skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Civil War put a damper on the trade volume for a period of time, it came back stronger afterwards.

So successful was the transition of slave labor into sharecropping and tenant farming during and after the war that cotton production actually expanded dramatically.

By 1870, American cotton farmers surpassed their previous harvest high, set in 1860. By 1877, they regained and surpassed their pre-war market share in Great Britain. By 1880 they exported more cotton than they had in 1860.

~ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/civil-war-co...

During the US Civil War cotton volumes went down and mills, mill workers in Lancashire and Cheshire experienced widespread poverty ...

However for a well placed elite few, cotton profits from trade climbed dramatically ..

Despite cotton shortages in England, merchants would sometimes re-export the materials that did arrive to other ports in Europe. Notably, they also re-exported materials from the South to the North, because the Union also struggled from being cut off from direct trade with the Confederacy. As a result, during the war, cotton grown in the Confederacy could be shipped out of a southern port to Britain to evade the Union blockade, sold in Liverpool, and then shipped back across the Atlantic to a northern port, evading the Confederate cruisers.

Liverpool's docks also benefitted as profitable wartime enterprises emerged, particularly the increased trade of commodities such as ships and armaments. The Union's merchant marine, nearly the world's largest in 1860, was devastated throughout the war in part by the Confederate warships supplied through Liverpool. In addition, as a result of the war, cotton speculation and brokerage, rather than trade in cotton itself, became immensely profitable for a number of merchants.

~ https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/liverpools-aberc...
The official Aztec C online museum
Thank you for sharing, Eric. It’s been a few years now for me since we lost our son before I ever had the chance to meet him and I’m not sure it’s any easier. Stories like yours and that of others help us all know we’re not alone in our grief though so I encourage you to keep sharing and telling your story.
Absolutely prefer these
Would event camera input data be useful here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_camera

“Event cameras do not capture images using a shutter as conventional (frame) cameras do. Instead, each pixel inside an event camera operates independently and asynchronously, reporting changes in brightness as they occur, and staying silent otherwise.”
>You're changing your arguments whenever I address the previous one. Have you noticed?

Nope, I already pointed out the study is speculative bullshit: The axiom is "potential algorithmic bias around July 13, 2024".

"Potential" bias (read: changes) around one of the most significant days in the entire election cycle is why X suddenly shifted further Right from July 13 onwards?

So much happened on July 13 that changes to the algorithm (if any) at most played a minor factor, let alone "potential" changes that the study doesn't even have the gall to affirmatively declare.

Sincerely: Stop wasting my (our?) time with this bullshit.

>I imagine you're writing this only because you are biased for Musk (and/or Trump).

You are correct that I like Trump and Musk, I voted for Trump and I continue to be amazed at the crazy stuff Musk pulls off. A look through my comment history would indicate that, too.

>Many people in Hacker News seek truth.

If by "truth" you mean primarily Left/Progressive "truth". I will break the guidelines by saying this, but the audience here really isn't that different from Reddit with regards to politics.

This is to be expected, of course: Hacker News is a forum for tech enthusiasts/professionals and small cap investors operated by venture capitalists, and most if not all of those demographics are heavily Left/Progressive.

One thing I will point out that I think is fairly unique to Hacker News is the sheer level of resentment towards Musk. You can't even have a conversation about the guy unless it's to shit on him. If most other communities suffer Trump Derangement Syndrome, Hacker News suffers Musk Derangement Syndrome.
That solves only the second part of their task. The part which they actually had no problem with. But I agree the exec + solution feels better then the xargs -0 solution.
I'm in proton mail on FF
I select all inbox in the select box upper right hand corner of the inbox ui.

all conversations on page selected - says
You selected 50 conversations. next to it link text - Select all 2638 in inbox.

clicking select all 2638 in inbox selects all conversations.

next to checkbox where I selected conversations is a row of icons, first icon is an open mail that has the title "Mark all as read R"

When I use Mark all as read on selected conversations they become read, however they are still selected which is makes this stuff somewhat unclear.
They're so much nicer.
Patents shouldn't exist at all, IMO.

"But they make innovation thrive by providing an incentive to blah blah blah".

Not anymore in this day and age. Money comes mostly from the government, anyway, and plenty of really smart researchers would just be happy to put out their stuff out for the public benefit (and already do, btw). Even if they didn't the current patent system ends up giving them like 1% of profits, lol.

The business case for "but I want to protect the market I created" can be sufficiently solved with trade secrets and trademarks. Patents sound nice in theory, but in practice they only hinder innovation, the opposite of what they're supposed to do.
According to the title, perhaps try IE6 on XP ;)
You want them to be even less distinctive? Personally, I think they should lean into that more and embrace the context: e.g. sans-serif for CSS, monospace for JS, serif for HTML.
> Typically hacking gains you more control over things

only according to the more modern definition of “hacking”

the earlier version of the term referred to people who write novel, interesting or clever software for the love of the craft.

i think using discord as a free message queue (see spivak’s comment in the thread) is pretty damn clever actually.

i kinda want to build something with it now.
and i enjoy doing it to boot.
Darn Casio... someone pls nudge HP !!! We def need RPN ring calculators!
I am a bit surprised Apple allows it.

I am not really familiar with the apple ecosystem, but my understanding is that they frown on open execution environments, that is emulators, virtual machines, interpreters etc. and a system that lets anyone develop and load games sounds like just that.
> Find more moments to move throughout your day. While your food’s heating up, do some squats or take a lap around your work building instead of scrolling through social media. When you’re running errands, park as far away from stores as possible. Getting coffee with a friend? Catch up during a walk in the park instead of sitting in the coffee shop.

The last one about taking a walk with a friend sounds nice, but the other ones sound like the worst ways to get activity ever

Constantly forcing yourself to do things is hard and probably will fail. If you find things you enjoy doing, getting activity can be a treat rather than a chore, regardless if it's taking a dog for a walk, going to every museum in town, or finding a sport you like
Thank you for the explanation! Honestly, it feels like precompiling all the shaders should be done during loading the assets initially, with the in place option being optional.
More like 350 years.
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated better
I would say he hasn't, considering a few months ago he wrote "A Decade Later, A Decade Lost" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later...

And I can't blame him. They say no parent should see their child die, and that's certainly true; but especially no parent should see their 6 year old child die of brain cancer. Humans are not built to withstand that.
Tell Gap (and all the rest).
Having never had children myself, his writing moved me in a way that I struggle to comprehend. I spent my 2 hour commute reading through all of his writing on his time, and subsequent grief of his daughter, starting here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/18/welcome-2/

I found this piece particularly moving, and brought me to tears:

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/10/so-many-nevers...
> Adults need at min. 150 to 300 minutes of moderate aerobic activity

... per week.

(Or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous exercise.)
Sad but true. The saddest bit IMO is the lack of even ideas for how to reverse it. Subsequent governments just rearrange the deck chairs and distribute blankets on the increasingly tilted deck.

The current decline of universities' financial situation may be another terrible blow. One thing in which the UK is genuinely a top performer worldwide is higher education. But 3/4 are expected to go into the red this year, and the universities are increasingly stuffing their courses with whoever can pay their fees, regardless of ability.
Not a guru, but my take is that the actor model is one method of architecting a system to separate synchronization from other concerns. There are other ways to do that, often specific to a particular problem and with more or less separation. As always, there are many tradeoffs involved.
> you just have to acknowledge that to anyone outside England, "England" and "the UK" are identical in meaning.

I'd love to hear the results of you trying that argument in the rougher parts of, say, Glasgow or Swansea. I suspect if you tried it on the wrong person you'd be picking up your teeth with a broken hand.
If you're going to do that you need completely different LLMs to base the agents on. The ones I've tried have "mode collapse" - ask them to emulate different agents and they'll all end up behaving the same way. Simple example, if you ask it to write different stories they'll usually end up having the same character names.
The general purpose solution is for the browsers themselves to implement the equivalent of virtualization and table sorting features and for authors and publishers to stay out of it and stick to sending the right bytes, making sure everything is marked up correctly. A Web developer is never going to be able to ship a JS blob that makes tables work the way his or her users want them to, only the way that he or she thinks works well (if that). So just put a table on the page and add links to educate people about which browsers and/or add-ons make viewing tables a good experience. If you have some compulsion to be involved in this any further, then write your own add-on and link to that.
I don't get why so many such analyses get so focused on the textile industry, as if it was the only thing that mattered. It was the time of the rise of electricity, chemistry, and internal combustion engines. And England was an especially slow adopter - the traffic in London was entirely based on horses into the 20th century, long after many major cities adopted electric trams.
Do you think that makes it less true?
They should have centered the text in it both vertically and horizontally
You should try to convince the others on the Facebook groups to undergo full genome DNA sequencing (around $1K USD, usually not covered by insurance, I would pay for the other patients if I were you, their data is more than worth it given it’s your life on the line) and submit the data to patient networks and orphan drug groups. There are lots of bioinformatics methods now (thanks to mostly advances in ML among other things) that can derive insights into the problem, without any physical assays or laboratory tests.
> and all have developed

Isn't that true of pretty much every country, even the few that were never colonized by European powers?

I mean, Afghanistan developed since its independence in 1919, but that's hardly attributable to some sort of intrinsic Britishness.

Same for Egypt, with its 1922 independence, or Libya in 1951.

Just like how Vietnam developed after independence from France.

While we've seen how Japan developed without being part of any colonial system. ("it was probably better in the end to be conquered by the Romans than many others" rejects the idea that it might have been better to not be conquered at all.)

> A "country" is just a lot of bits that someone conquered.

The modern definition of a "country" also requires a permanent population and a government, along with recognition by other countries. Note that this definition is of fundamentally European origin.

Further note the difficulty of using your definition for "Northern Cyprus" and "Sealand", much less the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta".
This is a self correcting problem. These diseases will strike down weak people and antivaxxers. So more diseases means less demagoguery against 300 years of scientific discoveries.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the reviewer's top pick is coincidentally the platform with the highest-paying affiliate program.

Do we know if that is the case?
Has anyone used Datalog with Datomic in anger? If so, what are your thoughts about Logica, and how does the proposition differ in your experience?
What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?
You may be interested in this:
https://x-therma.com/news/x-therma-achieves-worlds-first-sub...

I'm a layman so I don't know if this is genuine, but if it is it seems to be a world changing thing for people in your situation.
They remind me way too much of dark-arts virus checker, disk cleaner BS.
The $600 Mac Mini Is a Steal–Until It's a Scam
That was happening for many years before any AI, and now that AI is well known people are finally starting to be sceptical. A positive development.
"Non-descript" is unfair - it has 3 rounded corners!
I agree with you on the PyMC situation. There has been many changes to the backend engine, from Theano, to TensorFlow, back to Theano, then JAX and so on, that it becomes a little confusing.
well, technically you are correct, since the consent is required only for non-essential cookies. which means third party / tracking cookies.
Yes, the Broad Institute of MIT is licencing CRISPR patents owned by Broad.
That's a sobering thought right there: that one people's mythos, the foundations of their culture, could trace back to... a bunch of randos in the early printing era, who figured out they can get rich quick by flooding the world with slop.
That's not at all what echolocation is. What you describe is locating the source of sound using binaural hearing (similar to how we can gauge distances using stereoscopic vision).

Echolocation is finding out distance to objects (not sound sources!) by sending a sound wave in a direction, and listening for echos that bounce back. Hence echolocation.

The only sound source is you.

It's a form of active sensing: literally how a submarine sonar works (or radar, for that matter). Bats do it, too.

This has very little to do with "locating things in headphones", as that is entirely missing the active part in the first place.

Then, locating sound sources using binaural hearing is not the same as analyzing the scattered echoes when the sound source is you (relative to yourself, you know where you are already!).

It's interesting that this is currently the top comment. I wonder how many people read the article before engaging in this discussion.
>India has landed on Mars for a fraction of the cost it took other nations, and the ESA has never been able to pull it off.

This further confirms my assertion, btw.
The algorithmic family that in general seems called for is "sequential monte carlo" or "particle filtering". While often this is presented for models and problems where the latent dimension is small and the problem is about how something evolves over time, the "sequential" part of it can just be about the order in which data are received (I think this traces to "A Sequential Particle Filter Method for Static Models", N Chopin, 2002).

On the PPL side, I think SMC has often been a secondary target, but there has been good work on getting good, efficient inference be more turn-key. I think this has often focused on being able to automatically provide better/adaptive proposal distributions. For example, "SMCP3: Sequential Monte Carlo with Probabilistic Program Proposals" by Lew et al 2023 (Stuart Russell is among the contributors).
This would have been quite funny instead:

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1851735303.3881/flat,750x,07...
i had also good experiences with live coding. both as an interviewer and a candidate. you not only see a candidates skill, but also their way of communicating, and as a candidate if you are lucky to be interviewed by a future teammate or superior, you see how they will treat you when you need help working on something.

i had this approach work even in china where people tend to be very submissive and afraid to speak up. i expected them to have trouble in the interview, but most candidates told me they felt very at ease even though they had never worked with a foreigner before.
That's like asking why we should have porn filters on school computers, after all, all it does is prevent the user from finding what they are looking for, which is bad.
You do and they can get bullied because of it.

You don't and they can get bullied because of it and also become the weird kid that doesn't have social media.

Sometimes there isn't a good choice. :/
It's a tangent but I think two white collar workers being able to afford this and having this lifestyle is why Trump won.
It would not have saved them in any way. Putin would have thrown all Ukrainians in Gulags just as he does with critics of his own Nationality. He would have forced the people out of Ukraine to replace them with Russian Nationalists to establish the region as pro Russian and enforce stability. It would have been a similar situation for Ukrainians as it is today for the People in Gaza and Westbank.
Really good advice, thanks for this!

Will be looking to do this for a new side project that I have going on and this helps to know what to look out for
I'm... not sure that's the kind of Friday-at-2AM embarrassing mistakes you want to put on your blog if you sell yourself as an elite consultant?

Not using `-iname`, using `-print0` and being surprised to see NULs appearing, the weird pipe + xargs instead of just `-exec`, using some hyper-convoluted way of replacing the NULs instead of just man find... that's probably not the best advertisement for “decades of consulting experience ”.
Technologie has changed, but mankind has not.

It will still be the cheapest bidder, most corrupt, every corner cutting subpar material using fake report producing contractors building, inspecting, certifying and operating this stuff.
It's impossible to do that with CSS :)
Also, memory safety isn't the only "bug" - I'd even argue that the majority of "memory" issues in unsafe languages like C are actually the result of a logic error or mismatch of interface expectations, and a memory error is often the "first noticed failure". In the trivial example strcpy() examples people love to use, unexpectedly truncating a string often means the program has "failed" in it's intended task just as much as a segfault or other memory corruption.

I'm extremely positive on highlighting as many of these problems before it gets to the user's hands, even more so if it's as early as a compile step as in the borrow checker, but lets not delude ourselves that they are the only possible issue software has. Or that in many languages it's a tooling issue (or culture issue accepting that tooling...) rather than a fundamental language difference.

On a side node, with the prevalence of things WASM I feel some people are just redefining what "memory safety" is. Defining a block of memory and using offsets within that is just reinventing pointers, the runtime ensuring that any offsets are within that block just mirroring the MMU and process isolation. We should really be looking at why that isn't well used rather than just reimplementing a new version on top for "security", as if those reasons aren't really "technical" (IE poor isolation between "Trusted" and "Untrusted" data processing in separate processes due to it being "Easier") we need to ensure we don't just do the same things again, and if they are technical we can fix them.
You know it worked only due to vastly different circumstances, right?
Yes. I gave you an example of people outside England who don't think England and the UK are synonymous ie it is a direct refutation.

If you had said "Outside the UK" there might be room to say it's a matter of opinion, but since in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the vast majority of people would not say England and the UK are the same, your statement is just flat out obviously wrong.
Hitler would have killed Ghandi on the spot, and continued his breakfast.
i have been writing Go exclusively for 5+ years and to this day i use generics only in a dedicated library that works with arrays(slices in Go world) and provides basic functionality like pop, push, shift, reverse, filter and so on.

Other than that, generics have not really solved an actual problem for me in the real world. Nice to have, but too mush fuss about nothing relevant.
Here is what Sean Carroll has to say about MOND…

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/02/26/dark-ma...

I find this treatment more compelling.
Yes, voyage models are API only.

There was a part here about multilingualism but that was wrong! Sorry!

FWIW: Voyage also has separate `law`, `code`, and `finance` models. See [1]

Really cool results, anyway.

[1]: https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/embeddings
> The problems come when they try to learn a new language without giving up the old ways

In Python, I frequently see the same problem from the other side. Instead of C/C++ programmers learning Rust and "not wanting to learn the rules of Rust", it's Java/C# programmers learning Python and not wanting to unlearn the rules of Java/C#. They write three times as much code as they need to - introducing full class hierarchies where a few duck-typed functions would do.
Not nowadays, more and more remote production for larger and larger events, and it’s coming on rapidly. Directors are increasing sitting in centralised control rooms rather than in a scanner.

BT sport are interesting, spin up graphics, replay, etc in an AWS environment a couple of hours before. I was impressed by their uefa youth league coverage a couple of years ago, and they aren’t slowing down

https://www.limitlessbroadcast.tv/portfolio/uefa-youth-leagu...

https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/stratospheric-revol...

Obviously not every broadcast, or even most, are remote now, but it’s an ever increasing number.

I don’t know how the US industry works, I suspect the heavy union presence I’ve seen at places like NAB will slow it, but in Europe remote production is increasingly the future.
1. Changing careers - though I’m still steadily working towards the new chosen career path by completing all the academic/study requirements, but I’m increasingly ready to throw in the towel with the old career, but now is not quite the right time, just gotta hang in there for another year or so.
Because they are still logos, not one list of short acronyms that just happens to be rendered in a specific way?

I really think it's fine: the web assembly gets to play with its parallels between W and A, JS gets to mirror the J's bottom-bend in its S (TS tagging along because those two really are more than just accidental neighbors), whereas CSS can indulge in summetry with its twin S by making them internally symmetric themselves. A logo that contains an acronym isn't really a logo when the characters are just picked from some font instead of tailored as part of the logo.
That's probably more the case now that there aren't any new resource-rich continents to colonize.

Maybe in the distant future, some country will claim a passing asteroid full of rare metals and gasses, and become the economic superpower of its era.
An official logo for CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42124786 - November 2024