skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps he wrote the essay so that other people will find out about it and out bid him for the NFT.

You get press for being the good guy and don’t have to spend a dime. What a great thing to be able to achieve.
1> So you like fish sticks?

2> yes!

1> So you like to put fish sticks in your mouth?

2> yes!

1> So you are a gay fish.

2> I'm not a gay fish, I'm the voice of a generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishsticks_(South_Park)
Something the author didn't touch on specifically is the limit on languages at Google. When I left the officially supported languages were Java, C++, Python, and Go. That limited the scope of CI/CD, tracing and monitoring, and debugging to something tractable for the developer tools teams. It also made it tractable for SRE teams to be able to engage with new product teams without having to learn a whole new language.

A really useful thing my team did (and I think it was a moderately successful trend on other SRE teams) was to role play recent outages. The oncall who had seen a particularly interesting outage would DM using the graphs, error messages, and logs they encountered when debugging a alert for a chosen victim (ahem, role-player) who would have to choose which graphs, dashboards, and logs to look at and which remediation actions to take to track down and fix the actual problem. It was perfect for building metis since it was done in a team setting so everyone benefited from the insights into the system architecture and behavior and the role-player learned practical oncall skills. Things like escalating to other teams and running incident management were built into the RP.
Sounds like the US. The Sheriff would come if the court issued an order. In my county you can get the survey if it has been done on the property. It’s public records and details the property markers they found.
Have you tried out the ChucK language? I haven't tried Extempore yet, but it looks like the way they handle timing could be similar. ChucK has a very elegant system for synchronizing synthesizers and sequencers where you can write code in a simple imperative style (within a sequencer you can "wait" until the next note needs to be played). The language runtime keeps all of the coroutines running in sync with a global clock. I don't know of other languages that use this style of timing, so I'd be very curious to hear how they compare.
Great, now pg is deep into the Ponzi scheme.
Yes, a nefarious subset.
Software can only replace some roles that administrative staff filled. Most often, like in the case of email and word processors, it distributes the work and eats up everyone's time by moving it from specialists to non-specialists.
> non-profit is inherently a centralized entity.

I would have actually said the opposite, if there is one inherently decentralized type of entity that is officially recognized by central authorities it is a non-profit.

Yes, non-profits exist because of centralized authorities, if they have exempt status for purposes of taxes that determination comes from a centralized tax authority, but a non-profit itself has no owners and is generally governed by the members. The members generally elect a board of directors but that is just representative of the collective decentralized members and should serve at their collective discretion through vote, the board as the official representatives appoints the Officers that manage the day to day business of the entity. There are arguments to be made, and not all non-profits are structured identically, but inherent in all of them is no ownership, so should a non-profit be dissolved and have assets, those assets are not distributed to any ownership class but must be distributed to other non-profits. Based on the lack of profits and ownership, non-profits are more decentralized in nature than many organizations claiming to be DAOs most of which are organized around the concept of an ownership class and profits.
What do you think about our app?
While your at it, might as well add a 'disconnect on sleep, reconnect on wake' option too. My bose headphones would stay connected to my laptop often even after I closed it and it got annoying to switch them to my phone.
We're Not a “Traditional Agency ”
Otter.ai
> For example, instead of a cap on a neighborhood of three stories, the cap could be 33% more than the tallest structure in the adjacent two blocks. Or 50% more than the median height of the adjacent two blocks.

I was just thinking about this a little more and I think this is actually quite bad.

Because rents falling to construction costs is relativistic. Suppose it costs a given amount to build a 20 story building and you can recover at least that much in net present value from it in rent. Then you're going to do it if it's permitted and you have an empty lot. But not if you have an existing 10 story building. Then it would have to generate double the construction cost in rents, because you're getting half that amount of rent from the status quo.

Which means that to minimize that inefficiency, you don't want to be replacing 10 story buildings with 20 story buildings. What you want is to be replacing 4 story buildings with 20 story buildings. Because then you only have to beat the construction cost by 20%. Which doesn't work well if you have to wait until the median building is 10 stories tall before you can build a 20 story building.

But it's not completely wrong if you use different numbers. Say, have three classes of zoning. One allows buildings up to 4 stories, the next buildings up to 20 stories, the last unlimited. You automatically transition from the first to the second when the median building height reaches 3 stories, and from the second to the third when it reaches 6 stories.
They miss for the same reasons they have missed throughout the decades: they overpromise and underdeliver. That was the reason for the past two AI "winters" and most likely will be the same reason for the upcoming AI winter.

What we have successfully accomplished this time around is big data analytics that have used machine learning technology to derive insights and patterns from data that traditional data analysis approaches have not been able to achieve. And dramatic improvements in computer vision and natural language processing among a few other areas. Those things will stay.

But I'm looking forward to the next wave of AI, which should be in the mid- to late-2030s if the current cycles hold.
> Does it take into account the additional co2 that fishing boats emit? Esp. given that they usually use far more harmful fuels than the gas used on roads.

Those more harmful fuels don't produce extra CO₂, though. Marine diesel engines burn less clean oils, and thus produce other pollutants (such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, particulate emission), but the energy content and CO₂ emissions are same as with e.g. gasoline.
I’m saying those programmers should have secretaries to help them with all of the admin etc. They shouldn’t be booking their own flights, or making dinner reservations, or running expenses (or a lot of other manual work)
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs taught us the importance of Slack years ago.
I've mostly seen statistics about water usage for dairy milk production, but it takes a lot of water and food to raise a cow to maturity. Fish (if harvested sustainably) care for themselves until caught, so it makes some sense to me that planting, growing, harvesting, and processing soybeans into tofu would have similar impact to fleets of ships traveling the ocean catching fish.

A few years ago I read and enjoyed the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. The author follows three different meals from farm to table as completely as possible given the nature of modern food production. It's a great read for someone who wants to know more about where food comes from and how it gets here, and it's definitely made me think about what I'm eating.
We've mostly been tricked by the Moravec's Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

What seems difficult/hard to us is very often not that difficult from a computational perspective, but evolution of our species didn't optimize for this class of problems.
The Forth Net
I know :) I am so glad you like it
Yes, only the winning bid would go to Noora. However, there would be a record of any other bidders' intent.

With a bit more of creativity/effort, someone could have created a smart contract for keeping track of all the donations and only releasing them once they reach a certain threshold, then giving a token back representing a "life saved" to donors if they truly wanted, but I get capitalizing on NFTs' hype right now.
You're over dramatizing.

For one instance of the Guava/Hadoop incident (which could happen just the same in any env), there are millions of builds that are happening every day that work just fine with the JVM + Maven Central repo combination.

And as opposed to the Javascript repos, you cannot delete anything on a Maven repo once it's been uploaded there.
Absolutely laughed.
Apple vs. the Paradox of Choice [video]
Dogecoin Creator Sold All His Coins in 2015 to Buy a Used Honda Civic
Enabling Hardware-Enforced Stack Protection (Cetcompat) in Chrome
I want to know what games the "cyberpunk wasn't good" crowd is playing instead that scratch the same itch. At this point it just seems like a throwaway line from people who don't like the kind of game it is, and haven't played it for any meaningful amount of time.

It has significant flaws, but there is also a lot to like about it.
> The word would is a past-tense form of the verb to will. Checkmate

Here, its an modal verb modifying “like” into the subjunctive mood.

Where it is a past tense of “will” its the other “will” (the modal verb expressing future tense or habitual action), not the active verb referring to exercising will (of which the past tense is “willed”, not “would”.)

Although I've seen a usage (though I think its either actually archaic or an affected archaicism) in which the modal-active combination “would will” expressing exercise of will in the subjunctive mood reduced simply to just “would”, so “would” is sometimes used a form of the verb “to will” in the sense of “exercise will”, but, still, not in the use under discussion.
This is only true in certain places. For example, in the thousand islands, the border between US and Canada is VERY nebulous. A line on a map exists, but you can drive your boat around the islands, entering and exiting the US dozens of times, and absolutely nothing will happen to you. The US Coast Guard is there boating around watching, but only rarely pokes around peoples boats.

Now I'm sure if you landed and somehow were talked to by the border police and didn't have a passport you'd be pretty screwed, but honestly thats pretty unlikely to happen. I know an old couple set in their ways who to this day just boat across the river sans passport for a favourite restaurant.
We got our current revolution for three major contributors:

* Big data. Lots of big data. Mostly unstructured and unqueryable driving demand for...

* Innovations in machine learning. "Deep learning" enabled by big data and algorithmic approaches that previously wouldn't have been possible without...

* Ubiquitous access to high-performance compute power, and in particular GPUs, which are optimized for the sort of math needed to train big neural networks powered by big data.

So GPU-powered compute is one of three mutually dependent things that got us here.
>Without vertical integration they would have been held back by the rest of the industry. Vertical integration is how they were able to move faster.

Without supporting evidence, this is nothing more than a post hoc fallacy.
Why on earth should adults care what shape their food is?

The childish thing is judging adults by completely substanceless distinctions like this.
>"rr records trace information about the execution of an application. This information allows you to repeatedly replay a particular recording of a failure and examine it in the GNU Debugger (GDB) to better investigate the cause. In addition to replaying the trace, rr lets you run the program in reverse, in essence allowing you “rewind the tape” to see what happened earlier in the execution of the program."

PDS: An awesome set of ideas! A sorely lacking feature in most debuggers...

Actually, now that I think about it... there's this notion of "machine state" associated with any point in time of any given program run...

"Machine State" (of a program run, at a point in time) -- not only includes the set of processor registers at that point in time and the memory used by the program -- but also such things as OS entities, like files, sockets, critical sections, shared memory, etc., that are open and active (and their state!) -- at given point in time, during a program's run...

It may be somewhat infeasible for today's Operating Systems to do this, but in the future, it might be possible to take a "snapshot" of a program (CPU, registers, memory, open OS objects, eveything) at a given point in time -- then be able to reload that snapshot into a debugger and move forward in time from there...

On the one hand, OS'es have had for the longest time, the ability to write "Crash Dumps" of failed programs to disk, and debuggers can load them up and see machine state at the point of the crash -- but you typically can't reverse the program a series of steps from that point, nor can you re-create the now-closed OS objects that the program was holding on to -- nor reinstate their exact state at a given time, which would be necessary to run the point-in-time program snapshots as if nothing happened...

But future OS's -- will/should -- be able to (if requested) -- store state information about a program's open OS objects at a given point in time (perhaps that should be a series of new OS API calls? Like perhaps SnapshotAllOSObjectsUsedByThisProgramNow(); and RestoreAllOSObjectsUsedByThisProgramAtTime(Time);...?). But that's just speculative at this point...

Also -- wouldn't Plan 9 and other OS'es like it, ones that have the ability to move programs/processes from one physical machine to another while the program is running, have the preexisting infrastructure to snapshot a program's open OS objects at points in time, with very little code modification? It seems like they might...

Anyway, rr is a great and awesome step forward for debugging!
Founder of Sudowrite [1] here.

> I think the next step (say, being able to produce short stories with actual literary value) will be substantially more difficult, mostly because it's substantially more difficult for human writers too.

Totally agreed. Both my co-founder and I are professionally published short story authors, and we would be the first to say that using something like Sudowrite is no guarantee you will land a story in the New Yorker. Similarly, using Cinema4D won't propel you to the same quality work as Beeple. These are tools. It's up to you as the author to use them in a way that enhances your craft.

My goal is to figure out how we mindfully incorporate AI into a writer's workflow. If you look at other fields like visual arts, they have had a wealth of interactive tools starting with photoshop. What is the photoshop for writing? (hint: I don't believe it exists yet, and I want to build it)

In terms of the details, you'd be surprised at how well GPT-3 handles descriptions and dialogue. It's actually scarily good at dialogue [2] [3].

[1] https://www.sudowrite.com

[2] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#dialogue

[3] https://www.jamesyu.org/singular/
When people think flying cars, they don't think something without wheels that can only land in certain spots that requires years of training to operate that is significantly expensive to be outside of the reach of 99%.

I think if one eliminates the training requirement, reduces the cost, and increase the safety, then we don't need them to be road vehicles. Achieve the above, and we'll have flying taxis!
Apple isn't even close to dominant though. Mac market share is less than 10%. Microsoft is around 90%.
Even if you capture 100% of the increase in land value with land rents, that's only been about 5%-10% per year in hot markets. And even as you're taking out loans for last year, there's additional increases you can borrow more money from. So people that truly don't care about profiting from their land can handle it pretty much indefinitely.

However, once you can no longer gain money from speculating on its increase in value, that also means that there's going to be a ton more land available for increased use. The coercive effect of a land value tax is balanced by the a reduction in people speculating.
I thought Rome was a Facebook internal project. Am I missing something here?
Quickly Check if a site has opted out of Googles FLoC tracking network
Vivaldi and i7-3615QM
To your second point, I remember when git was announced. I remember it was such a breath of conceptual fresh air over what I had been using (svn, mercurial) for me. I use it because it makes a lot more sense to me and how I work, and I've never worked on the linux kernel.
>On the other hand, when did racial equality become an inherently political topic? Especially racial equality inside the workplace.

When acronyms became "white supremacy culture"[1], public magnet schools became "systemic racism"[2], showing up to work on time and objective thinking became "whiteness"[3], etc. "racial equality" became just another Motte and Bailey in the hyper-polarized toxic political world we live in.

No one sane opposes racial equality, conservative or liberal. What many do oppose is the entryist toxic leftism that's making it's headway into every facet of society. That's the "politics at work" that many are opposed to. Leftism became a religion, and "wokeism" is its proselytization.

>What has happened to everyone? It's like we have taken the social media rage machine and applied it to real life interactions.

That's exactly what's happening. As an example, this is the (former) head data analyst at Basecamp:

From https://janeyang.org/2021/03/18/live-forward/

> If you are white or a man, especially a cis-gendered heterosexual able-bodied white man, do the fucking work. Learn about the characteristics of white supremacy, push through your discomfort, and reflect on how you show up in the spaces you have power. Be ready to apologize when you screw up (we all do!) and then do better. And whatever you do: do not demand that your friends or colleagues or employees or neighbors or acquaintances who belong to historically marginalized groups explain to you all the ways you perpetuate harm and how society got here. Pay an anti-oppression professional for training and coaching; don’t expect us to get you up to speed for free.

[1]https://abc7news.com/sfusd-renaming-schools-board-meeting-sa...
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_High_School_(San_Fran...
[3]https://tri-statedefender.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/whi...
I appreciate this as I'm also trying to keep an open mind and understand what this means for the future.

So far there are only two arguments that I understand:

1. Libertarianism: The world will be better if we remove the government and other 3rd parties from interfering in transactions between individuals.

2. Decentralization of Money (Crypto), like the decentralization of information (The internet) will unlock technologies and opportunities that we cannot appreciate now.

Those are logical arguments, but I'm still missing the "so what" answer. How does the lack of government oversight change my life? My next bank account may be decentralized, so what? Does that mean I get better service? Lower Fees?

I understand that plenty of people were unimpressed with the internet when it first came out, but I was not one of those people. I got it and was online in 1995, I bought GOOG in 2005, and TSLA in 2014. So I'm not your typical technological naysayer. Maybe Bitcoin isn't just an accidental Ponzi scheme, but as far as I can tell that is what it will be when we look back in 10 years.
NFTs are idiotic, an NFT in the service of a worthy goal is no less pointless nor idiotic
OP's comment was for them to remove the $9 and go ad supported though.
> They reverse engineer a protocol, built an app for it, bought a domain with a single character (s -> z) difference (cyber-squatting) and are charging for it.

None of these things are crimes.
I am running some bigger apps.
One way of finding out copies of your app is by sending package info to your server when the app starts. Package info contains the package name which is for example 'my_business.my_app.com'
I just did a select distinct on package names and found about 250 package names with a slightly different name. The copy guy changed the package name and republished it. Some of these clones have more than 50k installs. Most of these copied apps are no longer available. In fact at this point of time none are existing. I guess Google auto detects clones and remove the accounts. I understand the big number shared.
As a researcher in AI, what are you really spending most of your time on? What problems are you solving?
CLOS generics+methods style is actually quite a different model in some ways from the Smalltalk-like model Python runs on! Primarily, method dispatch has the generic function primary and the classes secondary: methods are separately-definable specializations of what would otherwise be functions, rather than “owned” by a receiver object via its class. There was a recent item on Python versus CL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27011942
Well meteorite rings are definitely rarer than diamond rings.
I don’t think any human mind can know the whole truth in the typical sense of knowing. My view is one that allows for mystery and features an unknowable or imperfectly knowable Truth. I’m inclined towards a more humble assessment of human progress, seeing most knowledge as imperfect. Science alone points me towards full determinism, but the reality of experience tells me free will exists. There must be something other than just genes and neurons and randomness. If you believe in free will and accept materialistic reductionist explanations, then it is on you to say what that “something other” is. I’m all ears but if dennet can’t convince me then you probably won’t either. For me, my “something other” is faith, which is recursive is an appealing way.
It's also a java framework for parsing RSS and Atom. I bet that there are more ways that lead to Rome :-)
Has anyone replaced the battery in their QC35's? Mine are getting older, and the battery is still going fine, but I haven't found a reliable source for batteries. Maybe it has changed in 6 months.
CVE-2020-8562: Bypass of Kubernetes API Server Proxy Toctou
Sorry if i break your pink glasses )

#1.
Idea worth nothing unless you can patent it.

And even most of the patented ideas worth nothing.

#2.
FAANG companies don’t need your ideas, they need product managers who can execute specific functions.

There’s room for creativity etc.

But even most startups are bought to hire good people (and put them to specific functions).

So if you’re sure your idea is that great — go execute it and make money, then FAANG will fight for you, or your product.
And it wouldn’t work in a chroot.
Should include CTRL-Q and CTRL-S, as I've encountered students who accidentally hit CTRL-S instead of CTRL-X and then stare at a hung terminal wonder WTF just happened.
The Great Fire should have been an opportunity to fix it all, but it turned out to be too much of a mess to clean up the property rights. So even in places that were completely flattened, they re-built it exactly as it was before -- a complete mess of a map, but very distinctively London.
Yeah is a PITA if you're overseas.

Regarding the US and Canada, there are NAFTA cross-border tax rules which are complex and annoying, but not especially onerous in terms of tax obligations.
Yeah, you’re right - that one is my absolute favorite. Even includes a PG cameo.

And getting a 53 on the Putnam at 14 is wild. I wonder how that happens, what leads to that (in addition to obvious high ability).

Good parents? Early access to good books? Do some people just have a more intuitive sense for math? Tons of practice?