skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe part of the perception of gas as 'high end' is the observation that many restaurants use gas. However, from what I understand, many restaurants use gas because it is the cheapest way to get BTUs into pans - gas is CHEAP, and restaurants use a lot of it.

That said, certain types of high temp cooking like wok cooking require jet-burner gas stoves to get the right sort of flavor, but I think induction is superior in most cases.

Also, high-heat wok cooking, while delicious, is terrible for air quality.
> I'd imagine it helps the survival chances of your grandchildren if you're around when they're growing up

Keeping toddlers from walking off a cliff (and the other things unsupervised toddlers will do to kill themselves) is probably why he said 14-40 and not 14-30.
Me too, thanks for the link.

> "FLoC is designed to help advertisers perform behavioral targeting without third-party cookies. A browser with FLoC enabled would collect information about its user’s browsing habits, then use that information to assign its user to a “cohort” or group. Users with similar browsing habits—for some definition of “similar”—would be grouped into the same cohort. Each user’s browser will share a cohort ID, indicating which group they belong to, with websites and advertisers. According to the proposal, at least a few thousand users should belong to each cohort (though that’s not a guarantee).

If that sounds dense, think of it this way: your FLoC ID will be like a succinct summary of your recent activity on the Web."
Would like to wish everyone health and happiness on this most greatest of days!
Agreed. I also wonder if we underestimate or undervalue when thousands of people pay for and read your material. (Many of those books won't sell close to 5k copies, but that's the bar the article set.)
Sorry, but what a pathetic tone policing reply to blatant misogynistic garbage about women being inherently "more emotional", "We've tried the 'rawr girl power", and so on. You're just wrong and clearly not worth the energy.
It happened with SEO. People found a way to game their rankings by buying backlinks to their pages from spam sites. Google started punishing that behavior, so some have instead started buying backlinks for their competition to de-rank them.
Good link, hadn't read that yet.

My impression is opposite to yours, perhaps due to the type of software development we do.
I can't remember how many times a performance problem was "sorted" by increasing CPU and RAM limits on a cloud instance. It just so happens that it's much, much easier to do that on the cloud instance than on a user machine.
Of course performance problems do show up that need to be solved, just way less common than just spending more resources.

What I do agree with you (and I have no data on this just personal impressions that are most likely affected by observation bias, as I suspect is the case with you as well), is that in these waves of new programmers not going through the normal university route (which is absolutely perfectly fine in my book), they usually start off with front-end development these days, skewing the experience level ratio to more entry level people, and thus making entry-level mistakes. Perhaps 10 years ago the entry tech was Rails/PHP.
Chrome and its derivatives gives Google power to run things their own way... by providing the runtime.
The important things to look for here is:

1) Distribution schedule

2) Liquidity pool providers

3) Bots

1 is important because people can't sell it into liquidity if they never bought it first. How did they acquire it? Just minting it doesn't mean they have it, and without a liquidity pool they can't get it unless the token was sent to them by the issuer.

2 this is important because Automated Market Making systems (AMMs) allow for anyone to create a robust cross-routing and smart-routing exchange system for any asset with the click of a button. And when you create one of these, many bots look for them to immediately trade and distort the price. So the very first thing I did in response to this headline was look at the this asset on the AMM. The leading AMM on the BSC Blockchain is PancakeSwap. And you can see that many of the recent transactions on the block explorer are to a PancakeSwap SCAM liquidity pool. Who posted liquidity? The TikTok video suggests the guy doesn't own any or know how to sell any, so was he using a service that sets this up? What service is that because it seems pretty powerful and I want to know about it.

3 bots. Across all AMMs many bots have cropped up that immediately look for any 5-figure liquidity pool and immediately bid them up. Its gotten so predictable that people create copy-cat liquidity pools just to capture funds in the more liquid token and pull liquidity as they have now collected more of the liquid asset than they started with and have less of the illiquid asset they were trying to sell. This is considered to be an actual scam and called a 'rug pull'.

In this case, it is more likely that he posted liquidity in this asset, bots immediately bid it up, which immediately got validation attention from other people and people kept bidding it up on low liquidity. Only a fraction of the tokens in existence are in the pool, and this price discovery is being extrapolated to the total value of the asset. If something less likely occurred, I would like to know what that is because the ramifications are even more enticing.
A related read to your question: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/opening-smal...
Hi, we are a small group of passionate individuals from the US and Australia behind EmailFlow which we are super excited to launch!
EmailFlow lets you review emails before they are sent with others all from within Outlook / Office 365. No more sending emails back and forth with red text telling the author what to change or accidentally sending out incorrect information!

Almost all source code for EmailFlow is written in TypeScript, but we do use a few other technologies:
Amazon DynamoDB (Primary data store)
Amazon CloudFront (CDN)
Amazon S3 (file storage)
AWS Lambda (TypeScript + Node.js)
React (TypeScript)

We’ve been using the tool internally for a little while now and it’s prevented several potentially disastrous mistakes, one time we almost sent out potentially sensitive sales information to the wrong client but we luckily caught it before it was sent out to the client! (same first name).
Well, Dogecoin started as a joke and its worth billions today.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dogecoin-is-a-joke-but-its-no-l...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cryptocurrency-dogecoi...
Opening a Small Bookstore During the Pandemic Was the Craziest Thing We Ever Did
I just did some research. To me I always hear pedophiles themselves admitting that they were abused when they were children.

for example here
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/72050039.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2082860/

but both of the studies says that the self reports are questionable.
> Most normal users use Chrome because "everyone else does", and won't even have a clue what FLoC is.

“Because it was installed on my machine bundled with some third-party software” is also a big factor (but obviously, nobody will give you this answer, because they don't even know where Chrome came from)
Spoken like an iTard.

Here's the thing: just because Google allows the users to install packages from other app stores does not mean they have to. You can allow which app stores you want to use. In fact, you have to explicitly allow app stores, like you'd expect.

There is no explanation why this is not regulated, other than the fact that Apple must be paying a significant amount to potential regulators to shut them up.
Very informative article.
I don't get the Vikings though?

> Be a Viking - 4 years

What does it have to do with air pollution and why 4 years? Just
randomly thrown in Vikings into the article?
Data on travelers spending more post-pandemic
This one stems from Google's bird-themed naming convention for initiatives related to working around 3rd party cookies going away.
All JavaScript apps run in the browser with its own JS engine (V8 in chrome) garbage collection, etc. This is effectively a VM I think. Like you deploy Java apps to the JVM, you deploy JavaScript apps for the “browser VM.”

Google writes gmail but they also write chrome and V8, so they are in a unique position of writing both the application and the platform it runs upon. Presumably this would allow them to make something more performant than most, not less.
> How does a simple Python program, that one cannot determine whether it halts or not, look?

The halting problem is actually theoretically decidable for real world programming languages such as Python. That's because in the real world, computers have finite memory, and the halting problem actually decidable for machines with finite memory (linear bounded automata).

Not practically decidable – if a program consumes 1MB of RAM, then (in the general case) solving the halting problem for it will take approximately 2^1048576 steps, which is much longer than the age of the universe.
If you are already embedding Google Analytics on your page, then surely all bets are off for your users' privacy?
Thanks, just disabled this on my tiny near zero traffic sites.

Hopefully if enough people disable it, it will become useless.
It’s pretty helpful for online shopping to be able to use Apple Pay. On your phone, you just click the button, use FaceID, and confirm shipping address. It can be done in 2 seconds compared to regular checkouts which step you through 4 or 5 screens.

Sign in with GitHub has also been nice for me on gitter. I don’t need a separate gitter account for any reason, and sharing my GitHub account on gitter is reasonable.
Sounds like a giant misunderstanding. Not all projects use git, like in the old days someone could just develop with FTP connection.

If the code is on AWS, what prevents you from logging into the instance and grabbing a codebase from here?
16v CPUs and 16Gb RAM seems quite beefy - I wonder how long until this gets hijacked with JS crypto miners?
I think this is great news. Are there any paths towards supporting groups aligned with this position? I am aware of eff.
Cattle on ranchland can easily be CO2 negative. Soil is a great carbon sink. So as long as the quality of the soil is increasing, we're removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Cattle and Buffalo are great for the soil, unlike other grass consumers like sheep.

Methane is a more difficult problem. It's mostly soluble with specific supplements and other mechanisms, but it's an expensive process that ranchers won't pay for unless there are proper incentives.
Yup. He explains this well in Black Swan.
There’s an important difference between Turing machines and computers: unlimited memory. For a computer with limited memory, of course you can determine whether a program halts, because if it doesn’t halt then eventually the state machine must loop back to a prior state.

I find this answer on quora to the question of why Turing machines are a good model to be insightful: https://qr.ae/pGGCmq
I agree with the other comments that Github doesn't allow users to control headers on Github Pages sites.

But my first guess was that this was a Msoft vs Google thing and not a privacy thing.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data.

And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
light attract bugs :>

seriously, IMHO my eyes feel less tired with a darker display after many many hours of screentime.
> will disable FLoC because they're either not interested in ads (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia does not need to take any action to disable FLoC; it's only active if the site opts in, on a per-pageview basis:

* If you call document.interestCohort() to get a FLoC id for a user, that pageview will be included in FLoC calculation.

* For the origin trial, to deal with the chicken-and-egg problem, a pageview is included you load ads (determined with EasyList)

See https://web.dev/floc/

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
oh, Thank you!
Galago Pro: The Lightweight Powerhouse from System76
Seems like this is said every year, but to date they've made an awful lot of money.
VAWTs suffer from 2 serious drawbacks: 1) they're crap at starting up - i.e. going from stationary to moving - and usually need some supplementary help to do so, and 2) they're noisy - as in noisy as hell! I wouldn't want one within 500m of my house.

I recall seeing report of a similar result many years ago (at least 10, perhaps much more) where VAWTs deployed in complementary pairs were shown to be more efficient, so this looks like a repeat /rediscovery of the same result.
How to Get Startup Funding Fast
There's a $100 million dollar deli in new Jersey running this playbook. Been in the news recently.

And due to news articles people have been buying? Everything seems to be a pump and dump but get out before everyone else does i guess.
It's not clear to me what problem this post is intended to address
Worth emphasising that the knowledge of how to do these things like tying shoelaces and writing topology papers is contained in the surrounding culture. So if a machine can learn this culture, much of the complexity is outsourced. The ability to learn just one piece of existing culture conveys the ability to learn any other part of it, if one is inclined to do so.

>And that with just 20 Watt?

It is amazing; however there's a school of thought that just as we evolved brains in order to reduce physical effort generally this included minimising power consumption by the brain itself. Intelligence was then a by-product of a more glucose-efficient brain!
Nah, it's a "damned you do, damned if you don't"-situation.

There's simply no winning this - if you don't apply preventive measures of any kind, your product will deteriorate into a homophobic, racist, sexist ultra-cringe clusterfuck in the blink of an eye [0].

All it takes is a handful of bored teenagers or middle-aged basement-dwellers to turn your product into something the vast majority of your clientele finds appalling.

If you are a company you have the right to choose what you want your product to be and they simply don't want certain headlines pointing at their product.

This has as much to do with "wokeness" as hardcore porn being banned from the Apple app-store, i.e. nothing. It's company policy and you can like it or not, but don't overrate this.

It's nothing new in the slightest and just like publishers can decide to not put books in print that they don't want to be associated with, this company tries to eliminate content they don't want to be associated with - that's all.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...
Even Google has outages.

Also, that doesn't affect you if you're using them as a registrar and not hosting.
This actually happened with someone way back when: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...
FLoC ought to be opt-in, not opt-out.
The kind of software which creates more jobs is not what I would call 'quality software'. Quality software gives people more free time, it doesn't consume more time.

The fact that most people can't see the difference today is disturbing. It's a sign that we are trapped in an inefficiency mindset. We're always looking to solve problems in ways which create more problems instead of solving problems once and for all and then focusing on different problems.
37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance
Computers don't think they just follow programming. The fault always lies at the humans who wrote the code.
See HAL in 2010.
>foreshadowing harbinger of another full Great Depression

I genuinely can't get it out of my head right now. It seems like anything and everything collectable is worth more, because people are desperate for safe stores of value. I used to buy, restore, and flip old woodworking tools, and as a hobby, I collect nes, snes, and n64 games/systems. The prices are getting outrageous, genuinely just outrageous. An older lathe that would've been <$100 two years ago just sold for ~$500 at a local auction. Games, game accessories, and other nintendo collectibles have almost doubled in price near me. It's ridiculous.

I can't shake the feeling that we're headed for a doom and gloom situation with massive unemployment, hunger, and human suffering in the near future.
It's definitely not an informed decision. That's why I mentioned that you can inform your users about this issue. I just think that this decision should not belong to webmasters/site-owners.
Oh I believe you can ‘stream’ stuff at 2 fps over a 500 kbps line alright, the ‘not serious’ part is how anyone could find that acceptable. Even if all you have is 500 kbps...

If you would use your 2fps streaming browser to read, say, hacker news, every scroll operation would be hideously slow and pull in another ~60KB per second, even though the page data itself is only a few KB and never changes. Your ‘streaming solution’ only makes sense if the total amount of data to fetch for the page itself outweighs the total amount of data for all the frames you need to stream while you are using the page. Which is probably almost never, unless you always look at static single-page applications which continuously pull in data on the backend without presenting anything new at the front end. Highly unlikely.
I find it hard to believe Zynga had to use such techniques unless you’re referring to very early days. I, too, have used the techniques you’ve mentioned and went way down the rabbit hole. Among the things you’ve mentioned also found myself shipping friends and family laptops and Teamviewering into them to use alias accounts. Not fun to have to resort to such tactics. If Zynga still employs such, I shall make a mental note to stay the heck away from their stock.
Ships don’t last as long.
Do you have a link for the source repo? Can't seem to find it on the site.
I really doubt that. FPGA is really power and silicon intensive. A more traditional "many 'fixed function' processor" a la GPU will beat it for any algorithm which at least semi-successfully maps to the provided operations. And most math is matrix multiplication anyway, if you squint your eyes and hold your tongue at the right angle ;)

(I use "fixed function" loosely here. It's not a fixed function T&L pipleline, it's meant in the "the circuit is fixed but can execute arbitrary code" sense.)
True enough. I wouldn't call it "socialism" though. The reality is that individual / independent farming isn't economically viable since farmers have to compete with these large factory farms.

Most farmers running factory farms at the behest of large private corporations who define what the farmer can and can't do because they invest in these farms. Factory farms aren't diverse farms: they produce only one specific commodity e.g. meat, dairy, grain, soy beans,... The price the farmer can get is entirely defined by those large commercial interests.

Just think about the notion that farmers, by contract, need to buy seeds from these corporations. Seeds which are protected by intellectual property law. As a result, the practice of seed saving - which is thousands of years old - has become a liability as there's a risk of patent infringement. As a result, farmers aren't just forced to buy seeds, they have to buy those seeds every year, and they can't really choose between suppliers by contract.

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

Such practices render farmers into anything but employees in name. It would be "socialist" if the farmer retained their freedom and their vote in how the farm is run. Legally speaking, they still do have that freedom and that agency as a legally independent business. But in practice, the exploitative nature of the economic relationship between farmers, the markets and these corporations has turned that pretty much into a meaningless concepts.

In that regard, the subsidization of agriculture doesn't benefit the farmers. It benefits those corporations through these entirely skewed market dynamics.
Do both then.
Seems like a clever disguise to pivoting into AI-driven censorship. This should be more profitable than dungeons.
It's exciting when the megacorps make these kinds of plays against each other. I feel like I'm watching my abusive partner get smacked in the mouth by my abusive ex.
Well you're talking about publishers. But what author can afford to write for months on end, if they only sell 1k copies at £5 each? (I don't know what percentage of that actually reaches the author after publishing)
Yeah this is throwing red flags left and right. The author does not appear to know what the scientific method is. It would be right at home in the "crackpot session" at an APS conference where people who can't do algebra claim to have a theory of everything. What an embarrasment for the university.
> “Whichever country in the world you come from, whether you’re Labour or Conservative in Britain, whether you’re young or old, you can smile at it and laugh at my name,” Mr. Balls said.

That's some pretty classy Balls, tbh.
Does that really qualify as a typo? - is easier to type and seems acceptable as a substitute in the same way that * is used rather than ×.

But really it's meant to be a ~, or ∼ if you insist on precise Unicode.
Is symbolic AI dead nowadays? All AI papers I'm seeing is on machine learning.
I've heard this "just an emergent property" theory before, but I don't get it. What evidence of this do we have of this?

It seems like we make complex information processing system all the time, and the more complex they are the more fragile they are. Even the tiniest thing going wrong sends the whole system into chaos or a dead stall. Thermodynamics teaches us that order, and intelligence is largely about imposing order, takes a huge amount of work and is inherently unstable.
Each month I get paid a bit for my Adsense ads minus a small amount for "invalid traffic". I don't click on my own ads and its only a few dollars.
This is as misguided as every iteration of no-code through programming history. All such tools promised to allow people without coding knowledge to create software. The result is the tools are used by disgruntled programmers who are now faced with a tool that is not friendly to other tools like version control. It has happened several times before and it is happening again now.

You can not automate problem solving until someone creates GAI.
Thinking that all a programmer does is write code or all an architect does is draw walls is an insult to each profession. The primary attribution of both is to decipher what the client actually wants from limited descriptions and to problem solve.
This is a disputed claim according to your wikipedia link