skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eidetic memory is one of those things only pre-pubescent kids are supposed to have, and mine survived into high school. I can still recall a couple history tests where I could not remember the answer but I knew for sure I wrote it in the margin on a page of my notes. When I finished the rest of the test I ran the clock down racking my brain trying to tease out the exact text.

Because of this I always thought of myself as a visual thinker. Until the last time we were discussing Aphantasia here and I realized to my horror that I hardly ever picture anything in my head anymore. Which is super confusing considering that while I'm awful with names, I will remember your face pretty much forever. We've met before, I'm sure of it. I am so assured of this, that on the rare occasion someone recognizes me but I don't know them, it's so unsettling that it borders on traumatic. Like the guy in the movie who discovers he's been spied upon.

What I've worked out is that I'm a spatial thinker, which goes to explain why I get very particular about the 'shapes' of code the way some craftsman get snippy about someone moving their tools. Once I teased that out I then discovered that a lot of my ways of processing complex data are functionally indistinguishable from a Mind Palace, but the decor doesn't matter, just the shapes. Like navigating your house at night without turning all the lights on. Careful, there's a chair there, and the dog bowl is over here. And at the store, this couch is great but it won't quite fit in our living room. Yes, I'm sure honey.
Am i missing something? How does the video demonstrate "blacklisting"? It looks like the feed cut out.
Why do the Hacker News admins keep flagging this article?
Technically, the kid name was Grimes’ idea.
They should. Back in the day it was built that was high speed, but technology has marched on and it shouldn't be called high speed anymore.
I have only a single downvote, so I'll leave a comment instead. This will directly lead to an AI arms race. We need to put a pin in this just like chemical weapons. Our civilization might not survive a WW1 level experiment.

If we go down this path, and we survive, earth will be the best approximation of hell in heaven.
> Adding a new route is just some paperwork and renting the terminal space. No multi-billion dollar investment to connect a new nearby or distant city.

Adding a new route, sure. Adding a new destination, not so much. Are airports cheaper than train stations? I don't know.
The next step should be redistributing 30% of profits annually across the workers as bonuses.
rustc's trend the last twenty releases has been that the compiler is getting faster. I guess every dependency is slowly growing in size, offsetting this in your perception? The compiler benchmarks are of course held constant to be able to compare releases.

See the perf website https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html
Some of the major threads in this saga so far:

Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142261 - May 2021 (171 comments)

Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27141493 - May 2021 (41 comments)

Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27139348 - May 2021 (256 comments)

Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776 - May 2021 (344 comments)

Money Stuff: Tesla Sold Some Bitcoins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26971773 - April 2021 (61 comments)

Tesla Wants Your Bitcoin Without the Downside - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612901 - March 2021 (48 comments)

Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26566056 - March 2021 (89 comments)

You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26564340 - March 2021 (10 comments)

Tesla has made $1B profit on its Bitcoin investment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26236072 - Feb 2021 (46 comments)

Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164512 - Feb 2021 (113 comments)

Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26090330 - Feb 2021 (256 comments)

Bitcoin powers towards $50K as Tesla takes it mainstream - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26077118 - Feb 2021 (112 comments)

Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070744 - Feb 2021 (156 comments)

Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063920 - Feb 2021 (1298 comments)
"Gravity" had comic book physics in a lot of places, but it was still a really good movie that opens with an amazing single shot that goes on for something like 13 minutes. I can cut it a lot of slack on the physics.
I did forget to put in the non-stop qualifier. Which is another stupid thing people propose all the time.
I like the DX 18-140 a lot. Still gets nice pictures, even when paired with a D200. I do get the slow shift to mirror less systems. And it was to be expected that the DX format gets axed first.

What is nice, so, is that the Z6 and 7 are getting cheap enough to become an option compared to mid to high end FX systems. Especially if you would start from scratch anyway. And the option of using used, but solid, F mount lenses on a mirror less camera has some charm so.
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There have been several order-of-magnitude breakthroughs in travel speed for the past 200 years. We have several hundred million years of time on Earth to go, and a couple billion on the solar system, to figure it out. We also have plenty of time to figure out how to re-engineer and evolve our own bodies to deal with radiation and other hazards.

We will figure it out.
He is going to blame this on Aspergers. I think this behaviour should be illegal if it is not already.
0.01%?

If my math works out, that's a 10% chance of an occurrence every 1,000 years.
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis [pdf]
"there is no understanding in the GPT-2 system, but it's able to generate increasingly plausible text."

So, basically it's achieved undergraduate level skills.
Small observation on this great comment :)

I noticed on twitter that the culture (at least in my bubble) valued „smartness“ over empathy. In attempt to say something „smart“ it lead to many snarky responses.

I also noticed this pattern in myself, which is why I stopped replying to tweets. (It was easier for me to stop replying than stopping to reply in a snarky way).

For twitter I think this is not only a question of community, but also a question of design (ui/ux). And how the ui/ux shapes the community.

If I ran HN, I would consider if there are any (small) UX changes in the comment flow that could improve the „well, actually“/contrarian metric.
Assange deliberately leaking false information is a very interesting admission.
On the other hand we have the Savant syndrome which is typically not associated with high IQ.
Maybe 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman will help you fathom it; here's the forward:

https://www.tau.ac.il/education/muse/maslool/boidem/170forew...
There is model for flight on Earth: birds. Humans achieved a similar feat through mimicry and the use of fossil fuels. There is no model for instellar transit. I am not optimistic that we can develop a technology that can speed transport between stars to such a degree before we destroy ourselves like every other hominid that has ever existed.
If we were able to build self-sustaining colonies on Mars, surviving on a nuke-ravaged earth would be easy as pie.

Sure, temperatures would go down (but nowhere near as cold as Mars) and it would be hard to harvest plants, but we would still have fossil fuels to generate electricity for grow rooms, and we would still have earth soils that are ultra-rich in nutrients. The surface would be nowhere near as radioactive, so people could still work outside, allowing mines and so on to keep operating as today.

Overall, while it would be a huge tragedy, kill billions, and destroy our civilization as we know it, it would still leave the Earth as an absolute paradise compared to Mars.
> You can criticize anyone constructively

Please, show us how that's done. Otherwise, please stop. AK's last word on the matter was rather cordial, and what you're doing here is toxic.
Why didn't Tether collapse last time crypto crashed 80%?
You mean lists like this: https://www.notion.so/Products-Materials-92c8bdfbcbd049e3a97...

That doesn't exist in Joplin.
Black homeowner has white friend stand in for third appraisal. Value doubles
Thoughts on GitHub vs. Gitlab?
Hey folks - curious to hear what the general consensus is on these two for early stage co's (Seed / Series A funded)? Any experience working with their startup offerings? I saw that GitHub has something through Microsoft for Startups (can't find anything currently?)and GitLab has something thoough only for YC co's. TIA!
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> A union would.

This claim is disputed by, like, many unions. Tenure based promotions/compensation is one, but certainly not the only approach that unions use.
Because you want to get somewhere faster than the bus or plane could deliver you.

Because the environmental impact of trains is, while controversial, unquestionably less than that of flying.

Because trains should be moving at an average of 140mph or so, which is more than twice that of a bus.

Because most airports don't connect you to the entire globe in a single hop, so you may as well take the train to the existing one that does.
I couldn't find a better term for those who live close enough to a big city to actually make use of it, while far enough out to look like farmers. There are some real farmers in this group as well.
Do you also think we are past the point where treating people like pathologically gullible buffoons by peddling wild and easily debunkable conspiracy theories in order to get votes could succeed on a national scale?
Ok, I might not have been familiar with the use of the term. I thought in the context of crypto, where coins can actually be "wiped off", in that they can be destroyed and removed from the available pool, it was a little confusing to me. But if this is a common usage to mean a sudden drop in price then I take it back.
Isn't it the reverse? The more atmosphere is present the faster it erodes away?
Not everyone + you is "we". Lots of people are hurt by bad laws; your appreciation for your government's laws tends to correlate to how much money or clout you have. Mainly because it allows you to ignore them.
Some see downsides. There's a reason that in many places in the US it was illegal to wear a mask in public before COVID happened. Most of the time it is to prevent potential law breakers from being anonymous, I think. I don't support it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back someday.
Why is it stupid?
Every one of those cities was bombed for weeks, sometimes months. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were single bombs. They cause massive radiation exposure and fallout. Tens of thousands of people were poisoned to death in the aftermath of the Japanese bombings. You haven't seen the suffering of those people and cannot even imagine the hell they were subjected to. And today, we have weapons hundreds of times as powerful. City-ending megaweapons by the thousands. And yes, nuclear winter is a real thing too; we could very seriously impact the global climate and cause mass extinctions in a couple of hours. A nuclear war is a planet-scale atrocity that will ends billions of human lives.

I've been to the Hiroshima museum. Like I said, it will change your perspective. I'm not really all that inclined to continue this interchange given your flippance.
Functionalities to improve this company's product?
Hi HN!

I was really intrigued by Sourcegraph. Here's an insightful article on what it is: https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/03/sourcegraph-raises-50-million-to-tackle-big-code-problems-with-universal-search/

Any suggestions on how to improve the product would be much appreciated.
Parent post isn’t arguing against the existence of laws. They’re illustrating that laws have limits and can be overcome by entities that wield enough power.
Recent and related:

AAA warns on gas prices, North Carolina invokes emergency as hackers apologize - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27117515 - May 2021 (111 comments)

US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27101092 - May 2021 (448 comments)

U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086403 - May 2021 (202 comments)
I saw the same in an offer from them a few years ago, but some less experienced acquaintances seemed to be getting offers without the cash component in years 1 and 2.

I wonder if it has to do with cases where their "salary ceiling" would otherwise make the offer wildly uncompetitive for experienced people.
How did you made such conclusions from my sentence, I don't really understand.

Civilians will suffer the most in wars and in violent conflict times.

Urban warfare is the highest intensity warfare, with highest casualty rates both combat and civilians.

First failed attempt of drone attack with chemical weapon was in 90's in Japan, I believe this if first recorded attempt of terrorist attack using drone.

AI warfare with sci-fi flying, crawling, walking terminators will be more humane then carpet bombing population into oblivion (Soviet–Afghan War and Vietnam War), it will have substantially less combat and civilian casualties, in general it will increase kinetics (weapons effects), precision, accuracy, and decisiveness (RISTA).
Beings using it for a year. Perfect and flexible for developing :) Maybe I try some pythonist adaptation for my homework...
>One of the lines is from downtown to an airport

You don’t provide enough specifics about your local situation, but it’s been long noted that airport rail lines underperform. The author Alon Levy’s blog and others in the transit space have covered this. TLDR: They fail serve the local riders well, in an attempt to serve less frequent airport riders who are more likely to pay for a taxi/rideshare, rent a car, get picked up/dropped off, etc. There are often poor airport connections, like people movers or airport connectors, getting to the right terminals, etc which creates more friction and confusion.

>neglected neighborhoods that never got the rush of development and gentrification rail was supposed to bring

Rail and transportation infrastructure generally is an enabler for re/development and land use, but not a guarantee of it. Necessary but not sufficient by itself.
You need to find a niche and specialize in something first. That will let you build out a network and as you do you will be exposed to other people in different networks.

The mistake I see many people wanting to freelance/contract do is they think they need to be a generalist in all ways. You do need to be a generalist in terms of technology (at least to some degree) but you need to specialize in a specific area or domain to get started. Your network will grow as a result of you doing good work and being recommended by the small network you develop initially.

If you just go out and say I can do anything for anyone then you are competing with the low cost labor pool overseas. In the end the way you get started is the same way you grow, build a network and utilize it. Posting on forums, or upwork etc is a losing proposition unless you are in a place where you can live on those types of low wages.
From what I hear from my friends that got into FAANG, at least none of them seem to do.

My best friend's FAANG job sounds incredible mundane to be honest. An entire team seems to be dedicated towards working on the backend piece of what seems like a very small feature, plus another entire sister team is working on the frontend piece of same feature. Granted there is probably a level of scale involved that adds complexity, but just hearing him talk about what he and his team does makes my unsexy non-tech company work more interesting.
Tesla's announcement was about the environmental impact of bitcoin. Proof of work coins are down precipitously whereas the main proof of stake coin (Cardano) is up significantly. The timing with the announcement is more than just "macroeconomic effects".
I feel like this will make those who are scared so much more suspicious. They’ll think “There’s no free lunch so why are you bribing me to get something? It must be really bad if you have to go this far”
Wonder when we'll get to the MAINPART: Militarized Artificial Intelligence Non-Proliferation And Reduction Treaty.
I would have thought something like that already existed in the USA. So there is one point where Germany has a head start in IT.
Actions speak louder than CVs. That reads like an argument from authority.
What could kill all humans on Earth, while leaving it hospitable and re-settleable from Mars?

Even if a huge asteroid hit, we could almost certainly build shelters where more people could survive the initial impact than we can settle on Mars in the foreseeable future.
I think it is a little bit silly to say that someone spending billions funding an orbital rocket company (Blue Origin) that is getting its ass completely and thoroughly kicked by SpaceX is not taking any risks.

This is independent of how you feel about Bezos, or billionaires in general.
Jibber?

I'm certainly not a cheery fellow, but to partake in evil and claim you were born in it does not absolve anyone of it.

In any case, the cost of progress has a steep price or did you think there is such a thing as a free lunch? Someone's wealth must be offset by others poverty because those are the rules we choose to live by. Yhe situation isnt getting better either. It's getting worse. At this point we are not entirely sure of how much we don't know about what we don't know.

I would nit be surprised many moons from now researchers find our tech and the plastics its made out of heat up during use and we inhale all sorts of unnatural nonsense.

Such is life. Such is dignity.
Exactly. I find it incredible that there are so many comments defending shady behind-closed-doors negotiations. Maybe a lot of the HN demographic are the type of people who benefit from this but for everyone getting a sweet deal there's someone else getting paid less. This is a step in the right direction, if you're actually worth so much more you can prove it and work your way up. No one should get a high salary off the bat just because they were able to impress the bro from HR during the interview. Companies should be competing for talent on an open market. They don't tell you salaries upfront because they want to pay you as little as they can get away with.

At all jobs I worked in my life I got paid more than most coworkers who were often even more dedicated to their jobs than me. At one company, the less I cared about being productive and the more I complained, the more leeway and compensation they gave me. It was like in Office Space.

Not that I refuse free money when they hand it to me, but that's obviously an unfair system. It's not a smart policy from the shareholder's perspective either, this is simply bad management and leads to lots of employees feeling treated unfairly.
Can't even give money away nowadays.
Not looking pretty, Tether scam will soon unravel, precipitous Bitcoin price drop to follow.
Yeah they mean lenses for reflex camera's, not lenses with mirrors in them.

Great picture by the way.
On the contrary, Mars has all the resources of asteroids but the advantage of a water cycle that has concentrated and reformed minerals like on Earth. The ability to process the atmosphere directly is a massive and under-rated advantage. MOXIE proves it’s not just possible but feasible to generate fuel (carbon monoxide) and oxidizer (oxygen) from the Martian atmosphere, and nitrogen and even a bit of water (hydrogen and oxygen) as well as argon are available anywhere on the planet.

The “let’s just build cylinders” (which I think we should eventually do!!) often strikes me as a knee jerk contrarian position, an attempt to avoid hard questions about environment, and a “grass is always greener in fields further in the future and with less solid understanding.”

Planetary bodies with water cycles (or a history of them) are rich. Airless bodies have massive difficulties that are often handwaved away.

And now we have powered flight (without needing propellant) demonstrated. Mars really is a much better place to establish a permanent human presence.
DIY pressure sensor at ZERO COST with materials you definitely have
We can use AI to control things but having an AI decide to attack or not without human sign off is a terrible terrible idea
> Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem.

Sounds like an opportunity ;)

Starting or rearchitecting a project gives you the rare chance to make decisions that your competitors never even had available to them. You can leverage new tech to move faster, and you can learn from their mistakes to avoid their most costly traps.

“Bring your own S3 bucket” actually sounds pretty awesome and I wish more companies would do this. Everybody wants to be a middleman controlling the transaction, but they’re missing a whole class of customers by not offering self-directed storage options.

This is a great example of a decision Notion could make now, that Asana would have a hard time adapting to. As long as they’re rearchitecting, they should keep an eye out for opportunities like that.

As for how much I’d pay – if I’m the only party with access to my raw data, and I can run the software locally even if Notion goes out of business – for a team of 5-10, I would pay $50-75 per user per month.
Planes work quite differently from birds. We were inspired by them, but we didn't copy them at all. Attempts in the past to copy birds mostly failed.

We got to the moon, Mars, and several other solar system bodies in the past half century without any mimicry.

Maybe you don't, but I have very strong optimism for technological advancement, and also for modifying our life form to rid ourselves of our tendency to destroy things before heading to other stars. When I say "we" will go to other stars, it won't be Homo sapiens, but another species that we will create as our successor.
Replying to myself: What about "Devs"? Not a movie but...

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

Predating Fowler by about 10 years.
that's a horrible choice to make, an honest idiot with great power might bring a disaster without even knowing it.

I would prefer a highly competitive political system with all sorts of different people as politicians, that has little to none power to affect real people's lives without consent