skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People believe what's believable (even if backed up by garbage). GPTs dont make believable stuff, but they can be used to flower up some b.s. idea. Nothing that can't be done with a few hired trolls, and the proliferation of garbage will endanger the troll industry, as people will start becoming suspicious. So i doubt its impact can go beyond generating spam and noise.
I used `bc` for years and years
got any sources for that? I would think that any credible, conclusive evidence of nootropics actually doing anything would spur a great deal of fanfare
I personally would go with ETH and Ethereum because everything else is some flavor of the week “coin”. Adding coin to anything but Bitcoin comes off as just another money printing scheme.
I'm not sure that's true. He didn't invent open source, and while he should be credited with being an early pioneer, he was largely ignored for decades until he got /just/ enough people onboard to find someone personable enough to get it to catch on in the corporate world, which then gets the attention of marketing.... and that's how we got to today. Not just by his "social skills" (or lack thereof) alone.
AstraZeneca vaccine suspended for those under 55: Health Canada
I took a few years of Latin as a kid. I remember that I enjoyed learning about Ancient Rome, but realized I didn't want to sink hundreds of hours learning a language just to read some old books.

I ended up spending a few years studying Spanish in college, I'm reasonably conversational now and met my wife, who's from Puerto Rico, in the process.

Even if my wife wasn't Puerto Rican, I would teach my kids Spanish. Grammatically it's far easier than Latin and will connect them with culture and millions of speakers that are alive today.
I don't think that would be that crazy, especially if it's in the stdlib.
Gemini’s standard is missing several important means of semantic tagging that screenreaders need to properly deal with content. I feel that if we are going to replace HTML, we still need to ensure that the disabled are first-class citizens from day one of whatever new standard we use.
Amazon is continuing to hire and grow in NYC, even without HQ2 and the special tax breaks: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-continues-expansion-in-new-...
>"deno download exactly the code that is imported" and not just a whole package?

In a fairly simple and elegant manner. You specify a URL to the specific file FOO you want to import and FOO gets downloaded. Then deno looks at FOO to see what files FOO depends on, and downloads those, so on so forth...

That's very different from how NPM works where you have to download the entire package, including parts you may never use, along with every dependency the package depends on, even if you never end up using those dependencies either.

NPM's approach, which frankly worked well given the circumstances, has the downside of not providing end-users much benefit of writing code in a modular fashion, so there's no advantage to breaking a package up into multiple files versus distributing a single and large minified file.

Deno's approach promotes breaking up packages into multiple files so that an end-user only downloads the files and dependencies that are actually needed.
Hey folks, I have been helping out some beginners pick up web dev basics and started encountering a pattern. This post simply list them out with my thoughts on why they are mistakes.
Do you know if it was PC USA (which is more mainline) or PCA (which is more evangelical/fundamentalist)? It's actually a pretty huge split in that denomination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_in_the_United_St...
I thought that the important barrier to building these sorts of systems is the cost of, indirectly the energy required for, training the model. Is that still correct?

How does a Free Software or "Open Source" project get around that?
There are other benefits to crypto beyond simply facilitating payments. For instance, smart contracts allow for instantaneous atomic settlement between parties given arbitrary conditions, via the application of transparent and verifiable logic with (near) zero risk in the execution.

The fed's new payment system will not (cannot) offer that capability.
Amerikabomber
"The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States (specifically New York City) from Germany, a round-trip distance of about 11,600 km (7,200 mi). The concept was raised as early as 1938, but advanced, cogent plans for such a long-range strategic bomber design did not begin to appear before Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring until early 1942. Various proposals were put forward, but these plans were all eventually abandoned as too expensive, too reliant on rapidly-diminishing materiel and production capacity, and/or technically unfeasible."
How does this business model survive Amazon AWS making a blog post, "Here's a template to run your deno code on Lambda!"? They'll never beat AWS on costs in the long term. They can burn VC cash to stay afloat and try I guess.
Cephalopods are protostomes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome), vertebrates are deuterostomes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterostome). I'd think with our current understanding of bilaterian evolution, one would expect the last common ancestor to be something relatively simple (a worm-like animal?) with a rudimentary nervous system.

But, not a biologist. Happy to be corrected!
It is a thing.

QED
I've got some very real value out of static analysis tools, so I don't know quite what to say about all that. For sure it is a tool that takes time and effort to use correctly. Having used it, it can sometimes take a little imagination to consider how much time might have been wasted later in the game had the tool not been used.

Not sure that any of that has to do with FreeBSD's use of Coverity, which I'm curious about. (rereading the OP I guess I'm not sure the FreeBSD project itself is a regular user of Coverity or if there's something else to it)
I think the trick is that the internet revolution started from a very small group of people, at least relative to the whole population. It takes a very long time for things to go mainstream. Adoption time seems to be getting shorter with each new wave of tech, but these big conceptual jumps are still hard.
>If you live on an island, disconnected from everyone else, then you can do whatever you want.

I think you're unaware how isolated and segmented some of the global electrical grids are (even in well populated areas) that create the very off-peak idle production that allows mining to exist.

This is certainly the case in parts of China (rainy season hydro) and the US that must maintain capacity for instant peak usage but otherwise goes to waste.
Yes, if I am a cook and I am voluntary giving out food for free you can expect to eat gratis. (Perhaps the place has recently opened and they are attracting new customers?)

If I am a cook and I didn't invite you, then this a theft and you are breaking the law.

You are welcome to place any RFPs you want, but you might not get too many proposals for them if you won't pay ehough. You are still welcome to do so, there is nothing illegal or immoral in doing this.

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I think we have too many similes in this thread, so I am going to say it directly:

When choosing a software tool, there are many factors: monetary cost, time spent getting the license, time taken to get started, time doing the primary task (like writing application code), time reading documentation, time spent fixing bugs, experience learned, how easy to transfer knowledge for other people, and so on.

A lot of times we can ignore "monetary cost" because work will pay; but even then proprietary software does not always win. It often has much better "time to get started", but it is often worse in other aspects. We should choose the best tool for the job, and let the market decide.

For example, in embedded world, proprietary software is common, expensive, and for some reason, very bad. If I had to start a project on Blackfin, and my company would be ready to pay for whatever ADI SDK licenses I need, I'd still choose Linux/gcc/gdb if I could. This is not because "I don't want to pay for tooling" -- my org would pay anyway. No, this is because ADI SDK is horrible and ignores all modern software development practices. And ADI IDE is slow, crashes and does not support threaded debugging.

On a more minor front, I have an expense budget, and I am sure my work would be happy to Beyond Compare license for me, but I keep using open-source kdiff3. I am sure BC is nice and I wish them all the best; but I like to be able to teach other developers on my team, and they are not likely to have a BC license.
For the record, I doubt the US will ban bitcoin. But let's imagine what would happen if it did. It wouldn't eliminate access to bitcoin but it would hurt its value quite badly.

The demand for heroin and cocaine is driven by intrinsic value: it gets you high. You can restrict supply but you can't stop people from wanting to get high. The demand will be there no matter what. The utility of the product is unchanged by laws or public perception.

Bitcoin doesn't have intrinsic value. It has value because people will buy it from you. I think BTC is a crappy technology, but I'm not ashamed to admit I'd buy one at $50,000/ea this instant, only because I know I can turn around and resell it for $57,000/ea. The only reason I want 1 BTC is that I know enough other people want 1 BTC badly enough, that I can sell it to them at a good price.

If exchanging my Bitcoin back into fiat or directly for goods becomes illegal, now I've got difficulty and risk involved in using it. I won't want Bitcoins as much. Its utility -- being useful for exchange -- can be directly impacted by the law.

A lot of the people who want to buy bitcoin today would not buy it if it were illegal to do so. I'm talking about casual retail speculators, Tesla, Microstrategy... all of your basic white collar investors who are looking to make a buck but don't want to get in trouble for it. If you delete all those people from the buying side of the order books, and put those who have already bought and want to get out on the selling side, what happens to the price?
This is why ECT is not a first-line treatment. It's where you turn when you've pretty much exhausted the alternatives.

However it's important to keep in mind that

1) Memory loss is often very short term, or temporary.

2) losing the ability to hold down a job is a non-issue for patients who may end up out of work on disability

3) Many antipsychotics and mood stabilizers come with their own memory issues and other side effects... There's always a trade off.

4) We need better treatment methods. To say ECT is a shotgun approach is an understatement. It's a scorched-earth approach where you hope the ashes end up fertilizing a new crop.

5) It's a tragedy that many of our best and brightest STEM minds pursue an education that leads them to jobs optimizing ad-tech or hustling for an exit plan to get rich. Theranos duped so many people in part because everyone wanted to believe big tech could be more than this. Which at least means that if you're in it for the big payoff then you should find something with the same potential for human impact only, you know, not a massive fraud. If you do that, you'll bank a lot more money than in finding the next SaaS that provides an incremental improvement on an existing product category.
People have been talking about the vacuum that Christianity has left or will leave in Western society for over a century. Most of the time, however, those who complain about this then completely miss the point.

The new organizations, ideologies, and new-age pseudo-religions "filling the religion-shaped hole" in society aren't inherently "lesser" than religion (or necessarily better). They are simply filling the niches in an ecosystem that many traditional religious structures by and large refuse to adapt to.

Yes, the sudden decrease in religiosity in society is probably just trading one set of problems for another, but if individuals didn't think that leaving their church was in their best interests then they wouldn't have left in the first place. Secularization is an inevitable consequence of freedom.

Religion and Christianity itself probably won't ever go away for the same reason it has clung to life for millennia: it will change and adapt to those new needs. It's only the stubbornly complacent sects and congregations who will dwindle and go extinct.
Yes, this last common ancestor has humans and octopi among its descendants, but also limpets, clams, and sea squirts. If it also dreamed, if dreaming isn't a product of convergent evolution, that is also amazing.

Your English is excellent, by the way, what little of it I've read.
There's Retro68. It might be able to pull this off. You'd still need all the other pieces, of course.
While I agree that it's silly to pretend like dreams are something exclusive to humans (especially considering that our prefrontal cortex is largely deactivated during them anyway), I think it can be misleading to categorise all animals as having similar experiences to humans in their dreams.

Take Dolphins for example. They need to keep one hemisphere active at all times to keep themselves swimming and breathing while the other rests so at some point in their sleep, the hemisphere that's resting swaps over. This is going to give their dreams a very different feel to ours, possibly something in between a lucid and regular dream, and those are fellow mammals!

Imagine how different the experience of even birds must be never mind Octopuses which are 600 million years removed from us in terms of evolution and have a neural structure that is far more distributed than our own. Perhaps individual octopi legs have their own separate stream of consciousness distinct from the animal as a whole.
And very clumpy. Some places are nearly full, some nearly empty.
I don’t know know your stack so take this with a grain of salt:

It may be very tempting at times to skip normalizing data and to just throw stuff in a document store. The downside will be code complexity and runtime that is less than performant.

I am sure you are familiar but the patterns “adapter” “strategy” and “interpreter” can be very valuable here

I am sure you also use dependency injection as appropriate .
I wish you all the best. I will keep an eye on and think good thoughts
I'd second teaching, potentially very rewarding and could make money if you do it right.
The Fed does not prevent banks from enabling microtransactions.

It simply isn't profitable for banks to provide microtransaction services, especially considering that all microtransaction services to date have failed. (Contrast to P2P payment services like Venmo, which have flourished over the same time period.)
Most countries in the world have restrictions on striking. Including Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Spain, Germany, South Korea, Japan, and others. Most of our allies. I guess none of these countries are civilized.
The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor
Ok but was that unreasonable at the time?

My dad is a boomer and eagerly adopted technology into his business at that time. I can think of many examples of this. How many boomer parents of millennials provided us with computers and Internet access?

Maybe I’m just sensitive to the ageism but I don’t buy in to these generational stereotypes.
You're lucky to never have been at a place in your life where that sounds like it's worth trying.
and it's not working

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-53417284
I think it is wrong to steal the work of others (circumventing the conditions under which the author is willing to offer you their work).

If the law is bad, breaking it is not a solution. Changing the law is a solution.
I have a Honda Element. The fuel light comes on when it still has about 3 or 4 gallons left.
I think the problem on GitHub is that if you compromise someone's GitHub account (from a leaked password or whatever), you can just add a new public keypair to the account, and now you can sign code as that user.

Requiring two-factor auth for the GitHub account should be good for this though.
Notes on an Open Scraping Database
>In particular, media, including journalists who cover these ideas.

Why would they care? They still get paid in the end.
Hi again! We had a back-and-forth about this a while back regarding the paper and I think we didn't end up on the same page regarding the "public data" definition in the paper (found it! [0]). I love that you're upfront in the paper, because it's silly how most people just don't acknowledge it (though they usually don't redistribute it publicly like the pile does).

I think the gist was us disagreeing about the relevance of

> Public data is data which is freely and readily available on the internet. This primarily excludes ... and data which cannot be easily obtained but can be obtained, e.g. through a torrent or on the dark web.

That last phrase is what got to me. It puts things in the same category that feel too different. E.g. the harry potter books in vs this comment I'm writing. They're both available within a few clicks from the search bar (one because I put it there, another because it was put up against the wishes of the author and owners), but that commonality doesn't feel relevant.

Excluding torrents especially seems like a cop out explicitly to get around the issue of "X is the top result when i google it" being so common as a torrent. I think you're trying to exclude that content as public because then it defines too much as public? But torrent vs ftp doesn't feel at all relevant when it's just google plus a click or three. Or searching on pirate bay plus a single click.

I imagine a judge looking at the copyright status of someone's pirate site and saying they can't redistribute the content, and the pirate responding "okay we'll take down the ftp server and put up a torrent instead, so that it's not public. If you google us (or search on pirate bay), the top result will stop saying 'X download' and now it'll say 'X download torrent'" and expecting the law to be on their side.

I didn't really buy the arguments in section 7 either. The usage points seem legitimate, but don't cover redistribution.

> But we will be making the license-compliant subset of the Pile public when we are able to and will give it equal prominence on our website to the “full” Pile.

This is fantastic and I want to sincerely thank you for that.

I'm trying not to be combative, but I feel like publicly redistributing other people's work does raise the bar quite a lot higher than just using it to train.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616218
I thought CPU power was great until someone pointed out to me that this just encourages botnets.
I have heard similar complains from bus drivers that don't have time to have a toilet break, see: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...
The slower the boat travels, the closer to the wind it has to point in order to avoid being pushed into the leeward shore. (assuming it doesn't have significant thrust-vectoring capabilities at both the bow and the stern which as far as I can tell seems to be the case for large cargo ships)

Because the boat is longer than the canal is wide, for any nonzero perpendicular wind speed there is a minimum boat speed below which it would not be able to avoid running aground. The solution is to either not permit such large ships to transit the canal during high wind events or to send them with enough tugboats to counteract the force of the wind.
Video game currencies are definitely sitting around the line. I don't know anything about WoW gold, so I can't say if it crosses the line into virtual currency. However, given that searching for "WoW gold" had the entire first page of results being nothing but people selling it, I do feel like it rather deserves to cross the line into virtual currency.
Ah, I was basing that impression on the combination of the things int he previous sentence - the intense sadism, revenge drive, and so on. Of course, these are legitimate plot devices but Banks' writing often seems to wallow in cruelty to the point of establishing an antagonistic relationship with his readers.

His non-sci-fi literary work is kidna off-topic (and imho much less interesting) but I would definitely recommend people read his first book, The Wasp Factory. It's a short but excellent psychological horror story whose structural framework is unusually clear, and often repeats in his sci-fi work.
Dokku now has a kubernetes scheduler to allow it to scale horizontally also.
I'm not a Christian, but a lot of this matches my experience with the overwhelming majority of atheists. There's a severe echo chamber effect and ignorance of both Christianity itself and especially of other religions, to the point that they make wide-ranging pronouncements that only really apply to a single perverted branch of a particular religion.

> As a religious person, I don't hate outspoken atheists. In fact, I very much respect them - they are people who care deeply about the truth. In that respect, they have something in common with any thoughtful religious person.

I disagree here though. In a secular world, rejecting religion isn't exactly the mark of a radical truth-seeker. When I started through my own atheistic phase as a teen, the greatest disappointment was the observation that my 'companions' in that regard weren't exactly insightful, just followers of the zeitgeist; if anything they mirrored the fundamentalists in their ignorance.
For comparison, the one I use is called CapRover, and works great for my small use cases. It's like dokku with a web interface, and can do rebuilds from git webhooks.
The latter is a much smaller version of the former. GEB's central theme has to do with levels of meaning, which is delivered not only in substance but also in form. One has to look no further than Contracrostipunctus, or the final dialogue to see it on full display.

https://godel-escher-bach.fandom.com/wiki/Contracrostipunctu...

hidden in the dialogue as the first letter of each phrase is the acrostic "Hofstadter's contracrostipunctus acrostically backwards spells 'J.S. Bach'" which, when read acrostically backwards does indeed spell J.S. Bach.
I'm not here to defend hypocrites, just to point out that there is nothing inherently unreasonable about a Catholic church putting up an anti-abortion billboard.
There are other more portable way to do OS wrapper, and maybe faster (but it's not an issue).

Just write the wrapper as a C extension module, and in the module make the system call with proper library call.

like in the following code:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/vfs/te...

This way it will be portable!

A couple of weeks ago, I just made for our OS's system calls. It's only a first draft, but works fine.

You could also parse the C header for constant values.

(Actually, I wrote a python script to generate the C extension for the system calls also, not just for the constants)
I like the convention of calling the currency "Ether" (pronounced ee-ther).
Neat project. I use NetNewsWire for rss. It’s interesting that the format people prefer to consume news in versus the format that news is delivered in are now so different.

Newspapers went through the same thing. The older papers are all stories and were funded through the price of the paper, then ads invaded the margins.
And! the parser and calculator engine is free to use for personal projects. It is an extremely pleasant SDK to use, and super powerful.

https://github.com/soulverteam/SoulverCore
I thought this was a fun little game with just the right amount of randomness. If you get a Biden Neighborhood in Texas or a Trump neighborhood in Brooklyn you are just unlucky.
Any chance of providing an RSS feed? The plaintext nature of the actual articles is delightful.