skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zentner's videos are forking fantastic. There is some really mind blowing stuff about the PNW geology.

For example, Did you know there's a connection between Yellowstone, Smith Rock in Oregon, and Liberty Gold in central Washington?

The possible connections between columbia river basalt and yellowstone is also very interesting.

It's just a fantastic place to be for geology.
What is personality training?
The evidence in question is shaky at best, but even taking it at face value, it's evidence of...something. Our limited understanding and ability to collect and categorize information, perhaps. It's quite the stretch for it to be evidence of aliens, particulary of the kind that can be covered up by a government conspiracy. The whole theory is based on incredibly shaky foundations - we struggle to define what is sentience(what if we're not sentient? what if stars are?), what is life, whether there even is life in the solar system, what that life would look like(why would it use spaceships?), whether it would be even detectable with our senses and apparatus, and many more questionable assumptions to arrive to our concept of aliens "visiting" us.

"Somewhere in the middle" would be "yeah, I don't know what causes that, but neither do you" - that leaves us pretty much nowhere, very very far from aliens.
> If you stop competing then all you are left with is contemplating your own insignificance and death.

I think this is more revealing of your own thinking than that of society at large. Plenty of people derive meaning from family, craft, nature, etc. and don't need competition to distract them from thinking too much.

I'd instead argue that if the premise - competition keeps you from thinking too deeply - is true, competition is probably the most destructive force in society because it prevents one from properly prioritizing one's life based one's own sense of what's meaningful.
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How is this not flagged? its on substack AND its critical of "the science" /s
Give people what freelancing/contracting can't:

I'm thinking, stability, time for their families, visibility over the next years, paid training, peace of mind, etc...
I equally think P(Inorganic AI) is also vanishing low.

What the ad companies have been selling, and researchers peacocking, isn't "AI".

It's a system of manipulating electrical abacus beads to follow patterns of interest to human observers. Has very little to do with building systems that have relevant intrinsic properties.

A digital computer does not weight more in virtue of simulating weight. A simulation is just an ape moving a bead along a wire to aid in its thinking. Simulations are cognitive games that enable us to reason more clearly.

Nothing obtains any properties in virute of being a computer. A computer is just a type of gaming we are playing with another physical system.

Intelligence is an instrinic property of really-existing physical systems; largely having to do with the ability to physical adapt on small time scales (ie., the brain grows differently in response to bodily-environmental dynamics). And on large time-scales (ie., evolution provides for the "right material" over >billion years via adaption -- which is an organic process).

Only organic material has demonstrated the relevant short-time and long-time properties for intelligence.

Games with electrical switches are apt to fool an ape looking at an LCD screen into thinking "there really is a virtual world in there!". But there isnt: it's an illusion. The LCD screen only appears to show it because we have rigged the beads to disturb the liquid crystal of the screen so as to present this illusion.
If you're comparing countries in this way, generalizations are basically mandatory. That said, nothing in there felt particularly mean to me.
Hell yeah! A good piece of history where many have gained their first experience
> 2. You aim to build a community, but in reality 90% of your telegram/discord are scammers and people asking why price is going down/accusations that you and your entire team should go to jail.

I'm consistently repulsed by the lack of thoughtful discussion in crypto communities. For a space littered with intriguing technology it's endlessly frustrating that there's no HN-like forum. Instead, any community that started off that way is now filled with speculators and shillers.

Take your pick for where to source your news: 1. crypto influencers on YouTube who are paid to shill, 2. forums likw Reddit filled with speculators and conmen, 3. pump and dump groups on Telegram.

The greed and FOMO on display in the crypto gold-rush is deeply depressing, and for the majority who join the craze at the peak of the bull run, it'll surely end in tears.
Not to mention pop music. Swedes have been extremely talented at marketing Swedish culture abroad.
Offensive no, but every single reply appears like randomly generated text vaguely similar to the topic of parent. Kinda reminds me the answers I get from chatbots.
From TFA:

> Such ideas are not guaranteed to work. But they don't have to be. They just have to be sufficiently good bets — to have sufficiently high expected value. And I think on average they do.

It's likely that you're both right. If something is biased 45% off of a coin toss, but gives 25x returns, it's still positive EV.

This is a part of VC and speculative investment that a lot of people gloss over. Success is the difference between being wrong 95% of the time and being wrong 97% of the time. (And, with Softbank around, sometimes it's the difference between being wrong 97% of the time and 99.5% of the time.)
No argument here!

I'm just taking (minor) issue with the assertion that relatively few engineers want to do contract work. If that were the case you'd expect some contractors to wish they were perm. I think the benefits I outlined are such that quite a few do want to. I've also run into quite a number of perm folk over the years who want to do it but don't quite have the confidence in their own skills to make that leap.

I was one of them!
It's also trivially easy to pick up five year old computer parts for a few of whichever monetary unit you use. Ten year old stuff will run perfectly and is often free. Twenty year old? That's entering hobbyist territory. The effort required to support those with modern OS'es is completely out of proportion, and makes little sense, and in terms of power consumption such an old computer is not a very sustainable choice either for the performance you'll get.
a self-employed contractor is an employer of one person, as such he needs to pay the employer portion of healthcare insurance cost, employment tax, social security, etc... (in the US that's another good 30% on top of salary, in France it can double the cost of employing someone).

In addition the contractor does not get the benefit of bonuses, ESPP, profit sharing, 401k contributions, and takes on extra risk, all of that is worth some premium.
> Agile is a time stuck and time waster

How do you prefer to organize larger software development efforts that have to be coordinated with other business processes?
That’s not universally true. In my home city the socialist-era blocks tend to be the ones without mould, when compared to some of the under-regulated new builds. If anything they’re sought after.
Author here. I wrote a post about the design of this game on my blog: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/04/16/notes-on-debugging-puzzles/
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Joke aside, imagine a language that is optimized, to allow for ease of later optimization. As in object orientated, fancy beginner level code goes in, and the hot-loop could be rewritten if needs be by a professional, without doing a complete data-orientated refactoring of the original code.
I think the "suffer"/"rehabilitation" is only one of the important aspects.

There is a selfish component as well, do I want to have low crime. A successful return to society facilitates that (life sentences for all is the only other alternative). The difference between doing what is right (whatever that means), or what is effective (which is much easier to measure).

Though the blatant disregard for human life in general in the US is quite astonishing for a "western" country.
Is there anywhere I can read more about this? In the grand scheme of American healthcare costs I don’t think the ~$20 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is where we should suddenly try to cut costs by stiffing the scientists who did all the hard work over a decade to make it happen. I’m assuming the current $20 price tag already includes BioNTech’s fees?
I've recently tried to give new life to and old Pentium 166MMX with 80MB of RAM.

It has Windows 2000 installed and I tried many small Linux distributions. DSL runs fine.

You have to lower your expectations, but you can have a nice little system to play around with. You also won't have a modern browser, but, even if you did, you wouldn't have enough RAM or CPU to use most sites.

My conclusion is that if you want to keep such a machine working, you would have to find some specific job for it to do, such as monitoring, honeypot, playing a specific game, text editing, etc.
I believe that yes, the angle on this is overseas patent protection, as moderated by the WTO.

This "waiver" seems like it would essentially be the WTO member states unanimously agreeing that they won't be using any of the usual tools / threats of sanctions they could normally bring to bear as a collective to squash violations of IP for these patents.

The US cannot act unilaterally in this regard - the WTO members would all have to agree to it for it to work effectively - but the US staking out its position may help to drive a consensus position.
Shapeways announces public offering via SPAC
Nice, but not perfect:

```
You said: "strace -p $(ps aux| grep server.py| grep -v "grep"| awk -F ' ' '{print $2}')".

To strace the server, first you need to find its PID. You know that the program is called server.py.
```
Instead you have politics at the companies hiring you.
I have good news: linux is open source, so the author can fix any issues and get it running on their hardware.
Hey that's cool, awesome, and completely outside of area of expertise! I love it!
There are outliers to trends and therefore we should remain ignorant to the trends?
You’d have to pay a ton of money to get people to give up free time with their friends having fun.
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Why would GPS not be reliable while skiing?
Would you check a customer’s payment behaviour before signing a contract?
I run a B2B SaaS startup and we’ve consistently had problems receiving payments on time or customers honouring their contract length.
Some customers pay months after the invoice due date, others sign a contract but never start paying, others, who might be small startups themselves, might stop paying when they decide to (i.e. because they decided to change priorities or just run into financial difficulties). Due to the custom nature of our pricing, it’s hard to set up an automated process.

We’re exploring an idea to help us and others that are in a similar situation by allowing you to check the payment behaviour of small businesses/prospects before signing a contract, in cases where running a credit check might not make sense. Think of it as being able to read reviews for your prospective customers.

Do you currently have this problem and would you use such a service/find it useful?
Would you pay for it?
Why or why not?
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Exactly. However generous the holiday allowance, it's never enough, because it's on the company's terms.
The article about surfing the internet on an old machine made me look up the SlimJet browser mentioned. The SlimJet website (https://www.slimjet.com/) is either extremely funny, or extremely suspicious. It has an late 90' early 2000' vibe going on.
I'm a pretty enthusiastic hobby photographer, and I jumped on mirrorless systems + EVFs several years back. On the Olympus OM-D E-M10 (and what IS it with Japanese electronics companies and ridiculous nomenclature?), the EVF was absolutely never a problem EXCEPT in that it impacted battery life a bit (solution: a second battery in your pocket).

I upgraded last year to a Sony A7ii, and this one's even better.

The tl;dr is that, at this point, optical viewfinders are overrated. The best EVFs are just as good.

Pros aren't married to glass or to viewfinders, though. They're married to lens mounts. Glass investment dwarfs camera body cost. That's the sticking point.
I posted this because I always find Jeffrey Sachs interesting and reasonable. That said, I have some misgivings because it verges on being a 'person A destroys person B!!!' title.
I posted two links to other treadmills that suffer from this exact issue. The fact you fail to acknowledge that just re-affirms my point that people are either intentionally or unintentionally being ignorant to the fact that ALL treadmills are dangerous for children and nothing about Peloton is unique beyond the fact they're a popular name so they get headlines.

The tread was released in 2019. The CSPC reported 30 deaths from 2017-2019 from treadmills, none of which we peloton (I've yet to be able to find details beyond that on those deaths) - so to say this is a Peloton problem is not accurate or even a little bit fair.
> The other method available is the Sanitizer.sanitize() method. Which is very similar to above, however returns a DocumentFragment with disallowed script and blink elements removed.
> That shouldn't be a problem, since you'd hear the words over the phone, not in a HN comment.

I know, I just found it a little ironic that those coordinates could be misinterpreted considering the article was about misinterpreting words being a fundamental weakness of w3w :)
The law doesn't specify anything as precise as an algorithm. The law has multiple statutes, codes, precedents etc with overlapping applicability. Then in a particular case these are tried and humans come to a decision.

Trying to pretend it's precise like a computer algorithm is I think a really big problem.

The reason I posed those particular questions is that if you try to make this answer the questions you rapidly approach a level of complexity similar to the existing legal codes and still don't have something that could automatically be evaluated.
Actual article title is "NHS to revise Covid vaccine site over concerns it could leak your details".
I live in Finland, the only problems here are basically loneliness and depression. It's hard to make friends, and not only for foreigners but even Finns have a hard time making friends. Everything else works, November and December are the worst months, due to darkness and cold. But in sprint / summer you can feel the happiness flowing on the streets.
Montana resident here. That’s anecdotal bullshit.
This is false too. "Nothing more than a skin" suggests you can't make a full-featured browser, with your own code, that you're just replacing the Safari UI. This is simply not true.
Didn't the CIA admit that UFO's were a disinformation campaign for the soviets? https://www.deseret.com/1997/8/3/19327002/government-lied-to...

Edit: added a public link
> properly prioritizing one's life based one's own sense of what's meaningful.

The biggest meaning is derived by elevating oneself socially. It's the reason why people move to cities. Cities are essentially the arenas where the competition happens.

You can say whatever you want , but more and more people are moving to the arenas, and to the extent they stop moving there or an outflow begins...that's because we now have the Internet which is essentially a MegaCity. A huge metropolis , the biggest arena we ever built
"They are betting that PC/Laptop/Mobile hardware will stagnate from this point on."

Me playing the devils advocate...

Perhaps not //forever//, but perhaps for the next few years (enough for them to make some good money).

Why? Chip shortage, GPU shortage.

Anecdotally, I just bought a computer for $7500, that, two years ago would have cost about $2500 (granted, it is the new tech, but even so, new tech of this tier two years ago would have been approx. $2500). On top of that, have to wait two months for it to be assembled. (ouch)

I agree with you that speed will probably not stop increasing, but if prices continue to go up, or even just level off, few people will be able to afford the new tech.

That being said, would I invest in Mighty? No since I agree with you in general....and agree with you about the zero privacy issue...very regressive position for someone like PG imo.
I really don't understand the point the author is trying to make. If you have old hardware just use a lightweight distro, or an older version of one of the more popular ones.

If running new software is so important just buy a new computer!?
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From my personal experience across multiple jobs: For every company that tries to embody the old Agile Manifesto there are a dozen who've simply plugged The Latest Trendy Management Practice into that module slot and are continuing business as usual. No, thanks.
You'er basing that on official figures from a country which has cities whose healthcare systems collapsed.

Makeshift funeral pyres in the middle of a city street don't happen in a country where something hasn't gone terribly wrong

Delhi's official death rate of the last 7 days was 9 per 100k, and University of Michigan are estimating real rates at 2-5 times higher than that for India as a whole.
Who exactly is a "domain expert" in bitcoin? The whole thing was created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago, and all of the so called "domain experts" are johnny come latelys who smelled a quick buck.
Maybe it is. What's minimum wage like there? Are low level employees guaranteed good pay, decent quality of life, sick/parental leave, and so on?
It depends on what I’m trying to count. If someone is working age and on SSI, then they aren’t capable of working.

The U3 number is trying to measure how much of the total workforce is able to find work. If I can’t or don’t want to work, I’m not part of the workforce.

It’s not that unemployment rate is a measure of “desire ability” (whatever that means) but as a measure of how much labor is available and can work. It’s a useful economic measure, but not an absolute one.
Sounds like he's talking about tokens, rather than an honest blockchain built from scratch with no rewards for the developers other than creating innovative technology. Without a premine/instamine/devtax, there's no need to shill the coins, or care much about the price.
We are talking about a flat fee per app delivery here.
Next Steps for Microsoft Academic
As is frustratingly common for such announcements, the lede is buried and not indicated in the headline:

The automated AI powering MAS will be supported until the end of calendar year 2021, upon which time MAS will be retired. What this means for each service:

Microsoft Academic Website: No longer accessible after Dec. 31, 2021

Project Academic Knowledge: No longer accessible after Dec. 31, 2021

Microsoft Academic Graph/Microsoft Academic Knowledge Exploration Service: No longer providing updated data or access to old releases after Dec. 31, 2021; however, existing copies can still be used under license.
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I think this depends on the coin. The IOTA discord is quite interesting, and people using the tech. Not sure IOTA will be a thing though, but I still like reading the discussions in the Discord.
I worked a bit with SLES (the enterprise suse), they use btrfs as root (snapshot feature), but the HARD recomendation from them is:

-Use btrfs JUST for the OS (just use mirror if you have to) nothing else..don't change any switch, don't defrag...don't touch it with the exception of making and restoring/deleting snapshots.

-Use XFS for Data
I suppose the way old European cities are constructed, with a lot of smaller houses right next to each other and narrow roads, also makes them a much larger fire hazard when made of wood compared to the spaced-out suburban way of building.
Inheritance from java.lang.Object does not make Clojure data mutable.
Blocking for IO does not make Clojure imperative, it not a purely functional language, but its still a functional, not imperative, language.

It's possible to build a service in a purely functional language using non blocking IO that also takes minutes to render.
No language will save you from a bad design.

I do agree that Clojure is not the most suitable language for large projects with lots of contributers because of it's dynamic nature.
I always find this argument of "Google gotcha" questions weak. I agree 100% that tricky questions around dynamic programming, linked lists, etc. are a terrible choice. However, I think a lot of these questions do a good job of measuring how well the candidate understands basic data structures. It amazes me how many "seasoned engineers" do not understand when to use things like hash sets/maps (just look at the monthly blog posts about how you shouldn't use `in` in Python on lists because it is O(n)!! It blows my mind this is blog-post worthy).

Also, I would far rather have a company not hire me because I failed a programming assessment than have them hire me and then fire me a week later because they were finally able to assess my skills.
No way. Modern research has demonstrated how unstructured and unscientific our reasoning is, easy to fool and game, falling prey to a plethora of biases. If anything, rejecting your own and other people's personal experience should be the default, because the information we gather when not taking the utmost care to calibrate our instruments is pretty much garbage. A quick example of this would be how unreliable eyewitness testimony is in trials, but of course the sightings of various unproven phenomena(sasquatch, loch ness monster, etc) are also a great example of our "personal experience" being put to the test and found to be useless.

To me, it's more plausible to believe that the world we "experience" practically does not exist, and our memories and perceptions very rarely match reality, than to concede that these particular collective personal experiences amount to evidence of anything.
The article wants it to "just work"
I absolutely disagree. Most people are driven and seek creative outlets. This is evident when you observe children. We have to evolve away from a production-based economy to one that is knowledge-based.
It's a bit complicated. Linux the kernel no longer supports certain machines for valid reasons. However, many if not most userland tools (with the exception of these that actually use certain CPU extensions) would gladly run on an 386 if compiled for it even if the current kernel version doesn't support it.

The problem is, you need the whole system to support, say, 386. So one solution would be to use the last version of your distro supporting it, and then compile each new piece of software. Realistically, you would use another (modern) machine for cross-compilation of any significant piece of software, and you will definitely encounter some interesting quirks. Nevertheless, it's doable, as long as you are willing to accept you're running an unpatched kernel.
The rights vs outcomes chasm weirds out many visitors to the US. For example, in California every hotel and apartment pool has to be outfitted at considerable expense so any rich but disabled inhabitants could theoretically enjoy their right a dip in the pool while in their wheelchair, although I've never seen these conveyances actually used. Meanwhile, there are mentally ill homeless people outside the hotel, enjoying the freedom of begging for money, camping on the sidewalk and using BART escalators as toilets.
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True, but unrelated to the point being made.