skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that Uber are still bleeding money after being established in most markets they still operate in ( others were sold), would indicate otherwise.
The notion of an object, in the human sense, doesn't have any solid relationship with the physical world. I hope we are agreed on this much. For some objects, there is a stronger correlation between the human concept and the physical world (i.e. you could find a formal definition that matches to some extent what I mean by a particular spoon), but for other objects in our minds there is nothing in the physical world that truly matches our understanding (the Atlantic Ocean, as an object separate from the Pacific Ocean, is not a physical object, it is just a human abstraction).

In particular, our notion of the identity of an object has no relationship with the physical world, as the Ship of Theseus shows. Our idea that objects "shatter" and "transform", so that if I break a glass the pieces are a different object than the glass; or if I mix of bowl of flower with water and roll it into a dough, the dough is a different object than the bowl of flour and the water - these are not physically definable notions.

When it comes to human identity, the identity perceived by myself, the same logic MUST apply, unless you believe in a soul. The fact that I can think of myself as the same identity as myself 2 seconds ago, or myself when I was a handful of cells in my mother's womb, is obviously an artifice of the human mind. There is no such continuity in the physical world.

And this has all been said from the perspective of classical physics. If you go into QM, where any notion of identity of particles would contradict the theory and observations of it, things really break down.
Thanks for your information. I have found that [1] may be relevant to my requirements. A bit more work, let's see how far I go with that.

[1] https://processing.org/tutorials/sound/
An estimated 12 million Africans were forcibly shipped to the US (and precursors) and they and their descendents enslaved for generations.

Did you forget to count them?

I’m not minimizing the evil of the Nazi murders. Just pointing out the US started out with a fundamental violence problem of incredible scale.
No, the price is going up, everyone on average is making money. In a bubble everyone tends to think they are very well informed and investing rationally and getting the psychology right.
On the other hand, if you are relying on software you're working higher up the stack so there's more room for bugs to creep in. Or put another way, that software is running on hardware that might have a non-obvious defect. Maybe it's better to just cut out the middleman?
I think the author's argument stands: except for novelty products, there are very few applications where the misinterpretation risk is worth less than $1. Certainly nothing that has to do with safety, medical equipment, professional and industrial tooling, food processing, automotive (pressures, temperatures etc.). An one segment error leading to a 30 PSI reading when the pump is set at 90 could mean instant death when the tire blows up.
NYT's depiction of India's space achievements[1] is a solid example of the shitty mindset the west has towards "third-world countries", especially India.

The fact of the matter is that west fails to understand the deep and complex diversity that has existed in India for thousands of years. They've viewed India through their own lens for decades. They frequently equate Modi with Trump. While Trump (and largely Republican establishment) doesn't care about scientists (or science) and hates social security programs, Modi (and generally BJP) is for science and technology and love to implement social security programs[2]. The fact is that Modi and BJP are definitely nationalistic by the western standards but nationalism means something very different for them compared to the right wingers in America.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062

[2] https://swarajyamag.com/politics/what-the-media-gets-wrong-a...
> You can experiment with leaves and blends and temperatures and vessels.

Don’t forget about the steeping time.
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It doesn't matter that not everyone is a "economically rational agent". What matters is that there are some of them. People who will reinvest their profit into more mining, to profit more and reinvest it further. The people who are currently fabbing their own ASICs and setting up mining farms in places where electricity is cheap. These people left unchecked will, over time, suck up all spare electricity generation capacity and eventually outbid quite a lot of normal electricity use.
What's the origin of the name? 'Lunatic' is an antiquated and ableist term for the mentally ill, so probably not the best name for your product/company.
It is on the MathWorld article, and as you can imagine it is not that pretty https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingSofaProblem.html
That's a good idea. I've been leaving for later asking for funds, but now feels like the right moment.

Just created the Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/programaker ] and will look into GitHub sponsors.
"why most cryptocurrencies at the core are unsustainable" would you care to elaborate on such a sweeping statement?
Exactly, assuming that we are operating in a non-lawful space would that not enable the most “pure” result of free market capitalism?
Many words about how economics is like physics, hence Peters makes a terrible insults to generations of respectful academics. And not a single word about how they are still missing the ruin problem, and how ergodicity is a dead simple and exact answer to it
So what? I think discussing Eric Weinstein's presentation style is closely on topic.
I just yesterday set up pg_auto_failover, and it was such a breeze compared to Patroni/PAF/repmgr. Less moving parts and a much simpler, but flexible setup. They did a really good job there! Also forced me to finally implement multihost support in my Postgres.js driver.
Thank you for the explanation!

If I understand correctly, many states can lead to the desired outcome. But would my suggested approach not simply yield one of the many possible initial Staates?
It's what you're paying for.
Yes, I understood this. I was just trying to say that it's not easy for me to recognise the context of a diff in a deep nested yaml or json.
I don't think this is actually an example where you really know what the right thing to do is.

A) You can do what you think is right

B) You can do what other person thinks is right

It's not clear that either A or B is the correct choice.
I think there's a case to be made for cutting out those things, especially ones that aren't directly visible, such as ambient noise.

Many people think you get used to it, and maybe you don't consciously notice it anymore, but I think that the permanent background noise to which many people are exposed in cities contributes to their stress levels. Pretty much everywhere they go, there's constant noise:

* random chatter / noises in the open office

* AC hum / vibrations / etc at the office

* traffic noise, while walking around or taking public transport

* random traffic noise / honks / etc at home if the apartment is close to a street and badly soundproofed
It’s a neat trick to have the env build itself after a Git pull. I have now set up my Emacs env 4 times, each time from scratch and slightly differently, next time will definitely be along these lines.
Infinity Loop with Water
Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
That and to do a study, you have to define your success criteria. There is a big difference between taking 3 years to get a result and taking 8.

Even though 8 would be more meaningful, I completely support looking at 3 instead and hoping that it is meaningful.
He has said he's against arxiv since it's a gatekeeper. They aren't very open to people outside academia.
A science fiction book explored the idea that this destruction was imperfect leaving behind an echo that could only interact with other echos. I was called "Echo Round his Bones"

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/thomas-m-disch/echo-round...
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>> This decade has seen an explosive series of breakthroughs in the field
misleadingly known as Artificial Intelligence.

It's the field of research on artificial intelligence. I don't know what's
misleading about a field named after its subject.

I think perhaps the confusion stems from the fact that people have preconceived
notions of what any thing called "artificial intelligence" should be and they
are surprised to find that it is... a research field. Rather than, say, a robot,
or a computer. Or, you know, a Terminator.

I'm reminded of the following conversation from the first Batman movie; Bruce
Wayne has just been served and has tasted a spoonful of his dinner:

Bruce Wayne: [spits] "It's cold!"
Alfred: "It's vichyssoise sir. It's supposed to be cold".

Indeed, it's a surprise that soup can be cold, but the surprise is not the fault
of the soup. Rather, what's lacking is a bit of context, a broader view of the
world and a deeper understanding of a subject- soup, say, or AI.

Because of this lack of context I often see comments (on HN say) like
"artificial intelligence is a misnomer, in reality it's just X". Where "X" is
the person's reductive interpretation of some very specific technique (deep
learning, these days) that is the only thing the person knows of AI and that
they therefore assume, synechdochically, is the entire field.

Like I say, a lack of context. But of course this will not get any better.
People outside the field will continue to misunderstand the field. Researchers
within the field will even minsunderstand it. Frustrating, but such is life.
> The ones that stay PoW might solely use non-CO2 producing methods in the future

What does this even mean? How can a Blockchain possibly enforce that your electricity used in mining is coming from a carbon neural source?
I'm currently using https://intensedebate.com/ which, while abandonware, allows people to comment anonymously or using their Twitter & Facebook accounts.

How hard would it be to add non-Matrix accounts to this service?
I don't get what people find so exciting about his papers, which I find borderline troll-ish. We know that people in general don't reason the way he says he does. If people only cared about log of wealth, they would take much more risks than they do. If everyone did it, the return on stocks would be much lower than it is, because everyone would regard stocks as a great deal despite the volatility.
Agreed. And furthermore, I am continuously realizing how much my bodily well-being affects my mental state.

I am not suggesting that exercise is the cure for depression, but when it comes to a normal "feeling low", I find that the solution often relates to the body: move, stretch or relax. Same with sleep. If I can't fall asleep I often just need to make myself aware of where I have tension in the body (https://kristiandupont.medium.com/cant-sleep-ask-yourself-wh...)

On a higher level, diet obviously means a lot and so does air quality. I put an Awair in my office recently and have realized that I wasn't airing out nearly enough. I was basically sitting in a cloud of CO2 which I now realize was also making me feel tired.
TL;DR: by having some free time, saved up funds (or "lottery" like kickstarter) and then just doing it.

It's like with prototypes in any other area. You have idea, you either convince someone that it's good (typically with alredy working prototype, which precludes funding for prototypes) or use your own time/funds. I wish there could be other way. Maybe someday UBI will give us that.
NFT's are Bullshit: https://samim.io/p/2021-03-05-non-fungible-tokens-nft-are-bu...

In Summary:
1. The NFT doubles down on the worst of copyright, the property metaphor, & tries to impose old ideas of scarcity & exclusion on the digital realm, where both are obsolete.

2.NFTs are an absolute ecological disaster
Because of course he did. :D
Surprised nobody mentioned the MYT engine: http://angellabsllc.com/
Am I wrong to assume that this will forever be expensive and impractical compared to e.g. Intel's RDRAND implementation where the RNG is built using the same process as the rest of the processor? It seems like you couldn't easily integrate this on the same die as a processor and if it's a completely separate chip, how in the world are you ever going to make it economically advantageous compared to a silicon RNG feeding a CSPRNG? The CSPRNG could be outputting as much random data as you could ever want and it's simple enough to guard your seed data to that CSPRNG, not to mention reseeding it just to make side channels that much more cumbersome to exploit, such that the output of the CSPRNG is for all practical purposes just as secure as whatever output this thing is putting out.
The only reason for tracking resales is to prevent double-spending, in other words, to create a false illusion of scarcity. The whole thing is a charade.
What result are you referring to, exactly?
I don’t agree here. A web application API, properly documented and exposed to any client a participant wants to use becomes a protocol for that service, there’s no difference between CalDAV and the Google Calendar web app’s API except that one is documented, rarely changes, and if offer by a service provider would generally allow any client that implements it to connect, and the other is undocumented and it’s probably against the terms of service to build your own clients. The goal should be to force every API for these providers to meet some minimal definition of a protocol, not to define government mandated standard protocols or force interoperability between services.
Thanks!

We draw a lot of inspiration from Node-RED, especially for builing our own flow-based editor.

We take the same idea and try to make the first steps simpler by providing a cloud service and pre-installed connections to third party services. Also, having a collaborative editor should help when less tech-oriented people need some help to understand why some automations don't work as they expect.

There are more differences: we are working on further integrating the UI builder with the rest of the automation editor. On the other hand we don't yet support building API's directly on our flows or adding code blocks, but we are also working on that.

So, in summary, the main point is to have an easier onboarding and avoid needing to install servers and plugins from the start.
What you say is of course true of democracy, but has nothing to do with totalitarian systems and dictatorships.
This is one of those sites that I try to turn into a PDF every time its posted ..
"Father, the sleeper has awakened!"
Yes, but didn't want to make it sound like "it's good because it has a Chinese name" or "it's good because it's traditional" - it's just a method that really seems to me to bring the best out of many teas: low astringency, 0 bitterness, wonderful floral or fruity aromas, usually lots of sweetness.
> This same author can be seen here recommending blockchain technologies to the CA government here

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> If you're not willing to consider the hypothesis of value proposed by blockchain

So, not even the value proposed by blockchain but the hypothesis of the value?

What would those values and hypotheses be?
Or, people have already seen transplants and prosthetics, and it's easy to observe that the pros outweigh the cons.
> and in the space X dragon capsule) is outrageous

What is so outrageous about that?
And you can also freeze when you should fight. With only 1 or 2 all-nighters to pull off before finishing my degree, I just froze and couldn't write a single word. I would stare at the screen not being able to type even one more character for those reports. Ended up submitting the incomplete versions knowing that they aren't good enough for a pass.

That's how I droppped out of university with only two days to go.
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Yeah, another Prague resident here. Regular taxi service in Prague reeked of the mob. Absolutely unpleasant, dishonest, menacing people.

Uber contractors are much more wholesome people, I had zero bad experiences and my wife trusts them enough to sit into their car alone. That would not be the case with old Prague taxi service.
Capital's metric is dollars, not heads.

There have been several notable names. Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, and Scott McNealy, off the top of my head.

Most Trump supporters kept it pretty much on the down low. Doug Leone (Sierra Capital) seems to be named most often, though even he broke after the January 6 Coup. Brian Krzanich (Intel) was, so long as nobody heard about it. Palmer Luckey (Facebook), David Blumberg (Blumberg Capital).

Vocally opposed: Meg Whitman, Marc Andreessen, and John Chambers (ex-Cisco), all notably conservative.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/17/20869679/donald-trump-s...

Keep in mind too that dark money and Citizens United most especially makes true support difficult to trace. Arguing that there are no names whilst the names that exist can and often do utilize secret funding mechanisms is highly disingenuous.
> The primary revolution of bitcoin was the invention of self enforcing digital scarcity.

I thought DRM already invented that.
I feel that this downplays the justification for theories of expected utility too much? But I still want to keep reading to see where they're going with this.
Ok, like, it says that modeling people as trying to maximize expected utility, is like assuming something as if one is interacting with paralell universe copies of onseself.
But, surely the author must be familiar with the Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem?

It complains that when people fail to act according to the theories, that the people are considered to be irrational, rather than amending the theories. While it is of course true that theories need to be made to account for how people actually behave, it seems to me that people failing to satisfy the vNM axioms, really is a way in which people fail to live up to the correct ideal of a rational agent.
Well, maybe for it to make sense, instead there should be a formalization of like, a compute-limited approximation of following the vNM axioms, maybe throw in a dash of sub-agent stuff, and a few things along those lines.

Hmm.

Ok, well, if this makes better predictions of how people behave, that is valuable. Though, it would raise the question of "why?".
The parameters being matched would be those that maintain decoder config. Usually, bitrate/quantizer values don't come into that.
> there are very few applications where the misinterpretation risk is worth less than $1

Any product required to run on a battery 5+ years can only be met by seven segment LCDs. That's includes safety equipment. Now what?

In addition, that seven segment display has well characterized failure modes and you can make very solid statistical predictions. When was the last time you actually remember a burnt out LCD segment (I can't remember one) vs. the last time you had nasty lines running through a dot matrix LCD (happens to flat panels all the time)? On a matrix, display RAM failure is a display failure. Seven segment LCDs don't need RAM backing.

Are you willing to have your medical device offline because you lost an LCD matrix row and now you are required by process to wait for a replacement? How much time and money did that cost you?

These are the exceptions. LCDs are normally about cheap. And if the device isn't cheap enough, you won't have that safety/medical device at all because nobody will buy it.

Engineering is tradeoffs, not absolutes.
He'll lose half his face but at least he'll be able to see that in a mirror!
Prettier has been the cause of most arguments about style for JS code I've been involved in recently. For starters, it tends to blow up diffs because you get above/below arbitrary limits and trigger a more extensive reformatting than necessary, and it's infuriating.

I find the argument that it will stop discussion of style bizarre, because it only shuts down discussions about style if you already have the power to tell people what the accepted style for your organisation is. In that case you don't need a tool that refuses to let you pick and choose, you just need the confidence to tell people you're not going to change things.

In other words: It's not Prettier that stops you from having discussions about style again, it's whether or not you signal to people that you're not willing to discuss it. To me, in that respect, a tool like this is a passive aggressive way of signalling that you're unwilling to discuss the subject without being willing to just say that you're not.
HAHAHA you worked there in 2018, genius. And yes, FB catches and removes more child porn than any other platform, but that’s because other platforms aren’t catching it and removing it, a pretty basic concept that literally anyone who has any business being CTO of a platform should know. LOL, Gab is so fucked.

You’ve changed your tune since your bootlicker “we should all be Team Facebook” comments on every Zucc post were a mainstay on Workplace.

You predicted Trump would win; he lost. You said Qanon was harmless; they stormed the capital. You thought you could do this job (and you started while you were still pocketing $ from Zaddy); you ate it just a few months in with a cock-up so basic that it would be laughable if it hadn’t seriously hurt your users, company, and reputation forever. Honestly, you should get therapy.
and be a white man apparently
I recommended 2 books because I know it from books, not random blog posts.

But both books are classics.
Has anyone done an analysis of NFTs being used for money laundering? Seem like they'd have most of the benefits of art plus most of the benefits of crypto.

I suspect NFTs will continue gaining in popularity, if only for this alone.
I've tried to find something similar and as far as I can tell the best current candidate available is pouchdb syncing to a couchdb instance.

If offline first isn't a must have and you're ok supporting 'intermittent offline' then Firestore with offline enabled is probably your simplest option
A couple of decades ago, somebody pulled bacteria from the crops of bees trapped in amber for tens of millions of years, and revived them, and compared their genes to those of bacteria from modern bees.

The biology community at the time was rather worse than derisive.

Max Planck is quoted, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." In most fields it is easy to find correct results just waiting for their opponent to retire or die, and many more abandoned before that could happen, and now lying forgotten in drawers.

The claim that science always gets it right in the end is falsified: for every Mendel and Alvarez vindicated, an unknown number, probably many more than one, die unrecognized.

The most fertile source of now-viable results is probably publications by women and minorities driven from their field.

After opponents retire, many seem to go on to defend Wikipedia pages against current results.
> Is there something about the conservative ideology that makes sustainable energy an enemy?

I know it's not what you want to hear, by it's that wind and solar don't make economic sense. Conservatives don't have an idealogical stake in energy so tend to look at it practically.
A name like that makes me intentionally want to avoid it exactly because I don't want to reward misleading naming like that.
I wonder what kind of regional variations there are on that; where I'm from, the anecdotal impression I've gotten is that sexual harassment is more common from Uber drivers than from drivers for local taxi companies. My guess is that, at least where I'm from, Uber employment is more volatile than local taxis; an Uber driver is more easily fired, but the barrier for entry is lower, so significant damage can be done before a harassing driver is let go.