skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, but the thing that is wrong is that the word "first" is associated with the number 1!

Think about it. Natural language could easily have associated the initial ordinal with 0. Let's call it the Nilth (zeroth is really hard to say).

The nilth element is element 0, the first element is element 1, etc.

The winner of a race is in nilth place. Silver goes to the person who came first. Bronze so second.

You walk in to a building on the nilth floor, climb the stairs to the first floor (that might sound weird to Americans but it's how it works in other parts of the world).

This is probably all sounding crazy to you but it's way more elegant and self-consistent.

Which century is the year 2023 in again?
I wont use prop. W97 over Trisquel.

Once you learn Groff+Mom+simple files cat'ted after.FOOBAR tags you wont go back.
Wouldn't it already then be energy on earth but now it's energy that humans can make use of?

It's a benefit because it's energy that doesn't require releasing carbon to aquire and make use of.
"Quality" is not an indisputable property of the code. Someone's judgement about code quality can only have as much weight as their competence.
This is the "just eat less" dieting advice applied to software.

I understand the desire to grow your own food and bake your own bread, as a response to the onerous, distressing complexity of the systems we live inside, but you have to accept the cost of that being more work and less connection.
Streaming services are removing movies and shows: It’s Strictly Business
Maybe they’re just a huge fan of Gundam OO?
If there's a way to make relative comparisons to competitors, that would seem wise. Everyone gets the 1-star rants, but you should probably know if you're getting more or less of them than everyone else.
Much better article. May be @dang could change the submission link?

I keep thinking if I should dig up and repost all the bookmarked link from people who keep blasting Apple is and always will be 5 years ahead of everybody. And these are prominent member in their programming / tech circles.

I hope Anandtech does another detail article on their GPU as well. While I am not a fan of Mali but still want a detailed analysis on Immortalis.

Another question worth exploring would be how good are the other IPs from Mediatek. From Modem, I/O, DSP, NPU as compared to Snapdragon. As Mediatek is now competing directly with Qualcomm in flagship SoC.
forgotmypw17 doesn't appear to follow any of these points except incidentally (most modern web browsers are forks of one another for complexity reasons, their preferred document editor is an EOL closed-source product therefore doesn't get updates)
The article already mentioned that.
I would say it replaces one problem with 1000 harder ones. Space based solar power just doesn't make a ton of sense, either from a capacity or cost per watt-hour sense.
The CSS Media Queries Level 4 spec actually includes fractional pixel values as part of the examples for browsers which do not yet support the range syntax: https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-4/#mq-min-max

> One approach to work around this problem is to increase the precision of the values used for the comparison. Using the example above, changing the second comparison value to 320.01px significantly reduces the change that a viewport width on a device would fall between the cracks.

The .02/.98 values might seem strange, but many popular libraries use these offsets (including Bootstrap: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/scss/mixins/_bre...).

The way I tend to work with media queries is not writing them directly but rather use a mixin (when using SCSS) or a media function (CSS-in-JS). That way, this weird quirk can be documented just once in an application, leaving anyone curious enough with the explanation. There tends to be an 'upTo(breakpoint)' function which is an exclusive range, and a 'from(breakpoint)' which is inclusive.
300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
I think I want the arc length of the viewport. Fonts should have a minimum size based on that, certainly not 11pt or whatever.
Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain
> Removing content from platforms is a way for streamers to avoid residual payments and licensing fees.

> “Much like syndication of Hollywood’s yesteryear, streaming services must pay for the right to host a title,” explained Brandon Katz, an industry strategist at Parrot Analytics.

> He noted that if a title is not owned by the streamer, then a licensing fee must be paid to the studio that owns that content. For example, Hulu licenses “The Handmaid’s Tale” from MGM Television.
It's great that they saved this one, but how many more films like this are rotting in vaults?

>the museum has so many reels that it hadn’t paid attention to “The Oath of the Sword.”
Symmetric interaction combinators (an instance of interaction nets like 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine is a particular type of Turing Machine) only has 3 agents and 3 rewriting rules. This makes it about as simple as lambda calculus with 3 possible terms (variable, application, and abstraction) and α-equivalence, β-reduction, and η-reduction. The advantage of interaction nets is that each rewriting rule is local and "atomic" unlike subsitution step in β-reduction which can take arbitrarily long time as it is defined recursively.
> Besides, you don't want the screen size, you want the viewport size and the DPI.

...I can think of at least one case where you really would want the screen size, although perhaps it's specialized enough to warrant a separate API.

As a user, I have often wished there was a reliable way to view an image on the web at "actual size". Examples would include purchasing band-aids on Amazon, or reading a Wikipedia article about insects. As far as I know, there's currently no good way for websites to offer this, and there really should be!
https://restofworld.org is a good place to start.
About 2.5% of the population has an intellectual impairment (if mean IQ is 100, and SD 15, 2.5% have IQ less than 70 the WHO cut off). Of this 2.5% some will have social/adaptive impaitment similarly 2SD below the mean and have an "intellectual/learning disability".

Move that mean down one SD (15 IQ points). And now OVER 15% of the people meet the intellectual impairment criteria.

Put it another way, due to the shape of the normal distribition moving IQ down 10-15 points amounts to 2-3X increase in the number with abnormally low IQ.

Cut to the modern era, where fewer and fewer jobs are available for those with intellectual impairments, and the world requires more and more technical prowess and the situation is far worse than the figures appear.
Very interesting. My social circles are significantly older than the women deciding not to have children – apart from Stephanie Mills, which actually did have a child. I guess time will tell if these women are being serious or if it’s just a pretext to push back on social pressure (and I 100% agree on pushing back this type of pressure).
Does lean have an analogue to hoogle?
Asianometry is good youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@Asianometry
It's a good thing I didn't say "don't do X"
The UX Research Reckoning is Here
Here is one implementation of a lisp (mal specifically) in matlab: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/dcf8f4d7b9cf7b858850a04a0...

Only 260 lines of code, pretty concise :)
this is not a good way to look at it. it's still 100% driven by humans, through prices. the orthodoxy is not wrong on this one. humans want more stuff.

(we also work a lot to be able to afford many many many things. we could live like the Romans did on a few hours of work per week, but we also want the Internet and sometimes watch movies, and go to concerts, and sometimes go hiking, and thus we sometimes need a car, and roads, and thus we need pavement, bridges, structural steel, fuel, GPS, maps, and sometimes we need an airlift when someone breaks a leg in the mountains, and so on.)

> if AIs have control over news media and telecommunications and can stop dissenting humans from coordinating any sort of rebellion.

meh. control over the media (and people's attention, and their information sources) is already serving a very narrow group's interests. adding AI to this mix doesn't seem to change much in the short term.
This book is a quick read. It wouldn't take you long to verify if it was misleading or not. Several people in this thread, myself included, think it isn't. I'm guessing most of us have some background working with data and metrics, so it's not that easy to fool us.

It's $10-12 on ebook or paper. Worth a read, certainly.
Do Animals Get Drunk?
The mentality of ‘the customer is always right’ also leads to homogenous thinking, with universities of all places now leading efforts to discourage freedom of speech/thought and punish ‘wrongthinkers’. It’s what the ‘customers’ are demanding.
Be careful with that. A friend once did something similar to an active scraper who then went off and set his site up for a full blown DDoS.

He knew that was the reason for the intentional DDoS due to messages (along the lines of “think it is funny to poison my information do you?”) in the query string of the bulk requests. Like unpleasant fools making a big noise in shops because they aren't served immediately after cutting in line or some such, the entitled can be quite petty when actively taken to task for the inconvenience they cause.

Passive defences are safer in that regard, assuming you don't get into an arms race with the scrapers, though are unfortunately more likely to mildly inconvenience your good users.
Generally, these days "woke" is a word that regressive bullying assholes use to insult people.
Indian wrestlers Protesting against sexual harassment of colleagues charged by police with rioting while the politician accused of sexual harassment joined India's parliament inauguration as a guest.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/28/world-is-watching-i...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/world/asia/india-parliame...
Perpetual cat and mouse game. I would venture to guess we are in a 'hackers winning' cycle right now. In a couple years itll cycle back to us winning.

Imagine a hospital. There will ALWAYS be people looking to break in to find out some specific information. "What did the doctors do that resulted in the death of my loved one?"

This is APT you can never stop regardless of budget. they can build any 0day, go to any extent, build completely custom undetectable tools that will never be stoppable.
Not many places to build solar panels in Japan.

They tried building on mountain faces but shoddy construction by yakuza linked companies lead to landslides[0] and many dead people a couple of years ago.

For the record, I live in a remote mountainous (snowy) region and have panels generating 10kw on my roof. It generates really well 8 months out of the year. 2 months of snow and another couple of months for the rainy season and I’m still generating more than I use in a year. If the govt is willing to reintroduce subsidies and raise the fees in tariffs, a lot more people would be willing to install them.

0: https://m.energytrend.com/news/20210810-22918.html
It's like when the electrician comments on some of my own electric handiwork. I believe he called it "nifty".
Termites certainly know things that modern engineers don't, and the same is probably true of ancient Persians.

Just about everyone has the intuitive understanding that some old buildings do a very good job maintaining comfort, and that modern buildings often fail to do the same or only keep up at enormous expense. It's perfectly understandable that, in the wave of globalization and cheap energy that swept much of the world for half a century, we lost the craftsmanship to create these structures well, then the knowledge to do so at all, and all the while we didn't care because electricity was so cheap. Now we're clawing back stuff we used to be able to do as a matter of course.

Central air is miserable to maintain. I want to maximize my comfort with ceiling fans and window units, or maybe ductless.
https://archive.ph/BF7k1
They could have been equally happy or happier because they did not have this reference or refrigeration or clean water.

For all we know when people start to travel cross continent in minutes, press a button and have instant steak printed, we cannot assume they will be happier than everyone alive today. They will have their own set of issues to weight them down. If nothing, boredom.
I’ve always found this guy’s work interesting.

https://www.lotusdental.com.au/post/effect-of-western-diet-o...

Previously, I’ve found the anti-fluoride argument to be a little shaky but I’m a scientist and some of the data in the report might make me reconsider that stance. That’s what science is. I must say that personally I haven’t drunk fluoride in my tap for decades really, since I use a reverse osmosis filter for my tap. So if you don’t want to drink fluoride you don’t have to.

I haven’t noticed more cavities in periods when I don’t drink fluoride vs when I do. But I brush my teeth twice a day (teeth bathed in fluoride toothpaste residue) and go to the dentist every six months. I don’t really have cavities.

I found this paper an interesting history on water fluoridation-

Debating Water Fluoridation Before Dr. Strangelove

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504307
I don't understand something: "Cloudflare workers" are, at the end of the day, computers, right? Probably virtual ones (either VMs or containers). So, why is the ability of creating TCP sockets a feature? Why their "cloudflare workers" had that handicap to begin with?
"good" is a stretch but I think you just described the wordpress ecosystem ;)
> will a junior developer, someone at the very start of their career, struggle to understand this code

That guy’s entire job is to become the expert you need. It’s a bad tradeoff to permanently handicap your experts from communicating clearly and concisely to each other, just to accommodate the start of his learning curve. It’s also not doing his career any favors, having to work with worse code for the rest of his tenure.
>I would say that goodwill isn’t profit maximizing because you can’t account for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)
That's probably why the building cited in the linked article is at 5000ft.
No, my wife has had patients that have been on hospice for over a year. In order to get benefits they have to be demonstrably in decline.
Enjoy it while it lasts - soon the Bing's index will be full of hallucinated GPT content itself.
Developments in this space are coming really fast, and reading words are squarely within the capabilities of neural engines. 5 years is a very long time in AI years.
Phraselator
Are you sure about that?

GPT-4 falls apart on many tasks that humans find trivial, such as planning.

Intelligence is multi-faceted and quite frankly the average technologists understanding of human cognition is quite poor. Intelligence is not just information retrieval.
>And Caplan is a university professor, not a random person.

He wasn't compared to random people, he was compared to other professors also setting tests, and how GPT-4 fared on their tests. You're blatantly misrepresenting the point being made.
All of my exams were in-person but they weren't oral. Written exams scale. They aren't used as much as they could be because too many students would fail.
Screen size is good for layout but don't forget "pointer". If (not (pointer: fine)) then you really want all your links to be more like button (big target areas easy to hit with a finger), otherwise you're forcing your users to do the zoom-and-click dance, and often completely give up. On the other hand, big button-like links are a waste of space if your users have a mouse, track point or track pad.
That's fair. Perhaps a middle-ground of poisoned answers that look like overload related errors.

Though I did have success once stopping hot-linked images by serving up images that didn't fit well with the sensibilities of the internet forum that was hotlinking them. It had the advantage of looking like the people in the forum posting had deliberately chosen to post the image. Serving different images depending on client ip made for fun too, as they argued with each other about why they posted "that".
The high cholesterol level is likely correlated to vitamin d.

A lot of these studies came out of heart disease investigations within the black community. In the US there is just more compared to West Africa, and after controlling for weight, income, diet, etc., they guessed the difference was likely sunlight and outdoor time.

Followup studies found similar findings, albeit less pronounced with white and middle eastern people.
Curious question, why not use this approach for example with wind farms or solar farms? You'd avoid the need to build high capacity cables which are sometimes a reason why renewables do not spread that much. I can imagine that coming into contact with this beam is not something anyone would wish for.

You could beam energy up to a station in the orbit which would then redirect it to the place where energy is needed. You could then get "easily" energy from solar farms in Sahara, for example.
You are describing your house as Maxwell's demon, which is impossible.
The move towards "growing your own food" or "baking your own bread" in the software sense does not necessarily equate to more work and less connection. On the contrary, it can lead to a deeper understanding and mastery of technology, fostering a sense of empowerment and self-sufficiency. Developing one's software or systems can provide tailored solutions to meet specific needs, which could result in less work in the long run because the tools are perfectly designed for their intended use.

Not to mention platforms like the one we develop makes deploying free software based self-hosted solutions push button, so there really isn't any excuse for sticking to the faceless "crowdware" providers.
I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert [video]
They already possess fossil fuel plants that can be turned on for those rare occasions where nothing else is working. If they run only 1% of the time it is the least important problem. Even if they run 10% of the time it's still a massive decrease in CO2, without requiring putting things in orbit.
It's still somewhat easy for Zero-K : just copy the game and maps into the respective folders inside the engine folder and run the engine binary (bypassing the lobby).

It's somewhat easier for BAR despite in theory being harder due to the lack of these standalone files due to the rapid file system, but in practice easier because you can just use the unofficial Skylobby (BAR still uses Springlobby protocol, at least for now).
https://fossbytes.com/ is India's equivalent of The Verge
This is tangential to the article but when ever I read about a lost film being found there’s always mention of how it was found in a vault. I can’t help but always try to imagine what that is. Can anyone describe what these vaults are like?

People can reference a data center but most probably have never been in one. However I’m very familiar with the slightly dusty smell, the whine of fans and HVAC, the odd people that work there, server cages, card and retina scanners, some have metal detectors. From the outside they’re huge nondescript brick buildings with massive gensets surrounded by a not f’ing around security fence.

So I’d be very curious to know what a film vault in Hollywood is like.
If it weren’t for the noise from loading the page from disk, I’d be tempted to set up my own at home.

Running a BBS out of my bedroom with three 1541's and a 1571 taught me to sleep through anything.

It wasn't until much later that someone figured out a patch for the 1541 DOS that would keep it from dropping the head at each track between multiple track movements, making the drive almost silent. That would have been awesome.
mmmmm heavy metals and microplastics
> I will also propose that modern English speakers have no notion of their own language without a prerequisite in Latin.

1. English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one.

2. Even for speakers of Romance languages, knowledge of the ancestor language doesn't really make a difference. Does it help a modern English speaker to know that silly once meant "blessed by God"?

3. The notion that Latin is somehow more logical than English is a pervasive one, but it has absolutely no evidentiary underpinning. It's pure classist bullshit.
That is similar to what I was trying to convey. Breakpoints are just that though, the _point_ at which style rules _break_ into different groupings. Viewport _ranges_ exist between breakpoints.

It is also a pet peeve of mine that breakpoints get referred to as "mobile", or "tablet". Very much agree on making content work at all screen sizes, and picking points where it makes sense to "break" at different viewport sizes depending on the content. At the end of the day, it is very arbitrary.

Thanks for the link!
What bbs did you use?
I think it is more than just about "ego". I think we are conditioned to be self-seeking.. selfish individuals. Being married forces one to look beyond one's own comfort zone, own desires etc to prioritise the interests of others in the family. For instance, when you have a spouse who is not well, you will need to take care of them - even if that means suspending your meditation session or saying no to something like volunteering at a shelter which may give you a sense of meaning and purpose.

Marriage is not for everyone because it requires dying to one's own self a bit. So it is not really a path to self actualisation. But is definitely a way of putting oneself in a position where one is no longer focused on one own's progress psychologically, emotionally, financially etc and others and their interests become more important.

So if you are looking at marriage as a way of improving oneself, you may be in for a reality shock. That may happen but it happens at some cost and isn't the point of getting married.

Does it sound masochistic? well, on the surface it does. But it is part of being a mature person for a large part of humanity and is often a hard path but there are others who have chosen celibacy - which may infact be even harder.

Having said that, having someone by your side who you genuinely care for and who cares for you and who you can grow old with is quite a treat.
AI Server Cost Analysis – Memory Is the Biggest Loser
You're not a rocket scientist but you're absolutely right.

It's cheaper to tear down the microwave receiver and put up solar panels and batteries than it is to send solar panels to space to beam power back to the microwave receiver. You'd have to beam 1000x the power that solar panels receive to justify the cost of sending things to space, but at that point you're lifting 100x more panels to space to get the 10x bonus, and lifing / installing them in space at 10,000x the cost or worse... Plus they have to be magical perfect installations that never fail and work perfectly.

Again cheaper to put that money into more batteries and panels..
> if you invented an AGI, it would have to get a job to pay for its AWS credits.

it can sell itself as a freelancer AI expert :)

see also https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf
This made me laugh out loud on the toilet. The cheese ones are great, I really like FETA
I like Schiit audio products. You'd probably need a DAC and an amp of some sort.

DAC ($249) https://www.schiit.com/products/modius

Headphone amp ($199)
https://www.schiit.com/products/magnius

(Upon rereading the parent comment I probably misunderstood the question)