skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK we got changes in law that will let companies like Amazon bypass unions and employment law altogether. It's coming in April. It's crazy and chilling when you think that neither Labour nor unions did anything to stop this. Check: https://norightsemployee.uk/faq
That's not outlawing. Also, you can't stop individuals from using this short of having a totalitarian government.
> The problem is that the survivors of those schisms (Catholicism, Eastern orthodoxy, Russian orthodoxy, the Anglican church, Protestantism in its many flavours, Sunni Islam, Shiite Islam, etc, etc, etc) did not survive because of their logical or intellectual rigour, or because they were more consistent or coherent then the parent branch that they splintered off from. They survived because they won political, violent power struggles.

Actually, in many cases, they survived because neither side won the power struggle. E.g., Both sides of the Chalcedon(/Ephesus) schism, the East-West Schism, the Protestant/Catholic schism, the Old Catholic/Catholic schism
, the Catholic/Anglican schism (even in England), the reverse schisms between the Uniate Churches and their previous Church of the East/Oriental Orthodox/Eastern Orthodox communities, etc. survive.
People watch A LOT of TV. Americans watch 4 hours per day, still ahead of the amount of time they spend on smartphones, approximately 3.5.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...
This $19.99 USB storage device [1] has a read speed over 3x maximum USB2. Next year it will be $10. The year after it will be $5. Or some such curve. Good luck telling people that can't have it because you say so.

Optical stuff has a curve too, but until it can compete with a bit of stamped metal inside a molding on price, it will be too expensive for USB. The market simply will not allow it.

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-elite-x-fit-128gb-usb-3-1-f...

Some problems are intractable.
We do make liberal use of lead in general, but in this case the noise is electrical in nature. The detectors we use tend to behave like radio antennas and so they are well shielded electrically. I suspect the mechanism is the USB 3 making extremely sharp transients that make their way into preamplifiers via the power supplies. It's a slippery thing to track down, though.
I don't really need them but would be interesting to hear what you think are some of the worst examples of that
I don’t think it’s purely random like what random actually means. It’s a set (or graph if you wish) with bias. All biology has a bias.
(I'm neither for or against NFTs, interesting concept around ownership but way over-hyped currently)

Someone on HN might ask: "Uuh, but how do we know that this is really \"The first iTerm2 Commit\"?"

The steps to verify would be like this:

- Open the page with the NFT, see the author name/address

- In this case "GeorgeNachman" so we search for that on Google

- Now two main results from two different sides show up, Twitter and GitHub

- Visiting the GitHub user we can verify that it actually is the iTerm2 author

- Visiting the Twitter timeline we can confirm the same username has published a tweet about the NFT itself (https://twitter.com/gnachman/status/1376267539894870020)

Now, why is this the interesting? Not sure. I find it weird that it's just a screenshot of git output, instead of the actual git data structure, would have been more interesting. But still, would I ever buy it? No, and not sure who the target audience is either.

Edit: Right, or you could just look at the HN submitter which also seems to be the author. Verify the other profiles via keybase which is linked. Hi!
You think micropayments will somehow get rid of ads?

No. However, it would theoretically give content creators who don't want to serve the interests of advertisers an alternative source of income that allows this.

Basically, do what Patreon does, but with even less friction, and far more flexibly.
> It is also, among other things, enabling product/frontend/web engineers to build backend/native/browser-less applications.

Care to explain? I can imagine web programmers being productive in deno in a few minutes vs however long it takes to learn an entire new language, not to mention a language that requires memory management.
I think the idea is for cython to move away from generating CPython C API code to generating hpy code in the long run. From the point of view of cython users this won’t make much difference.
You're describing coil.com and Web Payments, sounds like.
There are at least two super quick ways I always do calculations on a Mac first by pressing CMD+Space for Spotlight search and just typing in the math expression and in Chrome address bar without having to press the enter key.
That’s a valid point, but you don’t seem to be comparing it to the “fundamental human reasons” that dominant Internet media oligopolies supported almost entirely by advertising might impose emotional and psychological burden.

I believe the stuff about decision fatigue, I just don’t think you can immediately conclude “therefore paying for online content is a non-starter because of fundamental human psychology.” I mean, people do still decide to buy things, including online content!
There is a big block of spectrum around 5GHz for unlicensed use, and another huge one in the 6GHz about to be opened up.

The trouble is that protocols like ZigBee and ZWave and Bluetooth and ANT+ are stuck in the 2.4 GHz band and practically you cannot turn off your 2.4 WiFi access points and be happy.

Thus I have to go to the woods to pair my fitness band with the heart rate sensor because at my house who knows what is going on with the hue light that is on the wrong side of my monitor from the hue hub or the smoke detector that posts the battery status to SmartThings, etc.
Can you expand on why the history of WireGuard is bizarre?

Do you believe that a blackhat presentation taints the code quality of WireGuard? Do you believe that Donnefeld's desire to maintain tight control over kernel implementations suggests he has ulterior motives?
Thereby making the whole Fedcoin proposition a rather boring affair:

- already exists in other forms

- brings little added value (a little less friction)

- brings huge downside (USistan now can see every cent moving and potentially freeze it).
Researchers discover why cold induces tooth pain and hypersensitivity
The 1% are still pretty pissed about it - nearly 100 years later. If you're an American then I am surprised/concerned you never heard about this in history class.
I'm not sure in particular anything that would be useful beyond certain trends.

Things like AlphaFoldv2 and some of the cooperative-competitive emergent RL strategies are interesting/important. You might find some of the concurrent work on open set/zero shot very interesting.

I think it's an asymptotic approach on some degrees. Like you noted with meditation -- this is something very hard for a computer to achieve, for a computer has to have a demonstrable concept/actualized sense of self to be able to let go and connect to some of the more spiritual elements there.

Conversely, if arguing from a non-materialistic manner, then you could also argue there's some sort of bridge there that could be crossed for that particular kind of connection. Materially, some kind of artistic manifold. But without some kind of spiritual connection, there may always be something missing there.

However, we as humans on the interpreting end of things may make the spiritual connections ourselves, so some kind of manifold discovery may not need that kind of connection to properly function. And it may! Who knows?

In the end, all in all -- I think a lot of it looks at the open-ended discovery-and-low-label-self-dermination-and-assignment, if you're looking at (what I'd personally consider to be) the most interesting research all rattling around in there. :))))
> it seems like that's an issue of under performance that they're hiding by peeing in a bottle.

It seems equally as likely that it is an issue of over-expecting what a worker can reasonably perform. Why is under performance the more likely scenario in your mind?

>it isn't clear to me that this is either widespread

If this were the only occurrence of "Amazon Contractor" and some combination of "pee", "bottle", "no time for bathroom breaks", etc. I would be more inclined to take the route of "a few bad workers". However, these stories have consistently made news since at least 2018.

Additional factors, which not conclusive themselves, that lead me to doubt the Amazon narrative include such things like 74% of respondents to a survey conducted by Organise reporting that they avoid using the washroom for fear of missing targets[1] - indicating that perhaps at least some fault lies with Amazon for setting unrealistic and unnecessarily burdensome targets.

[1]https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a3af3e22aeba594ad56d...
Tell that to all the practitioners of all the other religions... "um sorry folks, you are wrong, we are right"

I have issues with
1) "God told me to tell you" (any human claiming to represent God to their fellow humans. They surely would be devoid of ulterior motives, right?)

2) This collection of hitherto uncompiled writings (including a wholesale incorporation of Judaism) that were uncontestedly written by humans, some of which we know the names of, has now become a singular "book" and it's the world of God, shut up or else, etc.

I smell humans, not divinity.

Oh, and YES you nailed it on the last point.
Witness the smug way some Evangelicals dismissively tell a Catholic "but I am CHRISTIAN"...
I've been seeing the mouse/keyboard issue at home, mostly.

But I'm reasonably sure I've also experienced the Bluetooth congestion issue in a different context. I have an old, mediocre Bluetooth head unit in my car, and it disconnects from my phone ~90% of the time I drive in traffic. Works flawlessly on back roads and the like.
My employer refused to remove a wasp nest that had formed in the NOC room. I was told that $10/month for offsite backup was too expensive. There's no way they'd install a multi-thousand-dollar charger for one employee's car.
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When I say "protecting the commons" here, I mean that participants to HN need to post in a way that protects and enhances the forum, not contribute to destroying it. Everyone needs to do that regardless of how others behave, regardless of what the situation in the world is or you believe it is, or how strongly you feel about it.
Yes, you are correct. 'Won' is a loaded term there - but my point was drawing a distinction between heresies that are still around, and ones that very convincingly lost the struggle for their survival.

From my understanding of European history, that didn't happen because their rhetoricians and intellectuals sat down to peacefully hash things out over tea and crumpets. They didn't survive because of the strength of their arguments - but because of the economics behind them, and because of the caprices of the particular personalities involved.

I'm willing to accept that in the past two centuries, these processes of religious selection have changed substantially [1] - but the fact that this entire argument is painted in the framework of major religions that were established long before the end of European religious wars leads me to believe that 'how religions splintered in 500 AD' is far more relevant for surveying the modern religious atlas than 'how religions splintered in 1900 AD.'

[1] As long as we close our eyes to that Sunni-Shiite thing that's still on-going, and is likely to keep going for the foreseeable future.
God is a being in Genesis. He walks through the Garden.
> If there truly can be decentralized liquidity in one of these decentralized exchanges... then it’s def gonna stay alive

Then it's going to stay alive. Look at Uniswap, Sushiswap, 1inch.
The concept of uniformed police like we know them definitely originated around that time. The Met concept spread through the US, starting in the Northeast, where it was predominantly used to protect capital (protecting warehouses, merchants, etc.). In the South, similar uniformed police organizations started from the perspective of ensuring slaves didn't run away. (And the stories from the 'police' of that era are truly, truly horrifying.)

Over time, the two US concepts merged into the modern US Police organization, and yes, the Met among other things in the mid to late 1800s were part of the ancestry of modern police in America.
Hate to say this, but IMO the game will never be fixed. The game that was marketed, and the game I was excited for, featured "the most immersive open world game to date". But the game isn't immersive at all, it is nothing more than a series of scripted sequences in an admittedly beautiful open world. There are no dynamic systems that you can play around with forever, as in Breath of the Wild. You just do the quests, and that's pretty much it.

Even if they fixed every single bug in the game, it will never fix the feeling of fakeness. The world is nothing more than an aesthetic prop, it looks cool but the illusion is broken the second you try to actually "immerse" yourself. No interacting with vendors, no altering your apartment, no sitting on anything, no dealings with any in-game megacorp other than Arasaka, no going on building roofs...

Bethesda quite accurately marketed the elder scrolls series as "Live another life in another world." If I had to come up with a similarly accurate slogan for 2077, it would be something like: "Take a thrill ride through a dystopian city to save V's life". Which isn't bad per se, but not my type of game, and definitely not what they marketed this game as.
I had the same advice, then I saw someone in my family transformed from a frightening robot like state, to a warm nice person again.
Truly astonishing!
These are limitations on State governments. Meaning only the Federal Government can do any of those things.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S10-C1-2...
I know its kind of a unpopular opinion but to me ML is likely a local maxima of applied statistics and not one that leads to any kind of "real" AI.
They did at least pay people, if they surrendered it in time. (Then they raised the price of gold afterwards.)

Come to think of it, that's another difference from "outlawing Bitcoin."
It isn't evenly distributed and the US doesn't have one culture, plenty of Americans never encounter much religion, particularly in the Western US which is overall less religious.
Thank you for such an in-depth answer!

I've looked at poker and bridge as potential ways to practice decision-making, so your comment is timely.

I wasn't aware of Game Theory Optimized (GTO) training software, but now that I am, I will probably start learning poker with it.

Also as you said, getting objective feedback in real life is hard, I've seen people using decision journals but I find it difficult to keep one.
Wouldn’t Google’s FLoC solution the more preferred solution to advertising? They need a way to fund their free services somehow
Why would ANYONE do this? With the volatility of cryptocurrency, it could easily end up costing 2-3x.
FWIW, the conbee II is... not a great device. It has what seems to be a fundamental flaw with its USB firmware which makes the device reset itself at regular intervals. The result is that it disconnects from the host and reconnects (as if you pulled the actual device out of the plug)

I used to run HA in a VM via qemu/libvirt and it would always fail because when the device reconnects its on a different port and the USB pass through doesn’t work anymore.

Now I’m running the HA VM on proxmox which deals with disconnects reconnects better for pass through devices: it’s able to reconnect it to the vm without my intervention.

Looking at the logs, this happens between a couple times a week to 10+ times a week.

I tried an extension lead (which had no impact, I think this solves zigbee radio issues but not USB issues), using a powered USB hub, using a USB 2 port, a USB 3 port, three different machines... no dice. It really is a bug in the device itself. And Dresden electronics has piss poor support (still waiting for any answer from their email support six months later). The only avenue for “support” is via GitHub issues where other users answer but not actual Dresden electronics employees.
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It still is, and Cython is great for accelerating critical Python code.

A C extension is far preferable when you want to code in C, either to write a new data type[1], or write a Python frontend to a C library[2] that is too complex to be well supported by simple FFI.

I think people use Cython more internally when they value the maintainability of "mostly Python" over the fact that it's slower than what native C would get them.

[1]: https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent

[2]: https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2
Are you using OpenAI API to generate these?
> Progress in AI is not coming from abstract reasoning. It is coming from an increase in raw power

Maybe it's a bit of both. Sure, large DL models use lots of compute, but successful DL applications require some insight into the problem. For some reason, people like to de-emphasize this insight. The story is that a DL model will discover by itself which features are important, which are not, and you just provide the training data, and press a button. Thousands of people do just that, and end up with mediocre results. Thousands and thousands of absolutely mediocre papers get published, and receive acclaim instead of derision.

The truly boundary shifting results always use deep insight. Like what comes out of DeepMind (AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold).
Land taxes are different than property taxes. Property taxes are on the building, land taxes are just on the land.

Land isn't a perfect tax, still needs to be levied as you mentioned, but it cannot be hidden and incentivizes land owners to use the land for its "highest and best use". There are no complicated depreciation schedules, credits, deductions, etc. for land. It's also highly progressive.
But how many people actually watch 4.5 new (to them) movies or 5-6 new episodes a month? I suspect that’s pretty rare.
Not an alternative, but as a companion to it. In our use-case we use a custom `OrgRepo` wrapper around `Repo` which handles a lot more read/write scenarios.
But we're talking about e-Ink displays here, and not "Digital emulation of an analog device with tolerance modeling"

And every time there's an e-Ink thread here, a chorus of people chime in and say "Damn Patents! If it weren't for patents, and that pesky U.S. Constitution, everyone would have e-Ink!"
This is not all that groundbreaking as a calculator, but would be a cool parsing addition to a Spreadsheet.
Not every untruth is "gaslighting".
To those who continue to think that cryptocurrencies are a waste of time, or stupid, or a fad, or tulips, or whatever:

What do you know that visa doesn't know? Like if you could sit down with a decision maker and convince them that this is a bad idea, what would you tell them?
As a further option, there is also git add -i which is not a great UX and it has its own weird DSL with oddities, but still a slightly "higher level" than git add -p for when people need or want something less fine-grained than git add -p from the command line without installing another git porcelain.

git add -i lets you get the status of files in the working directory, add entire files, revert entire files, or patch individual files, all from a single UI "session". You can do all of the same stuff with appropriate pathspecs to the individual commands such as git add -p just/one/file-i-need.md, but git add -i is an option for those that want an "almost GUI" for that.
If you read it, mine was a question. If you have any special knowledge, Enlighten us please.... If you have to use centralized third parties to use it efficiently, then it defeats its purpose.

my single bitcoin remained there, because I couldn't use it in an easy manner. I am kind of glad about it, as it has risen in value, but really, apart 'it rises in value', what practical use does it have?
Feels like modern day tulip mania.
> As it stands, they are stuck hand rolling their own poor implementations

It's either that or it's the monster that is Kubernetes.
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Judd Legum built one of the most followed newsletters on Substack
I have absolutely tried to hard wire the "choose how to think" into my brain. It is never easy.

His example of the swerving SUV racing through traffic maybe just possibly driving that way because of a personal emergency stuck with me. I don't have to assume the worst of people who are acting in a way I don't agree with, and to consider this anytime I'm getting worked up over something can be quite helpful.
Went through interview rounds last year and I was asked a recursion questions for a DS interview. Been doing this for 10 years and have never come across a data problem that only recursion could solve. But I remembered it from university days, so I cobbled together a working answer.

At the end of the interview, I asked the interviewer to give me one scenario where a recursive solution would be the most efficient one. Blank stares.

That was my eye-opening moment. I would never work for a place that asks these ridiculously outdated copy-paste interview questions. Can't believe I put up with that shit for so long.
If the system were truly distributed and the source code available then the government would not have direct access to every tx. They can already subpoena financial institutions anyways.
C version. Maybe this logic should be built into GNU find as an option!

$ find /etc/network | ./frangi-cheat
/etc/network
/if-post-down.d
/wireless-tools
/wpasupplicant
/avahi-daemon
/if-down.d
/resolvconf
/wpasupplicant
/avahi-autoipd
/interfaces.d
/interfaces
/if-pre-up.d
/wireless-tools
/wpasupplicant
/ethtool
/if-up.d
/ntpdate
/wpasupplicant
/000resolvconf
/openssh-server
/ethtool
/avahi-autoipd
/slrn
/avahi-daemon

$ cat frangi-cheat.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
char old_line[FILENAME_MAX] = "", line[FILENAME_MAX];

while (fgets(line, sizeof line, stdin)) {
char *p = line, *o = old_line, *nl = strchr(line, '\n');

if (nl)
*nl = 0;

while (*p && *o) {
char *op = p;

if (*o == '/' && *p == '/')
o++, p++;

size_t lp = strcspn(p, "/");
size_t lo = strcspn(o, "/");

if (lp == lo && !strncmp(p, o, lp)) {
p += lp;
o += lp;
printf("%*s", (int) (p - op), "");
continue;
}

p = op;
break;
}

puts(p);
strcpy(old_line, line);
}

return feof(stdin) ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
}

Note: yes, we could swap pointers between two buffers instead of strcpy.
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> How much TV do you watch a day?

Just a side comment, 'watching TV' today when TVs and monitors are common and cheap is different from 'watching TV' 20-30+ years ago, when TVs were more of a luxury good (I know displays still aren't free but they're much more accessible than they used to be). It's common for people to have netflix on in the background while doing things (e.g. studying, netflix and chill), to have netflix on a secondary monitor while gaming, to fall asleep to, etc. People probably don't 'watch' TV in the sense of sitting down and just staring at the screen like they used to, but they still 'watch' a lot of TV in the sense of having it on. From that perspective, it's easy to imagine someone watching 8+ hours of netflix a day: auto-playing sitcoms in the background during chores or studying, switching to a favorite show to watch during meals, binging multiple episodes or seasons of a new show on weekends, etc. That would rack up the cost quick using your pay-per-show model
Concrete counterexample: The cloud. You can spin up and down servers whenever and you make micropayments for keeping the servers you have around.