skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Payments are not the problem of concern for central bankers: negative interest rates are. Legacy physical cash based fractional reserved banking is inherently not able to support aggressive negative interest rates as depositors can simply withdraw cash to avoid it. Digital currency can self amortise as it never leaves the ledger, allowing effective negative interest rates to turn the momentary policy crazy dial way past 11. Keynes would love the idea.
They're not suppressing the article because it's wrong, but because it's pretty obviously intentionally planted misinformation disguised as news. Twitter has a choice: either they can suppress it; or they can be pawns of whatever bad actors are creating this disinformation.

It's a hard choice, and clearly it's a struggle that as a society we have to deal with. Right now, creating and distributing disinformation is easier than combating it, and I think it's unfair to call out Twitter for making a moral choice in the matter.
This has got to be Taibbi click-baiting pro-Trump subscribers. He buries his admission that Trump's Biden/Burisma narrative is a lie so deep in the piece, you really have to trudge through a lot of hand-wringing drivel to find it. You can read 90% of this piece thinking that Taibbi is clearly sympathetic to the Republican narrative, and he gives no indication otherwise!
At "best" they're evidence of extreme corruption that compromises US national security. The allegations and evidence points to many insider dealings with CCP linked Chinese companies including what appear to be unreported loans from Chinese banks.
> Slippery slope is a falacy, just like "correlation proves causation", to pick one HN somehow likes.

I've seen too many "if this happens then that will be next" come true to write every use off just because your 9th grade teacher said it was fallacious. For instance the U.S. legal system leans very heavily on the concept of "precedent". Slippery slopes are baked into the system.

I don't think you can just pull out the fallacy card every time it comes up and declare anyone who is predicting a chain of events to be arguing in bad faith.
Two words: Heat Sinks

A well proven way to move heat out of a silicon package to prolong its ability to perform at its highest potential. And in a desktop, you've got room for 'em.
It's not anyone's job to inform you of easily available history. Pointing out that someone is a known liar goes to credibility, and is not as hominem. Calling them "Republican" or would be an ad hominem argument against credibility..
Most likely the reaction mass is hydrogen. The NERVA project [1] used it, and the mechanism was quite straightforward: heat the hydrogen to 2250 deg Celsius and let it go. The vacuum specific impulse obtained by NERVA was 841 s (the Space Shuttle main engine had a specific impulse of 453 s)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
> reducing Earth-Mars travel time to just three months

Does anyone know what it was reduced from?
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> All this is to say, I'm skeptical that workers won't be called back into the office as soon as leadership gets the chance.

That forget the leadership on top of that leadership though!

Where I work, before covid they were working on expanding quite a bit the amount of office space but as far as I understands, all theses plans got cancelled and instead we won't have permanent desk and instead we will works remotely 2-3 days a week. That's coming from a company that had literally no remote works before Covid (except while travelling).

It represents so much money to have less office space, as long as the manager doesn't play too much with their staff efficiency during Covid, it will just make sense to save money there.
Not for low frequencies. You simply need mass for that, no way around it.
My biggest personal gripe is no nested functors. SML/NJ does support this as an extension but since no other implementation does you effectively can't use it if you want decent performance (that SML/NJ doesn't really give).

I'm also pretty jealous of OCaml's modular implicits, just because it saves you typing the module name before an operator (i.e. MyModule.+ vs just + implied by context).

It also kinda sucks that operator precedence is defined at the module level and cannot be exported. You have to always redefine a library's operator precedence yourself.
USNC not UNSC.
sound isolation yes, but vibration isolation (footfalls, washing machines, subwoofers) no way.

source: I tried very hard to soundproof between floors. Sound passage is non-existent but footfalls are plainly heard.
How long have you been collecting this list?

There's a handful of projects like tooll.io that seem to have been dropped years ago.

Also thanks a lot for sharing, this is actually really relevant to me professionally right now.
I don't think you are mistaken, I guess it's just that there is just so much information you can convey in a tweet, when I read "world class GPT model" I understand a model that will beat (or equal) on general NLG, which is not what you meant it seems.
Connected to my 15" laptop, I have directly connected a 34", 24" and a portrait 24". Four displays total; two via DisplayPort, one via HDMI. Plus external BT mouse and keyboard. Then I have a powered Anker dock with eight external drives connected (photo and video for editing work).

At home, I have a similar setup but with a 27" colour-calibrated screen in place of the 34" curved.

When travelling, I use an unpowered four port dock which means I can connect five external drives without needing the powered dock and its power brick. The unpowered dock only struggles if I have more than a couple of platter drives (instead of SSD) connected.
StandardML really hits a nice sweet spot in language design.

The syntax is super-easy to learn (The BNF for the whole fits in a mere 2 pages[0]), but contains a lot of features in that small package. Rather than tacking on functional features (eg, Java with lambdas), these features have been carefully considered and streamlined and include bits like proper tail calls and currying.

You get nice bits like actually sound types (hindley-milner types as Milner was also one of the SML spec authors), generics (way better than typical interfaces), type inference that actually works, and modules (super-powerful encapsulation). Pattern matching in all it's awesomeness is also on display.

SML has an amazing concurrency story (CML is rather like golang channels, but better with better typing and a bit more flexibility) and compilers like PolyML or Mlton are very fast (once again, around the same as golang).

Despite this, the language doesn't have the academic flaws of its descendants like Haskell.

SML isn't a lazy language, so reasoning about performance is much easier than some other functional languages.
SML doesn't pretend the world is a pure function. You are free to make functions that have side effects.
While most primitives and data structures are immutable by default, they either have mutable variants (eg, vector and array) or can be used as if mutable with refs (something like typesafe pointers without all the reference/dereference bits).

[0] https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/cse305/MLBNF.pdf
Good design would either reuse the reactor for other purposes, or ensure it runs out of fuel at roughly the same time as the rocket runs out of reaction mass.
My understanding is that you can travel, but you'll be in 14 day hotel quarantine at your own expense.
“Purdue University Scientists Drive Tiny Robot Around Inside Living Butthole” was also pretty odd
SpaceX projects six months to get to Mars[1]. I think it’s always between 4-9 months with current tech due to orbital physics.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
Not necessarily. Intel is still putting out i3's with better performance than their i5 or i9 models. It's all about the specs, not the model number.
> Concrete separation also acts as fire barriers, which is very important in areas where people will be cooking stuff

Sheetrock (gypsum) can solve this problem if you use enough of it. But that can get expensive.
They sued German company StudiVZ (in US & German courts) for using a similar interface, but swapping the blue color scheme for red.

I know Intellectual Property and Copyright lawsuits aren't the same as Patent lawsuits, but when you're arguing about human interfaces they might as well be.
Have you used CML for any real projects? Very curious to see. I've always used Poly/ML when I wanted parallelism.
That’s an interesting observation that’s normally only made about political affiliations.

I wonder if there is precedent with the migration out of NYC and the like in the post-WWII/mid Century period. It was a real boom time for the West...California in particular. A lot of folks came from back East or the Midwest...

Not many tried to explicitly recreate their East Coast/Midwest life in the West...in fact they made a point of trying to create a unique California “lifestyle”. That new California lifestyle was the hot US cultural trend from, say, 1960 to 1990.

May happen again, but in the reverse direction, Californians creating a new Montanan/Utahn/Ohioan/etc. culture by engaging in the roots of their new not-California and building something better, bringing their creativity while leaving behind their California. Of course, if they try merely to graft a California-lite onto their new rootstock...well, they could be an important new source of protein for the locals...

I don’t think this creative dynamic could happen in other “tech hub cities”, because, frankly, there is no essential culture there to work with. Austin may be nice, but it seems more parasite on Texas culture than symbiont.

(Which has been a slam against California over the years too. What’s the difference between California and yogurt? Yogurt has an active living culture. More people outside of California believe that than you might think. It’s been 30 years since CA has been a dominant nationwide cultural thing, Hollywood as almost a metaculture notwithstanding. Silicon Valley? That’s getting onto 25 years old now...that’s senescent in US cultural terms.)
The low quality media we are drowning in is memes and conspiracy theories from random individuals. Even in the mainstream, the worst news is Rupert Murdoch's, and he made his money selling low quality media, not made his low quality media from crony capitalism.
IMHO the research community in general is definitely not ignoring intellectual property rights - for natural language processing, there are papers and publication tracks in major conferences specifically about the legal issues of corpora; many researchers are quite painfully aware of all the various legal restrictions that exist.

However, the legal environment is very different than in the commercial world or consumer piracy, as it generally involves various legal exemptions (differing between locales) that do allow such usage. For example, I work in NLP research on aspects that involve handling large corpora of copyrighted text. It's easier to do it with cooperation of the publishers for various practical reasons, however, we still can and do use also the works of the publishers who would refuse to grant any permission, because local copyright law has specific exceptions that allows the usage these works for noncommercial research purposes. Doing so is not ignoring their rights, their rights are not violated but rather they are limited; their exclusivity right (privilege would be a more appropriate word) to make copies is not absolute. There are even some countries with explicit legal duty for the publishers to provide digital versions of their works to national corpora where they will be used for (among other things) machine learning models.

The specific consequence, however, is that we can't legally share the full datasets which we are using with the public, like it was done in the original post with this particular dataset, as that would be a violation of the publishers' commercial rights; we can provide them to specific researchers for limited noncommercial purposes only. But I can download this dataset or one like this and use it my research legally; just as I can rip up a physical book, scan it, make a digital copy and OCR it, and use it in a research corpus (with copies distributed to other researchers) even if the publisher disapproves.
I agree. The platforms will regret this sort of censorship.
> USNC not UNSC.

...isn't it USNT (not USNC)?

I've never played Halo though so I just assume I'm missing something.

EDIT: I was just referring to the abbreviation for what GP said, "U"nited "S"tates "N"uclear "T"echnologies
OK, so is this your point?

Something could flip California and Alabama (example, Trump starts defending Roe v. Wade and in response Biden somehow manages to sound like he's opposing it). This would probably be some latent hidden variable, like whether the candidates are seen as socially conservative, which would effect all states (though California and Alabama would be the most impacted).
I was under the impression that building materials are very expensive right now.
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
I really think this article, like many others, is part of a post-Snowden propaganda push. They know they've lost the hearts and minds of nerds -- that's why we now encrypt everything. Where once GCHQ et al were desirable places to work, now I am very much sure that the vibe among the people they want to attract is far from positive. Just look at the HN discussion, for example.

One of my friends is an academic computer scientist, working on steganography, specifically steganalysis -- trying to do the inverse problems like "given 1e12 cat pictures, find the one with hidden information". GCHQ often like to talk to him about his work.

He has spoken of it being filled with mathematicians too socially inept to have an academic career...
Many "real" camera manufacturers (at least Canon, Nikon, Sony, I think Fuji as well) have released software during the past six months that allow many of their existing system cameras (DSLR or mirrorless) to be used as very high quality webcams. Likely overkill if all you need is a webcam, but might be worth considering if you also need a camera and/or happen to already own a compatible one.
Yes it turns out I am. I did some googling and found some decent options. I do wish that there were more network appliances in this vein and that they were more widely developed for and used rather than the current cloud infrastructure.
And so are all the other younger people who want to live in the urban environment. This is why it won't get significantly cheaper.
The NY Post is not a serious source of journalism. Like the other Murdoch properties, it's primarily a propaganda outlet. Even its own employees will tell you that [1].

Retractions are an indication of journalistic integrity. So of course they don't issue retractions, that would imply commitment to the truth. Who else doesn't issue retractions? Fox, The Sun, The Times (UK).

No one would argue that Twitter does journalism, but their content policy does prohibit spreading of deliberate, dangerous misinformation, which the Post reporting obviously is.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/new-york-post-inside...
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Any such argument is an argument against democracy.

Which I think is a fair debate, but it’s a different debate than the one above (which is about keeping, yet improving democracy).
Having just reviewed the 'Major Incidents' section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach I can see my perception of this stuff is badly skewed, I just happen to be interested in S3 so I pay attention to those.
Not at all. More like, pretend to be a woman in a sock puppet account and eventually let them know there is a discount on clothing at XYZ department store. Then they just show up at the location.
The "agenda" of the paper is whatever position it thinks it's reader base has, if it's reader/ad funded. The political bias due to owner or donor conflict of interest is only one potential source of funding.
It’s not that they need to make it less good. It’s that they need to make it less controllable and flexible. They get paid for each keyword search you do that generates advertising clicks.

Most people seem to disagree with you about the raw results improving. They certainly don’t seem to be for me.
In the article it says it’s written USNC-Tech
This article didn't explain it at all, so you're right to ask.

tl;dr: Gaseous propellant (I'm guessing hydrogen) is heated with fission then pointed in the opposite direction of intended travel.

The uranium in this design is not a propellant, but a heat source. Aside: you can use photons/heat as a propellant, but it's thrust is very low https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly. Ideal propellants typically have a high exit velocity and low mass. That gives you the longest amount of "burn" time, and the greatest amount of control for the weight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse

Back in the day when the US was building more of these nuclear rockets, the propellant of choice was typically hydrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA. Old timey video explaining it https://youtu.be/eDNX65d-FBY?t=238. I'm assuming this proposed design would also use hydrogen, but I couldn't find any sources on the propellant for their design.

Liquid hydrogen served to keep the reactor cool as it transitioned from liquid to gas as that phase change absorbs energy. The gas is the directed through the reactor core where the gas heats up. As gases heat up, they absorb energy, their average particle velocities increase.

Eventually, the hydrogen molecules (mostly H2 or H-H gaseous hydrogen), makes it to the nozzle and is ejected. The high-velocity hydrogen is what actually provides the bulk of the thrust to the spacecraft.

Compare this to Project Orion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...) which intended to detonate nuclear warheads and the craft essentially rode the shock wave into the stars. I would classify this method of propulsion, not safe.
The masses run any program or punch their credentials into any phishing site you send them. I'm fine with them being restricted to the iphones and androids of the world.

That's where it's going to go, the security situation is not getting better. You already see it in a lot of political organizations where many of the workers get by with chromebooks. And for joe schmo, that's FINE.
> Despite this, the language doesn't have the academic flaws of its descendants like Haskell.

Can you elaborate on what those flaws are?
You’re taking a very extreme interpretation.

Someone (e.g. me) could support wearing masks inside / near others, but still ridicule wearing masks when e.g. alone in a car, or running alone in the park (yes, I’ve personally seen people like that).
I sometimes answer questions in the tech-help reddits to get a feel for the kind of IT-problems everyday users are battling with.

The amount of people asking if they can upgrade the CPU, GPU, SSD/HDD or memory in their new-ish laptops is disheartening. Most of the questions concerns the CPU og GPU where the answer is no 99.99% of the time these days. 90% of consumer grade laptops have the RAM soldered to the mainboard too now. Luckily the HDD/SSD is usually replaceable or upgradeable in case of failure, performance problems or lack of free disk space... but for how long?

From a purely ecological standpoint, the laptop producers should be forced to buy back and recycle all their shitty unupgradeable, unrepairable, made-to-fail consumer electronics. It's a shameful situation we are in.

If societies can get 99% of glas and plastic bottles recycled using bottle deposit money, we should be able to reach the same figures for consumer electronics like laptops.
You are correct, metal prices are up 3x and wood at least 2x. Building might be happening due to demand, but not because the materials are cheap. It might be possible that labor in big cities might be cheaper, but I doubt it.
Exactly the same in NYC. Real estate investment is planned on 50-100 year basis. We're in for a 3-5 year blip from a utilization perspective, but on longer timeframes, now is really just a great time to add to the capital base.
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Why not use dilithium crystals /joke attempt
Oh, I wasn't correcting the Halo reference. I just meant the initials of the company are USNC.
Fortunately, businesses still have both plenty of use for general purpose computers and lots of money. PC hardware isn't going away any time soon.

The more worrying thing IMHO is that the software to make use of that hardware is becoming increasingly polarised between what's aiming for big businesses and what's aiming for consumer drones.

The thing that gives me some hope is that the geeks all those businesses rely on to build the software that makes them billions are almost all in the "lost middle" and, given enough time and inclination, are quite capable of creating open software to destroy those businesses.
I've actually considered this many times, but the math never works out. I ride 50KM 3 times a week, Strava's "estimated power rating" is all over the place, given i ride the same trail every time i would think it should not be like this.

Lets be reasonable and say 160W (somewhere between all the ratings strava gave) avg for my 2 hour trip.

I think I am a pretty strong rider, at the peak of the season I can beat electric bikes on flat ground as my top speed is higher then theirs (I dont have a speed limiter, they do)

I can tell you this is NOT easy and once you realize how much physical effort it is you appreciate being able to plug things into the wall.

it is the sustained power output that will kill you.. You can probably dump 10w of power for a long time, but putting out serious power for extended periods of time isnt easy.
The previous comment was an alternate perspective but this is becoming trolling. Bing "hunter biden laptop fake".
That's what I meant. Though I guess they've decided to take the google route in deploying manifest v3.

So I'll probably be dumping them for firefox (or rather, reversing how I use them. Use firefox for my 'logged in' browser and edge as my 'noscript, no cookies, no history, default browser')
A cursory reading of the both the data itself and the circumstances by which it came to light will reveal that your interpretation is highly improbable.

You can believe what you like. But don't ask me to believe that a person took 3 laptops to a repair company in a state where he doesn't live; that the said company was operated by a blind person; that the security camera footage of the delivery of the laptops was erased; that the laptops were unintentionally forgotten there; and that they somehow found their way into the hands of one Rudolph Giuliani.

To believe that story, you have to be gullible or complicit.
Every time you recompile. Many times per day.
Because when Pytorch came out, Tensorflow API was cumbersome and hard to work with. In comparison, Pytorch was much more intuitive. Being beginner friendly, it quickly gained traction. It was like Java vs Python :)

At the time, except for advanced use cases or prodution usage, most people used Keras, the simpler higher level API on top of Tensorflow. Until Pytorch came out, which supported both simple and complex use cases, with a simple API.

I heard that tensorflow made considerable changes to its API after that, but I didn't have a chance to work with either of them in the past two years. If I had to choose now, I'd choose Pytorch as I know it got its design right from the beginning.
Warehouses is another one (in addition to coworking). I am not sure how easy it would be to rezone (some places have an industrial category that is separate from office/residential) but being able to fulfill orders out of city-centres is obviously attractive (but debt and equity would go to zero then, you could probably maintain prices with coworking but warehouse space is going to be a 90%+ loss).