skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why the GP was taking about weak priors.

You just don't run an A/B test for 6 months hoping that a new design increases sales, get results pointing that the new design reduces sales by 90%, and then go make another 6 months long test to make sure the sales indeed fell.

Acknowledging the numbers on that single dimension are different from what you expected isn't the same as testing a bunch of different dimensions. And if your hypothesis does not allow for it, you completely failed at rational thinking.
Yes, exactly, WebMidi event stream is what drives it, it also generates Midi output to drive the notes that the student isn't playing.
> Woody Allen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen_sexual_abuse_alleg...

I don't read into the connections as a whole too much, though. The rich and famous hang out with the rich and famous.
No doubt, but that is tangential to what the S-400 is claimed to do, and if you don't mind me being blunt: neither us, nor any Russian forum goers, know if the S-400 is actually reasonably effective against LO aircraft. Maybe not even the Russians and American militaries do.

Where the original claim comes from -- that Russia and China cannot shoot down an F-35 -- is beyond me. It is as daft as claiming that S-400 makes stealth useless. I take issue with such confident grand claims.
Not when the system requires energy equivalent to many Jupiters. To create a useful system you'd need to consume a Sun-sized star of mass on a monthly basis. We aren't there and honestly I don't see us ever being there.
I also would like to tell you that he is an US citizen AI pioneer, recognized to the "hall of fame". he also taught philosophy as a graduated professor to the MIT.

You sincerely think such a smart person could end trap in interviews?

such wrong assumption belongs to ppl without culture and cleverness...

HE DID it all for us all! all like something "true"...
Bad parties operates in the FSF to break it all from the inside... and pssst if you wish to know this all involves way more than debates... It's a war game and the source codes does strange things sometimes? (ain't it?)

Oh I missed another info... HE also worked with INTEL to define better CPU :)

WAKE UP, learn real programming and choose your party quick :)

And Do not work for someone for free... free software isn't about that.
How did Amazon steal from investors?
It’s funny. I live in a city where public transit is very good and I don’t need to own a car (so I don’t.) One of the inconveniences in my life is getting large furniture from stores. I can get to an IKEA just fine — but I have no way to get the products back home on my own.

If they would let me, I would actually be perfectly happy to go to the IKEA, pick the boxes myself, and even load them into their truck myself, if that would result in the items then being driven to my house. I have to imagine that IKEA would be pretty okay with that arrangement as well. I wonder why they don’t offer that “service”...
The ftl part does need negative energy. Subluminal warp bubbles do not need negative matter.
Well, as everywhere in the world, it varies. Plus a lot of people have left/are leaving Romania, but even so, for a rather poor country of now around 18 million people (used to be ~23 million in 1990), I think there are around 100k software developers). Which is not too shabby considering where we started (I guess in 1990 we had maybe 5k).

Cluj is growing but it's still a bit of secondary center. Bucharest on the other hand has offices from almost every major player, I think only Facebook, Apple and Netflix are the only ones missing for now (that might change, as things are moving super fast these days). Otherwise, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google, Intel, Huawei, Adobe, SAP, etc. are there.
Nothing wrong with making a living, but I don't visit Twitter every day to see streams of advertisements any more than I watch YouTube so I can see the ads. I don't mind seeing occasional ads or asks or self-promotion, but when the self-promotion drowns out the useful content I unfollow.

> if you don't pay them to produce the stuff you like, either they will stop doing it, or turn to shady crap like whatever this BitClout thing is, NFTs, or just spyware advertising.

What a cynical take. "Pay me or I'll advertise spyware!" It doesn't work like that. I use Twitter as a social network to communicate with people, not to be pitched products I don't want.

I'm not asking for free stuff, I just want a decent signal to noise ratio and some honest conversations.
But this isn't answering my question - why aren't they opposed goals for other parts of the military? Why just cyber? And we've already addressed the question of exposing ourselves - attacks can targeted and not universal, just like physical attacks. This property is not specific to cyber. For the inverse, the military could decide to use a bioweapon, but it would also attack ourselves.
I work with accounting systems on daily basis and also have accounting background.

Ledger does not replace need for accountants.

We already have a bunch of software for ledger (that also doesn't require to burn huge amounts of energy).

Banks are ledger and if somebody like a government want to get info from that ledger it has been quite easy recently -- even Swiss banks relented and have been forced to submit information.

Accountants are people who specialize in knowing how to categorize stuff before it is put on a ledger in a way that meets requirements of local law and makes business more easy to conduct.

I don't see any possible way in which bitcoin is making this easier.
I'm very much short on time at the moment, in fact, this weekend is the first time in a month that I have some time for myself but soon that will hopefully change and then I will be able to devote much more time to this project and some others that I'm tinkering with.
And once again, for about the 20th time, we are told there is a "Canadian" real estate bubble where in fact, there is a Toronto and Vancouver bubble and surrounding bedroom communities.

I know they dont care much, but theres an entire country outside of those two metropolis but welcome to western Canada, where you can buy a very decent 3 bedroom home in Calgary for 400k and and only have to save up for 2.5 years.

Very reasonable indeed.
Be interested to see a percentage increase in fat burning (I.e. is it worth nailing a coffee or not if you are a big fat coder looking to shift a few pounds)
Yes, but I think the "battery" was just too much of a stretch from the original blog post, but not really "the point".

The argument in general is that Bitcoin mining is a better-than-nothing use for stranded energy, which does not then imply that it is a "battery". Quibbling over what qualifies as a battery is besides the point, I think.
Saying it has no value is incorrect. It's seemingly the price to pay for securing $1 trillion.

Maybe the better way to look at it is, how expensive is it to secure $1 trillion with other means in a decentralized and permission-less fashion?

There is no alternative to compare it too even. So I think we are still in price discovery phase for Bitcoin.
FWIW, "agent detection" is an established concept[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection
Would be interesting though if we had a scientific way to tell if someone is lying. Would make life easier for courts.
Right, because BTC value never goes down.
I'm also subscribed to a few substacks, but I don't want to subscribe to 20 different people's newsletters.

Nothing wrong with paying for content, but I don't want my Twitter feed full of daily pitches to sign up for the same thing over and over again. I use Twitter as a social network to communicate with people, not consume advertisements for content on other platforms. When someone turns their Twitter feed into a stream of ads or asks, I unfollow.
Worse, I think social media censorship exacerbates the issue in certain cases. For example pointing out that the number of unarmed Blacks killed by police is actually very low (https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/poll-44-of-liberals-say-...) gets you mass reporting from dedicated activists and results in your post being blocked or account bans. Because the medium (Twitter) is itself editorializing the content through censorship, the mass amplification of bad ideas can happen unabated since others don’t get to push back.

It’s funny that “virality” was once seen as a positive feature of social media. Gad Saad, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, explores the concept of “idea pathogens” (that infect minds and spread like viruses) in his book The Parasitic Mind (https://bookshop.org/books/the-parasitic-mind-how-infectious...). You can hear him speak about this concept in his interview on the Jordan Peterson podcast (https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/gadsaad/). Social media is the breeding ground for idea pathogens.
Have a link where I can read more?
Massive efforts using obfuscation, spurious lawsuits, lobbying, and buying up competitors. Only speaking about the NAR, but as a past insider.

The NAR only exists because of lobbying to create laws at the state and local that institutionalize themselves as the only legitimate real estate agents, or over-specify the qualifications for being a real estate agent until they are only satisfiable by being a member of the NAR. If all fails, access to MLSes prevents any rebellions below a certain size - the vast majority of Realtors® make no money, and losing MLS access is not an option. In order to create your own MLS, you'd have to pull an Aaron Swartz and get away with it before being cut off (which is probably the main reason why MLSes are a federation rather than a single system), or slightly more realistically get a bunch of no-money making Realtors® on your side and pull an Alexandra Elbakyan with their credentials. The problem with the latter would be that the listings turn over a lot more often than scholarly papers, and you'd have to deal with de-listing.
Bitcoin is not a battery it is not a valid analogy. It’s more a store of value of the energy produced. It’s a monetary incentive to capture the cheapest (now mostly hydro, solar, wind potentially nuclear) wherever you can cheaply or safely find/capture it at the source (since energy transport is inefficient over long distances)
It does have value, its the value to secure the Bitcoin network (at the moment worth $1 trillion). No additional tanks, armies and nuclear weapons needed.
That's fair, but how much of that 33% of the overall cryptocurrency ecosystem is going onto forums and arguing specifically about Bitcoin?

I don't necessarily want to generalize about all cryptocurrencies or all crypto-enthusiasts -- there is genuinely interesting technology here. But I find it increasingly hard not to generalize about the subset that shows up in these discussions arguing that Bitcoin is the future.
> But they don't have a lot of stress of other professions

Well, it's labeled "heavy physical activity". I did say it's important work ( eg. Respectful), I also said that's exactly why it could be political suicide by just mentioning it. I also didn't think I dispresected teachers themselves, but directed more to the unions.

Also, special needs are separated and are also labeled "heavy emotional work" here.

In this case, i'm talking about the heavy physical.

Also, the examples you mentioned:

Correcting homework is to be done during a normal workweek. Since no teacher here stands in class full-time ( ~ 26 hours in general).

Contact with parents is 2 days per year during normal days ( mo-fr)

Administrative paper work is done during class, at the start.
I’ve always avoided caffeine before exercise because I’ve worried about overexerting myself and getting an injury from going all out. I wonder if there’s research on this factor?
Plasmic (https://www.plasmic.app) enables this workflow—you can visually edit the design while editing behavioral code side-by-side—but with a different approach than what you described, since we want to include non-developers. (I work on this.)
People can use ANYTHING to transact. Seashells? Specs of rare metals? Pieces of paper with signatures? Bags of cocoa leaves? Bits in a computer database owned by a trusted party?

Bitcoin does not provide value, it is just one of possible alternative to use to make transacting easier.

Unfortunately, bitcoin also burns energy at a rate of small country which is quite unnecessary but will make every person poorer (if only for making our environment worse).
I’ve seen many mainframes-aren’t-dead-yet news articles, and that’s clearly true—many large companies began using computers when only mainframes could do the job, have substantial investments in mainframe software, and continue to buy newer and larger mainframes to run it—but are there any new customers?

In other words, in the last decade, has IBM sold a mainframe to any organization that didn’t already have one? Do large companies founded more recently, such as Amazon, PayPal, or Tesla, use them at all?
I'm partial to:

You Got To Me
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNBA5wAyI7c

Lobo Town
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_D8b6qfDM

Restless
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTkHd8DMo0

No More Buffalo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54u0OlJQB7g
Berate is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

The live feed being triggered allows Amazon to have access to the footage, yes. It may be something their manager may talk to them about. But there's absolutely no evidence that this system allows someone to remote in and yell: "No yawning on the job. Get back to work, serf."

And no one has defined berate here.

Let's imagine that the system allows real-time chatting between someone at Amazon HQ and the driver, despite no evidence of this. But we'll pretend.

If driver is breaking the speed limit, not wearing their seat-belt, or participating in other unsafe behavior, they're putting both the public and Amazon at risk. It's entirely reasonable for Amazon to detect a driver speeding in a residential neighborhood, and be able to communicate with that driver in real time to ensure they're driving at safe speeds for the area.
sigh

Well, anyone know a firefox plugin that forces the quality to max automatically?

I don't want to have to click the quality button for every new video that plays.

Good thing I have Youtube premium or this would be even more annoying to wait for the commercial to click the button.

Edit: I see this is an old article. Strangely I have not had mine set to lower quality automatically on any devices here. Norway btw
> Bitcoin ... is still likely much cheaper than the banking system (depending on how you measure)

I've seen this argued in articles about Bitcoin's energy usage, but not a thorough analysis (either way). Has someone written one?
Contested, perhaps, but I think debunked is too strong of a term. I am acquainted with several of the people involved. While everyone makes errors from time to time, I find it very hard to believe Greaves, et al, would have been sloppy in any way.

And, I think, the article was quite clear about the fact that the result had been called into question. Regardless, the article is about a different team, with a different instrument, and a different (historical) data set getting a result that may support the Greaves result. Talking about Greaves is largely tangential to the article.
By the Byzantines
Is there no third-party filling that niche? Here in Berlin there's companies that pretty much offer "guy with van that picks you up at IKEA" (or other furniture stores, but at IKEA there's usually one lingering about waiting for customers)

Although I thought they'd deliver almost everything by now too if you want. but haven't checked in a long time.
Right; this really doesn't seem to getting anyone any closer to a 'warp drive' in the sense of ftl.
Should have 2020 in the title.
The major metropolitan areas of Canada are no colder (and often quite warmer) than their neighbouring US cities. Toronto and Chicago are fairly comparable, and Vancouver and Seattle pretty much the same.

Alaska and southern Ontario are about as comparable as Vermont and Florida.

An argument could be made that people move to Canada for political stability, though.
Article is from Mar 20, 2020
In the past the channels were controlled by more centralized powers. So it depended more on the integrity and ability of those powers.

Often, they were abused.

But at the same time, central entities are considerably more knowledgeable than individuals.

The CDC is a rational source of information about COVID - even if it's not perfect.

Your average neighbour is a very bad source.

We now live an era wherein the immediate payoff for hustling lies or partial lies is much greater than the act of having constant integrity, wherein the payoff is much longer, possibly even not even within a single lifetime, i.e. it takes decades of conscientious behaviour within groups to advance civilization.
This is from a year ago, at the peak of the initial Covid outbreak. None of the big streaming services have limitations, anymore.

What's this article doing on the front page now?
Laser printer also works quite well. It can even display multiple pages at the same time :)
I haven't read this study, but I read about this from other studies 20 years ago.
Yes, and if actually used, those things have value too.

You might want to look into how much our existing banking systems consumes in terms of total energy. It might shock you.

Bitcoin mostly only contends with two costs – energy (computing hashes) and resources (making mining rigs). Meanwhile, traditional banking systems have crazy high energy and resource costs from: building physical banks, vaults, armored cards, paper money, coins, bank clouds, stock market clouds, cheques, payment networks (Visa / MasterCard)... the list goes on. Additionally, classical banking has incredibly high human capital costs – think of all the innumerous people involved in just maintaining a system of trust compared with the near-zero human capital cost of the Bitcoin network.
Caffeine is the main ingredient in most pre-workout drinks
You can just add_library a filepath in cmake too. You don't have to use the find module. It isn't idiomatic cmake, but it's 100% possible. It sounds like you have specific niche needs, so it's a reasonable approach for your case. IMO it's unfair to criticise cmake for this, since it can do the exact same thing as make in this instance.
For people who hadn't read The Culture series, some notes by the author, explaining what The Culture is: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

>Language, entertainment, hormones — all of these resources are overseen by the Minds

This is a 100% false assertion made by the article author, I don't understand how they came to this conclusion. In no way, shape or form is this true.

> recommends that the whole planet be destroyed. Special Circumstances would handle that as well.

The implication made by the author is that SC and by extension The Culture, will actually destroy a planet full of sentients. This is false, as they didn't destroy the even worse species of the Affront. The Culture respect diversity and further more they respect they rights of sentients.

Then the author asserts The Culture judges other civilizations by how close they are to values and priorities of The Culture itself. This is also false, like I said above. The author then mention the Idiran War, implicitly in support of his thesis that The Culture will go to war against civs that don't share their values; he then fails to mention that 1) The Idirans were bankrolled by another equivalent civ (the same tech tier as The Culture) 2) they were acting as a homogenising swarm 3) parts of The Culture split over the decision to go to war.

In my opinion, the article really stretches some very small morally grey areas of The Culture just to try to paint the whole civilisation as not being a perfect utopia. But The Culture _is_ a perfect utopia and it was written and declared as such by the author. Yet everyone tries to find that small little thing that just proves the whole civ it's not so perfect after all.
Then the solution is simple, spread out the mining operation.
Many models workflows in Python: Part I
> Mining bitcoin allows you to exchange value on the network, THAT is what is valuable.

Moving value is valuable, but the resources expended in moving it do not provide value; rather, they come at a cost, like gasoline in your car.

And Bitcoin is pathetically inefficient at moving value. The average transaction fee has been floating around, what, $15-$30 USD? This is international-wire-transfer pricing range, if it's a single transaction and you don't do these transactions very regularly with your bank.

Don't count the value it provides on the wrong side of the ledger.
"15 caffeine-naive men" mean age 32 years.

Now we know why the N is so low. /s
There is not a straightforward way to measure it. It’s highly domain dependent. There are some general directions though. Deep understanding of domain knowledge, clear logics, excellent programming ability, and ability to frame a problem in the right way and break it to smaller problems. It’s vague I know, that’s why it’s not trivial to see it though.

Another way to view this is that programming sometimes is like solving a math problem. A top-tier mathematician can solve a difficult math problem 100x faster than an average person. 100x is even a bit understatement because most people can’t even come up with any solution given long enough time. For sure, programming is not solving math problems, but they have some similarities. But this is a way to conceptualize it.
Considering regular cheese is more like €6/kg, it isn't exactly cheap.
Epstein was open with his behavior and many of these people have been accused by Epstein victims of also raping them.

The tech people I listed also worked hard to conceal their relationship with Epstein, including lying about it multiple times.
I love the culture series. It's so unashamedly optimistic about how life "could" be, while exploring which problems even an absolutely utopian post-scarcity society with benevolent AGIs would encounter.

It is, as the article mentions, an absolutely intriguing mirror held up to our own society.
A mafia or some other organization capable of enforcing rules over people could create a fiat currency too.
I miss positive science fiction.

I don't want to read or see science fiction that drags me down. Reality is grim enough as it is.

Show me fictional realities that inspire me to make them real.
Britain fell due to the necessity of containing a neighbouring state which have bigger population, better productivity, and the advantage of not having an empire abroad of a continent.

At the end, the Brits fell after pummeling Germany two times.
Both haven't recovered fully today.
So this historical analogue doesn't really speak well to both US and China in the next, say, 3 generations. Wonder who would be the US in this situation though.
There is a link to the study at the bottom

> MFO, Fatmax and VO2max were significantly higher in the afternoon than in the morning (all P < 0.05). Compared to the placebo, caffeine increased mean MFO by 10.7% (0.28 ± 0.10 vs. 0.31 ± 0.09 g/min respectively, P < 0.001) in the morning, and by a mean 29.0% (0.31 ± 0.09 vs. 0.40 ± 0.10 g/min, P < 0.001) in the afternoon. Caffeine also increased mean Fatmax by 11.1% (36.9 ± 14.4 [placebo] vs. 41.0 ± 13.1%, P = 0.005) in the morning, and by 13.1% (42.0 ± 11.6 vs. 47.5 ± 10.8%, P = 0.008) in the afternoon.
"Most ... may..." would seem to be a non-falsifiable statement.
correct. it's the perfect way to divide the lower class and no coincidence that identity politics was embraced by the upper class after Occupy Wall St

https://i.imgur.com/wusW5Rn.jpg