skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a meaningless claim because the core parts of both itertools and pandas libraries used here are written in C, unless I'm missing some context here.
People want me to believe that Microsoft is "new," when people like Phil Spencer have been there since the start, and worked up to things like being the head of Xbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spencer_(business_executi...
My definition of a public intellectual is someone who is very bright and can "think in public" about a variety of issues. Weinstein definitely meets that bar for me, probably Jordan as well. Can't speak for the other two as I'm not familiar with their output.
More in the style should be:

51. Using terribly thin fonts with low contrast colors leads to unreadable websites.
Tobi Lütke and Kaz Nejatian on Shopify's Country-Sized Economy [video]
It’s not “some people say”. It’s their yearly/quarterly reports saying that. (Also it’s two games)

https://investors.remedygames.com/app/uploads/2023/03/remedy...

They also have 2 more games with 505, max payne remakes with Rockstar and one game with Tencent.
Welcome to sanity.

I have avoided most social media platforms for decades. HN is an exception for it's technological focus and insight.
No. Just the old idolization of people.
TXT records are useful for OSINT. I've used them to tie together fake business listings on Google Maps. It also allowed me to tie the listings directly to the marketer responsible.
It’s too easy to just look up the solution instead of being forced to think hard about the problem. This is training for when you’ll later encounter problems outside of textbooks where you’ll have no choice but to solve them on your own. And you’re supposed to have teaching assistants or similar available when you really remain stuck.
Microretros
To offer a counterpoint:

https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...

Around the 3:30 mark, while discussing Notre Dame Cathedral, consider how useful all those photos (and however many taken since) would be in its post-fire reconstruction.

Would anyone present at that demo in 2007 think there were too many photos, especially if they knew it would burn down?
If armed men enter the _correct_ room. And finding that is not as easy as it looks in movies, taking into account the fact that there can be no _the_ room rather than several rooms in different countries. Infantry can get stretched too thin to cover all of them at once.
I was a digital nomad for awhile but I think the limitations become apparent after ±2-3 years of being nomadic. I can't imagine that would be beneficial for children to jump around every 6-12 months and with time frames those short, you also lose out on many of the benefits of "growing up abroad." Your experience turns into a sort of placeless global knowledge worker shuffling from one rented apartment, resort town, and coworking space to the next. It's a very shallow existence.

Instead, what I would do (and what I am doing) is setting up multiple locations that you can come back to and have stability in. The ideal being a place or combination of places that have easy airline/train access to other cities + enough of local culture that appeals to you.
Yup, and some people crash their cars, and some people accidentally burn their own house down. Most people have figured out how to deal with situations like what you mention. People who have trouble following best practices are going to have a hard time, but that's no different than status quo.
It hinges on different definitions of quality, I think...
Agreed,

This doesn't just apply to insurance, etc, of course. Inaccessibility of support and inability to appeal automated decisions for products we use is widespread and inexcusable.

This shouldn't just apply to products you pay for, either. Products like facebook and gmail shouldn't get off with inaccessible support just because they are "free" when we all know they're still making plenty of money off us.
> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India

I was just in India, and while I didn't do very many of the transactions that a resident would, I used cash for almost everything (except for supermarkets where I paid with my non-Indian credit card).

It didn't feel at all difficult to get by with cash.
Yes, because they are using ssr for mirrors on lower settings.
MTTR Is the Wrong Metric
It might help to expand your horizons a bit. I see a lot of dudes on there I easily spotted for having limited range from the start. The trouble is people like this float too far off the ground and never come down to catch up. They usually lose their touch long before they gain the limelight, but are able to cruise a bit.

The big tell: is "being a public intellectual" all they have? Do they have no experiences with the real world to temper flighty, assumption-based beliefs? Bad news. Even Zeno of Citium saw the world as a merchant while Stoicism was cooking in his head. You can't create or benefit from philosophy isolated from people who challenge your assumptions.

Here's some people to get you started:

On Malik (some interesting photography too): https://om.co/

Anil Dash (appreciates a good Prince pun): https://www.anildash.com/

Judith Butler, just about anything they put out in public.

bell hooks (deceased, but has a lot worth reading)

Adam Savage (lots of good life advice in Q&As): https://www.youtube.com/@tested

Wil Wheaton (yeah I know, but he hit a new gear once he got past alcohol and started really dealing with his childhood trauma): https://wilwheaton.net/

Michael Rosenbaum (played a solid Lex Luthor and now does great interviews): https://www.youtube.com/@InsideOfYouPodcast

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating (from Enterprise to interview show): https://www.youtube.com/@ShuttlepodShow/
They clarified below that this is what they meant for what it's worth.

I'm not sure what position you're ascribing to them, that we should have everyone killed by doctors at birth? I mean that could work if interpretated literally for the stated case, but who in their right mind would believe that?
I thought pledge() works on the process level? Theoretically it shouldn't matter because your app is defining the rules.
Different goals maybe. The outcome from that case was that Ads won. Does the goal of the Chrome team matter when they are blocked from implementation?
> Most countries are not like US, it can be any calculator.

In my experience it's either been "no device at all", or "any calculator, but really only any calculator from this list".
Errr. Read the current news.
A guy standing up every week declaming with moral authority? The word you are looking for is preacher.

And that's what these people are. They provide a comforting sense of moral certainty and judgement; they define enemies, usually a nebulous Them; they're satisfying to listen to; and they publish on a schedule to reinforce the little ritual of listening to them. You've heard the adhan and you are called.

> This has to be a form of non-sexual attraction I think. I’m not gay, but how is this not gay? Like, what the fuck, am I in love with these people?

People have somehow lost all the words for communicating relationships between people that aren't sexual. Although the "fan" relationship can get pretty weird at times. It's interesting to hear from someone who's liminal enough to realize that they're inside the experience but also knows what's wrong with it. Thank you for this post.

> I wonder what Joe Rogan thinks about this, on subjects I know he doesn’t know shit about or is just plain wrong about

See also "Gell-Mann amnesia" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
I'm very impressed with your write up and transparency. I hope the manufacturing issues are sorted out! I don't manufacture anything but I've read a 3x rule of sale price to raw input cost.
They paid people in ancient times. They knew what a typical day's wage was in Athens:

> Also during Pericles' tenure, pay for civic service was instituted. No single other reform furthered democracy as much as pay for service. Now many more people could afford to serve, and for some, serving became attractive financially. First, dicasts, or jurors, began to be paid. A low rate, but half a day's wages or so. That was introduced by Pericles while Cimon was still around, perhaps to counteract his liberality with his own wealth. Jurors were appointed by lot annually and could serve year after year. By 422 (Aristophanes Wasps 662), there were 6,000 jurors per year. Cleon increased the pay rate to 3 obols a day. Pericles also started the payment of soldiers and sailors 3 obols a day.

https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/atheniande....

You have a very formal, academic understanding of capitalism while we are arguing that the fundamental ideas of capitalism naturally exist because that's logical for human psychology - owning things, trading, markets, paying people for labor. This is all stuff that goes back to the earliest recorded records. Cuneiform tablets are just endless accounting ledgers.
You scared me for a sec. Life is dull without that site. I did check right away and it does work. Phew ;)
Eratosthenes did that in his time with spherical Earth model, and it was precise enough for ~2k years. A lot that can be hand waved with that route as opposed to relying on availability of a well defined and calibrated precise time measurement device, whether it's 1 second or 2 minutes.
The privacy issue is a fair concern, but orthogonal to the login topic. Google has enough info to connect not-logged-in Maps usage to your user account.
"I wasted so much time trying to get this done in a few hours." Alternatively, I've wasted a lot of time going down rabbit holes, trying to create the best design that will save me from headaches down the road. I still haven't figured out that balancing act.
This. So much this.

No one wants to read that at this time of the morning.
>> Any guesses what they wanted to achieve with this piece of marketing?

Sure. They're hoping to sell the company. To whom I'm not sure. It wasn't an appeal to any specific customers, but a lot about how great the company is and what a great position they're in. So that must be what they're selling - the company.
You're mixing up two different things. It's true that YouTube now places ads to small channels that have not reached the monetization requirements.

But after the channel satisfy such requirements, like 1000 subscribers, the creator gets control of the monetization and they can choose.

For any major channel you watch, it's the creator decision that you see ads or not.
In the Philippines, QR-based payments are popular but people still prefer cash because people don't fully trust all-digital transactions
the relationship between you and the photo will change if you took it, a friend/family member took it but you were there, or an ancestor took it. I disagree with the parent that there's one purpose for photos, but I agree with them that less can be more. Curating your photos improves signal-to-noise and makes them more likely to have an emotional impact on you, family, or someone discovering them after you've passed.
Musk spend fourty-four billion dollars on cementing his cult leader position.
Did you find a work around? I have 15 years of family photos on Google. I've had zero complaints but I've always wanted to do a backup in case I ever get locked out of my account like you read about.
The continued evolution of war.

“Hurdling trenches, crawling over shell craters, and walking through forests unhalted by intense gunfire, the tanks cannot be stopped by anything less than a direct hit from shells of considerable caliber,” reports The Ogden Standard of October 21, 1916, 4 p.m. City Edition
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-wwi-tanks
It might be nice if

>As the maverick thinker saw it

was just "As he saw it"

and maybe take out the fallen but still faithful priest bit as well.

but the rest of the text is pretty straightforward what is meant.

Synonyms suggested - torn apart instead of rent asunder.
isn't there any AI we can feed this to have a little sketch in video form?
He's literally complaining about one of the worst "features" of fiat money but attacks Bitcoin in his other publications. Amazing.
Generally pictures on the internet are free to view but are restricted in their use (e.g. I can't take my aunt's wedding pictures and put them on billboards without asking her just because she posted them on Facebook). I'm not sure on the current legal standpoint of using pictures for training but it's not 'bonkers' to have usage restrictions on other people's work even if they allow you to view it.
_Dumping_, how it was called when I was young, is the main strategy of most startups out there: operate at a loss until they establish themselves (usually as the sole provider of certain services or goods) then start to climb the prices.

It _should_ be illegal, but since it's the current status quo, it won't change anytime soon.
My Dad had a Samsung phone with a "fully charged, unplug me" message and tone that couldn't be turned off. To make matters worse, if he ignored it and went back to sleep it would reach the threshold and pathologically start charging again ~2-3 hours later. He said "it whimpers all through the night" and could only charge it when he was awake to save his sanity.

I had a different situation, I sleep with roaring fans near my head and had to turn the phone alarm way up to hear it reliably. Then it would wake the neighbor at 430am whether it woke me or not. I purchased a separate 24hr timer and set the fans to go off at 4:25am, leaving a quiet room. And a quieter alarm always wakes me. Though I am now conditioned to hear when the fans shut off and get out of bed, and hardly ever fail to turn the alarm off in time.
I like some of what I think I understand about Feyerabend's ideas, but I didn't get on with his actual books. I expected something ethnographic-y or observation based, but only found incredibly abstract stuff.

I listened to a few interviews with Liam Kofi Bright, and his ideas about what truth is are pretty interesting. The perspective of 'giving us truths' or 'getting to the truth', is unsatisfying to me.

I think there has to be a core of some kind of 'predict what will happen when we do something, then see how close we got, tweak it in response to these observations, then repeat'.
A user with that expectation would make sure to turn off javascript. Which probably should have been the default in web browsers, but that particular ship sailed long ago.
I'm not sure, but I guess under the hood IBM does some emulation to guarantee backward compatibility.
“Admits” is just a cheap way to editorialize news and imply wrongdoing, just like “finally” or “openly”.
I've been meaning to set this up. which NAS do you use, and do you like it? how do you sync it with local copies for editing? I shoot 10k raw photos a year and editing with remote storage is too slow, but it gets unwieldy locally.
Also, in Australia, the banks have started to withdraw their ATM networks.

Previously, all banks had a network of "first party" ATMs, and fee-free deals with other banks meant you could mostly withdraw from any bank-owned ATM free. There was a small group of non-banks ATMs that charge a $3 fee for a maximum $200 withdrawal.

Now the major banks have outsourced their ATM network to an armoured car company, removed most of their first-party ATMs, and the only bank-owned ATMs are now in branches. And there's not a lot of branches still around these days.

So actually getting cash is no longer as easy as it was.
Photo curation is a quite different thing from photo archival.

Treating the two as the same problem makes things much harder, at least for me: If I know that every decision to not pick a given photo means that it’ll be permanently deleted, I end up with much larger albums than is probably reasonable for sharing with friends and family.

Storage is cheap, time spent worrying is expensive. I like being able to revisit my presentation/curation choices at a later point in time, e.g. when my audience, medium (portrait vs. landscape!), or aesthetic criteria have changed.
ASD people may be less likely to be affected by any social effect that is mediated by group attention. Even prior to group approval. The Bystander Effect is one example.

Being enamoured by famous individuals is another. Fame being defined by the number of eyeballs that is on the object. Down to the guy who garners attention by singing in the local dive bar band, who lectures seniors on medicare coverage at the local assisted care facility, or who reads scripture at church once per month. A negative example would be famous popular criminals.

This carries over to social causes and more.
There are multiple different flavors of mini-pcs and use cases for them.

Namely, using them in shops and offices as some better terminal, often just connecting to some server. But also at home as a media center, for children or as an energy-friendly solution. Mobile usage would be usually at events, like a fair, convention, or some workshop, where you want something small light which is not heavy to carry. Especially when you have multiple of them will they be a better and often cheaper alternative to a notebook. Then there is also the special corner of people who want something small for working, hacking, tinkering, where a normal notebook is too big, heavy or expensive, or lacking some special feature. And then there is also the very special type of people, who just fancy exotic hardware, and buy it mainly for the coolness. The two last groups have usually a bit overlapping, and people want some small but powerful enough for mobile tinkering, which is also hackable on its own, and kinda fancy at the same time.
I found Deschooling Society book on my dad's bookshelf about 9 years ago. No idea why he had it. I quit university about 3/4 way through reading it. I'm poorly adapted to the cadence and mechanisms of institutional education and this guy provided an alternative that I have employed since to an effect further than I had imagined was possible.
In case anyone knows why it doesn't work, here is the function I wrote to enable more interactive effects using HTML:

def generate_html_with_embedded_svg(svg_filename, html_filename):
with open(svg_filename, 'r') as f:
svg_content = f.read()

# Add an ID to the SVG tag
svg_content = re.sub(r'<svg ', '<svg id="embedded-svg" ', svg_content, 1)

html_content = '''<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Interactive SVG</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
let svgElement = document.getElementById('embedded-svg');
let tables = svgElement.querySelectorAll('.table-hover');
tables.forEach(function(table) {
table.addEventListener('mouseover', function() {
let tableId = table.getAttribute('id');
table.setAttribute('stroke', 'blue');
table.setAttribute('stroke-width', '2');

let edgesTo = svgElement.querySelectorAll('.edge-to-hover-' + tableId);
edgesTo.forEach(function(edge) {
edge.setAttribute('stroke', 'red');
edge.setAttribute('stroke-width', '2');
});

let edgesFrom = svgElement.querySelectorAll('.edge-from-hover-' + tableId);
edgesFrom.forEach(function(edge) {
edge.setAttribute('stroke', 'green');
edge.setAttribute('stroke-width', '2');
});
});

table.addEventListener('mouseout', function() {
let tableId = table.getAttribute('id');
table.removeAttribute('stroke');
table.removeAttribute('stroke-width');

let edgesTo = svgElement.querySelectorAll('.edge-to-hover-' + tableId);
edgesTo.forEach(function(edge) {
edge.removeAttribute('stroke');
edge.removeAttribute('stroke-width');
});

let edgesFrom = svgElement.querySelectorAll('.edge-from-hover-' + tableId);
edgesFrom.forEach(function(edge) {
edge.removeAttribute('stroke');
edge.removeAttribute('stroke-width');
});
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="svg-container">''' + svg_content + '''</div>
</body>
</html>'''

with open(html_filename, 'w') as f:
f.write(html_content)
I designed and teached a bachelors class in Generative Grammar Structures for few years at Sofia University. And L-systems were part of the curriculum. We also had Chris Coyne’s CFDG and Structure Synth in the classes.

Interestingly l-systems are semi-Thue grammars, not Chomsky grammars and their inventor was a biologist modelling tree growth.

The class made huge impact on everyone’s ability to comprehend discreet math concepts such as state space, regex, FSMs and alike by actually showing these visually. I’m convinced CFdG has to be included in higher school curriculum the same way spatial analysis augments/complements greatly classic geography courses.
I think the stance comes from one's position towards the "want for more" attitude in humans.

If you think the thirst for material wealth and welfare can be somehow limited or contained at scale, you will find the concept of de-growth very appealing, because it solves a bunch of big problems we have.

If you don't think such thirst can be limited, which is arguably what modern history might suggest, then the concept is clearly impossible to realize and not worth discussing.
Yeah, China totally plans to hack Taiwan into rejoining the mainland.

You realize how ridiculous that sounds? The types of attack you mention are perhaps an additional dimension of war in the future, but you sound a lot like all the experts back in WWII who thought strategic bombing would make ground forces obsolete.

And your last line is weird. We do lots of things today that are as old as cavemen, physically and socially.
Hello, I've seen Crafti, it looks a lot more complete than mine.

The rendering is based on the triangle renderer in https://gitea.planet-casio.com/Lephenixnoir/Azur which renders in fragments to the fast on chip memory so it isn't bottlenecked by the slow main RAM, but I customised it to add textures etc. It's using barycentric coordinates over a bounding box which is probably not as fast as scanline rendering but I can try to make it use scanlines at some point.I'm also using parts of https://codeberg.org/drummyfish/small3dlib. It's using depth sorting which works fine for a simple voxel world like this but if I add things like entities and non-full blocks that might complicate things. Also, to speed things up it uses affine texture mapping (which I think yours uses too?) but splits the triangles when they get close to reduce the distortion. The splitting is causing the seams in the video, I can probably improve it by having sub-pixel precision in the triangle rendering or something
It covers most of the topics covered in a first course in linear algebra, it’s just very application-specific. It has some basic proofs in the exercises, but nothing overly difficult, and the more involved proofs give you explicit instructions on the steps to take.

There is a chapter on abstract vector spaces and there are a few examples given besides the usual R^n (polynomials, sequences, functions) but there is almost no time spent on these. There is also no mention of the fact that the scalars of a vector space need not be real numbers; that you can define vector spaces over any number field.

There is only a passing discussion of complex numbers (as possible Eigenvalues and in an appendix) but no mention of the fact that vector spaces over the field of complex numbers exist and have an even more well-developed theory than for real numbers.

But more fundamental than a laundry list of missing or unnecessary topics is the fact that it’s application focused. Pure mathematics courses are proof and theory focused. So they cover all the same (and more) topics in much richer theoretical detail, and they teach you how to prove statements. Pure math students don’t just learn how to write proofs in one or two courses and then move on; all of the courses they take are heavily proof-based. Writing proofs, like programming, is a muscle that benefits from continued exercise.

So if you’re studying (or previously studied) science or engineering and learned all your math from that track, switching to pure math involves a bunch of catch up. I’ve met plenty of people who successfully made the switch, but it took a concerted effort.
Use ChatGPT Tools without switching