skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that unsustainable? What are they spending that money on?

Isn't it only unsustainable for VCs who want 10e50% growth ever three days?
Please note that this study was ordered Paris city council, which tries to reduce actively the number of cars. The presentation is not totally neutral.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19987174
> The US has been under replacement fertility for less than 100 years, under four generations. On an evolutionary timescale this is nothing.

So? Human society and culture can change absurdly fast. If the evolutionary impulse to reproduce was that strong, you wouldn't be seeing places like Singapore with comically low birth rates.

What evolution compels us to do is have sex. We've just disconnected that from reproduction.

Re:mormons, yes they have a higher fertility rate, but it's also been rapidly dropping. And without taking into account conversions/apostasy the numbers are kind of useless, and taking them into account is difficult because it's just inherently hard to predict. As an ex-mormon I'm aware that the internet has caused some major problems with retaining members for the church, because information has become so much more accessible (much of it contradicting church teachings, obviously).
If I understand you correctly (which I’m not sure I do), I imagine it is because they can’t simply convert everyone’s floats ( type number) to ints (type bigint) as that would break a large portion of the internet.
What a silly article. Every premise presented is flawed and thus every conclusion based on those premises is not applicable.

There are 0 AGI's on earth. I recognize the author is intentionally twisting the definition of "AGI" since the imprecise nature of the field can lead to some debate about the definition, but I think it makes the most sense to side with the most popular definition which is, "Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can."[1]

No such entities or algorithms exist that could reasonably be considered to fall under this definition.

The goal of the AI field of study is not necessarily to create a system that emulates a human. This is only a proposed solution to accomplishing the actual goal which is to create something with the same intellectual capacity as a human. It is an important distinction.

Yes, if the goal was to simply create an artificial human and then stop there without giving the system the ability to further improve itself then it would make no sense to spend decades of man hours on the task because we could just do it the old fashioned way and spend approximately twenty years raising a child to maturity.

But no, the goal is to create a system capable of reasoning in a way sufficiently similar to a human that it could reasonably be expected of performing adequately in any situation that a human might. Given that this could be accomplished, presumably the intelligence of the system could be scaled according to the amount of computational power is fed into it, propelling it past the most intelligent humans that have lived so far. Consider a system twice as intelligent as Einstein with the ability to reflect on its own architecture and then modify that architecture, thus further increasing its own intelligence.

From there, the hope is that something orders of magnitude more intelligent than the most intelligent humans to ever live could more aptly extract observations about the world given the same amount of data as humans and then conceive of clever ways to overcome the limitations of "finite resources."

The author seems hopelessly out of touch with the actual aims of the field he has chosen to criticize and so I am unsure why they ever thought they had any place to (attempt to) make their critique in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
That's correct. Next time I'll try /r/AskProgramming to ask similar question.
Yeesh... this is why it's good to have some experience with a language where you have to manage your own memory, even if you only write JavaScript at your day job. To anyone who's written C++ before this difference is incredibly obvious.
I'm a massive command line advocate (to the point that I've even written my own $SHELL) but I don't agree with your point that the command line is how computers work.

The command line is just a UI like any other - GUIs included. The way modern computers work is via API/ABI calls; via kernel syscalls and drivers separating out the responsibility of peripherals. Your command line is just an interface for managing applications that are compiled against libraries that interface with those syscalls - so in that regard using the CLI isn't any different to launching an application via a graphical icon running on a typical WIMP interface. In either case you're not making those API calls from the CLI, you're not manually managing your memory nor any of the important things that an OS does under the hood. All you're doing is using a text interface to fork() a process rather than using a mouse click to fork() a process. The difference being many CLI tools require their config supplied as command line arguments while many GUI tools don't. But even there, there are as many exceptions to that rule as there are examples of it.
An Operating System for The Rest of Us.
FWIW I once summed up the various fines (anti-trust etc.) doled out by the EU by country/continent

I would be interested in seeing this analysis, but I'd also be interested in knowing two things:

1. When was it done?

2. Were you analysing fines by member states or fines by the Commission itself?

My very strong impression is that in recent years there's been a new phenomenon of the EU itself dishing out fines of vast new magnitude - not an EU member state, but the Commission. This wasn't true 10 years ago, but it feels like it's started in earnest now. Indeed GDPR and Vestager's time as anti-trust commissioner are relatively new.

Institutions such as the court system and, more generally, the rule of law, are the reason we (some of us) can enjoy life in peace, and shouldn't be torn down just by empty cynicism

Whilst I fully agree, there are some other factors at play here.

One is that EU level fines aren't levied by the court system. The EU bureaucracy acts as judge, jury and executioner. Fines simply ... appear. There is no right of defence. Fined firms may then appeal to the ECJ, but this takes a very long time and I don't know if there are any cases yet where an appeal went against the Commission.

This is not how normal justice works of course. Normally the government has to prove a firm guilty of criminal behaviour first, then punish it second. The EU reverses it. That's a fundamental change.

Secondly the ECJ is a corrupt court. It has a history of corrupt and ideologically motivated practices. For instance it has heard a case where the plaintiff didn't know they were part of a court case at all. When informed of this state of affairs by journalists, the ECJ ignored it and continued. There have been a long string of rulings where the ECJ openly and blatantly ignored what the written law of the treaties actually said, with Kafka-esque interpretations of language the treaty authors thought was bulletproof.

Why is the ECJ like that? Because like all EU institutions it is created and staffed by people who are ideologically committed to the furtherance of the EU project. They are not independent; they are fully bought into the Federalist agenda. That agenda is currently suffering due to member states not wishing to grant the EU more money, and because the UK is leaving (trying to leave), which will cause a large drop in budget. Endless vast fines against tech firms for violating laws so vague all sorts of ordinary behaviours could conceivably be illegal is a perfect vehicle for them to top up the bank balance ... because that's where fines go. Straight into the EU's own institutional pockets.
well of course, one modifies the array and the other creates a new copy
66.0.5 on my mac did show the EV cert indicator. Not sure if that would have been part of the .4 -> .5 release or if it's because of the os?
>that looks nothing like string formatting syntax used in any other language

PHP
echo "There are $apples apples and $bananas bananas.";

Ruby
puts "I have #{apples} apples"

TCL
puts "I have $apples apples."

Typescript
console.log(`I have ${apples} apples`);

Python
print(f"I have {apples} apples")

Looks pretty similar to me, and if you like understand-ability by humans so much I think f-strings win hands down. But if you disagree, there's plenty of code out there still using % strings or .format() and they're not going anywhere any time soon.
And for Chinese products to remain competitive, their prices have to drop, cutting the profit margins. It still hurts China.
If mixed ethnicity makes you less Japanese than of course you will be discriminated against. At the very least families who want their descendants to be "more" Japanese will resist allowing their children to marry those who are "less" Japanese. That is discrimination. Even the term "less Japanese" sounds like a perjorative in a country so deeply founded on a specific cultural identity.

We live in a global world now. Countries that fundamentally tie their culture to ethnicities will someday be a thing of the past. It is just question of how long it will take some countries to accept it. And for the mistakes that the U.S. has made, one thing it has gotten right (for the most part) is its acknowledgement that diversity is a strength and being American has nothing to do with your bloodline.

Of course there are racists in the U.S. who would say otherwise, but I think they are short-sighted fools. One of the U.S.'s biggest competitive advantages in a global economy is its (relative) freedom from the historical baggage that weighs down other countries whose national identity is tied to a specific ethnicity or rigid cultural identity.
Agreed it's faster but it's not the same price in the UK. The Banana Pi M2 Zero costs ~£20 compared to ~£12.50 (delivered) for a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I updated my profile before the post with my email, not sure why you can't see it. I added in the description in case you still want to contact.

I also thought about doing this at home, but the risks are just too great to mess with something as deep as the Sensory-Motor function. I was happy to work with trained experts who monitor and correct problems. There is actually a lot to it, but the treatment is only a few months and you never really need think about it ever again. Since you can focus on doing things instead of endlessly trying improving brain function.
Do you eat organ meat? That's where most of the necessary nutrients are.

https://terrywahls.com/minding-your-mitochondria-dr-terry-wa...

How much protein do you eat per day? Anything more than 5-6 ounces of meat per day is just wasted, harmful.
What kind of critical engagement do you think we are failing to offer? What kind of response would leave you thinking "This person engaged critically with the issue at hand, but still came away with a strongly positive position"?

For my own part, I don't think anybody is owed a position in a space. I also don't think the existence of small players that get displaced by a big player means that the small players were destined to become big players. It's worth considering that LiberaPay and OpenCollective would never have gotten somewhere great. Perhaps they would always have been doomed to be small and essentially irrelevant. We'll never know, obviously, but it's worth considering.

But let's talk about OpenCollective and how Github could have worked with them. Do you think OpenCollective would have passed a security audit? Are they SOC compliant? Could they have handle the scale?

An even more interesting question: has Github ever claimed to be an OPEN company? I'm certainly not aware of such, though of course my knowledge is less than comprehensive. Charging them with failing to be something that they've never claimed to be seems odd.

Yes. Your charge is correct in an important detail. Github isn't an open source company. As far as I can tell they never have been. It's perhaps somewhat less than maximally reasonable to expect them to become one.

For my own part, this enhances my positive feelings about Microsoft running Github. They're making changes to popularize the idea that it's OK to pay developers to do open source, and doing so in a way that lets developers get paid in a manner of their choice.

It could still be an open platform, of course. Someone just needs to be able to do it better than Github. As Dependabot shows, that's absolutely possible.
When Mental Illness Becomes a Friend
Where does Terraform claim to follow semver?
Graeber asserts it's specifically a reaction to changing notions of career trajectory and adulthood as feudalism gradually turned into industrial capitalism and the normal life path, for practically everyone in society, of:

1) work for someone else to learn the ropes and get started (even aristocrats would leave home to serve in other households, unless they were top of the heap), 2) run your own farm/shop/manor/etc

was changed to just:

1) work for someone else, selling your time directly, and... that's it, until you retire or die, for almost all people who aren't born rich.

I don't have the background and haven't followed his references to dig into how accurate his portrayal is, but his does address this exact attitude in the book. He essentially claims moralizing about the virtues of hard (sold-by-the-hour) labor and long days is a reaction (by the upper classes, largely) against what was perceived to be a growing population of people stuck in perpetual adolescence—eternal apprentices, basically.
> All of these have been mixed blessings. Here's an article about how Patreon doesn't work out even when everything goes smoothly

Sure, all experiences are not positive, especially when you view it through a micro lens. But if you view this through a macro lens on software development in general, just as if you view YouTube content producer monetization on consumable video at an industry level, you'll find that non-traditional financial monetization of these digital efforts has a significant impact on what was there previously.
$1 / month is already one of the options.
Yeah, I was a bit dissapointed that this wasn't a new modern compiler for it. :)
Sounds like a court case waiting to happen...
I have Firefox 69 on Windows and it does
Personal note, if I had to go back to a amphetamine other than Desoxyn I would go back to Dexedrine. Honestly you are not missing much between Desoxyn and Dexedrine other than the PNS is a little more stimulated with Dexedrine. Desoxyn does have some serotogenic effects so it does cause a little more of the calming effect that these meds have on those of us with ADD and ADHD.

In several studies it has been shown that methamphetamine is no more of less additive than dextroamphetamine the main difference is that methamphetamine crosses the blood brain barrier more efficiently than dextroamphetamine so there is less in the body to stimulate the PNS and more in the brain to stimulate the CNS. 10mg of Desoxyn is more effective for me than a 30mg dose of Adderall.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475187/

At same doses methamphetamine is stronger but generally in therapeutic doses one will be prescribed 1/3 to 1/2 the dose of amphetamines.

Also to note, Desoxyn is pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine it is not street meth and certainly not crystallized meth. It is a disservice that even some MD's view this stuff in the same light as street meth.

A good read on the comparison of amphetamines:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/02/20/hyperbol...

As far as your doc, go in informed, and state your case, I talked to my doc, it helps that my wife is a MD as well, so I have a lot of access to medical journals to research. I went in with the info, presented it to my doc and told him that I would like to try Desoxyn because PNS stimulation has been an issue for me on many of the other drugs and basically I told him, look if I have to choose between my mind and my willy, old willy is going to win every time. All of the other meds worked well for me as far as ADD was concerned, but living with drug induced impotence is certainly going to create other psychological issues down the road and when you combine it with the fact that most of this class of medication increases my drive, it is a recipe for disaster. I just went in, armed with information and laid out the case for what I wanted to try to see if it would eliminate another potential issue from manifesting. If your doc won't listen to reason, find another doc, above all you should be the biggest advocate for your health.
I know how science works and I'd never claim that psychologists are stupid. But being smart does not mean you can't make stupid errors or just not use your intelligence for psychological reasons.

Since Barkley lost his brother because of ADHD, I don't think it's impossible that he actually means that it impairs working memory, has no advantages, and does not impair intelligence. Not because he's too stupid to see the contradiction but because he doesn't want to.

Then again, it would be quite a coincidence that whatever advantages ADHD has exactly cancel out the working memory issues. I just expected an academic to use precise language (there's nothing wrong with simplifying, but to me, this does not look simplified but wrong.)
Sounds like you're correct according to MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/fashion/matt-jacobson-fac...

reminds of of something similar at fb with matt jacobson, who dresses well:

"And as one of the oldest and best-dressed executives at the company, he still looks completely out of place on Facebook’s campus. “I get stopped by security all the time because they think I am a visitor,” he said. “Security will come up to me, ask to see my visitor’s badge and say, ‘Who are you?’ ”"
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Tangential question: neither McDiarmid's "Kill Sticky Headers" [0] nor its improved version [1] work on this website. Does anyone know how the bookmarklet can be changed to work here?

[0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962875
This is not a well supported position. There are numerous well established scientists who have expressed concern and criticism on the current 'consensus' in regards to climate change. These include for instances Richard Lindzen [1], a member of the National Academies of Science, an MIT atmospheric physicist, and also a lead author on one of the scientific sections of IPCC climate report. Appeals to authority are foolish, but I think his credentialing is relevant to this discussion.

Beyond that, one major issue is that the extreme politicization of this issues makes it difficult for people to speak freely. Anybody who speaks their mind on this topic, when such view doesn't abide the 'proper' view is labeled, attacked, and ostracized when and if possible. So you end up primarily with radicals, fools, and a handful of people with extremely thick skin willing to speak. A similar treatment was given to those who, for instance, suggested that leaded fuel might indeed be harmful - the official government and 'consensus' position for decades was that it was safe or posed negligible risk.

I am not, in this posting, thus taking any side. But I do think if you ever want to achieve progress on any topic, people being able to speak freely is critical to progress. Only weak or poorly supported ideas need fear 'contrarian' views. And even in the rare case where those weak or poorly supported ideas happen to be the truth, they invariably become stronger over time (due to the accumulation of validated falsifiable evidence) while, vice versa, alternative views become weaker.

But perhaps more importantly, I think the desire to squash contrarian views has a paradoxical effect. The idea is of course to try to prevent the spread of these ideas, yet in reality there never works - even less so now that we've entered the era of the internet. See: China + Winnie the Pooh for an amusing example. But far more critically, I think efforts to avoid discussion are often seen as an inability to compellingly respond. Once ideas reach a critical mass, they will spread unless compellingly challenged. Refusing to challenge these ideas in a fair and impartial way only strengthens them.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen
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You don't need a phone, the Pocket Operators have a couple of different sync modes so that you can have one be the master.
Thank you. I live in Switzerland not the US, so I’m not well informed on US legislation.
What about my points 1 and 2? Is the roadmap reliable and aggressive, and are all products incl. imported ones included.
Bignums themselves are actually pretty easy to implement as a plain library, provided your language has a uint8-array type (not just a String type, which might require the content be utf-8 valid, or might only have facilities to operate on codepoints, or might cut the data off at the first NUL.)

JS already has a Uint8Array, so bignum libraries are easy. (Let me tell you though, there were JS bignum libraries before Uint8Array, and they were, ahem, “interesting.” I think a popular one built a byte-array abstraction on top of hex-encoded strings, and then built bignums on that.)

Actually supporting the literal syntax or the operators via a plain library is impossible; but you can just do it the other way around: encourage developers to use a bignum library (for now), and have said library just “bake down” to native BigInts when they’re available.

Since everybody until now who was using bignums in JS was using them through a library, this won’t be a hard change to make.

(And it’s already been done! https://www.npmjs.com/package/big-integer now bakes down to native BigInts when it can.)

As for the brazen developers who start writing code to directly use the native BigInt... I suppose they’ll have to have two versions of their compiled code units in their minified blob, with a loader shim that evals out the version of the class/module that does/doesn’t use bigints. Maybe we’ll see an JS-pipeline pass to generate this. (I’m not a JS dev, so I’m not sure if there’s already support for this kind of thing.)
Having seen Twitters data on me (they think I’m older than I am by a decade, and have 4 kids, when I have 2), I too wonder how accurate this data can really be.

Anymore I just straight up “lie” about personal details. A relationship with a tech company is based upon serving my needs first, not theirs, IMO. And at least for me the need they fill is convenience of not having to build the service they provide. Which I would do if said service did not exist.

So there’s that. Have my fake data. Sell emotional but technically inaccurate promises to advertisers all ya want, SV.
What you said is true, but why can that not also mean that power is tied to dress/appearance? There's nothing that deep or metaphysical here, it's pretty straightforward.
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These kids who come to do masters essentially live in "Indian" or "Chinese" enclaves. Not sure how much american culture they absorb. I've also seen many cases of rampant cheating on homework and exams. I'm not sure how qualified many of these so called "Masters" students are. My cousin who went to Columbia for masters also complained about this in most of his classes (If this is done at the highest level of education, i could only guess what happens at mid tier or lower tier universities).