skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Regardless, as stated in the parent, there is no single dimension of any recent process that corresponds to the '3nm' number."

That's interesting - are they just entirely making that up then? What's the 3nm supposed to represent?

It seems like it's one thing to pick a specific dimension length to measure even if it's not proportional to all of the others, and another to just pick one that isn't represented at all.
It was at the end of the 90s maybe 2000. Messing with pay phones or prank calling on one was another fun thing to do. The good numbers (1-900) didn’t work on pay phones. ;-)

Call collect!
Purely an anecdote: I wrote in a related thread about 5 years ago how I had an allergic reaction and my guts became a mess after taking antibiotics for the first time in my life (around age 23) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10555891]. I managed to get better by changing my diet. In 2017 I had another course of antibiotics, got very ill again and was hospitalized, diagnosed with IBD (UC), and spent nearly 13 weeks in hospital. Only thing that keeps me in remission now is Azathioprine. Had to cut back on the fibre too, now my diet is mainly meat. I also became lactose intolerant, where I'd been drinking milk all my life up to 2017 (age 30).
> Guess it depends what you value! Personally I value deep thinking, making good decisions, and doing research higher than entertainment.

At the risk of sounding brusque, that comes off as more than a little reductive. "Your choices are poor compared to mine." I don't think you meant it that way but text doesn't convey emotion.

Regarding the what I value aspect: This is yet another (cool-looking) app that asks me to pour my creativity and thoughts into it yet charges me rent to keep them there, even though the app, as you say, does not have recurring costs to you.

So now, if I want to invest my time and soul into making this my One True Creativity App and keep it, hypothetically, for the rest of my life, I'm looking at $4,000. Or even if I just keep it for the next decade (assuming it survives that long and the shutdown of the subscription doesn't yank my data away from me with it), that's a grand.

I'm genuinely sorry but I'm not going to take that risk or pick up that expense. Sell me the app and I'll buy it; don't rent it to me.
> I don't think it's bad either,

Of course, but it has a significant, fundamental impact on huge aspects of "the economy" as we know it. Large segments of commerce - particularly in the U.S. - pivot heavily on people spending time and money commuting, spending time in an office, eating and drinking at nearby establishments, etc.

The effects will take some time to shake out.
Do they have a live draw feature? In recently purchased the Bamboo Slate. The live write is really handy when trying to express something on a Teams/Zoom meeting. I just share my screen and start drawing.
The one I'm unlucky to hit is the "icon resizing" that happens when a moving action on the thumbpad is performed in combination with the pressed ctrl key, which sometimes is not actually pressed but the OS believes it is (some "zombie" state). Happened to me on different notebooks and even on the desktop.

I don't think anybody needs that "quick" way to do that, and that nobody needs to change the icon sizes often. I have no idea if that misfeature could be blocked.
I think I'll spend that money on fancy notebooks and fountain pens/nice pencils. 0 latency, smell really good too.
> in relative terms.

In US certainly, some parts of the world definitely have it worse.

But I think the fear and divide it generates between ethnicities/religions/countries is definitely higher.
Thank you! I would have bounced here too. You saved me the trouble.
I learned of the Lounge when I was looking at the hosting panel of some random rent-an-instance service and it was in there alongside Wordpress and Nextcloud and stuff, and I said "what's this Lounge thing I've never heard of?"

I ended up hosting it on a raspi in my basement, but there are definitely services out there who will host it for you. I have no idea who that was now, though!
Would you have had a second thought if someone said "Some of the places I've been in North America don't have great reception"? OP never claimed or implied Africa was a country.
Exactly, every image they say are from concentration camps only shows construction sites and factories, like thousand others all around China. There is no credibility in a claim when you just point to random images and say unsubstantiated things about them.
I remember adding a linter to a relatively large project that I was working on after a few months and then realizing how many errors there were that I was surprised the project even worked in some cases (it probably didn't but I never bothered testing those edge cases).
Many weren't on board with the tax cut bill that passed under the current administration.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/tax-reform-2/
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will contain more than one end
What a great idea! How can I learn if/when you build that music reader app?
See for example Java, which basically dropped the 1. from 1.5 .
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
I dealt with this just a few days ago. A client's design was mocked in webflow and it decided to use 'static' for the header at 100vw. Which meant that on browsers that hide the scroll bar, the page jiggles left and right every time you scroll.

That was fun to fix because I had to rebuild the entire header since a ton of other webflow-generated CSS depended on that thing being static.
I'm reserving judgement on HG but the comments saying it just works and is so easy gives me a good chuckle were I've had to set up all sorts that's non-obvious. topics not branches? cool ok. command not found, right uh enable extension 'topics =' yep sure obvious ok, Huh wired error now. oh pip install hg-evolve has topics in it fine ok.

go add a remote to an existing repo. lovely ux there.

and now you're telling me about bookmarks, I've a docs page open to read about phases, that seems kinda neat. at first glance thought it seems like a solved problem of protected branches and separate forks.
Considerations for Updating the Bootloader Over-the-Air (OTA)
They settled a lawsuit in order to not lose it... how is that a "mistake"? They paid $500 million to settle it.
They already bought a platform like this, twitch.
A dinosaur egg, this baby wasn't what researchers expected
Or, swipe-sideways on SMS and that's how you can see timestamps!

It all sucks. I'm convinced that devs are trying to frustrate me, and it's working.

Don't get me started on the icons-without-text design shit.
Are other cars on the highway infringing upon my usage by making me sit in traffic?
I think you hit on a good reflection there. I've half a foot in the consumer space and my intuition is that if consumer product marketing targeted their strategies at the HN crowd, they will likely have a small market share. Certain cognitive styles are over-represented in the HN comments section which, from my empirical observations, do not match that of the broader population. The glossy pictures are visually impactful and do matter to most people: it's not even the subject but the production values, which communicate either downmarket or premium.

I have a sense that "lack of restrictiveness" is not something most users prioritize, as witnessed by Apple's phenomenal success. My daily driver is Linux (I've used Kubuntu for over a decade) yet I own Apple devices and am rarely bothered by things being locked down because for the most part, the constraints are tastefully picked (well based on my aesthetic they are -- others may disagree).

I watch MKBHD reviews regularly and it's not lost on me that Android phones for instance are so much more cutting edge and unrestricted relative to Apple devices. (I've owned Android devices in the past and have to admit they're objectively better in many ways -- Google apps for instance are more responsive and have more features than their iOS counterparts).

But I still find myself preferring the iPhone experience because everything feels right.

p.s. I ordered a reMarkable 2 earlier this year, but canceled my order because I decided that an iPad Pro (for consumption) + fountain pen/paper (for scribbling) fit my habits better. No knock on the reMarkable -- from all the YouTube reviews I've seen, it seems like a solid device.

It's just that from a social perspective, it's unlikely I'd use a reMarkable in a meeting room. It's still a touch too tech-y and liable to make others feel I'm not paying attention/being present (a sentiment which somehow pen-and-paper don't convey -- folks are ok with me jotting down notes with pen and paper. Don't know why. It's weirdly psychological.)

p.p.s. it sounds like reMarkable might gain a few extra orders by including "dev-friendliness" as a benefit. Why not add it to the marketing material? (I remember when Apple laptops were marketed to creatives, but the dev crowd -- who weren't being marketed to -- jumped on board when OS X became the main OS).
I think it's not only you.

I have the same problem with e-readers and books, I miss the ease of moving backward and forward in a paper book.

Also, I have observed that I remember better what I read in physical books. Maybe it's because the content is associated to something real out there in the world with a cover, a weight, and a position of the content in the book and a position of the book in my bookshelves.

It's kind of weird because the first intuition is that the support where you read something shouldn't matter.
That's because the recipient didn't want to return it.
> [...] and for most intents and purposes is clean.

It is not:

https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/Nuclear-power-a-false-solu...
The Queen's viceroy dismissed him as elected prime minister in 1975.
Ehhh usually type ratings aren't the most expensive part of training though. Plus on larger business jets there are simulators that are used in lieu of in-aircraft time for most of the training.

You're still looking at bare minimum a CPL with instrument rating which is minimum 250 hours (realistically 350 or so). Probably more than that before any insurance company is OK with you flying it single pilot.
As a hacking endeavour it is lame, yes. As a social one, I think it’s better than many other I had seen in a long time.
It's attractive for people that don't have insurance through their employer and can't afford insurance that costs more than $149 a month. Some Obamacare insurance plans are as low as $149 a month depending on your income, but they still have high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs.
normal: the usual, average, or typical state or condition.
Buy high sell low right?

Being half sarcastic though. There is still an argument that Amazon is a value stock.
I did feel genuinely bad for my comment, since it was a few shades nastier than I was going for and I try hard to be positive and not cut people down. It was mean spirited and I apologize.

My point was that intelligent humans can and often do make mistakes in logic and computation (arithmetic) in ways that machines typically do not. One reason may be colliding or incomplete representations of certain concepts, and (relatedly) the fact that we are relying on language. I think of neural networks as fuzzy representation composers, so it seems they also fail for similar reasons. Basically, it (GPT) does have some layered representation of the concept of numbers and how they are used in different contexts which gives it some faculty at carrying out common operations, but it doesn’t “add up” to a reliable system of logic (that would allow it to extend addition to say 100-digit numbers, the way even a sharp and/or patient 2nd grader could do, generalizing from the simpler cases).

I think accuracy is sometimes the correct measure, and in this instance it seems fine—at baseline, we should expect ~0% accuracy since it is generating output from essentially the space of all possible text (texts <= 2048 tokens). I agree that it would be interesting to probe the model with better tests, and understanding when/why it fails on certain arithmetic problems or types of reasoning.

I liked what you wrote about finding heuristics, though I disagree with your conclusion that heuristic finding does not qualify as learning—it is just somewhere along the spectrum between a randomized model and an ALU (neither of which can be said to have learned anything) in terms of its ability to perform arithmetic.

Of course, we already have better models for solving proofs and such, so I generally think the way toward more complete AI models is to return to the system design view of AI (meta-learning, integration of different models, etc) rather than trying to evolve one colossal model to rule them all. That is, a meta-model that recognizes what sort of problem it is facing, then selecting a model/program to solve or generate possible solutions to that problem, while revealing or explaining as much of this process as possible to the user.

In any case, I have definitely have more to read on the subject and am mostly musing at this point. Thanks for the references and the conversation.
The bound exists, but it's so many orders of magnitude out that for all practical purposes we don't need to worry about it.

Of course, however, heat dissipation presents similar challenges.
> But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower.

Yes, I can confirm this. I have never connected my device to wifi. I backup my notes to my home server using rsync.
The Yubikey documentation recommends always buying them at least in pairs. And configure them both for access.

If you use either a Static Password an HMAC-SHA1 Challenge-Response or TOTP with the key you can easily backup the secret material used to program the key and replace the key if one fails.

Store backups safely.
One option I don't see brought up often, in addition to battery, is HVDC. Transmission loss for 1000km on HVDC is 4% according to wiki.

Continent wide grids could be created connected Europe, Asia and Africa. Storage requirements could be lowered with HVDC grid interconnect. India's One Sun One grid plan is to build a Asia Africa hvdc grid.
I believe OP was saying that the Python 2 → 3 debacle shows it's important to get strings right the first time.
Fido Transaction Confirmation
Not at all. Sweden never wore masks and never shut down schools and yet they achieved comparable results to draconian lockdowns. They already have herd immunity.

It's likely we would get 2 economists from the year 2100 both giving opposite reasons for the next 80 years of events.
anti-terrorism activities is complementary to terrorist act response. One is prevention and the other is treatment. The treatment for an act of terror is not dissimilar to the treatment for an act of god. There's a lot of overlap.
What features does the Kindle have that make you use it more than the ReMarkable?
I vaguely remember pre-ordering RM2 in the spring and being given a June delivery date.

Who has received the earlier batches?

PS. I just checked and I did pay for RM2 in March.. Let's hope their support responds.
Lockdowns prevent disease spread when actually implemented. The US never bothered with an actual lockdown, and instead did arbitrary, self-enforced partial closures. These half-measures predictably slowed the spread, but did not stop it. US is at 181,000 deaths total and 1500 deaths per day (which is increasing). Canada fully locked down for two months, and is at 0.8 deaths per day, and decreasing. Canada will have saved lives. The US did not.

As for "no bodies in the streets": This is a long-lasting disease, you're sick for days before you die. People don't die in the streets, they die in hospitals and they die in their homes. The bodies are piled in morgues and refrigerator trucks.
They will probably be introduced in a 1.x release and the design does not break backward compatibility. "Go 2" is an umbrella term for a couple of bigger features, some already released (e.g. Go modules and error wrapping), not a version number.
Yep.

If the people who run wild wonderful off grid (great channel) have taught me anything, it's that battery backup is essential.
This was supposedly a problem with a stealth ship designed by Lockheed’s “skunkworks”: against the choppy noise of waves and swell, a blank spot (of no radar return) stood out dramatically.
How is any given transaction distinguished as being risky or non-risky?
Considering both the wealth and caliber of engineering talent at Google, for this feature that has been at the center of attention for both regulators and the public to be as user hostile as it is, it certainly can lead a reasonable person to think that Google is intentionally misleading and confusing its users.

It seems the primary question worth considering now is what regulators are to do in response.
> It became easy to accidentally share between different worlds.

This has burned me more times than I’d like to admit. I have a macbook for work and activated iMessages for my personal account. One day I accidentally posted something in a chat room meant for someone I was chatting with in iMessages. It was kind of personal but thankfully vague enough that I could brush it off. I also was on some screensharing sessions when I switched to iMessages which briefly showed personal conversations. After a few times of that happening I disabled my iMessages account for on that machine and made it a personal rule to never mix business and personal activity on any company-issued device, which has served me well over the years.
I think people should have kids if they want them. It's a big part of being human and if we can't be human then what's the point. But I think people should be more cognizant of the impact of children and no one ever seems to mention this when discussing environmentalism. I keep this opinion to myself in person because it's not my intention to direct this sentiment at any particular person, and discussing it in person can definitely feel directed.

Have kids. But please be mindful that it has a real impact, and one greater than mostly anything else you can do.
I assume because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
I've been to China numerous times, my Mandarin sucks, I stand out, and I went wherever I wanted. Didn't try to go to Xinjiang, admittedly.

There's paperwork that says you have to check in with local authorities wherever you go, tell them what hotel you're staying at, and all this other stuff, but nobody actually does it. If you caused trouble, it'd probably be held against you after the fact is all.

There's no reason to assume this guy is some kind of agent because he had freedom of motion. He probably liked all the people he met, sees lots of ignorant anti-China commentary on the English internet, and is pushing back (perhaps too strongly).
Haha ... Lily's blog is great. Good job, Dad.
Ask HN: How can I help spread important labor advice to career-beginners?
In particular, advice that would make them less exploitable in the field they enter?

To give you an example, I have collected various patterns about contract work in tech, and what makes it especially perilous for entry-level workers in these four major points:

* Many don't understand contracting and get severely underpaid. A contract position should pay 50% more than a full-time equivalent to be worthwhile.

* Do not become a contractor with 1-2 years of experience. There is no mentoring for contractors. Spend a couple of years in good firms with good education or mentoring, then look at good contracting/consulting opportunities, especially for niches that you spent working in.

* A lot of low-paying contract jobs are disguised as "contract-to-hire" and use the "hire" part as moving goalposts to keep workers spinning their wheels until they decide to quit.

* It is a much easier time start consulting after a considerable amount of experience. In most niches it is a small world, so those who don't have a good baseline end up bouncing gig after gig a few months at a time. Better people can spend years at same clients, being almost the same as an employee but earning much more money.

I know several people, including myself, that enter the industry completely blind, not knowing the above points, and fall into labor traps easily. They either lack the network of professionals to explain the good, bad, and ugly about different types of worker relationships, or won't know what to research. It's not simply a learning problem- it's a "I don't know what I should learn" problem.

What can I do to get this knowledge out to as many entry-level people as possible so that they don't need to go through the same school of hard knocks that I did? Like getting it out to colleges and bootcamps everywhere, and perhaps beyond. I learned a lot of things the hard way, and want to use that experience so nobody else has to.
And I'd bet I wouldn't. I'd bet a considerable amount. I'd bet I'd find that features I want to access are inexplicably hidden frequently.
I have a love/hate relationship with Rust. I love the type system as enthusiast, but as project lead I can't justify relying on so many (partly immature) third party dependencies for business critical stuff.
You can be under surveillance but unless the government is able to jail you on a thoughtcrime or take away your ability to use a vehicle (if you're ok ramming into a crowd you'll probably be ok carjacking somebody to get the required equipment), there's very little that can be done to prevent it.
It's conditional based on what's ultimately constant data, so you end up with predictable output regardless.
Epub would be better than PDF for the use case. AFAIK, you can't reflow text in PDF, so if the page size isn't exactly matched to the device size, all you can do is pan&zoom. Yuck.
>Geothermal, on the other hand, gives you a stable energy source, until it doesn't.

Can you point me toward any studies about geothermal 'running out'? Is that a thing?
Latest version has prebuilt images for ARM now :)
I'm still not sure how Oracle makes money with so many cloud options in the market right now.
I love my remarkable 1 but don’t use it very much because I don’t want to be tethered to yet another company’s cloud, and I want document syncing not to require another app or website. I won’t buy a R2 until they add support for one of the big cloud storage providers like Dropbox or OneDrive or gDrive or something.

The device itself is great; the OS is a little slow and takes a little getting used to navigate; recent updates made it better. The tactile feel is great.
I see you are making sure that is the case for hacker news as well
[Disclosure: I'm involved in Distill, so a little biased.]

Firstly, make sure you click through to the invidudal articles and try the interactive demos at the top of each one:

* https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
* https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/mnist/

I really enjoy how quirky Alex, Ettore, et al's experiments are. It isn't going after benchmarks. It has a very "what would happen if we tried this?" feel to it. If I had to bet, I don't think it's super likely to have direct real world applications, but it's immensely fun to read about and expands the space of ML systems I might imagine.

I've also been enjoying the open slack channel associated with this thread. It's pretty low volume, but there's been a number of fun experiments from people who enjoyed the original article on neural cellular automata. I feel like there's often a lot of really cool experiments and conversations that no one outside a given lab sees, because they don't make it to publication, and I like how the channel allows those to be shared with anyone really excited about this line of work. It was also really heartwarming to see people jump in to give feedback on the draft of the most recent article!