skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no good replacement for just giving out floppies without worrying about cost to this day. 8GB SD cards, a practical size to give out applications, photos or videos, are about $6 each, so giving one to everyone in your class is a non-trivial expense. DVDs are too fragile and many don't have an optical drive at home these days. Online hosting requires remembering the URL and then an extra download step.
Yup, and Fitbit used essentially nothing from Pebble; it was basically an accquihire. They should have just rebranded Pebble’s lineup as Fitbits, IMO.
IBM mainframes still do. It's used by COBOL.[1]

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.4?topic=arithmetic-s...
In this specific case it's not redundant in C - without the commas, the strings would be merged together.
Is it normal not to come away from these with any kind of intuition like “ah, that’s why transformers work so well”

Instead I just come away feeling like it’s a Frankenstein of different matrices and statistics.
I wonder if anyone on the Pulitzer Prize committee for GEB understood this was the idea he was attempting to communicate.
There seems to be a large market for books that make dumb people feel smart.
Congrats!

I tried to search for a particular domain data but neither search nor the explore would have the domain listed. What's the process to get unlisted domains indexed?
I feel exactly the same. It was like 1000 pages of patting himself on the back for being clever. I certainly didn't learn anything and there was very little art to his writing.
The amount of learned helplessness in this thread is astounding. I bought a pair of collapsible reusable bags years ago for $5. I use them every week and they're as good as new. The stronger construction means that each one is replacing at least three disposable plastic bags with every trip. You don't need disposable bags. And yes, I have a cat, and disposable bags are shite for litter, because they always, always have holes.
I would absolutely love for companies to embrace standards and interoperate better. Apple products' limitations never make sense other than "Profit". But AFAIK, their products work well together. And I agree it's painful when you're not invested in the ecosystem. But their focus is that ecosystem and I can understand their line of business.
I've seen that take a lot lately, and it's odd because I remember the first big push for unit test popularization as being centered on Java and JUnit.

Java is obviously a statically typed, compiled language with memory safety. But back then everyone still understood the advantages of automated testing. Static typing frees you from a certain class of problems, but it's so far from the whole story, I can't believe it even needs to be said.
Some things may get more expensive, and maybe that's fine. Inflation is a thing, and things become more expensive all the time; hell, over the past couple years, things became a lot more expensive, and we didn't get anything good in return for it, like a shortening the work week.

Production lines don't need to run 24/7. Advances in automation, and productivity in general, could also close the gap.

I'm so tired of this idea that the point of life is to produce more and more and more. That degenerates into the point of life being to work and work and work. It's dumb. Human lives could be so much more.
A/B Testing – Everyday Data Science
> It takes effectively zero effort to keep a reusable bag around

I’ve found it takes lots of effort. It’s a chore to keep track of and bring it back out to the car. I probably now have 10 reusable bags that I’ve bought because I keep forgetting them at home, or in the car when I wasn’t expecting to go to the store.

It’s not a huge effort, but it’s definitely non-zero.

Obviously, I should be smarter. But I’m not, sadly.
The Valve Index does not do reprojection on the device. It does not even do tracking on the device.
"I'm Quitting YouTube, too." - https://youtu.be/cI0qmpTN-ZA

"Why So Many YouTubers Are Quitting" - https://youtu.be/B9PboTYmuQQ
Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family
I think 3 days is a reasonable look-back period for analyzing. I want my brothers (both are on the spectrum, though one is affected more than the other) to be happy and less stressed. Speaking selfishly, it... makes my life a lot easier. Honestly when I have those "what happened?" moments I can go back as far as a week or two sometimes looking for small shifts.

One that really sucks for all parties is the unpredictable. Something like, the doctor being late to their appointment or our assistant we hire to help not being able to come that day (or coming late)... Or THE WEATHER MESSING PLANS UP. Especially the anticipation that weather might screw the plans up. Plans that are "we've done this for the past 26 saturdays so why can't we do it this saturday? Can't you just make it not rain or something?" :D (I am exaggerating for extra silliness)

Those are the worst x_X
I'm not sure where I wrote I like straws. It's more of a "I don't like the logic regarding straw bans".
Report: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/wp-content/uploads... [pdf]
The book ostensibly lacks Wittgenstein and/or Chomsky. Not much point in discussing the 20th century without them....
I feel ya, I felt the same way too. I find chess a bit boring too.

Commercials do suck. They do hide some of what is going on in the sidelines and a lot are forced for the TV netwroks.

But players standing around the field or walking around because they have nothing to do - the game is not in their court right now. The coaches are making the next play. That is the game. Its coach vs coach. The players don't do anything without the coach directing them.

Maybe it would help more if the cameras zoomed into the coaches in a heated battle of what play to run next and the game was advertised or listed as coach v. coach that this match up would be more obvious.

It's like the Madden game. The player avatars on the screen are just robots, going through the motions. The actual brains or interesting action is going on with whoever holds the controller. The plays or lines or formations they run and who they put in the game, etc.
I love working with hackable software. I kind of attack it at the source level vs writing for the browser however. For example, say there’s some tool on a git repo. I will shamelessly clone it and build off of it to my own liking. Maybe I add another 1% to the code base, or maybe that repo becomes 1% of a codebase I write on my own. These are tools I could never share however, because of the rampant plagiarism I am doing, and the fact I don’t much care about getting it to run on different systems beyond my own. That being said fast and loose coding like this is a very powerful way to iterate on personal projects that never need to be anything but. I wish more things were actually hackable especially mobile or appliance hardware. Companies never like giving the power users the reigns for some reason.
Testing and analysis aren't equivalent, but they can be similar enough in use to be interchangeable.

As an example the approach of 'type correctness through a type checker' and 'type-correctness through integration testing' is largely interchangeable in python. Even though they function very differently.
I see, meat packaging is different in the UK. Styrofoam trays are not used in any major stores, they all use the same rigid sealed containers, even the cheap options.

Butchers cutting meat for you is much less common in store now, those that do have a butchers counter wrap it in a plastic bag which seals it pretty well. Small independent shops might do it differently.

I think in general those styrofoam trays are not used much because they can't be recycled. You still find them used by some takeaway food places though.
Spur of the moment -- my schedule is always changing. I know I need to go sometime during the week but it's totally going to depend on when I happen to have free time on the way home, and I generally won't know that until I'm heading home. It might be Tuesday, or it might not be till Friday.

Always having a bunch of bags on me just isn't a thing, not when you walk and take the subway everywhere and don't want to be lugging around a backpack when you go out for drinks and have nowhere to put it when you're standing around a bar.

I'll take the big bag when it's on the weekend and I'm making a special trip to the supermarket, but there isn't always an opportunity for that either.
The idea behind the gas stove ban, is that it's supposed to be a gas appliance ban. Most of a house's gas consumption is heating and hot water, but people will keep gas because of the stove.

Gas itself has a lot of problems. Ignoring the safety concerns (oof!), the micro-leaks from gas pipelines is a major source of greenhouse gases. But we can't clean up all the pipes if everyone is still using gas stoves.
Every day I become more convinced that Hanlon’s razor is an example of malice.
They are not interchangeable but there is an overlap.

For normal code bases, this overlap is relatively small (do not need to validate input types, don't need to automatically convert strings to numbers, convert single items to lists, etc), but as you take advantage of the type system, the overlap can become slightly larger (wrap your types, create separate types for validated values, make impossible states impossible).

Granted, no matter how much of a genius you are with the type system, there will always be place for testing, I hope everybody understands that.
Agreed, I have made my own shakespeare babbler following Karpathy's videos. I have a decent understanding of the structure and process but I don't really grasp how they work.

It's obvious how the error reduces, but I feel like there's something semanticly going on that isn't directly expressed in the code.
>The point isn't to design for the lowest common denominator, but for the users you will actually have

Keyword: situational disability

Even a perfectly fit and educated target audience sometimes suffers from certain conditions or in an environment that significantly reduces their mental or physical capacity. Stress, injury, pregnancy, too many beers, very long nails, terrible weather, a toddler trying to grab your phone, non-native speaker etc etc. You may know the user even personally, but you never know what’s going on in their lives when they use your app. So general advice: ALWAYS follow accessibility guidelines. Even bad copy may drop your usage by a significant percentage, because there are plenty of people with dyslexia.
braguette

New word for the day.
What is the cost of raw materials? It is the labor that went into digging them out of the ground and refining them.
Yes, Aldi's does this.
Desktop apps are no more vetted than Firefox extensions.
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience.
So why would you abuse your reader by making it a pain in the ass to figure out what you mean?

This is a funny thing to say about a discipline that was more or less founded by Plato, who was notably obscurantist if not outright esoteric.

In any case, philosophy is not always about making a point and there is not always a point to be made. Sometimes it's just asking questions.
That’s cool that you do that.

I don’t like carrying things that I rarely use and try to minimize stuff I carry. And that’s basically just a phone and my clothes.

Even if you carry a bag, I frequently find that I need two or three or more.

I think a better solution is to just have decomposable plastic bags and solve the issue that way.
You may want to read https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/finite.html.
Perhaps also https://iep.utm.edu/lp-argue/.

The Lucas-Penrose argument is not generally accepted among philosophers. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it fails - truth isn't a popularity contest - but it does indicate there are some subtleties at play here; it's not so obvious Emperor of the Mind/Shadows of the Mind succeeds in its argument.
I've heard about this book so many times and was interested to read it. But I know that as a non native English reader, my track record against reading English proses is very poor, and looks like lots of value of the book is exactly in the prose? Maybe I'll have to skip this one, unless some brave souls have already translated it.
Hypervisors like that already exist and are needed by cloud providers.
Couldn’t you lift any of your u32 -> u32 maps to a map from Minutes -> Minutes or Seconds -> Seconds and then compose with your canonical map to get a different Minutes -> Seconds map?

Edit: you did say canonical and not unique so I’m probably just being pedantic.
Yes. You can find a bunch of estimates for how many times you have to reuse a canvas bag for the environmental cost of its production to net out. You generally have a choice between plastics, paper, and fabric, and fabric seems to be the worst of all the options, and the one the plastic ban encourages.

I think I like the approach I see in Chicagoland, which is just to charge for the plastic bags.

(We keep all our plastic bags, but then, we have two dogs).
The paper straws are awful products. They taste like paper and disintegrate quickly even though they are still covered in plastic. Wood utensils in comparison were an adjustment but they work fine.

I have been avoiding lids and straws for two decades now, because they are wasteful, but when I have need of a straw and lid it's nice if they work.
the patel motel cartel! https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/magazine/a-patel-motel-ca...
Provenance In C and Rust, essentially mean that each object, lives in its own memory space, and you cant travel between them. You cant use a pointer to one object, add an offset and get a valid pointer to another object.

This is key to a lot of compiler optimizations. It is de facto in C compilers, and therefor in a lot of compiler infrastructure used by other languages. There is an attempt to make it more clearly defined in the C standard:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3005.pdf
Discussed at the time:

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556382 - July 2019 (186 comments)
Or no, we don't do that. Everyone gets the same pay, and prices stay the same. Shareholders see lower returns, but them's the breaks.

This idea that we should prioritize dividends and capital appreciation over the happiness and mental health of the masses... it's disgusting.
Oh I agree so much with you.

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling
I gave up at this point: "We might describe the way that planets fly around stars as isomorphic to the way that electrons fly around nuclei."

We might, but we'd be mistaken.

Why bring incredibly complex topics into a general discussion unnecessarily? Why not even bother googling a correct explanation of those topics first? (I could guess why, but I don't want to ruin the article with spoilers.)
> Any intelligent person that regularly go to stores during lunch breaks or when commuting is either always carrying a backpack or a small foldable shopping bag

The problem is all the non-intelligent people, like me, who don’t carry this. I don’t carry a backpack around on my lunch break (or really anywhere other than when I’m hiking).
Euro here.

I rarely get out of the house without some kind of bag and when I do that's because I take a bicycle which is equipped with a basket and panniers.
Whether or not degrowth can be made to work, what this guy is talking about is fantasy. For example:

...That creates some pressure on planetary boundaries. So that means that the Global North needs to consciously degrow because it is over-developing, and has excessive production and consumption.

This will not help. Emissions from the US and Europe now account of about 20% of global emissions and are going down. Emissions from the rest of the world are rising steeply.
Nobody would care, except that conservative politicians latched onto it as fuel for the culture war machine. It's an emotional response based on imagined grievance and retroactively justified via motivated reasoning.
You could argue that the demand for software developers dilutes quality. When we're desperate for bodies that's going to mean we settle for inexperience.
Because Japan just has less trash can lids to blow off.

https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shibuya/a...

And as you see with the design of their cans they aren't just holes with some plastic top loosely strewn on it.

But yes, I'd chalk up a society used to carrying their trash until they find a sparsely spaced trash can "culture".
Well, I don't want to give too much away but... it has something to do with one of the interpretations of RICERCAR.
The pain points of building a copilot
Firefox is every bit as open source as Linux. You can control every aspect of it and tweak it to your liking and you are not limited to extensions.
UUID Benchmark War
Six Reasons Why It's So Hard to Get Your Weight-Loss Drugs
I was thinking about Bangladesh, not the USA :

https://m.timesofindia.com/lead-chromate-was-being-used-to-b...

(Their "costing trillions" claim might be overblown.)
You mean that they are not effectively enforced.
Debatable. How much did he dictate to a ghost writer?
A bring your own bag/bottle/container store would be cool. Everything would be shipped in bulk to the grocery store, and people would take what they want in their own containers.
Oh that RNN-CNN duality is such a nice math trick. You can do recurrence in parallel.
> the reality is climate change won't kill us for longer than we'll live.

That depends heavily on where you live.

3.6 billion people live in areas that are at a very high risk from climate change.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...

> There's a lot of fearmongering

If you have better credentials than the WHO and leading climatologists around the world then I'd love to hear about them.
https://archive.ph/vVymb
If we simplify away the personal issue of 'that's my truck; you'll have to pay me to use it' - we forget property rights and the psychological attachment to property, which I don't think is realistic or wise. (Also, I've recently been reading about 'cultural universals' - behaviors in all/most/many unrelated cultures through time and geography that are not biologically determined (as far as we know) - and property is one of them.)

I'm sure you know the next issue: How in your system is capital efficiently allocated? The issue is not hoarding (or not necessarily), it's natural scarcity of capital. How do we decide who gets to use the truck or the property, etc.? We know the capitalist method of allocation, which is rather productive in aggregate. Other methods have been unproductive, broadly speaking. First come first serve?

Also, the worker in your system gets all the return. Great. Now they have some money and they buy a truck. But now they own capital, the truck and hopefully some cash left over. Must they lend it to someone else without return? I dunno, but they might not be happy with that!
Neurodiversity as Disagreement about What Exists
Ancient metaphysical dispute between Platonists and Aristotelians (nominalists) debunked as disagreement between neurotypicals and Autistics, who have deficits in high-level vision.
They may get reused, but the data shows that:

* Sales of bin liners (for example) do not significantly increase when single use plastic bags are banned

* Plastic bag litter is significantly reduced.

If you want less litter, banning single use plastic bags is a great way to achieve that

Sources
https://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/curious-canberra/2017-0...
https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/000...
Why do you need a bag to begin with if you carry a backpack? Is it always full?
Because of the IBM System/360 unified architecture.

Before the IBM System/360, there were "scientific" computers, which were word-oriented and used binary arithmetic, and "business" computers, which were character-oriented and used decimal arithmetic. The IBM System/360 unified the product lines with a standardized architecture.
Not OP, but as someone who found GEB pretentious, I think the most mind-blowing books I have read were probably Kurt Vonnegut. Mother Night and Timequake probably at the top.
Another philosopher about Gödel:

The Collapse of the Hilbert Program:
A Variation on the Gödelian Theme*
Saul A. Kripke

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08346
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

Autism Through the Eyes of a Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876988 - Sept 2019 (6 comments)
According to Wikipedia, Hofstadter was 34 (and 4 years out of physics grad school) when GEB was published.
Would the Phalanx have stopped a barrage of Neptune missiles, which were reported to have sunk the Moskva?

Was the defensive weaponry on the Moskva unable to defend against the Neptune, or did the crew make mistakes in operating it?
Is any of the information at your college hard to assemble? Create a scraper and republish it.

Are some select classes a race to register for? Write a registration sniper and get in.

How about your county bus schedule? Mugshots? Are they easy to access?
Oh well, it wasn't supposed to be an insult. Rather a self description. As I am a nerd and do all those things and quite a bit more. I still suck at communicating with normies.
How could a leading research organization not have heard or divorce and child support?
Your trust in laws is fascinating

For humans, laws and rules are meant to be overstepped : this is how our species got so far : by considering rules, laws and traditions, and say "well, whatever, I will try it my way and see how it goes"
>can we not pretend that something like that could ever be implemented in the Western world?

it says a lot that we simply dismiss "don't break stuff" as am impossibility in the western world. Wonder what the Easter world does so differently.
This is a preposterous talking point, I wish people would stop parroting it.

Reusable bags carry as much weight and volume as multiple disposable bags. And yes, you can use them hundreds of times. I have used mine every week for years and years.

Disposable plastic grocery bags are wasteful and pointless, and those defending them so virulently come across as bafflingly pathetic.
I've not read the book so am looking at the comments here for reasons why I should. The majority seem to be something like "I read it when younger and it was like a powerful transformational psychedelic experience at a one day festival".

It is meaningful, reading it is something that is shared with others, but it is an event in time and is unrepeatable, and it's somehow unable to be fully communicated about to others who were not there.

For some it seems foundational because it was encountered at a certain time in their life without really elucidating how their life actually changed
(it's understandable because if it was done at their start of their life.)

Is this accurate?
> There's no underlying nexus between the list of symptoms beyond statistical correlation

Correlation is correlated with meaning, so what are you saying
Where else would business squeeze the P&L in the face of increased cost of labor? Prices go up, profits go down, or some combination if the business is to continue as a going concern.
Are these claims actually quantified by any of the companies mentioned in the article?

While there’s no disagreement that “piracy” occurs, I’d love to see refreshed numbers around “potential paying customers” vs “because it’s there but wouldn’t otherwise buy” metrics.

Also, that c&p is lazy and raises an eyebrow.
extra laptops/servers...? meh
awhh I can see DMOZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) is no longer! That used to be the seed for crawling the internet I believe, for search engines.