skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is possible to invent or imagine new things without resorting to endless random walks or blind trial and error.

Induction isn’t probabilistic. It’s the origin of all discovery and based in sussing out what’s important in patterns, selectively proposing causal mechanisms and testing those hypotheses by following priors and implications — an essential basis for original and creative thought that no purely probabilistic engine can employ.
This article gives context I didn’t already know, about why Fortnite was pulled in the first place, and digs in deep into the Google Play Store and Apple App Store policies. Recommended.

‘The situation Epic Games is facing in practical terms is the same: Fortnite has been thrown out of Apple's App Store as well as the Google Play Store, meaning that new users can't download it and existing users can't receive updates. In either case, this was the platform owner's response to Epic's offering of rebates contingent upon purchases that would have circumvented Apple's and Google's in-app payment systems. So there's a behavioral overlap. Antitrust law, however, is concerned with unilateral conduct only against the background of monopoly power. In that regard, Epic faces unique challenges with respect to each adversary (technically, there are multiple Google defendants, but they belong together):‘

[Emphasis mine]
I'm someone who needs a lot of sleep, like 9h minimum, so that I feel good and energized during awake time.

I'd say, if you feel well rested, energized and just overall feel good when you wake up, you don't have any issue.
And the government to help it!
Don't forget property tax that you're paying directly if you own or indirectly if you rent. If you rent, your property tax is likely a third of your rent in SF, to put it in perspective.

The average home price in The Bay is $1.3M. Because of prop 13, most owners aren't paying tax on that much, but most renters are paying pretty close (most units are relatively new stock). This comes out to $23,400 a year in taxes per house/condo. SF median salary is $96k.

Obviously the average person making $96k ($67k after income taxes) isn't paying $23k in property tax, but I think it helps give an idea at how big of an expense this is to most renters...
Intercepted radiation and radiation-use efficiency in sunflower crops
That's true. But grid-forming tech began shipping this summer:

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/07/enphase-begins...
I read the report and it seems to put most blame on all the flammable materials present than the initial arcing event.
China has been trying to reduce dependency on USD. They would probably wish that the world use Reminbi to deal with them but world won't trust China's money (I also understand that China way of regulating it's currency also prevents it from propagating out of China) so, how about China adopting some neutral stablecoin like DAI for certain Dealings?
Show HN: A browser extension that displays HN/Reddit comments on all webpages
It is a fun world where programmer-like thinking is rewarded and is a lot more visual. I’m not sure if it helps me be a better programmer but it solves an itch I have as a maker to design/build complex machinery that works together. The rails systems are particularly interesting to design and build.

However, once I launched my first rocket, the desire to play the game dropped and I’m playing other games now. But for a few weeks, I was so engrossed in the game that I even thought about design optimizations in my dreams. I don’t think any video game had me this involved before. I hope they build on top of it to create more interesting mechanics.
To a first approximation, niches and margins aside, yes.
Amazon.ca still fulfills a purpose for me... It’s AliExpress with faster shipping.

If it’s something I’d consider buying from AliExpress but need it before 3 months from now, then I’ll go take a look on Amazon and pay a premium on the cheap Chinese stuff they sell to get it in a day or two.

Anything else... like others are saying, major retailers or manufacturer direct are the way I go.
I think there's a sizeable group of people who found the quality of life poor prior to any shut downs or changes. SF is also not nearly as attractive to those starting a family compared to new grads and young single professionals. Combining these factors I see a significant permanent change if people can keep their high paying jobs and escape the physical proximity.
I'm now a senior engineer with over 10 years experience and I have to be honest, I wouldn't have been the engineer I am today without sitting next to others and learning things, nor would I have been able to mentor people without personal interaction and having them sit and look over my shoulder.

The things is, I work remotely now and have for a while, while I find a lot of pleasure in it, I can see the selfish side of it too.

One important change I've noticed in working for remotes is, we tend to hire experienced people, IMO for the following reason....

We, still don't know how to mentor juniors remotely. This is from an emotional and technical perspective.

I've also never received promotions as a remote person either. I feel there's a long way to go with fully remote workforce being the ideal situation for most people.
> Really? Not even the capacity to understand?

Yup. I'm pretty sure most software engineers don't even know how something as basic as hashing works. They just put lego blocks together, without much understanding of even how those lego blocks work.

When it comes to traditional voting, it's fairly easy to understand. You cast your vote, then someone counts them. You don't care how they count it, even if it's with an aid of a machine. You just care that you cast, someone fairly counts.

With a blockchain, there is no person involved and there is no counting. You vote and some piece of software that most software engineers don't even understand tells you who won. That is really not going to engender trust from anyone, not even software engineers.

I work on blockchains all the time and even I wouldn't trust that thing. Good luck convincing someone who doesn't even know how to reboot their iPhone.
Naw bro, they should put all the homeless people on a bus to Texas and then get rid of all forms of taxes. Make it so you don't even need a license to open a business. It'll be the greatest city in the world! /s
Along those lines:

https://youtu.be/hiLlNzxDfAg?t=714
can you link to that thread? Does it dig into how a focus on rote memorization of leetcode, has made a subtle influence in how the interface/systems are designed?
Of course, it is quicker just to multiply and add the last digit of the constant to find the only possible answer (or count digits to get an order of magnitude estimate, which will also show C as the only possible answer).

When a problem of this form uses big enough numbers to warrant a shortcut, digital root is almost always a suboptimal shortcut.
Or search for multi-stage builds
Yeah, this article reminds me of the very worn out “is New York worth it anymore?” trope the New York Times publishes yearly. Or the ones they run profiling a young professional couple that has lived in the city for 5 years and is moving somewhere cheaper.

Of course the pandemic is changing things considerably everywhere and it’s definitely different this time, but the cities are still the cities. SF has access to amazing nature and is a beautiful city. New York is going to be New York. They’ll come back. I’m not mad at having a cheaper, weirder, grittier city though. It’s the reason I fell in love with the city as a kid in the first place.
Considering Google and Facebook are willing participants in PRISM [1] it can't be any worse

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...
I had a co-worker who played minesweeper all day long on his Linux workstation which I had remote access to. I grabbed the source code for the exact version of gnome-mines he was using and compiled my own version with some back doors. I would also launch an xvnc server so I could see him playing from my desk. Sometimes I'd have people over at my desk watching him play. It was hilarious.

I could enable various features while the game was playing. Features included:
* Always lose on first click
* Always win on first click
* Force a guess in all 4 corners... so even if played perfectly he'd have to make 4 guesses.
* Load custom designs from text file. For instance I had some that spelled things out.
* Every click would be completely surrounded by mines (i.e. the number 8) until half the mines were exhausted. This one was fun because I remember him not believing it and actually clicking on a mine.
* Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost
Hi all, I'm one of the creators of the linked extension (Epiverse), a chrome/firefox extension for viewing Hacker News and Reddit threads as you browse the web. It's been stagnant for a while now but we've recently revamped it and released a new version. We will be actively maintaining the app, adding features and potentially new content sources, and would love to get your feedback.

A brief walkthrough: after adding the extension, the icon will display the combined comment count for the current URL across threads from HN and Reddit. When opened, the extension displays as a sidebar displaying all matching submissions and their comments.

With the latest version of the app we've focused on privacy (and user's ability to control it), performance, and usability. We've added the ability to have the extension auto-open on certain domains, which is great for sites whose own comments are famously shallow or offensive, like YouTube. Under the hood, we maintain and constantly update a database of all HN and Reddit submissions, which will allow the app to scale while preserving performance.

Our eventual goal is to transition Epiverse into a universal commenting system for the web with it's own authentication and commenting ecosystem, but step one is to grow the user base and stress test the UI.

Any feedback, good or bad, is very welcome!
I think that the reason your mind pops is that you are not trying to understand what the person saying that is actually meaning.

Stating that we are no more than statistical inference is no different to saying that we are no more math - really, you can build the deepest mathematical truths on statistical inference.

The thing is that the math/s.i. that ML models do is too trivial in comparison to the math that would be required to describe a human identity. It can detect faces very well, it can calculate fifths roots very quickly, it can solve discrete problems quickly, yes, but its achievements are, in comparison to actual human understanding (and purpose), more closer to those of another tool, like a hammer, than those of humans.

edit: typos/grammar
Not only that, but you can live code in the repl on the same device. One can solve a physical problem in less than 15 minutes using these devices.
It’s possible your willingness to deceive women to try to make them interested in you is what makes you suspicious.
Resource usage is carefully considered when introducing new features; but there are cases where it has becomes smaller. The recent addition of LittleFS meant that a couple of KB more RAM was available at boot for example.
Is the company you "work" at hiring? ;)
As someone who makes widgets, and can confidently assure you that you need widgets.
My original question was "How does [signed exchanges, which are] an open standard that, essentially, allows for CDNs to be more secure, let Google dictate how the internet operates?

You have said a lot of things, none of them have been about signed exchanges. Can you address that question instead of airing grievances about Google and the web as a whole?
I would guess that coding speed is also tied up with knowing the features of your editor well. There's really efficient ways of moving blocks around with vi, or applying regex patterns for example. I've certainly watched over the shoulder of people flying through refactoring, even though their actual typing speed wasn't notable.
Have you considered that not all of the people you're talking to here are men?
What? Skeptical science calls out scientists who are regurgitating false information, and proven incorrect theories. People should expect not to be hired as scientists when they’re doing that.

Why should I trust an someone to not lie to support any other incorrect or unproven belief?
After fighting my body my entire life to fit with the mainstream, I switched to a 20-hours up, 7 hours down sleep schedule six months ago. I've never felt better.

Instead of feeling like a zombie until 5-6 hours into my day and working late into the night, I now can find myself working minutes after waking up - something I never thought possible.

I'm roughly twice as productive as before.

It is admittedly difficult to plan ahead; I don't have dependents and I am a solo developer, working on my own schedule.

One silver lining of COVID is that people are finally getting a glimpse of what post-9-to-5 cubicle work styles can offer.

Why shouldn't we work when and how we are most productive?
As someone who remembers the web before personalization, the product experience was better.

It may be true that Google has over-invested in personalization-driven features, and under-invested in user-neutral features.

Personalization belongs in the agent. Specifically, the agent that I own and control.
It's been highlighted below but the reason this is posted here and up voted is that Google choose to 404 any requests coming from non Australian IP addresses.

Hardly seems to be the thing you do when you're acting above board...
To be fair, there was a ring of truth to this

...back in 2015 ;)
36 x 8TB = (roughly) 288TB raw storage.

The overhead (depends on partition/filesystem/etc layout) would probably take that under 281TB.

Adding a few more drives would still probably be needed to hold the file, and add some level of redundancy. :)
AWS does support IPv6.
Can you explain it more?
I vote for simplicity too. As I've tried to be clear in mentioning, I am not in favor of a voting system like this.

For the foreseeable future, paper ballots cast at a polling station are all that make sense.

The discussion is in part relevant because the US is on the verge of having the largest mail-in election ever. Trump claims this is insecure, the Democratic party claims otherwise. It's a political hot-button issue, and seems likely to happen. For this reason, I think exploring alternate systems is worthwhile.

I hope that makes sense.
The two points only consider the child loving and needing the parent, but the love you'll feel as a parent for a child is like no other love you'll feel in life. Not that it's "better" than love for a soulmate, relative, or friend, but it's different and in a class of its own.

This also seems to miss is the journey. Raising children is a challenging, varied, rollercoaster experience. It's nearly impossible to go through it without growing tremendously as a person. In most cases, kids will help you become a better version of yourself.
Not so soon and definitely not in India.
That you have an affluent area on one block and a poor area on the next is not new at all. it was like that back in the 80s. And it's probably a good thing, in terms of making it easy to climb the ladder. If you live in a wasteland of poor people you'll never be able to sell any services at all, or make any money, or climb the ladder.
What are you talking about? There is nothing of the sort happening...
> However, if you are trying to do a megabase [...] it's easier if all of the green circuit production is in one place

As you allude to later, it's not really about green circuits for a megabase. Since blue circuits require 24 green circuits (20 directly and 2 for each of 2 red circuits), your huge demand for green circuits comes mainly from blue circuit production. It makes sense to centralize blue circuit production, so most of your green circuit production should be right next door, which is both on-site and centralized. But the green circuit production that isn't feeding directly into blue still doesn't really matter whether it's on-site or centralized.
an OARC style one would likely work well given how distributed everyone is around the globe
I think you should try the demo and see how it feels. If you’ve found yourself at this particular junction multiple times, might as well indulge and find out.
You might be surprised. Ever since the Indian government's porn ban, lot of folks uploading stuff on YouTube.
It rains quite a bit in winter, especially November through January. But lightning is very rare.
It's actually pretty easy to get a live chat if you poke around the support options... On my phone now so I can't neasily get the exact link.
GPT-3 does not produce accurate answers to questions in any form. It produces realistic looking text in response to prompts. Sometimes that can look like it is answering questions but that is not the goal nor what it was built to do in any way.
As I checked the demo video and read the screenplay, I could actually imagine the shots, camera angle - the images basically appeared in my head with Tom Holland in them (without actually playing the video or remembering the movie). This is very interesting.
Live Bookmarks died because it was ancient code that needed to be rewritten, but most people didn't use the feature. Mozilla added telemetry to analyze feed usage and the results came back with less than 1%. It was about resource allocation for development and no volunteers came forward.
And yet, the option to take part in a series of referendums works splendidly in Switzerland [1]. This is also what I've anecdotally observed from living in Switzerland.

Perhaps, if the option to vote on an issue were presented often, people would have time to change their minds and would become more involved in the voting process. The reason a second referendum on Brexit wasn't held was because it was deemed infeasible. Not so with electronic voting.

1: http://direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/switzerlands-s...
http://g.co/australia-letter
yes, exactly that. scott adams(who would have made a brilliant con artist) made a video that give me the chills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRGYtMgn4c
I think it's silly that they even close. What's the point? Can someone enlighten me on why bars and stuff close at 1am? Thanks!
I miss the old Google search, the one that didn't try to guess what I mean, but instead did exactly what I said.

I can see how for your average user "guess what I mean" might produce better and quicker results, but for power users (who are entirely comfortable with search syntax, and who sometimes may be searching incredibly obscure things), it produces a worse experience

The only type of search personalisation I want is the ability to exclude certain sites from my search results (bye bye Pinterest, bye bye Quora). Google used to offer that feature, but in more recent years it appears to have disappeared.

I particularly wish Google News Search had a way to exclude media sources I dislike. I am interested in Brexit, so I regularly search on that term, but then I get bombarded with a boatload of sensationalised crap from the Daily Express, a media outlet I'd prefer to pretend didn't exist
Bestvipsite
No matter how the world treats you, please continue to work hard, be brave and hopeful, hope that all the unwillingness in life is because you have a dream in your heart. Before you want to give up, please do your best. You need to know that not everything is destined to succeed. But everything is worth trying. Life is actually like a "siege". People outside want to go in, people inside want to come out. You don't have the jealousy you imagined. Keep life happy, don't be arrogant, rash or jealous. Everyone has different ways to realize the value of his life.
Pot. Kettle.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw&t=29s
> And surprisingly, not one mention of Murdoch.

"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."

This wording doesn't suggest that Murdoch would have a better advantage than any other 'news media business'. Is there anything in the new laws to suggest, apart from capital/resources, that this is set to benefit any particular Australian media business over another?

> Google could easily setup a news sourcing hub themselves and self-cite news rather than relying on their external data feeds.

So they'd be paying for news content from established media enterprise, or paying journalists to write their own - as opposed to leaching off them. Seems like a win?
>I can't really stay productive on anything less than 15".

Agreed. Without a dock/external monitor 13" and 14" are really not the sizes one should focus on for productivity, except in short bursts. 16:10 really makes an impact on displays smaller than 17". It took serious justification for me to give up the XPS 13" 16:10 display in favor of a 16:9 14" laptop. I absolutely would not have chosen a 13" 16:9 display because of how big of a net loss it is.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494
So Google sends metadata for 5B videos to your browser, then your browser ranks them and shows you the best one? How would your agent do personalization?
You are getting downvoted big time by the woke libs on this board. Very few, if any, however will respond. And their silence will be deafening
While I agree with Bruce assessment that a lot of Blockchain evangelists push the whole "decentralized trust" or "trustless" or "in code we trust" ideas, I actually think you don't need to buy these ideas to see some hope in how things may work "better" if the promises of Blockchain materialize:

I agree entirely that we would need still be trusting humans even with Blockchain (shifting trust around). But I do see us gaining something with Blockchain: standardization. Rather than having multi-national and multi-lingual team of lawyers and diplomats to establish contracts and rules and how to interpret it and enforce them we can (try to) standardize all in code.

We would all still need to trust our lawyer/engineers, but now they don't need to trust some intermediary, translator/etc to get things done.
Nice!

Nerd out with your word out.
the dead golden goose bridge
Ice, Railroad, and English: Stubbornness Revised
Ahhh, mastahpiece

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#meth...
It’s “done” because the numbers around it leave no option to move its mines around. Since the mine locations have been fixed in that particular part of the game board, you’re guaranteed that the square at 3,0 is safe. Instead, you clicked on a square you couldn’t possibly know was safe (in the middle of nowhere) when there was at least one square that was definitely known to be safe, so the game punished you for it, exactly as promised.

I played a few rounds on an iPad, so I had no way to mark mines, and the game works just fine. Marking mines has always been for your benefit, to make it easier to remember where the mines are.
Is short term satisfaction a rational choice over increased chances of death? That was the context here. It's also a fairly well recognized behavioral pattern of irrational decision making.

A reason alone doesn't make something rational. A paranoid thought that aliens are trying to abduct you may be backed up by the reason "because secret weather balloons are tacking me". It's a reason. It's not a rational one. Having a reason is not synonymous with being rational.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200817020923/https://webcache....
This should be the link for this thread.