skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a neighbouring thread we're talking about "conviviality" (Ivan
Illich's "Tools for..."

It's an odd word.

What I found is that almost every random bore at the pub has a wealth
of interesting stuff to say. You just have to tease it out. You have
to work at conversations. It's a bit of a lost art imho.

The first step is always to get the topic off the mainstream (stop
exchanging platitudes) by showing an interest in some marginal
personal remark. Doesn't work for everyone of course. And some people
just don't want to.

Living in Finland I learned the art of just being quiet around others
and that "interesting company" can be hanging out without words, say
just appreciating a walk together.
This was the conclusion of René Descartes and the meaning behind "I think, therefore I am". It was the only safe conclusion he could come to after a deep series of introspection.

Once he got there, he systematically built up a new framework of thought and reasoning, and we got modern science and philosophy from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito%2C_ergo_sum?wprov=sfla1
- "The FDA was recently made aware of a developing investigation by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) regarding four children with elevated blood lead levels, indicating potential acute lead toxicity. The NCDHHS investigation identified WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches as a potential shared source of exposure. As part of their investigation, NCDHHS analyzed multiple lots of WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree, detecting extremely high concentrations of lead[...]"
Yeah, this reads more like a Daily Mail article. I expected more from the guardian.
Home cooking falls to pre-pandemic levels in North America
ASD is a spectrum. There are likely some who do not get stage fright, but there are likely many who do.
> RISC-V ecosystem growth slowing down? No.

Or (their business) not growing as rapidly as they planned or expected and so they have fallen short on their own financial projections and need to adjust.

Need to be careful not to conflate SiFive with RISC-V (despite the best efforts of this blog post to do so). They have made their own decisions as to where to compete and that may or may not be the right strategy.

SiFive's success or otherwise has implications for RISC-V but RISC-V being a success doesn't imply SiFive will be.
Original research/survey pdf: https://static.cookpad.com/worldcookingindex/Cookpad_WorldCo...
I see, I can see the same thing happening here. I wonder what part of private navigation could be breaking the website? I have Firefox's tracking protection set to strict for normal browsing already, so I wasn't expecting a difference between private browsing and normal browsing.

My guess is that it's this issue again: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542 but if that's the case I can't really blame the website here, other than that it doesn't show a fallback error message when Javascript crashes.

Based on a sibling comment, I'm guessing this website is using Firebase Auth, which uses the IndexedDB API, which Mozilla has disabled for private browsing.
Camera behind the player is preferable for platformer games where you are concerned about your movement.

Over the shoulder (offset behind the player) was popularized by resident evil 4. It makes sense because you want to both focus on what’s in front of you with a clear canvas for aiming while also keeping the character in view as part of the game.
> While newer systems have more detail, most of the time it's imperceptible since you don't have time to look at the scenery anyway and when it matters

But higher resolutions never were about more details. At least not for TV's (and thus consoles).

At the end of the SD era (576p) I had a 28" TV. At the end of the HD era (1080p) I had a 50" TV. That's a very similar pixel density. We're now partway through the 4k era (2160p) and I currently have a 77" TV. 8k TV are not here yet in any significant numbers; my last 4k TV will likely be around 100". When we move to 8k it won't be because we want a more detailed image, it's because we want a wider field-of-view. We need more pixels so our screens can get larger.
Maybe this Programmer Competency Matrix?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210105042643/http://www.starli...

It was discussed here (and probably elsewhere):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626695
Are you willing to have a detailed discussion on this? I don't want to spend a few hours refreshing my knowledge of the research and gathering papers only to be ignored.

(Also, did you check out the paper I linked?)
Hmm, I don't agree, many countries over the decades have contributed to the field, to use geography to judge an arts field that manifests as a product of global contributions is flawed.
i'm referring to evolution as the process by which animals were built

if aliens had come down and given us laptops, rather we invented digital machines, then likewise i'd be talking about the relevant materials science, physics etc.

reverse engineering a laptop to figure out how it works would require extremely little computer science, and 'only at the end'

the reason digital computers are interesting and useful is that they route electricity around devices which are designed to be responsive to one another. the patterns of activation, as managed by the CPU, are weakly describable by abstract algorithms like sorting

starting with a laptop, and no further information, we'd be 100(s)+ years of research away from needing to understand that CPUs were implementing a sorting algorithm

and importantly, that it is doing so has almost nothing to do with the value of the device -- which lies in its ability to provide 'dynamical power and modulation of operation' using electricity

we're in the same situation with animals and people think that, what, understanding gradient descent or backprop is helpful? this is just some csci bs
I think that they are as crude and abstract as their creators wanted them to be.

This is a new take on art, Fukagawa Garbage Incinerator would not have been a topic of Ukiyo-e
Let the regulations, antitrust lawsuits and monopolies begin!
Thanks for the recommendation. I played couple minutes with the simulator and decided to order it. Seems exactly like something I was looking for.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design_right
SELinux assumes that the operating system is the trusted downstream of less trustworthy software. By design this implies that someone downstream has to (re-)define all acceptable behaviour of the packaged blackbox causing lots of duplicated work and a fragile interface broken by upstream changes.

Pledge assumes that developers or maintainers will add pledge() and unveil() calls to the code. The software is no longer a blackbox, but given the tools to communicate intend to the kernel (e.g. i won't fork, exec, or create new sockets and will only access files in my /var/db/$name and /var/run/$name directories).. It doesn't change the intended usage of the existing APIs, but to get be able to use the tightest sandbox permissions you have to acquire capabilities as early as possible. This allows retrofitting useful pledge()/unveil() calls to existing code, get quick feedback and restructure the code over time.

An other interesting design to compare pledge()/unveil() against is FreeBSD's Capsicum. It's a fine grained capability mode (e.g. disable/keep specific ioctl() on a file descriptor) and can be used by normal FreeBSD processes as such, but the real sandbox mode is used by acquiring all file descriptors, restricting what is allowed on them, and entering the restrictive capability mode. Once inside capability mode there is no way back and you're only allowed to use existing capabilities to derive equal or weaker capabilities e.g. openat() relative to an open directory file descriptor instead of open() with an absolute path. It puts the burden purely on the developer. It's a very clean design, but correct to a fault. It's not harder to write new software to work inside it, but it's very hard to port software that wasn't written with it in mind to work at all, because it's all or nothing. As a consequence few software is written to take advantage of it.

OpenBSD's pledge()/unveil() is a pragmatic defense in depth tool. It works together with privilege separation and chroot. A good example is that new child processes intentionally are unrestricted and trusted/expected to apply their own restrictions whereas Capsicum mode is inherited to child processes.

Pledge() and unveil() are useful because they can provide additional safety and security at low cost, but they are less expressive. Porting it to Linux has the additional problem that Linux considers system calls to be the stable interface to the kernel instead of libc. The different versions of different libc implementations use different system calls on different architectures (e.g. sbrk() vs mmap()). To make matters worse some of them even depend of compile time flags (e.g. stat() vs stat64()). Each libc would have to implement its own pledge()/unveil() on top of a more flexible (aka complex and error prone) kernel interface.
That’s fine. Nobody cares about your reviews if they refer to a version of the game that no longer exists though.
UPS, FedEx, McDonald and Toys R Us already tried to make up their own rules. They've all ended up singing the agreement. Tesla will see that the demands are sound and reasonable. Tesla will comply or leave. Simple as that
How the TRON Music was made
Does Microsoft need to share how it is testing Excel? Some subtle bug there might do an awful lot of damage.
This kinda thing should not be legislated via executive order. Congress needs a committee and must deliberate. Sad.
Electronic computers, artificial neural networks, hydraulic machines, clockworks etc... are all computationally equivalent to the brain. Anyone making such comparisons is grasping at the fact that the brain can be understood computationally. To complain that there are no pressure-driven pistons, rotating gears or whatever in the brain is missing the point of the analogy, IMHO, which is: all these systems perform computation on top of a physical substrate, and what we actually (should) care about is the computation itself and not the mechanical workings of the substrate.
There is no way to prevent AI from being researched on or to make it safe by government oversight because the rest of the world has places that don't care.

What does work is to pass laws to not permit certain automation such as insurance claims or life and death decisions. These laws are needed even without AI as automation is already doing such things to a concerning degree like banning people due to a mistake without recourse.

Is the whitehouse going to ban the use of AI in the decision making when dropping a bomb?
There is more out there than C++ and Rust, but yes, if you are stuck with C++, then you have no option but to wait for a couple of years and start to rewrite wehn C++ is ready.

I seriously hope all your competition is in a similar situation or it might become harder and harder for you to meet requirements going forward. The push towards memory-safe languages is out there.
Alarming that this wasn't found from testing but after children became ill, they're also telling children that have consumed any to get a blood test:

> Parents and caregivers of toddlers and young children who may have consumed WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches should contact their child’s healthcare provider about getting a blood test
Sure, so do fireworks.
If you are consistently severely dehydrated that’s also a good reason to see the doctor ;)

But yeah, if it happens once it’s not necessarily a problem. It’s when you keep having bloody stool that it’s a good idea to get checked.
The willingness and ability of people to commit fraud is not a constant. It's highly variable depending on social context. The more you allow fraud also changes society to accept more fraud, which is a vicious circle.
If I understand this paper correctly, it compares the temperature and CO2 levels on geologic time scales:

> Atmospheric CO2 concentration is correlated weakly but negatively with linearly-detrended T proxies over the last 425 million years.

> To estimate the integrity of temperature-proxy data, δ^18O values were averaged into bins of 2.5 million years (My)

It makes sense. Over long time scales, other factors are more important.

Does the same apply to shorter time scales, like thousands, hundreds, or tens of years?

> At this point, I'm not sure there is any possible experiment or evidence that would actually change most people's mind on climate change.

One possible way would be to continue releasing the CO2 at the current or larger rates. If then temperatures and the climate reverse to the state from 200 or 300 years ago then it means it's part of a natural cycle and humans had nothing to do with it.
Because they have worked over time, empirically as opposed to a lot woo woo stuff proposed by religion, spirituality, metaphysics, mentally ill, etc. which can never be disproved but which really don't have any value in those areas where we apply science like technology and attempting to understand natural processes
Blocking ads is not morally permissible. Charging ads by the display is.
Any ad should charge the user by ad displayed or attempted to display, not by click or any other way. Just as TV advertisement. If the user goes to make a sandwich, skip it or remove the sound the ad should still be charged to owner of the ad.
The lambda calculus is a big thing in computer science.
You're getting hung up on "fat" here as if it's purely an aesthetic preference

Physical activity filters for people who actually care about themselves. If you can't be bothered to look after your body, then you're likely not going to be any good at looking after your relationship, your family, raising children etc.
Are seccomp and/or ebpf flexible and accesible enough implement pledge and unveil as a wrapper usable to unprivileged processes (even if it requires the help of a privileged helper daemon)?
Hi, I posted this study because I have Asperger’s and this is what was always said about my behavior.

Yesterday I literally had to stop myself from sending photographs to the police of a guy walking his dog off leash in a park that has signs forbidding it. And my reason for wanting to call the police is because of my compassion for the dog or for anyone the dog to hurt. Not so much that it was only that the man was doing something wrong. And I think that’s what gets missed in those of us with ASD, there is still a strong, empathy and compassion that motivates us.
The 6 year old rx580 has moved from older to just old at this point.

As a midrange card from 3 years ago the RTX 2060 is getting long in the tooth, the 5 year old RTX 2070 is well above the minimum specs. Which seems perfectly reasonable for a new game. You don’t have to upgrade constantly, just put off some titles until you do.
Nor with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal
Steve Jobs brain washed them into thinking thin phones are better. They are lost. Wait for them to die out then we can rebuild modular, repairable, upgradable, sustainable, and affordable technology.

Any rational company would have standardized the parts inside a phone like IBM did with the IBM PC.
I'm curious, so I'll bite: what do you find hard to setup about embedded Rust? Personally haven't found it too bad (this is STM32/Cortex-M though, which is sort of a happy path)
> a "moral stance" is one you only hold when it applies to other people's decisions, it's illegitimate and those stances have a name we give them: hypocrisy

Hypocrisy doesn’t make the moral stance wrong, it just means humans are weak and sinful.
One mobile-first cancer that's becoming increasingly annoying is sites highjacking Ctrl/Shift/Cmd+clicking (used to open links in new tabs).

I paused writing this comment/rant to do a quick search about it and found that someone had already done what I intended to do - write an extension/addon to deal with it:

https://github.com/danielnixon/link-fixer

Thank you Daniel Nixon!
Impossible given that number of neurons.

It's perhaps not terribly surprising that it becomes possible with unlimited width or depth (or an arbitrarily complex activation function).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
I don’t really get why companies have the same person in so many roles, roles that are supposed to provide differing focus, checks and balances.

How much does a company need to suffer before a board builds enough numbers to kick out a person holding those 3 roles
It is because Google limit their API see the bug [1] and Google "Product Expert" even created a site about it [2].

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112096115?pli=1
[2] https://sites.google.com/site/picasaresources/google-photos-...
We who? Don't "we" also need a grouping to make it even clearer that some fields can't produce any falsifiable theories if other fields don't produce at least some unfalsifiable theorems? A terra firma of sorts.

It's like a dependency graph. Or something.

Your insistence on "making a difference" seems to echo the sentiment of many pragmatists:

It is astonishing to see how many philosophical disputes collapse into insignificance the moment you subject them to this simple test of tracing a concrete consequence. There can be no difference anywhere that doesn’t make a difference elsewhere – no difference in abstract truth that doesn’t express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere, and somewhen. The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and me, at definite instants of our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one. --William James

Does falsifiability make any difference? If something is only falsifiable in principle (e.g in theory), but not in practice then is it really falsifiable? On pragmatism - it's not a difference that makes any practical difference. And yet you insist on differentiating. Why?

Is "All humans are mortal." falsifiable or unfalsifiable?
It sure is falsifiable in theory, but unfalsifiable in practice. Any living human is potentially immortal until they actually die.

Any running process is potentially non-halting, until it actually halts.

If falsifiability doesn't make a difference in practice (and it doesn't!) then I guess we can all get on with whatever scientific discipline we are busy practicing.

So, I'm going to carry on my life knowing at least one unfalsifiable scientific truth: the theorem known as The Halting Problem.

It's not even wrong, because it's right.

Anybody who insists the Halting Problem is falsifiable (even in principle) is welcome to solve it in principle.
Church organist actually - serious enough to have a two story pipe organ built into his own home.

Enough of the True Scotsman .. it's clear as day from the introduction and opening chapters of TAOCP that he approaches programming as a mathematician.
There are no personal moral decisions, certainly not the decision to end a life. Decisions affect everyone.
Actually, if the EU gets its way, a future with mandatory removable batteries might be the only possible future. And I'm so looking forward for it. Next up should be mandatory recycling of batteries by the manufacturers.
I seem to remember research stating that an individual neuron has very complex behaviour that requires several ML “neurons” / nodes to simulate. So if you do a comparison, perhaps the brain is deeper than you’d think by just looking at the graph of neurons and their synapses.

Could we construct a neutral net from nodes with more complex behaviour? Probably, but in computing we’ve generally found that it’s best to build up a system from simple building blocks. So what if it takes many ML nodes to simulate a neuron? That’s probably an efficient way to do it. Especially in the early phase where we’re not quite sure which architecture is the best. It’s easier to experiment with various neural net architectures when the building blocks are simple.
It was definitely a very sales-driven company. There were maybe 250 devs in Palo Alto, maybe a similar number in Chicago and Seattle and over 10,000 sales reps just in Chicago.

When I was there, they had recently finished acquiring several Groupon clones from other regions and were in a painful process of trying to integrate all the various infrastructure. The main company had started on WP, I believe, and then migrated to Rails. Most of the clones were written in Java AFIK.

I was hired as a front-end dev, so for me the tech stack was CoffeeScript, Node.js and Backbone.js. It was frustrating feeling siloed into a pure front-end role, since I was eager to learn other things, but I really liked the colleagues I was working with. All in all, it was a positive experience.
https://archive.ph/WlDgc
It's very sad, and extremely frustrating all of this.

Just speaking for myself, obviously: if it were me living with my family in Israel I'd move out. Simply because too many deeds are being done for which I would not want to be fractionally responsible, besides the safety issues. At scale that would result in Israel disappearing but this isn't happening at all, instead the population of Israel is growing and quite rapidly so. As a result there will be ever more pressure to continue to expand and that sets the stage for an interminable confrontation, unless all parties are willing to significantly compromise on their current positions.

But religion and various non-public agendas seem to stop any such compromise from happening.
What of Go's design decisions do you not like?

Perhaps a somewhat off-topic question but I'm early in my career and have found Go to be a rather pleasant language to work with so I'm really curious.

For example when I was working in a large microservice system, some of the java/typescript repos were a pain to work in because some of the developers had written crazy-looking oneliners. I mean it's possible to write difficult-to-read Go code as well, but I wasn't seeing it anywhere near as much.
I don't think the argument is that much about macro-op fusion vs cracking, as both sides agree that highperformance implementations are doable and not hinderes much buy both.

I think the real dispute is how the opcode space and code density will evolve when more and more extension will need to be added.
Will more 32 opcode space and 64 bit instructions but no 16 and no 48 bit instructions in the longterm be a better choice than fewer 32 bit insrructions, but 16/48/64 bit instructions?
Meet the people taking over Hacker News (2014)
Idk if you're being serious because there's ai in excel now; in which case the answer is no. Or you're being a smarty-pants and trying to cleverly show what you think is a counter-example; in which case the answer is still no, but should probably be yes, and they only don't because it was well established before all the cyber regulation took effect, but for instance azure has many certs (including fedramp) which includes office365 which includes excel.
They’re definitely used in the UK gcse and A level exams.
Uber Eats, PayTM and The Free Food (2022) [video]
I have Asperger‘s, and my stage fright depends on what I’m doing. I’ve been a lead singer and guitarist in quite a few bands and I’ve never had stage fright while playing.

But push me to stand up and talk about something and I will freeze and act like a total spaz.
No, the 28s was the peak. Showing the stack is a huge ui win.
> critique of modern certitudes

> it’s bottom of the barrel degrowthism

Every. Single. Time.
Honestly, I bawled my eyes out on this one and read the associated book. The book is a great, fast, fun read. Cannot recommend it enough.
Renderers don't support it, but I wonder if it's generally possible to encode such an L-System simply as a self-referencing svg group.