skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a limitation of the medium, all I ask is that you call me out when I inevitably do the same. :)
Apparently nobody here has mentioned Gridcoin yet: https://gridcoin.us/
COVID-19 is surrounded by a lipid envelope; soaps break down lipids.
Where does this claim that densely populated cities don't need heating come from?
I have a Pelikan M800 which gets used quite a bit. I don't know if that's "fat" to you, but it's definitely on the big side. I love it, the weight feels great and the balance it just right.

I have a dozen or so other pens, all of which are "thinner", but that's the one I use the most.
In the winter, we move our electric food dryer into the kitchen, where it provides heat and humidity.

Before October, it’s outside, and is used to finish off the product from the solar dryer.

Edit: Maybe it would make sense to get the miner out of the attic and turn it into a food dryer.
Latin Squares for Programmer
But that big max/cruise delta disappears as soon as you ditch the wings and go 'copter, which seem to dominate all use cases where electric is anywhere close to viable.

Where motors excelling in W/g could absolutely shine is the still empty area of hybrid planes that downsize their combustive propulsion to cruise requirements and carry batteries only for those short periods of peak power demand.
And the worst thing is, as we've learned from Big Tobacco, They're -never- going to admit it. Nestle, Kraft, etc. will stop at nothing to make sure they aren't liable for the way they cut costs at the expense of generations of human beings health.
I’m looking forward to Apple’s upcoming TV versions of Dune by Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. These are such big stories that they can’t be squeezed into a movie without losing their allure.
Who knows how long it will take for people to realize that fraud is being openly conducted in the Bitcoin market.

Example: Famous wealthy entrepreneur loudly and publicly announces a large purchase of bitcoin. The price of bitcoin jumps 20% as a result. Famous wealthy entrepreneur sells bitcoin and realizes a 20% gain.

This is called a "pump and dump" scam and if done in any "regulated" market, famous wealthy entrepreneur would be in legal trouble.
I think his point is that you can match `cat`s speed because it is IO bound and you can make a linker IO bound by using lots of threads.
Tesla’s share price is now directly tied to the value of Bitcoin, analyst says
Google is a trillion dollar company because people pay to be linked to. The giveaway is that the Drudge Report has been around since the mid 90's but no news companies have ever complained about it because they benefit from the traffic that it drives. The reason they go after Google and Facebook is because they have a lot of money to grab, whereas the Drudge Report is tiny compared to the media outlets that it links to.
What a few of these "lot of cases" where they are not viable?
As a human-readable configuration language, YAML probably beats JSON and XML, but the implicit typing rules in the spec make it horrible to work with. I've written a lot of YAML for Ansible and it has some awful footguns.
Yes. Beware the "vocal minority" and the tendency for their behavior to badly distort the signal to noise ratio and potentially even make it look like the opposite of what it really is.
Err, you realize

1. You have to go back to 2000 to find a purchase > 200B (AOL bought by Time Warner, for 182, 270B inflation adjusted).

2. The only other >200B purchase was Vodafone Airtouch plc bought by Mannesmann (281B inflation adjusted, 183B in 1999 dollars), "it happened twice" isn't routine.

3. That 270B is 1/6th of Amazon's market cap.
Settlement agreement available here: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
what would be great is to allow a client to connect to more than 1 nextcloud instances.

For example, from my machine, i can connect to my nextcloud, and also to some folders shared from my group's nextcloud.
Sadly 2 seater vehicles won't ever happen en mass. There's a lot of people with families who will need at least 3 seats.
Assume Clubhouse Conversations Are Being Recorded, Researchers Warn
In my (layman’s) review of related literature, this seems to be the case. I’ve gone through phases of looking into for eg. what might optimise lean mass, testosterone, longevity, decrease cancer risk, sperm count etc. It’s all basically the same stuff. Unsurprising, really.
This article makes no sense to me. If the premise was will Google AI Ethics research implode, then yes. Removing key memembers of the team has affected the team morale and created a toxic environment for the remaining researchers. However, the post seems to imply that stifling the Stochastic Parrots paper is somehow proof that Google AI stifles innovative research that is critical to AI progress. This is a quite a weak claim even before looking at logic of the claims that get to that point.

Google AI, Google Brain, and Deepmind are all different groups at Google with different mandates and research goals. While what's happening in the Ethical AI team is troubling, it's rather a large and unfounded leap that it'll affect research productivity for the other teams.

Digging deeper the article is confusing and sometimes plain wrong on its assessment of AI research. Broadly the deep learning and RL approach to AI has been critiqued for its lack of semantic and symbolic understanding. These are not Google specific and the articles examples of this are terrible.

The first example of limitations of AlphaZero on Montezuma's revenge is a bad example. The author implies that RL failed because it didn't understand ladders. But later approaches still solved this using by using stochastic exploration strategies and not introducing conceptual knowledge to the model as the article implies is the key limitation.

On the language modelling, its weird the article cites GPT3 as problematic given that GPT3 was developed at OpenAI's research and not Google. Also GPT3 is pretrained using next word prediction which only consider left context and is far more limited that BERT which considers bi-directional context and produces richer word level embeddings. That being said the Stochastic Parrots paper does specially critique BERT.

But it's not a new critique. Emily Bender, the other major co-author, is a computational linguist who has always been critical of deep learning approaches to NLP. Bender along with Gary Marcus and many others have called for AI that considers symbolic and linguistic knowledge and have been critical of purely data-driven deep learning approaches. Stochastic Parrots is not new in its critique of large language models, it just provides newer evidence specific to the current state of language model research.

So I'm not sure how any of this is a signal that Google AI is imploding. The broader trends in AI is not just throw more compute and make bigger models. It just happens that large models works well for OpenAI and Google for specific problems. Google also has one of the largest knowledge graphs and there is open line of research that combines symbolic knowledge from KG with deep learning methods. There is also active research both at Google and elsewhere that aims to add more make current deep learning approach more "intelligent" by using linguistic and symbolic knowledge.

I'm confused as to how Google AI research is imploding. Google PR attempting to censor Stochastic Parrots (which was still published) because of bad PR optics has nothing to do with active research questions elsewhere at Google Brain, Deepmind, and Google AI.
Clubhouse confirms data spillage of its audio streams
Is this the first official ruling on tether that shows it isn’t backed 1:1 by the US dollar?

That has long been speculated, but if this is the first official verification how does that affect the Market.

Especially the self dealing of Bitfinex.
I started running a self hosted Nextcloud instance last year, and I couldn’t be happier with it! This release sounds exciting, guess it’s time to go upgrade :)

For those looking to ‘de-Google’ their lives, and control their own data Nextcloud is one of the best options out there.
And like Amtrak, it's a hollow husk of what it once was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G0Lyh3uik
I've been thinking of creating a small/intimate Mastodon instance purely for this reason. Do you have any thoughts on that?
> For example, almost all the food I buy is in plastic containers.

I stopped buying these a while ago. Buy fresh veggies, classic pasta/rice/lentils or whatever you fancy, meat from the butcher if you eat meat, I skip anything I can't identify or anything that I couldn't make myself at home with regular ingredients.

It's super restrictive but you get rid of literally 99% of junk food. You are what you eat, quite literally
I think a lot of this comes back to the mid-level Chinese bureaucrats’ instinct for damage control. That infamous WHO tweet came in the 6 day interval between Chinese officials being briefed on the likelihood of a pandemic and publicly acknowledging it, and I haven’t heard any evidence that WHO was a party to that decision rather than simply not having better data available to them because it hadn’t been approved for public release by the Chinese government prior to January 20th.

In retrospect, it’s impressive how quickly the Taiwanese government moved based on the equivalent of a Reddit post including a screenshot from that Chinese doctor (Li Wenliang) who was jailed for spreading the news before it was officially acknowledged:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200417144920/https://focustaiw...

So, no, Taiwan didn’t put out a big press release on December 31st when they started the discussion with WHO, the China CDC, and others but they had started circulating what they knew in public health circles and being a free country they didn’t conceal what they were concerned about when they started screening travelers.

Here’s their statement on the December 31st email:

https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-vi...

If you recall the origin of this thread, I was responding to someone who said “I don't think a strategy that needs every country on earth to cooperate this tightly ever had a chance to work.”. My point, again, wasn’t that Taiwan had secret knowledge of the future but that they showed how much could be done with basic public health protocols and, importantly, without requiring widespread international cooperation. Every sovereign nation could have started health screenings and quarantined travelers, but most waited too long and simpler methods weren’t going to be adequate by that point.
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Despite my precarious housing situation at the time, I also own a big house in the country over 150 years old. The main form of heating it originally were 2m tall ceramic furnaces, always placed so that they could heat two rooms at the time. You put material to burn in from either side, and after getting hot the furnace would keep heating the room for hours, and all it takes is a few logs of wood (that you later have to regrow anyway). I wonder how many bitcoins is that in term of environmental impact.
How to Automate Everything
Do you expect to get away with illegal activity when you travel abroad?
Render_async Adds Support for Rails Turbo
why minus Bitcoin?
Where is the SQL parser? Any specific reason why is it missing (not even started)?
To be fair, this is a personal story and not a scientific study.
Dating apps scam committed by criminal from inside prison
I think it's moving in the right direction in countries with national parks. I certainly can see that in France we still have working taxonomists, and that they even band to create FOSS for managing their work (TaxHub, Geonature 2, Geonature Citizen, etc).
What are your specific dislikes?
"Contrary to online speculation, there was no finding that Tether ever issued tethers [USDT] without backing, or to manipulate crypto prices," said Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor. [0]

[0] https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/95207/bitfinex-tether-ne...

EDIT:
For some reason I'm being downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious to understand why this news is being simultaneously interpreted in two opposite ways.
But is a lucid dream merely a dream in which the dreamer is aware of being asleep and dreaming, or is it more than that? I thought it also included taking control and doing whatever you want e.g. jumping off a building and flying wherever you want, because the laws of physics are suspended in dreaming.

How to activate superuser mode in dreams?
Doing that was out of this world. It has encouraged me alot.
>'I guess the reason for him cutting short the Kimberley's and Northern tip of Queensland, was that it must have been inaccessible or too dangerous back then. Anyway it seems like travelers have already been advised 100 years ago to stay clear of these places."

What are the specific issues in the Northern tip of Queensland exactly? Crocs? Also is the issue the the Kimberley's the same as the usual interior/outback? I didn't realize Bryson has an Australia book I will definitely look for that. Thanks for the tip.
A combination of a good fountain pen that matches your own writing (price doesn't matter) and good quality paper is an asset to me, not a handicap.
The ink flows, the hand to pen to paper feeling/feedback/sound brings out words and sentences that typing doesn't.
That's maybe true for YOUR job. The more a job has a well-defined description, the truer your statement is.
The Prison Industry [pdf]
This isn't something I would use to earn any significant amount of money. But I would still want to try this out.

The only feature I need are notifications and subscribtion to tags. Say I want to keep the site in the background and only answer specific questions. I want to subscribte to the `android` tag and get a notification in the browser, whenever an android questions comes in.
BIND has supported dynamic zones for like 15 years. Declare the zone dynamic, generate a key, apply the key to the zone as authorized to make changes, and then use nsupdate command to make changes

===

nsupdate -k your.keyfile

server ns.your.zone

update add foo.your.zone. 3600 IN A 1.2.3.4

send

===

You can script it too if you want
Japan had a nuclear-powered cargo and later research vessel, but she started her journey with an incident:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Mirai

And had to be converted to running on fossil fuels.
Huh? The NYAG press release literally says: "Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie."

Edit: The difference between the two statements is that Tether can still be "backed" by something other than USD, notably crypto. And the PR is silent on what exactly Tether is backed by. This saga isn't over yet.
Well, that was interesting. I live in Lincoln, and my late mother is buried in a meadow a couple of miles from the place, which, despite having had a long association with the area - my dad was a Vulcan captain based at RAF Scampton, and I'd push-biked all over the place as a child, I'd never heard of, or been through.
The Linux client can connect to multiple nextcloud instances. Its been that way for years.
You can connect multiple accounts from the desktop client if that's what you mean... If you mean nextcloud to nextcloud there's also federation, but haven't really tried that as I've never needed it.
Interesting repo! It would be great to have more documentation since I am a beginner in Docker.
This reminds me of how equipment required for such an endeavour have been way heavier a hundred years ago. I'm not particuarly experienced with outdoor activities but if I engage in one I have to notice how overloaded and heavy everything is. But most of the stuff is reasonably modern using various lightweight metals or plastics. Realistically people have been stronger back than anyway.
What client are you using? I have that capability on my Android client, Linux client, and windows client, and it works extremely well.
That statement was made by their counsel, so it should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
There Is No Impending 'Mini Ice Age'
I'm also confused by the contradicting news. CryptoTwitter (and the markets) reacted enthusiastically...
Villa Meublé Lomé – Annonces Immobilieres
I'm waiting patiently for the whole Tether printing scheme to fall and crush to finally purchase Bitcoin / Ether.
However I'm not viewing them as inflation hedges so long as Bitfinex / etc. are allowed to continue with their obvious money printing scheme.

When most crypto trading volume is traded at trustworthy exchanges which actually hold dollars as much as they say they do, I'll trust $/BTC to be a fair market.

It's dumb escaping from Powell's printing machine straight into Bitfinex tether printing machine. BTC isn't the hedge people think it is so long as it's traded against fictional dollars. Tether's volume exceeds Bitcoin, so that's the scale of fictional dollars supporting Bitcoin right now.
Prof Remzi: Your storage is broken
Profit taking is inevitable in any rally.

If too many whales cash out (or buyers disappear) then it will tumble precipitously like any other asset bubble. Even Elon will have trouble preventing the bloodletting. He of course also has to tend to Tesla bubble as well.
Amazing Smart Watch future: Where is the R&D focus?
Or completely remove posts and keep only Messenger and Whatsapp. I've been using almost only Whatsapp and Telegram to share stuff with friends and groups of friends for a few years. If I want to read news I look for them either on Google News or on the very web sites that publish them, the ones I trust.

If Google and Facebook would block news on my country I wouldn't notice much.
I went back to this since I was just a wee lad when I did this, and it's not quite what I remembered but I was close. You have to change the string "SECRET" in the header to anything else. At this point you can load the file into the board editor and see how things were done.

Here is an image of TOWN.ZZT loaded into the editor: https://i.imgur.com/mb9OFno.png

And here is the pascal string "SECRET" changed to "NECRET": https://i.imgur.com/kbh5xAm.png

I'm surprised that 12-year old me thought to do this.
"but he could easily put together a plan for selling his share over the next few years, especially now he is no longer CEO"

That doesn't sound very liquid to me.
It also documents all their attempts to verify the peg required mixing funds with an exchange known to have a running $500m+ hole in their balance sheet
I'm not certain that claiming deep knowledge of the subject and handwaving about literary devices is a terribly useful response when you write an article suggesting decline while completely ignoring a bunch of significant more recent developments. That's not a literary device, that's cherry-picking facts to support a preconceived conclusion.

Paying more attention to other, more recent, developments might also have helped you avoid writing a paragraph where you talk about deepmind not being able to play games where it needs to perform multiple actions to obtain a reward - I think deepmind managing to beat professional starcraft players is clear evidence that this conclusion is questionable at best.
I guess we'll know more in the next few hours.
Vertica and HDFS for storage.

Home grown ETL processes in Python, Spark and Airflow with Rendeck and Jenkins.

Tableau for dashboards.

Python + Dash for more complicated dashboards.
Heat pumps need energy to operate.
Hence at low temperatures the best combo is electricity+heat-pump. So cryptomining+heat-pump is exactly the same, minus the e-waste.
Zig's compiler isn't optimizing for linking speed over everything else though AFAIK. Also, Andrew says in the thread[0] that the linker doesn't (yet) address the types of complex scenarios that rui talks about.

[0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1535#issuecomment-6784...
I didn't want to show my age (any more than I already did by knowing about ZZT). Also due to said age I couldn't remember the character number in CP437... though I did remember that the shaded blocks were mysteriously separate from the solid one at 219.
I have used cast iron for decades. Never once had to scrub them.
Yes vaping results in more people stopping than the patch or gum but...

How many people that quit smoking by vaping still vape, compared to people that quit using gum or patches and still use those.

The point I'm trying to make is along the lines of "Many people could successfully quit snorting cocain by smoking crack" Vaping allows for the user to deliver a stronger, more pure form of the drug nicotine. It would be nice to see these numbers.
Afaik, in reality, most people who die lost in the wilds die from exhaustion, injury, cold, heat, lack of water and such.

People dying because "shame" kills them are not a thing in reality.
Of general interest, Jeff Dean’s comment on why the Gebru paper didn’t meet Google’s publication guidelines:

“Highlighting risks without pointing out methods for researchers and developers to understand and mitigate those risks misses the mark on helping with these problems”

from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...
Me, reading the headline: "Aw shit, was that us in '98?"

Open the article: "Over the week spanning Jan. 4-10, 1998..."

That was honestly a wild time. I was almost 12. School was closed for 2-3 weeks because they couldn't promise there would be electricity to heat the building. The ice kept breaking power lines or crushing the transmission towers from the weight (ice is heavy!). Imagine your car, covered in a 1-2 inch thick layer of very solid ice, encased.

People died. The military had to come in to help. My family was fortunate that we had a wood stove in the basement that kept the house warm and cooked some meals on. We lost power a few hours at least every day.

Crazy time.

Edit: For those interested in this, the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ic...) has some great photos and description. 1,000 transmission towers/pylons destroyed, 35,000 utility poles. Whole forests devastated.
Unrelated, but I’m curious why people say “could care less” - don’t you mean “couldn’t”?
John is a weird book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Synoptic_gospel...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Johannine_wo...
It's a pretty arbitry to think you're only allowed to ask a nationalized railroad to use an engine in an emergency. (As the author implies.)

It's especially absurd here, because CN has been privatized since 1995, and the incident happened in 1998.
The questions are twofold: does Facebook do more good than bad? Could the good be accomplished without much of the bad? The answers to both questions are arguably bad for Facebook.
So even back in 2017, Tether was backed only by a fraction of USD.

>Until September 15, 2017, the only U.S. dollars held by Tether ostensibly backing the approximately 442 million tethers in circulation was the approximately $61 million on deposit at the Bank of Montreal.

Wonder how much of the tether they pumped out through last year has been backed?
I agree with you, though, there is no reason we need to eat meat at all. The cost to the planet is way too high. Vegetarian diets are far healthier for us and our Earth.
Tether themselves essentially admitted that it wasn’t fully backed in 2019: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-7...

The strangest part of the Tether story is how much of it was obvious or even out in the open. Cryptocurrency proponents were happy to look the other way as long as prices were only going up. I suspect cryptocurrency proponents and Bitfinex are working hard to spin this as a win for Tether right.