skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right!! Thanks for pointing this out! I indeed tried to hint at the DAG case in the footnote, but didn't try to explore what happens when the DAG degenerates to a linked list. The biggest obstacle here is, honestly, motivating that an exponential slowdown is a real-world issue that concerns the average programmer, because I know for sure that many would immediately blame the data structure and tell you it's your fault for designing it that way. :-) Whereas if I can illustrate a problem that's fundamentally ingrained into language's built-in data structures by design, and that people would actually encounter in the real world, that's far more compelling.

I know this because I already received such criticism for my examples, with people telling me that it's unclear how wide-reaching the ramifications are in real-world applications (which I suppose is fair enough). People really want to see examples of real-world software being improved with such small tweaks in the algorithms, whereas I didn't have the bandwidth to try to investigate that, and just tried to settle for plausible examples. That criticism would be magnified many times further for DAGs and (especially) degenerate linked lists. (I'm not claiming these are the only relevant scenarios by the way—just saying this is how it is likely to be seen by many readers.) I moved on and didn't spend more time on this (it was kind of a random paper idea I had and not related to anything else), but I think it would be awesome to flesh this out further into something more interesting and compelling and properly publish it.

If you find this interesting and have the time to help joint-author & actually publish a paper on this, please grab my email from arXiv and email me! It would be great to flesh out more consequences and find more interesting examples together. I feel like there's a lot more underneath the surface that I might not have touched (both theoretically and practically), but I hadn't managed to gather enough interest from others in the topic (let alone the examples) to motivate me to look further until now!
>We have to start reminding people that they are in control of their decisions, and that they can take steps to reduce their social media usage to healthy levels. I know the common refrain is "Delete Facebook!" but that's the equivalent of abstinence-only education. We need to start talking about how to configure Screen Time on iOS, or how to use Facebook's built-in tools to hide content you don't want to see.

I couldn't agree more, and to add to that I think it's usually a foolish approach to treat people as hapless automatons without any agency if you're trying to convince them that your point is worth listening to. If you look at two of the worst political failures in the UK recently (the Remain campaign for the Brexit referendum in 2016 and Labour's election campaign in 2019), I think what they have in common is that they essentially told people "you're a downtrodden proletariat buffeted about by forces well outside your control, but we can make things better for you" which is such a foolish approach in my opinion. Regardless of whether they actually do or not, the average person likes to think they're in control of their own destiny so blaming everything on Facebook being manipulative bastards will never work if your aim is to change the public's relationship with social media.
It's clear that, on so many levels, the gradual deferral of child-bearing to the 30s (even 40s!) has been incredibly costly and destructive to society.

We need to figure out a way to reconcile having children starting in the late teens and ending in the mid-20s (which is by far the safest, cheapest, and easiest time to do it) with the modern economy (which prioritizes slavishly focusing on school/work until your fertility has mostly dried up and you're at massively increased risk of passing on genetic abnormalities).

One strategy could be to have child-rearing skip a generation, with grandparents (in their 30s/40s) doing most of the work while the parents (in their teens/20s) go to school and start their career.
Fascinating! I had no idea there was a delineation between upstream and downstream encoding albeit its a fairly obvious condition in retrospect thinking of the upload caps.
You can't really measure safety in terms of deaths. Chernobyl only officially killed a handful of people, yet rendered a huge chunk of land uninhabitable. When nuclear goes wrong, it goes really wrong.

And yes, you can argue that that Chernobyl was an old reactor design, Fukushima was complacency, but the reality is that technology always goes wrong. I'd rather have technology that catches fire (wind turbines) than technology that gives people cancer and forces entire cities to migrate (reactors) when it goes wrong.
That's fantastic but unfortunately there is no viable grid storage close to being capable of actually utilizing renewables for the majority of power all over the world.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/batteries-need-t...

Are we really going to risk human civilization on the immediate invention and mass fabrication of new storage technologies orders of magnitude more efficient then what we have?
It's less about screen-time or self-control and more about toxic, malicious software used for communication.

A lot of the calls-to-action used to generate "engagement" are the same calls to action used for legitimate communications, and the only way to tell is to "engage" with the product.

There's nothing wrong with people opening their social media app if they receive a real message from a friend. The problem is when the platform is incentivized to "manufacture" messages even when there aren't any.
We need to start talking about how to configure Screen Time on iOS, or how to use Facebook's built-in tools to hide content you don't want to see

I have my home router configured to not allow any social media-capable devices to connect on Sundays.

After a few weeks, the FOMO cycle is broken and you realize that there's more to life than scrolling.
You can store data locally, but it costs $500 up-front.

I'm a freedom-respecting software (the F in FOSS) philosophy activist. I agree that developers need to make money and capture value for software development to be sustainable.

I believe Roam is unethical because the incentives between the user and the proprietor are misaligned in Roam's business model, where a monthly fee is required to continue using the software.

Feel free to ask me any questions on why I consider Roam unethical, digital ethics, or the free software philosophy.

For those looking for other knowledgebase management software, look at freedom-respecting (and open-source too) software: Athens Research[0] (YC20), org-roam, and logseq. If you'd like extensibility, try org-roam.

[0]: https://athensresearch.github.io/athens/

[1]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

[2]: https://logseq.com
If you do not trust the democracy or the judiciary, why are you even bothered by the law.
> This arrangement has existed for at least thousands of years and is called "marriage".

Well said.

The modern inclination to tear down tradition institution and then replace them with increasingly more damaging and convoluted schemes is an endless source of confusion to me. It's almost if we've become so arrogant that we assume if something has been done for generations that it must be wrong, which seems like the exact wrong assumption to make.
'Consciousness' is one of those viral memes which generates value for its users much like a pump-and-dump scheme, it gets more real and intriguing the more people you get on board, sorta like 'Race'.

You can tell because, like Race, the minute you start asking after details, or why its even operative or a term of art in the first place, the coherency reveals itself as brittle spaghetti statements all the way down. Its fascinating that we're kinda okay building a science around a term that isn't simple or exhaustively unpacked in terms of all constraint on its definition, like anything we can describe mathematically.

But humans are fascinated by meaning (which is completely tied to notions of providence [I can't think of a human culture that doesn't have an idea of providence/final destination]), truth hiding beneath the surface, possibility lurking just right around the corner. We know by looking at so-called animal life: YAGNI as far meaning goes. Human beings are addicted to revealing, to un-covering. Even though in reality there is nothing hiding, nothing "covered', no truth beneath the surface, no depth to any of the superficiality.

But perhaps, if our brains really are 'prediction machines', then perhaps past a certain threshold, it has to start "making meaning", which is to predict truth (at least at a social level, when it no longer has more to process in physical reality. It does this merely by virtue that the machine cannot stop predicting, even when there's nothing more to predict. Hence Nietzsche: "Man would rather will nothingness than nothing at all".

The upside for human animal life is that all this meaning-seeking activity makes us super unpredictable in response to inputs, moreso than most if not all animals. And unpredictability creates more possibility, so we simply will reap more rewards than other animals by shear frequency of being batshit, but we equally creates new and different problems for ourselves as well.

But its also why the vast majority of people cannot be scientists (or sociopaths, for that matter): their brains have a hard time sticking with utter simplicity; there always has to be more than there is.

This is how our form-of-life drifts through the universe. Gorillas sometimes eat their own shit. We don't know why. But is it any more or less valuable than our meaning-making activity? Maybe not.
One of my bugbears with Actions is the Marketplace and its low barrier to entry.

I fear it’s only a matter of time a popular action is maliciously compromised.

You can protect yourself somewhat [1], but still, it’s going to be a surprise to some when it does happen.

1: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/secu...
Why should eBay override the wants of buyers in this way? How many people think the continued sale of Dr. Seuss books is doing harm? I think there are opportunities for less woke companies to gain share.
Imo it's because there's less social resistance for women to take on the roles of men.

Until men that take on the former roles of women are viewed equivalently in the dating market, it's going to be a much harder slog
Certainly any company that relies on “safe harbor” style protections or sells online services (alone or bundled with software) as a subscription should be required to fully open and document the protocol.
That’s a pretty narrow interpretation of “marriage” and doesn’t track my experience at all.
Comming in under budget seems like a rare problem with building nuclear plants.

While in operation, i think congressman and bureaucrats don't even know about the real costs.
offtopic:
Hey munificent! Great fan of your books. Keep up the great work!
In the case of reverse-engineered acronyms like this one, I think there's a judgment call that you need to make: in some cases it is simply not useful to expand the term. They explain what FLoC means very early on, but the expansion of the acronym conveys very little information since it is technical, somewhat nonspecific, and it's clear that the acronym was designed before its meaning.

Consider, for example, that it's uncommon to expand military program acronyms because their meaning is often less useful than saying "it's just a word."
> The premise that the universe is somehow "better" with no conscious life is just silly sophistry.

meh, no more than all the other moral philosophies. some are more practical than others, but none are more "true" than others.
Reminder that a few hundred years ago, people typically worked a few months out of the year, and were able to live the whole year. The source(s) of the reason(s) we need to work nearly 5/7 of the year now is one element of why this is even an issue.
So you want the husband to explicitly pay his wife a W2 wage to raise their kids, which just means as a couple they pay more taxes and have less money than before?

I don't see the upside.
I think you guys are taking "weird" a bit too literally, I don't mean it in a negative way.

If it was common here in Canada then I wouldn't find it 'weird' or unusual would I? And I can assure you it's not very common. Even if there are exceptions.

Regardless that was not what the Brits (or whichever Euro empire) chose to eventually name Milwaukee, they chose Milwaukee. So that's a poor counterpoint...
Still used to the 90s when any Level of bypassing would get you labeled as a hacker, and people would demand you get fired or arrested.

Just knowing how things worked resulted in a number of people assuming I could hack banks, and either asking me too, or shunning me. Or flat out accusing me of it.

Umm you could go around mugging people much easier then I could hack stuff. That explanation never went over well.

Had to ask one boss to stop threatening employees to have me hack them. It was in jest, but I was terrified at how people would react if they thought I bypass security. Didn’t help that I knew how, as security was crap back then.

I leaned to keep my mouth shut, and refused to keep up with security stuff. Can’t hack if I don’t know how.
Ancient cities needed to drink the freshwater from the rivers.

Now we have man-made reservoirs and aqueducts to deliver drinking water to the coasts.

Japan certainly seems to have cities along its rivers, but it also has a lot of costal cities (presumably because it's a small island nation, unlike, say, European civilizations).

For Fukushima in particular, I was under the impression they were using the ocean water to cool the plant itself. (Under non-meltdown conditions, you can transfer heat without contaminating the water itself...)
> is it possible a network could optimize training loss without memorization when possible

What does that even mean? ML is simply a set of tools to minimize (f(x_i) - y_i)^2 (if you don't like squared loss, pick whatever you prefer). In particular, f() here is our neural network. There is no loss without previous data. The only thing the network is trying to do is "memorize" old data.
Git's list of banned C functions
No school busses, difficult schedules, insane commutes for parents, expensive aftercare, super expensive daycare, super expensive housing. Hell, they used to make kids pay to play sports until the courts struck that down.

Mostly because California has prop 13 -- the $30B per year transfer of wealth from the young or new into the pockets of Native Sons of the Golden West.
The problem as ever is people and expecting that process will fix them. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

A dysfunctional team won’t be fixed by a new process to follow. It’ll just warp to the dysfunctions.
> Unfortunately much of the financial system (in the US anyway) is highly dependent on population growth

It's not the financial system, it's the underlying economy. Back in the day, people had to have kids so there was someone to take care of them in their old age. The financial system abstract, but does not eliminate, that structural feature of the underlying economy. You still need young bodies producing goods and performing services for the elderly non-working population.
The contract was very clear on the obligations and expectations. It defined a process for AZ to notify the EU of shortfall, which AZ followed. AZ was required to put forth it's best efforts to meet the targets, which it did. The EU did not negotiate any exclusivity for EU production or penalties for missed targets, and it is crazy to think this was an accidental oversight by the EU legal team.

The EU is clearly very interested in this "dud" because their few other vaccine investments were unlucky, performed worse, and didn't make it through trials
The main problem with this is that it misrepresents itself as an "Open Source" license, while not actually being Open Source.

People can write and use a license with any restrictions they want; there are plenty of proprietary licenses out there. I hope such licenses don't get used or propagated by anyone else, but people are still free to write them. But it would be especially problematic if people use code under such a license, or worse, put new code under such a license, while thinking they're using an Open Source license.
The key thing to remember is that power sources like coal and other fossil fuels have a very real health cost. A large number of people die every year. However a nuclear accident is much more "exciting" news and sticks in people's mind. People dying of cancer, asthma and other conditions are not as direct or as dramatic.
2016 for v1 to be exact, link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530 and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566917
> “Effective” payment isn’t helpful to a full time parent raising a child

? Having room and board for yourself and your child is nothing if not helpful.
In what world can you convince me that nuclear is safe when we have Chernobyl and Fukushima? Like are we going to compared it to coal or something of the sort?

When nuclear fails, which it will, through accident or terrorism, it fails forever, catastrophically

Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?
>> somehow make houses a toxic asset that cost exactly the value the provide in the form of a roof, and no more.

Wow, that seems like a plan just bulging with answers to the question: "What Could Go Wrong?". Yikes

Pretty clearly, rent control doesn't work either, it just creates two distorted markets. Homeless shelters don't work except for a few cold nights. Housing projects don't usually create good conditions either.

With housing, the problem is like cars - there is no answer to "what is best?" because everyone needs/wants something different. It is not just 'transportation' or just 'a roof and walls'. I want a sportscar and a 3-bay garage to work on it; you want a pickup truck to haul bursh and supplies for the small cabin you want, and That Guy wants just a lot of Lyft credits and airline miles and a bedroom in a shared apartment because he's rarely there...

It might be better to approach the demand side, just ensure that the regional minimum wages are enough that a full time job is over the poverty level, so people can afford to get housed.

Edit:
Moreover, and maybe more on point:

Housing costs are MANY more things than a mere dry bed, hot shower, and place to cook. Housing is different for everyone, from individuals to families. And the cost includes everything -- the rawaccommodations, the quality, the environment & neighborhood, the convenience, the school district, the expectation that more housing and/or amenities and/or jobs will or won't be built or destroyed in the future, and more.

And so the solution is to either ignore all of that, or destroy it?

Moreover, how would you even do it?
We all seem to get that airplanes are safe and that being afraid to fly is something to overcome. We also know how disastrously it can go wrong if the plane crashes into flats (I'm thinking of the Bijlmer disaster, not a terrorist attack): it's not a theoretical risk, it's just exceedingly unlikely to happen to you.

How come this is communicated differently for fission energy? Looking at the data it's a similar situation.
Russia puppet was the reason of Euromaidan.

Putins rating raised to 86% after Crimea annexation. Ukraine joined West in propaganda. It's just a fuel for informational autocracy.
> Social media is the cigarette of our generation.

Except with cigarettes we could point to the very real physical harms of lung cancer, emphysema, etc.

With social media we just have vaguely sinister warnings about addiction and mental health issues, which can seem paltry in comparison.

The former was obviously a health problem that was deranging people's bodies, whereas the later is seen largely as a social, not a medical, problem.
With nginx it's as easy as:

add_header X-Clacks-Overhead "GNU Terry Pratchett";

in your server{} block.
And is Google required to do something similar to help users transfer their photos to a competing service?
Citations! I need to see this.
This exists if you have a Mac. Set Photos to "Download Originals" in the settings and every photo will be downloaded to the "originals" directory in your photo library bundle.
"therefore we need everyone to eat more big macs"
Is that the same issue? Public schools are a public good but compensation/equity/advancement is a private one with private benefits. This isn't an issue of preventing financial collapse but as OP says a matter of "career prospects". The justification for that reason as a public good seems a lot less obvious to me than for public education.
We all suffer because it pollutes the environment ridiculous amounts for something that is still of dubious worth to society (we already have plenty currencies). The amount of power needed goes asymptotically to infinity as bit coins are mined. It will have to eventually fix itself because of that as other have argued, but before then it's going to do a lot of unnecessary damage to the environment.
I threw together some CSS for dark mode in the "HTML" version using values from the normal JavaScript version:

https://gist.github.com/CivBase/818f7f4f56050c9769c4b783c08c...

EDIT: I replaced the raw code with a link to a GitHub gist to reduce the obnoxious size of my post.
People don't become "independently wealthy" by saying no to money, they do it by grasping at every bit they can. Wealth is positively, not inversely, correlated to greed. We literally just saw what happens when you put an "independently wealthy" in the oval office, he took a 10 million dollar bribe to greenlight an oil pipeline.

Cap political donations per person and ban corporate donations. Money is not, and should not be legally considered, speech.
Yeah, but I moved out of Germany for other reasons.
In the U.S.

1) Population continues to grow due to immigration and higher birth rates among immigrants.

2) Population is growing in some areas and declining in others, which is matched by housing prices increasing in some places but falling in others.
I think there are a lot of myth-myths where basically the general public ran with a wildly pseudoscientific interpretation, and then the scientific community decides to dismiss the entire thing (at least outside of whatever subfield, although I've sometimes seen it within too).

Speaking specifically to left vs right brain, in popular media I've mostly seen it presented as logic vs creativity, which completely disregards that people can be creative verbally, and that certain quantitative/technical things are very non-verbal.
No, you’re right that doesn’t make sense, and I wouldn’t be for that. I think government should expand paid time off for family leave, especially in the US.
After bitcoin collapses (bubble pops) they won't be willing to mine for 2 years to get a block of coins when it's worth maybe $2
Not to mention giving a man a fish does nothing to teach him to fish. Being poor in the US is mostly an attitude problem and there will always be a portion of people that lack the correct attitude maintain a job or climb the latter in any meaningful way. If you want to just give these people money to ie keep the crime rate down then that is one discussion to have. But I just roll my eyes when we act like the average poor person just needs a 'jump start' and suddenly they're firing on all cylinders.
I don't understand why this is a problem. It's a simple multi tier naming scheme. Don't Americans have Springfields everywhere?
In case anyone wants a native (Cocoa) REST client for macOS, there's https://paw.cloud. It's paid, but they sometimes give away free licenses for retweets, which is how I got mine.
The whole point of neural networks was that you don't need to think hard about generalizations.