skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes...think of it as layers... or manifests that point to another set of manifests global (list of users) -> accounts (have lists of users in them and role), content -> list of json files. I use a combination of json logic or simply listing out keys in a specific bucket...the speed of access doesn't seem to be something that bothers anyone, it started out as an experiment of less is more and because the app is not heavy on db searching etc rather only specific to account. I use oauth2 instead of relying on my own infrastructure and let people send out invites where they would use an email only but it must support the oauth 2 providers i already have in place. Basically, doesn't go down because it relies heavily on other things working that has teams of people working on them with gigantic resources. Don't get me wrong...I'm not saying it will scale to a million users, my clientele is mainly corporate that have a good amount per account sale but if it needs scaling, at least i didn't waste time and money on it during the interim and can always db-back it or dynamo it later.
It's weird that there some subtle defensiveness here. To heck with robots.txt and what not, when a site touts it's privacy, even this, however irrelevant, is slightly eyebrow-raising.
I'm not sure why anyone contributes hours of their time to this sort of "incentive" program. The power lies entirely with the platform. They can pay or not pay on a whim. They can choose to explain their decision or not. There's no real recourse other than writing a blog post about it.

In fact, I'm not sure why anyone wastes time writing content at all for a business that uses that content to serve ads—at least not without a legally binding contract with clearly described payment obligations.
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Has anyone modified these things to give them a little more power? I have a "gen 1" Bug-a-Salt and it doesn't have enough grunt to kill a fly. I suspect that a stronger spring would do the trick, but haven't seen any tear-downs or mods online.

I have seen "bug killer" add-ons for air-powered pellet guns, but they seem kind of iffy for indoor use.

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No, that's not how it works. It is a marginal tax bracket. If you get in the higher bracket, it's only the new money that gets taxed at the higher rate, not your full salary.

It has absolutely nothing to do with your contribution to retirement accounts. You can invest more and contribute more to your tax free retirement accounts with a higher salary (up to a point) but even if you didn't, that wouldn't make a difference.
I kill flies and mosquitoes in my house because they spread disease.
> Similarly, if a human found an issue and alert didn't trip, I'd count that as a bug/missing feature in the monitoring.

The way that I took the GP's point was that humans can find things that haven't yet been automated, while automation can't (at least not yet, but I'd argue it'll take AGI for that.)
Reminds me how the US continually produces tanks despite the armies recommendations, to the point where we have enough tanks to essentially fight WW3 with purely tanks and still have some left over, just so some congressmen can keep jobs in their constituency.

At least that was the situation in the 2000s, no idea if that wackiness is still continuing
> Artificial and biological neurons communicate over the internet

When I read the title I thought it was a metaphor for people using chatbots...
An interesting question is perhaps to ask when did our species become "conscious"? Neanderthal? Erectus? Habilis? Our last common ancestor with chimpanzee?

It would seem to me that these were all "conscious" in some way and that there is a continuum of this "consciousness" thing whatever it is.

My current thinking is that higher level "consciousness" is about levels of self-awareness. I can be self-aware, but am I aware that I am self-aware?

This implies to me that there must be some mechanisms that provide the ability to get input from ones own processes to begin to form consciousness. Feedback loops of some sort. I have a sense that given the right quantity and nature of feedback sensing abilities combined with a neural network, appropriately biased to some goal like self preservation, a form of consciousness could emerge. (?)

Pure speculation...
Cite every sentence above, please, or cut out the idle speculation; it's foolish at best.

NPIs -- handwashing, avoiding close contact with people sneezing like mad, not touching your face -- are the only things that actually work right now that everyone can and should be doing.
Somebody got rich, so it wasn’t really “wasted” /s
New language features are only tied to editions if they are backwards-incompatible.
Fill your bowl to the brim

and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife

and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security

and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people's approval

and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.

The only path to serenity.

-- Tao Te Ching, ch. 9, Stephen Mitchell translation (http://taoteching.org.uk/index.php?c=9&a=Stephen+Mitchell)
It can achieve that without a dish because (correct my math if I'm wrong) a full wavelength antenna for 60GHz is 0.1968 inches. So I'm pretty sure the silica includes the antenna.
They do to some degree. But it could be a lot better.
Cathay Pacific hit with £500k fine for customer data breach
Yet when you have an Epstein scenario, it's oh so difficult to investigate or even keep the guy alive.
The older I get the more of a connection I feel with historical images/video/audio. Viewing life on this planet without the constraint of time feels as profound as contemplating the depths of space. It's just out of my reach, but I keep reaching for it because that is where the answers are. Some things seem to be in a constant state of change while others remain in a constant cycle.
Centralization is not a bad thing, because energy usage is mutualized.

Taking France as an example, the total installed capacity is 400GW, but the actual power consumption is between 60GW and 110GW.

So you need some form of mutualization, unfortunately, in order not to provision 400GW but only use 100GW.
The problem there, though, is the lack of parental supervision, not the armbands themselves. The bands do keep the child's head above water. But no matter what, parents need to understand that you don't leave a small child alone near water.
I know * and + precedence without thinking about it, but when I see it without parentheses, I can't help but pause to be sure I'm not having a brain fart, and then also question why it wasn't just put in parentheses. So I just put in the parentheses or split up the steps, every time.
Exactly it isn't physical strength. A strong swimmer is someone who removes "drowning" from the list of options as long as they remain conscious. This is a critical point when boating - friends have asked why I always wear a lifejacket when on a small boat; as a strong swimmer surely I have no need of one. In a boating accident the "conscious" part isn't guaranteed. Get hit by the boom and go overboard and you are going to need that lifejacket.
I am - or at least plan to. I am writing a knowledge base, focused around a sort of mind-map of information and sources - and for each node I am adding a series of Q&As that can be used for spaced rep.

My goal is a few fold:

1. I research plenty of things in life and I need to document my findings. Not some grand importance to my "findings", merely that I've found I tend to summarize to such an extreme degree that I lose how I came to that summarization.

2. I want to remember my summarizations mentioned above.

3. I want to run a self-experiment on my .. I guess, random access memory. I tend to have terrible memory for the little random details of live these days. What was that movie name? What was that actors name? What street does X person live on? What is my wife's phone number? etc.

I never seem to run into this problem in things I "care" about, namely tech, programming and etc. But still, it bothers me how frequently I draw a blank from my memory. While I don't often see many repeats in this "random access memory" problem (aka movie names/etc), I am curious if I can improve this memory pattern by memorizing the things I so easily forget. I have no data backing it up, I'm just curious.

Why am I writing my own tool instead of Anki/etc? There's a few side features that I want to design a UX around, and see how it goes. It's all an experiment in the UX of information storage, retrieval and memorization/retention.
PostgreSQL: Parallelism, What Next?
I have met Derek Lowe personally. He's got 35 years in the game as a bench chemist working on theraputics and knows this world inside and out.

What are your similarly long-term credentials that give you such definitive knowledge?
Actually I came accross PG's essays before I discovered YC. Historically I think he's right. Even the poorest ones in today's western world are still better of in most aspects than most of the richest ones back in, say, the 16th and 17th and even 18th century. Easily.

He even once wrote, no idea in which essays, that he would prefer to be poor in an advanced society to be rich in an non-advanced one (something along these lines). Now, as we know that automation and software are enabling companies, and their investors / founders (with VCs investors more than founders IMHO), to create a lot of whealth that is not very well distributed across society. Which we see every day. So, working from his earlier statement on which society he would rather life in had he the choice, I assume PG has some level of understanding about the social realities. He is now also in a position to actually do something about it, him being arguably very rich and influential in his own way.

And what is he doing? Arguing against taxes for the rich to make life easier for the poor, against reducing the economic and social distribution and faisness in society. Because, according to him as far as I understood his later essays, as long as everybody can be enabled to found a company that problem will go away. Which it will not, not everyone can start one, regardless of access to capital. And even then most of the return will end up in the hands of the rich investor class with founders being more often than not cogs in the system.

Call the opposite approch socialism if you want, but if we as a socuiety don't think about these issues, hard, we will end up in deep trouble. Not just in the US where these problems are way more extreme than in Europe. I'm just way beyond believing that rich people will voluntarily do something about the poor if it would cost them a single dime.
Facebook has a new tool to spot spammers, and it's already taken down billions
Let's Encrypt Vulnerability
I'm sure that they need spares for some of their critical infrastructures, that could be it. Not to say that I don't believe that it could just be unused stuff lying around for years, that could definitely be it too.
High school student near Seattle builds coronavirus data website
> That's probably the case, but if so then that's a real harsh judgement of Material design: that accessibility has actually decreased since 2004.

We've banged it too deep into our heads that change is progress, especially with technology. Sometimes change is really regression, and that's more likely the more refined something gets.

Regressions are happening all the time now, and too many people foolishly defend them as progress.
All of the ones I've encountered in Europe are practically impossible to dislodge once they've been inflated.
What Happens If Apple Cancels WWDC 2020?
I think the author discounts the cost of "there are only a few users, so it's not a big deal to have breaking changes". I think stability and the backwards compatibility of a tool are important considerations to make in "is this worth using?".

If a tool has a large community of usage, breaking compatibility affects a large number of users.
If the tool doesn't have a large community, then a lack of stability means there's risk the tool won't in-future support current use cases, or that I'll have to spent much more time maintaining my use of it than with 'boring' tools.

It's fine for a tool in v0.x to have breaking changes. I think not supporting stable versions of a tool would make it hard to retain users in the long run, though.
Here is an experiment you can try today.

Pick a topic which you are an expert in, then look at highly upvoted comments about that topic in a large subreddit.
Doctors try first CRISPR editing in the body for blindness
^ and he's still wrong. There are several drugs and vaccines undergoing trials as we speak, and being given to patients in China. At least two drugs, Remdesivir and Chloroquine have shown efficacy already. Chloroquine is a generic that costs a dollar a bucket and can be produced in any quantity.
Clocks are an anti-pattern

Well this is a first for me...
Seems that way - I just tried a few connections via VPN, and EU countries blocked, non-EU countries not blocked.
Corporate department budgeting works the same way.
Exceptions create another execution path through your code base. This means additional complexity, and one that is not often analyzed. I also don't like how exceptions are so often just passed around. They allow you to say "let's make this somebody else's problem".

Having such huge mechanisms as optional programming language features is also problematic for collaboration on big project and for using third-party code that made different decision. I prefer when language designer is very opinionated on such decisions, and then the combination of all decisions either proves to be clumsy or gains wide following.
So how many times was an issue missed because you weren't in the office, or because you were looking at your own screen and not dashboards at the moment?

That's not a problem with dashboards. That's a problem with training and staffing people.

because you can't scalably fix problems with SSH.

The number of businesses that need to worry about scalability is vanishingly small compared to the number of businesses that don't. Let's not pretend that one company's problems are the same as another's.

you should eventually not rely on human intervention to actually keep incidents from happening.

He didn't state that the dashboard was the only way his organization kept tabs on things. He indicated that it was only one way, and specifically stated that an alert system also exists.
No, he's not. Even if an antiviral like remdesivir would cure SARS-CoV-2, there's zero chance of it being produced in enough volume fast enough to keep everyone from dying, or even to treat a significant number of patients.

At best, antivirals will keep some of the worst infected patients from dying. The real problem is that there's no vaccine, and not likely to be one for a year or more. That's both because they take time to produce and because this particular type of virus is "good" at making the human immune system "forget" it.
We could look at what Canada is doing. Plenty of parts of the US are empty, the problem is the angry old man squatting the land.
Journalism is saved!
* has precedence over + because it's something we all learned as kids. Everything else is quite arbitrary and I wouldn't expect everyone to know it off the top of their head. I'm in the camp that believes there's nothing wrong with a few redundant parentheses.
Vmagent – fast and flexible metrics collector and router
A testing library that turns your README into executable tests
How does this in any way reflect on either the privacy of DuckDuckGo (I don't think they ever claimed or even vaguely implied that if I search for, say, Banana, no one else will be able to see the results page for Banana, as that would be absurd), or Google, who are simply indexing publicly accessible pages, which is what they've always done since coming into existence.

What violation of privacy or hint thereof is happening here?
Primarily - motivation and discipline. Obviously motivation is what gets people to start something new. However, once people have made that first step, they'll realize that learning is not instantaneous and requires effort. This is where individuals need the discipline to continue learning. Personally, I think this is one of the reasons why we have such great success learning as children - we're forced to. Not necessarily personal discipline, but anyone would have an easier time learning if they were forced into 5-8 hours a day classes.

Discipline and lack of penalty is also why I think free learning materials suffer their high drop-off rates. The low barrier of entrance means anyone can join and the lack of penalizing you for not practicing means you can just stop.

Secondary - western education argues against memorization for "higher level" learning. Knowing all the syntax structures of a programming language doesn't mean you know how to code, so there is a de-emphasis on learning them. However, I agree that you do need some degree of memorization to serve as your foundation for higher level knowledge. As someone else said, imagine trying to write an essay without knowing any words. My PhD research is actually focusing on this to identify students that need that foundational knowledge.

Finally - our "fear of incompetence". I believe we don't want to be viewed as unable to do something and if we are presented with something that challenges our competence, we avoid it in lieu for things we do excel in. Children are given a sort of "free pass" because we know they don't know things.
Self-learned using spaced repetition/Duolingo or another technique?
It was the first time ever that the ice wine harvest failed. This isnt a trend.
To be fair, they've just massively upgraded the M1s to where they're nothing like the original tanks at all:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/armys-new-tank-here-c...

It isn't as though they've been building the same old thing since the 2000s, they've been incrementally and steadily improving them as technology and materials science improves.
You might benefit from a tool called Roam Research:

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam
"MVP" and "need 100+ people" seem like mutually exclusive things.

In this case, I think the headcount was a bug rather than a feature.
It's conflating conscious awareness with the existence or non-existence of free will. It's conscious awareness that is the ineffable mystery, unless you believe the chair you're sitting on actually feels you sitting on it. I mean, it has to if you believe the mind is nothing but atoms, because the chair is also nothing but atoms. There isn't such a thing as emergent properties, or neurons, those are just models we use to understand bunches of atoms.
This is a fine example of the mistake of false equivalence, and its consequences.

Of course one can find infractions from anyone. As Cardinal Richelieu famously said: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Getting a debate question in advance is nowhere near the scale of engaging with and changing the country's policy in favor of foreign enemies - yet you use this example to equate it and conclude that we should crash the system.

The result of crashing the system is NOT any kind of improvement. It is anarchy, which is quickly filled in with goverment by warlords -- that is not a situation under which anyone wants to live.

Yes, the system will always have room for improvement, and yes there will always be at least cheating at the edges.

That does not mean that we should make the PErfect the enemy of the Good. We must distinguish between minor cheating and corruption tantamount to treason.

We must remain fully involved -- as Jefferson said, "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance", and build, maintain, and improve the system of checks and balances.

Expecting people to be perfect is a fools errand. The key is to build and maintain a system where the power is distributed - different concentrations of power checked and balanced by others -- so that when people inevitably cheat, the effect is limited, yet the society can still coordinate enough power to accomplish great things.
One of these stations will not give me cancer while a typical nuclear reactor very much might. The laws of physics sure are harsh. Such as there is no safe level of radiation, radiation releases usually happen around fission reactors and any fission nuclear reactor will make life more dangerous for people around it.

Furthermore, it should be noted that new sources of energy usually start out as being small and expensive and inefficient. After some time and investment the more promising ones can prove to be plentiful and efficient.

Solar and wind were once considered to be esoteric and expensive. Now they are both vastly cheaper than nuclear and even somewhat cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives.
The first nuclear power plant, Obninsk, provided all of 5MW. Proofs of concept are usually pretty small. That said, wave and tidal power are historically problematic, but it's interesting progress.
...but the girl at the dispensary told me oregano oil cures COVID-19 (because "it cures everything!").

Edit: From +4 to -4 and flagged, que serioso!

This account will now self-destruct.
Upsetting really, but expected. It demonstrates the real power of propaganda when it's crafted by these huge tech giants.

It also shows that when change eventually comes that it'll likely begin outside the US (with stats like that US politicians would dare not act).
> it should be thought of as a standard to rally behind.

I won't rally behind it, personally. I'd rather rally behind a good standard.

> If you have something that's better, it may be rejected simply because folks weren't already trained on it.

That's fine. Such a loss may be mitigated to some degree by gaining users who really hate MD -- and there are a lot of them.
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That approach is usually advised when one begins to build a "nest egg", and is not that different from the one pursued in business books, like "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".

The point is to build predictable passive income stream on top of whatever else you're earning. Getting a general idea around predictable expenses will provide a "magic number" where your basics would be covered by passive income alone.

Some people might choose to forego active earning opportunities at that point, but it's hardly a requirement.
PEMDAS is pretty easy to remember too. Though for programming the E isn't usually relevant unless it's python.
Funny thing, this is actually a feature in Teslas. You can set it to chime once the speed limit is exceeded (in areas where it knows the limit). Although, I've never seen anyone turn that on.
> If it is in fact an ABI break, how much of an obstacle would that be to getting this through the committee?

In my understanding:

Historically, the committee basically said "if your paper breaks the ABI, it won't be considered, don't bother." In Prague last month, the committee voted that C++23 would not break ABI, though that decision is not final. However, they did say that authors should bring papers that would break the ABI, and they will be considered in a general sense.

So, it is now possible, at least.
Nice attitude buddy, maybe the problem was you. Companies regularly waste 1000x more on executive salaries.
This was the first time ever that the ice wine harvest failed. How is that "all these single year observations"?

Did you "single year observe", when the arctic ice fields expanded?