skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I think we could, and should, do much better.

If people generally moved on from LaTeX (which is a whole other argument, and one I've had, and lost, on several occasions) to something with more semantic content, it would be much easier to make papers where it was easy to change the style of formatting, make it clear which symbols are "the same", etc.
>Other highly intelligent animals do not seem close to even the first steps of space exploration.

Ten thousands years ago humans didn't seem close to it either and yet they were same as us (and also same as their ancestors for dozens thousands years). 100,000 years is nothing on evolutionary scales and yet during this time our ancestors managed to outcompete other intelligent specie, Neanderthals and probably caused their demise. Considering what our species did to environment it's likely that as long as humans exist, another intelligent species can't evolve here.
I actually have a degree in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience, so I took a range of hard-science neurology classes and the required "softer" classes, and I came away with the belief the field is, largely, a sham. There are exceptions, but even some of the "hard science" subfields are really just soft-science with technological window dressings.

I mean this at both low and high levels. At the low level, there are field-wide issues with reproducibility, p-hacking, sample size and selection, deliberate ignorance of compounding variables, etcetera. At the high level, the field simply cannot do what it claims to be able to do - explain the emergence of the mind and its role in behavior decision making, and will not be able to do so with the current approach that it takes, and it has very little to show in the way of falsifiability and predictive power.

The utility of even the basic stuff like operant conditioning breaks down outside of all but the most constrained lab conditions, but it is largely not discussed for the same reasons I mentioned above - it is too uncomfortable to admit. I think the politics surrounding the 'Rat Park' experiment[0] is an illustration of this.

There are counter-examples - behavioral and drug therapies which "work" (although it's often hard to say _why_ within any definitive proof) - but I don't think they're enough to shore up the whole field against this criticism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
I suspect Apple is using their own LZFSE[0] compression, perhaps now with special tweaks for M1. The reason I only suspected a 5-10% increase though is even if it’s able to achieve a massive increase in compression ratio (compressing 3GB to 1GB instead of 2GB, say), that’s still only saving 1GB total. Which I guess isn’t nothing and is more than 10% on an 8GB machine.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZFSE
> Whether HuffPost was popular in India is besides the point

It is central, if they were popular and making money or if they were popular and have a wonderful future prospects, they wouldn't have to be propped up.

And whoever is funding it could be motivated by not so charitable reasons.
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being inside the cpu package should allow for less than a 1% improvement in latency by my napkin math. its got good latency because it is a top of the line mobile ram setup but that isn’t unique to m1
> The latest mac pro... I think it wasn't just expensive, it was sort of sucker expensive

It's the kind of Mac that makes you get an iMac to put on your desk and a beefy Linux server-grade box you hide somewhere, but that does all your heavy lifting.
Cool concept but I am not sure if results are apt ?
For input "Old man who fought in war" and maximum creative I am getting a "blood pressure monitor". I think a "gifting" recommendation engine must understand the gift as well as person.
I think the developers and power users that still use desktop machines/towers are either very cpu-power-hungry niche exception, or the more backwards ones, and thus least likely to influence/be imitated by anyone...
As an Indian, I'm just disappointed that we seem to have wholeheartedly chosen a side - USA - in the upcoming Cold War 2.0 instead of staying a bit more neutral. I don't think we chose well.
Ohhhh, that's a telling tidbit, thank you.
> First, because a person making it will have a difficulty explaining their own existence

Maybe to you. I derive a great enjoyment from just being alive myself and living my own potential. Considering a life meaningless without procreation is a very unintellectual perspective in my opinion.
Are the results any good? Can it really generate quality copy? How is it for research on any given topic?
Newton’s notebooks have been digitized nicely:

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-03996/55

As a research scientist, one thing that has definitely changed since the passage of FTF [0] in 2013 is the loss of a singular notebook of ideas and thoughts.

Most everything is digital now, and ideas are exchanged through dozens of media which don’t facilitate easy recording to a single physical source.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_i...
It also generated romance novels and sports pages. They were delightfully called 'prolefeed'.
What is there to manage in airflow that can be outsourced?
i've worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and have managed to get them all to either treat me like an individual, or to even change policies at a higher level. The trick for me is to always be open and honest while not coming across as hostile, but also showing no fear of reprisal. This means being open about your own weaknesses in front of your managers and team mates, which only works if your strengths outweigh those weaknesses. I don't think everyone can pull it off, but so far I've managed to get myself in a position where everyone I interact with is always willing to hear me out. I don't always get what I want, but when people listen to your ideas then sometimes they start to think its their own idea, and then it begins to spread.
What are some more sources where I can find things explained in this manner?
Is Apple turning us all into cyborgs?
Most people can use computers just fine which, by definition, is enough for them to be computer literate. Where's the problem?

How much do you need to know about how your car works to benefit from driving it?
And why shouldn't they?

Is it only the West that has an exclusive right over art?

If they can pay for it, and its future maintenance, and there's a willing seller, then why not? It's not like all of the Louvre's pieces were commissioned by some French king, and the same goes for MOMA or any of London's museums. In fact, let's be glad they're buying it and not looting it like the West did with a large portion of their exhibits.
I know a guy that set up a food operation in a sea container in Toronto. It was a whole ecosystem of food producing organisms. Fish in the water, herbs like dill, tomatoes, all sorts of stuff. He'd sell it at 4x grocer prices to pricy restaurants near-by. His reasoning in putting it in a sea container was that he could always find a spare place to park it / electrify it with all his friends in the construction industry.

Made enough to live in Kensington Market, which is a hipster / hippy part of Toronto.
You can also find books on audible to listen to that might save you time especially listening to them at a faster speed like 1.5x - Also check out some startup podcasts as well.

Another good book might be Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman.

One thing to keep in mind is not to get distracted by all these items (they are good, but can be useful) but there are no shortcuts.

Most of the largest companies were built without a playbook but with determination and a north star.

Remember to also have fun! Hope this helps somewhat.
Almost! :) Not sure about the IO performance of this solution.

> The official pi4 compute base board routes that to a standard pcie x1 slot instead of USB 3.0

Do you have more info on this? I am not sure how it works.
That was the first questions in my mind too... of course the physical notebooks are also valuable, but the information contained within is the thing that's actually important for historians etc. Thankfully the question also occured to the BBC reporters:

> Although the notebooks have been digitised, Professor Secord says the scans can never replace the real thing.
Exactly. It would be amazing to have some of the many incredible UX/UI designers out there help with open source projects like these. So many potential adopters are lost just because of the interface, no matter how awesome the software is.
Wildlife uses Utah’s first interstate crossing just for them
Well yeah, GPT-3 is effectively an eloquent idiot, so has many similarities with Shapiro.
Pygame still has no GPU/3d API support. But it can leverage NumPy arrays IIRC so that's accelerated (compared to pure Python code at least).

At some point we'll have to migrate to new terms for "in hardware" for offloaded operations since we are no longer using fixed function hardware :)
I drove the volt cross country. I wouldn't have been able to do that with a pure electric (at least without a heck of a lot of planning and limited ability to be spontaneous). I enjoyed driving it up and down and across (covered around 6000 miles over a month)
containerd is a daemon, which actually came out after CRI-O. But anyways the hole idea is Podman and Buildah was to get away from using root running daemons to launch containers. The important thing about containers is that we launch we all follow the standards. Podman, Docker, CRI-O, Buildah, Containerd all use the same OCI based images available at container registries, and all launch them the same time via OCI Runtimes. These runtimes can be runc, crun, kata, krun, gVisor ...

There is no fragmentation on OCI, which is important. Think of these as been web content, you have lots of choice on viewing and using web content, firefox, chrome, safari, IE, curl, linx, wget... All of these tools (Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, CRI-O) that can interact with the OCI content and all have different strengths.

Please do not add FUD about systemd.

None of the new container engines require systemd, they all can run and support all images at Docker.io. The new container engines support systemd better then Docker did, but they do NOT require it.
You're not wrong, but feel free to scratch that itch, I'm sure they'd welcome a patch.

Companies spend a lot of money on tools like Zoom. If instead they donated a couple of man-days to projects like OpenMeetings or Jitsi, these tools would be in much better shape and we'd all have free conferencing software.
The SyFy article said "up to five launches a day at the cost of around $500,000 per paying customer," which is a bit ambiguous, but it linked to Wired which says "A ride to space with SpinLaunch will cost under $500,000 per launch."

Making the rocket reusable would be the next step, but that's a nontrivial task itself, since it's effectively the upper stage which is the hardest part of reusability. Maybe it's easier for such a small rocket, I don't know. But even then they're just shaving a little fuel off a very low launch cost, in exchange for a 200 lb max payload that has to be hardened to 10,000 gees. The launch cadence would be an advantage today but Starship is supposed to launch three times per day, if the customers are there for it.
It's popular to hate on Apple right now. Seems even Hacker News isn't immune to this trend.
What is it about open source that it can't attract UI/UX designers to try and contribute? Are most open source projects just unwelcoming to that kind of help? Missing tools/platforms for it, or something else?

A lot of times, like in this case, I wouldn't even consider the product because of its bad UI/UX, even if the underlying technical implementation might be slightly better than the closed source alternative.
Russia Today was created as a child company of RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti itself was created as Sovinformbureau in July 1941 so the propaganda is in it's core.
Perhaps, whether correct or incorrect (and let’s face it, it’s a tactic of rhetoric whether true or not to hint there’s a lot of people on your side), the idea of “just saying what everyone is thinking” being gotten across is a notion of trying to break the fear of being the first person to say that the emperor has no clothes. “No fear, I’ve crossed that water first, you are free to imitate.”
I'm happy to see that they've added WebRTC support. No more flash!
I won’t get into it, but, on any given day, I have at least a dozen thoughts, that, if I acted on them, would have a SWAT team at my door.

Even just letting these reptile-brain thoughts out on a leash, is dangerous, as that’s the first step towards realization.
"Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other..."

Harry Truman
Scaleway sponsoring the HackYeah with task about ecological and carbon footprint
> I'll gladly join the groupie crowd once Linux runs stable on it.

Is there any hope that this will happen in a reasonable timeframe?

I'm very happy running Linux on my (rather old) MacBook Air, which is hardware-wise the best (not in performance but in comfort, durability, design) laptop I've used yet. I want to change because it's starting to show its limits now, but I haven't found yet something to replace it.
Deutsche Bank Weighs Move to 2-Days-a-Week Remote Working
Well that's the thing, it isn't coming up with deeper concepts and using language to express them, it is merely expressing the language that would make sense to as a reply to a prompt. The meaning it has is shallow, much like most young posters. It sounds completely devoid of meaning and purpose because it is.
This lesson describes the fictitious ‘force’ used in this technology:

https://youtu.be/rtFnki476cU
A humble request: please don't make spinners (GIFs, CSS animations, whatever) visible in the initial response HTML of a page, if they're meant to indicate some sort of AJAX loading. Lots of sites do this, but it's unfortunately too robust. The spinner will appear, and run forever, even if:

- We forgot to embed the JS that does the AJAX loading

- The JS has an error before it even makes a request

- The src URL of a script doesn't exist

- Some cross-domain issue prevents a script loading

- The user agent doesn't support JS

I accept that it can be tricky to remove a spinner correctly in the face of certain error conditions, but it's trivial to avoid showing it until it's meaningful. So please: only insert/reveal spinners programatically, just before the associated request is made.

In fact, this same logic applies to all UI elements that are only meaningful thanks to JS (e.g. buttons that require an event handler, rather than submitting a form); such things should be inserted/revealed programatically using JS, not visible in the initial response HTML, so we don't end up clicking over and over on a button that's useless, etc.

I get that many Web devs these days don't care about progressive enhancement, and like to assume all users have HTML5+CSS+JS+etc. but even that assumption doesn't excuse spinners that lie when a connection fails, or a server is misconfigured, or a third-party moves some assets, etc.
It is:

1. You have to build your fibre backbone anyways. That's an even bigger trouble in countries with no culture to share fibre. And you would usually have to get much "brainier," and more expensive fibre equipment in this case.

2. You still need to wire the fibre fairly close to premises.

3. High speed copper network equipment costs huge sums, more than commoditised GPON.

4. Copper often needs to be torn, to be replaced with higher grade copper

5. You still need to drill buildings to install niches for copper equipment.

6. You need to put extra equipment into equipment closets.

7. Copper needs more equipment overall

8. Copper has lower reliability overall, and costs more to maintain

So, in the end, you just do the same FTTH, just with copper as the last few tenths of metres. This is so obvious, but people keep dogmatising over "it's already wired with copper."

GPON by comparison does not require anything in the closet, but a piece of glass passive optical slitter.

You can easily have 1024 end-users on a single powerful GePON OLT, covering few square kilometres of 100% passive net.
> But this claim is basically not defended, and my point is that it's very easy to come up with cases in which it's not only morally acceptable for a doctor to lie to you, but in fact might be morally obligatory. This means that the argument fails.

I don't find that easy at all. That is the thing, all those doctors examples are either super unlikely to ever happen or happen due to non-medical reason. I mean, ok, if I am SS man and it is WWII and doctor is saving someone ... but I don't live in country with current genocide and the core issue is not doctor specific.

The doctors in fact used to routinely lie to patient and family to "protect" their feelings. In generation of my parents/grandparents, the doctor would not tell you about bad prognosis. And that generation do not trust doctors when they tell them it is going to be ok.

Current doctors (at least here) are routinely acting more confident then they should when they are more of guessing. Or they just don't explain. And result is predictable - people turn to internet and word of mount from friends to fill the gaps.
Exactly this. And spinner gifs are particularly useless, because they're that - gifs. Not progress indicators that need to be explicitly told by code to spin a bit more. Just fire-and-forget animations, that will keep to spin forever even if your processing code dies.
All the points in that list require a lot of justification
Thank you.

Yesterday I bought this book :)

Its totally waste of time to build and learn the hard way.

I am going to buy and read as many books as possible for next few months.

- Saran
That's what seems to me to be the biggest challenge too. Going from vacuum to 1 atm at 4000 mph has got to be quite a shock. Might as well just smash the thing into a wall.
depends where one lives, but 30 miles range would have been difficult for my palo -> san jose and back commute if I couldn't charge near work and deffinitely not enough if I would do anything else on the way to or from work. that's why I think a 40-50 mile range it lets you commute + do errands.

but at the end of the day, we somewhat agree, there needs to be a significant amount of electric range where its not just a gimmic or a glorified prius type hybrid. just because a car can charge from a socket, shouldn't make it regulatory a PHEV.
"Fascism" is a strong word, I hope people can be a bit careful with using it.

It is not like these comments are supporting the beheading or stoning to death of journalists or trying to protect grooming gangs or institutions involved in child sex scandals.
It feels like folks are missing the part where it’s a joke...
About VLANs, at a previous workplace, I've experienced firsthand the downsides of not segmenting the IoT devices in their own separate VLAN. One day, a misbehaving desktop hung during shutdown, and somehow went crazy spamming broadcast packets (I believe they were DHCP requests) to the network. The door access control was on the same network, and the broadcasts overloaded its tiny CPU, so nobody could get in. Had that device been in a separate VLAN, the errant broadcasts would never have reached it. (The fix was to unplug the broken desktop until it was fixed, segment the network so the door access control was not on the same VLAN as the desktops, and enable broadcast storm control on the switch.)
"This paper investigates whether Tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, influenced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices during the 2017 boom. Using algorithms to analyze blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether are timed following market downturns and result in sizable increases in Bitcoin prices. The flow is attributable to one entity, clusters below round prices, induces asymmetric autocorrelations in Bitcoin, and suggests insufficient Tether reserves before month‐ends. Rather than demand from cash investors, these patterns are most consistent with the supply‐based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903
australia?

One big farm in Australia is Anna Creek Station at 2.4 million hectares

Total UK farm land is 9 million hectares.
When looking at the current structure of agriculture, I think the context is long term undercurrents & cycles.

First is the green revolution and its post credits. This is one of history's great undercurrents and it meant that fewer people worked in farming every decade for a long time. Urbanisation, industrialisation and their consequences are all underpinned by this centuries long undercurrent. Kind like Moore's law, but slower.

The second one is more of a Hegelian pendulum swing. Dylanfm mentioned the nixon era "get big or get out" philosophy. Here in Ireland non viable farm sizes were the economic issue for over a century. Farm sizes that could not support a farming family. Viability increasingly became intertwined with non-land capital, machinery or whatnot. Besides not supporting the farmer, undersized farms couldn't afford modern farming methods and overall farm productivity suffered.

It's still an issue in much of the developing world.

But... big is a different beast at different scales. Economies of scale are not linear, scale isn't necessarily driven by economies (cheaper unit prices) especially past a point.

Speaking of undercurrents, a lot of them come from macroeconomics. The economics of money itself. Money in huge investment pools has to go somewhere. If there's a lot of money/demand coming from here, it competes with money/demand from small farmers. One or the other will own any given parcel of land.

Fungible ownership structure, complex financial arrangements such work only at gigantic scale. Also, financing at mega scale is more favourable... very impactful in a capital intensive game like farming. If demand for land/farms as an investment vehicle doubles...

You can sometimes think of such macroeconomics as normal economics in reverse. Normal economics: farms supply and consumers demand. A macroeconomic trend might mean the demand for suppliers (farms, companies) has gone up. When demand goes up, supply responds. Financial markets demand shares, bonds or other such instruments. These finance large corporations, not family businesses.
Oh this is cool. However always wary of what happens to my property investment when the startup folds.
The workplace has become hostile against certain thought and has fully adopted another. You will get fired for speaking against the entrenched thought. This is exactly what was said in the above comment.

If I said leave your politics and religion at the door and just do your job in a "safe space zoom call" or at a diversity committee, or at lunch, I'd be fired.

The silent ones just want to do our jobs but increasingly the ones with political power inside institutions of work have the control to setup the stage for only one type of thought.

I just want to do my job without going into these topics which occupy the majority of the companies all hands time and corporate communications.
The image on the site says 35 degree angle.
A related question is why policy makers should trust experts with a history of lying.

Or ones with a history of being wrong about everything every time, such as Neil Ferguson.
Lotka–Volterra Equations
Definitely, but smaller fields are a lot less efficient unfortunately.
The coin example is not right. A rolled sheet of paper still has curvature 0 (which is the reason why you can easily roll it up).