skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with this, as this is "false confidence." Correctness and humility go a lot further to true confidence, as being correct enables you to speak with authority on a subject (nobody is going to ask a follow up question that causes you to question your correctness and trips you up), and humility enables you an escape hatch to admit when you don't know (your audience will trust the things you correctly say even more, because you're not lying about everything).

Note that "correctness" isn't meant in an absolute sense--you can speak with confidence on something others consider morally abhorrent if you are 100% convinced of its correctness (which is potentially what you mean by "not being 100% correct"?).
Going the opposite direction though, it would be nice if they separated or at least listed some general indicator of activity for the projects.

Some of the projects haven't seen any significant work for 5+ years. In some areas that might be fine (projects can be "done") so it's not automatically an indicator of being abandoned, but level of activity and whether the maintainer is still merging PRs is usually the first thing I look at when I'm deciding which of a few options on the list I'm going to dig into further.
Maybe I misunderstood but seems to me that even if you bite and accept their assumption that happiness can be quantified, it's still nonsense.

In particular, they quantified happiness, but they conveniently seemed to have forgotten to quantify unhappiness. Sure, if you add more people, the total amount of happiness grows, but it's not clear at all how much the total amount of unhappiness would grow in comparision. (And the note that each newly added life is "barely worth living" suggests each individual contributes a lot more unhappiness than happiness to the total)

Alternatively, you could stick with a single number and use positive values for overall happiness and negative values for overall unhappiness. This still won't work:

Let's assume N is the total number of people and h(i) is the happyness of person #i in "hedons" (don't ask me...)

N is a natural number > 0 and h(i) is... some number.

Than their conjecture says in effect that:

lim(N -> +infinity) sum(i = 0 to N) h(i) = +Infinity.

As every math student can explain to you, that's not how this works. Even if each h(i) was a real strictly > 0, the sum wouldn't necesserily grow to infinity. If elements keep having negative values - not a chance.

The whole thing only works if you constrain that each h(i) must be > some positive number - or if you define h(i) as a count of descrete "hedons" of which most people have at least one. But that's picking a model to support your conclusion.
Linux TTYs is how I do it. If you press Ctrl+Alt+2, you can open a new terminal and run a new graphical interface. If you use a tiling Window Manager, you can have different "desktops" for every project. By switching you TTY, you move to that work environment where you have left your editor, tabs open, database editor, servers, etc...

It gets you in the zone almost instantly.
Do you think its fair to require everyone to follow any standard?

Think of English not in the context of cultural importance/language but more formally as a de facto standard. A professional would follow the standards. This is why we have IETF. It is unquestionable and indisputable that standardization improves the world.

That said, comments are probably fine in local language.
Ethereum's development structure is only "centralized" in the same way that linux kernel development is "centralized". There is a big process that generates consensus across the community from a lot of different parties. By the time a change get into a pending hard fork, it's been through multiple rounds of establishing buy-in. Were the developers to push a major change in that didn't enjoy the support of the broader community, it would be abundantly apparent.
That is quite literally illegal nowadays in many jurisdictions.
But other languages (like Polish or German for example) have spelling reforms from time to time.
UNLESS -- you control a meaningful % of the accounts
The problem with these techniques is discover ability. How do you build an online audience without paying google for advertisements?
Ray Dillinger was there in bitcoin's early days. He recently wrote this:

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-Decembe...

> The pseudonymity of coins being owned by the bearer of some cryptographic key is a failure;

> People have been eavesdropping and aggressively analyzing the block chain from day 1.

> And the block chain will always be there, it will always be public, and it will always be subject to further analysis.

> And we are learning that analysis of that record is sufficient to destroy any pretense of anonymity or pseudonymity.
You're advocating taking money from those who don't participate in these health-risking activities to subsidize those who do, and you're chastising the parent post for moralizing? How absurd.
People who care a lot about protecting their data probably won't use it anyway. Even if your intentions are pure, your implementation could have a security vulnerability. It makes a nice bullet point feature but I'm not sure it has much promotional value beyond that.
There's a ton of empty office space in NYC that is leased but unused, and unlikely to clear the sublease market.

There are a lot of parents of all races who feel that they'd prefer their kids to focus on more traditional academic skills rather than on identity issues.

There are a lot of teachers who would prefer to teach in less politicized climes.

NYC private schools that charge 57k use about 20% of that for scholarships, and another huge chunk to pay administrative costs -- e.g. headmasters routinely get 500k + a house.

So a group of teachers could partner with a company that would donate the office space in return for a tax write-off and an ex executive and recruit significant numbers of private school students by offering a better education at a lower price.
I think I am not qualified enough to really understand this very long article and the abstract concepts it discusses. However, it sets off my BS detectors. Is this article written by Wolfram himself? It doesn't have a clear indication of the author, but presumably it is him because there are parts of the article using the word "I". Wolfram has long been obsessed with computational models to explain the physical world. You could say this was his goal in A New Kind of Science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science). Personally I found that book's title and premise to be arrogant, since cellular automata are pretty simplistic and seem more like a curious novelty rather than a game-changing piece of science.

This article repeatedly mentions a "machine code" for the universe. What does that mean? Does he simply mean that computational power and advancements in machine learning allow us to model physical phenomenon better and to understand how complex ideas are actually emergent behaviors arising from some fundamental pieces we already know about? It seems like that's the type of exploration performed in other articles, such as the one on consciousness (https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/what-is-consciou...). But I find it strange to see such explorations mixed in with what feels like marketing for the Wolfram language in here.

Regardless - ultimately, what Wolfram is promising when he uses phrases like "a truly fundamental theory of physics", is a Grand Unified Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory). I am not certain that he's found it, because I feel his past works suffer from delusions of grandeur, and also because I don't think humans have all the necessary inputs/data/sensors to actually characterize the universe fully (for example what is dark matter). Without those pieces, how do we know that what we have is "truly fundamental" versus just another emergent layer on top of some more fundamental piece?

Or maybe I am wrong and there is lurking genius in all these words and someone smarter than me or someone with more time will see it more readily.
Every vaccine uses body cells to a certain extent. Sure, mRNA vaccines are new, but the underlying mechanism is not.

Vaccines are behaving differently from drugs. Once they took effect, and your immune system reacted, it is over. And with millions of people vaccinated by now, for months, any adverse effects would have shown. That's why we discuss blood clots, under normal circumstances these rare cases would have gone unnoticed for quite a while.
point being, even if it was just 1 time, had you performed that action you would be very worried I presume.
This is the simple answer. In the unlikely event Bitcoin moves to PoS, miners will just redirect their hardware to other coins

The simple solve: price the externality.
The most interesting open source example I have found is a hy-lang minikanren that implements a tree-rewriter which lets you encode equivalent implementations of code snippets. It's a code-linter that will automatically simplify code you write via higher-level rules written in mk

https://github.com/algernon/hydiomatic

I've heard informally there are many companies relying on clojure/core.logic to rewrite complicated business rules for the sake of filtering and constraint solving problems in applications, but I do not know of any open source examples to reference.

edit: i accidentally linked to a dependency of the project i meant to link to. originally linked to the mk implementation:
https://github.com/algernon/adderall
Spanish is my first language, if you use this you _severely_ hamstring yourself. Don't do it.

English is the world most used programming language, just learn it. Or perish.
But they faired much better than e.g. Spain and Belgium.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/24/swedens-2020-death-...
/21 dont listen to these advice because that only worked one time for one person (myself)

I'm wondering if startup gurus know their advice won't help anyone but still give them because that's what people want to read. Or if they don't know this won't help anyone
Yes.

"Netscape Security Services" (NSS) is one of the Mozilla libraries that's (somewhat) widely used by other software, and would be a candidate, but I've never heard about Apple using it.
Absolutely. Practice.

Also, don't be afraid to speak slowly, and to have gaps when you aren't speaking. It doesn't make you look like an idiot or make people interrupt you - instead, it makes it easier for people to hear what you're saying, and it makes it sound like you are saying something well thought through (and it gives you time to think it through too).

Also, get someone to video you giving a presentation or speaking about something. Then go over that video with them, and ask them to point out any annoying things that you should stop doing and useful things to start doing. Practice that, over and over.
call/cc can be built entirely out of CPS and closures of indefinite extent (i.e., allocated on the heap).

Using CPS with closures of dynamic extent (i.e., allocated on the stack, either explicitly, or because that's all you get, or because the compiler is smart enough to figure out that these closures don't leak out) is a lot more like delimited continuations (but easier to use).
I don't mean to pick on your example... but it's absolutely not true that I go to a restaurant because I'm hungry.

There are other ways I can and would sate my hunger if that was my genuine motivation. For me to go to a restaurant, it does have to provide food, but that is not sufficient, since I can get cheaper/more convenient food elsewhere.

A restaurant has to offer something other than just food, or I won't go at all.
Good execution on a weak idea can rapidly be redirected to a better idea. If you can't execute, the ideas don't really matter.

I guess it depends a bit on what you mean by "unpromising". One person might see the product idea and think "those guys are gone is 6 mo", while another might see the team coming together well and think "that team is going to do something interesting"

Also, in my experience most people are bad at evaluating these things early on.
The answers to all your questions is no, which is precisely the point the author is trying to make.

If we made the case for operating "at human scale" Youtube would be amongst first casualties.

to your last point :

> Anyone can upload a video and make it viewable by billions, instantly. I think we shouldn't forget how amazing this actually is.

By the same reasoning, COVID-19 is similarly amazing.

Opinions move on : Youtube is 15 years old now. It's a practical monopoly, being the worlds 2nd most visited website. I wont deny it's utility - but it's a gross centralisation who's modus operandi present significant questions - chiefly, Is it right that it has for years circumvented nearly all regulation applied to other media, and should it remains largely unaccountable to any elected power ?

So the challenge it seems is thus : how do preserve the good things that self published video content has done for us, but prevent or limit the consequences and attendant injustice caused by a service so infeasibly large. it's impossible to administer ?
Internal employee pressure is the cause of some things getting removed, but they are not behind everything. In this particular case it might bdriven by legal concerns or something. But it should also be seen in light of the status quo. When censorship being the new default, then it doesn't take a strong reason to add another thing, such as hacking-adjacent content to the no-go pile. The code is already written, and the routines are well-known. There is no freedom-of-speech reputation left to protect. So the cost of removing this content is very low, lower than the legal risk.
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin
Which iteration?
Create it and before opening it publicly, squat you.tube and make it randomly redirect to any other registered domain.
You're regurgitating easily refuted lies and malicious slander propagated by people with an axe to grind and a political agenda.

See: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stal...
The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios
I benchmarked this recently and I am pretty sure this is not true. Many of these 'single page site frameworks' work via this method.
Adeno virus based vector vaccines are a pretty old idea.
For anyone wondering about the field that studies this sort of phenomenon, welcome to the wonderful field of historical linguistics!

Historical linguistics is a really cool intersection between anthropology and linguistics - in short the idea is we can look at languages around today and use certain well-founded assumptions about how languages change to understand the languages of the past; essentially the words we speak and sign today are the fossils of our linguistic history!

Suggested reading is Historical Linguistics by Lyle Campbell, and Language Files for a more general Linguistics textbook.
EPL (Easy Programming Language, EYuYan, 易语言) is a Chinese programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Programming_Language is a terse page explaining it but I guess any actual document would be in Chinese.

From my understanding this language is very popular in amount people writing game cheating tools and other malware. https://manalyzer.org/report/03b2253bcbb611502eba5b43df3e1dc... is one such example.

EDIT: Example EPL code https://gitee.com/yyman001/RightHand/raw/master/%E5%8F%B3%E9... presumably this is in GKB encoding so it's mostly garbage characters.

EDIT: https://www.hexacorn.com/blog/2019/02/13/pe-files-and-the-ea... someone wrote reverse engineering an EPL executable.
Bearer bonds aren't really legal in most jurisdictions anymore due to the obvious potential for misuse. It's mostly a hollywood trope now. There are still companies where ownership is determined by bearer shares, usually found in tax havens and such.
that's why I type it `anho` when speaking with latino friends i don't have the n on my english keyboard
A "take" is knee jerk replying to a valid statement, albeit not sourced in this case, with what is an outrageous exaggeration.

Reducing the number of humans is not the same thing as extinction. Your argumentation is lacking.
From super-low Earth orbits, more of the orbits that go really high also impact Earth or its atmosphere on the other side, so they only are up there once, rather than over and over and over.
Bonus points if they name the overseeing organization the Turing Police. And if Switzerland goes its own way and allows citizenship for AIs.

In all seriousness, I’m not sure if these legal restrictions will actually be effective. They are too broad, vague, and will likely just result in technological stagnation.
Then make him answer for the harassment, not for his views.

When you make a case against a burglar, you don't base it on his views on capitalism and communism. You'd be laughed out of court. You base it on his act of burglary, with evidence/witnesses.

As far as the letter is concerned, it seems that its authors aren't really concerned with harassment. It's those other issues that stir real passion in them.
Would probably violate trademark law and icann would make you give it up. I guess if you go opennic or use a different alternative root they might not care about court-ordered domain forfeitures.
This guy spammed his links compilation page all over the internet and now he writes an article how to his surprise "it went viral" (4000 stars). The definition of chutzpah.
Are we talking business, or personal? Yes, it hurts; but the ability to mitigate that risk is there for any responsible landlord. The landlord has all the consideration about what type of property to invest in, how to structure their payments, how to increase rent or continue renting at old prices, etc.. The tenant has no ability once they move into a place.

All my experience is in the midwest, where there are essentially no renter protections.
Out of all privacy coins, Monero is the only one with a future.
"When I first started developing what people have been calling “Wolfram models”, ..."

I am just so put off by Wolfram's puffed up, bafflegab riddled and pompous writing "style" ... I feel like I must be missing something though?
What is your educational background? People who thrive in the software/computing usually have a strong STEM background/significant experience with solving physical problems, though there are exceptions. People skills may be valued by HN commenters but companies do leetcoding tests for a reason. In consulting you often have to go the extra mile to persuade the client or to make them happy. For computing it is the same but your focus is on being able to learn new technologies and abstractions rapidly. Most academic CS training follows much of the same route too, the ramp up from "CS 101" to higher level courses is often very steep.

Fundamentally software engineering deals with abstraction and complexity. Perhaps consider studying some backend? Knowledge across the stack will help you improve a lot too.

Try to gain a high level understanding of how to apply various technologies and methods. You can gain tremendous career growth by leveraging your already excellent people skills but you absolutely need to be able to follow a conversation between two engineers on a high level.
> in the US and the UK. In the end it's also a reflection of what is important to a nation. Should the strong help the weak? Is it every man for themselves? Thank you for making my point.

The UK has no ban on vaccine exports. It is more accurately the case that nobody has ordered vaccines from the UK except for the UK itself, because the UK had absolutely zero vaccine manufacturing facilities.

And of course it is factually false in any case: https://www.dw.com/en/australia-receives-astrazeneca-vaccine...

The EU (after encouraging other countries to invest in facilities in the EU) changed its mind and interdicted vaccines going to Australia. So they got some manufactured from the UK instead. But somehow it is the UK that is the bad guy!
Against someone who'd been at the highest levels of government for...40, 45 years? He was equally establishment to Hillary - but I think being President lowered the anti-establishment credibility for Trump, leading to a big part of his loss.
AD: Sorry you got bogged down in the details. Would you like me to put together a more thorough example? That one I wrote in 2 minutes.

To clarify I picked /some/ value for the restaurant guest, but we could negotiate what the /true/ value is. I go to restaurants when I'm hungry and I'm sure others do, but you're right there are other reasons why you might go, but that doesn't detract from my point being made.
The distinction is that any investor can form their own opinion about the technology equally well. We don't, and can't dictate to investors what technologies they ought to consider worth investing in.

The mechanism you are describing is the mechanism by which every speculative investment works. That's not what identifies a Ponzi scheme. In fact it specifically can't be a Ponzi scheme if the old investors are aware that the returns are coming from new investors.
I wouldn't be too worried. The industrial revolution brought us many things which were just as disastrous, for example certain chemicals, but these things can get regulated. DDT is no longer used like it was used in the 70s.

Let Bitcoin be Bitcoin, let the G7 (or whoever finds himself responsible) quickly regulate the power consumption issue, then PoW will likely disappear for mainstream applications. Luckily there are alternatives.
As a contribution to the industry, maybe. But for users? Heck no, users will likely not even know what Rust even is.
Yesterday’s thread of a different scam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26794228

Today’s thread is about a VPN scam (!)
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Yeah...I'm skeptical to be honest. If you're running Chrome on a server, you have to fetch the website to the server, then send back to the client. Now I suppose the server could be in some datacenter with really fast internet and include some aggressive caching, but that's still two trips instead of one.

I suppose if you're running major web apps in the browser, this could be a good idea. With the rise of WebAssembly, you could end up with something like a video editor or photoshop in the browser. And yeah, if big apps in the browser becomes a thing, people will want to run the big app on slower computers. But it'd have to be one beefy server to make the latency of streaming worth the performance speed up. Maybe if you keep common sites hot in the browser JIT and share it across users it'll be really fast but holy security issues Batman.

I'm not super pessimistic about the idea. If there's one thing I'd bet on it's internet speeds increasing while compute speeds plateauing. But I'm not sure I'd bet my own money or 5-10 years of my life on the idea.
That's interesting. I started storing my dotfiles repository in Keybase. There's not any secrets in there really other than how my home directory is setup but I figured there's no reason I couldn't keep my AWS keys and ssh key pairs in there too.
Finite Element Analysis 101
Hi there, does anyone have a solid text book / web reference that guides a beginner into the deep world of finite element analysis?
Landfills are generally very close to the surface, filling holes created by activities like strip mining, so they do occupy surface area. Unless you're wiling to dig down under existing landfill to dig out voids to pack with more landfill.
I'm working with a number of clients that are doing this. Either an outsourced vmware horizon deployment or Windows Virtual Desktop. Local hardware is only thin clients. No servers in-house, no desktops, no laptops. It isn't as good as local hardware, but it's good enough for most business applications and even video conferencing.
There's an underlying assumption that btrfs support on those devices was actually production level stable and ready for use.

(I know btrfs on ARM wasn't really all that great at times.)