skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How far is that from pre-existing products, like Quorn[1], which here in the UK is probably the main producer of vegan/vegetarian meat simulacra? The problem is that people don't like eating straight fungus, and so it is serially transformed through elaborate processing, to create meat-like products. Which it turns out are extremely unhealthy.

I think you are on more promising ground in your final remark. There are plenty of whole food plant-based sources of protein that are tested, economical and low-carbon, while possessing none of the health drawbacks of 'high tech' alternatives.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn
Inkscape Developer Reacts to Affinity Being Acquired [video]
I would say as someone who didn't study computer science, but has been coding for well over a decade now and has a moderate interest in what goes on under the hood, that, without yet reading through the material, this will probably be useful to me.

Could also be useful as a refresher to people I would think. Something I noticed in my statistics course of my Masters was a lot of cargo culting maths as opposed to true understanding, because knowledge fades a lot after a few years not using it. Reviewing maths has given me more confidence that I understand what's actually happening when I run statistical analyses. It's probably the same for someone doing a lot of coding, you're not drawing on university level maths THAT much, the knowledge is necessary when you truly need it, but it gets stale over time.

Something that provides an overview of what's important to Comp. Sci. without the need to wade through an entire University maths course seems useful as an abstract concept at least.
https://vibetrack.co - Calendly for people that prefer in-person meetings.
Best alternative to emulation, im not sure where FGPA is but it gives me a peace of mind to just mod the console to support SD cards filled with every single game released for that console, picking up the original game from ebay if I really like the title and show support

Its such a hassle to take out the CD from its plastic casing with rubber gloves to preserve value and put it back in each time but you don't want to trade original game experience with emulation
If one has to ask, it's a Five Eyes plant.
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What's your convergence metric? It looks like x_sol gives a residual on the order of 1e-7. That's fine, but I'd like to measure an equivalent number to the benchmark.
Nice boat! Ye it does not look too nimble in harbours. Somewhere over 40ft with "light" boats is where I feel you get into the "you got one chance" harbour manouvers (unless there is some front sideways motor cheating).

It happens something that I really can't explain, but I guess it is weight related. Or maybe area. Dunno.
How long until Elon offers to dig a new tunnel under the Patapsco river? I bet he already has Boring people on it.
Limiting it for people over 70 would probably do more good
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> I respond by letting her know she will be able to buy a house if she wants one

I assume she's good at math? I'm sure she's solved way harder math problems than calculating how long it will take to save up a $200k down payment when you make $4k a month and pay 80% of that in rent and taxes.

> the economy will always be good for people who are work smart and hard,

Ummm....well, if that's been your experience, God bless you man. But you are writing a check you can't cash if you say it will be true of your daughter's generation.

Is it really even a good idea to emphasize hard work? My teachers/parents always said if I worked hard enough I would succeed, but man, this has only made me work 50, then 60, then 80 hours a week, desperately trying to turn an inherently doomed project into a success.

I've worked waaaay harder on my failures than on my success. That one time I was competing with a team of 5 russian Ph.D.'s to see whose software library would go into the product. That one time at a startup, where I found out too late that the founder always fires all his workers before their stock options vest.

Even my failed marriage!! I worked harder trying to keep things together than I ever worked on anything. With my current wife its not work at all. If you just tell your daughter that hard work will always ensure success, you are just setting her up for serial burnout after burnout.

If you are working hard, that's not a sign you are winning, its a sign you are losing.

And blaming it on social media is just shooting the messenger.
I do too, but I wonder if there's a way we can make it tractable to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining our dependency graphs? More: [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832559
> the rushed Saturn launch just annoyed all partners, retail and development.

Oh yes that I definitely knew about, the rushed Saturn launch out of nowhere, as well as its early retirement to make room for the Dreamcast, soured a lot of people.

A shame too, the Dreamcast deserved so much better. It was a great system, and pretty prescient too, at least on the GPU side: Sega America wanted to go with 3dfx, Sega Japan ultimately went with PowerVR, 3dfx turned out to be a dead end, while PowerVR endured until fairly recently (if mostly in the mobile / embedded / power efficient space).
I've been working on a local-first personal finance/expense tracker called Tender: https://tender.run

Tender runs as a PWA and uses the Automerge crdt and sqlite via wasm. The app more or less runs entirely in your browser (works offline!), though our server proxies connections to pull in plaid/splitwise data.

Feature-wise, we're targeting folks who do want to manage their expenses but not have to do fine-grained budgeting. There's tools for tracking getting paid back and a splitwise integration as well. The app is desktop-centric right now, but we're working on getting a good mobile workflow together too.

Since everything is browser-based, it was actually quite easy to get a demo sandbox environment working. You can give it a quick spin here: https://demo.tender.run
It's a lot like the Burroughs B-25 (AKA the Convergent NGEN).

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_convergent5Brochure198...

Convergent extended that idea into their Megaframe, which could be expanded by adding more enclosures, each with a number of separate processors.

http://bitsavers.org/magazines/Mini-Micro_Systems/198304_Meg...

This last one lists our familiar Steve Blank as one of its authors.

It must have been a sight to behold:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_MiniMicroSrDigest_8947...
I am building a macOS app to help reduce screen strain and dry eyes due to prolonged screen use. It's called LookAway -- https://lookaway.app
> The lack of kids is often because the school is in an older part of town

This happens less in Australia, because Australia has rather different population dynamics from the US.

Significant population decline in inland rural areas, especially in smaller towns, which leads to school closures (for public schools too)–something also happening in some parts of the US

But, the problem the US has with decaying urban areas (e.g. Detroit) just doesn't happen in contemporary Australia. Most of the population lives in a handful of big metro areas, which just keep on booming, due to runaway property prices, and absorbing a constant stream of immigrants (on a per capita basis, Australia's official immigration rate is almost twice that of the US.) Also, local government is a lot weaker, urban planning is controlled by the state governments, and they just won't let that kind of urban blight happen on their watch
Sorry for the late reply, I was sick and on a HN break!

https://boards.straightdope.com/ is the forum... it's not tech-focused, but it has a bunch of smart, passionate people discussing everything from airplanes to history to pop culture to video games and more. Usually pretty high quality discussions, although admittedly I've been a lot less active there than I used to be.
"Heck, we could just be eating more mushrooms, they already are a pretty good source of protein. "

Definitely, but mushrooms and meat also go very well together..

And I am open towards engineered mushrooms, but I doubt they will result in meat. But maybe in something that can convince enough people to reduce their meat consumption by eating that instead.
Isn’t “hacking fungi” the beginning of the plot of The Last Of Us? Let’s leverage the genome of cordyceps … what could go wrong?
Here is real time playback of the incident, you can see both tugs leave the ship and do not accompany it past the bridge. You can see one of the tugs turn and head back to the ship before the collision...

https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/status/1772545501612671284
Nintendo did not approach SGI. SGI was rejected by Sega for the Saturn - Sega felt their offering was too expensive to produce, too buggy at the time despite spending man hours helping fix hardware issues,, and had no chance to make it to market in time for their plans.

For all we know, Nintendo had no plans past the SNES, except for the VirtualBoy. But then again, the VirtualBoy was another case of Nintendo being approached by a company rejected by Sega…
In the Balkans, it's called "kajmak," and it's very popular.

Update: kajmak [0] seems to be slightly different and mildly fermented.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak
It's a grid of Youtube videos, each of someone playing a musical instrument of various sorts (electric guitar, piano, clarinet, marimba, muted trumpet, voice, KAOSS synth pad, a Nintendo DS), making music in the key of B-flat major. The instructions are to start the videos at any time and in any order. By doing so, the audio of each overlays each other and since they are all in tune with each other, it all sounds like the timing could have been intentional. Each video is about 90 seconds long and you can press play again on each to repeat it if you like.

It reminds me (presumably intentionally) of Terry Riley's "In C" in which any number of musicians on any instruments perform together on stage. All following the same tempo, they each have a set of music giving several dozen short sequences of notes. They each, individually, decide when to come in, how many times to repeat each sequence, and when to move on to the next sequence. As the piece continues, the soundscape is constantly evolving in an unpredictable way, but always in tune with each other and pleasant in its harmony. Each time it's performed, even by all the same musicians, then, it sounds different, yet the same. It's a really fascinating piece and if you get the chance to see it performed live, I highly recommend it, because it's a lot of fun to watch the musicians themselves experience the performance and feed off each other.

Check out this YouTube search for a variety of live performances: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=in+c+live
The real answer unfortunately is that they mostly don't. They're an absolutely tiny minority of active religious people and because of that they struggle to take effective group action based on their values or sustain their communities across generations.

Look at the Quakers for a really admirable but ultimately pessimistic illustration of it. A long and almost uniquely sound history of true dedication to causes of human freedom, safety, comfort, and thriving, but with no shared creed per se. At times united in their activism and influential because of it (abolition, prohibition, civil rights). Now generations removed from any unifying cause, they are fragmented into an entire continuum of irreconcilable beliefs; fewer than half a million left globally. And the only thriving, growing communities among them are in africa, with belief and worship virtually indistinguishable from the local main stream of evangelical christianity.

Whatever it is that makes religions culturally impactful does not seem easily separable from whatever it is that makes them religions. People have tried over and over, not all of them completely unsuccessfully. But I don't know of any with the kind of durable cultural influence we see in the mainstream religions that don't value or attempt that separation.
I'm reminded of the press howling about how President Clinton needed to resign because his legal issues cough blow job cough prevented him devoting full attention to the presidency. Which was amusing since anyone paying attention could see it wasn't slowing him down at all.

He went on to clobber Dole in the 96 election.

Story about LBJ, one time a society matron buttonholed Lady Bird and told her that she needed to get LBJ to stop saying manure so much. Lady Bird said I will not because you have no idea how hard it was to get him to say manure.
I worked well for almost all of my prompts:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfRs4l8INQS44y62Z2aFzPzHH...
Twitter usage in US 'fallen by a fifth' since Elon Musk's takeover
Oh come on, it has to be a joke. You just don't understand anything, do you? I would ask if you are an LLM, but my experience with LLMs is that they understand natural languages better.

> So you are saying I'm not in a bubble, BUT I'm in a bubble because

Last time: I asked if what you described (i.e. a large consensus for an idea) could be a bubble. I A-S-K-E-D. That's what the question mark means (this is a question mark: "?").

>> how can you jump from "could it be a bubble?" to "you jumped to the conclusion that I am in a bubble"

> Anybody with basic training in basic logic can do that.

You and I seem to have a very different view of what the word "logic" means.
The Face of Donald Trump's Deceptively Savvy Media Strategy
This thesis seems to be limited to a narrow corner of computer science akin to Turing's work: what is computable, etc.

Lucky for us that's only a narrow corner I guess?
There are some things society thinks people should not be allowed to be legally tempted with. Some people think one of those things is social media for people under a certain age.
The year of the Lemmy off-shore instances!
I'll add my own anecdata here. My older kids are in their late 20s and one has bought a home and the other is buying a new build home this year.

My youngest is 18, the greatest consumer of social media of my 4 children, and she's convinced she won't be able to buy a home like her under-30 siblings are doing right now.

Sounds very much like a YMMV situation, but it feels like social media has influenced my youngest to believe otherwise.
There's quite a few layers to this onion, I'll try to go from simplest to what is described in the article:

Coordinate definition: Current travels along x, magnetic field applied along z, and voltage is measured across y:

Hall Effect: A transverse voltage (y) that appears along a conductor carrying current (along x) in the presence of a transverse (z) magnetic field. Basically, the magnetic field pushes the traveling charge to one side or the other (+/- y) as it moves, causing a charge separation along y, and hence generating an external "Hall" voltage. (BTW, this is a handy way to detect a magnetic field of a small permanent magnet, hence all the "Hall effect sensors" you can buy to measure if e.g. your door is closed, without need for a physical electrical contact...)

Quantum Hall Effect: The observed voltage has quantized "Steps" because electrons must form orbits that follow the rules of quantum mechanics (so the quantum phase of the carriers must be an integer along the orbit) It's usually only observed at very low temperatures (so the carriers aren't getting their phases bashed around) and in "2D" materials (i.e., carriers restricted to the say X-Y plane, as in a MOSFET just under the oxide gate.) That way all the orbits have to lie in the same plane.

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Wait, the orbits can sometimes be some other integer fraction (like 4/7, 2/3 etc.)? How can that be? Well, basically the carriers interact with the outside edges of the material (the orbits "bounce against" the edges, making it "topological" i.e. dependent on the physical shape of the sample.)

Anomalous (Quantum or not, Fractional or not) Hall Effect: Rather than supplying the external magnetic field, the sample itself (via some spin-orbit mechanism, i.e. the little orbits of the electrons around the atoms) effectively supply the magnetic field.

It isn't obvious that this material should exhibit fractional, anomalous quantum Hall effect behavior, so theorists are super excited to work on something new. And who knows? Lots of times things that seem boring and unimportant turn out to be useful...
> There have always been good times and hard times and there are always people who succeed or fail regardless.

That is a weird statement. What does it mean when times are good or bad then?

If times are bad, and it feels like they are, then less people are going to succeed. I'm not sure pretending that problems don't exist improves your odds of being in the succeed category.
MarineTraffic playback showing cargo ship colliding with Key Bridge
> at this point in events it is certain that the algorithm builders have very fine control over human mental patterns

IMO this dramatically oversells the power of recommender systems, and in a way which further serves their owners' interests rather than challenging them. In fact, I think what's clear is that they are at best able to achieve a very gross level of control over human mental patterns, one which is not meaningfully different than previous forms of media that have popped up throughout history. "Engagement", keeping someone scrolling long enough that they accumulate a nontrivial probability of clicking on an ad, is the lowest common denominator of marketing. Television, radio, and print media have long understood how to keep people serially "engaged" (consider the 'if it bleeds it leads' mentality of local news, or the emergence of 'angertainment' on CNN or FOX in the 90s and onwards).

But stimulating engagement is very different from actually controlling someone or altering their behavior in a way beyond "hey look at this interesting thing!". Consider that the click-through rate for Meta ads is on the order of ~1%, and this is literally their most valuable metric. They achieve this not by actually persuading people that an ad they don't care about is actually interesting (which to me would be the real acid test of whether they have 'fine control'), but rather by (a) effectively segmenting the audience in a way TV can't and (b) keeping the audience engaged long enough that maybe they click an ad. While they're no doubt good at both of these things, I think it's telling that the best these platforms have been able to do is the same strategy that every other form of mass media has also stumbled on: throw enough sensational crap your way that you stick around long enough to maybe click an ad.

To your point more directly: I agree that being able to agitate large groups of people in the same way is a dangerous ability, but I think it's also one that's very old and very common. It is not the unique provenance of 'algorithms', it's just the nature of mass media acting as a demagogue (look at role of newspapers in the lead-up to the Spanish-American war, for an example that predates our modern era). The way we challenge this is IMO not by treating the problem as something entirely new and overwhelmingly powerful ("big tech algorithms are mind control rays"), it's by looking at the historical record and recycling the strategies which have worked before (libel and slander laws, journalistic ethics, and trust-busting). Certainly there are elements of the problem which are new and unique , but from where I'm sitting the differences seem smaller than the similarities.
I recently built a simple tool for comparing timezones and I'm currently trying my hand at SEO to try to get more traffic.

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IT was a glitch in posting...

I was responding to multipile threads and somehow my comments merged...
He wouldn't be interested. He has a car company so he's only interested in sabotaging public transport.
You don’t need assembly to leverage AVX2 or AVX512 because on mainstream platforms, all modern compilers support SIMD intrinsics.

Based on the performance numbers, whoever was writing that test neglected to implement manual vectorization for the C version. Which is the only reason why assembly is 23x faster for that test. If they rework their C version with the focus on performance i.e. using SIMD intrinsics, pretty sure the performance difference between C and assembly versions gonna be very unimpressive, like couple percent.
Anything that contributes to funnel friction for those wreckers is a social net positive in my book.
<how many ideas this inspired!

I just want to qualify - you did not inspire these ideas.

These are desires sought which have been there for eons...

You are not inspiring them

You have atool that ENABLES them.

Seek that which already is a flustered pop of ideas waiting for a release valve for such thought.

You are not inspiring - you are enabling that which is already there, think of it as which valve to open - the pressure is mounting upon your dyke.
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That doesn't sound true to me... Idk specific policies, but my experience was that I was never logged in to twitter on my desktop and I was never login-walled out until recently under elon.

edit: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-re...

> People without a Twitter account or who weren’t logged in used to be able to scroll the platform’s homepage and view public accounts and tweets. But as of this week, when such a user opens the platform they are met with a screen prompting them to sign up or sign in to Twitter.
This sounds like a problem that wouldn’t have existed in the first place if following a binary protocol with a standard format and using a proper serialization library.

The issue comes from CSV files looking easy to generate by hand, when it in fact is not.
I have been dreaming of it for a while, but the capital requirements are so insane that it could really only be backed by a bank. A bank who probably likes the status quo right now. Paradoxically the more popular your service, the harder it becomes to get it off the ground, as you need to put up potentially tens to hundreds of billions a month to cover the credit issued.

Couple this with the fact that interest rates are so high right now, that you would also likely get impaled on the interest of any loans you took.

Maybe ask for favorable terms from merchants, but then you are reliant on the wolves to bring a better life to the sheep.

So frustrating.
Awesome! Makes me think of this song: https://youtu.be/4s0KidJf5FQ?si=H56SCAivnsU6jy6W