skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect any device with general purpose computing capabilities to allow me to use those capabilities anyway I want.

Especially I'm spending $1000 USD on the thing.
GPT-3, for the first time you need to read a few minutes to know fake from real. I used to play with LSTM language models and they barely made sense 10 words at a time. The difference is a huge leap. My wish list for GPT-4 is: multimodal - to learn text, image, video and other modalities. Multitask - cultivate as many of its skills as possible, maybe it learns to combine skills in new ways. Longer sequence and additional memory, maybe even ability to use search/retrieval for augmentation. And last - recursive calls - ability to call itself in a loop and solve sub-problems. I hope in the future a pre-trained GPT-n variant will be a standard chip on the motherboard.
Thank you for sharing. I would love to know which app you use for invoices, contracts, etc.
Looks cool , some points

1. Lot very early stage start-ups will simply use excel instead of 50$/month. You should have an easier price point to onboard just the planning features. As they grow they upgrade.

2. The docs leave a lot to be desired, not going to go through all work of sign-up without better docs.

3. Security is no where to be found, double authentication, policies, something..
I disagree. You buy a house in a given location based on its current or future properties ( say, relative silence of the surroundings ). If that property is altered in a way that does not benefit you, it could affect their property rights.

For the record, I think library is a good thing, net-wise. I understand their line of reasoning though.
This case reminds me the French Press Association vs. Google News case [1]. The details differ, but the outcome is the same: It's not in your interest as content producer to be excluded. If it wasn't already free for you, you would probably be enticed to pay in order to gain visibility by your customer base.

And frankly, I don't know what UMAW expects to get. Can really Spotify support the $0.01/stream without going out of business? Why are they making non-bilateral demands to Spotify (e.g. reveal business contracts)?

And who are UMAW anyway? From a quick check of their page, the only names I could find were the steering committee, and it took several tries to find members with >1 albums on Spotify. With that level of opaqueness, it's hard to see them convince the public to throw their support behind them. And what's with the sub-committee mania?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News#EU_copyright_and_d...
Agree. I run openbsd, its simple.
> In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland

Interesting line.

Do we still have army scientists?
> I haven't stared at the ERCOT numbers, and am disinclined to do so -- the fact that much of the state was without power for several days, and early reports suggested the grid was some minutes away from catastrophic cascading failure, suggests to me that concise numbers aren't the important thing here.

I gave references to the exact locations which would take at most a minute or two to find. If we're just going off journalists' opinion pieces, then we're not ever going to get any further than the cherry-picked stats that they choose to provide. If you don't think my numbers are worth taking into account because they come from the source data and not someone's propaganda, then I don't know what to tell you. You're happy enough to cite numbers when they fit into your argument.

> This is factored into the overall grid provisioning and maintenance of power to consumers. It's why I asked about the effect of this variability outside of major cold events. Evidently not so much?

The recent events indicate precisely that this planning had some serious flaws. We cannot make that assumption. Although you have pointed out that wind power normally varies between 10% and 25% of the supply, so the normal variability is apparently very large.

> Were they not so intentionally disconnected, power could have easily been sourced from elsewhere in the country.

The adjacent regions also suffered rolling blackouts. There was a little power to source, but not much. This argument is not supported by the "concise numbers".

Re my personal opinion on wind use: My original position was that wind can be very good despite some issues, but as I've gotten into these discussions and dug through the data, I see significant reasons that wind might be a bad fit for Texas without some major improvements beyond just winterization. I'm open to those improvements but I don't know what they could be, so my opinions here are not really made up yet.

I'm not really interested in advancing any particular policy prescription. I'm mostly pushing back against the widespread misinformation (especially avoidance of actual numbers in favor of vague terms) around this topic, in order to give some space for a real discussion. I'm not trying to show that so much wind generation is a problem, I'm trying to show that it could be a problem and that possibility needs to be accounted for. Wind shouldn't be assumed to have "exceeded projections" because some partisan "fact-checker" said so without specifying how absurdly low those 24-hour projections were. That's why I've repeatedly said that winterization could improve the situation, but I also point out the flaws in thinking that winterization will magically solve all the issues, since wind is so variable even without any freezing.
Thanks. I was starting to think I was the only one not believing in the AI hype train.
I don’t get the fuss with the pledge of alliance (non American here).

> "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Why is it bad to declare your commitment to the country you’re born in and it’s values? It’s not like you can’t leave (except for the IRS) if you don’t like it.
What an insipid and silly assertion. Just because I can switch jobs or ask for a raise doesn’t mean I’m nothing but a commodity in the labor market. Classic category error. But makes sense why you seem obsessed with a product that wants to reduce you to a number
Not necessarily for lack of effort. I was there and Obama recorded a video specifically for the visitors to the US Pavilion.
He grows fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyALl2EILQk
Using google search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the search results were than in 2021
I've grown to love my Dell XPS (with Linux). It definitely has some rough edges. Dell shipped what I consider a faulty machine. The trackpad is wobbly/bouncy. I had a tech come out to replace it, but he ended up having to send it to "the depot" due to a screw being sheared. I hadn't touched the screw. The depot returned it to me with a missing/broken case LED, unplugged speakers and one WiFi antenna that won't seat. Even still, the machine is beautiful. Even the fingerprint reader works in Linux. I use the heck out of it and battery life is quite good. Also, I upgraded my RAM to 32G and my SSD to 512G. This thing also has another M.2 slot just in case I want to put another SSD into it.
Knives have many restrictions such as opening and locking one handed or being too long. Certain kinds of flashlights and clubs are illegal for civilians in Germany so I imagine something along those lines might be applicable in Belgium as well.
>horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans.

What Sam is proposing is massive wealth redistribution by taxing land and capital. Seen any memes referencing $1400 lately? Unemployed humans who are given cash absolutely create demand.
The messaging regarding the migration to GitHub container registry is confusing, there seems to be some delay or clear guidance on the migration atm.
Certainly, our economy is not centred around abstract value. Value for who? What kind of value? Does value rule the life of the average man, or does trading his labour for access to capital and a share of it's proceeds describe the relation one has to the economy more accurately?

Trade is not what I'm discussing as an abstract concept, but instead how we structure our relationship to sustenance and work. That is centred around capital, not value - hence the word "capitalism". Which is not necessarily a bad thing, in some ways this is a good organization for things we care about, but it's not mainly about maximizing value for everyone, it came about very mechanistically.
Early SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet
it would appear you are sampling an unknown distribution, finding it mostly to be negligible in its effects, and calling it linear?

I’m confused so let me try an analogy with DNA: most mutations do nothing. Every now and then, cancer.
Sample a large number of mutations for a short duration, and you have proven nothing regarding nonlinearity globally. Roughly speaking.

Another example: I can measure a the air near (but not to near) a shockwave, or just under (By human scale) the free surface of the ocean, and find pretty much linear behavior if no other pathologies are present. The underlying physics however, is not linear, it is only my approximation which is. Maybe it’s valid over configurations of interest. But then I better know something about the limits of my approximation.
(prisma migrate team member here)

The development flow in migrate (the `migrate dev`) command is quite pedantic: it will check things like migrations missing from your migrations folder but already applied to the dev database, or migrations that were modified since they were applied (via a checksum) and guide you towards resolving the problem. That can happen because of merges, but even more commonly when you are just switching branches locally, or editing migrations.

We're also looking into ways to integrate with your CI and review process to provide more insight, for example when your branch gets stale and you need to "rebase" your migrations on the migrations from the main branch. It's something we are actively exploring, and we're more than happy to get your feedback and ideas on github/slack :)

My personal view is that _some level_ of consciousness of the migration process (schema and data) will always be required from developers on large enough projects. What we can do is build tools that help people getting their migrations right, but it can't be completely automated. There's a lot more to do, now that we have a stable, production ready foundation.
Eh, the vast majority of these cards are used by people who are rendering fantasy worlds so they can run around pretending to be an elf, or a soldier, or some other stupid thing. Lots of them are full grown adults too, just wasting time that they could be doing something meaningful with.

That's way WAY dumber than powering a next generation global financial infrastructure.
But the opposite is true. Android represents a much, much larger part of the smart phone market and there are a wide variety of devices, manufacturers, and sellers.

So the more accurate version of your story is that Apple goes to one of 100 different retailers instead of Billy, which is also what the electronics marketplace is like already.
Close but so far! Thanks so much.
There are some pretty silly weapon prohibitions out there. In Canada, the list includes some familiar ones like brass knuckles and butterfly knives... and yes, it appears that flails are on the list. Trebuchets, ballistas and catapults appear to be legal here.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/f...
you can apply to https://app.cryptotask.org/en/tasks/872 or https://app.cryptotask.org/en/tasks/869 ..yea the price in this case is set to negotiable, but on most platforms even if you have set price it is usually negotiated before work starts, so nothing different here. Also as mentioned, there is significant traction on Croatian section, international section will have more and more jobs as we are focusing on growth now, so great time to build reputation as a freelancer
How does this compare to https://twitter.com/runwayco ?
It’s simple. A disproportionate share of racists and nativists are in the conservative wing, and more to the point conservatives are ideologically resistant to potentially aggressive government interventions to eliminate discrimination. So racial minorities are forced to ally with white social liberals. But that alliance doesn’t come for free. Social liberals insist on driving the bus on non-civil rights social issues, such as norms around marriage, child bearing, and premarital sex. (To this day, Black Democrats are far more likely to call premarital sex immoral compared to white Democrats. On that and similar issues they’re actually as conservative as Republicans. But that aspect of the culture is muted as a result of the alliance with disproportionately white social liberals over civil rights issues.)
Is there any reason to think it's unlikely that mRNA defects would have the same risk profile as Ibuprofen? The body is full of thresholding processes, where up to X% blood concentration the organs filter things out fine, and there's no issue, but over that level danger escalates quickly. I don't know immunology basically at all, but is there some reason to think it doesn't have processes that behave like this?
i'd be EXTREMELY interested in knowing more about that. I'm currently developing an app on iOS in swift, in the hope of porting the model layer to other platforms such as android (i don't mind redevelopping the UI).

i have been carefully avoiding any objective-c code so far, but i must admit i haven't been to careful with foundation dependencies.

Do you have a blog post explaining what you did and what limitations you encountered ?
Music is a passion and hobby for many. People would still make music if the didn't make money from it.

Might have lower production quality and less glitzy marketing, but the vast quantity of free music out there is proof that many will continue making music regardless of financial incentive.
> a service that has a user base that is nearly 100% criminal

The article says this service is widely used among criminals. That doesn't mean the user base of this service is largely criminals. In fact I would be surprised there would be 170k criminals around the world using a single service I had never heard about, seems very high to me.
Who is "us"? Surely you don't mean the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
I wrote the blog post before ugrep came out.

But I ran the benchmarks in the blog post a few months ago and included ugrep. ugrep isn't faster on any of them. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... (However, as I acknowledged in my reddit link below, ugrep is faster than ripgrep in some cases. If I were redoing my benchmark, I would include those cases in it.)

The full set of raw commands executed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite...

I've also contested ugrep's benchmarks in a few ways and have had unproductive conversations with ugrep's author: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i6pfb2/ugrep_new_ultr...
Once you have actors it helps to have a priority mechanism, latency guarantees, a scheduling abstraction so work can be partitioned, some sort of boost mechanism to prevent starvation, a timer abstraction, and a state machine abstraction to carry out work flows.
> What do you reckon the 9 non-firearm prohibited weapons are

I wonder if a hand grenade would be counted as a firearm or not?

The other thing that springs to mind would be switchblades.
The pavilions were truly incredible (from what I remember, Saudi Arabia comes to mind, just look at that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2010_pavilions#Saudi_Arab...) but like the article says, it felt more like each country's branding exercise rather than any unified vision of the future.
That feels a bit like advocating that it was mainly Betamax which changed consumer habits in the 90s since it was technically superior to VHS.

It may very well have been the case for a small number of MS centric devs, but for the large majority of users, it was Firebug that really changed the game for the bulk of Frontend devs back then.
No, it’s commercial: convincing the miners to switch who obviously have a vested interest in perpetuating PoW
Founders: you can predict dilution with Carta's New SAFEs Calculator
I have my cheque from Sony for OtherOS class action sitting on my desk. The cheque is dated 09/16/2019 [nine years after OtherOS was disabled via firmware], and it's for three dollars and two cents.
libtls. I wish it this API was more popular than it is, as it makes using TLS way easier. https://github.com/spc476/libtls-examples/blob/master/get1.c
The beginning of the "Capitalism for Everyone" section is laughably out of touch with the reality of 2021.

However, buried further down is an agreeable point:

> We should therefore focus on taxing capital rather than labor

Yes, along with repatriation of capital so tax payers can't stash their cash abroad.
No, i don't think so
Certainly, if you put wealth redistribution into the equation, then we don't have this argument anymore. But I'm arguing in the abstract sense outside of government intervention or structural modification.

Besides, massive wealth redistribution in the form of direct payments indiscriminately is not politically viable right now, but maybe this line of argument can help.
I think I remember seeing the vehicle delivering mail at my old apartment building and it wasn't a grumman whatsit but a regular van or delivery truck. So I don't think the special vehicles are universal in the US either. I also think I've seen postal jeeps although that may have been a long time ago.
I've been using Maven and Gradle's toolchains functionality to move individual apps to Java >8 without breaking the legacy apps, works pretty well.
Yep, and you could clone it with xcopy.
I should clarify that Scalar does not require a VFS for Git server to work correctly, even though it can get significant benefits if a VFS server is available. This means you can use Scalar today with GitHub, but not VFS.

Scalar also supports Windows and macOS, while VFS only supports Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit/blob/v1.0.21014.1/doc...
> "I am a software engineer.... Companies are truly only buying a subset of skills on the labour market."

yeah, if you buy in wholesale and premise your argument that way, then of course arguing the premise seems ludicrous. i'm questioning that acceptance itself.

when it comes to value creation, it's rarely the skills list that makes a person, a team, a company, effective, but rather an unquantifiable synergy of individualistic and combined abilities. on a basketball team, you can assume every forward is interchangable with every other one, but then you'd never win a championship and presumably would never understand why.
Hardly comparable when a slave doesn't choose to be a slave while an Apple user has to pay hundreds and thousands of dollars to become one.
Agreed. You could substitute ultrasound waves with electromagnetic waves in this same conversation. We use EM waves every day for diagnotics -- at the 740-380nm range because that's visible light. 10x-100x frequency of that is ultraviolet, which is harmful. And as for resonant frequencies, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that certain frequencies could denature certain proteins or have other effects.
GC claimed that food is all that is needed, and that their wants were satisfied by the additional of the other two things.

The fact is that the average human is not actually content to be one notch above animal with "food, sex, and purpose". That is why we have progressed much further than just accepting those basics as all we need. But I think our improvements on those things do provide enough value for the average person to be happy.

- Tasty food

- Safe sex (and relative ease of reproduction)

- Multi-variate / chosen purpose.

Plus other methods to remove annoying friction from your life:

- Optimized shelter

- Optimized travel

- Consumption of various raw goods (not for food and not for shelter). e.g. 3D Printers!
It could certainly be a good thing, but what strikes me from the description is promising one thing and building another.

And I would add my own anecdote. The state decided to build a new office building by "selling" the land to a developer, who built the new building, that the state now leases. Also, the state passed a special law exempting this site from city zoning restrictions. The developer took out the parking lot and put up a multi level garage, for which they charge the office workers an annual fee. So the workers fanned out and park their cars along the streets in the surrounding neighborhoods, leading to congested streets and more traffic. The residents petitioned for "no parking" and "2 hour parking" signs along the streets in front of their houses. So now there's a 2-hour parking sign in front of my house, which I didn't ask for.

My point is that an innocent measure to enrich a developer had a spillover effect into the entire neighborhood. And there's still a bunch of undeveloped land on the lot, which the developer will be free to do with whatever they want. This kind of stuff fuels NIMBYism and the need for precise specifications hashed out in painful detail.
Granted the line for elective procedures or medicine varies by country, but necessary medical treatment is very well covered in all of the above countries. Most will pay for travel to other countries for specialist treatment if it doesn't exist within its own borders and is approved within their own system.
I'm not sure we can ever get back to the techno-optimism that characterized much of America in the past. This article seems to suggest that we as a country can become optimistic about the future again by having a World's Fair. That by doing so we'll recapture a shared vision of the future and a shared cultural purpose that we had until it started to fall apart in the 90s. It's a quaint idea, but it doesn't seem likely to succeed in bridging the widening gaps between various tribes. Much of this cultural disintegration was caused by technology.
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> SCSI ... which allowed you to connect to exactly one serial device

Pedantry, but: SCSI is parallel, not serial. The distinction is the number of data lines in the cable -- serial has one line, and SCSI has 8 or 16. This allows for much faster data transfer rates, at the (significant) expense of greater complexity and cabling cost.

The other advantage of SCSI is the ability to connect to multiple devices through "daisy-chaining". Old-style serial connections (RS-232, RS-422, etc) were strictly point-to-point.

Modern SCSI (SAS) runs the SCSI protocol over a serial connection, because port clock speeds are now fast enough that the parallel advantage isn't important for most uses.

Not to detract from USB though. It was an improvement over all of the above, and nowadays it's pretty fast, too.
I wonder if an automated setup like this would benefit from protected atmosphere (eg co2, or nitrogen) in a simple shrinkwrap/sealed container?
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