skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great site! I had not heard of the World History Encyclopedia before.

I love reconstructions like these. Museums all too often give the false impression of past times as colorless, impoverished ruins rather than what they used to look like in their heyday. The Great Pyramid of Giza used to be covered in smooth, white-painted limestone with a capstone of gold [1], and the Roman marble statues that are just white today used to be painted in lots of colors [2].

There are of course objects (such as jewelry and glass) that survive more or less intact. But most often the surviving objects are just pale shadows of the originals. I would love a museum that instead offered life-sized reconstructions that you could walk around in, to bring the past to life better. The Ishtar Gate in Berlin is an example of this that really works. (I bet most visitors think it's the real thing, though. Most of it is a modern reconstruction.)

[1] https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/what-the-great-pyramid-o...

[2] https://bigthink.com/high-culture/greek-statues-painted/
Living room tv sets need to be child-save, unlike lab equipment.
The munition Shahid/Shahed in this case translates to Witness, شاهد

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada#Terminology_and_signif... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid_(name)

From the second wiki page "It is not to be confused with a different word, a religious term, written and pronounced differently, Shaheed (Arabic: شهيد šahīd, plural: شُهَدَاء šuhadāʾ; female: šaheeda), meaning "martyr"."
I think the thing that surprises me here is the composite panel.

I suppose that from the PoV of the Iranians this is a high-tech weapon the performance of which is optimised, whereas I perceived it as a kind of saturation weapon, one which I expected to be made of plywood.
GPUs vs. Brains. Hardware and Architecture
Often people are interested in exact quantitative statistics like IQR, median, top/bottom deciles which are commonly represented in box plots. The alternatives are visually simpler but they contain less quantitative information.
APL-family languages are somewhat concatenative but not stack-based. They use grouping rules to form chains of composed functions.
I haven't read the article. This isn't surprising in the least. Pizza is readily available everywhere in Italy, and the quality is not just a little higher, it's extremely better than Dominos. So why would anyone pay more money to get an inferior Pizza?

The mere thought that they could set foot in that market is already funny.
I commented on Demosthenes.

Wikipedia as a source for a highly heated political matter like this? Talk about stupid things. And keep your moronic assumptions about how I am a nationalist to yourself.

They spoke Greek, they worshipped the same Gods, they did participate in the Olympics. Everything about them was Greek. There are coins with Alexander's name where the name is written exactly as I write it today, in Greek, down to the letter and to the stroke.

And maybe do some research on what Alexander himself considered his region and himself as. I am sure you would want to respect that.

I understand the need of a state to create some kind of coherent narrative to keep itself together, but enough with this charade.

"Gosh"...
To work on the same code base as the rest of my team? Like everyone else. Certainly not to nitpick about how history is written, in what order or what is omitted.
The rider is reasonable for someone in his position ... which is not one which promotes "open source'. As he writes in the primary source for the HN link you gave:

> I usually decline to participate in "open source" or "Linux" events. ..

> "Open source" is the slogan of a position that was formulated as a reaction against the free software movement. Those who support its views have a right to promote them, but I disagree with them and I want to promote the ideals of free software.

That's rms affirming what I said.
I feel my memory/imagination is abstract, spatial, relational and factional. With that prompt I "see"/experience looking at the dark with a torch. I go over all the details one by one, but I don't see them it's just abstract concepts, like colour, shape and location.
I don't "see" a whole picture when zooming out. It's just the aggregate concept.
This might also be related to my dyslexia, why I'm good at abstract stuff like maths/programming and why I'm very good at direction and path finding. I have a good memory (but more of an indexing problem as I grow older ;)
I consider myself quite creative (I love DIY stuff and creating things), but especially at improving, tweaking. Less so at starting from scratch. I have an eye for details. That's why I'm great at pairing on tasks.
I have never experienced these things as a disability, but more so as talents.
> For a box plot you need to calculate mean, variance

Quantiles and medians. (Plus min and max.) Non-parametric.
Mentioning 1.9 migration and ruby being slow? Python 2 to 3 was waaaaay worse and more negatively impactful, and equally slow (slower in most cases).

Ruby never had US market penetrative as perl or python, which were basically invented in the US, and congregated people from the academic realm. These things aren't decided based on meritocracy (no things ever are).
It cracks me up —- every time this topic comes up, a few people chime in to say that people who claim they can visualize things are just lying.

No dudes, we can see the Mona Lisa just by thinking about it. Quite literally. I can see Luke and Obi Wan sitting in the hut discussing the Force, and that blue hologram of Carrie Fisher, in detail. And of course there’s audio, now the Cerveza Cristal theme is rattling around my head.

The “screen” even has a location, it’s behind my eyes, maybe an inch above and ahead of my ears. Someone else in this thread said something about “closing your eyes, if you just see light…” no, that’s wrong, the picture is in a different place entirely.

(I’m probably a two or one on that “red star” test.)
The London congestion charge is a much larger area than the City

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/congestio...
They do in journals that charge such an exorbitant rate it would look bad if they did not try to justify it.
with the power of hindsight, that aged like milk.

i wonder how much of our current views be seen this way another 50 years from now.

however i think some things will most likely be for certain, like how there are key parties who economically depend on war or planning for it. there have been countless seeds of conflicts sown around the time when this article and the essay it refers to were written. they are still being played out and i won't be surprised if they still influence some things decades from now.

another think i find repeating from the past into the future is the nature of aliances switching over time. predicting one major conflict between two currently strong allies in my bingo card.

our brains remain wired like the tribes that fought for survival. one might continue to find "us vs them" problems when there exists none.
I'm sure you didn't mean to imply it but the way your post is worded could be misunderstood as if you were saying that some powerful entity is trying to mute rms through defamation.

However, the website you cite points out that the beginning of the whole sex offender thing was a single MIT alumna who wrote a blog post. It seems unlikely that this was part of a greater conspiracy (by big business) to cancel Stallman.
Call me lazy but I couldn’t get through the wall of text to learn what on earth vectored database is. Way too much effort spent talking about binary and how ascii works and whatnot - such basics that it feels that the article is for someone with zero knowledge about computers.
I fully agree, especially since it hasn't been that long since I got it. I notice my brain is thinking a bit differently already, but my memory is extremely wired to thinking visually, so I'm for sure impaired compared to someone born with aphantasia. A friend of mine who has aphantasia is much better than me on remembering facts and thinking logically for instance.

Reading reddit etc, there are so many people getting very distraught and worse when they discover they have aphantasia (and reddit, for many people, is a magnifier for such thoughts unfortunately). Having been very good at that ability and then lost it I can provide some perspective on that. I would be lying if I didn't admit it's a very nice ability to have, but I also wouldn't really bother spending much energy on considering how life would be if one had it, but rather as you and the article points out, focus on the strengths one builds without it.
Violin plots essentially are KDE plots, but you can put multiple of them on the same axes to compare groups.
> It's not technically complex, just organizationally complex to find agreement

Assuming you’re talking about the EMR and its records, I think that quite a lot is technically complex as well as being organisationally complex. Without a deep domain knowledge it can be hard to tell if something is needlessly convoluted or actually complicated and healthcare conflates the two all the time.
> Driving isn't a medium of communication

There is a lot of implicit (e.g. traffic signals) and explicit (e.g. indicators and horns) inter-driver communication that is at the heart of most crashes.
I used to live in the City of London at the top end of Chancery Lane. I could therefore be in a different city (City of Westminster) by crossing the street to the west and leave the city entirely by crossing to the north (London Borough of Camden).
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When I first signed up (years ago, even before "Google Workspace Enterprise Standard", I got further grandfathered in from a GSuite plan) they were promising unlimited storage. I don't have any ready proof for this (except screenshots of gdrive etc saying I have unlimited data), but if I had a 5TB limit this whole time, I clearly wouldn't be able to upload 400TB to gdrive through mostly conventional means.

They changed from unlimited to 5TB/seat years ago (but they rolled out the enforcement very gradually: I heard that several friends got hit by this last year) and I was given notification to cut down my use 2 months ago (with threats of making it read-only), but one does not simply go from 400TB to 5TB. I wanted to try my chances on it staying read-only and google stopping nagging me about it.

Chances were not in my favor, and the read-only deadline was yesterday, and it changed instead to "we'll delete all your data in a month".

I'm not complaining (if anything I'm happy that I got a mad deal on storage for years), but it is indeed a matter of "unlimited" does not mean "unlimited forever".
I think the book "The Now Habit" discusses this well. (Could be another book though...)

I once completed a 3000 mile cycling tour across the US (and didn't take ADHD meds while on the trip) and was I was basically disappointed to reach the west coast.
Yeah not actually an issue for me. I run into skill limitations with python long before 100 core issues.
> [After doing some inlining] we have the ability to loopify the function, but we keep from doing so unless the user specifies the [@@loop] attribute on the function definition.

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't want to convert the recursion to a loop? Surely it's always an improvement.
Fair enough, it is irritating, especially as although I am not the expert the author is, I am advance qualified in this field and passionate about the "best tool for the job" depending on what you want to convey Vs data clarity for a general audience (which from what I now believe, is the author's point of view)
For big screen projected analog sources (aka, a video signal rather than film) there was this amazing piece of tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor

A mirror coated in a thin layer of oil that is deformed by electrostatic charges.
Maybe, but I bet GPT-4 can spell million.
Function instances should stay alive for a certain amount of time. But you will pay the cold start price one way or another, so naively using Spring Boot is probably not a good idea. Spring Boot Native might help here, but I haven't tried it yet.
In the old days, the device settings would allow the user to tune the trade-off to their own preferences. But current user design orthodoxy is that "settings are bad" to an extreme (I actually agree with the weaker formulation "too many settings are bad"... for some value of "many")
I have the option to use the google workspace data export option to export the data to a google-owned gcloud storage bucket for 30 days. I'm sure given sufficient bandwidth on your end you could pull 400TB in a month from gcloud.

This does mean all the data is zipped tho, so you cannot be selective on what gets saved and what not, and I will have to use conventional gdrive methods (rclone etc) to download selectively instead.
Ah that’s helpful. Numbers give a sense of scale. Thanks
I feel the author is comparing an abstract representation of the brain to a mechanical representation of a computer. This is not a fair or useful comparison.

If a computer does not understand words, neither does your brain. While electromagnetic charge in the brain does not at all correspond with electromagnetic charge in a GPU, they do share an abstraction level, unlike words vs bits.
I used to have a CRT-based HDTV (16:9 ratio).

The screen size was 27 inches, and it was a big, heavy honker.

I think it was a Samsung. Many moons ago.

It was non-optimal. There was visible fringing on the edges.

I don’t miss CRTs.
> In Japan, it sold for 2.6 million yen, but in the United States, it retailed for $40,000, a significant markup. To be fair, shipping them across the Atlantic and then throughout the United States must have been expensive.

Yes, I imagine the cost of shipping something from Japan to the States across the Atlantic would be nothing to sniff at.
Note that the grep command used to compile that list is shown at the very top of the page.
Looks like it is across-the-board or something.

I thought Google was a real billionaire not a fake billionaire like some of them are.
Well usually when you are analyzing some data, you toss it into the most basic chart like a histogram.

And a histogram for the author's example is perfectly acceptable to show that single data series.

But imagine if you have 10 different normal data series and you want to compare their medians and distributions between each other... well are you going to put 10 histograms side by side and expect the reader to compare them? No -- that's where the box and whisker plot shines.
Remembering the LAN (2020)
That really depends on what the effects of the throttling are. Stronger foveation or other rendering quality drops? Probably OK. Frame rate dropping below 75? Not in VR, never...
This is just wrong: they support both SEPA and international bank transfers through IBAN.
That service of VW was started 2019 in Hamburg (but I know some years earlier it started in another town).

Also VW invested long time in autonomous driving.

I wouldnt be sure if Google has such an advantage.
Not the GP, but I've worked fast food and 2 starred kitchens. I don't at all agree with his assessment, or rather I think the failure mode goes similarly both ways.

How? I screwed up my schooling and fell into cooking. Mum had taught me to cook as a child and I'd had after school/weekend jobs since I was 14? So I did it for a while until 50 hour weeks and no money got old. I was lucky, university had an "access" course for the degree level maths and offered me a place. 4 years later I had a degree in maths from a tolerable university and got a job doing mathematical modelling...
If some day AGI happens and can exists on its own, wouldn’t that prove that intelligence is a base requirement for intelligence to happen in the first place ?
AGI can’t happen on its own, it needs our intelligence first to help it structure itself
Hehehe good find complete with redactions in some places!
> Even I use the GPT model to generate the code, I still need to review the code and test it.

This should be the first paragraph in the README.

It's not responsible to release something like this in the first place, let alone without a big red warning sign in front of it.
You can pipe with the `pipeline*` method of open3 which is part of the stdlib:

For example:

require "open3"
last_stdout, wait_threads = Open3.pipeline_r("cat /etc/passwd", ["grep", "root"])
last_stdout.read # => "root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash\n"
wait_threads.map(&:value).map(&:success?) # => [true, true]

https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/stdlibs/open3/Open3.html
>Stallman is the Socrates of our times who will be appreciated only centuries later perhaps by a distant generation.

Speculation: I believe that there were many in the league of Socrates who were never known.
Works better for me as well, plus it keeps windows in a nice little bundle that I can cut off from the network at will, it’s really nice with a dedicated GPU to play games as well with pass thru
> Pizza is readily available everywhere in Italy, and the quality is not just a little higher

Note that the modern Italian pizza, including in Napoli, is a post-War invention [1]. “Most Italians hadn’t heard of pizza until the 1950s;” after “Italian-American soldiers were sent to Sicily and travelled up the Italian peninsula, they wrote home in disbelief: there were no pizzerias” [2].

(19th-century pizza marinara had little t9 no cheese, for instance.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b...
I have never had an editor change a single word in my papers.
It would not prove that. It would be one observed example of a new intelligence which was created by an existing one.
Many previously colonized countries have become very successful, e.g., Singapore, Canada, Ireland, Bahrain, Cyprus, etc. Heck, even the USA was a colony, so previous colonialism is no excuse for not building a thriving country.

Good governance can be learned and implemented within a short while. We Africans just refuse to.
I had no idea Twitter was doing that. That sucks.

However - I find that less onerous than a paywall and HN is mostly fine about those.
Hello, I am "whoever that is".

I got a couple gigabit lines at my disposal and for this one I'll be using our local hackerspace's gigabit line, which is going through freifunk[1]. I'm also only planning on saving 20TB or so at most, which is definitely more reasonable with a gigabit line with a month to spare. (and to not bother everyone else, I'll limit the bandwidth use)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
Only if we talk about trained intelligence. Likely the requirements for evolved intelligence are different and involve being embodied, edonistic, and the pressure of a selection mechanism
From the article:

„So, no, I can’t think of any situations when a box plot would be the truly best choice, other than those in which the audience demands box plots because that’s what they’re used to seeing. If you can think of any such situations, though, please let me know on LinkedIn or Twitter.“

„Other reviewers suggested that the conclusion should be that box plots are a useful chart type, but only for statistically savvy audiences. Again, I’m going a step further, suggesting that even those audiences would be better served by other chart types in virtually all situations.“
The law disagrees.
I really hate these aphantasia questions. It feels too subjective.

I can visualize in a sense, but I would never talk of an image. In fact closing my eyes makes it harder for me to imagine anything.

I can recall my dream from last night for example, I can describe it quite well. If you now would ask me to in my mind modify for example the color of the floor, I couldn’t. Because in “dream reality” I very much remember it wasn’t.

I can daydream, I can imagine vividly. But the moment anyone tells me, “modify what you’re imagining like this”, it all falls apart.

Also what is interesting is the quality of detail between me describing the imaginary situation and reconstructing it in real life. A lot of aspects are lost under a haze when describing it, but when reconstructing it I can tell you if an aspect is right or wrong, not what it should be.

That’s of course my personal experience. Just I feel like Aphantasia is this buzzfeed like diagnosis illness, where you really have a lot of interpretation.
The brain translates words into a matrix of cortical column neurons activations. So there are similarities to our naive implementation of such "thinking".
Surprised at the couldn’t compete on price part. Would have guessed this is a pure quality / ahem snob issue
They are pretty big in New York. We take pizza fairly seriously. There’s a pizza shop on every block.

American-style pizza was invented in NYC. Pretty different from Neapolitan pizza, although many shops sell what they call “Neapolitan-style” pies, that are still pretty different from the original.
Even the fact that there is more than one Emacs might be news to some of the youngsters, unless they're so young that their first reaction is "what's an Emacs?"

As a matter of fact, when I started a new job a couple of years ago, I asked the sysadmins whether they could install Emacs on my machine, and they had literally never heard of it.
I always find new types of plots very interesting. Is there a nice resource showing all the common types of plots, when to use them, alternatives, code etc?
The author doesn't use the correct terminology and does not understand box plots themselves so they are in no position to explain them to anyone. They explain in terms of absolutes with no rational or scientific explanation and entirely miss the point of the methodology and tools. That is a not a good position to start or a good person to take advice from.

Not only that, the cases presented are likely better dealt with via inference tests. But the author's knowledge doesn't extend that far. And even going as far left, the posed question isn't even defined in the article. So how was a suitable methodology chosen? Well it wasn't - lets just throw this pretty picture up and whine about it.

The author is way out of their depth and should retract the article and take a formal, accredited statistics course.
There's lots of terrible pizza in Italy, but Domino's probably has the wrong business model. A regular restaurant will have excellent pizza, of course, but if you go to one of those little storefront places that are open between 2 and 5, when the regular restaurants are closed, there's a good chance the pizza will make Domino's look good. I don't think Domino's is well-positioned to compete with those, though.
A Happy Life from Playing Games
Knowing the pizzaiolos and other southern italians I work with over this summer, this was no surprise... There's a reason there are no pineapples, in any form, on this island. They are, understandably, crazy proud of their pizza and other food. When their fast food has been clean, local, and fresh ingredients, thrown together in a jiffy, for ages, anything else is a desecration :D
What are you talking about the London congestion charge is analogous to the NYC one, covering the core central business district.
At work if we have to code on windows, I always ask for a remote development environment. I use arch, btw.
Which is why I find the article so compelling because I'd always read box plots as being about variance. To me the plot implied a quite normal distribution.
What alternatives are you tring and how good/bad about those?
Not only is medical research extremely risky in that you fail to develop a drug, you also have to take into account the risk if something goes wrong and you injure people.

IMO, the multiplier would be at least 10x, though I'd love to hear from an industry expert.
Is that an American thing? Domino's I eat in Europe doesn't taste sweet at all.
It's so sad that all the work on Minix3 has stopped.
IMO that feature snatches defeat from the jaws of victory because if the command fails (exit code >0) it doesn't raise an exception. Same issue with the system(...) method by default.