skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a longer article by Thurston on the same ideas https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236. Highly recommend irrespective of how involved you are with mathematics.
Well, I would argue credit is the compensating benefit- and killer feature- that historically goes hand in hand with inflation, and I would say it this way- credit is generally the mechanism by which assets are discovered and incorporated into the economy, thus "inflating" it (not the technical definition of inflation, of course) and benefitting all. Technical definitions of inflation are just various measures of changes of liquidity in the credit economy.

Whether a deflationary payment system is instantly better, for me, that's a philosophical argument, between liquidity and value.

Life is uncertain. Humans take risks, invest, speculate, even just work- they need liquidity to do so, and credit mechanisms and accounting provide a structured way to do so.

I am interested in what Offset discovers, and think there is new value to be discovered in keeping a (necessarily inflationary) credit system separated from the rest of the financial world.

Cheers.
> The perception I'm trying to counter here is that intelligence involves tradeoffs which somehow result in a fair outcome for all.

Yeah a zero cost sum model is totally wrong. As are models which assume that everyone is born equally smart and all differences just come from training or whatever. Some people have better abilities and it doesn't imply that they are worse in other areas. But they might only have extraordinary performance in specific tasks. And others, like I've mentioned above, have golden hands, von Neumann being an example.

I've done some searching and the model of intelligence seems to be an open area of debate, but it seems that research has moved on from the "not much more than g" era. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526477/

> For several decades, the question of whether measures of specific cognitive ability contributed anything meaningful to the prediction of performance on the job or performance in training once measures of general mental ability were taken into account appeared to be settled, and a consensus developed that there was little value in using specific ability measures in contexts where more general measures were available. It now appears that this consensus was premature, and that measures of specific abilities can make important contributions even if general measures are taken into account.

See also https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480721/ and https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01182.x
They should mention if these are just face obfuscating bandanas or whether they provide SARS-CoV2 protection—which it seems they might not.

I don’t think people are short of face coverings but they might be short on “Covid” masks. That would be more useful.
Gates, Bezos and Musk: Smarts vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship Success
He's a total bullshitter. I guarantee he'll never say where exactly the "treasure" was placed because somebody can prove they looked there. There never was any treasure. Forrest Fenn is full of crap.
Yes and no.

Yes, a major from my many years in academia is sophistication is valued over simplicity. A bunch of fancy symbols and equations = important, so much of what is published appears, at least to me, to be much more complicated than it needs to be.

No, in that the sophistication, in the good cases, is because there is a multitude of subtletly and complexity in these subjects, as well as a formal framing of the issue so that it can be analyzed in an unambiguous manner. So, there is a reason for the obfuscation, although it mostly ingrown overkill at this point.

The best papers can both deal with the great complexity and sophisticated formalisms, while boiling it all down to an accessible delivery.

However, such papers are few and far between.
Honestly their content isn’t even that good. I got subscription for the year and I won’t bother renewing. The production quality is great, but the content is really hit and miss. I think they should probably be more selective with their courses.

Though I do think Neil Gaimans class was good (he actually teaches at university course) so if you were an aspiring fiction writer I would recommend it...but maybe not for $100. When your not getting any kind of feedback or community it just doesn’t seem worth it to me.
It definitely took me quite a few lessons to have a good idea what I was doing there myself. Skin in the game is definitely important, and has become increasingly less common in society, to the detriment of many systems.
Huge nix fan. Question: how do you deploy these with k8s? Do you just build a NixOS docker image "wrapper" around all the other stuff?
> Step 2 then is to invest time in mitigating the things you don't like about writing software and to start focusing on companies or roles that are more focused on the things you love about writing software.

Unfortunately, in my case, those roles are reserved for people much smarter and credentialed than myself.
Dark Ritual was banned for as long as I remember (I played extended during 2003-2006). It's pretty much the definition of an OP card: if you were to draw 2 copies and a strong creature it'd be almost imposible to lose that game.
This doesn't seem all that odd. I read this as a temporary solution to the fact that there's some real problems that TypeScript causes for the way their project is laid out and used with regard to certain types of introspection (noting duplicate classes) and performance (it's damn slow).

It's like them running the TypeScript compiler to generate one large JS file and using that intermediate as what people build against instead of the original TypeScript source. I'm not sure if this is what they're actually doing (or if they're somewhat manually doing the equivalent of it), but as a hopefully short-term workaround that allows them to solve the problems, that doesn't seem too bad (but it does possibly highlight some TypeScript problems).

Even if they actually move to a large core JS file that is the active development target, as long as they keep track of the TypeScript specifics (and don't code themselves into a corner assuming something works that they find much later errors), it may not necessarily be hard to go back to TypeScript from that (possibly with a lot of it automated with a lot of structured comments).
edit: amusing, people downvoting labor liberation and freedom, amazing shit; votes for labor captivity by trillion dollar corporations then eh

This is a terrible idea.

You may be a lot more valuable vs what they were previously paying you. Perhaps you were being undervalued, or the new company has a need for you that places a high premium on you. So now the former company can veto your future and hold you at your previous income.

The new opportunity also may far exceed the past opportunity in potential compensation (in your estimation, even if it's a wild-eyed thinking), or the opportunity is one you want to take and it's not the money driving you. That veto that is holding you in place, is a potential economic straightjacket and is also a veto over a choice to pursue a quality of life improvement by taking a better / more fulfilling job.

Hyper rich corporations like Amazon will hold talent hostage just to deny them (and their expertise) from another company, which is entirely unfair to the employee in question. The tech giants already frequently roach motel talent as it is and they've been doing it for decades, I'd hate to see this practice further entrenched (and particularly against the will of the employee).
It's almost impossible to find something with unusual features on Amazon. Every search page is flooded with "recommended" products that don't match your search terms.
There's a forum post about it, where the Autodesk people say the 4th axis stuff is moved to the new extension. :(
Yeah, I think the comments here are talking about both using the same terminology without clarifying, which was a bit confusing until I realized that was happening.
When Oracle hired a good chunk of experienced AWS engineers to build their new cloud platform, they retained lawyers for each candidate to smooth the transition. They went in to it with their eyes open and played it safe.

It amounted to little more than lawyers talking back and forth for a little bit, and coming to an agreement about what the engineers could and couldn't work on for OCI, and for what time period. I hate to think how much it was costing both companies in terms of legal fees given how many made the jump.

I would imagine Google was doing the same thing, but presumably this time couldn't get to an agreement, or Amazon decided it was time to make some noise again (it seems to happen every year or so). Amazon never seems crazy enough to let it actually get to court and risk judgment going against them / their non-compete.
Your comment and the post and threads in general are making me chuckle, having just spent the last half hour reading this post, for no particular reason, from a few months ago about the transformation of racknut-and-perl roles like neteng and sysadmin into text editor-based devops:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508968

I have to say, certain comments -- which I'm sure are just as real-world as yours -- lie in...let's call it tension...with the threads and comments here in this post. That everything in the old post appears to be subsumed into a "sysadmin II: internet boogaloo" of orchestrator expertise is humorously ironic.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.

A few months back, covid-19 was the perfect scapegoat for a lot of companies to drop projects (or go bankrupt, cough OneWeb).
Milkmen used to deliver milk daily because people didn't have refrigerators. Now we do, delivery just for dairy seems redundant.

I'd much rather have a range of foods delivered to me a couple of times a week - fruit, veg, salads, vegetables, eggs, and so on, rather than just dairy.
I'm interested in trying the .NET Core and Blazor stack.

However, "Visual Studio" is not my idea of the ideal developer experience... Maybe if the projects could be developed in VSCode
And Divinity: Original Sin 2 improves on its predecessor in every way. It's the game Larian have been trying to make since their inception. Honestly, I'd recommend that new players skip straight to the sequel—you won't miss anything story-wise.
I live in a small community outside America. On Saturday I left the mall where I'd been subject to the 'new normal' covid distancing laws shit. Stepped out into the sunshine to see over 1000 people marching down the street in one huddled mass protesting because...riots in America. I watched a car's window get smashed because they wanted to drive through an intersection and had the audacity to ask if they could drive through.

While we have issues with police and abuses of power here, it's not even a speck on the radar compared to America. There's real issues here worth protesting. There's a worrying lack of housing for people here in the last year since the psyche ward and homeless shelters shut down. Businesses have been closing down permanently for months, people are desperate for work, one of the largest clearcuts ever for the area has been proposed in the watershed where the town's drinking water comes from. It contains not only the oldest tree in Canada, so old that our tools can't penetrate deep enough to age it, but some of the largest intact old growth in the province, habitat for numerous endangered species and again, directly feeds nearly every river that supplies our water.

Nobody cares, nobody even acknowledges the issues outside their door. But some riots in America are worth flaunting all the measures forced on people for months because they've been riled up to believe it matters more than everything we've been told to believe for months now because social media tells then they need to care.
I had horrible sickness (was tested for flu, but it wasn't, doctors assumed pneumonia) in end of September, that led to me being part OOO for entire October, after returning from my European vacation. I'm joking to my wife that I'm patient 0 or close: part of the vacation was in Italy (worst hit), then I went to Zurich, then to Seattle (I live close to Kirkland, where first covid cluster started).

p.s. No, it wasn't COVID, at least I recently tested and was said that I don't have it. I haven't asked if I have antibodies though.
Internet Simulator
It's highly unlikely they're going to double the number of classes. (If nothing else, you'd have to build a bunch of new school buildings in the next 2-3 months to do that.)

They'll likely stagger the classes, so kids have 2-3 days of classroom instruction each week, and 2-3 days distance learning.
Assuming you tried Amazon Transcribe? How did it fare?
Well now that they've been severely defunded by the USA everything coming out of them is especially suspect as propaganda resulting from that leverage.

The American president wants scapegoats for his failings, and despite completely ignoring the WHO recommendations at the start of the pandemic, he's turned the WHO into one.
I agree with your broad point that stroke order need not be dogmatic to good writing, since if you look at Chinese calligraphy, it's also clear that stroke order is not set in stone.

Nevertheless, I think it would interest you that you can achieve very expressive line variation with even pencil and ballpoint; the trick is to write on a stack of paper so you can vary the area of contact between tip and paper: e.g. see https://www.bilibili.com/video/av21114247/
> non-competes are held to be unenforceable

They're not completely unenforceable in California. And the company can make your life miserable by suing you because you have to hire and pay the lawyer to win the case.

However, you generally have to be someone at this guy's level before non-competes can even have a chance of being enforceable. And there are lots of weird restrictions--you have to have access to data that would be damaging to the business, the lockout time needs to be relatively short, probably has to be in your contract before signing, etc.
口 is a radical, so your argument is DOA.
Good question. For those unaware of the spat between the two designers, here's an excellent 2014 article: https://nymag.com/news/features/jonathan-hoefler-tobias-frer...

In short, Frere-Jones accused Hoefler of intellectual property theft and not honoring the terms of the verbal agreement outlining their business partnership. I'm not sure how the case ended up.
Part of what's slow is that they're type checking and compiling the code at the same time. Best practice for a project of this size would be to run type checking as a unit test and only transpile during the build. An incremental type check is also super fast, it's possible they don't have caching setup.

To me this reads more like a list of issues in the deno architecture, and how they integrated TypeScript, than any issue with TypeScript itself.
To put it in terms of your axiom of mediocrity, it looks like the "typical" timeline we followed has a lot of wiggle room so why don't we see anyone else?

Arguably, on a log scale, the total complexity of organisms is increasing fairly regularly. Extinction events may just be ways the increased complexity manifests.

Further, there might be wiggle room but maybe our current explosion in scientific knowledge doesn't yet put near the jumping off point. The sci-fi paradigm is imagining galaxy colonization as akin to the colonization of islands and continents around the world by sea faring but the scales aren't comparable, the effort isn't comparable, etc.
You can still ask Europe they have it in excess now.
This is a silly straw man argument you’re making. Asking every American whether they want to defund the police is like asking everybody in the US if they enjoy taking the subway to work. Only a fraction of Americans live in cities that are calling for this action. A more reasonable poll would only ask Minneapolis residents.
If this was the root problem, it isn't that hard a problem to solve, and a lot of people have the motivation to solve it and gather the justified social plaudits for solving the problem. Is it seriously the case that nobody has collected a more diverse face set despite it being public knowledge for years that this is a problem? It doesn't take that long.
I think software engineering is depressingly, suboptimally stable. The space of all possible ways to write programs is so, so large and almost completely unexplored. Lisps, Hindley-Milner type systems, Cox, neural networks with autodifferentiation ... whenever we substantially depart from the local optima around C-like programming, we find cool shit.

However, the vast majority of programming is done to build nearly indistinguishable CRUD SaaS apps. If we could just spend half our time doing real, interesting exploration of programming-space to satisfy our curiosity, maybe we could all agree to build apps with a more boring tech stack. However, that would require a large scale change in incentives that is hard to imagine shy of a Space Race style event.

... or Jonathan Blow was right and C was more or less the global max, and everything else was a mistake. I really hope that isn’t the case.
The first thing China did back then was to order mask obscured face recognition upgrade. Pretty sure US has it too. So much for the "encrypt" part. Hope Sygnal puts more meaning into "encryption" when it comes to message encryption :)
> Due Process means that you should be able to know the rules a system will follow if you participate in that system.

That seems to me like an overly restrictive definition.

What if the rules of the system are that a single individual gets to make all final decisions, such as in a monarchy? Is that due process?

The definition of due process I've always operated on is much broader and includes mechanisms such as the ability to appeal decisions and present your case. I would argue that an adversarial process is also part of due process. I don't think you have have due process in a system that is one-sided with no advocacy for all sides on equal footing.

I'm uncertain about the distinction that due process needs to be public. If two parties behind closed doors go through a process whose rules they believe to be fair beforehand, is that due process?
This needs care. Imagine if you accidentally trained a model that added racism when none was present in the audio.
Pentagon Has Tested Drone That Gets to Its Target Area at Hypersonic Speed
Original source submission flagged for clickbaity title

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/sensors-electronic-wa...
The old one still applies in the previous contract (and is enforceable in the old jurisdiction).
This was engaging to read. Thanks for sharing. I'm curious how you handle down time when you are restarting your servers?

What happens if a client is interacting with the app at that very moment?
Heh. I know Jesse who "invented" the acronym AJAX at Adaptive Path back in 2005 or so... (The technique was fairly well known by then, at least amongst cutting edge webdev people - he only ever claimed to be the one who came up with a name for it that happened to stick...)
Why does the SpaceX droneship camera cut out during landings?
I caught a flu on Dec 23rd. Tested negative for A/B. Continued to have it. Went back in January still with the flu. Tested negative again for A/B and still had effects from it past Jan 20th.

I felt like I was dying and my lungs were full of really bad stuff.

Around the time I would have showed antibodies you could not get a test in the US.

Needless to say, I believe the virus was around before it had been noticed.

That time frame of late Dec is normal flu season. Many people could have been walking around with covid and no one would have noticed.
I completely agree. I believe that social media algorithms should be declared illegal human psychological experimentation. Anything other than supplying a dumb pipe or obvious and simple mathematical explanations (for instance, a calendar) should be outlawed as such.

No more 'showing you this based on your preferences' black holes of addiction. No more conspiracy trails of nonsense.
Ah I see, cool thanks for clarifying. That does make sense.
Because foxes are better
Those parents are all likely on company-wide wfh orders right now, making at home care easier. I suspect that will change for many before school starts, making this a very real problem for parents.
It does in Washington State especially at Amazon VP-level positions. This isn’t an entry level clerk who can’t say no to abusive contract language. This is someone making $1m+ a year who could easily walk away from a bad bargain.
> Why would a cloud operator even bother with k8s if the customer is only interacting with functions?

Because there are various "tiers" of users, some companies (like coinbase) could actually leverage K8s in their Codeflow/Odin project and prevent a lock-in. But a regular developer looking to just "get things shipped" isn't meant to waste his/her time with pure K8s.

> Kubernetes is a massive red herring

We agree but on a different note. The biggest selling point of K8s is it's API design. The entire industry needs to converge on one "defacto" standard of packing and deployment. Google's Cloud function is a perfect example of this. The API is based on K8s and Knative but under the hood it actually runs directly on GCE rather than GKE. What happens underneath is hidden from business developer, you only care about the data in your yaml and your docker image.
The wrong site is any site where the author steps away for a few years. Yes, if you keep running it, you can patch it, but left to its own devices, it will end up like (four hacked WP sites off the top of my head):

- All Wrongs Reversed
- 4 Color Rebellion
- Egalicontrarian
- Neojapanisme

There are more but they only get and stay hacked if it’s been dormant for several years, so by the time I see the spam in my RSS reader, I have typically forgotten about the blog.
I mean essentially unless a mask is one of the medically or industrially certified N95 and their ilk (which people are still discouraged from using due to shortages) I'd say it is hard to really quantify that one type of mask is better than another. Any covering that prevents you from spitting on people around you on accident should serve the purpose that health experts are recommending masks for. So I suspect this mask would serve both a public health and privacy protecting purpose.
* For entertainment purposes only.
C++ Casts
[my side project is using speech-to-text so this is amateur hour response]

Yes, but it takes a bit to build up that weighted list and it can be quite hefty to parse. So they may be building this behind the scenes currently. As another commenter pointed out, being able to correct a chunk and send it back to help the algorithm would be a nice feature here.

Side note: I'm dealing with this issue at the moment - if anyone has a good resource on reducing the workload I'd love a link!.

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came back from a 49-day solitary retreat on march 19th.

an assortment of remarks:

by far, the most impactful experience of my life.

i was the least experienced meditator in the cohort with less than one year of formal experience.

10 days of agitation and discomfort (1-10)

5 days of nervousness and settling in (11-15 or so)

20 years of psychotherapy condensed into two weeks. meditation is garbage collection.
(days ~15-29)

profound clarity, presence, and peace. meditation is so much more (~29-49)

if you’re even remotely curious, please do yourself a favor and try a 10-day retreat.

a systems mindset can be supportive. stillness can be revealed through discipline and a systematic approach.

however, it is still ultimately necessary to surrender. beliefs are limiting. and the mind is not the end-all of the conscious experience. a leap of faith... non-negotiable.

long sits (3-hours+) are a game changer.

yoga is essential to prepare and maintain the body. but ultimately the body too must be dropped.

feel free to DM me or email me if you’d like to be directed to resources.