skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current system does incentivize continuous work and also, more importantly, continuous efficiency improvement it just suffers from monopoly that the government is failing to correct or in this case that the government created to deal with a different type of market failure and then allowed to be extended unjustly. The problem isn't the system, its the government failing to actively use its existing laws to break up monopolies and especially failing to limit its own regulation that creates monopolies
I guess I don’t really know why I put Borges in that list like that. His poetry to me, is highly idealistic and Utopian. It was all about a better way for the world to work, if only some key change could be made. He was smarter than actual communists, in that the argument for dramatic change was emotional and poetic and full of sadness and hope. The most compelling reasons for revolution.

I just read his Wikipedia and it’s quite nice that like me, he drifted so far back into the mainstream from his more idealistic youth.
It's not a worry, that most people are trying to prove their moral superiority (religious or secular). It's what I take into account when I choose to forgive them. Nor is it moot. Choosing to overlook their zeal is a conscious decision, because I know they aren't thinking for themselves and it's not entirely their fault.
I was homeschooled for 1.5 years, and while there were aspects of it I really enjoyed, it is absolutely rife with religious fundamentalists. My biology book used the "how many monkeys would it take to write the Bible randomly" as an argument for intelligent design. My mother didn't vet the books well because she was getting help from a Christian friend of hers.

Unfortunately, looking from the outside in, the teachers care but the administrators do not. While I would still consider public school, I think supplementing and supervising their assignments is the minimum a parent can do. Homeschool just isn't feasible for many people, and there is a reason teachers specialize in topics past grade 5.
Cops are understaffed and overworked in any major city. They have bigger fish to fry than worrying about stuff like window tint or really most traffic infractions that aren't just totally reckless driving.

Basically, if it's something that would just be a ticket and a fine, and not an arrestable offense, chances are good they have something more urgent to deal with. Even if it's something they could make an arrest for, if the prosecutor is just going to dismiss the case, why bother?

Chickens are coming home to roost after the last few years.
We have a stack of non iPad tablets for playing music to patients. I think there are 4 or 5 there now.

They are so unresponsive that each has been abandoned, then Siemens buy us a new, higher spec one. They all behave the same. Laggy, unresponsive and actual junk.
Or Jocelyn Bell Burnell (who is alive; that was a truly outrageous piece of theft.)
Touch and pen would generally require completely different calibrations because touch is detected by the capacitive touch screen whereas the pen position is tracked inductively.

However, I wonder why the pen calibration data is not stored on an controller on the display panel? That would absolutely make sense.
If you express it in a different unit system all E, m, and c will take different numerical values, but the relationship will still be true.

So there’s nothing special about the metric system. When we want to discuss this kind of relationship without reference to human convention we talk about a quantity’s dimension (not geometric like 3D). A Meter and a foot both have dimensions of length. c has units of length/time. 1 kilogram and 1 gram both have units of mass. And so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
Trademarks need to be actively defended. Even if they liked the project, the owners need to show that they made an effort to protect their mark. This is a nothingburger.

But nothing has happened yet other than a “stop it” email! I flagged this because the screenshot shown in the article is not a “cease and desist” letter. Nothing here is interesting.
Here is one example https://elsazhou.medium.com/lk99-chinese-replication-efforts...
you sound insane
I think it was more that the original scientist started working on room temperature superconductors in 1999.
This sure as hell isn't about "calibration". Using the old controller with the new screen causes it to start working correctly. If anything that would be more likely to be using the wrong calibration constants (the ones for the old screen).
Nobel Prize Winner Who Doesn't Believe Climate Crisis Has Speech Canceled
> backed it up with reason and anecdote.

And here we can see the easily swayed debate judge in action.

A made up Mike Tyson quote, really? At least Kayne actually said the thing about being a slave was a choice, somehow.
You're posting in my comments with disingenuous assertions and then crawl back pretending it's about following rules.

Next time, have good arguments and sources instead of partisan FUD. Or go to a place where mods will censor oppposing opinions, should feel very familiar to you.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927440

Go partisan troll somewhere else.
scipy.ndimage.convolve / scipy.fftpack.dct*

From https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life :

> How it's written

> The game grid is encoded as a simple m by n array (default 100x100 in the code) of zeros and ones. In each program, a state transition is determined for each pixel by looking at the 8 pixel values all around it, and counting how many of them are "alive", then applying some rules based that number. Since the "alive" or "dead" states are just encoded as 1 or 0, this is equivalent to summing up the values of all 8 neighbors.

> If you want to do this for all pixels in a single shot, this is equivalent to computing the 2D convolution between the game state array and the matrix [[1,1,1],[1,0,1],[1,1,1]]. Convolution is an operation that basically applies that matrix as a "stencil" at every position around the game grid array, and sums up the values according to the values in that stencil. And convolution can be very efficiently computed using the FFT, thanks to the Fourier Convolution Theorem.

> One side effect: the convolution using FFT implicitly involves periodic boundary conditions, so the game grid is "wrapped" around itself (like in Pacman, or Mario Bros. 2). If you wanted to change this, you would just have to modify the 2D convolution function to use an orthogonal form of the DCT instead of the FFT. This would correspond to "hard" (i.e. Dirichlet) boundary conditions on the convolution operator.

> I think you could do this with scipy using the 1D orthogonal dct provided:

from scipy import fftpack
fftpack.dct(data, norm='ortho')

> but I haven't tried that yet. You'd have to define a dct2() method using fftpack.dct and separability (ie. the 1D transform matrix is rank-one, and the 2D transform operator is the Kronecker product of two 1D transforms)

The (Inverse) Quantum Fourier Transform is also applied in QC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform#Defi...
Corporate personhood predates the formation of the United States and is not unique to the states.
This is my assessment as well. iPad with Apple Pencil, mirrored screen for photoshop, and you have a seriously good and portable wacom centiq. Just, smaller, and can play games.
I like Stallman’s point that “computing” in the way that >99.9% people on earth do it is unethical. It’s a good reminder of what we’ve all lost by falling for trinkets like books and music on the computer
I've been very happy with my Nokia T10
Ha! Nice riff on Seinfeld’s seedless watermelon bit! https://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y
You'd probably have to use tabs to make your indented blocks and other alignment look nice. Then you get into the whole tabs vs. spaces debate.
At the end of the day, it boils down to this.

Do you rather have your kid to have big N% chance of being abused, or small n%. At a micro level, you might get more control, but at the macro level, the results in aggregate are what matter.
Nothing is solved by high school debate. Nothing. Ever. The only point it has is teaching kids how to debate, which is negated by giving the kids instant-win buttons in the form of Correct Opinions they can spout to adoring judges.
you don't need a company in the country you reside with your billing address on file to run an irc server though
the climate is changing and not for the betterment of man
next.....
Well, in many cases, it is. If the opposite of socialization is exclusively grinding problems, grade school is often quite closer to what you mention unless you deliberately seek a different style.
Jigga What, Jigga Who

Hard Watt Life
The website is not loading.

Key Q: What's the price?
I don't see any substance in that argument at all - just PR bullshit. There are even contradictions within their own talking points which many other comments have pointed out.

Anyway, you're welcome to your beliefs - but it's fucking obnoxious to take a stance like that and just deflect when someone asks you to defend it.
After rebranding, X took @x from its original Twitter owner, offered him merch
Biggest issue for me and why I stick with ipads is the 4:3(ish) aspect ratio. 16:10/16:9 is a terrible aspect ratio for tablets IMO.
It only makes sense from the perspective of screwing third-party repair and then trying to come up with something with plausible deniability. Are people swapping screens frequently enough to justify the extra complexity of keeping calibration data segregated by serial number?

Printer manufacturers have been pulling the same trick with storing (approximations of) ink levels in chips in the cartridge, claiming that it makes it easy for users to swap cartridges and continue to have accurate quantities and in that case there's a little bit more truth to the argument, but not this one.
I presume it's down to the "therapeutic index" (how close a fun dose is to a dangerous dose) (although alcohol is much the same).

I agree it is a nice drug but one friend of mine did have his family stage an intervention because of his abuse of it.
There are far more than two camps and FSF was born out of a culture that existed in the 60s and 70s of which the FSF is not a perfect representation either. In fact, several communities carrying that 60/70s spirit and using permissive licenses also disagree with the OSI mission and reject licenses that OSI approves (Apache 2.0 in particular). I do however think it is worth fighting against the erosion of a term that is widely accepted.
Which is better, a return code or an exception?
They are a corporation. They care about making money. Privacy concerns are completely and utterly subservient to this goal.
The one legitimate use I can see for this is to start building porn without people having to do porn anymore: obviously, porn industry is still running strong, but using AI generation can avoid stigmatizing any one particular person (in theory).

OTOH, it does have potential to ruin revenue stream for those who had to turn to porn for lack of better choices in life (iow, most people doing porn: I am guessing) as AI generation will require rich companies to do, at least early on.
Oh you already tried this once before and we're told off:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978483
I’d note that quote is 14 years old - hopefully there’s been some R&D over that time!
"In May 2023, Clauser joined the board of the CO2 Coalition, a climate change denial organization."

"In its first four years, the CO2 Coalition received over $1 million in contributions from foundations that support conservative causes and from energy industry officials."
Internet Provider Must Pay $47M Bond to Appeal Piracy Liability Judgment
She makes up for it by getting every other science prize.
I'm not. It's only creating more e-waste, and thieves will find a way around it sooner or later anyway.
Because dialogue volume is low. Also, the topics of the dialogue and accents are varied, which means that stumble upon words/phrases that I need to backtrack to really hear.
Perhaps you are misinterpreting slang based on a desire to think more positively? The whole tweet, er, x had a condescending tone to me.
Good, please discuss things like this more. No one wants to live an indignifies life like the climate activists typically (not all) promote. I come from a developing country and I certainly do not want to go back to live like I did. The people in developed country certainly wouldn't
"Countering disinformation about Critical Race Theory" (2022)

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/08/countering-disinfor...
It does involve pinning the WAL while the backfill is happening, though, which is quite different from the incremental backfill achieved by DBLog.

The former can be faster, because you’re able to walk the table in physical storage order, but your DB cannot reclaim WAL segments while this happens (disk can fill).

The latter allows for resumable backfills that can be tuned to the available spare capacity of the source DB, and doesn’t cause WAL segments to back up, but must walk tables in logical order which can sometimes be slower (for example, if you key using a random UUID).
lk-99 is the lead-copper material used. It was developed in 1999.

Think of it like LSD being invented but then 5 years later, someone spills it on their hand and trips out for 2 hours. (True Story)
I rarely drink anymore. Edibles are superior in every way.
I am going to repost whywhy's link. Not sure why it was zapped, as I have seen this screenshot elsewhere:

https://elsazhou.medium.com/lk99-chinese-replication-efforts...

> However, the Meissner effect, a key characteristic of superconductors, has yet to be observed. The issue seems to lie in the purity of the superconducting material, which is currently only a few percent. Despite this, the conversation implies optimism, stating, “if we have made a start this problem will be solved quickly.”
Discord isn’t worse than an IRC client because it doesn’t log private chats, it’s superior because it doesn’t log private chats.

And if you thing your “other things” are unique to Discord you’re kidding yourself.
This is exactly why I lived in Santa Monica when I lived in LA. One of the few walkables cities in the area (not all of SaMo mind you. Just talking about the area between Ocean and say 7th or 8th)
Human Equality Is a Contingent Fact of History (1984) [pdf]
Your context is important and I said what I remembered that happened in that time. LukeShu also corrected my comment more extensively.
TLDR: 1,500 words on how iA created a variant of IBM Plex Mono with four 1.5X-width characters (m, M, w, W) because…well, it's not really clear.

And, they say, programmers use monospace fonts because it helps them catch typos. In reality, variable glyph widths make it easier to identify typos.
Kilograms and joules have been interchangable (well, they've had a defined relationship) for a long time though, you can calculate work in a completely Newtonian context and see that the energy requires is linearly related to the mass and quadratically to velocity (like with a spring).

That the direct conversion from mass to energy follows the same shape isn't really surprising, it sort of has to.

That said, the joule was only explicitly defined as kgm/s^2 in 1946 (or 1935), after Einstein and nuclear physics.
Can you link to some examples of "marketing copy of old"? I'm curious to know how it differs.
You may wish to disclaim yourself in a similar way on the other comments you made across the thread.
It's pronounced 'Bew-nuh' in both Virginia and Colorado.
Where is this bastion of critical theory which I would like to visit?

I've spent years in academia, admittedly in STEM but I saw little actual explicit critical theory. I was all alone discovering and reading post-Marxist texts, with no group to discuss it with.
>W. V. O. Quine, one of the most influential analytic philosophers (and mathematician, responsible for an early attempt to formalize mathematical axioms), still felt the need to write against Kant in one of his most influential papers ever (Two Dogmas of Empiricism), well into the 20th century.

Yes, because Kant was pre-analytical, so ultimately not compatible with the analytical program as it developed in the 20th century. But the contintental side started the putdown quite earlier (of course from a different perspective).

>No, there aren't. There are proofs by contradiction, wherein the truth of a proven statement refutes the candidate-truth of some other hypothetical candidate-truth. But there's no such thing as "proof by example".

Any statement to the effect of "A thing with X, Y, Z, ... properties exists" can be proven by an example of such a thing. "There are numbers larger than 9 divisible by 2" Yes, here is 10 or 56 or .... Any Y that fulfills both those properties proves that the statement is true. Those types of proofs are called "existential proofs".

>Not even judges refer to this as "proof"

Ever heard the phrase "prove beyond any reasonable doubt"? "Burden of proof"? All terms used in law across many cultures, including the US.

>Inferential systems need not be axiomatic. I was explicitly speaking about inferential systems, not axiomatic.

You might have, but Godel's proof (which we were discussing) is formulated on axiomatic systems though.

>I'm just an autistic spectrum person, trying to make sure people use words in ways that make sense and follow well-established precedent. It appears we have two wildly different projects.

Well, and I'm a fellow dweller trying to make sure we don't miss the forest for the trees (as we oft to do), and don't constrain human expression, including the use of words and the ability to prove something, into artificial constraints or some strict adherence to a narrow concept of officialdom ("well-established precedent").

Keep in mind that this part of the subthread started with my answer to the praise of Kant, whose philosophy was quite far from using a "formal inferential system". My original point was about how Kant was only a definitive influece to a certain lineage of thinkers.

Then came a answer to clarify what Godel proved. My point there was that his proof applies to axiomatic systems with certain algebraic properties, not to every system of reasoning. It's a common trope in pseudo-science to take Godel's incompleteness theorems to apply way beyond their scope (even in social matters).

It's under that light that I described alternative ways people prove things, to showcase that this limitation doesn't apply anywhere something is proven (to a societal satisfactory way, not necessarily formal proofs).
Probably the best thing on HN today.

Thanks for posting it.
Genius minds are rare but not that rare. Everyone is much better educated than they used to be too. So a lack of geniuses can't have anything to do with the people who get labelled as such. Similarly, as the article points out, genius does not appear to be a result of economic forces. Therefore I imagine 'geniuses' are made when the cultural conditions are ripe for people to sit around listening to each other and trying to improve. That is, the culture of the listeners than the nature of the speaker.

It is conspicuous how little time human society puts in to identifying and then learning from its most capable members. The academy is the big exception, but people generally only get exposure to academic thinking when they are young and in a poor position to influence the world.
Maybe edit your original comment saying that it's not factual?
Why would someone be doing this? What is the financial incentive/money source?

It feels like something out of an action movie.
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I've used Input Sans for years. I was expecting to have to deal with alignment issues but in my Java codebase there were almost none. (YMMV depending on language and coding style.) The only alignment we use is with leading spaces only, so everything still aligns as expected. The readability is great and I can fit substantially more characters horizontally than I could with a fixed-width font.

It definitely felt weird at first, like I was reading code that somebody had pasted into Microsoft Word. But that passed and now it's all upside.

I screen-share my IDE from time to time and I've never had anyone comment on it.
I've seen tons of folks with the Fold; like, a surprising number.
I didn’t do debate in high school, but I remember a class in the late 80s we had a class “world crisis” which covered the past/current states of Chile, Cuba, Ireland, Israel and South Africa.

We were supposed to debate a South African about apartheid. He couldn’t make it so we debated our teacher (who made his opinions known he was not a fan). He destroyed our arguments one by one. We knew for the rest of the class we would have to up our game.
Married vegetarian with no kids living in a major city with no cars checking in — I completely agree.
Linus is not worried:

If Linus Torvalds Got Hit By a Bus Would Linux Die? (2012) <https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/if-linus-torvalds-go...>

If I get hit by a bus, Linux will go on just fine says Linus Torvalds (2015) <https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/17/now_i_can_die_happy_w...>
As an active participant in the subculture from which the author is from, I assure you it was not remotely condescending.
I think your experience is atypical. In most circuits, the typical judge is a parent with no particular knowledge about debate and certainly not a tabroom.com paradigm.
What makes the author say that functions are infinite dimensional? Seems like the space of functions might be infinite dimensional but one function is usually not.

“AND” is 0001 for 00 01 10 11. 2^4=16 binary Boolean functions, in ternary it blows up, but it’s not infinite.
Near as I can tell, the nukes were far less of a war crime than the fire bombings (which killed far more). And the fire bombings get far less press.

Nukes are far more sensational and abstract I guess, compared to the terrible reality of burning hundreds of thousands alive more slowly in their own homes.

Moral of the story I guess - don’t start shit.
Unsafe deserialization vulnerability in many Minecraft mods
BLUF is great but is kind of like the MVP in that execution highly varies from author to author
I'm old enough that I remember riding in cars and having friends who liked to play "punch buggy". Every time they saw a VW Beetle, they'd punch me in the arm. They quickly learned that I would punch them back in the arm much harder than they had punched me. They quickly stopped playing that game with me.
From what I hear, Clang development has slowed to a crawl and GCC leads in new standards compliance and features, since major past Clang supporters have stopped contributing to Clang in order to instead concentrate on their own languages.

User ‘pjmlp’ has often written about this here on HN, but I don’t see anything posted in this thread.
I use fancy bifocals for that (varifocals?). It becomes more needed as I get closer to 50. I guess that will be even more important at 60…sigh.