skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet it was a fun project, but in reality backups using rsync vs restic, borg, etc., are very inefficient in speed, performance, storage, and likely other ways. After discovering these newer tools, I vowed to never put myself through the pain of rsync backups ever again.
Around that time my dad bought a Z80 S-100 bus system (made by Thinkertoys) with 64k memory, two 8” disk drives, and a terminal for $14,726 in 2023 dollars. Hacking and tinkering with microcomputers could be a very expensive hobby, in the early days.
Exactly. Blindsight is a hard read, but it is as frightening as any horror story I have ever read. It absolutely deserves a place in the list of best alien stories.

Every time I use ChatGPT, I think about Blindsight's premise of intelligence without consciousness. Interacting with the AI feels so much like the alien interactions in that book, it is scary.
Since you want to find the color for every pixel of a flat page, you actually need your mapping the other way around - from a flat page to the photo. Which could be a combination of two: from the flat page to the standard cube, and then - from the standard cube to the photo.

Don't let the word "cube" confuse you, a 2D-cube is just a square.

I have the full explanation right here if you're interested: https://wordsandbuttons.online/biwhatever_transformations.ht...
I don't understand your position. Are you saying the fraud is justified, or do you make remarks like this to help you feel like you're "owning the libs"?
Nope. Completely different. This is exciting for non-organismal CRISPR-Cas directed gene editing (e.g. cell culture).
i dont think TDD is wrong for game development - it's a matter of balance.

You don't TDD a game mechanic as soon as you make it - you can wait until you're reasonably sure, and then use TDD to flesh out the corner cases.

You can also TDD at the lower level - such as your LOD algorithm, or culling algo, etc; these don't really change much once you know you need them.
If I pay for premium, will that also remove all the in-video promotions and calls for smacking like and subscribe?

That would be a good deal. Now we are sandwiched between ads both inside videos and between them, and they act surprised people use ad-blockers.
Agreed on all counts, though it's important to note that this protein has bacterial homologs that almost definitely have the same function (5'-3' RNA ligase activity).
More tangential, is there a good, in-depth resource for learning how to build an app in AppKit w/ Swift?
Are those gpt4 caps even real? I've never hit one even though I swear sometimes my use is higher. Does it only mean new chat threads or each individual message?
I have to wonder how on Earth this is not a criminal matter. Where I live, signing a document with someone else's name is, AFAIK, something you could potentially go to jail for.
Astronomers cast doubt on 'runaway black hole' discovery
Agreed, and pleased to see this one mentioned. "Lighter" than the usual stuff that gets lauded as great sci-fi but very enjoyable with enough realism to draw you in.
Pines, telephone poles, tractors, abandoned cars. There was a hill in Pinson, AL covered with the stuff.
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse [1-3] runs back and forth comparing the size of itself from an image with potential threats to know if it must fight or flight. Octopuses are famously smart [4].

Any intelligence or self-awareness test is also a test on the tester: how good are they in detecting what matters for the biomachine [5]/animal in testing.

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

[2] video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujy9EmUzN4E

[3] article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208420120

[4] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-...

[5] "Xenobots: the Age of Biological Robots", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77_yhkXzzo
I've often wondered whether you could effectively use this strategy to optimize a (braces for impact) blockchain. Presumably there are some relevant time spans:

- how long ago you need blocks for preventing alternate-history shenanigans

- how long ago you need blocks for nodes that may go offline for a while and come back confused

- how long ago you need fine granularity of records for accounting reasons

If none of those timespans are "forever" then maybe there could be agreement between nodes that at some point we start summarizing. So instead of deleting snapshots, you're merging adjacent blocks and purging transitional states that are not required to tell a consistent story.
This needs [pdf] in the title.
Just to speculate:

- perhaps it includes auditing and reporting measures to ensure they aren't doing this things.

- maybe its really hard to guarantee exactly equal performance for all traffic and they examine the traffic and do different things depending on the domain to balance loads
Reality of today badly implements modern mathematics, but it’s improving.
If the cash cow isn't going then the fines were successful. Plus share prices will drop because the business can no longer do the unethical thing.
You make the fine bigger than the expected profit and now you have a negative growth factor built in. The incentive now exists to stop the fines.
Tbh science fiction books without aliens is much more interesting category to explore/discuss, seeing that aliens are dime a dozen in scifi.

In general scifi is such a weird genre. Basically anything set in space gets labeled as scifi regardless if they have anything to do with any sort of science. But then you also have all sorts of non-space scifi too like cyberpunk.
this is a very nice family of structures; perhaps you could use it to choose which previous line in a poem to rhyme with, or which previous day to reflect on
Is this another foot gun policy? I mean, are the advertisers about to be shown something they never really knew before (precisely how many 'active' users there really are left on the hellsite)

I mean, for the price of some disk, Twitters user count is quite high, but once this purge starts taking place we'll all be seeing how empty it really is
Hence all the addicts that are so quick to its defense.
I guess a funny randomized algorithm is just "if snapshots.size() > capacity delete random snapshot" (depending on complexity of random deletions.) If they're in a B-tree not bad. Snapshots have a half life so they fall off exponentially.

Maybe not hard to get a deterministically good distribution (haven't properly read TFA) but I guess you'd be sad if you didn't do better than the most obvious thing.

I guess also an algorithm like "delete the (i mod n)th oldest element once you hit the capacity" also deletes every second element every n iterations, though maybe a bit uneven as it prefers to thin things out in quite local ways.
> The general gist is they seek to put people into a psychological state of demoralization, in that state you typically polarize into two separate groups.

I fail to see how this is any different than what USA based media does.
Hikers Are Banned from the Superbloom in this California Town
> $615k seems like a slap on the wrist for what they did.

No fine has ever been a threat to any company. The entire system is such a joke.
Isn't this because blobs?

Edit: More about GPL. Fair enough.

The DRM/KPI might mean I can try FB again on my e series thinkpad which died in X unless I used vesa mode.
The book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
If you liked Canticle check out some books by Lafferty, though mainly a short story author, Past Master was well received.
Its called (a) "StarFrailer".
The Bug Wars by Robert Asprin has no humans at all.
And I'll bet my bottom dollar that every developer who joined the team and was appalled at the state of the codebase said something like "if they just did Rails right it wouldn't be so bad!". Ad infinitum.
It’s possible to draw multiple meanings from the same allegory
Oh, you can absolutely laser print bank notes. It used to be a thing in the 90s, either with color laser printers or color photocopiers. Of course, they're absolutely horrid fakes.

Now, the only person dumber than a criminal who would think to try this is a store clerk who would accept these. So it is not an effective crime, unless the effect you want is "jail, quickly". But it is nonetheless a real crime.
Is... the name a Portlandia reference?
Hard disagree here. Encapsulation is just one aspect of implementing the abstraction. And I'm not even convinced it is the best way here. Leaving the ranges as simple structures with two public fields, but introducing an "infinity" concept is another way to go. No encapsulation but still abstract (although one may argue this is still encapsulation but at a different level - applied to range bounds instead of whole ranges).

Encapsulation of ranges doesn't actually fully solve the problem, but just moves and isolates the complexity to the private implementation of the range concept (likely a class in OOP). E.g. you want to compute if two ranges overlap - you still have to deal with the complexity of 3 cases in each argument, so total 9 cases.

And hiding the bounds is likely going to be a lot more intrusive on the existing caller code (more refactoring).

Or could use both. ;)
Brings to mind that old leaked Google internal 'thought experiment' video "The Selfish Ledger": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVVo14A_fo
I wonder how applicable it is to the US - most of the roads I know of with light traffic are also not lit. Maybe in some suburban streets or something.
I believe, this has become a big industry. Fake comments are everywhere.
It’s a Robert Tinney, as many of the great Byte covers were.
My feelings exactly. I've immigrated to France with my family about 10 years ago. I always say to my French friends who complain about their country: "you have no idea how lucky you are to live in this country. I do!"
How to give timelines and say “no”
> This isn't a meaningful tautology. "The system is unjust because it is unjust and therefore must always be unjust."

> We can and should improve society.

We should, but what makes you think that we can?
Speaking of, does anyone know how Qt bindings for Rust are these days? Last time I looked, there were several awkward Rust APIs for Qt, suffering in part from the fact that Qt's API is inheritance-based.
Advice in how to age with grace
I am sure I don't understand all the nuances, but let's fantasize: what if celebrities glue themselves to roads? Imagine King Charles III, Roger Federer, Tina Turner, Gérard Dépardieu, David Beckham and others...
TDD is faster iteration. You’d rather run the entire game to test a single function you’re writing than run a unit test in a fraction of a second?
> "A piece of mathematics is like a poem, and we can ask if it satisfies our aesthetic criteria: Is this argument sound? Does it make sense? Is it simple and elegant? Does it get me closer to the heart of the matter?"

This reminds me of June Huh, the 2022 Fields Medel winner.
He dropped out of high school to focus on writing poetry after becoming bored and exhausted by the routine of constantly studying during his youth.
Protein folding in modern organisms depends on hydrophobic/hydrophilic zones [1], disulfide bonds formed by cystine [2], chaperone proteins [3], and who knows what else that evolved over billions of years. On top of that, all cells from prokaryotes to archaea to human cells maintain a complex homeostasis that allows their proteins to fold the right way.

Bootstrapping that cellular machinery is a completely different story because there was no stable state - this research was carried out at 130C which is well beyond any archaea. This was probably on the order of tens or hundreds of millions of years before the first cell walls.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfide

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)
I'm presuming you're new here since your account is new & I seem to detect some misunderstandings about how HN works. If I presume too much, my apologies.

Are you aware of the "showdead" function in your settings? I don't think they deleted any comments, they were flagged. If you turn on showdead, you'll be able to see them again. (You can't delete a comment someone's responded to, or after 2 hours.)

I don't know if that other commenter flagged your post, but I don't think it matters. I didn't flag any posts here, but both of you guys were getting flagged. In situations like that, I try to interpret the flags as a request from the overall community not to have that sort of discussion on the forum. The sort of argument you were engaged with (and I recognize this isn't fully on you here, it takes two to tango) is against the guidelines of the site and generally frowned upon by the community, so there's no reason to suspect this other commenter was flagging you. At least 3 people were flagging both of your posts.

I understand that you feel pointed language is appropriate in a debate, and that HM'd guidelines here are patronizing. That's all well and good. The objection of the community isn't a moralizing one. It's a practical one; the issue is that flamewars displace the type of discussion this community is seeking to have and erode the good will on which the forum turns.

(And I do agree that bats crawling on the ground is quadrupedalism, for what it's worth. I'm not sure if that makes them a quadruped or not since that isn't their primary move of locomotion, indeed my understanding is that it's a vulnerable position for them and that it's quite deadly [since they can't evade predators].)
Companies be like "Whoops"

It's difficult to say how much this 'influenced' policy but it sure gives a good smoke screen.

With the amount of money we have spent de-anonymizing the internet for profit we should have been able to disclose this earlier.
https://archive.is/aOkwq
Yeah, I wondered about that. Blood lead levels remain high, though, correct? Seems like an alternative to the significant risks of chelation could be useful?
To overly simplify it I believe we witnessed a battle of big tech vs big ISP. Each had a financial stake. Big ISP didn't want to pay for investments in infrastructure it didn't think would bring a good ROI or the extra costs you mentioned above with having to comply with new government regulations. And Big tech didn't want to pay extra fees for being some of the biggest servers of data on the internet. The fact so many comments here don't acknowledge big tech also had business interests in net neutrality passing like big ISP had business interests in it failing scares me. They are both big business looking out for their own backsides. I'm saying this as someone who grew up in a house that STILL doesn't have access to highspeed landline internet in 2023 because the ISPs did t consider the density of houses in the area worth the investment. I'm not immune to Big ISP or a shill. But this legislation was not the good vs evil it's made out to be by so many. Big tech companies have little problem taking a stand for some opinions they don't seem acceptable. they don't give neutrality to their platforms either.
I'm reminded of this article, where Chinese children stated would rather be an astronaut than a youtuber, but kids in the USA and UK rank astronaut behind youtuber.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/american-kids-would-...
Do people ever go on Twitter to view tweets that are more than 2 days old? The only time I see posts that old is when someone is mocking another person with a “is that you?” post showing some sort of hypocrisy.

I don’t think anyone would really notice if posts older than 2 weeks auto deleted.
My suggestion is to announce a hackathon with sweat amount and brainstorm ideas on how to make money with the current state. Disabling printers is not a smart move, this will force people to look for workarounds.
I'm not sure why my previous comment is flagged.

Clearly democracy is better than the alternatives.
Thanks for mentioning those books because I didn’t know he had written a second one!
Correct. Once outside of the metro areas the highways are often unlit. It’s actually surprising to find parts that are (often interchanges, exits, near prisons, etc).

The US has a LOT of highway miles out in the middle on nowhere.
This is a completely acceptable cost of business for these companies, and everybody knows it.

Put them in jail. Review the law.
Tiktok doesn’t need a back door for CCP to have access. It’s Chinese law that requires bytedance to hand over any information requested without question.

No one can dispute this. It’s literally the law in China.
I really don’t get the appeal of keeping everything around forever. Frankly I think it’s a pathological trait many engineers suffer. Let bits expire. It’s the natural state of things. There’s no reason to fear.
> We don't need to put CEOs in prison for making consumer-hostile decisions, we just need to also make those decisions bad business.

Maybe we don't need to, but let's.
It could be a Portland reference. The city had a gourmet chocolate shop called Cacao that served "drinking chocolate" from 2005 until 2020. I know because I went in there after getting lost and drenched in a Portland February, and the staff there were kind enough to bring me towels and let me wait out the downpour while I sipped chocolate.

But more than likely it's just a reference to Apple's Cocoa api.
Correct - the x00LX (I think the 95 also) were one of the few mass produced computers to use the rare 186.
A requirement that a software patent compile and run would be a welcome one.
Take care of your health. Think about how you want to retire.
What would unHLT it? The next timer tick?
Memories of inputting small COM programs with debug so I could jump start serial communications and bring over bigger guns - good bad times!
It may be hard to get insurance once they have to pay more often.
There is literally no such thing as a "known zero-day". That is a contradiction in terms. Either it is unknown, and exploited as a zero-day, or it is known, and therefore no longer a zero-day at all.
Because while it’s mimicking a human kind of intelligence, it’s missing the kinds of intelligence that even basic mammals have.

One example: it has no concept of objects and permanence. Something even my dog has.

Want an example? Watch Gotham Chess on YouTube play it at chess and you’ll see it not only doesn’t understand the rules of the game, it can’t even remember which pieces are on the board!
thanks.

and here's a link to an earlier 2019 story about crowds trampling the bloom, landing helicopters, and damaging plants, etc:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/california-helicopter...
I'm always fascinated by people who achieve their purpose early in life. Because "then what?" and often they have more interesting, more meaningful, lives after achieving what they thought of as their purpose than before.
Lantana, Cactus and Cats Claw in Australia. Everyone talks about the cane toads but ignores the weeds
I would be completely open to prosecuting a majority stake holder who insisted they were not responsible for a companies' abhorent actions because we have no evidence that all their personal requests passed the board.
> We should address edge cases by deferring to people as much as possible. Oh, you find it annoying to enter an offset? Don't worry about it, it's optional! Your dentist will expect you for your cleaning at 8:00am +/- 5 hours.

> If we keep smoothing over the rough edges for our users, the problem will only get worse. Better to make timezones as painful as possible for as many users as possible. They'll eventually vote for something less obnoxious.

This is gonna go over great with the people making purchasing decisions.
People are mad that in a crisis an amount large money was given to executives who are already very well compensated and also not on the front lines, rather than to the frontline workers.
False. It's my family and friends and whoever they in turn talk to about it, and their friends and family. And all of them can also do their part in effecting policy change.

So much misinformation on this topic. It's more comfortable to be complacent.
>I fail to see how this is any different than what USA based media does.

It isn't but that doesn't make it any less egregious.
Yesss! I remember Gene Rally. Felt like a mindblowingly spiritual successor to Slicks 'n Slide :) Great memories!
> I hated myself when I benched 405 pounds, agonized over whether I had “broken parallel” while squatting 500, and regretted the first thirty-three years of my life even as I deadlifted 650.

Something I have often wondered: when giving these numbers, are people including the weight of the bar and the bar clamps[1], or just the weights alone? One side or both?

1. I believe the Olympic standard specifies 20kg (44.05 lb) for the bar and 2.5kg each for the clamps, so not entirely insignificant.
The linked article is about deforestation by humans and is irrelevant to the fact that huge parts of Spain have long been deserts.
Yes. Certainly the First Nations have generally agreed on this.
It looks like an easy trip, honestly.

ABRP shows[0] plenty of Superchargers along the route and a suggests only a total of 50 minutes of charging which are nicely spaced for eating and breaks, although I'd probably add a buffer in there as well.

Round trip[1] has more stops, obviously, but easily doable without any more planning than getting in the car and driving.

The i4 is a cool looking car, but maybe you could rent a Tesla from Hertz (the devil) or something like Turo and give it a try?

[0] https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=0ef3d1ec-9efc-419...

[1] https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=44efaba5-b904-4a1...
because we're ingrained especially at work to never let the server die it's the absolutely worst thing can happen and then this mentality carries over to everything where everything has to be constructed with longevity as a factor. Agreed it's natural for things to expire and or cyclically reset.
Imagine if your water pipe decided to only serve you water occasionally, and when it did threw some random bull-crap in there?

Who would vote for that system?
Here is my simple reasoning: (1) Large internet companies fight feverishly for net neutrality. (2) Based on past experience, it is inconceivable to me that they would so feverishly fight for the end-users' benefit. (3) Therefore, they fight for the net neutrality because it very beneficial to them.

I am guessing there is something inside Internet backbone data transfer that allows these companies to make tons of money/get large subsidies, provided that net neutrality is in place. I would love to understand that it is.
I've seen amazing progress over my lifetime, and I see enormous potential in current social movements. It's not guaranteed, and I see incredibly destructive social movements picking up speed as well, but I do believe it's possible.
There is a reason that "Fuck Ajit Pai." is a meme.
I thought it was a circle rather than a triangle.
One could burn dioxygen difluoride for power and produce no carbon!