to remember and communicate off-line.
I expect the author to actually learn C++ to start with.

I survived the Usenet flamewars, there is no sensibility to hurt.

Looking at the fellow comments the crowd shares a similar opinion on the article.

Some food for thought.
In my mind, anyone setting out to create a package manager, or a new language that will need one, needs to at least match the functionality of Gems/Bundler or Hex/Mix. They've been around long enough that it feels like table stakes at this point.

Mix does more than just dependencies, however I am referring the table stakes as being the more narrow scope of dependency management.
USB4 definitely does not require PCIe transport. (it does however require DisplayPort.) Once you have usb4 though, yeah, adding PCIe shouldn't be that much more work-you've already done the hard stuff. Which is part of why I've felt so cheated, thinking AMD hasn't done PCIe in their usb4.

This is, if true, very good news.
Right? It's often not that hard to make an environment that works for cars, pedestrians and bikes.

I live in an apartment complex with a gigantic underground parking garage. There are no cars on ground level, just paths for walking and bikes. About 2000 people live here. Almost everyone has a car, but their cars are mostly just parked in the garage.

90% of people who live here either walk, take public transit, or ride their bikes to work. But when you need a car to visit grandma with your 4 kids, it's right there, underground.
This is a great question. I think knowing something for me is related to being able see the next move. I am also a chess player and a rock climber. I know how to climb and how to play chess. I know I know these things because I have the experience to analyze a position and make decisions in the present based of my understanding of the most probable futures. This knowing is from experience and relates to my career. I am a software developer and I know I know how to do this (a little bit, also have heavy imposter syndrome at times lol) because I can visualize multiple steps of a process.

Not just at high level either. Like I know detailed step-by-step, line-by-line, character-by-character even, instructions for how to accomplish certain tasks and, possibly more importantly, instructions for how to resolve certain issues.

In a state of uncertainty, I cannot foresee the next moment in a sequence of events. That, for me, is a difference between knowing and not knowing.
I was tempted to ask you to do "Balls" next! I love those kinds of games.
Very strange indeed, first I've seen it, but they're all the same format and all new accounts.
Unity stock peaked during the ZIRP COVID phenomena, looks like it’s only been downhill from there.
My team does point based estimation and I like it. The points are useful for getting an idea of how much stuff to work on in a sprint and a measure for how much room we need to leave in for the inevitable and consistent problems that we have to pick up mid sprint.

The real benefit imo is that it is a good shorthand during estimation that reveals misunderstandings or flaws in a ticket. Everyone pointing a ticket at a 2 is whatever, literally any time spent discussing if it is a 2 vs a 3 drains my vitality, but every time there is a big outlier or bimodal distribution we get a lot of value from talking it out.

I think what points gets you here over hours is that it focuses on the task at hand. I think a time centric approach requires your estimates to be more like 'X hours for John, Y hours for Shirley'.

I'm not touching your points about how there are other contexts where it doesn't make sense to do this, or the absurdity inherent in pretending that they don't still boil down to time in a meaningful sense because I agree with them.
Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate. Really helped me understand my ADHD (diagnosed in my 30s) and why I do certain things or act a certain way around other people. I feel I’m much better at explaining my actions so people don’t think they’re boring me or I’m not paying attention
And the pictures where UFOs are clearly visible are rapidly dismissed as CGI. There is no picture that would convince a hardcore skeptic, and that is not necessarily a bad thing, but it needs to be clear to everyone.

Extraordinary disbelief calls for extraordinary evidence, and that likely means repeated observations by multiple credible observers -- credible to the person in question, that is. It is a tall order without systematic funding to collect that data a la Project Galileo.

I remain on the fence. On the one hand, the publicly-available data is entirely unconvincing, while on the other hand the testimonies from high ranking officials to pilots are intriguing.
Half the authors are basically civil servants, their salary is paid by the French state. The other half are Americans. Whilst I am not sure what their motivation was, it seems unlikely that big champagne would funnel money to Brown University, of all places (they do it more publicly elsewhere). The main resource used in this study is CPU time, they give a grant number and the institution. So again, no private funding.

A lot of people are keen to work on something like that on their own. I know someone who worked on the thermodynamics of chocolate mixtures for no precise reason whatsoever, and without external funding. These things are typically short one-offs.

There are labs that have larger programs on carbonated liquids, including a well-known (in the field) lab in Reims. Those get some funding from industry in the usual form of money for post-docs or PhDs, funding for experiments, and the occasional in-kind contribution of samples. Nothing out of the ordinary.
The Disney Imagineering videos are pretty cool...you should check them out. Sort of the "making of" for the parks.
2019, but not much has changed since then.

I like this response:

> The military complex is only going to release information to the public on a “need to know” basis. Does the public need to know? No. The reason. Because these objects posed no threat to the public, or to the military. [...] The military isn’t going to admit that their pilots pranked the media.
No bank is obligated to use the Fed system. Unless you want to process a Fed wire or ACH. Or you want FDIC insurance. Or you want to offer banking services to consumers. Or you want access ti the Fed window for short term liquidity.

But if you put those aside and somehow manage to get a bank charter, you could totally eschew the Fed.

Now if you do play in their ballpark you have to play by their rules. And a big one there is the rate that you’ll get on short term deposits. And given the scale it implicitly sets the pace for interbank rates as they have to directly compete with the Fed.
You just drop a script into a "special" directory, and the scripts are run in alphabetical order with arguments that tell them if they are being called for a suspend or resume, and the type of suspend. Non-systemd, it is part of the acpi stuff. Systemd has its own special dir '/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep' (there is no equivalent under /etc; and creating one yourself will not work). I don't recall the directory the acpi hook scripts used (it has been a while... ?something like /etc/acpid/hooks.d?), but it worked pretty much the same way. Supposedly you can use systemd targets to accomplish the same, but when I tried that, it was very unreliable-- apparently unreliable for others too since the special systemd dir exists, and the distribution is using it for its own hooks (Poettering has said it might go away at some point, though :/).

The original dumb version (written in anger, after the first time the laptop crashed on resume post installing the Intel card, and a bit of testing to isolate it to the iwlwifi module) was just a few lines-- literally a couple minutes to write. It has grown since to about 10X the size to handle some details specific to my network setup more intelligently.
Depends on how you define development and civilization. There are plenty who see Western nations as became more barbarian (as opposed to being more civilized) with and due to development of technology. They don't see development of technology as good either.
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