skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always wanted to play this, however a few things hold me back.

Experience has thought me that it is very difficult to wrangle a lot of people to play complicated games. Simple party games are easy, but the moment you try to explain anything complicated to a large group all their eyes glaze over.

Then there is the issue of the extreme play length. The people in my play group will complain if something takes an hour to play, I doubt they could handle 8 hours.

The closet I have come to this is Sidereal Confluence which allows for up to 9 players and can takes up to 3 hours or more to play. Explaining that to such a large group was a nightmare.

And finally there is the “take that!” aspect of this game that I find worrying. People like to say “don’t get mad it’s just a game!” But this isn’t javascript we’re taking about, these are real people with real feelings. I’ve been involved in games were people explode in anger or other times were people burst into tears, this is not fun.

As the host of the game night it’s my responsibility to make sure people have a good time, not to have them fight with each other and break up their friendships.
The difference being that NVIDIAs dies were otherwise usable for other tasks, unlike Bitcoin SHA ASICs.
This is typical of a certain kind of whininess in the "maker" contingent that is unappealing. Yes, people will criticize you, after all the hard work you did, and yes, people may not understand the exact context of your decisions.

But that doesn't meant that you're not a bonehead, or that the hundreds of people pointing the fact out to you are wrong. The good Lord, in his infinite wisdom, has made just as many industrious fools as lazy ones.

No special virtue attaches to doing something rather than critiquing it. Both can be done with thought and care, or without it, and that's the axis we should judge on.
Roughly, that proving a statement of the form "For all a,b,c,..., there exists x,y,z such that some statement involving a,b,c,...,x,y, and z is true." requires actually constructing suitable x,y, and z given suitable a,b,c, etc to derive them from.
I'm not a huge SpaceX watcher, but I suspect it's harder to build electric cars than rockets. Yes, rockets are crazy expensive and time consuming but the fundamental principles are relatively understood.

https://qz.com/1244768/why-are-electric-cars-so-much-harder-...

Tesla's continual hitting of projected targets is much more impressive to me.

You're generally right though: the maturity, risk, and timelines of fusion are much greater than either of these. Better suited to long-term gov't/military spending.

But the general principle applies. Everything is measurable and can be modeled with a predictive distribution. The more unknowns, the more variable the distribution is.
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Some leftists may seem to oppose technology, but they will oppose it only so long as they are outsiders and the technological system is controlled by non-leftists. If leftism ever becomes dominant in society, so that the technological system becomes a tool in the hands of leftists, they will enthusiastically use it and promote its growth. In doing this they will be repeating a pattern that leftism has shown again and again in the past. When the Bolsheviks in Russia were outsiders, they vigorously opposed censorship and the secret police, they advocated self-determination for ethnic minorities, and so forth; but as soon as they came into power themselves, they imposed a tighter censorship and created a more ruthless secret police than any that had existed under the tsars, and they oppressed ethnic minorities at least as much as the tsars had done. In the United States, a couple of decades ago when leftists were a minority in our universities, leftist professors were vigorous proponents of academic freedom, but today, in those of our universities where leftists have become dominant, they have shown themselves ready to take away from everyone else's academic freedom. (This is "political correctness.") The same will happen with leftists and technology: They will use it to oppress everyone else if they ever get it under their own control.
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This is a passage from the Unabomber's manifesto he wrote back in the 1990s. Turned out to be disturbingly prophetic.
Huh? Nuclear is an existing solution to climate change, though. More existing than wind and solar. It provides more electricity in the US than wind and solar combined. The problem of climate change would already have been worse without it. So it already is part of the solution.

It doesn’t have to be and isn’t the entire solution. But no activist calling for the end of nuclear electricity is doing any favors to climate action.
>right now there is no "better" use for that electricity than bitcoin.

I don't have a good use for rocks. That doesn't mean I should throw them at cars from an overpass.
Why do you care how successful the company you work for is?
This is solving the wrong problem, and therefore will not advance nuclear. Cost is the impediment to nuclear, not any sort of safety concerns.

That molten salt reactor will need to have a negative cost in order to compete with the cost of stored renewable energy.

The future of nuclear energy must either abandon the thermal steam cycle for electricity generation, or generate massive value from the nuclear reaction part apart from generating steam.
I don’t know enough to say confidently.

Personally, I’d be suspicious of a rule like that. In the end, it has to be enforced by the executive and it sounds a lot like “all speech will be tolerated except speech that spreads widely enough to be a threat to existing power.”
Another way to distinguish them is reality vs perception. Making directly alters reality, but comments only alter perception - the underlying thing is unchanged. A good analogy is that comments are potential energy - they can help us more accurately understand the underlying thing for future revisions. To activate it and truly make things better in the real world though, you have to make.

Funny timing, I just published a post about this today: https://suketk.com/thought-space-vs-reality.
TBF it was meant to be nonsensical.

If you need an analogy, think of unsold books. They get their covers torn off so they can be reported as “destroyed”, and then be issued a refund. (You’ll sometimes see a message warning you about purchasing paperbacks without front covers in books.)

In the movie American Airlines made an insurance claim, or made some other claim of loss on the trees, and so they now
have to destroy them.
> If you just tax it or try to ban it they'll just move

Which is exactly what the locals would want, is it not? I mean, if I live in a place with cheap power, I don't want some outsider to come, take advantantage of that fact, and use so much power until the prices approach average power prices.

Hydroelectric plants usually require flooding huge areas of beautiful nature. People accept that because it's better than burning coal. But if people are just going to use it for something that doesn't help the local community at all, why bother destroying the local scenery?

There's more to the economy than just money; local governments often subsidize local companies if they think it's good for the locals even if it would be more profitable to move production overseas.

We don't need to find a way to make the "moral" thing more profitable. We can just make laws that prohibit the "amoral" thing. If we would let the market decide everything, why bother electing a government in the first place?
This is a concept that was always in use in the now dead AOL browser. It was a concept I always liked and preferred it to tabs, but could never find anything to match it. I'll be sure to give this a go.

edit: for the curious https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/3a/7b/443a7b1de502069e3fa9...
1 out of 5. If I get downvotes, I typically stop commenting on that site for a week (and if possible, delete the comment).
The most difficult projects at Google are tangential to Google's raison d'etre, it exists to get people to click on ads.
> the changes at the time were interpreted by many users to mean that the platform would share their messages with parent company Facebook.

> The misperception caused a backlash amongst users of the Facebook-owned platform, causing an exodus to rival messaging apps like Telegram and Signal

There was no misperception, we all moved because of what Facebook is doing, not because of what we thought they are doing but aren't.
You can play it stretched out and remote. Make orders due every Wednesday and Saturday. Gives everyone ample time to talk and scheme with everybody.
> So you are already certain you want to buy a used 3060 next year?

I wanted to buy a graphics card to run my models. I don't have the $$$ to buy a datacenter card for it and in general, I am affected by the demand and the scalpers. I was considering 3060 because my models are small and it is faster than my 1080ti, but at 21x9 1080p@60hz, it's not an upgrade for my gaming experience because that is capped by the monitor, and I am really not willing to buy a new monitor.

> You said "NVDA's stance is that miners are the reason for scarce GPUs, but it is not."

The reason is mentioned before, too much demand for chips, not enough fabrication. You instead, blame the scarcity on mining, mining is part of the demand but is not the main factor.

Linus and many others, me included, disagree with your opinion that NVDA is helping gamers. NVDA does not care about gamers, they are a corporation, they care for their bottom line and their stock price.
Haha no. You have the biggest crisis. You have a problem with wildfires. You have a problem with cold snaps.

I have Bitcoin.

Yeah, I'm not particularly helping with your problem but you never really helped with mine so it's all good.
Because if you follow the standards, you can't send mail to some destinations, the issue the author is complaining about.

It's the author's "fault" they can't send mail to those destinations when others can.
Many HN commenters (and me) should feel convicted by this post. True words. Good words.
Living on Bitcoin in Bangkok?
Fibonacci Network: Generate Fibonacci and Tribonacci Numbers with Graphs
It's mathematics where certain kinds of proof by contradiction are not allowed -- if you want to prove that something exists because you want to use it, then you have to make it, you can't just say "let's assume it didn't exist and go on from there to deduce that 0 = 1 which is definitely wrong, so our assumption is wrong, so it exists, so let's use it".

Here is the reason why it's obvious for mathematicians. If you're trying to prove a theorem (e.g. the theorem that class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields tend to infinity), and then someone comes up with a proof which assumes that a certain generalisation of the Riemann hypothesis is true, and then someone else comes up with a proof which assumes that the exact same generalisation is false, then we mathematicians say "great, the theorem is now proved". This actually happened.

However if your boss asks you to write some code which does a calculation, and the next day you show up in their office with two USB sticks and say "this code is guaranteed to produce the correct answer if the Riemann hypothesis is true, and this other code is guaranteed to produce the correct answer if the Riemann hypothesis is false" then you are going to lose your job, because all you did was prove that the code exists, which is less helpful than it could be.

For me one of the biggest problems with the area of formalisation of mathematics is that for decades it has been dominated by computer scientists, whose view of what is important and beautiful in mathematics does not really coincide with that of the working mathematician. This is what I am fighting to change.
Ask HN: What are we, as a society, getting worse at?
No. It's time to push back on Bitcoin.

It is disgraceful to watch people such as Elon Musk and most of the VCs put money ahead of the environment.
Well, one example is having a JSON object property that is nominally typed as `number` but a JSON parser/library would also accept a number-in-a-string, so both `{ "foo": "123" }` and `{ "foo": 123 }` would be accepted.

Storing numbers inside strings can be necessary if you're encountering JavaScript's 2^56 limit on integers, for example.
Mainly use it to watch YouTube
Buildings are responsible for 40% of the total amount of energy needed (US, EU). Mandating better air tightness (<1 ACH@50) and raising insulation levels would go a long way to reducing that.

Residentially, you can built a 5000 square foot (500 sq. m) home that needs only 1500W (1.5 kW)—basically a hair dyer—to heat/cool:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vul4vMFdkA

Using an HRV/ERV with an air filter per ASHRAE 62.1 and 62.2 gives you very good air quality.
How long can you survive on beer alone?
“ If you really want an environmental problem to tackle go fight the oil industry killing thousands of animals every day, destroying communities every day, destroying them literally.”

It’s not one or the other. I’m critical of Bitcoin just like I’m critical of other things affecting the environment.

“If you just tax it or try to ban it they’ll just move”

Good. Let them move. Not everything is about acquiring as much money as physically possible. Getting more money out of people is not a tenable argument for whether something is appropriate or not.

Markets are wildly inefficient and do not account for everything. The areas that had low electricity prices were doing just fine for themselves before Bitcoin miners moved in, and will do just fine afterwards. Saying we should allow things because “money” is just sickening. At least come up with a better argument.
There's a de jure standard (the RFC) and a de facto standard (the real world). The question then becomes whether you want to be right or whether you want to be able to send mail.
This reasoning is flawed.

The solution to discrimination is not more discrimination.

And the biggest issue that the federal government/ American citizens face is not systemic racism.

You cannot absolve groups of individuals of their poor decision making. You can try to manipulate outcomes, but it doesn't end well if individuals continue to make poor decisions.

The analogy is flawed because race doesn't account for 80% of the problems in the US, and I don't think it breaks 5%.
> even going with 3xxx series is an overkill.

Then why do you care at all about the 3060 segmentation into CMP cards?
Thank you for the support—means a lot to me. I wrote the piece after finding that recent journalism on GPT-3 did not provide a sufficiently accurate snapshot of how vanilla GPT-3 scores on legal tasks (not to mention the misleading snapshots of promising sandbox outputs). Meanwhile, even the most capable people in the ML community do not get to the papers discussing the minutiae of handling the hard problems in legal texts. I never intended the piece to comprehensively address and solve the technical problems GPT-3 (or NLP more broadly) has in handling legal texts. The inability to examine and audit GPT-3 at different levels of the network makes makes any investigation a partially speculative endeavor. Instead, I merely wanted to provide an overview of outputs critiqued by a lawyer, and offer up some ideas of how to improve performance on legal tasks drawing from ML and legal knowledge.

I think there is some constructive dialogue in this thread, and I am thrilled by that. Lawyers and engineers need to work together on this to be successful. The goal of summarization is to enable more people to accurately understand text in less time. It is pretty clear that the feedback of a lawyer in the training loop (at least to label meaning and context) would lead to a significant improvement. IIRC, Andrej Karpathy labeled a lot of data when his team achieved a 50% improved classification and detection jump on ImageNet.

Can more (and better) labeled data get us to an accuracy level that is good enough to generate term sheets out of contracts? I would like to find out. I am interested in diving deeper and connecting with anyone who is game to tackle some of the critical challenges.
That page doesn't actually give any numbers.
Haha, I also noticed that used parts that lasted ~2-4 years have a lower failure rate than new ones. All the ones that fail, fail early, and the surviving ones go through a sort of "extended burn-in" so to say.
Who suggested juntas?
> some constant strings containing css breakpoints as the type 'string | int'

yeah this really is the fundamental problem with TypeScript advocates. They seem to come in two different breeds: A) people that would rather be doing Haskell but are forced to use JavaScript because that's where the jobs are and see nothing at all wrong with type inference and error messages that are 10 lines long and completely indecipherable by actual humans, and B) people that have never used a language that isn't JavaScript and have no clue how to structure type interfaces within an actual system (you end up with partial/omit and optional fields every-fucking-where and no rhyme or reason behind anything).

For some stupid reason this entire industry seems to suddenly believe that a 40+ year old debate of static vs. dynamic typing was settled because Microsoft came out with TypeScript.
JS script too. I've never been bored by JS because there were always multiple clever ways to do things, and I had to figure the way that was sufficiently clever to make my and my teammates lives easier, but not so clever it made our lives harder.

Java is boring because invariably I spend all that time trying to figure out the one way to make things work, given that the thing I need to do involves a library that abstracts everything multiple levels deep and all I have are API Javadocs that describe how various abstractions get created via constructors and factories that take -other- abstractions, that have no meaning whatsoever to me and my problem domain. Which means I spend hours to figure out how to do the simplest things, and I'm mentally unstimulated the entire time.
It’s framed as a solution to energy reliance on fossil fuel because it is a solution.
Yes! I had this same realization recently, which led me to write about it because it was so striking. It's scary how quickly we can becomes engrossed in our perception as opposed to reality. https://suketk.com/thought-space-vs-reality
Did you even read what I wrote? I never said 'everyone' was happy having children. Yet that is exactly how you interpreted it.
Black t-shirt guy is onto something...
No, they don't.

Investments have utility, speculation does not.

Time was Bitcoin proponents would talk about the future of money (investment).

Now everyone just wants to get rich at the expense if the poor fool who comes later (speculation). We're now at the mania stage of this bubble, where crazy things happen and ordinary people invest because of the distorted prices.
There's absolutely a need for some rendering of formulas that doesn't need JavaScript.

Formulas don't have anything that would require Turing-completeness to display.
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Doesn't work since big tech all works together to crush dissent and anything that goes against their business model.

Look at how attacked any right wing site is - they go after their ISPs, their CDNs, their DNS registrars, their hosting companies.

The Internet has got to the point that you cannot even operate a business if it goes against the "values" of big tech, or they chop all your arms off.
> Want to know why schools in the south side of Chicago are doing worse than schools in Beverly Hills? There's your answer. Full stop.

This analysis completely fails; the correlation between student performance and per-student spending in US schools is negative.
Might as well replace with "extremists on the fringe" and "extremists in control" be they on the left or right side of the divide.
Because then you don’t have to worry about pesky USD money trails or bank account seizures.

How do you deposit/withdraw into a legit exchange like Coinbase without having proper KYC?
Ask HN: How to find remote, part-time DevOps consulting positions?
I just launched a part-time consulting business that I'm hoping to grow.

I'm currently working my local contacts, but I'd like to expand my reach to non-local entities.

Ideally, I'd be working with smaller teams, helping overloaded dev teams make decisions about DevOps, automation, product architecture, etc, along with then implementing those decisions. I'm also definitely open to working with larger orgs, but in my experience, they are less likely to be open to the part-time consulting option.

My question is: where do I look? Most job boards are FTE only, and the consulting business seems to rely a lot on "I know a guy who could help with this." type references.

I'm located in VA, USA, so I'm a long ways away from the typical Silicon Valley startup scene, although we do have a nice little niche here where I am.

Thanks for any advice or stories you might have!
Being a utility comes with (some) regulation. I think it is far past time that this occurred.
> My take on this is the following. Everything we do as a society I think should be from time to time evaluated from a point of view of benefits for society/world and then depending on this evaluation, the incentives should be updated to support things that we consider useful, and to penalize things that we do not.

Who is “we” and why to “we” get to decide instead of “they”? This approach to governing only sounds good when you’re not in the sights of those with the legislative pen.

In Iran, “we” (the government) have decided that “they” (gay people) should not be able to live openly gay.
Additionally, if you earn in the 80th percentile, you probably live in a high cost of living location, so your disposable income is not necessarily 80th percentile too.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your links.
Not if you have filters set up and clean/change them regularly. I'm assuming miners monitor their temperatures, as well, as long as it's under 80 degC, chips will work for years under load. Though VRM components are of rather poor quality compared to GPUs, CPUs and RAM, that's a major failure point.
They wanted both the FAANG level compensation AND the academic freedom. They ought to know their role in this machine is akin to Big Sugar tricking the country into believing that fat was the real evil for 5 decades.

My wish is for companies to stop outputting "research" and researchers to work for the correctly aligned institutions...and accept the pay cut that comes with it.
They are planning 3-5 flights max in the 30 days.

It’s a technology demonstration. Essentially a throwaway experiment. All they care to prove is whether they can fly on mars. Any extra value they get out of it is a bonus
What do you mean turned off?
That would require updating too much software in the field.

Meanwhile you can use ALIAS record and get the same result, without others noticing.
Often. I do wonder about the value I add and stop if I don't feel it's adding enough of it.

Sometimes I respond without going through the discussion so I remove my replies if I see it being repeated elsewhere in the comments.

I am trying to be more empathetic and helpful. Adding snarky comments would be opposite of that so I don't do it.
I have not seen him in any way deny climate change, what he does is trying to reason trough the probabilities of outcomes and figure out where it makes sense to focus our efforts. We must understand the threats to efficiently counter them, and fear mongering around edge case outcomes does not help.
Say profitable if you mean that, not "better".
This is also very in sync with the The Python Paradox[1] article by Paul Graham.

You have (had in that case) a better chance hiring someone passionate/talented if the technology is (was) not very mainstream.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Croatia will be joining the EU in 2023 afaik.

edit: seeing multiple other comments here that is already a member so I guess I am mistaken