skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sperm and egg cells, known as gametes, fuse during fertilization to create a zygote. "

Since all humans were just 2 cells at one point. It seems to follow that the entirely of the code for what a human is, is contained in just those 2 cells.
Not just code for a finger. But even code for our deeply ingrained fear of snakes. Was just at one point contained in those 2 cells. Kind of blows your mind.

If they are separate living organisms, then there seems something recursive about humans if they can be just 2 cells at one point.
Author here. Cool to see this pop up again!

Happy to answer any questions about this post.
Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y'all
That's not correct; you cannot use a double-slit test to check for entanglement. Running a photon through a double-slit setup always just produces a single dot, not a any sort of pattern. To get a pattern, you need to run a bunch of photons through it and see if a fringe pattern appears [1].

(BTW, you never get a two-line pattern in a decent setup. This is an incredibly common mistake, but it's simply wrong. The interference (which produces fringes) only happens where the separate patterns from the two slits overlap, so if you want a lot of interference, you need them to overlap a lot. So in the no-interference case, you won't get two separate lines with a gap between, you'll get a single merged wash (with probably some fine structure due to diffraction within each of the slits, but that'll also be there when there is interference, on top of the two-slit interference fringes).)

You might think "ok, I'll do this with a bunch of photons, measure/not measure all of their twins, and see if the bunch of them show fringes." This is more-or-less what's done in the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, but it doesn't work out in a way that allows communication. What happens is that you always get the no-interference pattern. In order to see interference fringes, you need to split the individual photons' dots up based on the result of the measurement you made on their twins. Based on those measurements (if you made them), you can split the photons up into two groups, which'll have fringes with equal-and-opposite patterns (i.e. each will have bands where the other has gaps [2]).

If you didn't measure the twin photons (or made some other measurement on them instead), you can't split them up, so you won't see the fringes. But that's not because the measurements were different, it's just that you can't split them up afterward to see the fringes. And even if you did measure the twins, you can't split them up until you get a list of which twin got which result -- which can't be sent faster-than-light.

Net result: no, you can't send information via entanglement, you can only get correlation.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electron-Fringe-Pattern-...

[2] https://algassert.com/quantum/2016/01/07/Delayed-Choice-Quan...
I believe most successes of languages happen because of corporate backing and tooling/library ecosystem rather than language. It's not like most people are using Java because they are in love with the language features.

Personally I also think that if you removed memory safety overnight from Rust, people will still use it. Rust is appealing not because it's memory safe. For some uses it is, but most people flock to Rust because it offers an alternative to C++ without fifty years of accumulated cruft. Rust is a modern language, with a well working package manager/build tool and a wide ecosystem of libraries for every usecase. Memory safety and other features are just a cherry on the top. If Rust used garbage collection I am sure it would also be very popular just because of those other things.

Other languages like D or Nim tried to fit into that space also, but they don't have the budget to really make it. Most of work on those languages is done by unpaid volunteers, so there's little direction and there's a lot of one man projects.
That at 500Hz is called "optical mouse on absolute positioning patterned surface".

On that note: I'm looking for a mouse style camera sensor unit that can export full frame rate raw to a system where I can actually decode such an absolute positioning code.

Anyone got something in the sub-100$ range?
That would be a more principled stand, ye. But the conglomerates capture so much culture, such that it would be kinda peaty culture wise to skip mainstream content.
Ok, I’m actually curious why folks think the 2020 election was stolen. I don’t know of any credible reporting on it.

The polling average numbers are from Project 538. The dropdown lets you navigate to each state.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

The election results are from Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...
> which are consistent with the current scientific mainstream

This seems to require a high amount of curation of training inputs, but I haven't done real digging into it, just going off the more casual "all of stackoverflow" or "all of reddit" type comments frequently thrown around. But if there is such a curation I'd agree, I just don't think there is that curation.
And if they require a drivers license but their system is based on an electronic reader and that reader is broken, then you are out of luck. No sudafed for you.
It provides benefits to eligible women and children under five

https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/applicant-participant/eligibili...
Sure, this is the real world of humans after all. Or more precisely, it is the fake real world of Hollywood humans. That said, having actual money on the line does have a way of clarifying people's thinking...sometimes.
Netscape was always crashy on classic MacOS. Most other app software, and even games, were relatively stable.
Average life expectancy for someone with Alzheimer's is 5.8 years [0], so Shannon's couldn't really have been quickly progressing unless he was diagnosed extremely early.

I remember when my mom got it, I did a bunch of research and figured out that she probably only had about 3 more years of okayish memory and a decent quality of life, and then maybe 5 more years after that until death. That stuff depends on age and gender, and my mom was young so I think those numbers are even shorter for someone who is old and male like Shannon. There is of course plenty of variability and some people live decades with it.

So yeah, doesn't sound like "very quick" progression. But if your baseline is a healthy adult aging normally, it would still seem very quick compared to that, I guess.

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health/alzheimers/life-expectancy
Often times auto-rebooting and showing a guru meditation.

AmigaOS 1.0 was a disaster, 1.1 much better, 1.2 and 1.3 seldom if ever crashed.

2.0+ changed a lot... would be AmigaOS's own "system 7".
A big factor for early employees (not N. 1 or 2, but the first XXXX) is purely being lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stroke-of-...

This was 2007. Now worth 15 times more.

The Chef as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers

paid 26M USD in 2009. Now worth 15 times more.

So half a billion USD for this.

(same for Nvidia or OpenAI employees just riding the wave)
Completely irrelevant. It couldn't because "live" and "lives" are different words.
I remember there being "recoverable" errors in later versions of the OS. But if you got a "Guru Meditation" you were almost always done. With newer machines (68020+ w/MMU) you could protect the first page of memory which helped ("Enforcer" was the name of the program, I think.)
Exxon & Chevron.

https://www.guyanastandard.com/2023/10/23/guyana-to-see-new-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hess-guyanas-secret-...
Here's a guy who narrowly avoided a raid for taking Claritin-D, so I guess your point stands: https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-h...

> Police also can look for people who might have purchased pseudoephedrine around the same time as the suspect, as a way to identify friends and conspirators.

ffs. is this what we want?
It’s named after the staff he carries around like Gandalf. If he doesn’t have one he’s not a Staff Engineer.
Binwalk wouldn't find it. The constants were xored with a value so they wouldn't show up in the binary
Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output
If you wonder, that definition is pretty much universal in the lossy compression (e.g. rate-distortion optimization or RDO).
My understanding is that disc sales represent a tiny fraction of total sales. If so, this might be one of those situations where what people say they want and their behavior are divergent.
A senior engineer is very good at writing code, hitting targets and executing under the direction of their manager.

A staff engineer is the one who tells the manager what the targets should be.

In all tech environments I've worked at the "status" of a staff engineer is higher than that of a bottom-level manager.
Yes. It had an ugly UI and preemptive multitasking, but it didn't have memory protection and -- unlike MultiFinder -- didn't clean up after apps for certain resources, so you'd eventually need to reboot to get those resources back even if your system remained stable.
I don't think that electron identity is relevant to whether there's e.g. arc discharge between + and - charges of sufficient strength?

Connecting just 1.5V AA battery contacts with steel wool causes fire. But doesn't just connecting the positive terminal of a battery to the ground result in current, regardless of the negative terminal of the battery?

(FWIU that's basically why we're advised to wear a grounding strap when operating on electronics with or without discharged capacitors)
Pointless word games.
No. It is not possible. I am a Highlander
Each time I see "LoRA" in title I want to click it. Until I understand, that it is about DNN and not LoRa long distance radio modulation.
No, but why the hell should someone else’s misbehavior cost me time and inconvenience?

The cost of these regulations is millions, perhaps billions of dollars in extra effort, bookkeeping and security by tens of thousands of businesses, not to mention lost productivity and frustration on the part of everyone else evolved, and moats of the costs and inconvenience is borne by people outside the government, who are not committing a crime.

It’s bat shit crazy that bureaucrats are allowed to steal this much productivity from the economy.
My Manifesto for Despairing Democrats
I didn't say the charges weren't true, or that they were made up.

Just that whatever he did as a businessman, it didn't threaten or negatively affect the entire US economy.
ChainForge
Btw I got septum surgery and turbinate reduction and it was life-changing. Previously used antihistamines and nasal steroids every day. Even when my nose produces mucus, its doesn’t clog now. Procedure cost me $100 through Kaiser (cost them probably $75k if you believe all the various documents they sent me).
> Example, I would run ResEdit (a development tool) and open a file that was also open in the IDE (THINK C or THINK Pascal). Crash!

I'm not sure that's real. I don't recall that being a problem, and that's certainly something I did a lot back in the day.
I’m okay with this because in addition to it, we have a lot of immigration this way that’s perfect fuel for the fire.
QNX does provide a DBus implementation (based on the Linux one, so not a full reimplementation or anything) as part of the larger userland package, but it's in no way a core component of QNX itself and as far as I remember not used by any of the other services it ships with, so its purely there in case someone wants to use it for their application, e.g. because they also have a Linux version and don't want to use QNX-specific APIs if they can avoid it.

So yes, that was just a choice of whoever made the Jeep infotainment system.
I mean yeah, but they got away with it, it only made them more popular, and then they walked away with complete control of the government at all levels when the left gifted them an own goal on principle.

Soul searching is cool and all but I'd rather have... I don't know... a country not entirely run by fascists and sociopaths, steeped in intractable systemic racism and misogyny, fueled by a global campaign of imperialist violence and justifiably hated and mocked by the rest of the world.

But I guess not showing up to the polls because the less evil option wasn't sufficiently anti-genocide, even though it means letting an even more pro-genocide guy win, is at least a moral victory. I guess I can savor that when they stuff me into the crystal.
>Social media was censored largely (though not entirely) by Democrats as exposed by Matt Taibbi. This isn't any conspiracy theory, it's documented fact.

You mean the "smoking gun" that turned out to be a wet blanket of nothing topped with a heaping serving of hyperbole and self-aggrandizing?
26 million Americans lack valid government-issued IDs, and of this 26m, minority groups comprise the vast majority.

https://bluenotary.us/how-many-american-citizens-don-t-have-...
> refer to a file

What do you mean?

> require %%% inlining

They don't, and even if they did, you could encode it yourself
For some reason the current leader of Guyana (who has a muslim name) hangs out a lot with India's Modi (who is an open islamophobe). A strange set of bedfellows.

Theory is that 1) Guyana needs to wage war with Venezuela over oil-rich disputed territory [1], and 2) Guyana wants to build a lot of infrastructure. Might be opportunities there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_terri...
>Algol-68 (or derivatives of) did rise to some prominence in one place – the USSR. The most prominent implementation of the language came from Leningrad State University. It was apparently used to design Russian telephone exchanges.

6-pass compiler for Algol-68 :) The telephone exchange was built on the base of the microcomputer (while developed in USSR/Russia, and ultimately that microcomputer was mostly used by the Russian military, the major customer for the exchange who funded the work at some point was Alcatel) which was like Tandem, only 3 instead of 2 systems in parallel because of low quality of electronics, the CPU was USSR-developed "Samson" [1], a kind of Elbrus offshoot. The exchange software was developed in SDL (Z.100, kind of like Erlang-by-European-commitee-in-1980ies) and compiled into Algol-68 which was compiled into that CPU codes.

[1] (in Russian) https://www.computer-museum.ru/articles/sistemi_kompleksi/90...
Is this an AI response? It's essentially gibberish after the first two sentences.
An interesting article, but I have to point out a more (in my opinion) entertaining take. As the pandemic dragged on and began to seem interminable, Netflix released a somewhat under-the-radar series called "History of Swear Words". Each episode has Nicolas Cage hosting a documentary of a swear word in exactly the over-the-top fashion you'd expect. The word covered by the article is episode 1.

This series gave me some much-needed laughs at the time (YMMV).
These experiments are always unique, and each is interesting in its own way.

Can you comment on the use of asynchronous code rather than generators? For example, here's a throw-away example of a clock using generators and a syntax that's otherwise similar to yours:

from more_itertools import take

def drv_clock():
while True:
yield "1b1"
yield "1b0"

for x in take(10, drv_clock()):
print(x)

I have written signal flow graphs (including feedback) using a generator-style approach, intended to prototype datapaths that are then manually translated into RTL. It's different, but not completely different.
Ye it could just be a rationalization, I have to admit.
Most of the Japanese games/media foreshadow/hint you about actual or potential facts written in papers but not understandable to teenagers until theẏ grow up.
Terse was fine when you had 10 tools with 5 options each. Now we have so many more tools and each has grown a large number of flags. Nobody can remember them all so the docs need to say more. Plus the more niche flags need more explanations.
I took the post you're replying to as to have interpreted the "doesn't want to be a manager or director" idea as that there are times others or a team may be foist upon them without such a people management role being the majority of the person's time during, say, a year.

I'd also add "team lead" to the list of possible titles that indicate a primary focus on people management vs. individual contribution.
Being Guyanese in tech is an interesting experience. FWIW I have yet to meet another Guyanese person at work. In every workplace I go to the experience is similar - initially the south asian folks approach me, but then once they realize we're not that culturally similar I end up in a sort of limbo. Not to say that folks aren't welcoming, but every large company ends up having sort of cultural cliques, and I never seem to fit into any of them.

Curious if there are any other Guyanese folks out there who're willing to share their experience.
1989, poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, https://www.stabroeknews.com/2016/12/02/features/30-years-of...
Standardization can breed innovation.

Ubiquitous small high density power rechargeable batteries flooding the market could make for quite a few fun toys.
Equatorial launch site for French space program.
I recommend giving it a second chance. You will at least realize that the "thing string" problem isn't a problem, it's just something you find aesthetically displeasing.

One thing I've learned over the years is that if you go with the grain — not against it — of a language (or any system, really), the design tends to become apparent quicker. "When in Rome," and so forth. Cultural displeasure tends to disappear if you give the native way an earnest chance rather than resisting it. For example, in the beginning, marking identifiers as public by giving them a capital letter struck me as the ugliest thing ever. I don't mind it now. It's never going to be something I love looking at, but it does have the benefit of making declarations' visibility extremely obvious.

I don't think Go's popularity is due to Google at all. Google the company has never really promoted Go (unlike Microsoft with C# and Sun with Java, for example). Go is still treated as a bastard stepchild in many Google projects such as Protobuf/gRPC, Beam, and Google Cloud. The Go team has never seemed very enthusiastic about PR, either. There was that one big redesign of the Go site, but relatively little after that.

I think Go grew by word of mouth more than anything. Projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Traefik, etc. helped a lot. Don't forget that it took years for Go to become popular. It wasn't taken very seriously by many in the beginning. Go was not popular within Google until relatively recently. For many years the only serious thing written in Go internally at Google, as I understand it, was the dl.google.com backend.
> The left reads the earlier equivocations (in the quote, and the preceding events) and the talking point and discounts the condemnation as insincere.

The left did not hear or read the condemnation at all, as we have established. Rather, they continue to be presented with curated sounds bites crafted to bolster a very particular narrative.

It really will serve you to listen carefully to what your fellow Americans, including your President, are actually saying. You don't have to agree, but you will have a better idea of what's happening. It will not serve you to consume third-hand think-pieces discussing what they really meant by that "dogwhistle".
Pretty sure I've even commented here before about this, but I was refused at an LA Walgreens pharmacy when I presented both a NY ID and a US passport. Would only accept CA ID.
I saw your post about selling TinyPilot, congratulations! FWIW I agree with all your points in your 2018 article, and I wish I had left Google sooner too.

I was wondering if you could share if you are working on a new project? I saw your posts about fuzzing a PDF parser but there's no context if this is for a new project, or I missed it :-).

Cheers!

--

1: https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
It's not based on communication, though. It's based on how long it's been since the phone was last unlocked - which is an even stronger safeguard, since it can't be spoofed.
Happy to have met you in Berlin at the merge :)
I still remember back then we joked that Macintosh stood for: Most Applications Crash If Not The Operating System Hangs. :)
In the EU there is already a similar system because, in the parliament, the number of MEPs is not really proportional to the population (Germany has 84,48 million inhabitants and 96 MEPs, so 1 every 880,000 people, while Malta has 553,000 people and 6 MEPs so 1 MEP every 92,000 people).

The difference is MEPs are appointed proportionally within each state (so if a party gets 40% in a state, it will get ca. 40% of the state's MEPs)
Saw another recommendation for that book in this discussion and will be reading it. Thanks.
Should you care what another engineer’s title is?

These kinds of discussions bother me because it always implies some kind of worthiness of the title. Maybe it’s just my work experience but I’ve found very little correlation with e.g. the success of an engineer’s career trajectory and the success of the projects they’re responsible for.

Going a little more off topic now but these discussions always leave me feeling a bit like how Richard Feynman describes his instinct to be repulsed by “honors” and everything like them:

https://youtu.be/f61KMw5zVhg
> There have been many such endosymbiotic events in the history of life - there are subfields of evolutionary biology that study these processes.

Exactly, if mitochondria is alive then so is chloroplasts and who knows what else. The line needs to be drawn somewhere, also life and death isn't as clear-cut as many used to believe
Staff Engineer is a response to everybody having Senior Engineer titles and complaining they have no path for career growth.
Can you say more on why DHTs are not a solution? Are you aware of https://github.com/pubky/pkarr, for example? It seems to be very good!
I knew this stuff didn't work the first time I bought it by accident because I thought it was normal Sudafed. Amazing its lasted this long
A way of retaining someone who wants to be technical but not a manager.
This seems to work as well:

javascript:open('https://old.reddit.com/r/xyz/submit?url=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href))

Notes:

1. u don't have to use `window.`, window is the default object (maybe less readable, but folks don't use window.fetch either)

2. using an IIFE is sometimes useful and necessary, but this is a simple bookmarklet

3. as i wrote in the other comment, u don't need to encode it, and if u did, you could use encodeURIComponent to do it for you. ie, show the plain code here and let someone encode it if necessary (but i've never encoded mine)

I've posted several bookmarklets here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Indian here. I've never fit in any of the traditional Indian cliques. Such a blessing! At the end of the day, you're going to lose your individuality over the group or sub-group you're identifying with. And you're going to be pulled into their politics and drama. Read Naval's thoughts on the importance of solitude and dis-identification with any group, in order to be able to become the individual you are meant to be. And thank your stars that none of the traditional Indian cliques wants you.
Do we ever get over things?
Computer Graphics is a solved field. Do you agree?
Isn't every new Mac mini Apple's best Mac mini? I don't know of any that were regressions.
It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end
Been using it for a few years, but the new cloud nags on the web panel is too much - I already have Grafana set up, so this weekend's project is migrating to Prometheus