skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Eric Weinstein as a person. I find he asks important and interesting questions about academia, economics, politics, etc. He's also full of interesting quotes, historical facts and alternative perspectives on the world which I enjoy listening to.

That said whenever I listen to him I feel my BS detector lighting up in head. He's a smart guy, but he always comes across as a little too confident in his own intellect to know when he's out of his depth. I suspect this is a good example of that.

I see myself in him a bit. I think a slight over-confidence in your own abilities can often be a useful trait to have – especially if you're an entrepreneurial person. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think he's trying to deceitful and I think he's an interesting guy, but you really have to take everything he says with a pitch of salt if you want to get any value from him.

Lex Friedman did a wonderful podcast with him last year. It's probably one of my favourite podcasts of 2020. They talk about all kinds of things from music to the nature of love and for me I think this is Eric at his best. Also, the way he's cynicism contrasts with Lex's child-like nativity is really fun to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2nG7-eXxko
Perhaps some of the perspectives offered are discounting the role that gender, race, immigration status, national origin play. I have witnessed comparable levels of abuse and discrimination across academia and industry

- woman grad student removed because of pregnancy.

- senior woman in management harassed because posing a threat to male subordinates

- pregnant H1B engineer harassed

a few cases witnessed on the basis of gender.

So the presumption that it is permissible to wield power in this way — that one is entitled to do
so without consequence — is pervasive in the society, a function less of the particular setting.

What can be done? People try to find bosses/departments/companies/universities with better protections. People (students, amazon workers, meat packers) sometimes organize and unionize.

You can always find instances of Students/workers/scientists/sharecroppers who resisted. Some more effectively than others.

Does it have to be this way? Are there alternatives to ways that schools and corporations and nonprofits are structured? I hope you can bring some innovative perspectives as you move to the next stage in your career.
A brain fart as I too am looking for sounding board to my ideas although not exactly putting them out there but here's one:

Problem Statement: Everyone needs someone. Everyone needs input, mentoring, direction, new ideas, concepts, discoveries else you feel dead inside. Googl promises contextual searching but they all feel like upsells, ulterior motive results and promotions.

IDEA/ExecSum: A.I. based cognitive search that answers to your posts, comments, emails, interests.

HOW: You give a match.com like cerebral notes of your mindset based on what you've written and browsed. then on a daily / weekly basis comes back with recommendation of forums that speaks your tongue and interest. :) Say a very intrusive script that reads your emails (ones in particular you sent to yourself), your docs on locally and cloud, your posts and comments on everywhere. Then let it psychoanalyze and come back with everything from books to posts to podcasts and maybe even real life happening to you locally.

Brain fart I'll never explore. ;)
My experience has been that first-world militaries go to extraordinary lengths to avoid shooting the wrong thing. It’s not that they don’t get it wrong occasionally, but I don’t think your cynicism is warranted.
I agree with this and definitely would tell 17 year old me to go for the 48gx instead!
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I think if people develop apps with the enduser as the customer (i.e. respecting their data etc) then people should be happy to pay for the app.
Jack 1st tweet as NFT selling for $2.5m
This looks really neat! Reading through I caught a small typo, "annoucements".
Merging a SQLite database is challenging.
Yeah, I run into validation issues all the time with hyphens in domain names... :-P
> You forget that China also is running up against their demographic clock.

A slightly aged China will still be able to field more military age men than the whole of Western bloc combined.
Same here, I thought it would be about a new version of ISO Ruby, or similar.

But it's typical for naming projects like this that they try to convey a fake sense of authority.
To be clear, by "learned to read" – it actually learned to OCR text, unsupervised. That is pretty impressive, IMO.

As for whether NNs are doing symbolic manipulation – I'm not so sure that they aren't. DALL-E, the sibling of CLIP, can do some things that IMO are hard to explain if there's nothing symbolic going on, like the examples in this post [1]. Of course we can't say it's doing what humans do (we don't know what humans do!) but it looks, to me, like more than pure pattern matching. nostalgebraist had some good thoughts on this (and actually so too did Gary Marcus well before him) [2].

[1] https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

[2] https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/189965935059/human-ps...
It is a scam, as a rule if it is "X but on a blockchain" it's a pump and dump scam. "Art ownership but on the blockchain" will make a handful of people very rich, at the cost of everyone else who follows the pump and dump.

Here is a thought experiment. There's a neutral party in Switzerland that will mark you as the owner of a digital item in their ledgers kept in a Swiss vault. you can buy and sell ownership as long as you call up the Swiss 'Meme ownership broker', but that's it. Does that seem silly? Doing it on the blockchain doesn't make it less silly, if anything it makes it sillier since there is a lot of pollution in order to have everyone run the Swiss Register.
That’s really not been my experience. I find the non duplicate question is normally somewhat related but not actually useful, being subtly different or quite old etc.

That said while SO has been effectively useless to me for years, if you find it’s helpful then more power to you.
I own a Tesla. But I nearly didn't buy one, and it is the "fans" that put me off. They are, to describe them lightly, rabid.

Normally I would say that a company can only dream of the kind of free advertising such a dedicated fanbase would give them, but Tesla fans can be intensely offputting.

They're not interested in promoting a future for other EVs, or green energy, or reducing emissions. They only want you to see how awesome Tesla is, and if you don't, you're a valid target for a good old fashioned social media flaming. In the eyes of the fanbase, Tesla can do no wrong, even when they obviously do.

I genuinely like my Tesla, but I fear that owning one will make others assume I am one of "them".

Tesla needs to work really hard to ensure this doesn't get out of control, but given Elon's position as twitter-troll-in-chief, it seems unlikely.
I just wrote up a novel. Here are the comments to a unrelated post ended up getting comments(s) from me answering ironically your post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=RemingtonLak
an ISO standard that describes a version of ruby that was outdated and in the process of being obsoleted even at the time it was (finally) published. I don't think anyone really worries about that much.
Isn't that continuation of the origin of punched cards (and origin of IBM itself)?

The big difference seems to me that the census cards were used with pre made special punches instead of using a free form setup like the port-a-punch.
No, regulations are directly applicable. Directives have to be implemented by each country.
As a former chemist this. Pharmaceuticals are developed for human consumptions with defined limits for things like heavy metals, residual solvents, etc.

Bulk manufactured chemicals are not. You’ll often by see them sold at 98% purity and the remaining 2% can be whatever. Even if they are 99.9% pure, the remaining 0.1% can be metals used in the manufacturing process, carcinogens or toxic solvents.

Kind of like the different between ethanol, USP (pharmaceutical grade ethanol) versus ethanol, 99%. If no one is drinking the ethanol they don’t care if it contains traces of benzene, methanol, etc.

Beware.
Unless you sometimes need to type the password manually.
Apparently mobile browser makers disagree.
This is a good example of why copyright ought to be life of the author, full stop. Yes, it’s wrong to force the Seuss company to publish what they don’t want to publish, but it’s equally wrong for corporations to hold hostage cultural artifacts for profit well beyond the time in which the original author could possibly benefit from it.
I never used an HP, but I did have a TI-89, and used a program for it that added RPN input.
Gu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_(poison)

I’ve seen it translated as poison jar so that was where my mind turned to first.
Impressive! Much roomier and well-furnished than what I'd imagined from the word "shed". This is a proper office space, love the French double door. All in all, very enjoyable writing and in-progress photos, thank you for sharing.
Yeah, that sized database is likely to be a challenge unless the computer system it's running on has scads of memory.

One of my projects (DBHub.io) is putting effort towards working through the problem with larger sized SQLite databases (~10GB), and that's mainly through using bare metal hosts with lots of memory. eg 64GB, 128GB, etc.

Putting the same data into PostgreSQL, or even MySQL, would likely be much more efficient memory wise. :)
Landlines may be declining but, in most of the world, I'm pretty sure that "old people" is a growing, largely untapped market.
That's funny. I still have WordStar living in a Dosbox under Linux. The same Dosbox runs MSDOG-6.22, along with some other programs that I like to fire up to relive the good old days. Did you know that these key bindings were also used in Borland Turbo Pascal and others? Made it so easy to edit text. Those were the days.
I use (and for the most part) really appreciate the JavaScript Standard, which is the inspiration for this. However, while I've thought often about it in Ruby, I'm pretty torn to see it here because of the lack of configuration.

In the JS version they ultimately had to add some configuration because like it or not, there are different cases. Sometimes really strong opinions prevail, and if you are forced to throw the baby out with the bath water because the temperature on the tub is not configurable, you get to a sub optimal outcome.

I'll be using this though. Thanks for hard work!
Google provides the safe browsing API to the browsers. So if anything, websites will have to sue the browser makers. However, browsers don't have any contractual obligation to the websites. Seriously. It's a user agent. So if anyone is going to sue browsers, users have to sue or some government.

Users won't sue as long as there's no meaningful harm to the users. And there's essentially no meaningful harm to the users by dropping a single site. As a user, I don't care if any particular site hosts a malware and gets blocked - that's what I want. If that site gets back slowly, I don't care either. That's the website owner's loss.

Government doesn't have standing to sue, as long as there's no discriminatory effect - and as long as the selection criteria is fair (malware/phishing), and they are not negligent in fixing false positives, government will have hard time finding a leg to sue.

It comes down to - as a society, safe browsing APIs are critically important and they have been working reasonably well. You'll have to show they are mismanaging, or malicious, or doing damages to the users. There's no evidence for any of those.
It's also missing DBHub.io. ;)
If you want to avoid this issue with a Drupal site, the file_public_base_url settings is helpful and you might -- or might not, given the latest comment there -- need the patch from this issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2754273
I love the idea of this project so much. Being able to more easily share comprehensible data is an interest of mine.

It is not the first time I have seen immutable B-trees being used as a method for being able to query a dataset on a different point in time.

Spanner (and its derivatives) uses a similar technique to ensure backup consistency. Solutions such as CockroachDB also allows you to query data in the past [1], and then uses a garbage collector to delete older unused data. The Time-to-live of history data is configurable.

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/as-of-system-time....
A/b testing is not analytics. Analytics is how many people are using the site not market testing. And it says you can‘t use it for soley analytics, soley being a keyword. The analytics from market research which results in a legal requirement of having to charge the price advertised is not the same as Web Site analytics of how a user used the site. Just which version of the site they used and what legal requirements/contracts are in place.
That would be a step back. Not giving consent is the default as is.
Imagemagick is in the same ballpark of power and complexity.
> ...Also, because the "classics" are so readily available online, free of copyright and in easy-to-use, open formats

Or you can use Z-Library and get the same advantage for modern stuff

> actual 'literature' meaning stuff that's been commercially published, that can be quite hard to access in anything other than dead-tree format.

Not with the right software :)
Here's one thing I'd have used it for: Video game assets.

Say you have a tabletop game engine for designing starships. Different settings have different lists of parts. Some settings are run by a game's DM, some are collaborative efforts. I ended up saving the lists of parts in huge JSON files and dumping those into git. However, for much the same reason that data science is often done in a REPL or notebook type interface, it turned out that by far the most efficient way for people to iterate on assets was to boot up the game, fiddle with the parts in-engine until things looked right, then replicate their changes back into the JSON. With this, we could just save the asset database directly.

The same reasoning should hold for effectively any dataset which a) can be factored into encapsulated parts b) isn't natively linear c) needs multiple developers. Game assets are one example, as I described above. Other datasets that hold: ML training/testing sets, dictionaries, spreadsheets, catalogs, datasets for bio papers.
Bizarre 'swirlons' are a new kind of matter – Live Science
> Any plugins to strip them out or automatically consent?

No, that is literally impossible. If you only press the consent button because it's easier, you didn't consent.
My expectations are fine. The AI hype is out of touch.
This.

I was able to read all of the Sherlock Holmes books for free in high school. When you’re broke, classics are a great option to turn to.
NFTs are good at laundering money not becuase they are NFTs but because they (most) are art - it's easy to launder money when the value of something can't be concretely measured.

As an example if there was a limited run NFT that could be traded for 1 month of runescape membership ($10.99), it wouldn't be very easy to use it to launder money as you couldn't easily write off as an unrelated party purchasing it for $1099.
The commit log in Dolt is edit history. (When did someone import or edit the data? Who made the change?) It's not about when things happened.

To keep track of when things happened, you would still need date columns to handle it. But at least you don't need to handle two-dimensional history for auditing purposes. So, in your example, I think the "effective" date columns wouldn't be needed.

They have ways to query how the dataset appeared at some time in the past. However, with both data changes and schema changes being mixed together in a single commit log, I could see this being troublesome.

I suppose writing code to convert old edit history to the new schema would still be possible, similar to how git allows you to create a new branch by rewriting an existing one.
I gave you specific and relevant numbers.

When I asked for your numbers that make you say "it's not possible" your response is "Not possible". You said bitcoin cash is not used by anyone, I showed you a graph that it is second in transaction throughput.

Empty blocks and running non-mining nodes are trivial and inconsequential gish-galloping from what you said before. Non-mining nodes don't really matter to general users and anyone that can watch 240p youtube has the bandwidth to run one easily.

> I'm not your average hater, if you have information for me that challenges that assertion I'd love to read it.

I don't know what that means or even what assertion you are making. All you have said is "not possible" without backing it up with any information at all despite everything I outlined above. It should be obvious that multiple orders of magnitude more transaction throughput is possible by looking at the real numbers of bandwidth, chain size, cpu time, latency, etc. etc. Your response was to bring up irrelevant issues to blur what is being discussed.
I’m not sure why this got marked dead?
That might be the lexicographic Mario agent: http://tom7.org/mario/ (Checking my list & https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453 I don't see any others about pausing or stopping the game.)
Linux security hardening and other tweaks
Another advantage to RPN is consistency between machines. Early algebraic models had differing limits of the complexity of the expressions they could evaluate.

Even RPN has a limit, that being the stack depth --- while most of HP's calculators had 4, the HP48 has one limited only by available memory.
I wonder what he could do with a hobbyist CNC mill.
If you are interested to one step beyond, you can check out https://terminusdb.com/docs/terminusdb/#/ which uses RDF to represent (knowledge) graphs (and has revision control).
Friend, let me introduce you to the horrorshow that is GNU autotools.
We do it on DBHub.io. :)

If you're into Go, these are the commits where the pieces were hooked together.

* https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/dbhub.io/commit/6c40e051ff7...

* https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/dbhub.io/commit/989ee0d08e6...
But would a NFT hold up in court as proof of ownership? For example if I get ahold of your NFT for some digital good do I 'own' that good now? I'm guessing if we went to court over it and you have all the accompanying documentation proving you purchased it and all I have is the NFT, the court would rule in your favor. And if that's the case what benefit is a NFT over a standard purchase agreement?
> Maybe they don't pay as much as I do for outbound traffic on aws, but still

Almost certainly not. I doubt this is even a rounding error on their budget.

I'm not sure how this stuff works at a high level (IANA network engineer), but i think they have peering presence at internet exchange points - https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/14907 so im not sure they actually pay for bandwidth at all, at least on some routes
If curious, past threads:

WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20898950 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

WordTsar – A Wordstar clone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549189 - July 2018 (85 comments, including "My dad, Seymour Rubinstein, created WordStar." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17557412)

WordStar: A writer’s word processor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13899238 - March 2017 (1 comment)

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850693 - March 2017 (106 comments)

What ever happened to Wordstar? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114185 - July 2016 (169 comments)

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272952 - Sept 2014 (5 comments)

George R.R. Martin Writes Everything In WordStar 4.0 On A DOS Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7744952 - May 2014 (33 comments)

A Song of DOS and WordStar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7732320 - May 2014 (13 comments)
just lowercase it
Because the people who control the money everywhere on this planet all simultaneously debase their phony currencies all the time over and over again, creating a hidden inflation tax that there was no way to avoid until bitcoin was invented.
> Location of the host is irrelevant, it depends on the target audience. Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it.

No, merely serving pages to the world (that happens to include the EU) does not mean you have to follow the GDPR. That is only the case if you cater to EU residents specifically (e.g. by taking payments in Euros).
Or... it’s not Google’s job to police all sites of malware?
I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.
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I'm sorry, but isn't that what we've ended up with?

Whenever I see SO in search results, it's a sign that I have a question someone else had years ago that wasn't answered.
-wrong-, misremembered the video.
If you want to use standard’s defaults, but add your own tweaks:

# .rubocop.yml
inherit_from:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/testdouble/standard/master/config/base.yml

Style/TrailingCommaInArrayLiteral:
Enabled: true
EnforcedStyleForMultiline: consistent_comma

Style/TrailingCommaInHashLiteral:
Enabled: true
EnforcedStyleForMultiline: consistent_comma

# add further tweaks as needed

and just use rubocop’s CLI
I also have a substantial piece of Rubocop config that I use for my own projects. Why is anyone else's better than mine, or vice versa?

Why do have people have to name their preferences 'standard' and promote them around?

Such initiatives simply add heat, noise and confusion to a perfectly fine and diverse community that can sport a palpable history of giving extreme power to its hackers.
After watching the original video when it was first released, 3D printing really doesn't play a massive part. Welding is the real winner.

3D printing is still plausible for building jet engines - just not to the average person for now and the foreseeable future. Metal printers (using fine powders) seems quite viable, but they are costing $100k+.
That's why I've been using Joe's Own Editor since I first installed Slackware in the 90s. I learnt the Wordstar keybindings via Turbo Pascal (used WordPerfect for word processing).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor
Or the second moon (this is in the 1984 film)
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Muad%27dib_(moon)
Jack Dorsey is likely not using this to launder money. If Jack Dorsey were to sell a signed piece of his own painting I doubt you'd be thinking the same thing.

NFTs are good at laundering money not becuase they are NFTs but because they are ART, their cost intangible and non physical.
Whose should it be? Why would they be better than Google?
I had the same question - it appears the We Are as Gods documentary is not out yet. According to IMDB, it will be released in March 2021 at the SXSW film festival (March 16-20).
If you are not associated with the Critical Role team I think you shouldn’t call a D&D related site Critical anything. I’m not saying this on a legal level. I don’t know enough to say if you are legally allowed or not. What I know is that it feels inappropriate. Best case it will cause confusion, worst case it feels cheap and scammish.