skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the point of this, who did he want the Turing award to go to?

Is it the +30 people that he quotes in the text? Himself? No one?

ACM just acknowledged that DL was being used more and more than was allowing computers to do tasks that were out of reach before. They picked Bengio, Hinton and LeCun because they were are the forefront of that new movement which to me sounds valid?

When a Turing award was given for the Goldwasser-Micali encryption scheme the same argument could've been made with different names, that it was not the "first" public key encryption scheme that was provably secure because it was just the result of Diffie-Hellman? Should Merkle be credited?
There's some great nuggets about business:

4/ Think of a way to make your users have some skin in the game enough to yell at you to make your product better. Charge or trade for it early on. Waiting for your product to be "good enough" reduces the amount you'll learn each day. The first set of users paid me $20 on Venmo!

This will vary by type of market you are pursuing. Some things are harder to charge for and take longer to get a first sale, but, yes, you need to be charging. Otherwise, you are "playing house" (a thing they say at YC) or you merely "have the trappings of a business, not an actual business" (that's my typical phrasing for the phenomenon).

In a nutshell: The difference between a business and a hobby is paying customers.

8/ Be married to the problem, not the technology.

There are some great videos from YC that also make this point and I think it needs to be said more often.

There are also some great nuggets about self-management that can be useful to anyone doing anything hard in life or living through a crisis. Some of these resonate with me as a former military wife who raised two special-needs kids mostly alone as the husband was often gone.

13/ If you're worried about something that will cause your inevitable demise, use my patented Threshold of Worry (tm):

1. Set a quantitative value for the worrisome issue.
2. If it's above the value, worry!
3. If it's below the value, focus on the next risk & ignore

I have a longstanding policy of "bread and circus." If you can work on the problem, work on the problem. If you can't work on the problem, feed everyone and keep them entertained so they aren't freaking out, panicking, fighting, etc.

17/ When building a startup:

If you have fear, de-risk by talking to users.
If you have uncertainty, build a prototype to rapidly rebuild your conviction.
If you have sudden doubt, sleep. Try again tomorrow.

When my kids were little and I was chronically short of sleep, I learned that eating something, drinking something and/or taking a short nap could be the difference between feeling like everything is overwhelmingly impossible and feeling like "The sun will come out tomorrow."

19/ I was ruthless about ensuring I had as much deep work time as possible. Live somewhere boring. Eliminate meetings. Don't meet investors if you're not raising. Build a rhythm each day that enables the largest chunk of hours to get great work done. Users will notice your pace.

This is gold. Stop whining about how you have a phone addiction and you can't turn your phone off because all your friends and relatives will be mad if you don't answer it and so on. Stop claiming that all the shiny tech we live with is controlling your life and you are a victim of circumstance. Start taking control over your time and doing what you need to do to carve out time to think, to work without distraction, etc.

We live in an incredible era with amazing things. But you do need to pick and choose and not feel obligated to be plugged into everything all the time. You do have a choice in the matter.
Well, if it’s widespread, and yet people are not behaving as we would wish, I would conclude it’s not very effective at influencing their behavior.
whole market dumped shortly after btw before any FUDsters come in saying "it crashed"
I need to do some benchmarking myself but it seems that even in a local region writes are in the 100s of ms. I'm aiming for my Lambda functions to be < 100ms so using Fauna seems difficult to work in.

Unless you meant I can limit "how global" my data is and that would improve write speeds?
With cancel culture such as this, who needs a gov to tell you what you can and can't say.

Is there a list of things they have where this action is taken?

Wish they had named and shamed the registrar and hosting co as well - anyone know the domain and how to peek at whois history to determine?
It is a no-brainer to spend this money.

Someone in the world is going to have a use for these vaccines, buy them and then give them away if you don't need them in the end but in the meantime just book more supply. 18 months from now if the world is flushing COVID-19 vaccines down toilets due to surpluses every dollar will have been worth spending, the downsides are too great.
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> a screencap from the "Whisper of the Heart" movie. I doubt it's licensed.

Studio Ghibli did release a lot of screenshots from many of their movies about 6 months ago¹, but this movie is not among those included.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24564775
But the critique I've heard is that, in fact, folks like Cook and Smith deserve the credit and Wolfram played more like a coordinating role.
I don't think anyone debates that POS is more power efficient than POW. The controversy over POS is whether the game theory incentives of POS will be sufficient deterrent for bad actors at scale.
Sure, we can sustain ourselves off "one step forwards, one step back still moves us somewhere else", but the average person doesn't see how many steps back we take to make those steps forward and will come to an overly optimistic plan to move.
Why --vo=null if --no-video?
Tether most of the time slightly valuable than real dolar which strongly indicate nobody printing tether to pump BTC.
It is well debated yet i havent seen any solid argument about fake tethers.
I also think cryptos will eventually crash but stable coins are real deal. They will be around even if people stop trading shitcoins.
I beg to differ. "AI" is already rejecting CVs and untransparently keeping people unemployed. People do care about how to use this tool responsibility.
> In any case, I resent the idea that we should stop or limit procreation. All you others can do that, but my of spring will live among the stars and I will maximize my chances of it getting there. And don't even get started on selective procreation, it has been tried.

Personally, I'm not on the "the world needs fewer people" bandwagon either. While I'm not an expert, I've heard that the world population is expected to level off around 2100 at around 10.9 billion, not that much higher than the current 7.8 billion. So we will never get to some Malthusian point where there isn't enough food to go around. Meanwhile, at a small scale, adding one person does marginally increase the cost of feeding everyone and marginally increase pollution, but that person will also contribute to society and the economy.

When humanity someday goes to space, perhaps the population will start growing again, but if so, it will be precisely because there will be more resources for them.

In other words, the effect on society of having kids seems to be pretty neutral in practice. Given that, I have no reason to oppose your desire to spread your genes, assuming that's what you meant. Personally, I don't care whether the ones living among the stars have my genes or somebody else's, but that's just me.

I do think it would be nice to maximize the chance of humanity as a whole someday living among the stars, but increasing the population would not necessarily help with that.
No it's not. Look at the actual study.
I think that - including variants like nb_sb_noss - is the code for no referral identified but I could be wrong.
Not anymore, it's fully decentralized since recently
I'm more likely to believe the Universe is made of simple rules rather than any form of intelligence successfully writing a correct 10kloc Java file.
Turkey fines Google for abusing dominant position
Government (ab)use of AI is is of course a serious threat. But I’d say big corporations abuse of AI is even worse.

Assuming we are talking about a democratic state, at least there are some checks and balances on governments whereas people cannot elect a FAANG CEO or go to a ‘.gov’ website to read a transcript of board meetings.

Edit: I am by no means advocating for government’s use of AI in any form.
Whatsapp web doesn't seem to update the presence status, as I've seen people ask why others are able to reply without their last-online time updating.
Nah you're attributing human error in the construction of these rules as a factor. When humans construct rules at this level of complexity those bugs do appear. However....

These rules we are addressing here weren't constructed by a human. We don't even know if they were constructed at all. It could be a perfect set of rules despite the complexity.

I'm more on the side of simplicity just because it seems that way, but technically and logically speaking... there is no evidence at all against what the OP said.
I feel myself as value investor. That is why cryptos or Tesla and many other tech companies never made sense to me... I might be right one day, but currently it seems that market is what market is.
Even for circular orbits, is that the case? The new low point would be lower if impulse is not parallel to the velocity.
I just had a quick look at Dvorak, and then picked Colemak instead because of more similar shortcuts. — It took weeks or months to get up to speed in Colemak. But it was a bit fun, fortunately. (How long did it take, with Dvorak?)

When the typing speed difference between Dvorak and Colemak is so small (it is?), I would say to myself that any of them is better than good enough and be happy :- )

There's also tools like tmux and fzf / skim, don't know if you're using them already; if not, I'd guess they'd save more time than learning Colemak.

> especially because vi keybindings are quite important

Oh I have nice Vi keybindings in Colemak — I use Vi always: VSCode, IntelliJ etc.

On the keyboard, I've mapped the N physical key to down, H to up, and left is Backspace (and Y which I never use), and right is Space and U. So I don't use the HJKL keys for navigation (well, H but it means Up for me).

This leaves the J K L keys available to do their usual things, in Vi — they map to N E I in Colemak (apparently you've noticed this :- )) which I use all the time.

> Is the big improvement that it leaves {} in their original place

I don't think so. I'd say, it's probably the shortcuts, and that many shortcuts continue working with the left hand only (e.g. using the mouse to select text, then the left hand to CTRL+C +V copy-paste).
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I am surprised a workable IPv4 based POS coin has not been produced. The consensus protocols are already using IPv4

That is one IPv4 address -> one unit of vote

Difficulty adjusts based on how many IPv4 addresses participate

Sure, it gives advantage to Apple, MIT or anyone with /8 block and disadvantages citizens from some countries with very small allocations but otherwise it could be scaled to whole world while staying truly green.

I suppose the hard part is figuring out the stake when multiple people on the same IP address want to participate.
The point is you can't use that area for getting rid of landfill anymore. From that perspective that area is 'used up'.
Singapore is a puzzle, a challenge to typical western democratic beliefs that certain things need to go hand-in-hand, or that restricting some rights are intolerable. It makes you question whether you're completely right about certain things.

They restrict freedom of speech in certain areas so that people don't get riled up by issues that only "cause trouble". But that means it's harder to question and expose some perhaps injustices. But they also mitigate that by having strong internal checks and government incentives to root out such problems.

They believe in equal opportunities, yet have some significant racially based laws and restrictions. For example, you are not allowed to say that any particular race is "better" than another. And certain things are allocated (by government) by race. But this restriction on speech / allocation helps keep the peace and prevent racial riots and animosity.

They have draconian drug policies. But they don't have major drug problems or homeless on the streets.

It's a small city, so some things are very peculiar to its situation and probably don't work elsewhere. And maybe there is a cultural aspect to tolerance for these rules too.

But whether you agree or disagree, Singapore makes you think twice whether you're right about your beliefs.
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It wasn't up 60%, $250 was a nonsense bottom of the range number they use because they have to pick something. Nobody could buy at that price.
Speak for yourself. I take AI over EU politicians any day of the week.
The people specifically in the story? Probably not. Americans in general over a period of time? Maybe. I could see a "religious renaissance" happening at some point where religion goes on the rise again if/when people become disillusioned with secularism/nihilism/etc, a side effect of which would be people being "talked into monogamy"
It's not indefinite. The longest lockdown in China was 76 days, in Wuhan. Elsewhere, it was significantly shorter. Because they had a strict lockdown early on, they have been living with far fewer restrictions than most of the world for about a year now.

> the virus is only going to pop back up.

It does indeed pop up every once in a while, because the borders can never be 100% sealed. There have been outbreaks in Beijing, Qingdao, border towns in Heilongjiang and Yunnan, and elsewhere. But the government is understandably on high alert, and these outbreaks were caught early enough to be stopped with local lockdowns, coupled with blanket testing of the population (i.e., testing everyone in a city in a few days).

There was a brief "second wave" in China this winter, in which an outbreak managed to spread to several cities, but it was ended with relatively short lockdowns and mass testing. The number of new infections per day peaked around 100.

The basic lesson here is that you can both have near-zero case counts and let people live their lives almost as normal if you first act decisively to bring cases to zero, by using temporary, strict lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing.

> There is no evidence of such a strategy working at scale across the world.

China is the largest country in the world, so I'd call that "at scale." Vietnam is larger than any EU country. We're not talking about San Marino or Monaco here.

> The scientists on the covid team at the WHO have said as much: lockdowns should only be used as a last resort to buy time to scale up health care resources. Should we listen to those scientists?

A lot of recommendations will be reevaluated after the pandemic is over. Nothing like this has happened in 100 years.
Very normal. That's actually significantly under market.
> "Putin will kill or jail anyone who opposes him, but they sucked anyways. As soon as a good challenger comes along we'll for sure vote them in!"

No, the reason I mentioned "they sucked" is that for an experienced politician killing his less dangerous opponent is a very stupid move. It wouldn't give any profit but will definitely harm the reputation. Сui bono tells us to search for another beneficiar.

> I wasn't even trying to be snide, but actually writing out this scenario made it too absurd to signal any other sentiment.

> is waiting for a scenario that can't happen, by Putins/Kremlins design.

I see only two options: waiting and starting your own party. I don't feel qualified for the second option.

> It's not that a bipartisan system fixes any and all problems, it's that a system where any opposition doesn't fear for their life at least opens up the possibility of viable alternatives.

This sounds reasonable. But it is in case a panacea.
It takes time for price discovery - A simplification would be to imagine a simple moving average of say N, Sure it looks very smooth, but if you look at the very beginning where there was less then N datapoints it'll be all jagged because there's not enough data yet.
That’s a good way to write a law but regulations are guidance under which the regulator won’t come after you when it considers law enforcement action i.e. the law enforcement agency’s interpretation of the law and your obligations under it. They can afford to get into the nitty gritty, and it can even be beneficial for them to do so for all involved.

This way lawyers don’t have to divine from the law that noindex and nofollow tags might invite enforcement action, if they have even heard of them before, they can read the regs, and advise their companies and clients properly.
> Now maybe no simple universe can possibly fit ours, in which case we're just kinda fucked.

Last paragraph, last sentence. Now between you and me, I'm suspicious that we'll just keep describing more universe with simpler models forever, but you're right that Occam's razor doesn't guarantee that.
This is just pure speculation on my part, but:

What about optimizations? It seems like it should be possible to construct a SQL query that doesn't hit the pain points (e.g. avoids queries that do not use indexes). Although from my experiences with other ORM frameworks, that probably isn't an easy problem.

Even then though, since it looks like it somewhat aims to replace SQL even in the database-construction step, that might help in this regard, by constructing a more optimal representation of the data (which doesn't seem to be tabular)?

Unit testing I am similarly skeptical about though. The article does mention it being "rather esoteric [sounding] at best", I would actually agree with that expression, haha. I don't think I've ever written or even seen, in my 8 years as a developer, a 100-line SQL query that was not at least partly generated (and hence required testing as a unit, and not just the code around it). I suppose Google operates at a different scale, but still.
Armies are smaller because drafting ten million half-trained teenagers to carry rifles is no longer the best way to win a war.
Also Pascal and Haskell.

R is named partly after its initial developers, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named...).

Erlang is named after the mathematician Erlang, but also as an abbreviation for "Ericsson Language".
Instead of entire new programming languages, maybe existing languages can have alternate localizations (done at the IDE level). The same source code would display in a different language from a user with their IDE in Spanish vs the user with their IDE in English.

Edit: Food for thought regarding reserved keywords...
It really depends on the person. The people who naturally focus and can ignore distractions excel at WFH.

A second category of worker benefits from the rituals of getting ready in the morning, context switching to office mode, seeing their peers in person (however briefly), and sitting down at a separate workstation that is dedicated to work and nothing else.

In my experience managing mixed on-site and remote teams, most people assume they’re in the first category but many people eventually discover they’re actually in the second category.

WFH is great for some, but actually quite difficult for many others.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work. That setting change prevents people from seeing "last seen", which is different than "online". The article talks about this as well.
Does the calculus change based in how many people you'll be giving this to?

A 1:1M chance is much different to me if you give it to 3 people or 2 Billion
Right. One of them is coinbase.
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True, but that may be a good thing. This may prevent people from suing for small infractions.

On other hand, let's say, if your average software developer knows that they can be sued into bankruptcy, then they will not release unfinished code and voice strong opposition to it. Thus shifting responsibility to middle managers. Now if middle managers know that they can be sued into bankruptcy, they will not override developers concerns and extend deadline and refuse to push unfinished product. Executives may try to override managers decisions but then responsibility shifts to them and they would not want to lose significant portion of their net worth. Board or managing-owners may try to override CEO, but then they will be responsible and they would not want to be personally sued and lose a portion of their personal wealth.

Yes this may not impact billionaire owners but that is a small number. Most companies will be more ethical and people will have a high degree of personal responsibility.
Im general I'm tending to feel that HN likes to recommend too many fad/quirky books than those that are having an encyclopedic approach.
1. No it isn't, not if bitcoin can be a replacement for gold.

2. You didn't read my link
The rich countries shouldn't stop buying they should buy and give away for sure. Not some strings-attached bullshit but just straight-up dropping refrigerated containers of them at airports.

Politics is unfortunately going to get in the way of that.
This still exposes whether you are online, just not the last seen time.
I’m in the process of leaving a company who has sent half a dozen surveys to employees about how they think return to office should work, but not a single survey about what employees would like to see from a long-term WFH strategy.

It seems some hope to bait and switch their employees back into office and then say WFH isn’t allowed anymore.
The author asks why you would choose a programming language that is impossible to Google, but that's not quite correct: Google has no problem with "D language" or "J language".
I once wrote a social media website and one optimization we had is we would take gifs, mark them for processing, have a celery task queue run this command, and replace the gif with a mp4.

Worked wonders. A few years later gifycat exploded and we were all kicking ourselves xD
I share your concern: Train AI to reject CVs with "Ahmed" and accept CVs with "Smith". Then blame racial bias on the difficulty to explain DNN.
It's not the miners, it's the power companies.

Power companies have been burning shitty fuel to save money forever, and it's astounding that they've managed to shift the blame to consumers.
(edit) I think the man page would really imply it is redundant, but when trying with just --no-video and no $DISPLAY (e.g. ssh'd to a machine with speakers but no X server running), it picks up vo=gpu (accelerated video decode) from my mpv.conf and runs with a warning:

[vo/gpu] Failed initializing any suitable GPU context!
Error opening/initializing the VO window.
> Rendezvoing with, capturing and then manoeuvring with another object is an extremely hard and as yet unsolved problem, although there are some experiment

Umm...this is utterly wrong, and has been since Gemini 10 in 1966, not to mention Skylab, Mir, ISS
Google could introduce a feature that cures cancer and DuckDuckGo would come out against it.

I'm not making an argument for or against FLoC, but this is hardly surprising given ddg's positioning as a Google competitor and their previous marketing campaigns against them.
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