jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why not make a public API for the city so you can access it with an GPS-enabled app immediately?

Come to think of it, many cities could stand to benefit from a public API with alerts and infrastructure notices. Too bad it's probably not in their budgets.
https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
Mind-body dualism is the bane of my existence.

My thoughts on this article:

1. The fact that we cannot scientifically determine how something functions does not necessary imply a non-physical cause.

2. Thought experiments are inherently limited to human conceptualizations which--while based in reality--have no authority over reality. Here's a famous thought experiment: Descartes believed that clear and distinct perceptions can be certain. I can think about a horse and a dog separately, so they most be different things, right? Well, I can also think about time and space as distinct entities but guess what they're not. Thought experiments are entirely limited by human intuition and human intuition is not guaranteed to properly reflect reality. The fact that you can imagine a zombie of yourself has no bearing on reality. I can imagine traveling faster than the speed of light but that doesn't make it possible.

3. When systems reach sufficient enough complexity it is impossible to understand them by merely analyzing the individual components and understanding the rules that govern them. Even if I had full knowledge of the human brain and how it worked, there would be no way for me to understand another person's first person perspective because there would be no way for me to simulate his brain. Mary's Room, qualia, and Mooreland's argument from first person perspective are all dependent upon the assumption that if you can understand the components of such a system, you ought be able to understand the whole. This premise is false.

4. There are plenty of "nonphysical" entities that we presume to have an entirely physical basis. Take the operating system on your computer. Is your OS a physical object? A physical property? It's real. You can interact with it. But if you pry about your hard drive you will not find a little desktop with folders and icons. Even if you could read the one's and zero's off the magnetic disk that wouldn't be considered your operating system. It only exists when all the pieces are connected and running and has no value (or existence) without such animation. Nonphysical entity. Physical cause.

Some reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
By far the easiest way to remove the trucks would be to end the COVID mandates.
Seth Godin told me if you want to be a entrpreneuer, you need to hire others to do EVERYTHING you can possibly outsource.

Otherwise you will hire the cheapest labor -which is yourself...and you'll never break free of being a freelancer.

My personal advice...the reason raising your rates isn't working for you is because "you don't get the work." This is key...if you need the work, you will never successfully raise your rates.

I have fetched $350/hr for SEM consulting...when you can easily hire an experienced pro for $50 and someone more experienced than me for $175. How do I charge that much? It's simple. My opportunity cost let's me turn down lower paying gigs.

The secret to winning a negotiation is going in believeing you can walk away without feeling like you missed out. If you can walk away....you are in the driver's seat.
The 'timing' section is disappointing. All very clean though.
I thought it was a fine interview. It didn't dive deep into the technical aspects, but that wasn't its purpose. It gave me an overview and synopsis of some of the factors involved in producing something like that

Also, the people involved including the author are participating on this page. With respect, this guideline might be relevant:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
> since I don't really need to validate who I am talking to for passing the name.

If you don't validate who you're talking to, some ISP will run a MITM attack simply to log accessed hostnames (even if they can't MITM the final TLS connection)
If I posted “Think of a number. 1-100. Got it.........

You’re thinking of 17!” some of the hundreds of readers would be amazed by my accurate prediction
Yeah I think they use Fiserv and other major fintech players.
Detailed comprehensive article here: https://malavwarke.substack.com/p/future-trends-of-2021
The case you describe doesn't lead to this chain thinking. You just choose the most attractive.

But if the game were that you need to pick others consider the least popular....
"thon" is from "Python" and "Thonny" is diminutive of this.
Why would they? What business sense would this make? The image they want to portray would be that they are capable of everything in-house - Their staff are not only experts in robotics but also art too. In reality it's not quite true.

Just like you also don't see them saying "Thanks to PwC for developing our software."
>monks and students enjoyed jokes that portrayed peasants as ludicrously dumb and foolish; and priests, friars, and bishops preached sermons that depicted “those who work” as objects of pity, charity, and disgust. Even Piers Plowman, a sympathetic portrayal of rural life, portrayed the peasant’s lot as hard and pitiable.

The more things change. The more things stay the same.
I've never done this, so my concern might be a total non-issue.

But how do you prevent the external SSD accidentally becoming unplugged when you're doing this with a laptop? And what would actually happen if that did occur?
Nobody learns Dvorak because you'll never get a Dvorak keyboard at work. Not everyone is able to choose their hardware, nor wants to.
Wow, that's some horrible code. No std::vector::reserve, string by value, memset, "using namespace std", missing includes, c-header includes in c style, ...

Rarely see this kind of obscenity outside of beginner's university C++ classes.
Switching to a personal email domain and another credit card did the trick, at least with the DigitalOcean.
Anyone know why I get ECONNREFUSED? https://imgur.com/Cd22Gwb
Just added the description to the readme together with some screenshots...

Axiom is a logs managment solution that allows you to store, visualize and stream massive amounts of data from all your apps and services.
I can boot all other arm devices with usb? Huh, maybe I’ll get an android phone and chromebook after all.
I like this part: "The lesson here is that an entrepreneur has to learn to be able to live with fear and uncertainty – learn how to sleep in the midst of a fire. If we can’t handle the stress of high pressure situations with calm, our companies don’t have a chance."
Japan never realistically had any shot at overtaking the US economy. They have 1/3rd the population, 1/4th the land, next to no natural resources, and very little immigration. It's a testament to the nation's effort, ingenuity, and strength of character that they got as close to the US economically, as they did in the half-century after WW2. But it could never have been that close in the long term.
I typically use long options in shell scripts that will be checked in or shared with others. The self documenting nature of long opts is much nicer (imho) than the terseness of short ones.

I’m also glad short opts are available for my personal day-to-day work. I spend most of my time in a a terminal and appreciate having short-hand available.
I could be genuinely concerned about the future of Google at this point. A trivial comparison would be to the position of Microsoft in the 90s, but it doesn't quite hold up for the very simple reason Microsoft diversified their revenue streams, crucially into business back office processes, wildly successfully.

Google's search dominance really is "all they have", and while it is something others would practically murder for it is now under assault from many angles such as Siri, Cortana, and most viciously Amazon and Facebook. Heaven forbid Apple really do launch a search engine because then it will be trouble. There is simply no way Google will be able to monetise Android devs more because iOS still has the lion's share of the valuable customers.

More and more people are realising that the PR does not match reality (both potential talent pool and end users), and this is eroding the Fluffy Google Halo very fast. Since Page became CEO it feels like even the pretense of it being some sort of happy-go-lucky hackathon that occasionally produces a wonder business has disappeared, and let's face it, that image is precisely why they managed to slurp up so much talent in the first place. Once such people get enough money to feel secure then yes, they are going to jump.
Please be aware you have interpreted contrarian behaviour, which can be very negative and disruptive when unchecked, as having a virtuous cause.

Other causes worth examining: ego (desire to prove one's intelligence), one-up-manship (desire to harm/contradict/take down arguments of others), deficiency (not observing feelings of others or not addressing the end-goal of the task in favour of hair splitting), hedonism (argument gives you pleasure no matter the consequences for the task or others) etc.

Contrarians can be intolerable team members so it requires care to harness and channel an analytical mind and not let it be driven by base and counter-productive motivations. Its very easy not to notice and stick with a seductive virtuous justification for bad behaviour.
> What difference did democrat control make to her?

In her case a bigger factor is probably that Trump has also fallen off the grace of a lot of Republicans. The guy is done. He's still massively popular and a threat given his popularity amongst pretty fanatical groups of people, but as far as raw, democratic power he lost his election by a pretty decent margin, and lost the House/Senate for Republicans.

A lot of people who sucked up to him and his rhetoric must be realizing it's time to suck up to someone/something else. He's always attracted an uncomfortable amount of media attention and now that he can't attract political power to remain in office he's a liability rather than an asset.
> the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do

This is the core problem as why many projects don't get mainstream. They have 2 options: they can focus on what they think is a priority, or on what the public thinks is a priority.

I'm not saying Signal is wrong on doing what they are doing, as they are being successful among some niches (i.e: tech). But to grab Whatsapp users, they need feature and UX parity, at least to some level
> Clearly, buyers today (whether they are aware of it or now) are anticipating Tesla to be greatly profitable in the future.

Right. To justify the current trading levels, the expectations must be that it will capture significantly bigger part of its market than any of its competitor, and it will have better profit margins than them. I simply can't see that happening over long-terem horizon. I can definitely believe that Tesla will capture large part of the market, and in fact that it becomes number one automaker. I can also believe they will significantly enjoy higher profit margin than their competition. I just can't see any path to both at the same time: this would imply having some enormous advantage that none of its competitors can get even close to. Since the competitors are not bumbling morons, I think it's unlikely.
I'm actually looking for a good podcast. Do you have any recommendations?
You can pop in and see me, too. You just need to check in at the front desk, and can't wander around sensitive areas un-escorted.
Twenty years from now we won't talk much about Donald Trump. However, every time we do, the sacking of the US capitol will be the top thing we link to his presidency. Probably the only thing. For many of his supporters, the only thing they will be remembered for is their support of him.

Reddit isn't stupid. This is still sinking in for many, and for those ahead of the curve they're doing everything they can to disassociate themselves from any hint of support or enablement as quickly as possible.
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
Oh wow, they broke top-500 US and are about to break top-400

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win
Is that necessarily a cynical take on things? Seems actually pretty rational on their part to do that to avoid a potential backlash by the Trump-led government. It was probably a good play that led to a better long-term outcome.
Makes me want to hook up a simple predictive algorithm such as what is used for online Rock-Paper-Scissor against computers to demonstrate how predictable people can be and add

E134 PROGRAMMER'S POLITENESS IS TOO PREDICTABLE

Politeness, once made too predictable, is too easily overlooked. This error is
caused at compile time if the programmer's politeness level is too easily
predicted by the compiler as it encounters each statement in the code.
You can boycott it as long as you don't need to get to the next town over. When you do, and every other company has done the same shit in the past, you become inured to it.
Meld is nice, but I also prefer diffuse. I found its Hg and SVN integration more convenient
Pretty apt analogy. Nice one!
Superconductivity is phase transition. If I remember correctly first order phase transition. You have it or you not.
Very interesting, thanks for the further detail.
I think that hacking the human internal reward systems to produce desired behavior is awesome. I'm just afraid that a hundred years from now we'll end up like everyone on that episode of STTNG where an addictive game was used to take over the ship.
To anyone who might misread the title like I did, we're talking 600,000 copies, not sales in USD.

What might be even more fascinating is Notch capitalizing on what was only the alpha version of his game. I'm sure that breaks with some of the preconceptions a lot of people on HN have.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809829

I've never had anyone before suggest I have the power to walk the United States to its doom. I am both humbled and honored! Thank you!
Have a google for chillow, it's a product for having a cold pillow for longer.
Meh. I mean that. It's a very hard "meh".

On the one hand, human-equivalent AI is undoubtedly possible, as is greater-than-human AI, as is (to my knowledge: I have some ideas on how to do it) self-improving AI.

And yes, the "blessing of abstraction" effect of transfer learning does get us out of the Curse of Dimensionality somewhat, allowing the sample complexity for general learners to be a bunch lower than the sum of the sample complexities for a series of individual narrower learners.

And, at its very mathematical fundamentals, statistical learning works, in a way that pre-Winter AI just fucking didn't. I mean, theoretically you could learn a super-duper god-AI in a sufficiently large two-layer neural network... it would just be infeasibly large and intractable to train.

But the only way you get a "hostile Singularity" is if your super-duper god-AI isn't just smart, or smarter than one human, or even smarter than one clever human, but in fact more hierarchically general (able to learn more from the same data), quicker-thinking (able to sample and infer faster), and more accurate (able to approximate intractable distributions more closely from the same amount of computation spent on inference) than whole organized teams of trained, expert humans. And then you have to feed it sufficient training data for it to understand the world more deeply than said teams!

Or unless it just bribes or otherwise corrupts said teams (which is, admittedly, the most likely way for this scenario to happen: humans are definitely easier to buy off than any artificial agent anyone would bother to design).

So a "soft take-off" could happen. But I'm really not sure anyone other than ideological "singulatarians" is putting enough effort into causing it for it to be very probable.

Hard take-offs are very unlikely for reasons of sample and computational complexity: educating a human takes approximately 20 years. Even assuming you can go 100x faster with your AI... 20365/100 = 203.65 days, approximately 4 months of Terminator training in which the designer might notice the AI was "evil" and turn it off.
Ruby is pretty FP/OO friendly.
It's no worse than being called a "resource".

Of course, it means you also get to call your boss "overhead" ;-)
Very grateful for the OpenELEC distribution. Worked great on my RPi and now seriously considering to replace Fedora on my HTPC NUC with it, as well.

If any of the devs read this, THANKS a bunch and happy new year!
Oops, my bad, it's Sipeed!
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/09/xuantie-c906-based-a...
> Better to have somebody helping pay child support as well as the mother.

I think a better solution is taxpayers shouldering the burden than punishing an innocent individual (actually a victim).
Not the downvoter and don't think it's worth a downvote but don't think the comment said anything not mentioned in (at least) the NY times article.
Wow, ive never seen that article before, but it makes sense. I mean Quora's goal isn't to get me laid, but it can certainly pass that litmus test ie- advice from women, how to find a wingwoman,etc.
Are these not factored into what the market will bear? Do areas with shorter commutes have different land values than areas with longer commutes?
I started learning erlang in february and am still improving on that
You'd then take that money and then do anything other than putting it into a high-growth tech company.

Yep, that's one way to hedge :)

I guess the main thing I was getting at is - is there any high-growth tech company that you could start that has more opportunity in a bubble burst?
The part that shocks me the most about this attack is the userbalances table. What a terrible decision to give up on securing the integrity of your most important data in the name of performance.
> I think the obstacle is that most folk are not prepared to give up their languages

s/languages/frameworks, and I agree. One step at a time -- this work is a foundational block that we're building on, not the ultimate solution.
Last night I had a dream that I was telling a coworker he should use reinterpret_cast for something. But I'm not going to go bragging about it and I think it may be the only time I have ever actually dreamed about coding.
I have gist and etacts accounts, neither have worked their way into my regular workflow yet. Both have seemed quite buggy every time I try to use them. And I am not going to spend the time integrating them to truly see their worth until they can solve that.

I do love the Rapportive Gmail extension though, quite different purpose, but awesome.
Then again, did people really have privacy when living in small villages in the countryside where everybody knew each other?
I think the rise of privacy came with the development of big urban areas...
I know how you feel. Whenever I get a new computer, I play for a while with the Windows it came with. But after a few hours or days, I thankfully shrink the Windows down to about a 30 gig partition (if not blow it away altogether), and install Linux. It's like putting an old, comfy coat back on after trying on a new coat.

We don't need OS wars, just like we don't need browser wars.
But you see, I don't agree that these conclusions are based on low quality data. These conclusions are not merely based on observational studies, as you pointed. This question is being asked for more than 70 years and a lot of different types of designs have been tried: putting people on strictly monitored diets and seeing what happens to their biomarkers, finding people with weird mutations that lower their LDL cholesterol, etc. By the way, the only type of data that disagrees with the expert's conclusion are, you guessed it, observational data. And that is simply because there are so much individual variation that these studies end up always underpowered. If you track the same individual and changes his/her diet, the conclusion is inescapable: saturated fat increases LDL cholesterol. And LDL cholesterol is causally linked to heart disease.

I don't mean to say that this narrative can't be pushed back, but these articles comes from the [wrong] premise that these findings are not solid. They are. It's the same as trying to advance the idea that trans fat is not dangerous to someone's health: you surely could try, but the prior should be low. That's is why I advanced the hypothesis that people are craving for these types of news that validate their lifestyles: they don't seem to be properly calculating their priors and are dismissing too quickly solid evidence.
"Update: We have a human being from
@Godaddy
on the phone. We were sent to the wrong department, but hoping we get a quick-route to the right place."

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1360368102073004035
> Since Apple uses a hashed prefix, Google cannot learn which website the user is trying to visit.

That is false. Google produces the hashes and can easily reverse them.
I don’t see browsing payed by cross-site tracking is considered “open”, nor think the browser monopoly with insane feature creep that basically make creating a new browser impossible help the open web.

Nonetheless, it is a terrible law.
Disclaimer: I'm an Indian, so a person of color.
[Edited: I had said Asian before and there was some resistance to that]

Is there data to support that these are indeed racially motivated and not something else, especially due to economy and unemployment and just the fact that seniors are easy targets?

How many such muggings and incidents happened during the same period against people of other races? Was the rate of crimes against other races the same and only increased against the Asians?
I have basically always been on teams of 5 devs.

Maintaining legacy stuff.
Yes, we all know that time when Musk decided to grow t̶a̶l̶l̶e̶r̶ hair.
Was there a re-colonization process? If so what kind/brand/bacteria types?
If you want to show up in there, too, contribute data back to open society or simply make your Sunday walks a bit more engaging, then i can highly recommend the "street complete" Android app [0].

It allows you to contribute by answering simple questions about your surroundings, like how many stories a building has or if a stairs has ramps for bikes or wheelchairs.

And all that with great UX.

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
Must have been utterly terrifying to pilot that thing... the entire aircraft is basically one gigantic fuel tank with a tiny space for a seat at the front.
Believe it or not, the alternative was much worse. In the US, the Civil War cost roughly $8 billion (in 1860 dollars) and 600,000 lives. There were roughly 4 million slaves in the US at that time and using the New Orleans auction prices of that time you get an estimate of $2.7-$3.7 billion for the entire slave population of the United States.

Basically, NOT compensating slaveholders cost more than twice as much and many more lives in the US.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40820/straight-d...
Nice. If I were writing an emulator, I would naively write a virtual disk drive that always worked. It would never occur to me that some programs would depend on certain reads being inconsistent.

I do wonder, though, if anybody has studied the ROI of antipiracy schemes like this. The only time I bothered to pirate software like this was when I was a penniless kid. And it's clear from this that the crackers were willing to put in absurd amounts of effort to break encryption; if one's opponents aren't rational economic actors, I'd think it would be easy to spend far more on copy protection than would ever get paid back in additional sales.