skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears they've blocked access to it from non-Australian IPs.

Here is the HTML they serve to me: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/skissane/05bac6c78d99e359...

Text:

Open letter to Australians

We need to let you know about new Government regulation that will hurt how Australians use Google Search and YouTube.
A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.

The way Aussies search every day on Google is at risk from new regulation

You’ve always relied on Google Search and YouTube to show you what’s most relevant and helpful to you. We could no longer guarantee that under this law. The law would force us to give an unfair advantage to one group of businesses - news media businesses - over everyone else who has a website, YouTube channel or small business. News media businesses alone would be given information that would help them artificially inflate their ranking over everyone else, even when someone else provides a better result. We’ve always treated all website owners fairly when it comes to information we share about ranking. The proposed changes are not fair and they mean that Google Search results and YouTube will be worse for you.

Your Search data may be at risk

You trust us with your data and our job is to keep it safe. Under this law, Google has to tell news media businesses “how they can gain access” to data about your use of our products. There’s no way of knowing if any data handed over would be protected, or how it might be used by news media businesses.

Hurting the free services you use

We deeply believe in the importance of news to society. We partner closely with Australian news media businesses — we already pay them millions of dollars and send them billions of free clicks every year. We’ve offered to pay more to license content. But rather than encouraging these types of partnerships, the law is set up to give big media companies special treatment and to encourage them to make enormous and unreasonable demands that would put our free services at risk.

This law wouldn’t just impact the way Google and YouTube work with news media businesses — it would impact all of our Australian users, so we wanted to let you know. We’re going to do everything we possibly can to get this proposal changed so we can protect how Search and YouTube work for you in Australia and continue to build constructive partnerships with news media businesses — not choose one over the other.

You’ll hear more from us in the coming days — stay tuned.

Thank you,
Mel Silva, Managing Director, on behalf of Google Australia
'On par with North Korea': Three out of four requests to leave Australia refused
Similarly, I have found that every hour of exercise removes the need to sleep about an hour, to a certain point. Unlike you, though, several hours a week of exercise brings my nightly need to sleep down to 8 from 9-10!
One thing I rarely see mentioned is that it's pretty common to have situations in Minesweeper where you need to guess, but the probability of each square being a mine is not the same. While each individual square has the same probability of being a mine in isolation, the numbers leak information: eg. if you have a set of numbers that could be fulfilled by one or two mines, it's statistically more likely that the one-mine solution is correct.

One example: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2511421/correct-pro...
Yep. Haber-Bosch unleashed synthetic nitrogen used essentially in all of agriculture (worldwide). Certainly made it possible to feed the hug surge of people.
I can't really stay productive on anything less than 15". Right now I'm currently enjoying this years lineup of 17" laptops whose body is basically what a 15" was some years ago. I do graphics and sound production aside from programming so I'm really enjoying the extreme screen-to-body ratios. Vapor chamber cooling is also a nice addition.

But the thing that really gets me is the 16:10 resolution, I could personally never go back after using it, it just feels correct (to me).
I found that if I remove app from the link you posted, I go to the landing page. Perhaps you should add some decoration to the signin page, and a link to the main page.
Yes, that's what the last sentence is about.
What are the strong statements you think he’s making?
My grandfather made me a beautiful wooden model of Kingsford Smith's biplane the Southern Cross, complete with spinning propeller. But we moved a lot when I was a child and at some point it got lost or left behind. I greatly regret not still having it, mainly as a reminder of my grandfather and his woodcrafting skills. My grandfather was born in 1910 and I think his imagination was caught by the exploits of Kingsford Smith and other early aviators, as was the case for so many people at that time.
When the computer is off: WiFi would also work if it were configured with an ESSID and credentials. But usually, most people dont't do this.

When it is on: AMT Wifi might also just piggyback on the existing config of the OS.
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.

Absolutely fascinating and refreshingly positive.
I don't think you are reading the parent poster. Tokyo was probably rubble in 1945 then it re-invented itself into a world-class city.

Hong Kong was (probably still is for now) a world class city for the rich and the free and now is on path to become a hell-hole for both.

Cities swing through a pendulum of up and down. SF might be going to ruins but it'll be back. It might have to reach rock-bottom first before re-inventing itself though.
What's stressful about living in the city for you?
Are you a NLP bot?
>Simply speaking, my gut tells me this isn't just about San Francisco.

It's not. I live in the Northeast and it seems like every day on the local news there is a story about businesses and residents fleeing NYC. 5 months of WFH (and knowing a lot of people personally touched by Covid) is starting to reshape a lot of attitudes about what is really important in life. It's also opened a lot of eyes to the fact that company culture and organizational inertia were the main impediments to remote work, not technology. I don't think the genie can be put back in the bottle.
It's actually the opposite. Having a main bus tends to make your factory more flexible and easier to adapt for improved technologies / throughput.
The Expanse series is incredibly rich, textured, deep and fulfilling. Highly recommended if you’re into sci-fi
Detroit: Become Human
>There is almost zero relationship between the benefits from fossil fuel use and the deaths from air pollution due to fossil fuels.

I think you'll find this is not true. Yes there are some low hanging fruit that could significantly reduce pollution but if you want the levels of production we enjoy today you are going to produce too much pollution. We are getting better, we are getting greener but this has been built on the back of extremely polluting industrial revolutions.
Right. I recently saw a podcast with Dileep George of Vicarious AI. I don't know if his specific techniques will work fully generally but at the high level he is talking about something quite similar to what you are saying in terms of grounding language understanding and having real models of the world. So I am definitely following him.

More broadly there is a growing group of researchers who are working on trying to achieve better world modeling (although of course there have been many for decades, it just seems that the number who are coming from deep learning towards AGI with more emphasis on world modeling is increasing).

Such as Ferran Alet. Sort of the Tenenbaum school I guess. Or Melanie Mitchell has been saying similar for quite awhile. They have recent talks on Good AI's YouTube channel.
The original Kamikaze were two typhoons, which twice saved Japan from being invaded by the Mongols under Kublai Khan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_(typhoon)
> In low-social-trust situations, people aren't a good option. Bockchains provide an entirely new and welcome option for that scenario.

We've been handling these set-ups very well for millennia. You find a trusted intermediary. These days, for better or worse, globalization has created more and more of them.
You don't live in California then: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/california-rejected-1000...

Also kids can fill out a mailed ballot as well, so that is a double standard.
Why don't we go further and not blame cities. Outbreaks can happen in the country barn dance or whatever.
It is not too difficult, just extremely verbose (even for a simple int arg function): https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/develop/cmodules.html

This might help: https://github.com/stinos/micropython-wrap
To be clear, most of my other comments in this thread are solutions to problems I took from the top of my head. I'm not suggesting we implement a voting system off of my comments.

I also am not in favor of blockchain-based voting. Of course a "right-to-vote" token is, at the moment, a far worse solution than paper ballots at polling stations. Mostly, this limitation is pragmatic — we don't have good ways to store private keys, low-level hardware and software is not easily auditable, UX/UI issues, etc.

In the US, we are considering having the largest vote-by-mail election ever. This is a politically charged issue, where Trump claims mail-in-voting will lead to massive voter fraud, and the Democratic party claims otherwise. If you suggest that mail-in-voting may be insecure, you're labelled as a Trump supporter.

With this political landscape in mind, electronic voting vs. postal voting is certainly a pertinent discussion. This comes especially as Trump has made efforts to "DDoS" the USPS by kneecapping its throughput. This would, depending on the system's design, be harder to do with electronic voting. Estonia is a good example of how digital voting can be implemented securely, with the approval and understanding of the populous.

But my main contention is that there are ways that blockchain voting can be fully anonymous, even if we don't have the implementation capability right now. Zero-Knowledge proofs, combined with a system where the voter's real identity is never mapped to their on-chain public key, allow for this. The individual voter would receive a private key in the mail, or using a Monero-like blockchain they would generate their private key and redeem one "Right to Vote" token, which would be sent to their account. They would then vote with this token, and using a "view key" would be able to audit that their vote was cast for X party.

Nowhere in this system would real identity be mapped to blockchain identity. The risk of "deanonymization" is therefore about the same as with mail-in voting. A coercer could force you to show them the results of your vote afterwards, true, but there are ways around this as well. Most simply, all view keys could be revoked after casting a vote. The public "token balances" of each candidate would be viewable, but the results of an individual vote not.
The last line is a bummer. It does prove the question asked, though.
I liked the metagame here of guessing the guess which would make the rest of the puzzle as solveable as possible.

P.S. Document how to flag mines in the text (ctrl-click)
You are just deflecting the main point of the argument now. Companies like Jio have already proven that all you need is to throw money at this problem and it can be solved. You just need to make sure that the money you invested can be earned back.
This is very cool.

I'm pretty sure the flags in the first photo weren't that color, however...
> 2) A friend who works for google who is going on a 6 month road trip in a camper van

I tried it for 6 months. It was easy because I had a sister who lived in NYC for a time and essentially I could wash up there and not have to pay outrageous campground prices for temporary stays to seek a shower when needed. I stayed on the street there for 6 weeks mostly around Flatbush area and in Brooklyn elsewhere but also on the street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This was the most fun part of the trip. It was really a trip (I wasnt on drugs by the way). I saw a rocker getting into a cab with a woman hanging on him and he had to like push her away "no baby - it's over" right in front of me as he got into the cab. She was hot. It was a deeply personal thing that I shouldn't be reporting on but synchronicity somehow drew me to that event. I was there seeing it go down and I wished I could haved helped her. I couldn't buy her food because I lived in a van, and that story would have to come out in the first 5 minutes or I'd be a sleezebag who didn't explain to women what his deal was yet the deal wasn't completely unworkable. She could have had her own place and have been interested in me intellectually for long enough for it to be fun, and maybe a relationship could have blossumed out of that. Instead I got back in my van and lived a normal life as a vandweller who was afraid to hit on her. She deserved something.

These kinds of antedotes came up throughout the van ride out west (to San Francisco) too and basically I had fun but was stuck too often in situations where I needed to fess up to being a van dweller around attractive women in a way that I couldn't cover myself for doing well back then due to societal norms not having van dwelling being real back then. In today's world it might be OK. I'd talk about tiny houses first and how Twitter helped make them become popular and how a van is almost the same thing underneigth. It's just better looking to be honest (once you have the inside paneled). You need a rising platform (in the back) up on stilts like made of wood with storage space underneath giving you just the right about of headroom with a futon installed above it. A real carpender helped me and it was easy relative to fancy stuff that people do with RVS. You need to really have a second battery with an alternator cut-off solenoid in it so that the second battery charges off of the first and automatically ensures it cannot drain the first if you forget about it. This enables you to run 4 or 5 fans in the back that are mounted above if you can and basically that's it. Enjoy your rig.

Civic places I hung out:
- Portland Oregon
- Downtown Oakland
- SF proper (Haight parking is possible)
- Colorado (hotel stay needed - it was too cold sometimes)
- Las Vegas (hotel stay needed - the other temperature extreme)
- Chicago
- and many other places along the way
> But cities were popular before this, and they'll be popular after this too.

So is country for different people at different times.

Besides I think 'revolt against cities' seems like reaction of this constant bombardment of news about how yuppies love cities and how desolate and terrible life must be for people not living in cities. In last decade I only had one job in city rest all were in burbs. I didn't much care about dining and culture options on my work days. I would think of just getting the hell of out workplace as early as possible and reach home on time. Also exploring city on weekend is always an option.

All things you listed great about city is true. Something I see missing from discussions is what percentage of population really love or afford to access them and with what frequency.

Now as you say cities may be the future for most of the people. Similarly ad economy and constant surveillance also seems to be the future. To me none of these looks to be good.
Same for tremolo technically. It’s just repeating the same note very fast. Unless you mean the perverted definition which means vibrato; That’s a different question.
If belt networks were only about capacity, sure. But you can't put two different kinds of things on the same belt lane without creating some serious trouble. So, the more different kinds of things you want to transport by belts, the more parallel belts you need. Plus, you need those parallel belts early on, even before any of them are running at capacity.

I find it much easier to lay down just iron/copper belts and upgrade them as needed -- upgrading speed in cases where adding parallel lanes is inconvenient.
“Historic” laptop demand leads to shortages ahead of remote school
GLab v1.9.0 Released
Just released v1.9.0 of glab (a GitLab Cli tool) with new cool features including WATCHING A RUNNING PIPELINE AND VIEW A JOB'S TRACE/LOG DIRECTLY FROM YOUR CLI.
Do check it out. Your feedbacks are really appreciated

https://github.com/profclems/glab
The author's quote is asserting the opposite of what you're saying here.

Filling in "GPT" for x, "text" for y, and "world" for z, the author is stating "if GPT models text, and text models the world, then GPT models the world."

In particular, the author directly addresses your point that "Generalizing a bit, our 'shadow' model of reality in every single domain is far more powerful than language's approximation."

> Modality, uncertainty, vagueness and other complexities enter but the isomorphism between world and language is there, even if inexact.

My own personal view tends to lean towards the author's. GPT-3 , despite its many astonishing achievements, has many many limitations. Yet I don't see any indication as of yet that any of those limitations are fundamental ones inherent to the approach behind the GPT series, which is why GPT-3 both excites and frightens me.
first, i think there's a demo, so give it a taste for free if you're interested

second, it's similar to how watching a documentary is sort of like knowledge + entertainment. i think you'll find factorio pulls a lot of the same sorts of levers that designing programs and coding do, but it's a different feedback mechanism (visual, or base destroyed by biters) versus... well, i almost would say acceptance/integration tests, but if you're just brainstorming, it's not clear to me.
I may be missing something - why is tolower(c) incorrect here?
Yeah, the SF Board of Supervisors refuses to change the current zoning regime.
If you think San Francisco has poor quality food, you clearly haven’t spent much time there (as you admit) or you don’t have very discerning taste. California grows the majority of the country’s produce and most everyone else is getting the same ingredients a few days later. Farm to table is the standard instead of something that starts at $25/plate like in most US cities

The city could be more dense in some areas but it’s far more walkable than almost any US city outside of NY. Maybe go to the Mission next time and show me how LA, Miami, etc. are more walkable after
If it fails and sensitizes people to the virus, so that they have more severe reactions to it, it could be a very big deal.

If vaccination causes people to relax other hygiene practices due to a false belief that the vaccine protects them, then that will make the next wave worse.
You know algorithms (not leetcode). Most people struggle a lot with algorithms. It's the reason a lot of people flunk out of CS programs. That's why they hired you. If you can solve these problems on a white board, you can write the code in a programming language.
That's what Java OOP people would say too. ;)
I’d say your question is too generic, but here’s some general advice.

* Your choice of initial project probably doesn’t matter. Whatever you start with will probably fail, and whatever eventually succeeds will probably be after many iterations of learning from failure. You’ll take better photographs if you take 100 pictures a day, instead of trying to figure out the perfect thing to take 1 picture of before you start.

* Get experience executing on an idea from start to finish, so that when the right opportunity shows up you can just go, instead of having to learn a bunch of tangential stuff like accounting, insurance, or legal stuff. You’re also more likely to find some problem worth solving, by identifying people’s pain points, if you’re out there doing instead of thinking about it.

* You’re talking about starting a business, not working as an employee, which is a completely different mindset. As a business owner, you don’t get anything for just showing up. It costs you something just to show up and have the lights on.

* As a business owner, it’s all up to you, no one is coming to help you, and you have to embrace that. You have to find a way to be fulfilled by the process. There is no low hanging fruit. You’re going to have to go hunt it down and kill it yourself.

* As a business owner, you’re trying to do something, and it will either work or it won’t. The plane will either fly or it won’t, and you’re not going to figure out how to invent a plane by asking other people for ideas. You have to figure it out. Figuring it out is the valuable part.

* You (probably) need to be obsessed. If you’re not ignoring your friends on Saturday night because you’re sitting at home starring at computer screens of code, because that’s actually what you’d rather be doing, you probably won’t make it. I’ve never seen anyone make it solely based on the desire to quit their job.

* You need to have some reason to keep going. Quitting your job probably isn’t it. At some point it will get very hard, and you’ll ask yourself why the hell you’re putting yourself through all of this misery. At that point, if you don’t have a compelling answer to that question, you will quit.
That bouncing atoms video just blew my mind. It took whole minutes, but it got so incredibly fast... Only to grind to a halt as soon as the workload changed just a little, haha.

I'd imagine you have a ton of bigger priorities, but being so hackable I wonder if there are easy tools within Graal/Truffle to hit that peak performance sooner and be stabler. I'd never expected it to stall so aggressively, probably worse than full GC.

Still, blown away.
> There’s no free lunch. It came with side effects.

Yes, and it's largely positive since we have a much larger population that can actually survive thanks to the benefits across the board that fossil fuels have brought (mobility, agriculture, commerce, etc...). To reduce their negative side effects the first thing would be to get away from coal.
The level of complexity for auditing here is much, much higher than the paper system. How do you verify that the software wasn't backdoored? How do you verify that the computer actually ran that software? What if the hardware had a backdoor? What about the compiler? Even the printers could be compromised.

Normally, I would consider these types of issues simply paranoia, but in this case we are talking about very high stake elections that control the spending of trillions of dollars.
Your profile must have been pretty solid to get those interviews though. In my experience, just having some proof of knowing Python scripting is not enough. Would you mind discussing the other pieces of your background that you think may have helped in attracting recruits?

I almost wonder if throwing “leetcode” in your skills section would get you interviews at these companies...
"I read an article saying not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep!"

"You are gaining weight, not finishing your work, and you had a car accident last week."

"I feel fine on 5 hours of sleep, shut up!"
I think things like these should be explicit. Even it is convenient to have a default, it should be what most people would expect.

For example, instead of .lower(), we can have .lower_ascii(), .lower_turkish() or .lower(locale) .
But I know it would be tedious to use if you need to specify it everytime, so it makes sense to have a .lower(locale=DEFAULT_LOWER_LOCALE) .
As for what should DEFAULT_LOWER_LOCALE be, it is worth debating, but I think it shouldn't introduce unexpected behavior.
Fun is relative, however main bus is scaleable, up to certain level.

> unable to adapt to circumstances

One side main bus should be adaptable to many circumstances. I wonder what you mean by it cannot.