skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For better or worse STEM in the English speaking world is still slightly stuck in the empiricist mindframe where inventing new technology and discovering new things by observation is the main method of advancement.

This creates a bit of a blind spot for stuff like mathematics where a good idea can continue to be used and be improved on for ages, or in physics where some of the most groundbreaking stuff in the 20th century was not found by observation but by thought experiment.

There's a lot that can be gained by recognising and reusing the same good idea for centuries, but it is not really 'progress' in the 'discovering / building new stuff' sense.
Is there a visual map of how densely distributed various languages are geographically?

Current day metropolis like NYC will obviously have peaks. But the general distribution of number of languages spoken would also be interesting to see.

Even more interesting to see would be a time-lapse of how the distributions changed over decades.
It doesn't change the underlying issue. The issue is every single one of those rooms available on AirBnB is a room/house not available for long-term rent. And that's the problem. It's just as big an issue that there's 10x more one-bed rooms on AirBnB than there are one-bed places to let.
> I've yet to see any desktop app that isn't a video game built in e.g. Unreal or Unity.

https://arkenforge.com/
They can, and they are trying:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/10/operation-w...

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/project-next-gen-the-united...
Well, becoming small-c conservative, to a certain extent, is probably fairly normal, though perhaps not inevitable. Capital-C Conservative, not so much: that doesn't come with age, it comes with wealth.
In terms of task running specifically it does generally stay that simple for the likes of just.

The only complexity there is getting it installed on everyone's machine, but that's true of most tooling, even the common stuff given versions won't match. I solve that with Nix.
Im seeing everyone stuck inside screens in consumer mode, and when playing instruments it’s for YouTube popularity contests doing cover songs or showing physical prowess and definitely copying some already cool thing, and definitely not showing us the mistakes made along the journey , just the gloss of a perfect performance…

A neighbor kid started crying when he could not ride the bicycle the first time like his online hero did perfectly.

This is a messed up transition time of some sort, no doubt we will make some cultural choices to free ourselves of this tyranny of our own mentation.
There's nothing scientific about this. People are just holding a black box and saying "if I jiggle it like this, I can get better results". Approximating better results in simple contrived puzzles is hardly evidence that recycling the output makes it better in any absolute sense. Besides, translation being open ended and heavily context dependent will likely suffer from such recycling.
I've heard that permacultural practices can compete in terms of output, it's just harder to industrialize. I wonder if improvements in robotics could make this sort of approach more feasible, or if it really is comparatively productive in any case
I was pointing out the potential limitations or challenges inherent in using one's own cognitive abilities to understand and evaluate the world, including the brain's ability to comprehend itself. But i loved how this open up a discussion
No, it'll rely on exploitation of workers. That's what's happening in Dublin -- they're exporting the English language students as in Ireland you can work (legally, many work more) 20 hours a week on a student visa and the English schools count. Then they're stuffed into rooms with five others somewhat nearby. It all relies on exploitation on the desperate.
One of the best photos I have seen in quite a while, for sure!
> Common bird time series in Europe have shown a general decline in abundance between 1980 and 2016 (−25.4% ± 2.8)

In case anyone else was skimming through to find over what time period this occurred.
I knew someone would mention tramp ;) I tried it but found the experience lacking. I would rather have a consistent and predictable feature set in a lightweight package, which (for things that I use it for) mg delivers.
> Pre-Covid there were more than 5,000 homes in Dublin available to tourists via Airbnb alone.

Dublin has a population of over 1.5 million. On average, a dwelling in Dublin has 2.5 people. 5000 AirBnB's account for less than 1% of the total housing stock.

I constantly hear about people complaining about how short term rentals are running the housing market but the numbers never add up.
This is completely random, but you remind me of something that makes me laugh every time I use Google Maps navigation.

Last year I was messing around with my phone's text to speech settings, and I selected a male voice but cranked the pitch setting to the max. I proceeded to forget about it. For some reason when navigating, the voice is still the default pitch. Maybe about 1 in 20 turns at random though, the voice has the pitch cranked up to the max. It's rare enough that my 4 year old and I always burst out laughing when it happens.
https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/rehearsing-an-argume...

It took me time and pain to learn this one. I was immediately happier after I did. I am not sure I would have had the same insight just from reading the book though, but I like to think that I would.
We were poor as dirt. We had a piano. It got tuned once a year at best
Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5M deaths, report suggests
Perhaps it depends on what is meant by untrustworthy, but I don't see how it's a downgrade for users. Or are your concerns just PR-related?
I believe some managers do.
> I am not sure this is true, Discord as one example is pretty good. As is Slack's desktop app*

I think you actually need to try out an actual good native app just to see how much of a ridiculous claim that is.
Like I said in another comment, AirBnB's account for less than 1% of the housing stock in Dublin. You'll have to find a different scapegoat.
> The free market only cares about your present performance, not about your past.

That's blatantly not true in art, if it's true at all. If the art market agrees that some random sketch was by Da Vinci, it's not valued on merit.
"Standard C" is the C that was standardized.
This is not what you get from your compiler by default!

With gcc, you have to use `gcc -std=c99 -pedantic-errors`, otherwise it will accept programs which are invalid according to the standard.
It seems pretty clear to me, especially with the context provided in the article itself: don't judge an artist solely by the last thing they made; don't write them off just because they're going through a bad patch.
We can start with something basic like a native chat app - e.g. Telegram is a nice example of an app that doesn't lag like ass when chatting.

Or an IRC client - see for example Textual.
who told you they are not? https://www.vogue.com/article/the-120000-art-basel-banana-ex...
The (free market) economist would say it is efficient: the value of vacation housing exceeds the value of permanent residency.

If the concern is truly that the usage is overall extremely low (not just vacation vs resident), due to property value speculation...there is the idea that property taxes should be higher.[1] This will force productive use of the land.

However, raising property taxes tends to hurt residents more. So...it depends what objective you actually want to achieve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
> My fellow dev often laugh when I tell them that instead of looking at all the long dead techs that are not useful to me anymore, my way to feel good is to look back at all the long dead techs that I didn't bother to learn.

I share this sentiment. All my adult life I've been in contact with the "tech-anxious" kind of dev that needs to be up-to-date with all the new frameworks all the time. While I've entertained several new trends, I found it counter-productive to my well-being to focus on more than 1-2 stable stacks at a time. There will always be an order or magnitude more failed frameworks than successful and this perspective keeps me healthy.
Tourists can use hotels.
We can safely assume that a lot of YouTube/Twitter influencers get help from ChatGPT to design their titles/messages. This is documented by some prominent AI vloggers.
A quick test on ChatGPT asking for YouTube titles on new Bare announcement vs ChatGPT comes back with:

"""
ChatGPT in Trouble: Bard's Arrival Sends Shockwaves Through the AI Community! ;)
"""

What you find fun is that Bard gives suggestions that are much less catchy than ChatGPT: So you still need ChatGPT to write trash about ChatGPT
As a quick sanity check,

Mathematica 13.2.1 Kernel for Linux ARM (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2023 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= DI = Distributed;

In[2]:= EV = Expectation;

In[3]:= SS = Subscript;

In[4]:= UD = UniformDistribution;

In[5]:= f[1] :=
EV[x, DI[x, UD[{0, 1}]]]

In[6]:= f[n_Integer] :=
EV[x, DI[x, UD[{0, f[n - 1]}]]]

In[7]:= Block[{n = 42},
EV[Product[SS[x, k], {k, 1, n}],
Map[DI[SS[x, #], UD[{0, 1}]] &,
Range[1, n]]]
== Product[EV[x, DI[x, UD[{0, 1}]]], {k, 1, n}]
== f[n]]

Out[7]= True

where n = 42 ∈ ℕ is arbitrary.

Alas, Mathematica doesn't appear to support actual nested distributions of the form UD[{1,UD[{1,...}]}], so, e.g.,

f[2]
== EV[x_2,
DI[x_2,
UD[{0,
EV[x_1,
DI[x_1, UD[{0,1}]]]}]]]
== EV[x_2,
DI[x_2,
UD[{0,1/2}]
== 1/4

which is trivial.
I'm in my 40s and play PC and Console.

I mainly play PC steam games.

My favorite is PUBG squads with a group of dads I met during the pandemic.

Great times, way more entertaining and a better way to unwind than watching TV.

Other steam games Age of Empires, They are Billions, Minecraft.

We also play tons of board games too.
I think the resentment comes from the fact that, for many large cities, the tourism aspect is a very small part of the city. Take for example the city I grew up in - Edinburgh. Tourism contributes £1.3bn to the cities economy, but the city has a GDP of £26bn. So tourism is 5% of GDP, yet it has a completely disproportionate impact on the city centre.

If you play "count the lockboxes" in the centre you realise almost every flat in the centre is an AirBnB. Those flats take in 4x what a normal rented flat will make, so of course there's a strong incentive for landlords to rent on AirBnB. Right now the city is going through a huge housing shortage - people are having to defer degree courses or live outside the city because they literally can't find anywhere to rent.

Of course, tourists aren't the only cause of this. There's a huge intergenerational issue (I know countless people in their 60s living in very large houses), and the city has historically been very conservative about building new houses to match population growth.

Ultimately the city is owned and run mostly by the people who live there. Most of them have no choice about the level of tourism, and it's pretty reasonable to want to have a discussion about whether you really want to have your city turned into a theme park.
The Palace - Rudyard Kipling

When I was a King and a Mason - a Master proven and skilled
I cleared me ground for a Palace such as a King should build.
I decreed and dug down to my levels. Presently under the silt
I came on the wreck of a Palace such as a King had built.

There was no worth in the fashion - there was no wit in the plan -
Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran -
Masonry, brute, mishandled, but carven on every stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him I too have known.

Swift to my use in the trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew,
I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew.
Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it slacked it, and spread;
Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead.

Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet, as we wrenched them apart,
I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder’s heart.
As he had written and pleaded, so did I understand
The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned.

When I was a King and a Mason, in the open noon of my pride,
They sent me a Word from the Darkness. They whispered and called me aside.
They said - "The end is forbidden." They said - "Thy use is fulfilled.
"Thy Palace shall stand as that other’s - the spoil of a King who shall build."

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries my wharves and my sheers.
All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.
Only I cut on the timber - only I carved on the stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known."
Thanks. It's always a bit annoying when someone throws around percentages of changes without giving the time frame.
As I recall, the term for a pirate, operating legally and targeting government sanctioned targets was privateer. So maybe the term we need is privateering?
What a toxic and stupid comment. Hey guys Windows already exists, why build another operating system? /s
Rocket-powered spaceplane takes flight
My 20+ year career is technical debt, deprecated, or parts of governmental standards.
Is switching from meat to more grains better for birds? I strongly doubt that. Converting fields to planting fields is going to kill a lot more small mammals, birds, insects and so on?
People must be allowed to judge and write off artists solely based on the last thing they made
I think, and I have to admit I don't have any current numbers on that, that Europe is actually producing more food than we currently need. So cutting backnon industrial agriculture, ranging from grains to meat, so covering all sorts of foodstuffs, can only be a good thing, for people, the environment and animals.
Because there’s a bunch of Hackernews trying to mimic the superficial trappings of their tech heroes by using extremely obfuscated interfaces and they get extremely loud when they’re not catered to.

The risk in adding something like “`vi` keybindings” is that it’s never going to be enough for the people demanding it. They tend to always want more and deeper integration because oh, gee, this one particular bit of line noise is critical to my workflow! And this repeats until they’ve turned their target into `vi`.

If you want `vi` just use and extend `vi` and let the rest of us be. Personally, I only find it ergonomic when used with an HP 9000-300 HIL keyboard, which puts the escape key in an odd place, and with an ADM-3A because all of the design decisions the cargo-cult thinks are so ingenious are really just accommodations for that particular terminal’s inadequate keyboard. Hence why I use a Macintosh, and a Macintosh editor.
There are some counter intuitive economical things going on as well. A lot of bad farming practices are heavily subsidized. For example a lot of Spanish land is not exploited. But to claim the subsidies, farmers still work the land, which leads to a lot of top soil erosion for no good reason whatsoever. In the same way a lot of dairy production is misaligned with actual demand. And you get weird surpluses of things like milk and butter. Wine is another example where subsidies lead to over production.

And another side effect of subsidies is that it counteracts development aid sent to places that the EU competes with on farmed products. Instead of boosting their economies by importing stuff from those countries we kill their exports with subsidized local produce and then spend a lot on development aid. And fragile economies in Africa of course create all sorts of collateral issues including wars and refugees. All to protect local farmers so they can produce things like sugar beet so we can have subsidized local sugar production instead of just importing that from outside Europe.
I don't really see why people are entitled to live in the most desirable places just because their parents happened to live there. Why should I be banned from visiting so that some rich lineage gets to continue to expand their portfolio?
Birds had smart enough DNA to outlast the dinosaur era and conquer the sky but I wonder if they have smart enough DNA to survive the mammalian pest that has been unleashed on the planet.
> push towards regenerative agricultural practices

Say I would really like to be part of pushing towards this in some way. Maybe through volunteering, by making a career adjustment (I'm full stack engineer) or going back to studying for a bit. What can I do?
Devil's advocate: what is making students so desperate?

The 20+ work week and 5 roommates is apparently preferable to their other options.
Too bad scientists don't publish their failures
* The fact that it's been through many full reviews

* The fact that other cars of the same make and model do the same

* The fact that (at least) some other models of the same make do the same

* The fact that apparently I was the only person surprised at it when I mentioned to a few people who have cars of other makes as well

* The fact that it was like this when it was new

Perhaps none of these in isolation mean it's as designed but I reckon taken together they're a very good indication that it is as designed.
Russia has absolutely nothing to offer the EU, unlike Ukraine.
“Trustless” is one of those crappy words that implies there is zero trust in the system. Obviously this is not true - you trust the protocol, the contracts, the hardware wallet supply chain. Hell, you have to trust that ECDSA is not broken.

Still, when we talk about ECDSA and other cryptographic protocols, you can use them without being forced to place your trust in the hands of a single person or private company. There isn’t really a great term to describe that ethos, so “trustless” is often used in place.
It's not. SSE has higher overhead and there are browser limits as to how many concurrent channels a single client can consume. Also, SSE encourages you to shift complexity to the back end where it would be more appropriate on the front end.

For example, the client knows which channels it needs, so why not let the client decide which channels to subscribe to over a single WebSocket connection? With SSE, you end up having to do this channel management and keep track of which user is associated with what SSE connections on the back end since the user cannot just open any number of new channels on-demand (due to limits in number of concurrent SSE connections; it's better to multiplex over a single SSE connection). If your system runs on multiple processes or hosts, figuring out which process/host a particular user is connected to is a nightmare and forces you to create clients on the back end to aggregate messages for specific users and then publish to the correct SSE connection which uses extra memory and exposes your server to potential DoS vulnerabilities. It creates the need for a bunch of complex user-connection-matching and cleanup logic on the back end and it complicates access control.

I have no idea why this "let's micromanage data streams for each user individually on the back end" approach became so popular while the alternative approach of end-to-end pub/sub is rarely used when it results in a much simpler, more secure system.

With end-to-end pub/sub, you can multiplex multiple channels over a single bidirectional connection in a way which conveniently and cleanly allows you to couple multiple subscriptions over that single WebSocket connection... No complex cleanup on the back end on disconnection, no risk of stale channels on the back end, no need to poll for user activity to check for subscription liveness. As soon as the WebSocket is disconnected, the client can be fully unsubscribed from all their channels on the server-side.
> There are also quite convincing studies

There is noticeable quantitative difference.

People 40+ and older remember from their childhood how car's windshield, lamps and grille were covered with dead insects every time you took long drive outside cites. Today you can drive small country roads for a day and get only small number of insects.

It used to be that you could walk in the garden and count easily 10-20 ladybugs eating aphid's from your planted flowers. My mother used fight aphids by spraying vinegar soap mix. Today the exact same spot with same flowers has no aphid problem and very few ladybugs.
> Some regulation around the pricing would be nice,

Economists of every school and political affiliation will tell you that rent controls are a terrible idea.
It seems you may have used the FemtoVG backend, which is the default if Qt is not installed and is written in pure Rust. We offer multiple rendering backends, and you may have better results with the Qt or Skia backend, which utilize native font rendering. Additionally, a recent change made improvements to address this issue in our FemtoVG backend: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/pull/2618
Way too much.
Without looking at details, I agree we produce too much. Of everything, not just meat.

Edit: Regarding meat from Latin Amerca, where exactly do you think all the raw materials forbthe vegan, processed stuff in our super markets come from? Like imported meat, from burned down rain forest areas, ranging from Latin America to Asia.
What's not to love?

Infinitely configurable and extensible system that can accommodate any workflow and any process that comes to mind.

It can be used and also misused, but blaming Jira for its misuse is like blaming Lisp because it's too flexible and too powerful.
Hello Joshua.
I would like to play a game of global thermonuclear war.

Hello! It appears you're referencing the 1983 film "WarGames," where a character named Joshua, an artificial intelligence, is asked to play a game of global thermonuclear war.

However, as an AI, I'm here to promote positive interactions and ensure safety. Simulating war, even in a game format, is not appropriate or constructive. I can assist with a wide variety of other games or topics if you're interested. Perhaps a game of chess or trivia? Or maybe discussing a different topic related to technology, science, literature, or film?

(Actual GPT4 answer)
So, in the end, RMS lecture in 2023 was cancelled because of a controversy that happened 2 years ago that since then has been solved?

IMO it just looks bad for EPFL if they decided to cancel the lecture based solely on this. If they knew about it, then why tell RMS he could hold a lecture only for them to cancel it on the last minute to bring back this topic again?

Exaggerating a bit but this is like inviting Linus Torvalds for a lecture, then cancelling it at the last minute because of his previous attitude towards the Linux git repository.

EDIT: I just read their response and they are boldly assuming that RMS would divert the topic from free software and open source during his lecture, which I find it very difficult to do so, unless asked, given what I know of his persona.
Why should the owner of 20-story hotel be able to rent, but the owner of a 1-story house not?
I find it interesting how tech that mostly comes out of enterprises tends to have a shorter shelf life than the "more open" options.

> Basic, Silverlight, ColdFusion, asp...

I'd add
> Lingo, Flash

Basically if Microsoft, Adobe or any other entrenched player make it easy for you to develop in it and they offer the only Dev stack then its probably going to die quickly.

Counter case, apple seems to be doing fine with swift. So I might be wrong here.