skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how much there is in a gas giant - natural concentrations on earth are vanishingly small - but the idea that Cassini's 32.7 kg of it would ignite Saturn was always insanely dumb.
I feel bad even making the comparison, but interestingly, the disastrous Faraday Future was cofounded by Nick Sampson, who was also a chief engineer at Lotus and then Director Vehicle & Chassis Engineering at Tesla for the Model S.
I’m not sure why you’re being snarky and uncivil. Yes they are related (never said they weren’t), but the Foundation cannot transfer $245k to the Corporation to help fund salaries of workers. The Corp exists to be run as a business and the Foundation exists primarily for advocacy.
> I got my Certificate of Incorporation and a bank account (got blocked, but that's a different story) ...

Would appreciate the story if you shared it, we are still in a pandemic :)
The Origins of Policing in the United States
For a supposedly business-friendly country, the USA certainly seems to have a bunch of fees.

Tarsnap is incorporated in BC, Canada. I pay less than $50 to file an annual report with the government (basically just a "the company still exists and the mailing address and directors haven't changed"); there's no franchise tax; and Tarsnap's corporate income tax is easy enough for me to do by hand (it takes about 2 hours and I usually file in the first week of January).

The notion of spending $1000/year just to keep a company in existence seems crazy to me.
Great point! Will make the change now.
How many "x + y" questions can be formulated where x and y are both single-digit numbers? The answer is 2^10, or 100. If x and y are two-digit numbers, the number is 10,000. These are tiny, tiny numbers that are trivial to memorise for a model the size of GPT-3 and there is no need for "enormous" amounts of examples, let alone to "understand how arithmetic works".

In fact, it is absolutely the case that if a system needs to see "enormous" amounts of examples before it can "deduce the underlying rules" (of arithmetic) then GPT-3 can't do that, because there simply aren't enough examples of such operations (between one- and two-digit numbers).

Indeed, GPT-3 completes "x + y =" and "x - y =" prompts with 80% accuracy or more when x and y are one- or two-digit numbers. It scores 20% or less when x and y are three- to five-digit numbers and its accuracy is similarly abysmal on multiplication (and results on division are not even reported for one-digit x and y).

This is very much what we would expect to see from a model that has memorised some, common, examples of one- and two-digit addition and subtraction and has not seen enough examples of other operations to learn any consistent representation of those operations.
Also why is it the city’s business to limit max home size?
They did cover 1 quite clearly. At least to me, an American that lives outside America with some US income. You do not want pass through outside the US. Unless you just like paying taxes.

Edit:

Just to clarify why I said this. The US has a “anti-double taxation” treaty with most countries. Except that it doesn’t really apply fully to businesses. For example, I basically paid almost 50% income tax on income made from the US last year. I’m trying to figure out how to restructure to fix this.
> Isn’t the point that internal functions often have a much smaller state space than external functions

That's the general theory, and why people recommend unit tests instead of only the broader possible integration tests. But things are not that simple.

Interfaces do not only add data, they add constraints too. And constraints reduce your state space. You will want to cut your software over the smallest possible interface complexity you can find and test those, those pieces are what people originally called "unities". You don't want to test any high-complexity interface, those tests will harm development and almost never give you any useful information.

It's not even rare that your unities are composed of vertical cuts through your software, so you'll end up with only integration tests.

The good news is that this kind of partition is also optimal for understanding and writing code, so people have been practicing it for ages.
The accredited investor restriction on private equity seems like the most anti-free-market law I've ever heard of. You're not allowed to put your own money into a business unless the government deems you Smart Enough (c) (tm) to do so. If the vast majority of citizens here are not smart enough to invest our own money, then what is all the higher education for?

This change sounds like a good one but there's not enough information to know if it will really open up any opportunities for regular people.
No, I haven't. Some of my immediate neighbors do; one household immigrated as a family so they're on the forefront of my mind. I appreciate your perspective; thanks for sharing.
If the company has a process set up to accept investment, they don’t have to deal with each individual one at a time
With sufficient time there are plenty of realistic options, ranging from evacuating the impact zone, to nudging it off-course with a "gravitational" space tug (surprisingly feasible), all the way to deflection with nuclear weapons. (Pushing the asteroid enough to nudge it off-course is always a lot easier than blowing it up, Armageddon-style.)
Yeah, the $200k/year threshold excludes something like 97% of individual income earners (https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-age-calculator/). That's not relatively low, its a significant barrier to entry. Worse, a $200k income in SF or NYC (where an outsized portion of those income earners live) is a different beast when it comes to disposable income if compared to Johnson City, Tennessee.

Matt Levine has it right- just peg the total amount of investments in these sorts of vehicles to 10% of cash, stocks, and bonds, until the investor crosses the $X million dollar mark.
Adjusted Gross Income?
The average person can now take the Series 65 exam for $60 or so and, if they pass, become an accredited investor. This is a huge change. Taking the wealth requirement from 1 million dollars to $60.

EDIT: It's not $60, but $175, still a far cry from a million.
It's littering on the largest scale imaginable.
If you click the "Community" tab it is listed. More hidden than it used to be.
Thanks for the viewpoint from the other side. Since I have very little interest in St. Cyprian's reputation, but some interest in what lay behind 1984, this makes me even more inspired to write one of Syme's war stories, related to his new Miniplen colleagues about the odd personalities back in his old office at Minitru.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243240

(if we already suspect his author's narration, I have even more reason to believe Smith may be a less-than-reliable narrator.)
Can I ask why you are not citing the GPT-3 paper itself? Why do we need to look somewhere else for evidence about anything to do with GPT-3 (or indeed any system) than the work of the people who have created it?
As another poster said-- C++, C or Rust may give you better luck when compiling to WASM. You could also try TinyGo. Vanilla Go's embedding of its entire runtime and GC is ... a lot.
The striking example that comes to mind is Tokyo. Japan liberalized their zoning after their last housing crisis, and median income families in Tokyo can actually afford to buy homes in the city.

https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
I love the nostalgic feel to it. Can't quite put my finger on it, but just reminds of me late 90's gaming. Looking forward to play around with it!
What's the definition of a "knowledgeable employee" of a fund? E.g. would any GP be assumed to qualify as long as the fund wasn't specifically created as a vehicle for them to qualify, or are there specific requirements?
Boom's pitch did not rely on a quick exit, it was much more along the lines of "This will take a very long time to come to fruition. We're up-front about that. But, it has the potential to be billions of dollars, if you can be patient." VCs are often more interested in that than the quick flip....
That, and LLCs tend to be easier to run.
If it were truly profitable it would still be in operation. The evidence doesn't even need to be explained, unless you believe the airline industry willingly abandoned a profitable product.
I figured there'd be a lot of Googling for counter-arguments and some ridicule.

Despite the inherent difficulty in comparing different countries, I do think Tokyo is an interesting place to study. If you've dug deeper on why Tokyo had a period of flat housing prices, you might have noticed the larger picture.

But more simply, you have to look at housing in long-term frames. And lo and behold: Tokyo is changing:
https://www.rethinktokyo.com/news/2020/01/07/price-new-housi...

One tidbit from that article:
"Low-interest rates increase the borrowing capacity of homebuyers, supporting higher property prices."

Housing is complex.
"which the Commission may designate from time to time by order".
He cited a source, he cited the court documents...
What does "housing poverty" mean here? As far as I can tell it means "houses smaller than I am used to". In which case I have to ask what is the concern with houses less than 2500 sq ft? I can't find any evidence that housing size, above some minimum[1], is correlated with happiness. See e.g.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45420795#:~:text=The%20U....

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-016-9732-2

or do you own search.

This desire for extremely large houses just seems to be a combination of prior expectations that houses will be large and status seeking. Expectations can adjust over time and I don't put much value on status seeking.

[1] The BBC article lists "4 rooms per occupant" as the threshold beyond which there is no increase in satisfaction.
Why is the custom design only on the inside? I think I'd be much more interested if it were on the outside.
I agree. Honestly, my belief (no sources!) is that cities are expensive precisely because there are so many regulations and restrictions about what can be done, and where.

Modern cities and suburbs have ZERO flexibility in how they can adapt to changing times. The reality is that zones of certain kinds of activity are fluid. The economy is fluid. The culture, the weather, and the land are all fluid! So why do we try and harden it into a concrete set of laws?

The way we have conceived of things in the US has created such a separation between us. We see our homeless neighbors and we are powerless to help them. They are homeless precisely because of all the ridiculous laws we created.

Creating property lines, and housing laws incentivizes all of us to build high walls, and protect our shit at all costs. We need a community model for housing. I'm not saying I have the answers at all, but it should be clear that what we have now is failing most of us. I say this as a homeowner myself.
I don't think SpaceX can lift LSST-class instruments to orbit (and transport the students/maintenance staff to visit/upgrade monthly), move radio telescopes like VLA/SKA/GreenBank to orbit, transport kids to dark-sky locations for the cost of a school-bus ride, make it possible to watch unfettered nebulae through a pair of 10x50s, or make it possible to photograph the Milky Way rising over a national park without streaks in the sky.

I don't have a solution to the constellation problem -- I just want to point out that, while launching JWST-class instruments would help to mitigate the impact for some professional astronomers, such a strategy cannot the broad impact of artificial stars in the sky.

Constellations can do undeniable good for the ground, but I think it is really a choice between dark skies and global satellite internet.
I'm so glad you're enjoying it!
The scare words really kill your credibility. It’s tear gas and pepper spray, not mustard gas. Stop trying to manufacture an oppressed victim narrative. We can call a water cannon a chemical weapon too.
The Czech Republic is in the processes of amending their constitution to include the right to self-defense with a weapon. The Czech Republic also is shall issue for carry permits and their are around 250k people with one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic
Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising
Glad to see this posted on Hacker News. I used this for our internal tool and the first time I showed it, almost the whole company were in awe. I made a kind of public version here if you're interested: https://scan-viewer.vercel.app/scans/1

Edit: Guess I should explain a bit more about this tool. Our main product is a handheld scanner that can take an individual’s body measurements while they are fully clothed. You take a 360° body scan and get a few point clouds back. This tool is mostly for debugging 3D reconstruction issues.

Edit 2: You should open this in a desktop browser. In mobile view some widgets are not showing.
This is nice-looking, but wow, those loading times are painful. There's also something weird going on in the transitions on the 'Play' page - seems like it's re-routing between selections.
Preparing Audience Network for iOS 14
If you've got a keyboard, I believe you can use Alt+End to temporarily disable f.lux, rather than having to clicky-click-click through the taskbar menus. Doesn't work on a laptop, though. (Might only work on Windows as well.)
I had to leave the company I was at. Group projects were too confining. Work for myself now. The killing of bad ideas it just creates groupthink and encourages echo chambers. Some need it, some don't need it. I think the more we baby guide people into things without them discovering how to do things themselves the more they require the assistance of groups. The more they work in groups the less capable they are doing things on their own.
Great explanation - and also why we should be wary of headlines touting polls that don't get into the specifics.
I don't think so. If I didn't know who Ron Jeffries was, I would have sworn the following series was pure satire about TDD:

https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/oksudoku/
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/sudoku2/
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/sudokumusings/
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/sudoku4/
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/sudoku5/
nice spin on the proglang homepage, 'KISS
Depends on the car. Model 3 is rated for around 250 Wh/mile in the US. For the UK on the WLTP cycle it's rated for a range of 348 miles, and is actually better than 245 Wh/mile, but I don't think WLTP is realistic so let's use the US numbers.

Tesla charges around £0.24 per kWh in the UK, and there is no connection fee. In that case for 25 kWh you'd be paying £6, which would get you 100 miles of range. Or £6 / 100 = £0.06 per mile.

£0.06 per mile vs £0.108 per mile. That's way cheaper for the Tesla.

Some of the other fast charging networks are indeed more expensive than Tesla, but they are also getting cheaper. Plus if you charge at the L2 chargers, like a lot of people generally do for charging at work, it's even cheaper.
Why big companies can't catch up with Apple?
These rules aren’t meant to stop anybody from losing their life savings. You can do that very easily with options in the stock market with no accreditation. They are meant to slow down the growth of Ponzi schemes etc. From that perspective, adding a few accountants and junior lawyers to the mix isn’t going to change anything.
> based on over a century of data around the world: increasing density of housing has little effect on affordability

citation needed
Good description of how you use it for image compression, but nothing about video compression - that is, how similarity between consecutive frames is used.
For example, what does "load" mean? Type it into a browser url bar and press enter? Or just what happens when you press enter (excluding the typing)? Via curl? Or does load refer to just a single HTTP request?
Seems to be working for me, can you share a screenshot of the problem with me?
I don't know that fewer or more police either one is the answer. Better police, demilitarized, with better screening, better training, and a better focus on police work is what we need. Most of the things police are doing do not require police, and definitely don't require high-tension interactions between armed police and the public. We need social workers, clinical psychologists, trauma counselors, food security plans, and such. The police should be a last resort, not a first interaction with people struggling with a difficult situation.
Similar to omg.lol

I actually have an email with them. I use it when I have to give an email, specially in person. It's so much fun when people see this sort of email address!
I've just been learning about Wardley Mapping and he says you're right, too. The point wasn't only that you CAN trade external quality for time to ship, but that anyone who tells you that you can trade Internal Quality for the same is probably wrong and should be disbelieved, as that trade isn't likely to work for long, if at all.
> Are you referencing something specific?

Take your pick [1], (Li Zehua is worth noting) but they all stem from the same intimidation factor from the CCP, explicit documented details of the Mainlander examples are harder to track down using basic google searches, but they're out there if you look for it. I recommended a documentary called 'High Tech, Low Life' for first hand accounts of these in citizen journalism as they're being harrased by police, and one even has his passport revoked prior to boarding a plane to speak about censorship in the media in China.

I saw a few of those first hand videos they make re-posted as gifs of mainlander women who denounced the CCP/Xi on social media in the past and are often simply reading from a script lambasting themselves as 'selfish' and an 'unruly, ungrateful child' of China. Are you seriously not aware that something as simple as being a follower of Falun gong was cause to be sent to the supposed 300+ re-education camps [2] for this 'crime.'

The 'education' system in the mainland re-enforces that, as well. Compliance is not a choice, its demanded of you.

> Do you have primary sources demonstrating otherwise?

This specific case: where hired triads were not prosecuted but high profile Hongkongers are is a blatant example that it is in fact retro-active [3]. Lam Cheuk Ting, and 16 others have been arrested for their 'involvement' (which is to say recording others on the train being beaten on by unmasked assailants who went unpunished) in last year's 721 attack.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+citizens+forced+publ...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor

3: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/world/asia/hongkong-arres...

Sidenote: I may be arguing with a wumao, but I wrote this mainly for the benefit of anyone doubting this occurs at the hands of the CCP, as this poster has clearly tried to argue his pro CCP stance in his post history, in the hope that some of you FAANG workers come to realize what the implications of what you're building can look like in the hands of tyrannical governments. The US is far from innocent on the abuses of power throughout domestically and areound the World, but at least redress is a possible, albeit mainly from a lengthy and costly process that entails a significant and risky undertaking.
This (GPT-3’s performance on arithmetic tasks) is covered in the original paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165)

Pages: 21-23, 63
We should never forget the human cost of our civilization, from the people who toil endless hours to assemble our phones and computers, to the near slaves who extract the raw materials used in them, to the nomadic workers who pick the crops that end up in our supermarket, to the employee that restocks the shelves that has to work two shifts to feed their family and still requires food stamps to do that.

Of course, some follies had higher human cost than others, but our comfortable lives are not entirely bloodless.
You’re overthinking it. Just drive the car as the range reports. There is a battery degradation warranty if the pack does truly get damaged.

I know Chevy bolts have extra capacity so you aren’t causing permanent conditioning at low capacity. Never heard of not driving when at full. Only not to fast charge above 80%, which the car and charging stations manage for you.

And as for cold weather, yes you do lose some range, but in warm weather you gain range. I get close to 280 on my bolt (rated 238) in the summers.
People, let's get real for a minute.

Why are we allowing a private company to ruin the night sky for everybody, and by everybody, I mean literally everybody on this planet?

This should be discussed in a democratic and international way. It’s nor going to be easy, but it is necessary.

I can't believe future generations won't see a pristine night sky anymore...
Poster replied that that was indeed their suggestion. No need for personal attacks here.
Firefox it is. Thanks to you both!
This is why it'll be both correct and just when Apple wins their antitrust cases.
I would have incremented the version number so the likes of Chocolatey would pick it up and replace the version installed with a revoked certificate as part of a regular update.
Show HN: WOD Insight for Galaxy Watch – Amrap, Tabata, EMOM, HIIT, Crossfit
I find it silly that this is seemingly the same privacy issues other privacy conscious people have pointed to for years with the more legacy tech/SM companies. However, now a Chinese company comes into the picture and it’s a big deal. Pretty sure if China govt wanted this data so bad they would have it, probably do.
Another big problem with the App Store is that there are so many requirements (can't be too much like something Apple made, can't be too much like a web app) and these rules are inconsistently and arbitrarily applied.
You may have missed an opportunity there.
The Company's mission statement is "Simplifying the long tail of software development". Perhaps networking is only of the possibly many building blocks they plan to tackle to simplify software development for the normal companies.
OOP Class really devalued the idea of module. Focusing on terminology and not the concept caused harm.
like the most anti-free-market law I've ever heard of

Do you know why the SEC created these rules? If you understand the history it makes a lot of sense.
See my reply above. The evidence in the paper does not support the claim that GPT-3 has learned rules of arithmetic (also claimed in the paper, not just in the OP's comment). There is a much simpler explanation, i.e. memorisation.
I'm getting "An unexpected error has occurred." after a short loading screen. Let me know if you need more info!
I personally liked the idea of a simple classic ring on the outside with the personalization only on the inside, but I acknowledge that is just my preference.

I do plan on adding outside customization soon but I wanted to launch ASAP.

If you are interested I can pretty easily make a ring with the design on the outside for you.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07
I see the biggest opportunity here in summarizing books and blog posts. At least for me.

Too often, after reading a blog post, I feel like it was a waste of time. I'd prefer to read a super dense summary first. Then optionally select longer variants before reading the full thing.

Maybe There could be a compress function [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ...]. Choose the compression level before reading.

Especially with books. I'm not sure how well this could work, but I'd prefer to read 100 books that way first, before deciding on the few I actually want to read.

I'd totally pay for this.
Do people still use WinRar? :O
Also that coherency is probably why many Star Trek reboots often look off
> Side note: I don't get any audio in Firefox. I had to load the page in Chromium to hear audio.

This sounds like a feature rather than a bug. Website UI should not make sounds.