skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nonetheless, Hinton and a few others immediately took up the challenge of working on biologically plausible variations of backpropagation.

Trying to prove the plausibility of a theory is one approach to science I guess... The researchers have already concluded that brains are simply information processing machines and that AI techniques are a sufficiently representative model to use to learn what brains are like.

I don't see how this research could give us clues to anything other than what is already presumed to be true by the researchers.
It requires constant awareness(willpower) to keep that lucidity and focus,
or the dream mutates to whatever you focus on and you're back in normal dreamland. Any physical activity there costs willpower, so you're not flying all the time(unlike VR where your activity can be a passive state(observer),in dreams all states are active processes and observing changes the dream itself(its much harder to be a neutral observer)).
They should rent this out as an installer service to Apple developers who are sick of Gatekeeper and complex app review requirements.
I think the issue was that Pokemon Go used certain types of map elements as their Pokemon capture points, e.g., Landmarks, or something. People weren't adding "Pokemon capture points", they were adding non-existent Landmarks so that they could be imported to the game for their own advantage.
I have a large selection of common tulip bulbs. They're only $800 USD each. Get them while they're still a bargain.
What is 'Clubhouse'? Sounds like it's some kind of audio chat app?
how do you even get 18% from 36 participants? 7/36 = 19.4% and 6/36 = 16.6%. I know they said "roughly" but I don't see why how you could round to that number.
Hmn I dunno what it was to be honest. I checked multiple times and refreshed, at least I thought I did. Shrug. My app that I'm using has no settings to showdead so I wouldn't be surprised if the refresh didn't work as it doesn't from time to time.

I really need a new app. Any recommendations?
blatant dupe

Massively upvoted 7-hours-older posting of identical URL with ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26202517
Some of the links are also affiliated. This is not exactly great for 100% 'unbiased' results but, since their main competition is Google, I think the Rubicon has already been crossed on that score?
That doesn't work because you would have to go through security when transferring between terminals.
None of Zuse, Babbage, Torres y Quevedo,
Ludgate,
Dickinson,
Desch,
Atanasoff–Berry,
Mauchly / Eckert, nor many of the other pioneers of computing came via Hilbert and FOM problems. An important source of early computing was the practical need for calculation (e.g. logarithm tables), leading to mechanical (and later electro mechanical) automata for automatic calculation, a tradition going back at least to ancient Greece (e.g. Antikythera mechanism).

Regarding the arrow of influence: a Fields medalist spent a decade coming up with a new foundation of mathematics (or at least algebraic topology), only to realise that the computer science department already teaches Coq to undergraduates!
I didn't remember what the details were. I just remember staying at a hotel connected to a Heathrow terminal and at the end of the day, getting to and from was a sufficient hassle thinking I should just have stayed in one of the non-connected hotels in the general area.
Your point eludes the fact we're all caught in this system, not just teenagers. Parents have few choices, they have certain budget for a house and that dictates which district they're in. Meanwhile, they're struggling and working hard and education is a pivotal means of upward mobility, so they feel it's extremely important to their child's future.

US Teachers are grossly underpaid and have to deal with tremendous amounts of training already...and stress. Consider in many of our schools, you have one teacher to 20 or 25 students, many of whom have undiagnosed learning disabilities, developmental problems, social issues, familial problems, hunger, mental health issues...teachers are already working insanely hard for low pay. I worked exclusively in struggling schools and I had kids with cousins shot dead, kids who literally jumped onto the table and screamed how myself and other teachers were racists, it's insane what teachers have to handle.

So no, We can't lay everything at the feet of current parents and teachers, there's a lot of policy, politics, and history in the educational field that no current teacher or parent had anything to do with. They're struggling and vying for success just as they see the children suffering.
My iPhone 7 can run it just fine.
Awesome, it was Metallica who started the whole nonsense behind today's state of DMCA. Finally getting some taste of their own medicine.
> Goodness, my feeling is: Can Apple make at least something these days that 'just works' ?

This is absolutely true. And what do the "thought leaders" on Hacker News do when a person relates an earnest, first-hand experience? They down-vote it until it's barely visible.
I’m a longtime fan of Maciej, and a regular-ish user of Pinboard for a decade-plus. We have friends in common. I hesitate to support this effort.

What I appreciate the most is how he is an example of how to escape the tech rat race. And how he’s been able to live his values and get involved in important political issues. I thought it was worth supporting a contrarian, hardworking indie dev and rationalized away all the numerous bugs, reliability issues, and just plain missing features.

And I’d probably still be a supporter if he hadn’t bragged, on multiple occasions around 2017-8, that there were years where he literally did nothing on Pinboard. I still admire that in a way - it should be possible to say that software is done, it doesn’t have to be ever-expanding. But I don’t love it as a user. Now every time I enter a bookmark I’m annoyed that (for instance) it won’t even prefetch the title for me.

I suppose it is foolish to expect any contrition, but I feel like I was lied to.
But you don’t pay for the AirTrain, do you? I got the impression that this was the authors main gripe. I don’t think an airport having an internal transportation system is all that controversial.
Every public school will be analogous to a prison no matter how good, because children have no choice on the matter. If you want to change the dynamic there the only solution is school choice because children simply must go to school, letting them (and their parents) choose which school is the right one is the way to improve the child's well being and make them feel like they have control over how they spend 200 days of their year.
Doesn't IOTA use a ternary number system for some strange reason? To me it seems like it's shitcoins all the way down
1. Get an international coalition behind a ban on PoW mining. Would make sense as part of a climate agreement.

2. Once enforcement crashes the hash rate, fire up government controlled miners to perform a 51% attack on BTC. Repeat as many times as it takes to make the point.

The question is, which states need to be convinced to join the coalition, and how hard is that? I can see pariah states like e.g. Russia seeing an opportunity in encouraging mining instead of banning it.
https://imgur.com/a/OjuWEKK

It can be in a local minima of buoyancy without being a global minima. Similar to an un-sharpened pencil balanced on it's end.
I bought a non-M1 Macbook a decade ago and there were absolutely zero issues wiping it from stock. That was one of the first things I did, and everything performed as expected each time. How did things progress so far backwards in stability?
+1 for ice baths. I used to do them regularly when I ran cross country. Invigorating.
Most of Apple's security is theater and instead used to bind developers to their infrastructure and make it harder to use software outside their tightly controlled app stores.

You used to be able to get the password of encrypted home directories from the page file with a simple grep command for many years without any attempts by Apple to fix it, that alone should tell you how secure Macs are.
You've described the Technical Program Manager role at many companies, and its rebranded "agile coach" form. In my experience, this role has a lot of value in companies with extremely large projects which require tons of cross team co-ordination and priority discussion. The sweet spot is a project/program spanning 5 teams or more. Where sitting in each teams planning meeting is a full-time job and if someone doesn't do it then some critical but small component will be de-prioritized and the whole project will be delayed for a year.

Think Rockets, Cars, large hardware projects, large software projects where a dozen teams are required to implement GDPR for their services etc.

When this role is placed in a small team of 8-20 engineers it just adds more status update burden to the team, the engineers can more effectively communicate with each other than through a TPM and so the only role the TPM can fill is "pushing". If one can assume that engineers don't choose to slack off whenever someone isn't looking - then pushing just means extra hours, burnout, and missed dates.
Gee, do you think this guy has some nano?
There are different degrees of system compromise.
Avalanche is resilient to a 51% attack.
Check out https://tedyin.com/archive/snow-bft-demo/#/snow and the paper
I am going to put something together about how we used hotwire to build Boardly. Stay tuned.

Building it with Hotwire was a bit of tough process. The framework is so new. I have found that some refinements are needed to the whole approach.

Should be interesting to watch how it develops.
OK. How does Fed policy influence whether or not we get universal Healthcare? Whether or not we have reliable grids? All these are still very much (one could argues even easier) possible in low interest environments...
Jira is not a tool. It is a configurable framework for making a tool. I don’t have any special love for Jira, and I do not like that the Jira designers decided to not have any opinions at all about what a tool should do, but more people would have better experiences with Jira if they realized this.
It might also be a targeted attack. I can easily imagine a TLA using a wide net to get the target infected, but only delivering the payload to the intended target (which can be detected by IP, for example).
It could be both for that matter. Previously perfectly (at least seemingly) stable people can have unexpected breakdowns later in life.
Why did they pass a law that requires Facebook to block news, then? I can't help but laugh.
This explains some aspects of bullying, but not all. Specifically, quoting the article, why "those who are not necessarily friends, but who share many friends in common — are also more likely to bully or otherwise victimize each other"?

Maybe people you don't have enough friends in common with feel like a different herd, and people have instict to bully the weakest member of their own herd, but don't care about other herds as much. Maybe it's because bullying a member of your herd allows you to rise to the top of your herd (which is the assumption of the article), while bullying a member of a different herd does not. Or maybe because when you start bullying a member of a different herd, the whole victim's herd may collectively turn against you ("yeah, he may be a loser, but he is our loser, so back off"), while bullying a member of your own herd is safe in this aspect. (Unless your herd has a strong leader who opposes internal fighting -- rarely happens with kids.)

So the testable prediction would be like: If you have a classroom with e.g. 29 white students and 1 black student, the white students will bully the black one. (Unless there is someone more visibly different, e.g. handicapped or speaking a foreign language.) But if you have 15 white students and 15 black students, more likely the white students will pick a white victim to bully, and the black students will pick a black victim to bully. (Unless the class is more split along some other trait than race. In which case e.g. the English-speaking students would pick an English-speaking victim, and the French-speaking students would pick a French-speaking victim.)
Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable (2010)
I have certainly changed my own positions as a result of civil discussions. it never happens after a single exchange, but over time people can be convinced.
Just add more lounges? Scale out horizontally?
> and set it to only poweroff after a day of inactivity.

Might it have been this?
Tcl is historically very slow. Especially for synthetic CPU intensive benchmarks. However, since it's so easy to interop with C, it didn't seem to matter much in the real world. You just put anything performance sensitive in C and left the bits that didn't matter in tcl. Some benchmarks: https://github.com/trizen/language-benchmarks
DuckDuckGo search engine – The privacy browser is growing rapidly
> as someone who was a nerd in the '70s, before it was cool

> What can be better than what we do now?

HN threads on any education topic are always littered with oversimplified causes and "silver bullet" solutions. My guess is that it's mostly from the "nerds are cool" generation. Being on the cusp of the two generations, I'm not so willing to throw out the 100+ years of evolution in institutionalized education.

One thing we can do better now? Bring back and/or increase focus on civics, history, and social studies. This for obvious reasons, like the right-wing/populist political debacle, but also as a way to develop an inherent ambition as a result of a better understanding of our society and how it can be changed.
I've had some of my ideas "stolen." I was doing volunteer work and happy to share my ideas but on the expectation that it would help me make business connections, network, establish a reputation as someone who is smart and knows things.

The individual "stealing" them did their best to make sure no one knew where he was getting his ideas, which robbed me of the benefits of sharing those ideas as volunteer.

He also badly botched them all.

This is in line with the meme that "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything." Me saying "You should do X!" utterly failed to result in X actually happening by someone not who was not me. That pithy one-liner failed to convey sufficient information to result in the production of the X I was envisioning when I said it.

The example I typically give is the word "chair." If I say "chair," what kind of chair do I mean? Am I thinking of a wooden kitchen chair while you are thinking of an overstuffed living room wing chair?

I had a similar thing happen at my corporate job where a new manager met very privately with me, implemented my proposal without giving me credit and bastardized it so badly that I wouldn't have wanted my name associated with her terrible, terrible program that completely missed the point of what I had proposed.

Years ago, I started a project to try to develop language for talking about ideas themselves and to make the kinds of distinctions you are talking about. We use the same word -- "idea" -- to talk about radical new theories and to talk about more prosaic details of how to get things done, business-wise: "It was my idea to paint it blue, not green."

I think we really need better ways to make such distinctions.

As an aside....etc etc

As an aside, I generally bring up Semmelweis and the like because I'm one of those unfortunate souls the world has decided is a loon. I don't have any answers for you because my methods for discovery and proof of concept fall outside of accepted scientific methods.

Silly me: I wasn't trying to make a scientific discovery backed up by evidence. I was just trying to not die and to be less tortured by my defective body.

People can basically take my word for that or not. Most people choose "not."

I don't have a ready solution for that.
- Email notifications for everything. As a remote worker it is hard to keep on the pulse of what is happening in the company. Entire projects can happen wihout you knowing about it if you are not directly involved. This is why I have email notifications on every service turned up to the maximum. If somebody does something opens a pull request, writes a ticket, edits a wiki page, uploads a document: I will get an email. I use filtering and such to prevent these from triggering a flood of distracting notifications, or from cluttering my inbox. However, having a single list of basically all activity in the company is very useful. I can scroll through the email Subjects from a given day, and get a decent picture of everything that is happening beyond my purview.

- An ergonomic workstation. I will skip the details, but basically I have spared no expense to make my workstation healthy and comfortable.

- A good webcam/microphone. I purchased a knock-off of a premium webcam and it has been great. The most important thing is to have excellent audio quality. Make sure people can hear you clearly, with NO FEEDBACK. Even a slight feedback is completely unacceptable. With a good setup, you can use speakers and have no feedback. If you don't have a good setup, wear headphones. Ask your colleagues for an honest assessment of your audio. You may think your audio is good, but it actually is poor, and your colleagues have just been too polite to tell you. As for video, I dislike being on video, but I think it's important as a remote worker to be seen. People will be more likely to think of you as a real person when they see your face regularly. My webcam has a built-in light, so I avoid appearing as a silhouette.

- An exception to the above: I like to use my phone or a bluetooth headset with a long range while listening to a dull conference call where I am not expected to speak much. That way I am able to walk around and listen while doing somethting else. Gardening, making lunch, washing clothing, etc.

- Unlimited high speed data plan, a smartphone with hotspot capability, and USB battery banks. This lets me work from almost anywhere, affording me a lot of flexibility in my life and schedule. For example, I would use this capability to meet my friends after work. I would take a mid-day break to travel to where we were going to meet, finish my workday from the hotspot (or from wifi), and then sign off. This way, I avoid travelling during peak travel times and we could beat the after work crowds. This hasn't been used much during the pandemic, unfortunately. An important counterpart to this is arranging your dev setup such that you can work as offline as possible. For example, keep local copies of any documentation or library source code you might need. Be able to setup a development environment without a network connection.
Reasonable term limits?
Bitcoin talk is basically propaganda for the lightning network since everything that goes against increasing throughput is deleted.

Right now the average transaction costs $25 and the throughput is about 1.5 KB/s (900KB block every 10 minutes on average). The entire blockchain over 11 years takes up about $6 of hard drive space. It is technically trivial for the few people who need to sync with the actual chain of any cryptocurrency to do it. There is no universe where people use bitcoin for normal transactions now or in the future.

There is also no reason to use a complicated second layer that still has to go through the bitcoin chain when other cryptocurrencies can be used more easily, more directly and much more securely.

People are not going to pay $25 fees for anything other than speculation, there is no utility for normal transaction and plenty of competition.

Right now that only makes up 14% of the total mining reward. A year ago fees only made up 0.3% of the mining reward.

For mining fees to ever take over, there needs to be a lot more transactions.

Then there is the volatility of combining both the price and transaction fees. When the price goes down, the transaction fees dip even lower. Three months ago the average transaction was 1/20th the price.

If the mining reward goes down rapidly to 1/20th of what it was before the block time can adjust, mining should go down to match. Then blocks will be created more slowly and the time to the block reward will be pushed into the future. This might make the average fee price go up since the transaction throughput will go down. I'm not sure what effect this will have on the network since it might mean miners monitor transactions and wait until there are enough out there to make their chance at finding a block worth turning their mining on.
Practical methods for adding more numbers to your technical resume
Governments are the only entities who could try to attack Bitcoin if they collaborated. The only motivation would be to stop the network, not to make gains in other cryptocurrencies.
Social engineering is always the most effective infection vector, and the more secure you think your device is, the more vulnerable you are. This is particularly the case on the higher end of the spectrum, where I've seen iPhone users click on obvious phishing scams with the justification of "oh, I'm on iOS, they can't get my data". I've seen a lot of the same mentality exist in the desktop Mac space, where most users perform two types of installs: relatively safe ones through the App Store, or venturing out into the wild west of the internet and bringing home a random binary that hopefully does what it says.

Honestly, I'm tired of HN users downvoting anything critical of Apple. It only further confirms how much of an echo chamber this place can be.
Content Is King, Distribution Is Queen (2013)
There's an interesting parallel here:

> “To the extent that this is true, we should expect them to target not vulnerable wallflowers, but their own friends, and friends-of-friends, who are more likely to be their rivals for higher rungs on the social ladder,”

I spent 10 years working for a "Fortune 50" company. A huge media conglomorate.

This was exactly the behavior of low- and mid- level executives to each other as they tried to climb the corporate ladder.
We haven't figured out how to control costs with nuclear.

Known costs of a new project make them pretty much untenable, and they don't quite account for spent fuel (not for the full amount of time it will be dangerous). There's likely solutions to storing the spent fuel, but we aren't doing them.

Hopefully regulators take a look at resiliency and do things to improve it that would take less time than building new nuclear. In Texas it seems a modest improvement in natural gas pipelines would do a lot to improve the system. A study estimating the relationship between cold weather and available production would probably be seen as worthwhile by even the most radical anti-regulator.
Have you tried a web browser? Safari is nice.
Do you really believe one of the most valuable companies in the world that just on-the-fly transitioned half their product line to a different CPU architecture, released their flagship desktop OS for the new architecture and thrown in a compatibility layer that works like magic for good measure, somehow doesn't understand how computers work?
Whatever they did, they did on purpose. The good and the bad.
That reflects my usage pretty accurately as well. I am rarely on a DDG results page for non-technical topics because I always delegate to other sites via !bang, !g being the most common one.
And they got the best devices even compared to much pricier options.
You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.
Another thing for which DuckDuckGo is useless: finding media. It or whatever crawler it uses totally falls for those keyword-flooded sites that have a couple ads and then paragraphs of "wandavision watch free mr robot now free download all seasons season 1 101 dalmatians disney land[...]" autogeneration. I wish they'd do something about all the spam.
Fact check: we still don't know what caused covid to jump to humans.