skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why this is even newsworthy, except for propaganda reasons.

Strong increase at the start, then a relatively quick drop, slowly declining to un-hyped levels of participation. This isn't news, this is common.

Strong initial growth is usually based on hype. There was tons of hype. The user count dropping so quickly means that the people, who joined because of hype (whatever sub-reason covered by the term), are leaving.

Given that it's facebook, the hype and potential participation rate was gigantic. It's a bubble. Bubbles pop.

More news at 11.
It is definitely related to C++ (both in ideology and in participants) and AFAIU has even more features, but, for example, Scott Meyers views it[1] as having less random stupid inconsistencies than C++.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ
The Hungarian ”Martians” are another cluster of geniuses, not mentioned in the article
Yeah, guess it was already too late then. :\
> And it is important role which cannot be disregarded

I disagree. I think academia has fallen for Goodhart's law. While I would say that CS is probably on the worse side of things (especially ML), I don't think we're special in having critical problems. The publish or perish paradigm combined with the noisy signal of jorunaling is a big reason we are in the replication crisis. Because novelty is held in high regard while replication isn't of any concern. The irony being that novelty is quite rare and that the faster you publish the less novel works will be (in general. There are exceptions of course). You just can't do novel work fast.

> Centuries? Can you elaborate? Peer review in journals as we know it is less than 100 years old.

What I was referring to is that we've been just sending papers to one another for centuries. Uploading to arxiv is just an easier form of that (and was the explicit reason for its existence). That we scientists have been communicating with one another for centuries "figuring it out" without journals just fine. As far as I'm concerned, it is a failed experiment. It was okay in the beginning, had some good ideas, but then the rot grew and took over. It only works when everyone acts in good faith, and at scale only requires a few bad actors to spoil the barrel. Maybe I'm biased because of the problems of my field, but my friends in other areas still frequently hit problematic walls that just slow things down rather than improve them.
I'm not English native speaker, I will miss sometimes important stuff.

For my native Polish movies, the sound mixing might as well not exist, it's that bad.
Mozilla come back from the early 2000’ came with a strong narrative about standard compliance, during the peak of ie6.

They are the historical proponent of open web.
But I think there are more and more problems that lies in how people are being less and less creative and more mediocre nowadays.

Too much attention grabbing stuff such as social media and electronic entertainment (television, eSports, gaming consoles, and arcade games) has hindered our ways of thinking.

We are less likely to be boring in this age. Geniuses are killed because we don't dream and hope for something anymore.
Got to say, you don't often see someone making the argument "but it works like that in the movies".

Makes me wonder if writers have an obligation to ensure what they right is realistic to prevent the masses from being mislead...
This highlights why trademarks exist, to avoid confusion. I don't know the history of the project but once somebody starts calling some software Libreboot anybody else should stay clear of that name.
I thought my point was pretty clear: there isn’t two cities with the same cost of living AND where the US still pays 2-3x higher in the US.

Every time this conversation comes up on HN, the only examples people can cite is when remote working is taken into account. Which isn’t a fair comparison at all.
I’m not at all convinced. How would you review a book you haven’t read? At least you could point out some specifics to maybe convince some people
I remember feeling very naive learning from a friend who used to work in a large chain bookshop that the reviews (handwritten on small cards signed with staff names) scattered around shelves were only for books which were shortlisted by management.
The classic is rhubarb crumble, a baked dessert typically eaten with custard. It's delightfully sweet and sour, a favourite of mine as a kid.
The Weierstrass ℘-function. It is what your function wants to be when it grows up.
The language designers aren't the boss of you. Just because they want something doesn't mean you have to do it.
No need to over engineer it, Jekyll on GitHub pages for me.

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
Spreadsheets and planning tools for long-term or complex or multi-person stuff.

Plain-text TODO lists and/or bits of paper for simpler me-only stuff or very short-term.

Balanced life? I'll let you know if I find out!
So what alternative do you suggest?
You can invalidate the circuit theory with, well perhaps not $50 worth of hardware, but a bit more:

https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0

I'm not sure how do you plan to invalidate Maxwell's theory, which shows that energy flows entirely outside of wires, with $50. Or any other amount of equipment. It would be very much welcome in the physics community.

This misconception is even more widespread than "planes fly because of Bernoulli" because it's so incredibly useful when designing most circuits/PCBs. Though it is, fundamentally, a lie.

PS. Circuit theory is made to match reality for the case showed in the video via the concept of a transmission line.
And: it has to be ‘continuous’. E.g. in ‘real’ water, the molecule of H2O ‘colloquially’ known as ‘number 12345678998776165441’ which sat next to molecule known as ‘number 1’, still has to sit next to it. All be it in a different location. I think something like mayonaise would have been a better example, as water molecules that are ‘next’ to each other can in reality split up quite easily by itself. While something like mayonaise would not.

*off course, quantum mechanics and all that suggesting that it would be impossible to label the individual molecules.
You absolutely can have confidential restricted data, see [1].

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/hss/Classification/d...
I am not really sure how long you think a US company ( or any) can ignore block requests.

Even the most obscure ones are playing wackamole with edge cases in certain countries.

Ps. Yes, I own stock in it. It's not about "I like it that way", it's just that i don't see it as possible in combo with being a big company.
The problem is the difference in pricing between the 16 and the 32gigb one, the manufacturers are taking advantage of the sodering which is almost going to be the default in the upcoming days, and taking consumers for a ride.
> Traffic cameras are not a safety encouragement device. I'd classify them as a 'revenue generating device' or a regressive tax.

Here in the UK they are clearly signposted so you can slow down before you get to it.

If you don't slow down because you're going too fast or aren't paying attention then you're behaving dangerously and need discouraging. They genuinely improve safety imo.
Autist =/= autistic. The latter is used to formally refer to anyone on the spectrum. The former is often used as a friendly or self-deprecating title.
You do however spend probably 8 hrs working on it, read hackernews on latest tech, probably better than you were 5 years ago. Now imagine your marketing department saying they went to a computer summer camp once in the 90s and therefore think you should rewrite the tech stack in perl.
> I don't understand why states or localities have not run cameras along major routes and looked for speeding over a longer period of time, as opposed to speeding at a specific point.

They do in the UK.
Yeah exactly. In particular a flow of current (movement of electrons or other charged particles, measured in Amperes) is not required for energy transfer, though it is a part of the efficient way of energy transfer via conductors/wires. Including in PCBs and even inside of integrated circuits.
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
> The technique is heavily used by bad actors

Evidence?
One of my favourite things in programming is getting rid of the conditional branches. They're great to keep the brain fresh, because sometimes you have to dig ten layers outward to rewrite your code just to get rid of that fucking condition that slows down the code.

Or a good one I recall, was my 2D-box-check. I've made the mistake believing that not writing the output to RAM, when the result yields "not in box" would be better. So naturally I checked for every output if the respective bit was 1 or 0 and a 0 restarted the loop early.

Nope.

It was faster to just always write to memory, but linking the result to a multiplication which increments the pointer based on the above mentioned bit. "Not in box" increased the pointer by 0 (n * 0 = 0).

Boom, one billion 2d-box-checks per second on an i5 7500HQ on a single core without using SIMD. Good enough.

I ... guess I should stop now.

(PS: this was used for a sprite engine for a super-high resolution text mode, which compiled sprites into the code that wrote them to the screen. That's a LOT faster than checking if a character/pixel needs not-to-be-written AND it allowed for potentially eight pixels/characters to be drawn at once, too, using pop!

... I really should stop now. ^_^)
just eat some Glycine and Inositol. Sweet like sugar.
awesome game, i thoroughly enjoyed flinging pieces off the board at mach 30 for 30 minutes straight
Clearly you’re bot talking about per capita harm?
Stanford is extremely impressive in the STEM fields, but everything that comes out of its humanities departments is some of the worst science I've ever seen in my life. If I see a humanities study from Stanford, I know immediately it's going to be 100% utter bullshit. It's an embarrassment to the institution and to academia as a whole.

So I question whether or not it's really the institution itself that allows for its success in the STEM fields, or whether it's just a self-perpetuating cycle.
Also rhubarb jam.
Remember that rhubarb leaves are actually poisonous due to oxalic acid (I've seen quotes of 2-5 kg od leaves being a lethal dose).

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/does-rhub...
Personal anecdote: I started in private school for K-3, and then public school for 4-12. Public school was remedial until AP Calculus BC in high school. I was skipped in 6th grade to advanced 7th grade math but was harassed by the teacher who also encouraged the class to harass me as well.

I say nudge and try to introduce concepts with Kahn Academy videos and then do problems in between. See how far they can go because kids tend to learn faster than we give them credit for. Keep it fun because keeping curiosity alive is precious.
I think you’re confusing two things. How open standards are developed/pushed vs open source.

In the context of web integrity API, what good does it do that chromium can be open source? Whether a browser is potentially fully open source has no impact on the bad google is doing by pushing evil we. standards through the mainline chrome browser.

Personally I’ve switched to just using Safari on MacOS simply because giving Apple some power against Google in adoption of web standards is beneficial in my view. Apple is one of the few companies not incentivised by maximising ad revenues which is really toxic to the web. Not that I like what Apple is doing in general.

On Windows I’ve used Firefox only for years. (Why not on MacOS? My laptop (only macOS machine I have) is a bit old, safari runs smoother, and I like the iOS integration futures)
Whether the source is open doesn't matter, and in fact I think that's part of a distraction; it's orthogonal to the issue of whether the software respects the user's freedom or is a way for a third-party to control the user (turning it into a "used"). Both closed and open source user-hostile software exists, and the same goes for software that isn't user-hostile.

Also, I suspect many of those who are anti-WEI are also either not Windows users, or Windows users who are grudgingly doing so and have also killed off the spyware and customised the environment to their own liking, which can still be done even without requiring source code.
Moldy sticks are the best because they come apart when chewing on them!

My brother has a young (but large) dog who is still trying to taste everything. Yesterday he was excavating and devouring(?) some tree roots with great enthusiasm.

At least it distracted him from wanting to chase moles and deers.

Also his treats smell abysmal, but obviously he likes them.
Compatibility with tree-sitter is a huge one
Not my experience. I have a Gnome desktop that maybe a Gnome developer have a hard time to recognize as such. It works as I want and I keep the convenience of being able to Google problems and solutions of a mainstream desktop (KDE being the other one) and not a more or less obscure one.

This means that under the hood, using extensions, you can customize that Gnome car. Can an Apple automatic car do that as easily?
Are parts of inner city Dublin no-go areas?
"When American visitor Stephen Termini (57) was beaten unconscious in the north inner city last week, it was against a backdrop of rising concern that Dublin city centre had become increasingly violent since the pandemic. From Buffalo, New York, he remains in intensive care in Beaumont Hospital after the attack on the corner of Talbot Street and Store Street in Dublin 1. His blood stains the pavement less than 100m from one of the busiest Garda stations in the country."

Having lived in Dublin in the mid-2010's there were parts that were sketchy, but it seems to have gotten a whole lot worse since the pandemic.
I also had a lot of passwords in chrome. So, what I often do is open passwords.google.com in a Firefox tab. Just a tip for anyone who thinks they're in that situation.

While switching browsers, I also adopted an open source password manager that has a Firefox plugin. Because passwords are migrating, I opted to move to a cloud-free solution. (This tip might be too much to suggest, depending on who you're trying to convert)
When I was ten, I was accelerating myself quite a bit in physics. There wasn't a physics camp at that time. So probably I also misunderstood quite some things but I also was ahead of most peers (I was ten). I think physics is even more approachable to children because they can play around physical things.

Well, it got me into some trouble. I basically destroyed my teacher's plan of early physics education. Basically, the teacher wanted to replay physics history a bit by explaining the early experiments and what people thought about them.

> How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?

My answer would still be: as fast as your kid wishes for but consider social implications with teachers and peers.

Sidenote: after this experience with the teacher, I somehow switched to computers. Exploring computers and learning to program wasn't a subject in school so this was free territory.
In The Netherlands ate Rhubarb for dinner. Cooked with crumbled rusk (beschuit [0]) mixed with sugar and eaten with cooked potatoes. And some meat (e.g. steak or sausage).

The crumbled rusk is meant to give the cooked rhubarb a thicker structure and the sugar is meant to counter the sourness.

Quite delicious imho.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusk#Netherlands_and_Belgium...
Can’t speak for everyone else but I just think that getting people to change their OS is much harder than getting people to change their web browser, so it makes sense to start there.

Chromium is in that awkward position where it is technically an open-source community-driven project but in practice operates like a closed-source one. Google has complete control over decisions and can make changes that serve their profits (see: JPEGXL debacle).

Of course, you can make the same critique of Firefox, but at the very least they are a nonprofit foundation and don’t have enough market share to abuse their power.
This site (QuantaMagazine) had really excellent quality content when it first launched,like the one at the OP, now it has become sort of IFLScience in terms of editorializing.
agreed, non-traditional work is the way to go! (and glad it's allowing you to travel:)
I think the more appropriate metaphor would be: imagine your company’s founder asking you to produce more output in the same time.

It’s not surprising parents will expect more outcomes from the time their kids spend at school, than the teachers delivering the teaching will.
We measure genius by acts of genius. This requires such an act be possible.

e.g. Kepler needed Tycho's observational data; Einstein needed measurements showing the speed of light was constant in many directions.
Many people value good rhetorics above the truth. And I say that as someone who has a high appreciation of good rhetorics.
> The 1700s must've suuuuuucked.

Yes.

This stuff was ridiculously prevalent despite being both legally and religiously forbidden. It did not require a physical insult; any insult would do. Russia's great poet Pushkin died in a duel: https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/02/10/pushkin-duel...

It was so prevalent that various armies had trouble stamping it out among their officer class. Only really obliterated by the social and military upheaval of the 20th century.
The same goes for the word "trusted" as it's often used, e.g. "trusted computing" and the like.

Who's doing the trusting? Not the users.
I think this is actually great, users will finally have a reason to switch from Chrome to an open browser.
Ofc they will fight back an allow only their browser on their services, which again will be a great push to use open and privacy conscious alternatives.
So let them go as closed as they want
Train drivers will then move on to do more important work. You're always going to need other people if you want to progress at the fastest rate possible. Humans are social animals and all the great things we achieve are as a unit. An independent ant will never be able to compete with a colony.
Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
The L-functions and modular forms database
Don’t sweat it. It appears this wikifunctions is not intended for “mortals” to use. It’s an implementation detail of an upcoming structured data project.
Turing-complete languages have been around for the better part of a century now, had we stopped after the first one we'd still be writing some kind of Zuse machine language. There's purpose in trying to make better languages, the goal is not to be able to compute more things (since we're fundamentally more limited by the hardware than by the software), but to compute old things more efficiently and more easily. D, Go, and Rust may all be as Turing-complete as each other, they have good ideas.

That, and the fact that Turing-completeness isn't really a useful concept in real life since we don't have infinite tapes with writing heads taped on top of them. In real life, a program will be more efficient if the language it's written in (or, specifically, the implementation/compiler of that language) is smarter, even though pretty much all languages we use today are technically Turing-complete
Are you defining sqrt(x²) to be +x and -x? If you are, then sqrt(x) is indeed not a function.

You could make it a function by defining sqrt : N -> Z×Z, so sqrt(4) = (-2,2), and we're back to the property that any value in the domain (the natural numbers) is mapped to a single value in the co-domain (a unique pair of integers). Of course, this is not the traditional sqrt function that people normally use, since it doesn't obey the property (sqrt(x))² = x (since obviously taking the square of a pair of integers will not return an integer, for usual definitions of squaring).

Note that a bijective function has both this property and the opposite, that for any value in the co-domain there is also a unique value in the domain that maps to it. Sqrt, both in the traditional definition where it only returns positive roots, and in this definition where it returns a pair of roots, is actually also bijective. Squaring is a non-bijective function, though.
DNS is like Othello. Simple to understand, but takes a lifetime to master.
Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
I've had the displeasure of having to use it professionally for a little while, and to be honest, I'd sooner rub chilli flakes into my eyeballs than have to deal with D's default garbage collector again. Seemed to be a cult-like language in the worst possible sense.
These are both very small amounts of a substance, relative to the size of a Coke can. I think if Coke wanted a sweeter formula, bumping up to 250-300mg of aspartame or using a blend of existing additives or something would not be a problem for them.

Given how sensitive consumers are to changes in its taste, I think the overriding concern for Coke would be not changing the flavor of the formula.
I live on the coast in the East of England and can see three banks of wind turbines on a clear day. The nearest are 4 miles out to sea.

When they were first installed there was local opposition, but now no one cares about them at all. They don't ruin the horizon, they aren't an eyesore, and compared to office blocks they don't seem to be killing a large number of birds or causing any other issues with wildlife.

They want to build more, but the blockage seems to be the large increases in costs of materials and labour since the project was costed pre-COVID (likely just a play for some govt subsidies?) and also concerns about pylons to carry the power generated. I'm personally not so worried about the pylons esp given the cost of buried cabling.
I remember when it was common to release third-party Twitter clients and bots were considered first-class citizens.

Large companies are far less uptight about breaking ecosystems that you might think. I say this as a former VB6 developer.
We don’t live in a perfect world, and the priority should be preventing Google from having complete control over the internet. If you have any better ideas for how to do that, please let us know.
Nice reference, I assume it's about the show Sillicon Valley? Was it a branded bottle of Tequila? Actually looks like some company is now actually selling it
If they had a RTAP superconductor in 1999. Industry would have bypassed the scientific community by now
I don't know, it has been happening for years in economics.
C# and Java have a large base. If you write a small application with it the size will be huge because they both link in the base in the application. It becomes more interesting with larger applications.